Here’s the second Nokia accessory we’re going to be looking at today that we received for review from mobilefun.co.uk.

Price: £14.95

Link: http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/nokia-cp-002n-nokia-lumia-800-airflow-case-black-p33184.htm

This is another case, but specific to the Nokia Lumia 800. It’s called the AirFlow case. It’s a hard shell that’s perforated with lots of pores – perhaps for design or for an actual airflow as indicated by the name.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xelsJGInQ_I

It’s real simple to clip on and off and protects the metal strip at the back from scratching by raising it off flat surfaces.

It’s quite discrete at the front, with the face of the Nokia Lumia 800 still entirely visible so it doesn’t even look like it has a case on really.

The buttons on the right of the Lumia are easily accessible as the case has cut out areas for them.

This also fits the N9 but of course, the LED hole would not be in the right place.

Whilst it’s relatively easy to clip on and off, it does hold firmly to the Nokia Lumia 800.

Top and bottom are still accessible as they aren’t covered up.

Here’s the gallery:

Be sure to check out mobilefun for other mobile phone covers and other accessories such as phone chargers.

Our first Nokia Accessory that we’re looking at today is the Lov Sleeve, DICOTA. This comes in Nokia colours of Pink and Blue with grey leather trim.  This is to fit the Nokia N8, though it can sort of work for the N9/800 too.

We’ve got the pink one in today, an idea as a valentine’s day gift?

Price: £11.95.

Pink: http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/dicota-lov-protective-sleeve-pink-grey-p31226.htm

Blue: http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/dicota-lov-protective-sleeve-black-blue-p31225.htm

The material is this sort of tweed thing, apparently back in fashion. It looks nice and feels nice too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diMRP9yDXFg

When the Nokia N8 is inside, you can’t really see the pink trim that’s inside. It meets the back of the case at the same height as the N8 when it’s inside.

The stitching looks to be very high quality.

The top bit you can see the dicota brand in leather and the pink behind.

Inside it’s all pink (or blue should you have picked that one).

With the 800 inside it’s a little short.

Same with the N9.

But if you’re just after a pouch for screen protecting whilst looking classy in tweed, this does a great job. It’s also easy to pull pout. Just pinch the bottom.

You’ll note that in the above picture, the case is long enough for the 800 but being curved at the bottom means it won’t fit all the way in. To be fair, the case mentions the N8 and not the 800.

Most interesting is that the case kinda grips the inside so it won’t fall out if you turn it upside down, but again, just a quick pinch and it slides the phone out.

Here’s the gallery.

Be sure to check out mobilefun for other mobile phone covers and other accessories such as phone chargers.

The folks at MobileFun sent this to me aaages ago but never got around to posting due to other commitments, but now with much of the heavy term and exams over for a while, I’m able to look at accessories again. What we’re looking at is the Pocket Boom Portable Speaker.

Package:

• Instructions
• 1 x Pocket Boom
• 1 x USB power cable (short)
• 2 x replacement sticky pads

The Pocket Boom

What’s so special about the Pocket Boom? It isn’t just like any other portable speaker.  It’s one of those conduction speakers where sound is conducted through the object it’s attached to, creating the sound you hear. I’ve lost the packaging and instructions but I do remember it saying something about cardboard working great. And indeed it does. I’ve got a couple of videos to share with you guys, one just hands on with the Pocket Boom and the other with music.

Hands on 

Performance Demo

Around the device:

The Pocket Boom feels really sturdy and has a kind of rubbery feel on the outside. When put away, the Pocket Boom fits into the hand in the shape of an attractive black capsule pill. The on/off switch, power indicator and DC IN are all together. Unfortunately you can’t charge batteries this way, it’s just for powering. The cables are discretely hidden away with the 3.5mm jack tucked around the bottom yet still easy to pull out.

The top side opens out into a dome that reveals the speaker cable. This extends past the length of my external keyboard (possibly 30cm+?) so you can rest your pocket boom near your music player and have it attached to your desired surface. The head of the speaker is where sound comes from. This has a sticky pad bid that you should use to attach to your surface. This can be taken off and reattached. The more solid the attachment, the clearer the sound.

However, when the sticky circular pad looses its stickiness, sound does begin to muffle as the airwaves push against the speaker and the surface so less conducted sound and instead more distortion. You are provided with two replacement sticky pads but I think there should be more. Also note that you should note that one side of the pad is much more stickier than the other. Make sure the more permanent side sticks to your speaker.

Now you’ve extended the speaker, something really cool is how you get it back out. I did this wrong in the video but what you do is put the cap on the main body, hold both ends and just keep the main body. This will nicely wind up your cables and if you align the notches as in the first picture, it’ll close tightly on that to help keep the lid closed.

This takes two AAA batteries which are easily accessible with a nice and rigid battery cover that’s easy to put back.

Performance

For something so tiny, it really does pack a booming punch, with distinct bass that gets louder and clearer the bigger the cardboard box you use.

Note, it doesn’t have to be a cardboard box, it can be the table, the TV, your forehead etc. When it is not attached to anything you won’t be able to hear much, but attach it to the right thing and it sounds great. It is significantly louder than the phone speakers and for something that is so tiny, it produces sound that’s relatively quite clear (provided you have good attachment) and respectable bass.

Check this video out again, start at about 3:25

Battery wise, well I’ve not tested it long enough where the phone won’t die first.

Conclusion:

It’s a funky little speaker with an awesome conduction twist. Solidly build, looks great and sounds awesome as long as it can firmly attach to the surface. Speakers as small as these are obviously not for audiophiles but they are a great option for folks that travel or just a nice geek thing to have. With just your phone, a pocket boom and and easily obtainable cardboard box (or other useful surfaces) you can have music a crowd of people can listen to on the go.

It would be nice if they included more sticky pads and made it clearer which way they should be attached. Also cool would be if there was some charging mechanism but I don’t know if that would bulk this up or make it

These can be picked up at MobileFun for £19.99, making it one of the less expensive conduction/vibration style speakers available (as well as being nicer looking)

http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/pocket-boom-portable-vibration-speaker-black-p32135.htm

Check out their other mobile phone speakers.

Cue the next rap+melody to hit the UK chart. Very popular on the UK scene are Tinchy Stryder and Pixie Lott. We’re talking about them because, if you pry your eyes away from Pixie Lott, you’ll see that in their music video, they show both the Nokia Lumia 800 and the Nokia Purity Headset.

With the latter, this is the kind of product placement such a headset needs. Fashion accessory / headphones. It’s what Beats does but with more success as it has aligned itself with Dr Dre and being something music artists ‘use’ (well they might wear it to sell it).

Is this the second time now Pixie Lott has done a video with a Nokia featured in it (cue N8 in one of her other videos)

Video  by TinchyStryderVEVO

The lyrics are also interesting. You can kinda fit Nokia’s situation into it. http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/pixielott/brightlightsgoodlifepartii.html

No time for Nokia

Feels like my clocks run out
I can only see when I’m looking down

It’s all very uncertain for Nokia, losing the advantages they had before

I’m starting to lose my faith in reality
This time I had enough

A big change is needed

And I pray somehow something’s gonna change
Bright light in the sky light won’t let me lose my way

They seem to be putting things back on track

I figured out whats in my heart
I took a step out of the dark
Now I’m on my way
Moving on to better things
Cutting off my puppet strings
To unleash my readied wings

lol. Who’s our puppeteer? :p

Cheers buzzinga / jody  and Kaizer Allen. 

(Sorry can’t get to all the tips pronto guys, got exams at the moment)

USB cable for $200? Sound expensive? Of course it does, you don’t own a Vertu.

Now first things first, I’m going to make the assumption that the last thing a Vertu owner is going to want to do is plug their phone into a computer anyway.  Secondly, it’s not $200, it’s $190 but who’s counting?

I don’t know if it’s standard issue material. The USB end looks rather generic and cheap, the other side though has a vertu V. The USB cables on my N9/Touchpad look much nicer.

Perhaps it’s just the charger. For that you’ll need this. Only $85.

 

This is something possibly more fitting of a Vertu owner (though female). Considering the price of Vertu, it’s all rather in proportion, a bargain actually at $520.

Made of unicorn leather

Check out the full accessories page here:

http://us.vertu.com/showroom/accessories/

Source: Boingboing

Via @daringfireball, @ qoyumnasri @BenedictEvans

Here’s a video checking out the Nokia Accessories released last year. It’s the most colourful bunch yet, from the Alien Luna bluetooth earpieces to the over ear Purity Headsets by Nokia and Monster.

Video by nokia

We had some unboxing of the Nokia purity earphones, now let’s take a look at those headphones. Same Monster branded line by Nokia trying to match Nokia colourful phones and also in a way, take on those very popular fashion accessories (not not really for audiophiles, they’re just there as a lifestyle thing) Beats by Dr Dre (they’re pretty good, though you’re really paying for the brand and to be part of that crowd, kinda like the iThing of audio accessories).

This unboxing is by Camb078, who is now on Nokia-Touch.fr.  I’d like to get my hands on a pair of these. I think I might go for the white or blue one. The black just disappears into my hair. If I want that, I’d get in ears. I only briefly used one of these at Nokia World and then later when I picked up my batman phone. They actually sounded quite alright. I much prefer the design of these to the more serious BH-905s.

Video by Camb078

Thank you Jacko for the tip!

Here’s an unboxing of the Cyan Nokia Purity earphones (by Monster). The packaging is pretty cool, not your bog standard plain Nokia cardboard.

Looks like there’s a little case there.

Video by theblogjack

A nifty looking weather widget was just leaked from the official Belle firmware (Kudos to the guys over at HDblog.it) I think this is the widget for the official Weather/Map application (similar to the my position widget which also only works on on Belle); If my Google translate isn’t rusty you’ll need to be running a E6 with the leaked/hacked version of Belle then just install the .sis file provided at the source (sadly the widget will not work on Symbian Anna/earlier; and probably won’t work on other Belle devices due to screen ratio issues). Personally this is one widget that I’ve been wanting for some time, till now I’ve been using Accuweathers home screen widget but I find it a tad bit buggy, plus this looks loads better.

Download here: http://forum.hdblog.it/f135/ecco-il-widget-meteo-symbian-belle-del-nokia-e6-54856/

Source

(On a side note I don’t think this is available for any other Belle releases no? I have yet to see it on any of my N8s CFWs; hopefully it’ll be available quite soon)

Philip emailed us to say that he noticed the Nokia Purity HD Stereo Headphones (partnership between Nokia and Monster – the same people that make Dr Dre Beats) is available for pre-order at mobilefun for £179.95.

http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/nokia-purity-hd-stereo-headphones-cyan-p32762.htm

There’s listings elsewhere but also not yet available, though expansys does say availability in 7 days.

Here’s Expansys’ listing – stock expected in 7 days?

http://www.expansys.com/nokia-purity-hd-stereo-headset-by-monster-black-224967/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=shopping&utm_campaign=base&ito=1701

Here’s the Amazon listing (availability 1-3 months?)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nokia-WH-930-Purity-Headset-Monster

Here’s Handtec.

http://www.handtec.co.uk/product.php/6041/nokia-wh-930-monster-purity-hd-on-ear-stereo-headset

Play have no dates or prices.

http://www.play.com/Mobiles/Mobile/4-/26557562/Nokia-Purity-HD-Wired-On-Ear-Stereo-Headset-By-Monster-White/Product.html