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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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How To Get Beats Music Outside The USA

How To Get Beats Music Outside The USA

| January 31, 2014 | 1 Reply

Advertisements   The latest player in the music streaming game is Beats Music, which launched for WP today, after being out a week or so on iOS and Android. Unfortunately, its US only (Australia is said to be next) but what if you want to test it out now? The easiest way that I managed […]

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Nokia X/Normandy Specs Leaked

Nokia X/Normandy Specs Leaked

| January 28, 2014 | 56 Replies

  With just under a month until Nokia hits the MWC stage in Barcelona, to announce new devices, one of which is the heavily leaked Nokia Normandy, otherwise known as Nokia X. We have seen screenshots of the UI and a variety of colours, but little was known about specs until now. Evleaks has tweeted […]

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Nokia Lumia 1320 hits Australian shelves Feb 4; AUD$449 price tag

Nokia Lumia 1320 hits Australian shelves Feb 4; AUD$449 price tag

| January 20, 2014 | 3 Replies

The Nokia Lumia 1320, Nokia’s budget “phablet” that we saw at Nokia World last year, has been slowly releasing around Asia-Pacific. Today we got word that it’ll be hitting Australia at the beginning of next month, specifically February 4th, and priced outright and unlocked at AUD$449. Pretty great price if you ask me! The Lumia […]

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Press Render of Nokia Normandy Leaked

Press Render of Nokia Normandy Leaked

| January 14, 2014

This popped up earlier this morning and I finally got around to posting it now. It shows off the rumoured Android-fork powered Nokia device, sporting a rather Metro looking UI. It make sense really, as Nokia would obviously try and keep a consistent experience across the portfolio of devices. (Note that evleaks and evleaksES are […]

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Plex and NFC Toolkit Updated

Plex and NFC Toolkit Updated

| January 10, 2014 | 1 Reply

Two of my favourite apps on WP8 got updates overnight; Plex and NFC Toolkit. Plex was updated to v1.6.05 and adds: Improved discovery of local servers that failed to publish Referencing to the new Plex.tv website It also has a number of fixes, such as: Update play progress for queued and recommended content OnDeck updates […]

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Review: The Jolla

Review: The Jolla

| December 29, 2013 | 180 Replies

I’ve been extremely privileged to test drive Jolla’s first device, and the first device to ship with Sailfish OS. As a strong advocate for the Nokia N9 and MeeGo Harmattan, I was excited to try the phone out, even if it was only for three days.  Jolla, the Finnish start-up consisting of mainly ex-Nokia employees, […]

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Jolla Other Half Hacked To Have Wireless Charging

Jolla Other Half Hacked To Have Wireless Charging

| December 17, 2013 | 15 Replies

Jonni has managed to hack his Jolla’s Other Half, in a way that adds wireless charging. In the picture above, you can see it featured with the Nokia Fatboy Charging Pillow, with the UI showing that charging is taking place. He has posted to TMO about how he has acheived this, so if you’re feeling […]

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Lumiappdates: Instance 2.0 goes public!

Lumiappdates: Instance 2.0 goes public!

| December 16, 2013 | Reply

The original full-featured Instagram client for Windows Phone (and my favourite), Instance, has just hit the store with version 2.0. This has been around for a while, in Beta, and with the release of 6tag and the official instagram, there were uncertainties if this would be released. Thankfully, it has been released and comes with […]

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Lumiappdate: NFC Toolkit (+ Christmas sale [TweeCoMinder too!] )

Lumiappdate: NFC Toolkit (+ Christmas sale [TweeCoMinder too!] )

| December 15, 2013 | Reply

NFC Toolkit, a great app allowing you to create profiles launched by NFC has received an overhaul of new features lately. I use this app myself, with NFC tags around my house for getting things done. (I just wish that MS would allow devs to toggle Bluetooth, WiFi etc and not just open their settings […]

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