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Continuum Tips and Tricks: Change the desktop background

Continuum Tips and Tricks: Change the desktop background

| December 29, 2015 | Reply

Advertisements   Hello MNB Readers! Continuing our Continuum Tips and Tricks episodes, we will now demonstrate how to change the desktop background when using Continuum for phones. The video also contains a few tips about the types of backgrounds that may work best, horizontal vs vertical backgrounds and a few minutes of rambling about why the […]

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Nokia will “build, catalyse or join a competitive ecosystem…reopen markets such as the US…” – to be outlined on Feb 11.

Nokia will “build, catalyse or join a competitive ecosystem…reopen markets such as the US…” – to be outlined on Feb 11.

| January 27, 2011 | 52 Replies

In the wake of Q4 2010 earnings, Reuters reports hints on Nokia picking up a competitors operating system aka “ecosystem”.  Nokia has been adamant on not joining the Android gang and pretty much any other outside OS. Though when Marko Ahtisaari, Nokia VP Design, was asked about WP7 he said it was different to Android […]

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Nokia taking Symbian development back in house, Foundation remains to control licensing and patents

Nokia taking Symbian development back in house, Foundation remains to control licensing and patents

| November 8, 2010 | Reply

  As mentioned before in the press release Jay posted, and has been rumored in the blogosphere for quite a while, it seems that Nokia and the Symbian board have taken a decisive step towards improving the Symbian OS, speeding up time to market, improving developer and OEM relations and at the same time cut […]

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Maemo 1.3 on the horizon?

Maemo 1.3 on the horizon?

| October 14, 2010 | Reply

While I’m currently in the middle of an all-nighter study/HW/project session, (it’s 2 AM where I’m at right now), some interesting news just filtered into our tips section (Thanks Jim). Over at the MeeGo blog, Harri Hakulinen let out that a Maemo 5 PR 1.3 release was incoming!! Jay will be pleased. Also mentioned was the […]

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Ari Jaaksi, VP of MeeGo Devices resigns

Ari Jaaksi, VP of MeeGo Devices resigns

| October 5, 2010 | Reply

Well that’s something none of us expected. Given Nokia’s push for MeeGo as their singular high-end solution to compete with (read: crush) iOS and Android and the amount of buzz that has been generated both within and external to the company about this coming OS, it’s rather surprising that one of the most important men […]

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The joint mobile operating system and rants from MIR

The joint mobile operating system and rants from MIR

| September 21, 2010 | Reply

Ewan MacLeod over at Mobile Industry Review in his weekly newsletter (something I think everyone with mobile technology inclinations should find an interesting  read) put together a very long winded, though rather valid argument as to what mobile operators in their attempts to avoid becoming “dumb pipes” have done wrong and what HE believes they […]

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Tabula Crypticum

Tabula Crypticum

| September 14, 2010 | 14 Replies

The following blog post was dropped into our comments section not long ago and having read it from end to end, I can sincerely empathize with the author and agree almost whole-heartedly with his views. I think the key takeaway from this article is that Nokia has an image problem and seems not to realize […]

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Swype for Symbian^1

Swype for Symbian^1

| September 2, 2010 | 19 Replies

The guys at Nokia Beta labs, responsible for the awesome “Nokia Bots” and ”Nokia Conversations” widgets and the “Photo Browser” application currently available in the Ovi Store have released a beta version of the text input program “Swype”. The Swype apps is available at the following link. Swype aims to significantly speed up text entry […]

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Pixelpipe on the N8

Pixelpipe on the N8

| August 24, 2010 | Reply

Stumbled across this video on dailymobile showing an upgraded pixelpipe application with the ability to upload not just pictures and videos to a variety of online services  such as picasa and facebook but also regular files such as PDF’s to dropbox accounts. Give it a look! P.S. No information on the size of the files […]

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