14 July 2012

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Weekend Watch: The Dark Knight Rises With The Nokia Lumia

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 04:00 PM PDT

This is a Dark Knight Rises promo with the Nokia Lumia range for Nokia India.

You can see locally relevant batman scene showing some falling dark knight collectibles.

I want that batman keyring.

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Lumiappaday #241: Super Monkey Ball 2 demoed on the Nokia Lumia 900 XboxLive

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 01:36 PM PDT

Here’s a sequel to Super Monkey Ball (#208), with much improved controls over the first iteration.

 

#241) SMB2-SE

Price:  £2.29/ $2.99

Link: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/9fac66ac-f085-4d5c-b651-5c7ce7e7ad42

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF8ZWoXUMHg

Developer Blurb:

 

Super Monkey Ball™ is back. Everyone's favorite monkeys keep the ball rolling with this exclusive version of the arcade to console classic for your smartphone.

Roll around the Far East, as you tilt and steer one of four adorable monkeys through 125 themed mazes and a beautiful world of cherry blossoms. Just grab your bananas along the way to earn extra lives before time runs out. It's so easy to play, even a monkey could do it!!

FEATURES:

GO BANANAS
Play as one of 4 adorable Monkeys: Aiai, MeeMee, Baby, and GonGon

JUST ROLL WITH IT: 6 Worlds, 125 Themed Stages
Sinking Swamps, Cobalt Caverns, Ultra Heaven, Jumble Jungle and Pirate's Ocean. Includes 10 stages from the exotic Far East World.

NEVER QUIT MONKEY-ING AROUND
Play 3 additional Mini Games:

Monkey Target: Guide your monkey to the bull's-eye, launch into the sky and grab as many bananas as you can.
Monkey Golf: Monkeys play golf .. who knew? Grab your clubs and tee off with 18 holes of banana bliss.
Monkey Bowl: One of the original mini games returns for ten frames of monkey ten-pin bowling madness!

 

BREATHTAKING VISUALS
New environmental effects that bring stunning and colorful 3D worlds to life

Rating:

Design: 9

Usability: 8

Performance: 8 

Price: 8

Video: Ask the CEO: Stephen Elop at TechEd Amsterdam

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 11:07 AM PDT

 

Stephen Elop answers some questions from TechEd Amsterdam:

  • Phones with QWERTY. People who experience touch prefer Nokia touch over QWERTY.
  • Why did Nokia leave Symbian? Conclusion of management team – not battle of devices but…dun dun dun, come on everyone…”War of ecosystemsssss” . Basically it’s a long term play.
  • How can WP/Nokia make it simpler to develop globalised apps
  • Customers who bought WP7 recently but can’t upgrade to WP8? (Wow, listen to how this question is answered. Not directly, but first talking about positives of WP8 and then going in to discuss WP7.8.  It’s a little lengthy but a good style to focus first on the positive. Note Elop says current lumia will get the new WP8 featureS including the start screen. Now previously all we’ve heard was that it’s only just going to be the start screen. Elop suggests there’ll be more. Actually he says current Lumia owners will get a pattern of updates to bring new features . But Elop then explains features we were waiting for from Tango. :/).
  • I find it interesting that Stephen Elop pronounces Nokia “Knowkia” (better than no keeeyaah) but calls Nokia Drive, Nokya Drive (as how I’d pronounce it)
  • Inevitability that software platform updates are a necessity to bring new range of experience and broad range of options. Full update is not possible due to the jump in hardware, Nokia is deeply commited to providing long term experience for everyone who buys a Nokia product.
  • 4/5 cars with in dash navigation uses Nokia maps. Wow, I didn’t know that.

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Nokia Releases Exclusive “Batman Origins” app for Lumias

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 04:35 AM PDT

Last night Nokia published yet another Batman related exclusive app for WP (found only under Nokia collection); “Batman Origins” is a pretty sweet comic book reader that has the origin stories/comics for the main characters in the upcoming “Dark Knight Rises” (Batman, Catwoman, Bane, Scarecrow). the app itself is pretty cool as it transitions from pane to pane like a real comic reader should, anyways check it out guys!

Grab the app from the Nokia collection of the WP marketplace or scan the QR code below:

QRCode

*random thought: Am I the only person whos SUPER excited for this movie? Bane is going to be crazy! Also Anne Hatheway as catwoman!!!!So much excitement!! shame they delayed the release here till August :(


Nokia India FB Page Opens Preorders for Lumia 800 Dark Knight Edition

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 04:23 AM PDT

The Nokia India page just tweeted a Link to pre-order your very own engraved TDKR Lumia 800 (in black of course), apparently there are only 200 of these available, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they decided to make more.

Anyway here’s the page for those of you who want a lit bit of the “Worlds Greatest Detective” in your life: https://www.facebook.com/NokiaIndia/app_262530500518075

Video: Nokia Transport with detailed line view and multiple tiles

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 03:09 AM PDT

Nokia’s uploaded a video showing Nokia Transport, an app that helps with public transport, on the Nokia Lumia 900. Nokia transit factors in walking times to stations as well as giving directions to those stations, and apparently some more as it guides to your final destination.

They’ve got someone called Josh who lives in New York to demo it. I don’t think he’s Nokia staff.

Nnokia Transport is like having thousands of schedules and timetables in your pocket: see upcoming departure times, find the closest stations, and get directions from your stop to the door of your destination. Nokia Transport is an intuitive, flexible adventure companion with extended global coverage. Read more at http://conversations.nokia.com/?p=86986

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Vanjoki not involved in Jolla Mobile

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 12:49 AM PDT

Since Jolla Mobile were not yet ready to detail their partners/investors, some had been speculating that perhaps Ex Nokia Hero (well to many Nokia fans), Anssi Vanjoki might be an angel investor that would provide some funds for this new startup.

According to the story below, whilst Anssi is happy with what Jolla Mobile is trying  (he did have a penchant for MeeGo and N9) he says he’s not involved.

http://www.taloussanomat.fi/ihmiset/2012/07/12/vanjoki-jollasta-hieno-homma-mutta-en-ole-mukana/201233448/137

Cheers jiipee for the tip!

Nielsen’s Q2 2012 US Mobile Subscriber market share estimates.

Posted: 13 Jul 2012 12:44 AM PDT

Here’s a report from Nielsen showing marketshare numbers for USA. Whilst there have been news that Nokia was selling the most out of the current gen Windows Phones, Nielsen shows that they are still behind Samsung/HTC for overall phones in US.

Total marketshare for Windows Phone in USA is 1.3%, still less than the 3% of older generation Windows Mobile devices. Nokia’s WP share of 0.3% is also still less than the total Symbian sales from the past.

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/two-thirds-of-new-mobile-buyers-now-opting-for-smartphones/

Note: another table to look at for current USA sales is

http://mynokiablog.com/2012/07/11/kantars-device-sales-numbers-150-growth-for-symbian-in-usa-p/

This shows Windows Phone current sales at 3% whilst Symbian is at 0.5%. Although it doesn’t look like it, both of these Nokia used platforms grew from this time last year.

It takes a very long time to get overall marketshare numbers – as evident by the amount of time Symbian had been top in terms of current installed user base (it’s difficult to trust statcounter on this one as they’ve been including S40 into Symbian up until April 2012, hence why there seems to be an insane crash afterwards as S40 had been propping up Symbian marketshare data for Statcounter).

Statcounter’s findings (1.02%) for WP is quite similar to Nielsens. Symbian shows up at 0.32%. Note, statcounter is based on browser activity of all current handsets in use, not just what had been sold.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-US-monthly-201201-201206

Cheers skyfall for the heads up
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