My Nokia Blog

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

The all knowing Eldar has posted another preview of a Nokia device, this time the S^3 powered C7. As is customary he speaks little to the functionality and more to the flashiness of the interface, once again stamping on it’s lack of novelty or spice.

His conclusion?

“Those who are accustomed to Symbian and know this OS will find the model attractive. It offers few interesting games, austere and outdated interface. Taken together it means that Nokia C7 will not attract new customers, but Nokia fans will choose it quite consciously. After all it is the best value for money on Symbian S^3.”

Give it a read if so inclined at the link below.

http://www.mobile-review.com/review/nokia-c7-en.shtml

iPhone owners look away now, here is an interesting look at the Nokia N8 being compared to the Samsung Omnia HD doing PROPER multitasking. I have got to admit the Samsung’s multitasking is pretty funky

thanks to KaiwanGailan for the heads up !!!

via Parttimereviewer on youtube

I visit the Ovi App store at least once a day ( I know call me sad) but I have noticed that in the last few months I have noticed here has been an increase in the number of useful apps on the Ovi store and I am happy about that, and that should increase with Qt and the powerful N8 coming.

via zomgitscj.com

Rafe Blandford from the brilliant Allboutsymbian website recently visited the Nokia N8 developer conference where Nokia showed of a preview of the new Ovi store client which will ship on the N8 later in Q3. The main changes come in the design of the overall look and feel of the store. The app is written in Qt and is according to Rafe offers a significant boost in performance which is nice to know. Future versions of the app will also include application updates (yeppiii), subscriptions (take that el jobso) and in-app billing.

From what I am seeing this is a huge improvement over the current one, to be honest though anything is better than the current Ovi store which is so bad its not even funny.  Simple examples are fro example bigger pictures for the preview of apps, easier way to find different app categories now lets just hope they have fixed search……..

You can read the rest of Rafe’s thoughts and see pictures here

via allaboutsymbian

Note this is not in english

Looking good

Thanks to NeNoRmAl for the heads up

Having read YET another article, this time by Gartner predicting the demise of Symbian (Same people that predicted Windows Mobile 6′s dominance over Symbian in the 00′s) and comparing it to the Titanic of all things,

Read here:

http://blogs.gartner.com/nick_jones/2010/07/11/is-symbian-re-arranging-the-deck-chairs-on-the-titanic/

I thought I’d put up a poll to ask where YOU felt Symbian is heading and where it will be in the coming years.

Is he telling the truth?

Eldar Murtazin Nokia’s favorite person on this planet right now is as you might now in trouble with Nokia about the supposed Nokia N8 prototype, which according to Nokia is in Eldar’s possession of course he strongly denide the claim from Nokia and after getting plenty of attention form the Tech media and bad media for Nokia he has come out today with an official statement regarding the matter which you can read here

Some key points in his post

• Nokia are feeding false information through their official blog and interviews
• Received the N8 from a “Source” (which he won’t name which is fair enough)
• The “source” is not a Nokia employee, doesn’t even work in the mobile phone industry
• He had “access” to the device, never actually had the device in his possesion
• At best was only allowed to play with the N8 a couple of hours at a time
• “Sources” provided pictures and received no compensation for that
• With the limited access he had he was able to draw some conclusions (really?!?!?!?!)
• He can’t return the device because he hasn’t got it simples
• Apparently it is his duty as  Journalist to provide information that matters to the public (which I don’t have a problem with, but not on stuff which is half finished which is my problem)
• He is not a Samsung consultant (I think he is to be honest considering the amount of love he shows towards BADA)
• Nokia are apparently scared that Eldar would pass secret information to competitors
• But he says it makes no sense as the N8 is shipped to developers and engineers around the world so why not go them (alright, good point)
• He is a JOURNALIST
• Belongs to some Journalist organisation that frankly I do not care about and shows of his ID to prove he is a Journalist
• Nokia’s beef started with Eldar with the original 5800 way back when
• Apparently Nokia didn’t replace faulty 5800 a la Apple and iPhone 4 after the earpieces where faulty Mobile-review (Eldar’s site) spent good money testing several units and Nokia still ignored them
• Whole issue became even worse when Eldar got a prototype of the infamous Nokia N97 and their not so working widgets
• Eldar was told that it was early software and was promised it would be fixed and he wrote an overly generous review of the N97
• Calling the Russian Authorities on Eldar is ‘revenge’ on Nokia’s part

OOOOKKKAAAY seems like there’s a lot of background stuff between Nokia and Eldar and some things we will never know. It seems Nokia are trying to cover a lot of things here, now I am not trying to believe Eldar here but he makes some very interesting claims in his post and you know my respect for Eldar has grown a bit I have got to admit, most of the claims in his post seem legit to me and an N8 prototype could have surfaced from anywhere how about a factory in China?

One thing I don’t agree with Eldar is his review or early impression or whatever he wants to call it on the N8. I mean the N8 was very early prototype and a very early build of the software and the final software on the device will be nothing like his thoughts on Symbian 3 and the N8 when the retail version hits the shops.

So as a Journalist who serves the general public shouldn’t he telling the truth rather than making irrelevant comments on unfinished products ?

Anyway let us know in the comments on what you think, have you forgiving Eldar?

The clueless people at Techcrunch Interviewed the famous russian “Samsung Research Consultant” Eldar Murtazin on the case involving him and the supposed stolen N8 prototype. Of course as America see the world as themselves or nothing they made some of the frankly most arrogant and clueless statements of Nokia during the interview.

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Ohh, today Nokia released a statement on their official blog explaining that Legal Action has been taken against Eldar for the possession of the pre production unit of the Nokia N8 he leaked 1 day before the official launch. Some inaccurate information was reported saying that Nokia wanted the popular Mobile-Review side to be closed down aswell which has been denied though. Also the statement on the blog explains Legal matters where not taken in recent criticisms from Eldar, instead according to Nokia Eldar has some some of Nokia’s intellectual property. Eldar is popular in leaking Nokia devices and then dissing them straight afterwards even though they are pre production units.

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