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- Actual Robot with Nokia N900 as a head.
- Nokia N9 campaign in Uruguay
- Stormtrooper White Lumia 900 Available in stores Now!
- SlashGear: Elop a Genius?
- Lumiappaday #157: Spotify demoed on the Nokia Lumia 800
- What to do in Finland? Ideas for our trip, June 4-7 2012?
- Video: Awesome Nokia 808 PureView shot film/promo (+NokConv: Zeiss, from N90 to 808)
- Nokia Lumia 800 on China Telecom’s Best Seller list
- Smartphone Beta Test: Zeiss (and mini rant)
- Nokia 808 PureView pre-order at FNAC Portugal
| Actual Robot with Nokia N900 as a head. Posted: 20 Apr 2012 08:40 PM PDT
This bag of awesome was originally produced early last year, according to the forum date, but it just made its way to TMO today. Back when the N900 was new, it was the end all and be all of a hackable phones. Every day it would surprise you with the creativity of its users. Years after we would still be reporting again and again (such as the brain scanner) about the N900. This is one of the many reasons why we and many of its users look back so fondly on the N900. Maemo 5 was the saviour of Nokia. Maemo 5 showed the world Nokia could do software and pretty dang well despite the embarrassing, absolutely embarrassing equivalent we saw at the time on Symbian S60 handsets. There have been many N900 robots, but those were CGI promos. This is an actual robot. I don’t recall if I posted about this so this must be new to me. If I did, it’s still worth talking about again. Features:
The N900 was already ground breaking in 2009. I wish Nokia just rolled out Maemo 5 devices. None of Nokia’s current browser offerings stack up to MicroB on N900. I’d say, the N900′s multitasking view is still far superior compared to anything. It just needed some tweaking to make it more consumer friendly in certain aspects. Some disagree and say it needed more work. Well, perhaps. But much less work than fixing Symbian. With N900, with Maemo 5, Nokia would have had solid concrete foundations and not sinking sand. With N900 we really had Amazing everyday, but produced by users who could just do whatever they wanted to do. The main problem was getting apps. When it got apps, they looked stunning. They were ‘iPhone quality’ aka, not that crap we saw on S60 5th – mostly because they were often iPhone ports. Imagine it – 2010
What were the major problems the N900′s Maemo 5 had that it wasn’t ready for prime time and only step 4 of 5? Source: robosavvy.com via TMO Cheers Maurice for the tip!
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| Posted: 20 Apr 2012 08:13 PM PDT
Antel, the most important telephony company in Uruguay, is launching a Felt strange to see such large ads everywhere starring the N9. =D Shot with my faithful N82 =D (still on service) - Rafael
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| Stormtrooper White Lumia 900 Available in stores Now! Posted: 20 Apr 2012 12:28 PM PDT
Well isn’t Nokia full of surprises, first the Data plan fix coming 3 days early and now the Beautiful white Lumia 900 coming 2 days earlier than it’s original launch date (previously said to be April 22nd). Considering how well the Cyan Lumias sold I can only imagine what people will do to get their hands on this white Sith Beauty; how about you? Have you been holding out to get a White one or are you planning on trading in your Black/Blue Lumia for a stormtrooper? -Side note: the massive size of the guy in the picture made me think he was holding a 800 at first.
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| Posted: 20 Apr 2012 10:10 AM PDT
An interesting but very controversial post from SlashGear’s Chris Davies where he says that Stephen Elop is a genius. Looking at what has happened to Nokia, the pain Nokia is in, some would say that is not the work of a genius. They would suggest it is either complete incompetence or perhaps a genius working with ulterior motives. To give the other side of the argument, he might precisely be a genius, and transition periods are a time of pain for a long term gain? Before you throw your insults, I’d suggest that you at least read Chris’ point of view on the matter.
I guess, for his doubters, there is no point in trying to explain why all of his actions have not been all bad (neither have they been all good. Some necessary, some good, some could have been done much better, some could have been avoided etc). Not until Nokia is back on form. Not until they have ‘evidence’. This includes a return to form sales and profit and long term assurance that Nokia is safe. Given the projected time frame for transition, that might be a very long wait. Source: slashgear Cheers Bloob for the tip
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| Lumiappaday #157: Spotify demoed on the Nokia Lumia 800 Posted: 20 Apr 2012 02:16 AM PDT
I wanted to demo this a while ago because I love Spotify, but you would need to have a Premium account to use the the Spotify Mobile app (on any platform). The app is well laid out and is very well integrated into your Lumia. The music controls appear when pressing the volume buttons (like the default music player, and other similar apps) so you can skip/pause tracks from anywhere, just like that. Similarly, these controls will also appear on your lock screen, so you don’t even have to unlock the phone to skip/pause a track. The quality can be set to High Quality stream in settings (I’m not sure if this is the 320kbps that is advertised for Premium account) Offline tracks Being Spotify Premium as a requirement, you do now have the ability to download/save tracks and playlists so you won’t require a connection to play your music. You can choose to download individual songs or full playlists. You can, still, alternatively listen by streaming, which works even when not on WiFi and on 3G. You will only really notice it when skipping a track, because downloaded songs don’t have a delay where as streamed will have a second (or a few) to buffer. It would be nice to see the progress, perhaps, of tracks being downloaded. Pinning and playlists As a Windows Phone app, you can pin spotify to your homescreen which will show you a live tile of the currently playing song. Moreover, you can set any playlist as a tile, which will then create a tile from 4 random album covers. Clicking that tile will start the playlist. What I don’t like is how, from this view, I can’t see the full list of my playlist. You would need to dig down into the playlists section again. A little annoying for me, but that’s probably because I don’t regularly update my spotify playlist and the playlist I demoed was for a party with a few tracks I would be skipping if I was going to listen to it myself. I guess, I should create a new playlist. Speaking of playlist, you can manage this from the phone, but overall it might be easier from the desktop app. Search Search function works well to find new tracks. When misspelling a search term, I think it should give suggestions (like the desktop version) ‘do you mean….’ What’s New This shows some new tracks (in pano tiles) and you can click refresh to find new ones. I think new music discovery should be an experience improved in Spotify in general. Other It does not yet have the ‘artist radio’ option. There’s a people section which I guess might work similar to the desktop app that links to facebook users of Spotify? I (think I) disabled this because I didn’t want to be constantly sharing what I’m listening to, and it’s funny to see what other people (guilty pleasures) are playing all the time. You can see the first few playlists I have are just for revision. :p In my desktop use, I’m normally just searching for what artists I want to hear from so I don’t keep my playlists up to date, but now I think I’ll create some specific mobile ones.
I recorded this during lunch yesterday and also have a quick recording of the N9 version (which I only decided to film at the time so it was not something I had experience using). That video is currently uploading. It might take a couple of hours or so, and I’m just about to pop out now for meetings/Uni. I’ll post that asap, but at least know there’s a N9 version (and of course a Symbian version but I can’t test that out due to broken N8). #157) Spotify
Developer Blurb:
Rating:Design: 8 Usability: 8
Performance: 9
Price: 8
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| What to do in Finland? Ideas for our trip, June 4-7 2012? Posted: 20 Apr 2012 01:28 AM PDT
All the way back in January, we were overwhelmed to learn that MyNokiaBlog would be going to Finland because you guys voted me for your Nokia Community Ambassador. Thank you again for everyone who voted, it was simply amazing to even be considered amongst all the other nominees in our Nokia Community. This site is the collective effort not only of the writers, but also our readers that interact with our posts, those who share us news/stories/ideas to share with others and those who go on to share our posts with others. MyNokiaBlog would simply not be here at all without you. Thank you! Because of you guys, we get to go to Finland! I saw we as where ever the blog goes, you are all there in some shape or form
I thought I might miss the trip due to exams but Nokia kindly scheduled this trip around me. It was set for March, but that was cancelled for various reasons. It is now pretty much confirmed for June 4th, going back June 7th 2012, just after my summer exams.
 Who wouldda thought it huh? I would actually have a use for this book someday
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| Video: Awesome Nokia 808 PureView shot film/promo (+NokConv: Zeiss, from N90 to 808) Posted: 20 Apr 2012 01:01 AM PDT
A Nokia 808 PureView film has just appeared (at the time of writing, still private) but now it’s visible. It might still be processing as the video only goes up to 720p. You can see tons of pictures from the 808 that we saw before in samples (perhaps a little too early, like the skateboarder one). This is a good video because it is ALL ABOUT THE NOKIA. It shows PROOF of the amazing quality pictures, and then shows you the device that is taking such pocket little factories of imaging wizardry. I think the video portions are also shot with the 808. Adverts shot entirely on the product you’re advertising. Yes, this is how it should be done.
Also something else to check out: Nok Conv’s post about Zeiss, all the way from the N90. to the 808. This is the only phone right now (along with 808) that really deserves to shout about Zeiss. Nokia, it is your duty to let the world know about the 808′s imaging prowess. It doesn’t matter if it’s not on the platform of your core strategy, I think FP1 is a good enough user experience now (well I’m betting so, I haven’t used it). For folks interested in amazing pictures ALL the time, then they deserve to have the 808 as an option. Devices like these are never forgotten. Years and years later, this will still have a use. Just last night I had to use my Nokia N82 again for low light pictures (N8 to be repaired). It’s pretty awesome. My friends thought it was some kind of nifty camera (and not a phone. Remember, this phone was from 2007). With the 808, no matter how far other technologies progress, it will forever be a useful product.
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| Nokia Lumia 800 on China Telecom’s Best Seller list Posted: 20 Apr 2012 12:41 AM PDT
China Telecom has about 18 times the amount of mobile subscribers as the entire population of Finland. 90M mobile subscribers – and they’re not the largest in China (China Mobile has >660M). That is still incredible and more than the population of the whole of the UK and 6 Finlands combined so you could say there’s some significance to being liked there. China is a very important market for Nokia, and also critical for Lumia to be popular there too. According to China Telecom, the Nokia Lumia 800 is in their best sellers list, at number 2 just behind the iPhone. It’s good to see a transition to sales from the early indications of people queuing up for the Nokia Lumia.
China Telecom and AT&T success for Nokia Lumia might be great, but we certainly need to see more if this around the world. Source: China Telecom, WMPU Thanks Heikki and Viipottaja for the tip!
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| Smartphone Beta Test: Zeiss (and mini rant) Posted: 20 Apr 2012 12:27 AM PDT
I am not sure how well these smartphone beta test videos are working for Nokia Lumia. I really don’t like the emphasis on other products. We, as geeks, know the 900 takes OK pictures – much better than other Lumias but it isn’t the best. I don’t like how it is portrayed as Nokia’s best in camera. In 2010, Nokia’s N8 destroyed people’s expectations of imaging on a phone. I just had to power up my N82 last night to use instead of my soon-to-be-sent-to-repairs N8 and its night extreme low light people pictures (with Xenon) are far superior than many of today’s camera phone offerings, including the Lumia or any WP. If consumers find the 900 to be producing much better pictures than their previous phones then that’s good. But what if they realise it’s not as Nokia claims? It would tarnish any possible attempts to actually show superior image quality when they come back with Lumia PureView. Well, they could easily, instead of talking about the competitor handset SHOW photos/videos taken by the phone as proof – and only then show the same pictures as produced by a competing handset. No talkdown needed, just proof – what’s better in the particular feature Nokia is shouting about.
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| Nokia 808 PureView pre-order at FNAC Portugal Posted: 20 Apr 2012 12:17 AM PDT
11 days until May, the month the Nokia 808 PureView is expected to be released in the wild. This much expected camera multimedia beast is one a lot are looking out for. I hope people don’t dismiss it simply by being on Symbian because FP1 looks like a very good offering now, in contrast to how Symbian had looked in prior revisions. We should expect review units to be flying out to the major tech blogs who will tell us how it’s like to use on a daily basis (and who should also begin to console all the camera phones for the demolishing they will be experiencing). Introductions over, the Nokia 808 is available at FNAC Portugal for a price of 649.90 EUR. Arrival might be 17th May. Thanks zype for the tip!
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