Toy Xylophone is a children’s app that simulates, well, a toy xylophone. You’ve got a multicoloured one and a wooden one, both can take multitouch input of up to four points (though fitting four fingers at a time, even on the 4.3″ Lumia 900 is a task). There’s a mode to let the xylophone play [...]
There’s been plenty of rumours flying around that I haven’t got to yet. First up http://www.insideris.com/nokia-windows-phone-8-handsets-launching-on-september-5th-verizon-exclusive/ Anywhoo, insideris reckons that Nokia may be launching their WP8 device as soon as September. They say that back in March they were tipped off anonymously about the Verizon Lumia WP8 handset appearing September 5th. But how could it [...]
Nok Conv officially announces that all WP8 phones, Nokia Lumia and Non Nokia Lumias will get Nokia Drive. http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/06/20/nokia-drive-for-all-windows-phone-8-smartphones/ This is a fantastic app I’ve been using on my Lumia. Is it a good thing that it’s appearing on non Nokia phones? Yes and No. No in that it gave Nokia phones an added value. [...]
A couple or so weeks ago, Michael posted news that Marketplace reached 100,000 apps. It was rumoured a long while back that when 100K is reached, that’s around when WP8 will be announced. Here’s MS video for that 100,000 apps. Note that they’re using a Nokia Lumia 800 but somehow manage to do face to [...]
Dear MNB readers, Our Nokia loving friends over at Symbiantweet have given the heads up that Nokia Suite has been updated to version 3.5.14 Beta! The new suite provides the usual bug fixes and improvements but in my opinion the BIG update is the added Nokia N9 support! New functionality in 3.5 release: Copy content between [...]
Ooh I really like the look of this all glass front Lumia. I hope there’s no additional frames, even if it adds colour it adds bulk! I don’t think there will be because the buttons are already visible on the side. Here’s the official video Anyway – here’s a video of a simulated WP8 screen [...]
Well I thought the WP8 news was over but more stuff is still coming: WP8 will arrive OTA Deep Skype integration In app purchases True background multitasking (though current way has worked great for me too) How is WP8 coming as an update OTA? Will there be future phones with capable hardware that will just [...]
This feels a little bit like when I moved from N97 to N8. Some of the S60 5th apps worked on the N8 but the HD games stuff was a no no for N97. How big of an issue was this? I can understand that perhaps it’s because the hardware can’t handle it. But it [...]
For current Lumia owners, if you’re an enthusiast, you won’t have to wait for WP7.8 which brings in the new homescreen and some other WP8 features. You can apparently get WP8 unofficially. PhoneScoop says: Microsoft today said that it plans to make Windows Phone 8 available to users who want to install it on [...]
TheVerge reports that the new homescreen you just saw in the last post will come to WP7.5 devices as an update to WP7.8. There will be other features but that’s about it. No WP8. Why? Because apparently the hardware won’t handle it. MS needed to up the ante and match the specs of their competitors [...]
Yay! The tiles are doing a bit of evolving. Now they fill up the entire screen with different size tiles of your choosing (before it was only ever one square or rectangle, the latter of which you could not choose anyway). This dynamic look resembles W8 a bit more. I think I remember seeing a [...]
A flurry of news is coming in that Windows Phone 8 is now official. A quick round of specs: Screens up to 1280 x 768 (so standard 1280×720 available) Multicore processors (engadget says up to 64) External Storage on SD card NFC C++ native code One platform for desktop/tablet/phone, porting apps from one device type easier [...]
For anyone keeping track you’ll know that an essential “twist” in the Nokia/WP road-map is going down today; at 9 AM Seattle time (about 1 Hour 40 Minutes from posting this) Microsoft will show us a preview of what’s coming in the next version of Windows Phone (windows Phone 8/ Apollo). Whatever happens it has to be [...]
I got tweeted the other day by Claudiu Voicu – a photographer by trade I believe. http://www.ihbmedia.com/2012/06/tim-livewire-shieff-pureview-sample-shot/ He said that he found it more fun to shoot with the Nokia 808 PureView than his Canon 5D Mk II. Now that’s just personal preference, but I have to agree with him too that found it [...]
Nokia just uploaded these two videos, pretty down to earth showing the Nokia 610/900 in everyday use. The angle here is that the main character does something they’d normally do and then it rewinds and restarts with them trying the same things with a Nokia. I like that they’ve used the same actor [...]
We’ve previously seen some long exposures from the 808 PureView in daylight with the ND filter. http://mynokiablog.com/2012/05/22/nokia-808-pureview-creative-long-exposure-nd-filter-photos/ At night when light levels are very low, taking long exposure snaps (sans ND filter) can create some really creative light streaks, as well as making night look like day. http://www.flickr.com/photos/77173783@N00/with/7397635058/#photo_7397635058 You would normally need to set up [...]
Whilst not strictly Nokia related, this video that I came across through Reddit (amongst several other places) is indirectly what with Nokia’s history of Linux and the interest in the Nokia community about linux related projects. Linus Torvalds, regarded as the Father of Linux, is a Finnish guy and here he is speaking at Aalto [...]
My regular DHL man arrived late in the afternoon with a package. I knew what it was but I was against the clock to pack the house away before the removals people came to bring it to storage. Anyway, come late evening I manage to unbox the Nokia Lumia 900. Now being [...]
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