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Video: Nokia N8 TV Ad Preview – Blind Photography

Video: Nokia N8 TV Ad Preview – Blind Photography

| February 21, 2011 | 8 Replies

Advertisements When I first heard about this advert, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Photography for the most part, is a visual art – how could a blind person do it or appreciate their work? The video below is a preview of an upcoming UK TV advert and it shows how Gary Waite interprets photography […]

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Video: Mega Blast from the bast – Huge N-Gage Games Collection

Video: Mega Blast from the bast – Huge N-Gage Games Collection

| February 21, 2011 | 10 Replies

Nokia’s N-Gage was a prophecy to the mobile world that gaming was turning mobile. Years from now, we’ll be all playing console level gaming on our phones, and mobile phone games will be so popular we’ll see it on mainstream media and TV and it will be a multi-billion dollar industry. Unfortunately, like many of […]

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Visualising a quarter of a billion Symbian users – more than Android and iOS smartphones combined.

Visualising a quarter of a billion Symbian users – more than Android and iOS smartphones combined.

| February 21, 2011 | 11 Replies

Horace Dediu has just written an article titled: Platform sunk (cost): What is the value of a quarter billion Symbian users? at asymco.com Symbian has taken a lot of flack since the coming of iPhone and the rampant growth of Android. Often touted as dead, dying, in trouble, you’d think no one bought Symbian phones […]

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Video: Nokia Stats – the Facts and Figures

Video: Nokia Stats – the Facts and Figures

| February 20, 2011 | 10 Replies

Remember that visualisation the other day of “the world as seen by Nokia” depicting all the Nokia users by map? Here’s another in video form. It’s kinda like a video infographic, helping visualise numbers by comparing them with other “better” known quantities. I don’t know how old the video is – it seems some facts […]

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Video: Vlingo Plus voice to text control demoed on Nokia N8 – Free at Ovi Store

Video: Vlingo Plus voice to text control demoed on Nokia N8 – Free at Ovi Store

| February 20, 2011 | 17 Replies

Duncan tipped us the other day that Vlingo is available at the Ovi Store. Is this the full version? It’s called Vlingo “Plus”? Anyway, I’ve missed this app ever since moving from the N97. It looks a little different to the Vlingo we saw demoed on the E7, receiving some nice UI tweaks http://store.ovi.com/content/101269 All […]

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Videos: Nokia N8 Stress/Abuse tests. Again.

Videos: Nokia N8 Stress/Abuse tests. Again.

| February 20, 2011 | 14 Replies

What a frightening sight for Nokia N8 users. It’s uploaded from December by gadgetstress.com though newly published at GSM Arena. Cheers for the heads up Alexander) I’m not really sure about stress tests. Some show that a phone screen resists scratching when it gets scratched in my pocket. Conversely, some tests show a phone is […]

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Video: WeTab Rev. 2.0 running WeOS 2.1.1 based on MeeGo

Video: WeTab Rev. 2.0 running WeOS 2.1.1 based on MeeGo

| February 20, 2011 | 9 Replies

Here’s a long 24 minute review of the WeTab Rev 2.0 – pretty much one of the only MeeGo devices out on sale. Specs (very netbook like): Atom N450 1GB RAM 16/32GB SSD 11.6″ 1366X768 resolution HDMI out 2 USB3.5MMjack 4 in 1 card reader SIM Card 1.3MP camera on front 980g Unless you’ve been […]

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Swype updated for Symbian^3. Get it from Nokia Beta Labs

Swype updated for Symbian^3. Get it from Nokia Beta Labs

| February 19, 2011 | 8 Replies

Not sure how recent this is but fahoum and Nils has notified us of a SWYPE update for Symbian^3. I think Swype is awesome but NOT for two handed landscape, and is even worse one handed-landscape. I can type much faster with the standard landscape keyboard (turn prediction/autocorrect on, it’s actually quite good). Swype – […]

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Rumours: Firmware PR2.0 expected late March/Early April – some changelog

Rumours: Firmware PR2.0 expected late March/Early April – some changelog

| February 19, 2011 | 67 Replies

It’s been a long time since we talked PR2.0. As you may have seen, NO it wasn’t announced at MWC at probably won’t in February. Rumours from NokiaLatino suggest a possible late March/Early April. (Cheers to Arts btw for the heads up). They’ve even posted up a changelog. Some points we’re familiar with having known […]

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