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Archive for March 21st, 2013

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Upload to SkyDrive update available for Nokia N8? Other Nokia Belle and S60V5 too?

Upload to SkyDrive update available for Nokia N8? Other Nokia Belle and S60V5 too?

| March 21, 2013 | 12 Replies

Advertisements A few of our readers have been commenting that their Nokia N8s have been getting another update called “Upload to SkyDrive” Kale said: My Nokia N8 got today update: SkyDrive. You can upload your addres book and/or your photos straight into your SkyDrive account. You cant chose which photo or contact you upload, it’s all or nothing. FireDragon said: […]

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Stephen Elop – Nokia Lumia 928, future beautiful products, photography taking to higher and higher levels…we’re going to win!

Stephen Elop – Nokia Lumia 928, future beautiful products, photography taking to higher and higher levels…we’re going to win!

| March 21, 2013 | 464 Replies

  Very interesting interview with Stephen Elop, discussing a lot about his personal life, work challenges, work at Nokia, politics, sports, what drives and motivates him as CEO and personal interests (he’s a pilot).   http://www.katsomo.fi/?progId=171919   Elop 5 kids 21 year old studying engineering 17 year old (Adopted daughter from China, when she was […]

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Microsoft Working on Upgraded Voice Recognition, With “Streaming Detection”

Microsoft Working on Upgraded Voice Recognition, With “Streaming Detection”

| March 21, 2013 | 20 Replies

WP already has voice recognition in its “tell me” service, which you can access by holding down the Home button, or through the Bing Search. The video below demonstrates further upgrades and enhancements to the service, including a “streaming” service which detects, and searches for the words while you’re still speaking (no “thinking…” lag). What […]

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Something else fun in a few days for non-US folks, tweets Joe Belfiore for those missing out on Pandora

Something else fun in a few days for non-US folks, tweets Joe Belfiore for those missing out on Pandora

| March 21, 2013 | 11 Replies

At the start of the week, Mr Belfiore had been tweeting hints of upcoming fun apps. True to form, they’re trickling in, the latest being Pandora.  As cool as Pandora is, it has some regional restrictions. BTW, (1) if link isn’t working, just try again in a bit, and (2) for you non US folks, […]

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Video: The best Pandora experience – On Windows Phone – demoed on Nokia Lumia 920

Video: The best Pandora experience – On Windows Phone – demoed on Nokia Lumia 920

| March 21, 2013 | 5 Replies

  The freshly announced Pandora for Windows Phone has a little presentation video from the WP team. We’re told that whilst it looks the same on other platforms, this one has been built specifically for WP8, and includes ad-free streaming that you’d normally pay $3.99 for for the rest of the year. As well as […]

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Pandora now available fo WP8, available with ad-free listening – “the best way of listening on a smartphone”

Pandora now available fo WP8, available with ad-free listening – “the best way of listening on a smartphone”

| March 21, 2013 | 21 Replies

  I’m not a Pandora but I’ve seen a fair few requests around the web for this to appear on various Nokia platforms. It’s now available for WP8, no ads, no limits on streaming – due to a special arrangement with MS (until 2013 ends). Android and iOS users need to subscribe $3.99 to get […]

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Video: A trip to India, shot entirely on the Nokia 808 PureView

Video: A trip to India, shot entirely on the Nokia 808 PureView

| March 21, 2013 | 12 Replies

  Check out this video by Viktor Fokeev. He went on a trip to India and recorded his travels on the Nokia 808 PureView, stitching his clips together in this really cool video. The first time I watched it, the sound hadn’t been processed. With the sound it’s a bit like one of Nokia’s more arty […]

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Critical Messaging Fix available for Belle Refresh phones

Critical Messaging Fix available for Belle Refresh phones

| March 21, 2013 | 29 Replies

Updates to Belle Refresh devices shows up a Critical fix to known messaging issues according to Steve Litchfield at AAS. Quite what that messaging issue is, he’s not quite sure. The update is only 312kb. Source: AAS  

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Videos: Nokia Lumia 720 and 520 hands on from Nokia India Launch

Videos: Nokia Lumia 720 and 520 hands on from Nokia India Launch

| March 21, 2013 | 4 Replies

    Here’s Vaibhav Sharma from TheHandheldBlog· who was at the Nokia India launch of the Nokia Lumia 720 and 520. He’s got some hands on outside of the demo booths it seems so you can hear him talking to you about their features without too much noise from others. As we heard yesterday, the 520 […]

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