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Author Archive: Michael Faro-Tusino

Hi! My name is Michael. I currently live in Sydney, working on all things Digital Marketing. I have a real passion for the latest technology and I'm a real Nokia buff! My aim is to keep those of you, like myself, updated with the latest in what's going on in the Nokia World. Get in touch on Twitter via @MFaroTusino, or even simply drop me an email at mike.mnb[at]outlook.com or tips[at]mynokiablog.com

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Nokia N9 Becomes Quantum Random Number Generator

Nokia N9 Becomes Quantum Random Number Generator

| May 12, 2014 | 16 Replies

Advertisements We’ve heard of Nokia in relation to innovations in quantum cryptography before, but now its their smartphones being used by others to push the boundaries. The Nokia N9, just like the N900, is still impressing after release and discontinuation. Researchers out of Switzerland have found a way, using the N9 and its camera, to generate […]

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Nokia’s Ari Partinen Moves To Apple

Nokia’s Ari Partinen Moves To Apple

If his name doesn’t sound familiar, some of the work he contributed to might. Ari Partinen was one of the imaging engineers on Nokia’s PureView team. It seems though, he isn’t moving onto Redmond with the rest of Nokia’s Devices and Services team, instead moving West and setting up on Infinite Loop. (That’sthe street of Apple’s […]

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Nokia Lumia 2520 Arrives in Australia; Brings Red Power Keyboard

Nokia Lumia 2520 Arrives in Australia; Brings Red Power Keyboard

This morning, “Microsoft Mobile Devices” Australia (hopefully they do change that name like they’ve said) have announced that the Nokia Lumia 2520, unveiled at Nokia World  in November 2013, will be arriving in Australia, and on sale beginning tomorrow, May 6th. The best part, in my opinion, of the news, is that they’re bringing out […]

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Jolla Hacks: Unlimited Multitasking and Control Center

Jolla Hacks: Unlimited Multitasking and Control Center

| April 3, 2014 | 5 Replies

Jolla Hacks is a new category I’m going to start covering, much like I did with N9Hacks in the past. Despite Sailfish OS only just growing out of it’s Beta title, the community has been very active. Between developing native clients for apps like Whatsapp, to creating WiFi Hotspot apps that have been integrated into […]

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HERE Drive+ To Be Free For All WP 8.1 Devices

HERE Drive+ To Be Free For All WP 8.1 Devices

| April 3, 2014 | 2 Replies

The HERE 360 Blog just posted some great news for non-Lumia Windows Phones users (yes, they do exist believe it or not). Alongside the release of Windows Phone 8.1, which is coming to all Windows Phone 8 devices, HERE Drive + will be made available for them all. There are also a few updates coming […]

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Jolla Releases Early Build of #SailfishForAndroid on Nexus 4

Jolla Releases Early Build of #SailfishForAndroid on Nexus 4

| March 30, 2014 | 4 Replies

Earlier this weekend, I got an email that was sent to “early adopters” of Sailfish for Android. Currently, this in-development build is only for the Nexus 4, but a release will be coming soon for the Samsung Galaxy S3 4G.  Jolla will also publish a Hardware Adaptation Development Kit (HADK) in the next few weeks, […]

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Play With Nokia X UI On Your Lumia With This App

Play With Nokia X UI On Your Lumia With This App

| March 9, 2014 | 8 Replies

This was meant to go up earlier in the week but back to uni means I’ve not had the luxury of blogging as much as I’d like. I showed you guys an app last year where you could run an app that mimicked Lumia Amber’s Glance screen (as well as some notification centre stuff that […]

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Video: Quick Look at WiFi Sense on Nokia Lumia 920 [WP 8.1]

Video: Quick Look at WiFi Sense on Nokia Lumia 920 [WP 8.1]

| March 9, 2014 | 2 Replies

“Another week, another leak!” This seems to be the current mantra of Yash from Unleash The Phones. Today he has posted a video (a bit short but still insightful) showing off the WiFi sense feature to be included in Windows Phone 8.1. We knew that this would help with sharing WiFi networks with your friends, […]

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#WPDev: Third Party UserVoice Library and Admin App Released in Beta

#WPDev: Third Party UserVoice Library and Admin App Released in Beta

| March 3, 2014 | 1 Reply

We’re all about supporting indie devs here at MNB. Often we get devs reaching out to review their apps, or promote changes etc, and we’re happy to help. (If you want us to cover your app or dev related venture, feel free to get in touch). Anyway, a great service called UserVoice exists and allows […]

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