Lumiappdates: 6tag, Facebook Beta, Fresh Paint
Advertisements 6tag gets update to v2.2.0.0 to hide sponsored posts (beta), facebook beta is on v5.2.0.1- performance updates and bug fixes, Fresh paint to v2.0.3303.1
Archive for November, 2013
Official Vine Client arrives for WP, Nokia Lumia
Some of you may have already been using the likes of 6sec as your Vine client but today the official version has arrived. As a unique feature for WP, You can pin your favourite Vine accounts to your homescreen. Clicking Vine’s WP store link sends me to the twitter app. Source: Vine Via: TheVERGE Advertisements
Videos: Nokia Lumia 2520 support videos
Just some Nokia Support Videos showing tutorials on the tablet Nokia Lumia 2520. Since I haven’t used a W8 tablet before and not Nokia’s one, I’ve found these videos quite useful to watch – not just for learning  but also just the anticipation of getting around to eventually trying one.
The concept of Nokia’s directional recording explained, Lumia 1520 and quad microphones
The Nokia Lumia 1520 has four microphones which it uses for something called “directional recording”. There’s a post over at NokConv as well as a brief white paper that explains this concept. http://conversations.nokia.com/2013/11/11/new-direction-audio-recording-lumia-1520/ http://i.nokia.com/blob/view/-/3160090/data/1/-/High-quality-audio-recording-in-Nokia-Lumia-smartphones.pdf The 808 and 1020 capture stereo audio but omnidirectional. The 1520 uses two second generation HAAC rich recording microphones in […]
Steve Jobs tried to get Nokia’s Anssi Vanjoki to go to Apple when Elop became Nokia CEO?
Interesting news from  iltalehti.fi  reporting on  suomenkuvalehti.fi which Vanjoki apparently confirmed was true. When Nokia appointed Stephen Elop instead of Anssi Vanjoki to become CEO, Steve Jobs had supposedly contacted Vanjoki wanting him to go work at Apple. Whilst Vanjoki did leave Nokia, he didn’t go to Apple. It wasn’t that he didn’t believe in Apple but […]
Nokia’s HERE Maps to power Tizen
Remember Tizen? Nokia and Intel merged Maemo and Moblin to create MeeGo. When MeeGo got abandoned, Intel got working with Samsung, kinda merging Bada with MeeGo to make Tizen. Though technically there isn’t anything MeeGo in Tizen (unlike perhaps, Sailfish). The purpose of Tizen is to give Samsung the legs to walk away from big […]
Flat vs flat: WP8 vs iOS7 app design
Up until iOS 7, Apple’s mobile OS was focused on these skeuomorphic designs as opposed to the WP flat approach. Then suddenly all came a “new” and “innovative” way as iOS7 invents the flat approach. Long Zeng compares a selection of popular apps on both platforms. With developers updating to iOS7 styling, some of these apps […]
Nokia Lumia 920 vs Nexus 5 – OIS test
Last year’s WP flagship goes up against this year’s Nexus, the Nexus 5. Whilst the benchmark has been raised by Nokia with the Nokia Lumia 1020 (or 808 what have you) it’s great to see that everyone else is also trying to get better and better imaging capabilities too (no point being the best at […]
Spotted: Nokia Lumia 920 in Lowe’s Fridge commercial
It’s not that clear in this blurry copy but the eagle eyed amongst you will see that a Nokia Lumia 920 features here in Lowe’s advert for their refrigerators. Cheers Simo for the tip!
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