12 April 2012

My Nokia Blog

My Nokia Blog

Video: Nokia Belle FP1 update demoed on Nokia 701

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 05:00 PM PDT

Yesterday we saw that Belle FP1 V112.010.1404 was available for the 603 (and subsequently for 701 and 700). Here’s a quick demo of it on the 701, and it’s running rather smoothly (the video quality might suggest otherwise, but note that is the video).

Strangely that’s the only demo I can find of Belle FP1 (not on the Nokia 808) today.

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Nokia 808 PureView at notebooksbilliger, 498.99EUR/411GBP

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 04:00 PM PDT

More pre-order information for the Nokia 808 PureView.

It might be the cheapest place so far at 498.99EUR, which at direct conversion is just 411GBP.

http://www.notebooksbilliger.de/handys+smartphones/nokia+handys+smartphones/barren+handys/nokia+808+pureview+schwarz

 

Cheers incognito for the tip!

WP Marketplace Sale: 6 Hit Apps for 99 Cents each.

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 01:40 PM PDT

The WP marketplace is running a pretty sweet sale on some apps; six of the top selling on apps on the marketplace are available for a penny under a dollar each; pretty sweet considering all of these are usually between $2.99~$5.00.

Marketplace links:
On a  related note anyone know how to register with a NON-Us credit card for the marketplace if your account was made in a US region?? This is one of the times where I really hate the WP marketplace payment system; once they support carrier billing and pay-pal I’ll buy some apps- but as of now I can’t even if I wanted to :(


Whatsapp for WP updated to V1.9 now support Emoji &Media History!

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 01:09 PM PDT

Whatsapp for WP just got updated to V1.9; as far as I can tell the latest version brings support for Emoji (which has been a common complaint against the WP version) as well as “recently shared media” under Contact info.

Full Changelog:

Improved support for Emoji
- Group mute features
- Share contacts
- Browse downloaded media in a conversation
- German and Russian localizations
- The usual bug fixes and performance improvements

If you don’t find the update on your marketplace try the “Forcing a Marketplace update” technique (worked for me).

I have no idea why you’d want to send your friend a “smiling turd” but now you can! Enjoy.

 

 

Win a Pair of Awesome Monster Purity on-Ear Headphones Through WP UK

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 10:48 AM PDT

Awesome news for anyone who wants a pair of the amazingly comfortable beautifully designed Monster Purity by Nokia headphones- simply head on over to Windows Phone UK on Facebook, like them, then enter the competition called “Into WP” where you get a chance to enter a draw for 10 Purity Headsets and some other pretty cool stuff .

Link: https://www.facebook.com/windowsphoneuk/app_219190398152385

Good Luck guys!

Nokia 808 PureView: UK, £539.95 at MobileFun, due 07/05/2012

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 07:32 AM PDT

The camera phone that gives nightmares to all camera phones and point and shoots – the Nokia 808 PureView has some ‘confirmed’ UK prices from MobileFun.

Expected 7th May, the Nokia 808 PureView may be purchased (note, price is early and might come down further closer to launch date) £539.95.

Blog page: http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/blog/2012/04/nokia-808-pureview-price-release-date-confirmed/

Produce page: http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/sim-free-nokia-808-pureview-p34294.htm

Over 2 Million Nokia Lumia Units but lower outlook for Nokia Devices & Services. Q1 report April 19.

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 06:00 AM PDT

 

Q1 2012 is looking very shaky for Nokia. The full Q1 report will be available on April 19th but a preliminary report shows things aren’t looking good at all.

http://press.nokia.com/2012/04/11/nokia-lowers-devices-services-first-quarter-2012-outlook-and-provides-second-quarter-2012-outlook/

 

We’ve said time and time again that we should look at Q2/Q3 to get a fairer look at Nokia’s position. Nokia doesn’t seem to be too positive about Q2 either. This is all very disappointing news what with a very positive response to the new Nokia Lumia 900 in America (which of course will have no effect on Q1 sales as it was only available in Q2).

Based on the preliminary view, Nokia ended the first quarter 2012 around the high end of our normal 4 to 6 week channel inventory range, but on an absolute unit basis, channel inventories declined sequentially.

It seemed things started picking up at the end of Q1 but not enough.

83M total units expected, 73M mobile phones and just 12 million smart devices (>2m being Lumia), so less than 10M Symbian devices totalling 4.2B net sales.

Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.

 

Espoo, Finland – Nokia today provided preliminary information on certain aspects of its first quarter 2012 financial performance, including a lowered first quarter 2012 outlook for Devices & Services. During the first quarter 2012, multiple factors negatively affected Nokia’s Devices & Services business to a greater extent than previously expected. These factors included:

- Competitive industry dynamics, which negatively affected net sales in the Mobile Phones and Smart Devices business units, particularly in India, the Middle East and Africa and China; and
- Gross margin declines, particularly in the Smart Devices business unit.

The impact of these factors on the non-IFRS Devices & Services operating margin in the first quarter 2012 was partially offset by a significant benefit from lower warranty costs.

Updated outlook for Devices & Services for the first quarter 2012:
Nokia currently estimates that its non-IFRS Devices & Services operating margin in the first quarter 2012 was approximately negative 3 percent, compared to the previously expected range of “around breakeven, ranging either above or below by approximately 2 percentage points” primarily due to the factors noted above.

Outlook for Devices & Services for the second quarter 2012:
Nokia expects its non-IFRS Devices & Services operating margin in the second quarter 2012 to be similar to or below the first quarter 2012 level. This outlook reflects that the first quarter 2012 benefit related to lower warranty costs is expected to be non-recurring, as well as expectations regarding a number of factors including:

- competitive industry dynamics continuing to negatively affect the Smart Devices and Mobile Phones business units; 
- timing, ramp-up, and consumer demand related to new products; and
- the macroeconomic environment.

“Our disappointing Devices & Services first quarter 2012 financial results and outlook for the second quarter 2012 illustrates that our Devices & Services business continues to be in the midst of transition,” said Stephen Elop, President and CEO of Nokia. “Within our Smart Devices business unit, we have established early momentum with Lumia, and we are increasing our investments in Lumia to achieve market success. Our operator and distributor partners are providing solid support for Windows Phone as a third ecosystem, as evidenced most recently by the launch of the Lumia 900 by AT&T in the United States.”

Additional commentary on the first quarter 2012 for Devices & Services and Nokia:
Nokia currently estimates that Devices & Services net sales in the first quarter 2012 were EUR 4.2 billion, comprised of Mobile Phones net sales of EUR 2.3 billion (71 million units), Smart Devices net sales of EUR 1.7 billion (12 million units), and Devices & Services Other net sales of EUR 0.2 billion. Based on the preliminary view, Nokia ended the first quarter 2012 around the high end of our normal 4 to 6 week channel inventory range, but on an absolute unit basis, channel inventories declined sequentially.

Nokia currently estimates that Devices & Services gross margin (including Devices & Services Other) for the first quarter 2012 was approximately 25%, with Mobile Phones gross margin of approximately 26% and Smart Devices gross margin of approximately 16%.

In the first quarter 2012, Nokia sold more than 2 million Lumia devices at an average selling price of approximately EUR 220 (reported within the Smart Devices business unit). Furthermore, Nokia has seen sequential growth in Lumia device activations every month since starting sales of Lumia devices in November 2011. Lumia has gained market share with both distribution partners and consumers. The Windows Phone ecosystem is also attracting developers and has expanded rapidly with more than 80,000 applications available.

Nokia currently estimates that at the end of the first quarter 2012, the company’s gross cash and other liquid assets were approximately EUR 9.8 billion, and Nokia’s net cash and other liquid assets were approximately EUR 4.9 billion. The sequential decline in net cash and other liquid assets was driven by Devices & Services, which experienced unfavorable and mostly non-recurring net working capital changes as well as operating losses. Nokia Siemens Networks contributed positively to Nokia’s cash flow in the first quarter 2012 due to net working capital improvements. This was despite Nokia Siemens Networks having a preliminarily estimated non-IFRS operating margin of approximately negative 5 percent in the first quarter 2012, in line with the previously provided outlook.

Actions to Address Competitive Industry Dynamics Affecting Devices & Services
Nokia is quickly taking action. Nokia will continue to increase its focus on accelerating Lumia sales, as well as on lowering the company’s cost structure, improving cash flow and maintaining a strong financial position.

- In the Smart Devices business unit, Nokia is increasing investments in Lumia to bring more products to more consumers in more markets.
- In the Mobile Phones business unit, Nokia is taking tactical pricing actions in the near term and plans to bring new products to market in the second quarter 2012.
- Nokia will accelerate planned cost reductions and will pursue additional significant structural actions if and when necessary.

“We are continuing to increase the clock speed of the company,” said Stephen Elop, President and CEO of Nokia. “The change is tangible, and we are proud of the way Nokia employees are quickly responding to the needs of consumers and partners.”

Nokia will provide full first quarter results and more details when it reports its first quarter 2012 results on April 19, 2012.

Video: Qt 3D Released, Qt 3D and Qt5 / Qt4 news

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 04:48 AM PDT

A quick share before I head out again. Qt 3D released, and blogpost from the Qt Blog. Video below too.

Qt 3D and Qt5 / Qt4 news and releases

Well its taken 3+ years for Qt 3D to be an overnight success, but here it is: we are now part of Qt5 and we'll be front and centre in the exciting picture that will be powering a new generation of QML enhanced apps on a whole range of platforms. As a Qt5 Essential Qt 3D will be running on all those supported Qt5 platforms providing OpenGL accelerated 3D content defined in QML. Its great news for us in the team, and good news for those of you using Qt 3D or planning on using it for your projects.

If you're a Qt 3D fan and have been following the project for a while you'll know that as a labs project we had to do our own releases, carefully making sure that packages we created matched the current supported versions of Qt 4. We have in the past released easy-to-use packages for Symbian^3, N900 and the N9 platforms, as well as for Windows desktop; and supported Linux and Mac with source packages. We got great feedback from those package releases, and saw some interesting projects built on Qt 3D…

http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2012/04/11/qt-3d-and-qt5-qt4-news-and-releases/

…What about Qt5? That is where the excitement lies, with a vastly improved QML rendering engine, which has the benefit for Qt 3D of guaranteed OpenGL support. If you have QML2 then you have OpenGL and that means Qt 3D is ready to go on any Qt5 platform. We'd love you to try out Qt 3D on Qt5 – go and check out the Qt5 Alpha release which has just been announced, and tell us what you think. If you want to try out the bleeding edge, you can also get Qt 3D in Qt5 by building from Git.

Thanks Jim for the tip!

Nokia and Nicki Minaj video on YouTube most viewed, Nokia Lumia 900 – the only phone in Amazon’s top 100 cell phones and accessories.

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 04:43 AM PDT

 

On the weekend, Nokia shut down Times Square, NY, filled it with a crown anticipating Nicki Minaj and the New Nokia Lumia 900. The video is on the global most viewed page for YouTube now so folks other than Nokia fans expecting the launch, can see it.

 

BTW, the Nokia Lumia 900 still remains on top of Amazon’s best sellers for phones on contract.

More importantly as Forbes pointed out, it is in the top 100 for Cell Phones and accessories. At the time of writing the post where Forbes extrapolated possible good initial sales, the Nokia Lumia 900 black was number 64. It moved as high as 35 30, but maintained 60 yesterday. It’s currently number 59. Note, that the Nokia Lumia 900 is split into two devices based on colour. Forbes also expected the ranking to be higher were it counted as one phone. The cyan also moved up from 115 to 87.

Remember folks, this is a Nokia high end phone…in the USA. There are ZERO phones in the top 100 for cellphones and accessories other than these two Nokias. It’s quite surreal.

It’s a good start. Let’s hope it can continue.

Nok Conv: Nokia Lumia 610 NFC certified with MasterCard PayPass, due Q3 2012

Posted: 11 Apr 2012 02:50 AM PDT

So, the Nokia Lumia 610 NFC is official, says the Nokia Press Release (original in French). As seen in the sneak peek video, Orange will be the first to offer this. Also the 610 NFC has been certified for MasterCard PayPass payments as well as other usual NFC interactions. When? Q3 2012. Hmm. The Lumia 610 original is due soon this quarter however.

Oh as I was writing this, there’s also a post at Nok Conv. They don’t seem to say anything about the Q3 2012 thing in the text, but it’s there in the press release.

http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/04/11/nokia-lumia-610-taps-into-nfc-with-orange/

Official NFC video:

Anyway, the translated press release is below:

 

Monaco – Nokia today announced a version of the Nokia Lumia 610 new NFC, smartphone the more affordable range Lumia, ideal for young people seeking their first not with Windows Phone. Orange will be the first operator to offer the Nokia Lumia 610 NFC, which can be associated with NFC accessories and read NFC tags. This mobile has also hardware and software tools required for the deployment of NFC payment and ticket issuance solutions. It has more certified for payments without contact with MasterCard PayPass ® technology.

“Nokia is at the edge of the NFC technology with this deployment on the Windows Phone platform, integrating the total support of Orange,” said Ilari Nurmi, Director of marketing of Nokia Smart Devices. ”We bring the NFC in our range of smartphones, associated with our range of accessories NFC constantly extended.” These smartphones allow users to easily connect in one stroke. We give also to operators, and other developers, the possibility of integrating our solutions for payment and issuing of tickets NFC phones. »

“Orange wishes to deploy mobile NFC services across its European markets.” ”In this light, we rejoice to be the first operator to launch the Nokia 610 NFC Lumia”, says Yves Maitre, Senior Vice President Mobile Multimedia & Devices at Orange. ”Smartphones Nokia Lumia have received a very good reception on the part of Orange customers.” We now even further by adding a compatible mobile NFC to this range of popular, to allow users to make payments or share information in a single gesture. Nokia is on the same wavelength that we in matters of NFC technology and, like Orange, testified of the involvement of the first hour with this standard. »

Certified by Mastercard

MasterCard PayPass ® technology provides consumers with simple, fast and reliable solutions to remove fluid or pay in many points of sale. Mobile terminals, such as the Nokia Lumia 610, have been certified according to very stringent test tests of MasterCard PayPass ® and are safe to operate on networks of traders PayPass worry. Nokia presents the NFC of Lumia 610 NFC feature at the WIMA Conference, with demonstration solution.

“We are very pleased to have certified the Lumia Nokia 610 NFC can be used as a payment terminal in the PayPass system, with other smartphones.”"So the consumer can easily and when it wishes, pay its purchases,” said Mung’omba Ki Woo, group executive, Mobile at MasterCard.

The Lumia 610 NFC Nokia will be available in the 3rd quarter of 2012.

http://presse.nokia.fr/2012/04/11/nokia-dote-le-smartphone-nokia-lumia-610-de-la-technologie-nfc-avec-l%E2%80%99operateur-orange/

 Cheers Kojo for the tip!
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