Jay showed you guys that there was a hack to change the background , and today I am showing you the simplest way to get it enabled, regrettably using the Apple line “there’s an app for that.” The app is called Home Screen Background Settings, and is a GUI that allows the user to change [...]
I’ve not really talked about the standard basic cross platform apps like facebook and twitter much, mostly because it’s already integrated into people hub. But today the facebook app for Windows Phone got some love with a nice little update that improves it a lot and with Facebook being integral to many people’s smartphone [...]
Supposedly my twitter-match/valentine CJ (lol) reports on some Lumia Valentine Love in the City of Romance. Well done Nokia France for this quite timely Amazing Every Day. For Valentine’s Day they gave away romantic red roses. There’s also mentions of 2-for-1 meal deal cards. Valentine Source: Apparently it’s Nokia France’s Facebook. Via UnleashthePhones
Just going to put this out there first thing; ironic how we’re weeks away from the release of the highly rumored N8 successor yet other phone manufacturers are still competing to catch up with the N8; word of advice, don’t bother you’ll always lose when it comes to cameras. So anyways dialaphone.co.uk have pitted the [...]
One of the longtime favorite iOS and Android games has landed on the WP platform, bringing all it’s jumbled letter goodness to the screens of your Lumias (have to chalk up an Appaday for this one). Word feud comes to WP along with a live tile to give you the latest notifications of the in game play- for those [...]
A bit of pleasant Navifirm news. As you can see, it appears there’s a version of Symbian Belle for the Nokia 500. It will be interesting to see how Nokia has circumvented the issue of lacking GPU. The version they have is v111.20.59, quite different to the more standard v111.030.0609 Source: Symbianmobile Cheers Michal for [...]
Here’s a neat little Ping Pong app for your Nokia Lumia called Ping Pong Seven. With this you can play in a tournament or just a single friendly match. Choose your country and battle it out against a randomised set of countries in tournament mode or pick a country in the friendly mode. You’ve got [...]
A few hours ago I was privileged with attending the Sydney launch of the Nokia Lumia 800 (and also the 710, which was announced at the event). Although, like most die hard Nokia fans, I knew most of the stuff they were talking about and could answer almost any question, I still learnt a few [...]
Esphoneblog reports on news that the White Nokia Lumia 800 might reach UK shores by March 6th. Phones4U (one of two retailers on Nokia UK’s page in addition to the major mobile networks) shows this date on their site. Note the delivery date says March 6 though there’s no clearer indication that you won’t get this [...]
Back in December, the work of keyboardp on his Nokia Lumia voice controls to PC got some attention on the blogosphere. Since then he’s been improving it quite a bit. The current iteration appears to be called TellDJ. Just press the button, mention the track and BAM, it plays music on the PC (now controlled [...]
Agora – a Greek term for congregation. Video by nokia Here’s something interesting from last week. Nokia understands the impact of Social Media on their marketing organization. They have some of the best bunch of guys on twitter, facebook and various blogs for communicating and organizing events in the community and with Agora, have a way to [...]
If you’ve used a Nokia and downloaded any apps on Ovi Store/Nokia Store, you will at one time have downloaded an app from Pico Brothers. Well, it’s highly likely. As such they’re well on their way to reaching 100 MILLION downloads. Just to give context on how big that is, possibly the world’s most popular [...]
Here is another piece sent in by FireDragon (Munir) this time with specific suggestions on what FireDragon reckons would improve Symbian. So far, these aren’t drastic changes, more refinement of Symbian. As with before, if you have Nokia related articles you want to share with MNB’s readers, do email tips[at]mynokiablog[dot]com. Ideas on what to send [...]
Here is a story sent to MNB by Janne who has decided to collect some of the thoughts and discussions over the past week or so. We occasionally get articles sent in and most of the time it just goes under our own post, but now I’m going to start putting them into their own [...]
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