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Bing apps being rebranded as MSN apps; coming to iOS/Android

Bing apps being rebranded as MSN apps; coming to iOS/Android

| September 8, 2014 | 2 Replies

Advertisements Microsoft’s range of ‘Bing’ apps on WP and Windows 8 will be rebranded to MSN apps. MSN – the retired messenger service, will now be the new name for the MS apps. These MSN apps will also make their way onto Android and iOS. What about the search engine name? That seems to be […]

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Pelican PiCam, for slimmer high performance cameras.

Pelican PiCam, for slimmer high performance cameras.

| September 8, 2014 | 8 Replies

  I guess this goes as part 3 of our quest of high quality cameras against the challenge of slim, bump reduced/free phones. Related: http://mynokiablog.com/2014/09/06/could-we-ever-see-a-phone-camera-sensor-as-big-as-the-one-in-the-nokia-808-pureview/ http://mynokiablog.com/2014/09/07/leakyleak-4-7-iphone-6-with-camera-bump-junk-in-trunk-to-be-trendy-hands-on-demoes/ This popped up on reddit over the weekend. Oddly at a similar time to a comment by Rob Beijendorf which mentioned Pelican’s slimmer modules. Nokia prior to the DS buyout […]

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Deal Alert: Lumia 2520 For $99 (with At&t Contract)

Deal Alert: Lumia 2520 For $99 (with At&t Contract)

| September 7, 2014 | Reply

Remember the Lumia 2520? Nokia’s awesome Windows 8.1 RT tablet that we hardly ever hear about anymore. Although it’s been a while since it’s launched, and newer Windows tablets are available on the market (the Surface Pro 3 for example), it’s still a great consumption device; and with the added power-keyboard you can actually get […]

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Blast from the past: Bill Gates checking out Nokia Desktop Computers 30 years ago

Blast from the past: Bill Gates checking out Nokia Desktop Computers 30 years ago

| September 7, 2014 | 1 Reply

30 years ago, back in the 80s (OMG, so old :/) Bill Gates was checking out Nokia’s latest desktop computers. These were the MikroMikko personal computer and competition to the Microsoft powered IBM line of computers.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MikroMikko During the Finnish economic depression, as part of streamlining of its operations, it got rid of the computer business […]

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LeakyLeak: 4.7″ iPhone 6 with camera bump – junk in trunk to be trendy? hands on demoes

LeakyLeak: 4.7″ iPhone 6 with camera bump – junk in trunk to be trendy? hands on demoes

| September 7, 2014 | 9 Replies

Yesterday, we posted our concerns that with the trend of slimmer phones, we might not see bumps that take advantage of larger sensors. There were some old pics before of iPhone 6 casing with what looked to be a protruding camera lens. It’s usually a thing that if iPhone does it, it’s ok (e.g. colourful […]

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Video: What Windows Phone might look like with Wallpapers/Live Wallpapers – v2.0.2.0.0.11 update for Nokia X2

Video: What Windows Phone might look like with Wallpapers/Live Wallpapers – v2.0.2.0.0.11 update for Nokia X2

| September 7, 2014 | 1 Reply

    Check out the new platform update, v2.0.2.0.0.11 for the Nokia X2. Opening camera is better (animated) as you swipe right (whilst the viewfinder refresh is shockingly slow, it opens super quick. I don’t know if it was opened previously and left running) Nokia smart camera like features Live wallpapers that stretch across the […]

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Nokia Lumia 520 at Walmart for $48.93

Nokia Lumia 520 at Walmart for $48.93

| September 7, 2014 | 2 Replies

  Nokia US tweeted that the Nokia Lumia 520 is available for $49 at Walmart. It’s not as cheap as the one we saw on Friday but there might be some stock at Walmart. This gets you a pre-paid/no contract AT&T 520. These seem to be new handsets. AT&T has refurbished ones at $49.99 (down […]

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Jolla keyboard otherhalf MKII in action

Jolla keyboard otherhalf MKII in action

| September 7, 2014 | 2 Replies

    These two videos show the latest update to the prototype Keyboard ‘The Other Half’ for Jolla phone. It’s great to see folks making their own accessories. Note again how the back part is not actually attached to the keyboard permanently, but held by magnets. We’re assured that the connection is very stable. We […]

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Could we ever see a phone camera sensor as big as the one in the Nokia 808 PureView?

Could we ever see a phone camera sensor as big as the one in the Nokia 808 PureView?

| September 6, 2014 | 47 Replies

The purist amongst mobile photography would still crown the Nokia 808 PureView to have the best of the best in still image quality in most conditions. It’s not relying on fancy/innovative powerful computational photography, just Nokia’s engineers working on the best hardware that they could cram into a phone. It still has the biggest sensor […]

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