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- Nokia Fluid/Qualcomm Fluid with Windows Phone 8/I.E. 10 for Verizon?
- Opinion: Lumia Devices WILL get WP8/Apollo
- Lumiappaday #158: AppFlow App Discovery demoed on the Nokia Lumia 800
- Nokia 808 PureView site with tiles, Coming soon in Finland?
- Bloomberg Video: Nokia `Very Far’ From Danger Zone With Strong Cash, S40 update for June?
- N9 Apps: Spotify demoed on the Nokia N9
- Video: Nokia Lumia 900 in AT&T Advert (but it’s not about the 900)
- WP8 for WP7/Lumia devices rumour round up.
| Nokia Fluid/Qualcomm Fluid with Windows Phone 8/I.E. 10 for Verizon? Posted: 21 Apr 2012 04:22 PM PDT
WMPU reports seeing Windows Phone 8 on DSLReport’s mobile speed test. Right now it shows up just as Qualcomm; Fluid with IEMobile 10. But earlier WMPU captured this as saying Nokia Fluid. This might sound familiar as that name was spotted at occasional gamer, March 27th.
Both Qualcomm Fluid and Nokia Fluid appeared. The former might be a chip, the latter – a handset with that chip? But with Windows Phone 8? I don’t know much about it, but wasn’t there a 800MHz Qualcomm Fluid a couple of years back? Unless there’s been an update, it might mean Windows Phone 8 on 800MHz? Recent rumours suggest WP8 is being tested on the Nokia Lumia 610. The speedtest apparently suggested the Nokia Fluid possibly having LTE on Verizon. You might still be able to see something on the google cached pages here and here. A WP8 LTE Nokia Lumia PureView is rumoured to appear on Verizon. Source: WMPU Cheers DKM for the tip!
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| Opinion: Lumia Devices WILL get WP8/Apollo Posted: 21 Apr 2012 12:33 PM PDT
I honestly wasn’t planning on posting this here as it has no basis and is just speculations which is why I wrote it up on my side-project blog; but once I saw that Jay posted a bunch of rumors together I decided to hell with it let’s join in on the fun. The whole basis of my assumption relies on one basic factor: “BT transfer”. Currently Bluetooth on WP 7.5 devices is almost useless beyond headset/car pairing and pairing to PC (not even sure if that’s possible); so why on earth would Nokia bother implementing NFC into the Lumia 610? Let’s dig a little deeper, the current build of WP doesn’t even support NFC (which was the excuse used when Nokia was asked why it was excluded from the lumia 800); so why would you put something in a device if you can’t even use it? Short answer- because it will soon enough. Recently Stephen Elop went on record saying that one of the features to come along with WP8 is the ability to send V-Cards via BT (a perfect use of NFC- “tap to send V-Card”). At this point I’d like to point out that the C7 also had an NFC chip that was disabled until Symbian Anna supported it; so it wouldn’t be the first time that Nokia implemented technology that isn’t fully supported in a device with plans to activate/support it in a future update. The last piece of “evidence” is the interesting timing of the NFC-Lumia announcement; if your going to make a modified version of a device shouldn’t you wait till the first version hit’s the stores at least?? Further more why not announce it at MWC which was less than a month before the 610 NFC announcement (which was also surprisingly pretty quiet). My thought on the matter is that they had a NFC 610 up and running but weren’t sure if it would run Apollo/WP8 but once they got the thumbs up from MSFT that it could support it (maybe there were questions about the lower RAM capabilities? or possibly MSFT had’t given them the complete requirements for WP8?) either way it does deserve the question to be asked, could it be that the 610 can run WP8.
And if the 610 can really run Apollo then by default that should mean that all other Lumia phones should run it too (considering that the 610 is the only one that’s under-powered). Of course this little tweet just helps strengthen my case:
Well of course I might be crazy or maybe it’s all the studying getting to me but I’m currently inclined to think that all 2nd gen WP devices will get the thumbs up to apollo. Your Thoughts?
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| Lumiappaday #158: AppFlow App Discovery demoed on the Nokia Lumia 800 Posted: 21 Apr 2012 11:10 AM PDT
As you can guess from the title, AppFlow is an app to find more apps. App Discovery is a very important feature to address in an app store (well, as is discovery in any store). When you have a wealth of items, you’re going to want to make sure the consumer gets to everything that will interest them. Marketplace is quite decent in that regard, but there’s much improvement to be had (e.g. games section related apps always used to be the same list of Xbox games, no matter what game you were looking at). App stores should focus on bringing the better apps to the surface and burying the crapapps. Nokia has their own version called App Highlights. AppFlow is quite nicely designed, as you might expect if you learn that they’re the same folks who made cocktail flow. Sorry this is late – computer was not up to task last night + a lot of uni stuff just caught up with me. #158) AppFlow App Discovery
Developer Blurb:
Rating:Design: 9 Usability: 9 Performance: 9 Price: 10
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| Nokia 808 PureView site with tiles, Coming soon in Finland? Posted: 21 Apr 2012 09:48 AM PDT
We got a tip that the Nokia 808 PureView was officially up on Nokia Finland as coming soon. I don’t know if this is new, but apparently it is and it’s coming in May (though I can’t find the precise link). Something else that is interesting is the use of tiles in the promo site above. Source: nokia.com/fi-fi via symbiansuomi Cheers Timo for the tip!
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| Bloomberg Video: Nokia `Very Far’ From Danger Zone With Strong Cash, S40 update for June? Posted: 21 Apr 2012 08:10 AM PDT
Roger Windsor, analyst from Nomura talks to Bloomberg about Nokia. This was just some hours prior to the Q1 2012 earnings. They’re not saying much from what we don’t already know, but then there’s not a lot in the Nokia scene you guys aren’t already aware of. They’re looking at this from a broader, more general view.
Looking at it a year ago, next billion strategy of turning S40 users instantly to smartphones sounded like a good idea. That’s no longer just a smart idea. It is critical that we see this transition soon. Nokia better have plans to do exactly this. Now we’ve had discussions before on what is a ‘smartphone’. What ever the exact or recognized definition of ‘smartphone’ is Nokia has to meet that, but also deliver a very intuitive, pleasant, fast, smooth, stable user experience at the low end too.
by Bloomberg
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| N9 Apps: Spotify demoed on the Nokia N9 Posted: 20 Apr 2012 11:41 PM PDT
Here is Spotify demoed on the Nokia N9. I recorded this two days ago during my lunch break, just after recording the Lumia version. It wasn’t planned but I thought I needed to give it another go. This means that it was the first time I had used the N9 version. It’s only posted now because these demoes take ages to do: Recording, Processing (which can take up to 3 hours), Uploading (which can also take 3 hours, or more if YouTube decides to give you ‘upload failed’. Also I can’t always just upload when I want as it kills the internet connection for the rest of my house. I thought this was worth mentioning as I keep getting asked the same question about doing N9 videos. If you want to share your demoes with us, please do so
I just noticed my video template doesn’t have linked titles. The word Spotify only got updated for the end screen.
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| Video: Nokia Lumia 900 in AT&T Advert (but it’s not about the 900) Posted: 20 Apr 2012 11:05 PM PDT
Here is an interesting advert/commercial. In this video you can see glimpses of the Nokia Lumia 900. Many times. But it’s never mentioned. That’s a good thing. Why? Because this advert isn’t even about the Nokia Lumia 900. It is simply a generic spot to talk about AT&T.
So, out of all the possible choices and, more often than not, the overwhelming susceptibility by many to simply choose iPhone, it’s refreshing to see something else, and more so, that something else be a Nokia.
by ShareATT Source: Windows Phone Daily via NokiaInnovation
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| WP8 for WP7/Lumia devices rumour round up. Posted: 20 Apr 2012 10:51 PM PDT
The will it, won’t it drama of whether any current WP devices will get an update to Windows Phone 8 continues. I say, is the phone you’re looking at a decent proposition for the price? If you’re happy with the current performance, do you know if it will remain like this a year down the line? As a reader and commenter here once said,
For some, however, they do feel updates are important. Regardless of Dr_Zorg’s advice, they will still pick up a phone in the hopes that certain improvements will come in a software update, OR they simply want to be included in future releases. With contract phones, you may be stuck for 2 years so updates may add longevity to your phone. Either way, it’s up to you whether it matters or not. Let’s go through some of the news related to this that I’ve come across: 1) WP7 apps are compatible with WP8. The original rumour cleared up, apparently the source was confused with compatibility and updates. Microsoft are keeping a tight lip on information about Apollo/WP8. 2) Nokia Lumia 800 being tested with Apollo? This site is relatively new, but after checking another tip, it was also talked about by WMPU.
Now, insideris seems to be a new site and despite being self acclaimed ‘insider information you can trust’, well we can’t just trust because it tells us to. 3) Ignore this because it’s a hoax. Someone posing as Joe Belfiore to ‘clear up rumours’.
For a verified Joe Belfiore: He is aware of the rumour mill surrounding WP but generally, things as high profile as this is not talked about. Not unless there’s a major source already discussing it, i.e. one of their partners. For example, Verizon talked about backing Windows Phone.
Going back to insideris, MS are apparently keeping a tighter lip on anything to do with Apollo? Why? Because of the nature of the smartphone market, popular things get copied by your competitors. If you announce too far away from launch, then by the time your products are out, competitors might already have that feature on their own devices. It’s about that WebOS moment when Palm announced something completely unexpected and groundbreaking. That however, also shows that a good OS will die with bad execution to market. His source is msnerd, who did a ‘Ask Me Anything’ at reddit. Now that again is another source we can’t just trust without question – all rumours in general must be remembered as just rumours. MSnerd has cleared up himself that a lot of his info is already known and he’s just repeating it. A little better than certain others who like to claim to ‘predict things’ that we already read about.
4) I just glanced at this but didn’t have a chance to save it. I read more rumours that WP7 handsets will still get some form of Apollo. Apollo ‘lite’. Not actual Apollo but many of the features, like how some of the older Nokia phones got new Anna browser and such, but not actually Anna. I have no link for this. But if you feel the need to click on textbox links and whilst I’m talking about mobile browsers, I have some cute for you, courtesy of Reddit also Thank you everyone who sent these tips in.
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You know if I find a N9 video, I share it asap 
Lumia 800, 710, 610, 900 and others will get WP8. That’s my Xbox avatar on lumia screen. Do you like it? ahahaha Stay tuned for the final victory.. Great news for you bye 
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