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- #N9Hacks: Enable Traffic in Nokia Drive
- Video/Photo Editing on Nokia 808 Pureview (Vs. N8)
- Rumor: Surface RT to Be Priced at $199
- Nokia City Lens updated for Windows Phone but still in beta
- Nokia X2 Hero story makes it to Reddit.
- Predictive Locations: Nokia’s Where platform knows not only where you are, but where you’ll be.
- Leaked: Nokia Lumia WP8 frame
- Accessories: Proporta Pocket Power Emergency Charger – hides in wallet for low battery power emergencies
- StuffMagazine on the Nokia 808 PureView.
- Lumia Tips: Find your Nokia Lumia with Find My Phone, + Remote Ring/Lock/Erase
| #N9Hacks: Enable Traffic in Nokia Drive Posted: 14 Aug 2012 08:17 PM PDT
I’ve been using this for the last month thanks to my friend Arie ( @EverythingN9 ). I wanted to bring this to you guys earlier, but the method to install the patch was rather involved for the everyday user. I’ve recently learned that N9 Quick Tweak (N9QT) has this option as part of it’s extensive list of tweaks and mods. This is what has lead me to bring it to your attention. To install N9QT, you will need developer mode active (Settings > Security> Dev. Mode) and also third party installations (Settings>App.>Intall.). The file can be downloaded from here. Simply click the link on your N9, and open it from the Transfer UI. I have made the assumption that the cities supported by Traffic are the same cities supported in Nokia Drive 3.0. The patch also enables Automatic/Day/Night colouring for Drive.
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| Video/Photo Editing on Nokia 808 Pureview (Vs. N8) Posted: 14 Aug 2012 04:02 PM PDT
So here’s a nice look at the video and photo editing features that come pre-built into the 808; vs. the former heavy weight camera king the N8. I mianly use the photo edit feature for quick fixes like auto adjust (using that alot on the Lumia 900 these days) as well as the quick crop.
For some reason the full range of video editing software was removed from the 808, short of the crop/edit time frame; but honestly I don’t think too many people used that in the first place. Editing both photos and videos is super smooth on the 808 and is actually a joy to use.
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| Rumor: Surface RT to Be Priced at $199 Posted: 14 Aug 2012 01:48 PM PDT
There’s no doubt that the Microsoft Surface is one heck of a tablet, it has got all it needs to succeed, great design (the likes of what we’ve grown accustomed to from Nokia), intuitive features and that little something different; however for a while now the big question has been pricing. According to Microsoft the point of the Surface is to serve as a “guideline/roll-model” for other OEMs to follow in its footsteps, one would assume that they don’t plan on taking the whole tablet industry head on if this is truly their intent; however Engadget reports that the Surface RT(carrying the lighter version of W8) might sell for as low as $199!!! Honestly that’s crazy low, matching the price of the flat-lining Kindle Fire and the newly launched Nexus 7 is a brave move, especially when the device your pricing so low is premium quality and build (and the only 10″ of the trio). Personally I’m hoping this is true, because even though I just bought an iPad, I would jump at a $200 Surface tablet, as a Nokia fan I’m hoping that this is a whole bunch of lies, since honestly I can’t see Nokia (or any other OEM) competing against this device with this design at this price point. Let’s be honest smart pricing has never been Nokia’s strong suite, but let’s hope they get things right with the upcoming WP8 devices. So do you guys think this rumors true? And more importantly would you buy one if it were? Fun fact: the RT should be able to play HD videos for 8 hours, or run in standby (while connected to WiFi for notifications) for up to 17 days!
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| Nokia City Lens updated for Windows Phone but still in beta Posted: 14 Aug 2012 01:24 PM PDT
City Lens from Nokia helps in locating the various places like restaurants, hotels, ATM, etc tag, share, save your location in a visual way, in short we can say it as visual exploration/navigation. Nokia had recently updated its Augmented reality app to version 1.1 but it still lives with beta tag. Change log from Nokia:
Video:
Source: cheers hari.
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| Nokia X2 Hero story makes it to Reddit. Posted: 14 Aug 2012 11:05 AM PDT
Look what made it on Reddit? It’s a story of Prashant’s facebook friend which he shared a couple of days ago.
You know how much Reddit loves the super strong Nokias. The indestructible Nokia meme, The hammer Nokia Lumia 900, and now this. Of all the manufacturers, because Nokias tended to be everyone’s first, there’s a warm sense of nostalgia about them. And they do seem to be getting attracted again. If I do come across threads related to phones, Nokia Lumias are mentioned, perhaps heightened awareness thanks to Siri crowning it as the best smartphone. I’m really surprised how far this story has spread all over the blogosphere and now going outside that. Anyway it’s on Reddit.
Hurray super Nokias
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| Predictive Locations: Nokia’s Where platform knows not only where you are, but where you’ll be. Posted: 14 Aug 2012 10:33 AM PDT
Anticipation technology – things that will predict what you’re going to do, before you’re going to do it, and intuitively behaves in a way that makes your life just that little bit easier. Forbes and Business Insider talk about Nokia’s algorithms that aims to know not simply where you are, but where you will be. We’ve already seen a bit of this in action in Nokia Drive 3, where Nokia Drive anticipates when you’re going to set off for your commute and pro-actively initiates a set of instructions for your upcoming journey. Eventually it could become a very intuitive P.A. that just knows all about you, where you go, what you need to do etc by learning from past behaviour. Currently, after some learning from a volunteer, Nokia’s algorithms could predict accurately where GPS coordinates would be within 20 square metres. The original article mentions crime fighting – which of course reminds a bit about Minority Report (two mentions this week) with pre-cogs predicting criminal behaviour. This could also be used to target ads. i.e. knowing precisely when you go on lunch breaks and giving you offers, or when you go shopping and showing you subsequent deals. It could even be used for some good. If it knows you travel by certain food shops quite too often, it might begin showing you the gym or reminders to have a hospital check. Information can be gathered using GPS or cell tower information. Cheers Jill for the tip. I’m a big fan of intuitively anticipating apps. Things like Nokia situations and Nokia bots that would know when to switch profiles, activate certain settings based on time/location.
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| Posted: 14 Aug 2012 10:14 AM PDT
What you’re looking at is apparently a frame of an upcoming Nokia Lumia with Windows Phone 8. The screen measures about 10.9mm (4.3″). Check out the new Windows Phone logo. I hope there’s not a lot of additional excess borders. What amuses me more is that people are getting excited over seeing parts of an unannounced phone 4.3″ is currently Nokia’s top end, but will hopefully be dwarfed by something else with a larger screen to satisfy phablet chasers. Of course, there will be others for whom 4.3″ is already too large. WPCentral reckons the whole next to the logo is for the ambient sensor whilst WMPU thinks it’s the camera.
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| Posted: 14 Aug 2012 08:15 AM PDT
I’ve been a long fan of the folks at Proporta. Being a tech geek requires my gadgets to be juiced up and whilst it’s great to have a spare battery if you can, normally that limits what can be charged. i.e. only where that battery is compatible. I have so many old spare batteries I can’t use any more. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw3V6lPm-Kk&feature=youtu.be
 Light turns on temporarily when first charging. It turns off afterwards possibly to save battery. The larger battery packs keep it on, even using it as a charge indicator. When the pack itself is being charged, the individual 3 lights act as an indicator of charging progress and fills blue when done. I still have my proporta chargers. They’re great for travelling, or bringing with me to Uni knowing I’ll be away from a charger all day and may be using the phone heavily (filming/tethering etc). I remember I went to London with a friend and did not have a pocket charger to go with my Nokia N900. Every 2 hours I had to play the ‘find the plug’ game in order to continue taking snaps/videos. Quite recently since the N8, I’ve had to deal with sealed batteries so bringing spare batteries was never even an option. Another reason I prefer these over spare batteries is that the phone needs to be turned off. Portable chargers are great to keep the phone running. e.g. phone call, recording video etc.
With the Proporta chargers, just pop in the cable and begin charging away. I don’t leave the big 3400mAh batteries in my pocket as they’re a touch too large. Sometimes if I’ve left my bag somewhere, I kick myself for not having the emergency charger. I do however have a mini one but even that sometimes gets forgotten (or worse, I’ve got it but I don’t have the cable).
Perfect for emergencies is Proporta’s new credit card sized, super thin Pocket Emergency Charger. The official name of the product is so unecessarily long though, “TurboCharger Pocket Power Emergency Charger & External Battery Pack”/ It packs only 680mAh of juice. Certainly no where near enough to charge your phones to full or keep them alive on a very busy day. But that’s not what this is for. Go stick with the larger chargers for that. This is for those emergencies when you just needed to make one final phone call or respond to that mail or share a picture of something awesome but your battery just died.
It comes with a short MicroUSB cable to charge it up. You must have plenty of MicroUSB cables/chargers so it’s very easy to charge. The emergency charger itself comes with it’s own built in cable and it looks to be quite durable (an issue I had with those retractable proporta cables is that they broke, rendering your charger useless, though tip – you can use Nokia MicroUSB cables on them now. Older ones didn’t work).
Once charged, just leave it in your pocket and forget about it. Until of course, you’re in an emergency situation and needing some power. No additional cables needed. This is only £12.95. Not bad for what I consider ‘life savers’ in the geek world.              
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| StuffMagazine on the Nokia 808 PureView. Posted: 14 Aug 2012 05:38 AM PDT
Here’s Lucy Hedges from the UK StuffMagazine giving a quick review of the Nokia 808 PureView. Whilst you might stop listening once the disappointment of Symbian is mentioned, Lucy gives PureView quite a good explanation. Much better than I had expected.
Here’s where I’ll disagree hugely. Apparently it would be unlikely that you’d use the 808 in preference of a compact camera? Seriously, you mean the compact cameras that the 808 demolishes to the point it has to stand against DSLRs to really see how far 808 can be pushed?
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| Lumia Tips: Find your Nokia Lumia with Find My Phone, + Remote Ring/Lock/Erase Posted: 14 Aug 2012 02:10 AM PDT
I’ve been meaning to film this a long while ago and I’ve finally got around to it this morning. In the video I show some useful remote features (not all, will demo remote app install another time) where you can find your phone’s very precise location, ring it, lock it and erase it. You might have a situation where you’ve lost your phone or had it stolen. You can use Find My Phone on WindowsPhone.com to locate your phone on the map. Remote ring is useful if you know where it is but have just misplaced it. You could ring it with another phone, but if you haven’t got one, you can ring it remotely. Other two features I haven’t tried out myself is remote Lock and remote Erase – wiping your phone’s contents so no one else will get it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDJUi2V-fgk&feature=youtu.be
It’s been a while since I did set this up so I forgot to mention it in my video. You’ll have to enable this feature by going to
You can get email notifications when your phone is found. There are additional settings that make ‘Find My Phone’ work faster, but it does warn that it might use more battery. The map location can be very precise. Not just down to the street but the position in your house/building etc. Additional uses for this include spying/tracking. Ha. Actually you could use it to keep an eye on where your kids are going.
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