Advertisements
Advertisements

Archive for March 20th, 2012

Advertisements
Nokia Transit Now Available!

Nokia Transit Now Available!

| March 20, 2012 | 15 Replies

Advertisements Just after posting that Nokia Drive & Maps have been updated the guys on twitter asked if anyone has Nokia Transit yet- and lo and behold one search in the marketplace later and we got it. The main feature of Nokia transit is bringing you real time scheduling/planning of your routes to let you know when you […]

Read More

Nokia Drive & Maps for WP Updated to Versions 2.0 & 1.3 – Brings Offline Support and Favorites

Nokia Drive & Maps for WP Updated to Versions 2.0 & 1.3 – Brings Offline Support and Favorites

| March 20, 2012 | 11 Replies

As promised by Nokia at MWC Nokia Maps for WP have just received an update through the marketplace bumping Drive up to 2.0 & maps to 1.3, the changelog for each is: Drive: Completely offline route planning and navigation Notice of speed limits Advanced dashboard with more details and list of recent destinations. Maps: set favourite locations which […]

Read More

Nokia Fails: Releasing Phones close to announcement #Rant.

Nokia Fails: Releasing Phones close to announcement #Rant.

| March 20, 2012 | 81 Replies

  Last year we heard that Nokia would reduce the delay between the times phones are announced to the times they are available. [Image from http://mynokiablog.com/2011/04/27/nokias-windows-phone-coming-q4-oct-dec-2011-accenture-staff-to-be-retrained-for-windows-phone-after-symbian/ ] With the Nokia Lumia 800, they announced that they were shipping already on the day of announcement, with availability when they reach the shelves. Amazing stuff, Nokia turning things […]

Read More

WP sales take over Symbian sales in the UK

WP sales take over Symbian sales in the UK

| March 20, 2012 | 146 Replies

In February it was reported that Symbian sales in the UK would be taken over by Windows Phone soon. http://mynokiablog.com/2012/02/21/windows-phone-sales-about-to-overtake-symbian-this-month-in-uk-lumia-the-lionshare-of-wp/ Just to reiterate what was last said, it is not so much WP growing significantly but Symbian sales continuing their trend and crashing in the UK. Having said that, it is still worth noting that […]

Read More

20 companies showing Qt at IPTV World Forum

20 companies showing Qt at IPTV World Forum

| March 20, 2012 | 12 Replies

The Qt Blog has posted that 20 companies are going to be in London showing set top boxes powered by Qt (various flavours Qt, QT Quick, Qt Webkit). These offer low cost, attractive easy open source implementation of a media centre. http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2012/03/19/20-companies-showing-qt-at-iptv-world-forum They’ll be at the iP4.tv booth #191.     Httv (Booth #25 – […]

Read More

John Kruk recruited for Nokia Lumia 900 advert, Thom Gruhler as Corporate Vice President WP marketing

John Kruk recruited for Nokia Lumia 900 advert, Thom Gruhler as Corporate Vice President WP marketing

| March 20, 2012 | 8 Replies

Former baseball star and current ESPN baseball Analyst John Kruk has apparently been recruited by Nokia to appear in one of their Nokia Lumia 900 adverts. Interesting to note that Kruk is a popular twitter user who isn’t on the usual iPhone or BlackBerry but is on Android. He seems to think that Nokia’s WP […]

Read More

Nokia adds more BT profiles for Lumia 900, BT file transfer soon? + Tango update improves multitasking

Nokia adds more BT profiles for Lumia 900, BT file transfer soon? + Tango update improves multitasking

| March 20, 2012 | 41 Replies

  A couple of stories that I thought I might roll into one. First WMPU reports that Nokia have added more bluetooth profiles for the Nokia Lumia 900. Surur says: We suggest of Nokia wants to use their freedom to extend Windows Phone Bluetooth features, they may want to add Bluetooth File Transfer for when […]

Read More

Update for FireFox for Nokia N9?

Update for FireFox for Nokia N9?

| March 20, 2012 | 16 Replies

  I’m in the library at the moment and don’t have my N9 to check but Jill says there’s another update for FireFox for the Nokia N9. Have you seen this update?   Cheers jody / buzzinga for the tip.

Read More

Nokia beats iPhone as most popular choice for next device in Vuclip survey

Nokia beats iPhone as most popular choice for next device in Vuclip survey

| March 20, 2012 | 25 Replies

TechCrunch reports and are somewhat very surprised to hear that in a poll conducted by Vuclip looking at the different choices between men and women, Nokia came out as the top choice for their NEXT phone! http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/19/when-it-comes-to-phones-men-are-more-price-sensitive-according-to-vuclip/ 37% chose Nokia 25% chose iPhone The sample size chosen was 560,000. A decent enough sample size, though […]

Read More