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- Lumiappaday #251: W Phone 8 demoed on the Nokia Lumia 900
- Video: Nokia 808 PureView – İzzet Keribar
- Vote for Nokia Lumia 900 at T3 gadget awards
- Jolla’s Jussi Hurmola speaks to IBTimes
- 808 PureView Meets Nissan GTR; Compliment Each Other Well
- Video: Inode surpassed 100 million downloads on Nokia Store
- Nokia 808 PureView vs Canon EOS 5D and Minolta A1 (and a look at 808 accessories agian)
- Nokia to revamp marketing strategy?
| Lumiappaday #251: W Phone 8 demoed on the Nokia Lumia 900 Posted: 23 Jul 2012 11:43 AM PDT
In case you wanted to see a little bit of what it was like to get WP8 on your current Lumia (or at least WP7.8) this is W Phone 8. It simulates the homescreen in upcoming WP8 and the 7.8 update. You can move the tiles around as well as change their sizes and colours. It’s limited at the moment (so only some tiles can go large whilst for WP8/7.8 all tiles can change to all three sizes?). Some tiles don’t actually link to what they depict. I’m liking it. For those not a fan of lists, you could just have the generic grid of 4×7 icons in view. #251) W Phone 8
Developer Blurb:
Rating:Design: 8 Usability: 8 Performance: 7 Price: 10 Cheers Arts for the tip!
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| Video: Nokia 808 PureView – İzzet Keribar Posted: 23 Jul 2012 11:04 AM PDT
I came across this video from Nokia Turkey, showing just what I wanted to see from the 808. Snaps with zooming in action. I don’t understand Turkish so I hope they’re explaining what was going to happen at the start of the video rather than randomly panning and zooming to which the viewers can’t really appreciate what’s going on. I think the panning is too fast. This should be demonstrated first with someone taking the photo then zooming on the phone with pinch zoom action (with actual human hands). Then it can go into full screen and do similar actions so the reader can appreciate what is happening. It feels sort of nauseating just randomly zooming and panning. It would also be nice to hear someone talking, maybe a slogan of seeing the unseen (as most camera phones will never be able to resolve the detail the 808 can and thus will NOT see what the 808 can).
by NokiaTurkiye
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| Vote for Nokia Lumia 900 at T3 gadget awards Posted: 23 Jul 2012 10:48 AM PDT
T3 is conducting an online award event in which Nokia Lumia 900 is nominated.It’s been nominated in two categories: Vote for Lumia 900 in both the categories below:
There are other phones like iPhone 4S, HTC One, Sony xperia S,etc in the competition, so definitely it’s gonna be a tougher one for L900 in both categories. My thoughts: I feel bad for Nokia N9 is not in the nominees at least it should be in the Best design category. Via:
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| Jolla’s Jussi Hurmola speaks to IBTimes Posted: 23 Jul 2012 08:47 AM PDT
Here’s a fresh new interview dated today with Jussi Hurmola, CEO of Jolla. All eyes are on the company at the moment wondering how they will take Nokia’s MeeGo further with Jolla.
Is Nokia one of the shareholders at Jolla?
Cheers Timo for the tip!
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| 808 PureView Meets Nissan GTR; Compliment Each Other Well Posted: 23 Jul 2012 07:44 AM PDT
Here’s a post for all you car buffs out there, Michael Hell of Fonearena took his 808 for a spin in a Nissan GTR, the results are breathtaking (Full res. Flickr link under each image):
And here’s a video of the GTR tearing through the street (filmed with the 808 of course): Just listen to that sound, the rich recording does it justice, if there are any car buffs reading my all time favorite car noise is this, the Aston martin DBR9
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| Video: Inode surpassed 100 million downloads on Nokia Store Posted: 23 Jul 2012 06:29 AM PDT
The folks from Inode are joining the prestigious 100 Million club.
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| Nokia 808 PureView vs Canon EOS 5D and Minolta A1 (and a look at 808 accessories agian) Posted: 23 Jul 2012 12:59 AM PDT
I just saw this RT’d by John Pope. It’s another look at the Nokia 808 PureView with some comparisons to the Minolta A1 and Canon EOS 5D.
The iPhone colours….they might be wrong but there seems to be quite a lot of people that love the over saturation (until of course, a Nokia does it and then over saturation is bad :/ ). Anyway, this article is even more proof about the power of the oversampling from PureView. What I found most interesting is the comparison with the Canon EOS 5D.
For this image:
Surpassing all other camera phones is something we’re taking for granted now in the Nokia 808 PureView. It’s even eating up pocket cams, dedicated digicams and giving DSLR’s a good fight too. It’s quite something to even be compared to a DSLR, let alone come out with images that are supposedly better (in certain conditions).
There’s much more to the article than the camera. You get a brief section on Belle and a look at the eye patch cover and the tripod stand thingy too.
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| Nokia to revamp marketing strategy? Posted: 23 Jul 2012 12:21 AM PDT
Last week I made a focused complaint/suggestion about Nokia’s advertising efforts for Nokia Drive.
At the end, I mention that poor marketing is pervasive throughout pretty much every part of Nokia. They just don’t understand marketing. I haven’t got a degree in marketing or any experience working in the marketing department, so don’t pay attention to me. Pay attention to your eyes and ears to see pretty much all of their ads suck and that their campaigns are mostly duds. I’m not the only Nokia fan thinking this. You’ll only need to read up to the tweets and blog comments to feel the collective breeze of Nokia fans shaking their heads in disappointment. Let me copy and paste from the last rant. It might be a little harsh. I don’t think it’s harsh enough.
I can’t blame the individual marketeers at Nokia. They’re working on the Nokia guidelines on how to do things, and the size and geographic span inevitably means breaks in consistency. The bigger goal must be to change whatever culture is still at Nokia that prevents them from effectively showcasing their products through coherent, consistent and productive marketing and advertising efforts. We’ve been expecting some changes to happen at Nokia after their head of Marketing, Jerri DeVard stepped down (June 14th). Today, Reuters reports on some findings by Financial Times:
The specifics of what will be changed are unknown. All this tells us is that instead of trying to get their phones out in all channels, Nokia would favour going into partnerships to create dedicated support for its smartphones. A little bit like Nokia’s work with AT&T and T-Mobile. Is it enough that Nokia targeted the 2nd and 4th largest carrier in the US? Would Nokia have done better getting Verizon and Sprint on board too? Was partnership with AT&T only possible if they worked exclusively? Reuters says initially, one or two networks in the whole of Europe may partner with Nokia. Not sure how that’s going to work. Europe is not a country like US, you can’t just go with two networks for a whole continent. Apparently, carriers may also be offered a financial stake in the success of the range. While that’s all fine and good that Nokia tries to tempt the carriers into giving a little favour for Lumia, that’s just not enough. Money incentives isn’t enough to impart even a hint of success for Nokia. Hundreds of millions or billions must have been spent collectively on Nokia’s own efforts at marketing in the past few years and what is there to show for it? We can’t just wait for Orange, or Vodafone or T-Mobile to come up with something whilst Nokia flounders around with their old marketing style. This is part of an email I sent to Stephen Elop in June 8th. I’ve mentioned it plenty of times here before but I just want to reiterate it again.
There’s a bit of this post that also might be useful.
Source: Financial Times Via: Reuters via PhoneArena
Thanks Mac for the tip.
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