02 March 2013

My Nokia Blog

My Nokia Blog

How to Stop Windows Phone From Compressing Your Me Tile Profile Picture

Posted: 01 Mar 2013 01:29 PM PST

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One of my annoyances with Windows Phone has been the fact that my profile picture on the “Me tile” always ends up horribly pixelated and blurry once my live account syncs with the Microsoft servers. This kind of defeats the purpose of having such a beautiful high resolution screen such as the 920′s seeing how the picture ends up looking even worse than they would on a Wvga screen. The reason for this ugly compression as far as I can gather is the fact that the images are stored on Microsoft’s servers; and compressing the images into oblivion is just a way to cut down on bandwidth used during sycning.

Usually once you change your picture through the phone it will remain crisp and beautiful until it syncs with the Microsoft server for the first time; after which you end up clawing your eyes out; thankfully there is an easy solution for those of us who have Facebook linked to our phones.

Recently I updated my FB profile picture, which had my 920′s me hub picture also update immediately to mimic the change; however I noticed that the picture remained high quality and crisp. A few days later I changed my Microsoft account’s (the one I used on my phone, Skype/messenger as well as my Windows 8 Laptop)to match the one I used on Facebook; instantly I was reverted back to low resolution land.

The easiest way I’ve found to fix this is to simply change your Facebook picture independently from your live account; since the Facebook picture remains on FB/Skydrive rather than being sent to Microsoft’s servers. If you do want to change your Microsoft account’s picture as well; through the phone choose your new picture (Me hub–> click on your current picture –> select new one) then choose “send to” and select whatever you want except Facebook; then change your Facebook picture to whatever you like (in other words your Facebook picture should be the last thing you change).

*Hint- you can change the Facebook image from your phone by navigating to the “Profile pictures” folder in your albums; just choose your current picture, update; then delete the newly updated pic from Facebook on your browser (since you’d end up with two same profile pictures).

-I realize this probably isn’t an issue for most of you, but hopefully it clears it up for some of the people who did have this problem.

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Portico Update Now Rolling Out to Verizon Lumia 822

Posted: 01 Mar 2013 10:25 AM PST

Lumia 822 updateWPC is reporting that Portico update has finally begun rolling out to the Lumia 822; Verizon’s version of the 820. About time though  seeing how At&t users got the update late in December almost 3 months ago.

Unfortunately this is what happens when carriers regulate the update rollouts, hopefully with this rumored “Windows Blue” we might finally see a way across that.

So any Lumia 822 users here get the update yet?

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PhotoSynth, 3D Panorama App Now Available for WP8

Posted: 01 Mar 2013 09:41 AM PST

e4ace145-611a-4bdb-83f2-24265b3a3e02Microsoft’s awesome 3D panoramic lens app that allows you to shoot 360 degrees panorama off your phone has finally hit WP8. The app was released for WP7 last June, but had been MIA for WP8 ever since; but it’s finally here!

You can quickly access the app through the lens shortcut in the camera app, so far the app seems to preform better than it did on my 900; but it’s a bit too dark out right now to give a proper spin.

I think this is what Joe Belfiore was talking about in terms of a “couple app that weren’t in the store yet”

I’m hoping one of those apps is Instagram, but I’ve lost hope really.

Check out our review of Photosynth for WP7 here:

Download the app here:

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/photosynth/ef860a79-5f68-4ed6-aa21-c038d1a55517

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Video: Jolla Sailfish demo on Nokia N950 by Marc Dillon

Posted: 01 Mar 2013 02:47 AM PST

Screen Shot 2013-03-01 at 10.41.54Here’s another demo of the Jolla Sailfish OS by Marc Dillon.

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Cheers Dino for the tip.

 

Video: How Foxtons save time with superfast 4GEE and Nokia Lumia

Posted: 01 Mar 2013 02:40 AM PST

Screen Shot 2013-03-01 at 10.35.47You may have read the news about Foxtons who had deployed around 900 Nokia Lumia 820s to their employees. Here’s a little video from EE showing how Foxtons save time with superfast 4GEE and Nokia Lumia.

BTW, I’m on Orange-EE. The last thing I seem to get is signal anywhere.

 

 

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