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- N9 Apps Video: Whatsapp for Nokia N9 with Wazzap!
- Nokia Belle FP1 screenshots
- Video: Nokia Lumia 800 Globe Launch Party Philippines
- MyNokiaBlog RSS app now available on WP
- Staska – Symbian not smartphone, but smarter phone?
- Nokia 808 PureView Samples
- Nokia to hire 10,000 new workers for New Vietnam Factory
- AllThingsD: Nokia Building Lumia 900s as fast as they can.
- Lumiappaday #155: Squirrel demoed on the Nokia Lumia 800
| N9 Apps Video: Whatsapp for Nokia N9 with Wazzap! Posted: 18 Apr 2012 05:09 PM PDT
Well, well, what do we have here? Fruits of some community effort to bring Whatsapp functionality to the legendary Nokia N9. It has been much anticipated. Whatsapp’s refusal to bring the app officially is not going to stop the community from getting whatsapp for the N9 Well done Wazzap!
Details:
by WazappIM Via N9Suomi Thanks Timo for the tip!
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| Posted: 18 Apr 2012 05:03 PM PDT
We received these screenshots of Belle FP1 from B.Srikanth a couple of days ago. I meant to share them but I was under a lot of work and still have a lot of stories on my to do list to cover
                I just remembered it as Jill tipped that Nok Conv also shared some screenshots, though I think just of Belle homescreens and not FP1 – you can see those in the link or check out B.Srikanth’s in our gallery above.
Cheers B.Srikanth and Jill for the tip!
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| Video: Nokia Lumia 800 Globe Launch Party Philippines Posted: 18 Apr 2012 04:58 PM PDT
Mark Guim is in the Philippines and was at the Nokia Lumia Globe launch party. Here’s his video. BTW, who was the guy trying to explain what this phone was? He needs better scripting. Maybe ban the word great? The latest and greatest smartphone from Nokia? No it isn’t. That would be the 900 as the latest greatest (610 being the latest). He doesn’t seem to be from Nokia because he says ‘we’ve had a great partnership with Nokia’. I don’t see the need to point out he has seen other people using other competitor devices. Why the need to ever talk about competitor devices in your own event to which there was no actual purpose of even bringing it up?
by thenokiablog of thenokiablog
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| MyNokiaBlog RSS app now available on WP Posted: 18 Apr 2012 04:01 PM PDT
You my have seen on Twitter, I have published an RSS Viewer for MyNokiaBlog to the WP Marketplace. It is very minimalistic, and basic. Which is, in my opinion what an RSS feed should be like. Being an RSS Feed, the app is limited to the latest posts.
I am currently in the process of bringing the full site’s functionality (comments, all posts etc.) to a WP app. If, and when I publish the app, I will post it on here, so stay tuned. You can download the app from the Marketplace via this link http://windowsphone.com/s?appid=2b4545a1-0b2d-4b24-8ffb-9cf158485e92 All feedback is welcomed and desired. Michael
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| Staska – Symbian not smartphone, but smarter phone? Posted: 18 Apr 2012 08:15 AM PDT
Here is a long but an interesting read from Staska of UnwiredView. He discusses whether Symbian phones were ever ‘smartphones’ or ‘smarter phones’, and how Nokia was disrupted. Staska says Nokia knew far in advanced what mobile phones were transitioning into (mobile computers) but allowed their own cash cow (Symbian) to strangle Nokia’s answer to iOS (Maemo – which was too good for the definition of simply smartphone, it was a genius pocket computer.). I guess it depends on the definition of smartphones. Technically, yes it is. Even the likes of the 5530 are technically smartphones. Smartphone may mean different things to different people. With time, expectations change and the new categories of devices need to step up to meet those expectations. For a long, long while when Symbian was king, it was setting the trends. But suddenly, expectations of what smartphones were supposed to do changed – and it changed in areas where Symbian, despite all of it’s features, could not catch up quickly enough. Nokia recognized this hence why for years they had a migration path to Maemo which they threw away in the bin. What has also most definitely changed is the consumer – smartphones were no longer just for ‘smart people’ aka the geeks, but for your everyday non-techie person too. People may not have appreciated purely features but first, being able to use the phone easily, even if it meant a trade off on features. Controversially, you may remember Staska previously wrote that he believes the reason Symbian crashed was Android eating Symbian’s sales. Android’s smartphones – were they more attractive purchases than Nokia’s smarter phones? Do you agree that only now is Nokia making the transition from mobile phones to smartphones with WP? What is a smartphone? Does the definition matter anywhere apart from marketshare stats? Are consumers wanting a smartphone or a smarter phone or a phone that is just intuitive, does what they want to very well and by virtue also happens to be a smartphone (e.g. Nokia N9, intuitive, beautiful, simple, does core smartphone things well)? Source: .unwiredview.com via @Bharadc23
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| Posted: 18 Apr 2012 07:43 AM PDT
There are some more samples from the Nokia 808 PureView on Flickr. If they look familiar, it’s because we saw these at a Nokia 808 demo video.
I can’t wait to see some N8 vs 808 comparisons. Source: @Partinen via Sirasjsoft via Bharadwaj
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| Nokia to hire 10,000 new workers for New Vietnam Factory Posted: 18 Apr 2012 07:26 AM PDT
It’s been over a year now since we heard about the plans from Nokia to produce a factory in Vietnam. The last I heard, there were some delays due to negotiations with the Vietnamese government but newer reports say that all seems good to go. Nokia are reportedly spending $300M to build a new factory in Vietnam which will look to hire around 10,000 employees. The expected announcement is April 23rd (next Monday). Not sure when the completion date is but the factory is expected to produce 47M phones per year by 2014. (Is that enough?). What will be produced in there, the inquisitr isn’t sure.
However, digging up the archives, we can see that it was apparently for the next billion. But with only 47M per year, does Nokia understand that these Next Billion have to be smartphones? Source: inquisitr Cheers Kaizer Allen for the tip
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| AllThingsD: Nokia Building Lumia 900s as fast as they can. Posted: 18 Apr 2012 06:56 AM PDT
All Things D reports that apparently Nokia are very much still in demand in the US. Good marketing to let consumers be aware the product exists has seen very good responses state side. The recent out of stock notices are apparently NOT because Nokia were taking phones off the shelves to update with the connectivity fix, but because of demand. Most users opted not to swap but to upgrade the software themselves with AllThingsD concluding that the connectivity bug did not hamper Nokia’s attempts at all. Judging by the response of some tech blogs, it turned out even better for Nokia because they displayed how to treat customers well. Source: All Things D Cheers Prashant, Viilea and Janimatik for the tip!
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| Lumiappaday #155: Squirrel demoed on the Nokia Lumia 800 Posted: 18 Apr 2012 01:34 AM PDT
Squirrel is a pretty cool 3D runner where you as a squirrel must run up a tree, collecting fruit and nuts. The controls are either accelerometer based (tilt) or touch (sliding your finger). Avoid hitting the branches or it’s game over. If you carry an acorn, you can take a hit (like Sonic when he has a ring). It’s simple, but pretty addictive and looks great. There’s a short trial available to see if you like it, otherwise it’s at a very good £0.99 at the marketplace. #155) Squirrel
Developer Blurb:
Rating:Design: 9 Usability: 10 Performance: 10 Price: 10
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