My Current Devices: Nokia 808 PureView - White with Red Nokia Hardcover!, Nokia N8 - Silver , Nokia C7 Astound, Nokia 5230 Nuron, Nokia 5300 Xpress Music, HD2 WP 7.5-7.8, iPhone 4, iPad 4, and some old pre S40 Nokia phones.
Favorite phone of all time: Nokia N82
A long time ago, my boss in a previous career once told me “Perception is reality” and he believed that 100%. I was never convinced because I know that the reality of something may be totally different that what it seems. Sure, people can perceive anything to be anything but that does NOT mean that [...]
Dear MNB Readers! Our good friend, Steve Litchfield of AllAboutSymbian (AAS), has a great article that shows user submitted Symbian home screen setups! From the article: I asked a few days ago for screen grabs of your Symbian homescreens, so that we can all learn and take inspiration from the set-up efforts of the wider AAS community [...]
Hello MNB Readers! I couldn’t pass up sharing these YouTube videos from the Camera Check Channel (CCC). There is a lot of flexibility with the 808 PureView’s large sensor and Carl Zeiss optics. Even after having my 808 for a month, I am still learning how to best utilize all of the camera options and usage scenarios [...]
Raid kills bugs dead. Seems like Accenture emptied an entire CAN of Raid on the VERY REAL HSPA+ bug that terrorized Nokia 808 PureView users worldwide. Here is a little back story via a true and emotional comment that I wrote over at AllAboutSymbian: Pardon my openness, I was at my wit’s end with no hope of a solution [...]
Dear MNB Readers, Symbian. A lot of us have been using Symbian for years now and have become accustomed to its features and while some of those features have been duplicated on other platforms, their implementation may be different from on Symbian. For this article, I would like to talk about Symbian’s standard [...]
Hello MNB readers! We all know how revolutionary the 41MP Sensor, Carl Zeiss lens and PureView algorithms are in the 808 but there is still an obvious area of improvement: Image Stabilization. More specifically, Optical Image Stabilization, or OIS, where the actual optics are stabilized by the hardware. The Lumia 920 was the first phone to have [...]
Hello MNB Readers! As some of you may know, I finally purchased a Nokia 808 PureView a few weeks ago and I said I would post a few articles about my experience with it and other Symbian related topics. Here is a rundown of my experience with the 808 over the last 2 weeks. First and [...]
Hello MNB Readers!!! As some of you may know, most of the staff at MNB already has or have had an 808 PureView while I have been holding on to my trusty, nearly 3-year-old N8. Well, I still have my N8 but my 808 arrived last week and soon, hopefully, I will be able to posts [...]
Hello MNB Readers! Our friend, Steve Litchfield, over at All About Symbian has a duo of camera shootout articles that are worthy of a read and extended look. While celebrating N8 Day, Steve pulled out the former World Champion camera title belt holder (N8) and put it in a shootout against what is considered the cream of the [...]
Hello All, In this day and age of superphones, HD screens, Quad and Dual-Core CPUs, millions of polygons per second GPUs, unibody construction, 5+inch screens and 41MP monster cameras and nearly a million apps across OSes, I almost wonder how did we make it in the “dark ages” of mobile technology a few years ago. While [...]
Hello MNB Readers! Our friend Clinton Jeff (CJ) over at Unleash The Phones has posted his excellent Nokia 808 PureView review aptly titled “Ye Giant Nokia 808 Pureview Review”. He covers the software and hardware ins and outs of the 808 PureView, a host of UI screenshots and provides picture and video samples from the groundbreaking, make you [...]
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 [...]
Hello MNB Readers! As some of you may know, the HTC One S (and X) has the best camera that HTC has ever made. It has great specifications coupled with a great camera software suite and lightning fast shooting performance. I recently added the One S to my stable of smartphones and decided to [...]
To all WP users, We currently know that Messaging, whether it is SMS or MMS (Picture, Video, Audio) is lacking on the current versions of WP that powers our devices. Messaging is currently lacking in 3 crucial areas: -Not being able to send more than 1 picture at a time -Not able to send Videos [...]
I came across this video and upon watching it, many memories of Nokia rushed through my mind, its old struggles and new struggles, competition from rivals Samsung, Apple, OS rivals-Android, iOS and basically the media at large. Maybe it is just me and my memories of using Nokia tech, TV-out via RGB, GPUs back in the OMAP24xx era, [...]
Hello MNB readers! Our friends over at AllAboutSymbian have an excellent write-up about the current user base counts for Blackberry, iOS, Android and Symbian (abbreviated B.i.A.S lol, which AAS does NOT have). I always figured it would just be a matter of time before this happened. The more devices sold, the more users and [...]
Hello all, Nokia Map Suite 2.0 is out of beta and available in software update! I am downloading the update to my unlocked NAM Silver N8 right now via Nokia Suite 3.3.89 (just updated Nokia Suite as well). As always, software updates are subject to regional and carrier availability. Side note: Over at AllAboutWindowsPhone, I asked [...]
Remember this? Well, we only had 3 comments on that post but I sent in my request anyway. What am I talking about? I’m talking about the FREE Lumia 710 Xpress-On cover from Nokia!!! Shortly after Jay posted the article, I gathered the necessary goods and mailed off my request. Lo and behold, a small [...]
Why do people say things that can be confusing, negative or misunderstood? I remember reading Engadget’s CE-Oh No He Didn’t articles where they would tell of quotes from company leaders or influential people saying things that would make you say “I can’t believe they said that!!!” Their quotes would usually be a quick blurb that [...]
The Nokia Lumia 710 has system wide Voice Recognition that is powered by Bing Voice. This video demonstrates just a few of the many uses for voice recognition, from getting directions, application launching, and speech to text messaging. The system isn’t flawless as it sometimes does not recognize my voice or start the recognition [...]
Dear MNB readers, During CES 2012, we reported on Microsoft’s Smoked By A Windows Phone challenge (Link) where MS demonstrated WP7 Mango’s ability to perform everyday tasks quicker than most smartphones/OSes. Well, those series of events inspired me to make a few videos of the things that I use my Lumia 710 for each day and [...]
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