Archive for February 4th, 2012

Weekend Watch: Nokia Lumia 710 Voice Recognition

Weekend Watch: Nokia Lumia 710 Voice Recognition

| February 4, 2012 | 10 Replies

  The Nokia Lumia 710 has system wide Voice Recognition that is powered by Bing Voice. This video demonstrates just a few of the many uses for voice recognition, from getting directions, application launching, and speech to text messaging. The system isn’t flawless as it sometimes does not recognize my voice or start the recognition [...]

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Lumiappaday #81: Chromatic demoed on the Nokia Lumia 800

Lumiappaday #81: Chromatic demoed on the Nokia Lumia 800

| February 4, 2012 | 2 Replies

Chromatic is an app I recorded a while ago on my Nokia Lumia 800. It’s a simple and fun shooting game where you just tap and aim your gun to shoot at incoming enemies. You have different guns and you can obtain different powerups of which you have to balance correctly in order to kill [...]

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T-Mobile Austria TV ad has Nokia Lumia 710 with iOS

T-Mobile Austria TV ad has Nokia Lumia 710 with iOS

| February 4, 2012 | 23 Replies

Here’s a case of missing attention to detail. I’m not sure what the ad is about (apparently, it’s funny but I don’t understand German) but T-Mobile Austria is promoting the Nokia Lumia 710 (which looks great in the above pic, nice lighting!) but its sporting the iPhone version of Facebook. Perhaps an intentional mistake to [...]

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Brandon Watson, to become Amazon Kindle Cross Platform Team director.

Brandon Watson, to become Amazon Kindle Cross Platform Team director.

| February 4, 2012 | 7 Replies

Windows Phone’s head of developer experiences, Brandon Watson is going to be Director of the Kindle Cross Platform team. As part of the Amazon Kindle team, apparently he’ll be working on the product development roadmap for Kindle apps in first and third party platforms. This includes Windows Phone apps and the Windows 8 app. Zdnet [...]

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Lumia sales far above forecasts?

Lumia sales far above forecasts?

| February 4, 2012 | 102 Replies

  To meet or miss expectations, we have to know first what those expectations are. There are planned milestones to be met, and for the most part, whilst Nokia has hinted on their expectations for Lumia line of Nokia Windows Phones (just to get them out in 2011, shipment in VOLUME in 2012), there hasn’t [...]

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Weekend Watch: Spacebok game for Lumia WP and Qt (N9/Symbian)

Weekend Watch: Spacebok game for Lumia WP and Qt (N9/Symbian)

| February 4, 2012 | 4 Replies

Here’s a game that was ported from Windows Phone over to Qt and running on the Lumia/N9 and Symbian Qt enabled handsets. Space Blok is a funny 1-4 player block structure breaking game ported from Windows Phone to Qt mobile devices and desktop as well. This game is a FREE example app done by Nokia. [...]

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Rumour: Nokia N8 Successor the last Symbian from Nokia?SAYS WHO?

Rumour: Nokia N8 Successor the last Symbian from Nokia?SAYS WHO?

| February 4, 2012 | 153 Replies

I’ve been reluctant to post this as there’s nothing to go on based on the speculation of a source that revels in bringing bad Nokia news. It’s one a few of you have posted enough so I guess I’ll write about it. But seriously, what is the basis of it? Whilst anything is possible, the [...]

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Weekend Watch: Lumia Cupcakes

Weekend Watch: Lumia Cupcakes

| February 4, 2012 | 9 Replies

As part of the Amazing Everyday campaign, Nokia Belgium gave out some free Nokia Lumia cupcakes. These were pretty much normal cupcakes in Lumia packaging (Would have been cool to have maybe a cube cake)? It’s a nice gesture anyway which fits into the whole random cool act that makes a day amazing. Video by nokiabelgium

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