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Jolla Sailfish Meet up in London Sunday 22nd @LondonHackspace

Jolla Sailfish Meet up in London Sunday 22nd @LondonHackspace

| June 18, 2014 | 3 Replies

Advertisements Short notice but it might just be a small gathering of Jolla/Sailfish users at London Hackspace. London Hackspace is a London home for hackers, tinkerers, fiddlers, and geeks to socialise, make, learn, and teach. There’ll be a trip to the pub afterwards. Agenda includes presenting Jolla phone and its NFC powered the-other-half (TOH), explaining I2C/charge/power lines […]

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Millions of Euros paid by Nokia to blackmailer to protect an encryption key of the Symbian phones

Millions of Euros paid by Nokia to blackmailer to protect an encryption key of the Symbian phones

| June 18, 2014 | 13 Replies

According to mtv.fi, Nokia paid millions of euros to a blackmailer in order to protect an encryption key of the Symbian devices. This took place around 2007 and the National Bureau of Investigation says it is still on going. The blackmailer got hold of the Symbian Signed code. This would have meant that phones would […]

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Official FIFA World Cup app for Jolla/Nokia X users

Official FIFA World Cup app for Jolla/Nokia X users

| June 17, 2014 | 2 Replies

  This isn’t a native app for Jolla but users of Sailfish powered devices recommended this app for those who want info on the matches, teams, stadium, news and world cup live scores. How to download: – Install “Aptoide app store” either from Jolla store or from m.aptoide.com – Start the store app, search for […]

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Nokia replaces broken phone with Nokia Lumia 1520, Xbox One and Surface Pro 2 tablets for Friday 13th Promo

Nokia replaces broken phone with Nokia Lumia 1520, Xbox One and Surface Pro 2 tablets for Friday 13th Promo

| June 17, 2014 | 7 Replies

  In a bid to change the association of Friday 13th as an unlucky day, Nokia decided to give some folks who had an unlucky experience of a broken phone a new Nokia Lumia 1520, Xbox One with games and Surface Pro 2 tablets. The full ‘Microsoft’ package. One of the crew broke their phones […]

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Nokia 808 PureView still top image quality says DxOMark, but Sammy S5 nipping at heels

Nokia 808 PureView still top image quality says DxOMark, but Sammy S5 nipping at heels

| June 17, 2014 | 11 Replies

According to DxOMark, the Samsung Galaxy S5 is the top smartphone camera. But the Nokia 808 PureView still remains the best smartphone in imaging quality over 2 years later! Credit where due, when Sammy’s isocell was first rumoured, it did seem to be something to fear. Considering the dimensions of the device, that’s a remarkable […]

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Customizable Folder Icons for Sailfish OS #Jolla

Customizable Folder Icons for Sailfish OS #Jolla

| June 16, 2014 | 10 Replies

As part of the latest available update for Jolla Phone to v1.0.7.16 of Sailfish OS, you can choose the icon of your folders. I’m not sure if it’s a straight forward selection option but you can replace the icons with given custom ones. The system icons are found at: /usr/share/themes/jolla-ambient/meegotouch/icons Back up any icons you’re […]

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Vido: Nokia Lumia 630 gets the Rozetka Review treatment

Vido: Nokia Lumia 630 gets the Rozetka Review treatment

| June 16, 2014 | 3 Replies

These reviewers are pretty popular amongst the MNB readers as they’re really well shot and put together and the presenters are pretty captivating too. Again, being in Russian, I don’t quite understand a lot of what is said other than the odd word mentioned in English.

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Webcat browser (version 0.9.6) for Jolla’s Sailfish OS.

Webcat browser (version 0.9.6) for Jolla’s Sailfish OS.

| June 16, 2014 | 1 Reply

This is a video of the Webcat browser (version 0.9.6) for Jolla’s Sailfish OS. This features reader mode, optimised with bigger fonts with easier copy/paste of text as well as ‘hold and press’ to close tab. More info here if you want to test it out too: https://github.com/llelectronics/webcat Feel free to also contribute to the code […]

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Detailed comparison between 41MP Nokia Lumia 1020 and Samsung Galaxy K Zoom

Detailed comparison between 41MP Nokia Lumia 1020 and Samsung Galaxy K Zoom

| June 16, 2014 | 7 Replies

Both zooming differently in their own right, the Nokia Lumia 1020 with lossless digital zoom that you can zoom in or out after the shot or the Samsung Galaxy K Zoom with 10x optical zoom. The Nokia Lumia 1020, whilst still the reigning champion in cameraphones is last year’s model, and slimmer than the K […]

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