Here’s an interesting video covering a topic that’s coming up frequently in the discussions here. The video is titled, “What is life-enhancing? The balance between technology and user experience” Here they talk about focusing now on user experience instead of just pure technology. Nokia has led in Technology before like no other, but along came [...]
We’ve brought you articles on the PR 1.1 FW being rolled out, available on NaviFirm and also Jason from SmashPop. After watching the video I thought I’d post up my thoughts on the update as well as details about the changes I have noticed. I’ll talk about a few things in this post. New Features [...]
I love a good rant about product names. In particular, my favourite thing to rant about has been Nokia product names – especially since it’s something Nokia just doesn’t get. I got an opportunity to rant again about this since Engadget brought up the topic, discussing all the dreadful product names, as well as [...]
Random screenshot of Belle I found on Nokias official Belle website :http://www.nokia.com/sg-en/products/featured-phones/belle/ as you can see there seems to be two new widgets dedicated to Facebook & Twitter. The Facebook applications seems to have notification support FINALLY!!! how does anyone make a Facebook app that doesn’t even support notifications??? Groups or Pages and Events I might understand but notifications are the core [...]
It’s too early for anyone to be reading this right now I guess, but I’m taking a break from learning cranial nerves. :p Reading the comments on the Nokia Lumia 800 posts, there’s something that I keep repeating in replies. I thought it might be worth summarising my thoughts into one post and just linking [...]
We have heard regularly that the polycarbonate body of the Nokia N9 is supposed to increase signal strength. Unfortunately, I’m not qualified to conduct proper RF tests, but I have conducted my “unofficial, unqualified and possibly inaccurate test”. My test was simple. Compare the signal strength of two phones (N9 and N8) operating on the [...]
So I told you all I’d bring you a review after about two weeks with the device. Here it is. I’ll tell you what I’m enjoying, what needs some work, and just some other ideas I have. So first we have what I enjoy: The build quality of the device is better than I expected. [...]
According to marketweek, in order to stay competitive in the smartphone business, Nokia is realigning its brand towards younger consumers. Nokia’s head of Marketing for UK and Ireland, Jon Nichols says this would apparently help Nokia tap into the “next generation of mobile purchasers”. We’ve seen a lot of Nokia’s low-mid range phones with [...]
This is NOT my “two weeks on” review, a little rant if you may. Anything from here-on in is solely speculation.( And massive wishful thinking.) I was digging around in the system files, and came across the icons used throughout the system. Some of which I altered, such as Firefox(Fennec), which I swapped out the [...]
Okay so I know I haven’t done the best job out there and I’m the first to agree it was rushed. Mainly because people want to know everything about a phone before they buy it, and seeing as it’s being released already in many countries, there isn’t really the luxury of taking my time. Still, [...]
Touch screen devices – they all seem to be the same rectangle with rounded corners. Some more than others to the point that Apple is having their products banned. Some say there’s nothing much you can do – it’s the optimal use of space when a screen is rectangle. Nokia went a different way with [...]
As well as all the new and pretty changes in Belle’s appearance, one of the things that won’t come across in screenshots are the lovely new animations/UI effects. These are pretty important as you’ll see in my mini rant after the videos. Anuj and Jill tipped these videos in of custom firmware in Belle with [...]
I saw @ChanseArrington, (Head of Developer Marketing – North America – Nokia.) ask on twitter: “New Names or Submit your own idea! -> Poll: What should Nokia call their series of Windows Phones in the US?http://bit.ly/ou3QSW“ Wow, does this mean that in addition to the new numbers convention, as begged, Nokia may also award their [...]
TechCrunch reported yesterday that the Windows Phone market place has reached the 30,000 App milestone. WMPU and TechCrunch later pointed out though that they may be slightly off that mark, but not that far. Versus other stores? That’s 20,000 apps shy of Ovi Store, however, this is 30k apps that is just Windows Phone, whilst [...]
Just like when the likes of Samsung and Google started poaching Nokia/Symbian developers leaving on the Feb11 news, Microsoft – well @BrandonWatson made an open offer to webOS developers that Windows Phone will support them. (In case you missed it, HP are no longer making webOS devices. They’re not even going to be making PCs) [...]
The loudspeakers on my N8 have stopped working. There’s sound through the call speaker, and sound will come through the headphones, but anything through the loudspeaker cannot be heard. I thought an app I recently installed for review just didn’t have sound, but it appears that it’s actually my N8. Video audio, music player audio, [...]
Apparently Nokia are having yet again new names for their devices. And these new names are not names. They’re numbers. Lovely. http://conversations.nokia.com/2011/08/01/whats-in-a-name-nokias-product-name-conventions/ I’ll stick by my opinions on actually wanting a name. Ideally there would be both. A code name to distinguish amongst Nokia users where this handset lies and a name that’s marketable. (Numbers [...]
Life is an endless mystery we constantly debate why we are here and we are constantly debating our future. One thing in life is for sure; though we all die or go away in some sort of way or we come back in another way. Anyway same happens in business companies come and go. Products [...]
Before we all immediately scream, “Elop the Trojan Horse” and call for his resignation (again), let’s look at what other reasons could be instead of laying all the blame on one guy. 1) Should never have dumped Symbian and gone with MS First, let’s begin with WHY some people are strongly against Elop. [...]
Bitter. That’s the feeling I get in YLE’s interview with Eldar Murtazin (Why on earth is YLE interviewing him? I am utterly amazed why they now stick with the tag line that he’s a guy that gets a lot of things right. Seems anything wrong has just been forgotten. Also that noting things that are [...]
MarketingMagazine via The Next Web are reporting that Nokia are supposedly going to be spending 80 Million dollars British Pounds on a six month ‘brand repositioning campaign’. This is expected to roll out in October, when the first family of Nokia Windows Phones will be launched. Cheers Adnan for the tip. This was meant to be the [...]
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