| 808 Gorilla Glass Scratch Test Posted: 01 Jul 2012 04:31 PM PDT 
You know the drill, bring sharp objects; scratch screen; use magic wipe to fix glass- the latest phone to be tortured/tickled with knives and forks is the 808 pureview, putting it’s gorilla glass to the test. Check out the video below: 
VIA Thanks for the tip Rishabh 
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| Lumiappaday #229: Harbor Master demoed on the Nokia Lumia 900 XboxLive Posted: 01 Jul 2012 01:38 PM PDT  This is Harbor Master, a really fun Xbox Live title where, like Flight Control (#181) or Airport, you have to direct the right boats to the right dock. BUT you have to escort them out too and another boat cannot dock if it’s already busy. If a boat collides with another boat, it crashes and it’s game over. #229) Harbor Master Price: £2.29 Link: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/65658a0d-7451-e011-854c-00237de2db9e Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BiSRYFNPrQ
Developer Blurb: The best selling addictive action game Harbor Master is now available on Windows Phone 7! Relax and let the sounds of the sea transport you far away. You are the Harbor Master in a busy harbor. Direct boats into the docks, watch them unload their cargo, and direct them off the screen. But be careful not to let the boats crash, and watch out for the pirates, monsters, and cyclones! With seven maps to explore, each with its own twist and challenge, and Xbox LIVE leaderboards and achievements to compete on, you won't be able to put it down! 
Rating: Design: 9 Usability: 9 Performance: 9 Price: 8
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| Nokia have a back up plan………..After all! Posted: 01 Jul 2012 02:42 AM PDT 
Nokia’s chairman broke the silence on Nokia’s backup plan in a recent interview by Yle with Nokia’s Chairman Risto Siilasmaa: Siilasmaa pointed out that the company owned five business areas, including its location services, patent stock and network division (Nokia Siemens Networks). He defended the choice of Windows Phone as the platform to replace its flagging Symbian operating system, as he knew that symbian is on steady decline since 2008. "Symbian's market share has come down close to zero," Siilasmaa said of the decision to switch to Windows. Siilasmaa said Windows Phone had been selected after a critical and detailed study of available options. He said the Windows Phone 8 platform is a technological first, providing users with a seamless user experience across multiple platforms, from PCs to tablets and smartphones. Siilasmaa said Nokia has a contingency plan in place if the Windows 8 Phone fails to live up to expectations. But he said the company was confident that the product would be a success.
The board chairman was steadfast in his support of beleaguered CEO Stephen Elop, who has come under criticism as the company continues to lose value. Siilasmaa refused to comment on whether a management shakeup was on the cards. "He came in at a tough time," Siilasmaa said, adding that Elop's management style had been “good and transparent.” Talking about the backup plan of Nokia he clearly refused that Symbian will never come again and Meltemi is also not getting a fair amount of chance. - What will Nokia try if WP8 fails?
- Will it be Android or it will be Meego or may be an entirely different thing like Nokia Air(cloud OS concept)?
Don’t hesitate to share your views in the comments section below. Source: yle.fi Cheers Kazier and Steelicon for the tip Regards:
Prashant. 
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| Weekend Read: NokConv – How Nokia can still differentiate with location-based services Posted: 30 Jun 2012 11:51 PM PDT 
This is a follow up story to the news that WP8 phones will all get Nokia Drive. http://mynokiablog.com/2012/06/20/err-nokia-drive-for-all-wp8-phones/
We heard Elop mention that there was more to come. Whilst there is location and navigation in step 0 and 1, Nokia knows how to do more with steps 2-5. I don’t like step 5s things at all. Remember the last great step 4 before we killed it off in trying to make step 5? :/ 
Anyway, here is NokConv’s response: http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/06/29/how-nokia-can-still-differentiate-with-location-based-services/
- would you ever buy a smartphone that doesn't play music? The same rule is very quickly being applied to navigation too.
- we are going to license Nokia Drive, the best navigation solution on the market, to all Windows Phone 8 devices
- Nokia Drive might not be exclusive to Nokia smartphones anymore but that doesn't mean that we can't differentiate with apps anymore. How can we still do it?
- First of all, navigation on Windows Phone 8 will be always exclusively provided by Nokia.
- Then by having the very closest, deepest integration possible
- So watch this space for more apps and upgrades that become a seamless aspect of the overall Nokia Lumia experience.
OK. I like the sound of a more integrated seamless Nokia Drive experience in lumia. I love Nokia Drive. I can find where I am and get directions where I need to be in seconds. But I hate it whenever I’m in another app and it decides to give me directions using the ridiculous Bing maps. - But there is more to it than this. In fact, this is an area that creates a lot of confusion when people don't distinguish between apps and platform.
- he Nokia Location Platform (often referred to by us as the Where Platform) provides a set of APIs that let organisations develop map-related apps and services.
- Location business is apparently ingredients, recipe is the app that makes something useful out of it, each custom made for a particular ‘appetite’. Developers are the ‘cooks’. Nokia’s location platform is ‘mother nature’ I guess and not the fake, synthetic, possibly health harming tripe.
- “Perhaps you can now see that the location business is not only about apps (final products) but also, and most importantly, about the platform (ingredients and recipes).”
- By opening the location platform to the whole Windows Phone 8 ecosystem, we are differentiating Nokia as a company because we are the company most able to cover the location business on all levels.
Does this answer the question for me on how SPECIFICALLY Nokia Lumia range would differentiate in terms of mapping if ALL WP8 phones would get Nokia Drive? It seems to want to address the bigger picture of the Nokia Location Business as a whole differentiating itself from Google and now Apple’s offerings. Update: It seems some of you were as confused as I was. Here’s Janne’s reply to another reader, who found it made more sense than the original article: http://mynokiablog.com/2012/07/01/weekend-read-nokconv-how-nokia-can-still-differentiate-with-location-based-services/comment-page-1/#comment-607554 The point in ecosystems is three-fold: 1) First, because Android offers location and navigation to its licensees as a part of the base package, WP needs to do it too to ne attractive to licensees – and also developers to make location-based apps. 2) Second, location also is a platform and an ecosystem, basically the threeway competition between Nokia, Google and some others lead by Apple. Selling a location platform is becoming a major industry as location-aware services, advertising and the like spread. 3) One of Nokia's businesses is selling their location platform and through this partnership they've sold is as the exclusive solution for Windows Phone 8. They will license it to others as part of this business, strenghtening Nokia's location ecosystem, while also boosting the WP ecosystem (also good for Nokia) and getting paid for it. Above these platform and ecosystem business principles lay the actual location-based services, which will be the next step of differentiation and innovation. The steps 2 to 5
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| Trusted Platform Module for more secure Nokia Lumia appeal against BB. Posted: 30 Jun 2012 11:20 PM PDT  Trusted Platform Chip will apparently form part of the new Nokia Lumia WP8 phones. It’s not a new thing and has been on Windows computers for manufacturers to use for a while now. But not on MS mobile devices until now with WP8.
The article below is mostly about RIM’s problems but the last three paragraphs before the conclusion give a good overview on the importance of such security. http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/how-grim-is-rim-anatomy-of-a-trainwreck-by-the-numbers/
- RIM’s secure network, highly regarded in the corporate world
- Messages/communications delivered on encrypted, secure network
- Folks moving away from BlackBerry are apparently security nightmare for IT admins.
- WP8 could join BB network
- But WP8 will incorporate TPM which RIM does not support.
- TPM for MS means they don’t have to create their own global secure network.
Right now, the only device that work with RIM's BlackBerry network are BlackBerry devices. So Microsoft has few reasons to want to embrace RIM's technology or network. And with the launch of Windows Phone 8, it may have an opportunity to bury it. Here’s an interesting read too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module
- Concerns of TPM include abuse of remote validation software, manufacturer can decide what runs on the system and can track what the user does. We’re in an ever growing age where everything we do is already tracked.
- TPM cannot be legally deployed in China, Russia, Belarus or Khazakstan for fear that the state may not be able to access the secure network.
Source: digitaltrends via WMPU Cheers Bob for the tip 
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