My Nokia Blog

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• “Something Coming” From Microsoft..Possible Notification Center? Landscape Homescreen?
• Hands Down THE Best Nokia Promo Video Ever: We Know How to make A Comeback
• Lumia Launch Event in Jordan/MEA @NokiaJordan
• Nokia Lumia 620 enters UK best sellers list?
• Chief Potato Camera maker, HTC, disses the renowned camera of the Nokia 808 PureView

“Something Coming” From Microsoft..Possible Notification Center? Landscape Homescreen? Posted: 05 Feb 2013 12:54 PM PST Ok, I;ll try to contain my excitement till this post is over, basically a Nokia employee went over to the Microsoft labs and saw some “stuff he’s not allowed to talk about” but he’s allowed to tease. After which he made the image above- Quite a trip at Redmond. There is something I am not allowed to talk but allowed to tease. It is not confirmed in case you make a guess (either right or wrong , I won’t answer ). That is what tease meant to be" In of itself, that's not much but digging deeper we can learn a little bit about IWSFOD-D, including his XDA name (Strike_Eagle) and his Facebook bio where it's revealed that he, Scotty Le, works for Nokia in Software Quality Assurance for Windows Phone 8. Before his time at Nokia, he was employed at HTC where he was a Pre-Developer/Software Debugger for Windows Phone 7.8 and 8. Reading into the image we can see the edge of a notifications center, but one that looks slightly different than the normal notifications in the ME hub. The other thing is that the image is in landscape mode… yes landscape; perhaps a hint at a new screen orientation for Windows Phone? The third thing I noticed was the words at the top right of the screen; “Windows phone| S”, I have no idea what that means; but perhaps the next WP update name will start with an “S”? thoughts? Thanks for the tip @dkm1101

Hands Down THE Best Nokia Promo Video Ever: We Know How to make A Comeback Posted: 05 Feb 2013 11:51 AM PST My favorite part about today’s Lumia Launch was this brilliant promo video they played at the very start of the event; for some reason this video has never been shown at other events, or ad campaigns; even though I find it absolutely brilliant. I think the reason I like this video show much is because it’s jut so “honest” that it’s moving; this is something I’d love to have seen during the superbowl, but hopefully Nokia will listen and spread this video around (maybe at MWC at least). *excuse the shaky cam as I was trying to get a better view (but watch in HD it’s worth it!) Did anyone else think this video was beyond awesome?

Lumia Launch Event in Jordan/MEA @NokiaJordan Posted: 05 Feb 2013 11:34 AM PST   Today was finally the official launch of the Lumia line in Jordan/Levant region, I’ve mentioned this before but Nokia hasn’t had a flagship device to promote since the N9 came out; ever since then the area hasn’t seen much action seeing how the first line o WP7 devices never came due to the lack of Arabic support. Rather than being a Nokia hosted event (there aren’t many media/bloggers in the regions to make an event for) Nokia ran the launch through a monthly event called AmmanTT (Amman Tech Tuesday); which was a brilliant move seeing how they gathered almost everyone in the area who’s active in social media circles and acre about the latest technology in one room and unleashed the 920 on them. The audience were mainly young people (with a surprising amount of girls in the mix)- seeing how I’m horrible with numbers I’d say there were close to 300 people there give or take a couple. I assume there were so many people due to the promise of 3 phone give-aways (920, 820 and 620) but it was refreshing to see such a turn out and so many people talking about Nokia. *After leaving I realized I didn’t get any pictures of the actual devices/accessories; but seeing how we’ve seen them before I was more interested on the people and the actual event. #ForgiveMe The event had a twitter wall set up on a projector to display tweets with the hashtag #Switch or mentioning @NokiaJordan (I made the wall!) The Nokia Levant team- Really cool and friendly bunch of people! They did the usual OIS showdown on an RC car and offered anyone in the audience a chance to compare their own phone against it. And finally the long awaited moment, the raffle for the phones; they also recapped with some trivia questions and gave out Portable Charging Sticks (DC-16s) as rewards for correct answers.   All in all the event was pretty cool seeing how the general public’s interest in Nokia had faded the past few years in the region, by scanning the twitter wall during the event a lot of people were excited about the phone and the innovations it had; most of all wireless charging which seemed to be a huge hit.

Nokia Lumia 620 enters UK best sellers list? Posted: 05 Feb 2013 08:39 AM PST WMPU reports that the Nokia Lumia 620 has reached uSwitch’s Mobile Tracker’ Top 10 best sellers in the UK, coming in at number 8. Kudos Nokia Lumia 620 (and good job it isn’t carrier exclusive, eh? Or possibly less supply issues). The 610 is just behind at 9. The highest placed Nokia is at number 3, the Nokia 100. Note that this doesn’t indicate any actual sales figures. Cheers viipottaja for the tip!

Chief Potato Camera maker, HTC, disses the renowned camera of the Nokia 808 PureView Posted: 05 Feb 2013 06:59 AM PST Talk about cheeky git. HTC have released a “history” of photography. HTC – photography? I know right? What place do potato farmers have in talking about photography? They say that the Nokia 808 PureView escalated the megapixels, and they dare say these “won’t help you at all”.  Oddly, they diss the iPhone for having the same sensor – so they know sensor size is important, yet ignore the fact that the 808 has a bigger sensor than ANY of their potato cameras, probably combined because, potatoes don’t have camera sensors. http://blog.htc.com/2013/02/a-brief-history-of-photography/# How dare HTC try and mock the 808 when independent reviews have glorified this camera. How dare HTC, lumiawannabe potato camera maker think that the 808 can even be classed along side their potato cameras when the 808 PureView transcends mobile phone quality and pushes into dedicated, compacts, and even DSLR? Nokia has had possibly the longest history in mobile phone photography. Not just pushing boundaries in camera technology, but pushing quality for the end user where it matters. 41MP + Biggest sensor ever in a phone = huge 41mp pixels for over sampling. Oversampling that produces PureView images that kicks the arse of potato cameras to the edge of the universe and back. Brief HTC camera phone photography history   I guess that said ‘reviewer’ did not even use the camera at all and was talking out of his own arse, eh? The Nokia 808 PureView’s camera specifications is impressive on paper…but more importantly..it DELIVERS. Time and time and time again it delivers unrivalled quality images. It’s no mere gimmick. Maybe this prodding and provoking is what “won’t help you at all”, HTC? Do you not remember every camera comparison by independent reviewers where YOUR PHONE LOST TO NOKIA (And possibly everyone else because your camera is actually a potato?) What say you, potato camera maker? Cheers stylinred for the tip.

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