Archive for February 16th, 2012

Nokia Store Updated to 3.22.054

Nokia Store Updated to 3.22.054

| February 16, 2012 | 18 Replies

All you have to do is start up your Nokia store (I think on Belle only); and you;ll get a prompt to update to the latest version (with an option to continue using as well- which is a first ever I think?). This update brings the store version to 3.22.054 and if I’m correct the [...]

Read More

Video: Floating Lumia in Social Media Week New York 2012: Nokia magic trick #1

Video: Floating Lumia in Social Media Week New York 2012: Nokia magic trick #1

| February 16, 2012 | 19 Replies

As part of Social Media Week, Nokia hid two magicians behind a secret trophy case which could only be found/accessed through Foursquare. This is one of three magic trics filmed during Social Media Week opening party in New York. This trick was a bag of -meh-. Video by nokia

Read More

Video: Nokia Australia, The Amazing Everyday: Nokia Lumia coming soon

Video: Nokia Australia, The Amazing Everyday: Nokia Lumia coming soon

| February 16, 2012 | 8 Replies

  We saw a couple of Amazing Everyday videos today, and a recurring comment I was making was that Nokia really is making it Amazing each and every day. With the  Nokia Lumia coming to Australia, they’re going to have an Amazing Everyday, each day from March 1 for a month. Video  by NokiaAustralia

Read More

Lumiappaday #93: Save The Roundy on the Nokia Lumia 800

Lumiappaday #93: Save The Roundy on the Nokia Lumia 800

| February 16, 2012 | 2 Replies

Save the roundy is another one of those ever so popular physics based games where you clear level after level of difficult puzzles, this one is based on the concept of getting all the roundies (roundii?) down to the metal platform without tipping them off the edge and falling into the dark abyss. Of course it starts [...]

Read More

Gartner’s 2011 Marketshare numbers, Nokia on top for Phones.

Gartner’s 2011 Marketshare numbers, Nokia on top for Phones.

| February 16, 2012 | 120 Replies

Just a heads up for you, Gartner has released their marketshare numbers for Q4 and 2011. They report that there was a 47.3% increase overall in global smartphone sales in 2011 vs 2010, with smartphones making up 472M units. Total phone sales for Q4 2011 is 111,699.4 (thousands of units)  or 111.7M vs 92.7M. About [...]

Read More

Video: Amazing Everyday – Nokia Lumia Barcelona Metro University – Nokia Spain

Video: Amazing Everyday – Nokia Lumia Barcelona Metro University – Nokia Spain

| February 16, 2012 | 2 Replies

Nokia Spain apparently took over the Barcelona Metro, erecting the Nokia Lumia University to learn and experience the Nokia Lumia phones at the Lumia Campus. Again, another random, odd but fun thing to spice up the day of those members of the public who get to see these cool Nokia Lumia Amazing Everyday campaigns. The [...]

Read More

Video: Series 40 web apps technical how to: Animation from Nokia Developer (+Nokia SDK 1.1 for Java)

Video: Series 40 web apps technical how to: Animation from Nokia Developer (+Nokia SDK 1.1 for Java)

| February 16, 2012 | 3 Replies

  Another Nokia How to video/webcast. This time for S40 and creating animations. It is, as the title says, quite technical.   Andrew Knight from the Nokia development team shares technical tips on creating animation for the Series 40 platform. Using the Nokia web tools development environment, Andrew gives you a quick and informative look [...]

Read More

Video: How to create a Symbian launcher icon (Squircles) with your own glyph in Inkscape

Video: How to create a Symbian launcher icon (Squircles) with your own glyph in Inkscape

| February 16, 2012 | 8 Replies

Here’s Nokia’s video on how to make those classic Nokia Squircle style icons for Symbian. You don’t just have to use these for a Symbian app. You can perhaps use them in other places where you find the squircle shape to be an appropriate. You want to – use your own glyph in svg format [...]

Read More

Nokia Lumia diagnostics, “For use in multi-core devices only. When USB Hub…”

Nokia Lumia diagnostics, “For use in multi-core devices only. When USB Hub…”

| February 16, 2012 | 15 Replies

Roid from WeloveWP.HK emailed to say he saw a warning message on the Nokia Lumia 800′s diagnostic tool warning about For use in multi-core devices only. When the USB Hub is turned on USB charging will no longer fuction. Device will be reboot after change. Do you wish to proceed? What is this USB Hub that they [...]

Read More

Video: Amazing Everyday – Nokia Denmark Anti Winter Depression Walk

Video: Amazing Everyday – Nokia Denmark Anti Winter Depression Walk

| February 16, 2012 | 3 Replies

The Amazing Everyday campaign is really coming into its own because Nokia really is pretty much trying to do something ‘amazing’ EVERYDAY. Amazing is of course, relative to the person experiencing it but we can take it as something cool, pleasant, rather out of the ordinary for those people who stumble upon these random Nokia [...]

Read More

MNB Reader Stories: Nokia 500 Nokia Belle review

MNB Reader Stories: Nokia 500 Nokia Belle review

| February 16, 2012 | 24 Replies

Hamdhan who let us know earlier about the Belle Update for Nokia 500 (providing us screenshots too) shares his review of his experience with Nokia Belle on his Nokia 500 with MNB’s readers. I thought it would be very interesting given the lack of GPU on the thing and the dependency of S^3 to offload [...]

Read More

Rafe and the All About Windows Phone app for your Nokia Lumia

Rafe and the All About Windows Phone app for your Nokia Lumia

| February 16, 2012 | 10 Replies

    As I said before, we don’t normally talk about new app releases for WP because there are just to many (and already try to restrict WP app content just to Lumiappadays). However, I got contacted by Rafe Blandford from AAS and AAWP who launched an app yesterday for All About Windows Phone. No [...]

Read More