Archive for September 4th, 2012

Damian Hints/Confirms LED Flash for Lumia 920

Damian Hints/Confirms LED Flash for Lumia 920

| September 4, 2012 | 112 Replies

One factor that has been almost consistent in all great Nokia Camera-phones has been Xenon flash, which really light up the night allowing for proper picture taking. However it would seem that LEd has been chosen as the way to go for the 920, as you can see from the tweet above, where Damian defends [...]

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Lumiappaday #293: Accurate Tuner (Free) demoed on the Nokia Lumia 900

Lumiappaday #293: Accurate Tuner (Free) demoed on the Nokia Lumia 900

| September 4, 2012 | 3 Replies

Accurate tuner is a really good app for tuning your musical instruments. A free version is available though the paid one does come with plenty of worth while added benefits. It works really well. The developer of this app contacted us ages ago about it but I’ve only gotten time and an instrument now to [...]

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Windows Phone rises to 32% of sales in Finland, catching up to Android on 36%

Windows Phone rises to 32% of sales in Finland, catching up to Android on 36%

| September 4, 2012 | 20 Replies

Earlier today we glanced at statcounter details for Finland. Something we often note is that this shows all phones in use (via browser and thus extrapolated marketshare), and NOT current sales. This means that gains in marketshare with relatively small percentages might actually indicate larger overall percentage of current sales given that there is little [...]

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Supposed Nokia Lumia 820 back in Royal Purple/Plum…?

Supposed Nokia Lumia 820 back in Royal Purple/Plum…?

| September 4, 2012 | 36 Replies

Why not one more Here’s the back of the 820 again, aka, Nokia Lumia Arrow. This looks like a more official version than the render seen last week. The purple was was seen in another post but only the side was visible. https://twitter.com/evleaks It’ll be a battle of the purples as HTC are apparently lining up [...]

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Evleaks Confirms Lumia 920 in White, Black, Grey, Red & Yellow; Cyan Nowhere to be Seen

Evleaks Confirms Lumia 920 in White, Black, Grey, Red & Yellow; Cyan Nowhere to be Seen

| September 4, 2012 | 92 Replies

Here’s one more look at the Lumia 920 showing off its colors, as you can see it appears to be available in 5 colors, White, Black, Grey, Yellow and Red; I can’t really understand why Nokia ditched the Cyan considering how well the Cyan L900 was selling, hopefully it’ll make a reappearance soon enough. The colors in the image [...]

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More Video Teasers, This Time Pointing to Wireless Charging

More Video Teasers, This Time Pointing to Wireless Charging

| September 4, 2012 | 35 Replies

Well you must give Nokia credit for consistency, the day is almost up and they’re still teasing tomorrows event, this time with a bit more obvious point towards the Wireless Charging coming in the upcoming range of Lumias. In the vide below you see the same girl who’s been teasing us all day, fumble with [...]

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Leaked Prototype: Nokia “Lauta” RM-742 – Cancelled “Immediate” N9 Successor

Leaked Prototype: Nokia “Lauta” RM-742 – Cancelled “Immediate” N9 Successor

| September 4, 2012 | 221 Replies

Another day, another leak. Here we have 7 images of the N9 successor, codenamed Lauta. It was to be “immediate successor” launched right after N9, also in Q4 2011. Of course, we all what happened with the Feb 11 Announcement, so no point bringing that up again. The email mentioned “Elop saying only 3 MeeGo [...]

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MNB Reader Generated: Can Nokia and WP turn the tables tomorrow?

MNB Reader Generated: Can Nokia and WP turn the tables tomorrow?

| September 4, 2012 | 50 Replies

This article was sent in by Aabir Jawaid from Pakistan.  For 12 years since the age of 10 he’s been using Nokia phones. In this post, he sums up tomorrow’s make or break moment for Nokia. ____________________ Nokia and Microsoft are loading up for their best shot for tomorrow’s big day to re enter the market [...]

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Video and Pics: Preparing for Nokia World with Omni Beanbags from Sumo Lounge (filmed Nokia 808 PureView)

Video and Pics: Preparing for Nokia World with Omni Beanbags from Sumo Lounge (filmed Nokia 808 PureView)

| September 4, 2012 | 15 Replies

  Last year at Nokia World 2011, they had giant bean bags near the entrance for people to sit, lay down and chillax on. I really enjoyed lounging around with Iain, Ed and Danny whilst we blogged about the days event. With Nokia World happening tomorrow and the Nokia bloggers gathering not happening, I thought [...]

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Video: Nearly there….and faster is better says Nokia.

Video: Nearly there….and faster is better says Nokia.

| September 4, 2012 | 35 Replies

Couple more pushes for tomorrow. Nokia’s facebook shares this photo above saying ‘Faster is Better’ – more LTE devices? And they have another video in preparation for tomorrow saying ‘Nearly there’. The same Pixie haired girl picks up some red shoes. Check out Micky Mouse’s red pants that seem to be the same colour as [...]

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Press Release: Nokia Music launched in USA

Press Release: Nokia Music launched in USA

| September 4, 2012 | 21 Replies

Quick post guys, Nokia Music has been launched in the USA. I thought it was already globally available, clearly, I was wrong. Here is the official press release below: Press Release: Nokia debuts free music streaming service in the USA NEW YORK, NY – Nokia today announced the launch of its free music streaming service [...]

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Damian Hinting at Other Techniques to Achieve Pureview; Oversampling Optional?

Damian Hinting at Other Techniques to Achieve Pureview; Oversampling Optional?

| September 4, 2012 | 70 Replies

In yesterdays post about the rumored 8Mp in the Lumia 920, we touched on the possibility of other methods to achieve 808 Pureview quality photos/videos without the need for the gigantic sensor. Here’s one of the tweets I had referenced regarding the matter; as you can see Damian as always stressed on the fact that Purview is a mix [...]

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Nokia says ‘Stay Tuned for 05.09.2012′ in latest video

Nokia says ‘Stay Tuned for 05.09.2012′ in latest video

| September 4, 2012 | 77 Replies

Well, Nokia’s certainly consistently trying to get our attention for tomorrow. In the latest video they’re asking us to stay tuned. I am not sure if there is any significance in what we’re looking at. The last video “Things are about to change” had some of the most wacky and amazing explanations from our readers. [...]

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All will be revealed…(Nokia/MS teaser in NY?)

All will be revealed…(Nokia/MS teaser in NY?)

| September 4, 2012 | 22 Replies

I saw this picture posted by Muerte who says this was taken near where Nokia and Microsoft are holding their event tomorrow. It says “All will be revealed” the exact same thing Dave Trevaskus noted yesterday. The link is just to a Flickr URL. I’m not sure how to get to the uploader http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7020/6697418379_824865c427_z.jpg  

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Windows Phone overtakes RIM in USA

Windows Phone overtakes RIM in USA

| September 4, 2012 | 48 Replies

WMPU reports that Windows Phone is making some progress and has displaced RIM’s BlackBerry in USA, Italy, Germany, Australia and Brazil. Brazil has as much as 14.9% of all current sales, with pretty majority if not all of those being Nokia Lumia. In US, WP is down 0.1% from this time last year, but what [...]

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My Dream Nokia #67: Nokia 1002 7.5″ Phablet with W8/WP8 hybrid concept

My Dream Nokia #67: Nokia 1002 7.5″ Phablet with W8/WP8 hybrid concept

| September 4, 2012 | 7 Replies

Whilst the previous #66 was a WP8 Phablet, this is pretty much a tablet since it has a pocket destroying 7.5″ screen. But it’s a tablet with phone capabilities. This particular phablet is designed of course by our resident My Dream Nokia designer, Edgar Mkrtchyan who has so far created a family of devices that a [...]

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My Dream Nokia #66: 5.5″ Nokia Lumia OneNote Phablet WP8 Concept

My Dream Nokia #66: 5.5″ Nokia Lumia OneNote Phablet WP8 Concept

| September 4, 2012 | 9 Replies

In a battle of the phablets, here’s the first of today’s large phone-tablet designs. This is created by Sujau and it’s called the Nokia Lumia One Note, featuring a Galaxy Note II sized 5.5″ screen. This would supposedly weigh in at 175g, house a 1.6GHz quadcore processor with 2GB RAM with up to 64GB storage [...]

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