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- More Nokia apps get updates for WP8
- Video: Stephen Elop interviewed by YLE on Positive Nokia Lumia 920 feedback
- Nokia’s Phablet Lumia Tree At Nokia House, Espoo :p
- How To Send A Twitter DM Directly From the WP People Hub
- Video & Gallery: Unboxing Nokia Asha 308, Full Touch Dual Sim S40 Asha
- Nokia Flagship/Hero device headed for Verizon, says Elop.
- Videos: Lumia App Labs – developer videos for Lumia WP8/WP7
- Video: Nokia Lumia 920 home automated system
- Videos: S40 Webinars, Porting from Android to S40, debugging for S40 full touch.
| More Nokia apps get updates for WP8 Posted: 18 Dec 2012 07:07 PM PST
My Lumia 820 had around 8 updates just appear, with 5 of them being Nokia apps. Only Audio and Nokia Maps had changelogs
Access Point, Cinemagraph and Nokia Music didn’t have any changelog (at least that I noticed). Update: WP Central have posted about this, and included info on the Cinemagraph update
[Excuse any errors, posted from my phone] |
| Video: Stephen Elop interviewed by YLE on Positive Nokia Lumia 920 feedback Posted: 18 Dec 2012 08:57 AM PST
The 920 is a fantastic device, one that despite the lack of cohesive marketing, is delighting consumers that use it because it’s a great smartphone. Every day I’m finding something new to like about my Pikachu 920 :p. Elop notes that this positivity is at grass roots level, with consumers who have experienced the 920 going on to tell their friends how good it is (lol because Nokia can’t make ads for that job :p). When asked whether Nokia was controlling stocks to thus create that image of demand, Elop says no. Nokia’s on a deliberate strategy to grow the production over time. Next, the positivity on Nokia that the interviewer feels towards Nokia recently. Elop notes that Nokia has been doing their very best work, whether Lumia 920 or Asha full touch. But now it’s not just Nokia saying that, but people who might love the Nokia but are crying out perhaps for the Yellow version (as you know I was doing :p) which creates a sense of hope. Nokia knows there’s more hard work to come. But there’s a sense that the SISU at Nokia is beginning to pay off and with that optimism will come more strength from the team as Nokia moves into 2013. Even though it might be the darkest time of the year in Finland because of the nature of the sun, it’s a little bit brighter at Nokia today. When asked what Elop would say to the Finnish share holders, Elop says Thank You for supporting Nokia in her darkest days.
WPCentral also noted this demand which has seen investors looking positively on Nokia too.
Cheers nabkawe5, @vvaino and dontom for the tip!
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| Nokia’s Phablet Lumia Tree At Nokia House, Espoo :p Posted: 18 Dec 2012 08:40 AM PST
I love the minimal bezel. Future hints at Phablet Lumias :p |
| How To Send A Twitter DM Directly From the WP People Hub Posted: 18 Dec 2012 05:36 AM PST
Windows Phone (7 and 8) are both great in terms of social integration, but one thing that has frustrated me is the lack of Twitter DM integration (I was hoping for something similar to the Facebook Message integration)- but considering how Twitter are restricting their APIs more and more every day that doesn’t seem like something that’s going to happen any-time soon. However a neat feature that I recently discovered in WP is that you can send out a DM directly from the People hub/What’s new simply by starting your tweet with a “D” then mentioning the recipient
*Note this apparently isn’t a feature of WP but rather a Twitter feature, but I just discovered it and thought it was worth a share.
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| Video & Gallery: Unboxing Nokia Asha 308, Full Touch Dual Sim S40 Asha Posted: 18 Dec 2012 03:48 AM PST
Earlier this week we got our hands on the Nokia Asha 308; courtesy of Nokia Connects. The Nokia Asha 308 is one of Nokia’s new “Full Touch Asha’s” which have done the unthinkable, bringing decent touch screens to feature phones (or low-end smartphones). The Asha 308 comes with a CAPACITIVE (none of that resistive garbage) 3″ screen (1600 x 1200 pixels), a 2Mp camera, Dual Sim Support, Bluetooth 3.0 and a 25 Day standby lifetime (courtesy of a 1100 Ma Battery). Surprisingly though the Asha 308 has no WiFi which means all your data consumption will have to go through one of the two sim cards, which could be an issue; but then again S40 is great at compressing data and keeping your bill reasonable. The 308 also comes with 40 preloaded Free EA games! and the usual awesome Nokia navigation for “gratis”. Check out the unboxing video below: (I honestly don’t know what was wrong with me in the video-I swear I wasn’t drunk; but I wasn’t being too serious).
Stay tuned for a second video, this time showing off the Asha 308′s new Full touch UI that takes a load of inspiration from both Meego and Symbian.
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| Nokia Flagship/Hero device headed for Verizon, says Elop. Posted: 18 Dec 2012 02:31 AM PST
SlashGear reports that Stephen Elop teased that there’ll be some “Exciting things with Verizon” indicating that it will be a high end flagship device, “There might be another similar hero exercise with a different operator”. It could mean a variant of the 920 for Verizon or something completely different. Regarding Nokia’s Here Maps for iOS, Elop says they’ve only just begun. [posted from mobile, ignore the image] Michael: CNet have posted the full interview where this as mentioned. Not sure if you want to read it or not, but I found it to be informative
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| Videos: Lumia App Labs – developer videos for Lumia WP8/WP7 Posted: 18 Dec 2012 12:07 AM PST
I’m not sure if you’re aware of this series called “Lumia App Labs” by Nokia. There are 5 episodes now: The first one is just an Intro to the devices, so that devs know what they’re going to be using. It becomes more technical as the episodes progresses.
The second video looks at Windows Phone 8
Windows Phone 8 App development
Creating Stunning Imaging Apps
Developing apps for both WP8/WP7
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| Video: Nokia Lumia 920 home automated system Posted: 18 Dec 2012 12:06 AM PST
I wasn’t sure whether this was just a concept or real until the blurb video claims that everything here works as advertised. In this video you’ll see a Nokia Lumia 920 connected up to a home and controlling things like TV/lights/fans. Some things would obviously easier to switch on yourself, such as the hairdryer (though it could help in people with arthritis perhaps or other related disabilities), but then there are times when you’re just like “TV, turn on” haha. I know since getting Xbox with Kinect, I’ve really enjoyed the voice commands that reduce controller input. What’s interesting is that the voice command instructions aren’t simply “turn on/off” the fan, but “I’m hot”. Looking at nuuneoi‘s other videos, you’ll see he’s quite familiar with Nokia, having worked on Symbian phones like N8 and MeeGo-Harmattan (Maemo) phones like N9 and N950. It’s great to see him continue and work on WP8.
Integrated/more indepth voice commands for WP8. MS demoed it in the developer preview. Where the heck is it?
by nuuneoi Via WMPU Cheers Dan for the tip! |
| Videos: S40 Webinars, Porting from Android to S40, debugging for S40 full touch. Posted: 17 Dec 2012 11:52 PM PST
The first one is about debugging your design for S40 full touch.
The second one is as per the screenshot, porting from Android to S40.
via nokiadevforum |
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