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Archive for December, 2011

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Nokia Conversations says Belle is coming soon, N8 shipping with belle, confirms February 2012 for existing devices.

Nokia Conversations says Belle is coming soon, N8 shipping with belle, confirms February 2012 for existing devices.

| December 21, 2011 | 119 Replies

Advertisements   The official Nokia Blog, Nokia Conversations has confirmed dates for Symbian Belle. First saying a vague coming soon but then specifying dates of February 2012 for existing devices. Existing devices still being shipped are now coming with Belle. The enhanced versions of Nokia N8, Nokia C7 and Nokia C6-01 have now started their […]

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Lumiappaday #35: Shuffle Party demoed on the Nokia Lumia 800

Lumiappaday #35: Shuffle Party demoed on the Nokia Lumia 800

| December 21, 2011 | 3 Replies

This lumiappaday is going to be brief. No review, just a demo and the usual descriptions. Not sure if this is going to be a temporary shortened format during the xmas exam period. I’ll do what I can to keep blogging but the app daily stuff might have to take a trimming. This is an […]

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Video: Behind the Amazing Calls Campaign – Nokia France

Video: Behind the Amazing Calls Campaign – Nokia France

| December 21, 2011 | 8 Replies

A month ago I came across an advert which I thought was just for the Nokia Lumia 800 – it was called “The Amazing Call” and I thought it was a wonderful breath of fresh air for a Nokia advert (given what we’ve seen the past few years) it was edgy, cool, funny and makes […]

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Microsoft and Nokia were in talks to jointly bid on RIM?

Microsoft and Nokia were in talks to jointly bid on RIM?

| December 21, 2011 | 46 Replies

Did you hear the hubbub about Amazon supposedly being interested in buying RIM? What’s that got to do with a Nokia blog? Well it’s quite big news but something closer to home is that apparently Microsoft AND Nokia were going to make a JOINT bid on BlackBerry makers RIM. According to WSJ, Nokia and Microsoft […]

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Video: Facinate demoed on Nokia N8

Video: Facinate demoed on Nokia N8

| December 21, 2011 | 11 Replies

Early on in the week we saw an app called facinate. Here it is demoed on the Nokia N8. It’s looking pretty slick, no. Great free app that you can download right now at Nokia Store: http://store.ovi.com/content/230063

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Special Edition Nokia N9 packaging from Nokia Philippines

Special Edition Nokia N9 packaging from Nokia Philippines

| December 21, 2011 | 12 Replies

Nokia Philippines sent over a review unit to Neil but it’s a special packaging, not the usual small cuboid box. The phone itself, whilst being standard is of course still very, very special. More pictures over at: http://www.misterjonjon.com/2011/12/unboxing-special-nokia-n9.html   Cheers incognito for the tip!

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Rumours: Nokia Tango for CES/MWC, Nokia Apollo for Nokia Connection (June) as well as Windows 8 tablets

Rumours: Nokia Tango for CES/MWC, Nokia Apollo for Nokia Connection (June) as well as Windows 8 tablets

| December 21, 2011 | 21 Replies

  We had a few tips on this yesterday but I didn’t have much to go on other than trusting ‘an industry insider’. That post was later updated to show that the source is someone who works at Nokia. Exactly what, we’re not sure. Could be the cleaner. Joke. Point, take with pinches of salt. […]

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Nokia Lumia developer gifts… Launchpad members getting their free Nokia Lumia 800s

Nokia Lumia developer gifts… Launchpad members getting their free Nokia Lumia 800s

| December 21, 2011 | 18 Replies

We got an email forward from Jason yesterday showing that he has received an email from Nokia telling him about his free Nokia Lumia 800 that he’ll be getting because he’s a developer who signed up for Nokia Launchpad. I’m sure some folk who weren’t developers told me they signed up for this for free […]

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Lightweight QtWebKit-based browser, Orange Helium by Orange Labs.

Lightweight QtWebKit-based browser, Orange Helium by Orange Labs.

| December 20, 2011 | 8 Replies

  There’s a new Qt browser from Orange Labs called Orange Helium. Orange Labs began working on this around 2010 ad the result is a light weight Qt WebKit based browser. At the time Orange Labs was working on this, the only mobile port of Qt Quick was on the Nokia N900/Maemo 5 so that’s […]

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