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With rumors circling the internet that the final, release version of the N8 firmware is scheduled to be finished by next week (crosses fingers) The latest video that I found on the site, http://tv.mediaprovider.se should hopefully give a pretty clear insight into the sort of performance and applications (read: games) we can expect to see when the N8 is FINALLY released. From the little available here, there should be few doubts in anyone’s mind as to whether this device will be sluggish, unperforming and underwhelming at release.

Give it a look and tell me what you think!

Youtube link to the 1st video! Thanks NeNoRmAl!

Update: Another video was taken on the 25th of August, just 2 days ago. The video demonstrates a few of the normal features available with the OS.

Give it a look.

Via

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 that can be uploaded using pixel pipe.

Could one upload full HD videos to youtube this way?!

A tipster on the NokNok site gave some information for the specs for Nokia’s monster running Meego:

• 4 inch OLED screen (resolution of 800 x 480 pixels)
• 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 processor
• 512 MB of RAM
• 1 GB of system storage
• 64 GB internal memory
• 720p HD video recording
• 802.11 b/g/n, HSPA+
• A-GPS
• Bluetooth 2.1

Now I don’t know about you guys but if these specs are true my money is reserved for Nokia for the supposesd December release date

via ZomgitsCj.com

I am sure you guys all now what Swype is. When you see it being used it looks unreal because it shouldn’t be possible or it looks like a trick by David Blaine, the news is encouraging though if it is true. Swype usually do deals with carriers  or manufacturers rather than through an app although they used to distribute it through an app. I could see a deal between Nokia and Swype though, to be honest the current on screen keyboard’s on Nokia’s aren’t pleasant to use

In case you don’t know what it is

People having their minds being blown away by Swype

EDIT : One of our kind commentors mentioned something that I forgot, Nokia and Samsung did invest in Swype a while back so it should be available for the Nokia N8 and possible Symbian 3 devices going forward although why has it taken this long?!?!

thanks to Dj

thanks to Adnan for the heads up !!!

video’s via MySwype

Meego has been an interesting new OS so far already being written off by the usual suspects mainly because Nokia are the main customers so to say, but people forget that there are a lot of partners that comitted themselves to use Meego such as the Automotive powerhouses from Germany such as Mercedes Benz, BMW, Porsche and Audi so for people making fun of Meego it isn’t only for Nokia but also for other tech companies out there. And remember Windows as it is doesn’t work on a tablet with HP buying Palm for Web OS if they see some good efforts from Nokia and others they might jump the ship

thanks to Jim for the heads up

via TATMobileUI

Yep that is Nokia’s new marketing effort you might remember when the N8 was first unveiled Nokia kept referring in their videos saying

” Its not technology, its what you do with it

Which is true Nokia are really targeting the N8 as a multimedia creation tool which I think is pretty cool. Judging from these shots as well Nokia are also targeting designers, which is nice as I am one Any other Designers also looking forward to the N8 hit up the comments and tell us why

Some more shots of the situations the N8 will be used in

More N8 press shots goodies enjoy

Nokia today announced that they acquired Motally a San Francisco based analytics company. Motally offers in app application tracking and reporting to be able for developers to understand their customers better in a better way. Interestingly Nokia has said it plans to incorporate Motally into Qt, Meego, Symbian and Java and also kepp its exsisting customers base which includes the iPhone and Blackberry platforms.

It has been reported that Nokia plans to use it to beef up its Ovi store, which to be honest doesn’t make sense at all and won’t add any new information that Nokia doesn’t have right now. But then again Motally has patented technology which sounds nice and makes the deal slightly more interesting.

I still find it interesting that Nokia will keep letting Motally do business with rivals, to be honest that sounds too nice and other companies that I can think off from the top of my head would not do that……

press release here

thanks to Jim for the heads up

The Nokia C6 has been harshly treated in opinion for being called boring or N97 mini clone even though its getting some good reviews in from people that have used the device. You can read Sergejs Cuhrajs excellent review of the C6 here

Well on the 18th August there was this event called the #NokiaBox well known Nokia bloggers around the world where invited to take part in an event organised by the awesome people at WOMWorld/Nokia thay deffinitly know how to organise creative and fun events, some blogs started rumblings on what the event could be about, some said the N8 officially going for sale, some said the N9 launching (REALLY!!!) but in the end it wasn’t it was all about the C6.

via tracyandmatt.co.uk

Two interesting videos have appeared from youtube demonstrating some of the N8′s capabilities

First up how to edit photos on the N8

Second how to use the N8′s web browser

Thanks to Chandru for the heads up