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Bias: The killer of innovation, the dasher of dreams, the destroyer of hope and something that MUST be put down!

Bias: The killer of innovation, the dasher of dreams, the destroyer of hope and something that MUST be put down!

| July 19, 2013 | 188 Replies

Advertisements Dear MNB readers, Before I start, let me put out a disclaimer: This article is LONG…over 3,500 words. It is a subject that I feel strongly about and if you would afford me the space to write about it and some of your time in joining the discussion, I thank you in advance. If so, you […]

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All About Symbian puts Nokia 808 PureView against Samsung Galaxy SIV Zoom

All About Symbian puts Nokia 808 PureView against Samsung Galaxy SIV Zoom

| July 16, 2013 | 48 Replies

Steve Litchfield puts the Nokia 808 PureView up against Samsung’s contender for ‘smartphone camera’. http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/features/item/17932_Crossover_smartphones_Nokia_80.php It certainly does help to read this on a big screen. I initially opened the link from my 920 and some of the Sammy pictures looked surprisingly better but on the bigger screen, I noticed the 808 pulls in the […]

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Lumia 1020 Official! Nokia’s Latest Camera Monster $299 on Contract, Available July 26th (Main Thread)

Lumia 1020 Official! Nokia’s Latest Camera Monster $299 on Contract, Available July 26th (Main Thread)

| July 11, 2013 | 140 Replies

After weeks of leaks, teases and speculation Nokia have finally announced their latest camera flagship the Nokia Lumia 1020. The phone packs the monstrous 41 Megapixel camera we’ve been waiting for to grace Windows Phone ever since the 808 was launched 16 months ago. The Lumia 1020 will be available on At&t starting July 26th […]

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History Repeating Itself? Nokia and Samsungs Camera War

History Repeating Itself? Nokia and Samsungs Camera War

| July 4, 2013 | 119 Replies

Let’s admit it, in our minds the two top qualities that we seem to associate with Nokia are build quality and amazing cameras, for the past decade or so Nokia have been blowing us away with some of the most amazing imaging technologies we’ve ever dreamt of; from the N82 and N95, to the N8 […]

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Belle Delight Custom Firmware 1.0 Released for Nokia 808

Belle Delight Custom Firmware 1.0 Released for Nokia 808

| July 3, 2013 | 19 Replies

For all you Symbian lovers and users, if you’re interested the first version of the delight custom firmware has just been released for the Nokia 808 pureview. The impressively large changelog is as follows below: C:drive after flash is minimum 600mb RAM: 288mb – 290mb Added: ROMPatcher 3.1 FP2 Domainsrv mod FP2 installserver_log CODeRUS tacticle […]

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Truecaller for Windows Phone and Symbian/S40

Truecaller for Windows Phone and Symbian/S40

| July 1, 2013 | 10 Replies

Lindsey from TrueCaller got in touch with us last week to let us know about TrueCaller. What TrueCaller does is creates a “collaborative phonebook” pooled together from its users across the various platforms. Truecaller gives you complete access to number lookups all over the world! Next time you get a missed call from a unknown […]

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Weekend Watch: Nokia 808 PureView vs Samsung Galaxy SIV Zoom

Weekend Watch: Nokia 808 PureView vs Samsung Galaxy SIV Zoom

| June 23, 2013 | 62 Replies

Watching this video, I’m feeling the original purpose of the 41MP sensor (of which is the largest ever on a mobile device, not in terms of just MP count but the actual sensor size) is lost. Zooming ‘lossless’ is awesome but the biggest thing is PureView – SuperPixel, combining several pixels into one perfect pixel […]

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Less than meets the eye: A rant on perception

Less than meets the eye: A rant on perception

| June 13, 2013 | 70 Replies

A long time ago, my boss in a previous career once told me “Perception is reality” and he believed that 100%. I was never convinced because I know that the reality of something may be totally different from what it seems. Sure, people can perceive anything to be anything but that does NOT mean that […]

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Last Symbian shipments this summer

Last Symbian shipments this summer

| June 11, 2013 | 89 Replies

  FT.com reports that Nokia will stop shipping Symbian devices this summer. The Nokia 808 PureView was the last device Nokia had worked on with Symbian. Nokia had apparently said that it took them 22 months to get phones out with Symbian but less than a year with WP as they no longer have to […]

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