My Nokia Blog

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• Daniel Gary teases #ChatSnap – SnapChat client for WindowsPhone
• Windows Phone 8 and PC to Get their First Halo Game- Spartan Assault
• MyNokiaBlog Listed as an “Essential” on the Internet for Lumia Lovers by Nokia Conversations
• 2011 Nokia E6 vs 2013 BlackBerry Q10
• Lumiappdates: Cut the Rope updated to v1.3.0.0
• Official Adobe PDF Reader Lands in WP8 Store

Daniel Gary teases #ChatSnap – SnapChat client for WindowsPhone Posted: 04 Jun 2013 08:47 PM PDT Jay has already posted about Swapchat (here and here), and he made reference to me saying that the developer of Instance (the best Instagram client on WP), Daniel Gary, is also making his own SnapChat client, aptly called, ChatSnap. Now that he has teased us a bit more, I felt it was appropriate to share it with you guys! Hopefully we’ll have more news for you guys soon, seeing as the private Beta is already happening!

Windows Phone 8 and PC to Get their First Halo Game- Spartan Assault Posted: 04 Jun 2013 08:34 AM PDT Microsoft have finally realized what an important asset the Halo franchise is to the rest of the market besides Xbox. Announced today, Halo: Spartan Assault is the first title of the franchise to land on Windows 8, RT or WP8 (the last Halo title to land on a PC was Halo 2). The game is developed by the same people who made the console version (343 industries) and according to the folks over at Polygon it’s pretty amazing, check out a gameplay trailer below: Spartan Assault should land on your device in June priced at $6.99; the game will also take advantage of the play, pause, resume features between Windows Phone and the PC, allowing you to pick up and continue the game between the two. I know plenty of people who have purchased the Xbox for the sole purpose of playing Halo, any chance this’ll convert some of those die hard fans to Windows Phone? Via

MyNokiaBlog Listed as an “Essential” on the Internet for Lumia Lovers by Nokia Conversations Posted: 04 Jun 2013 04:13 AM PDT   The official Nokia Conversations blog has just shared a post listing some “essential” “must bookmark” sites for any Nokia Lumia lover, and we’re stoked to have made the exclusive list. MyNokiaBlog was mentioned alongside the official Nokia page, the official support forums and Xyo.com (the app finder site). So it’s safe to say we’re honored and excited; and once again we take this moment to thank YOU (yes you!) our beloved readers for making us “the big daddy” of Nokia sites, so pat yourselves on the back. Here’s what the Nokia Conversation blog had to say about us: Happily, there's tons of fantastic Nokia blogs. But if there's only one blog you should keep tabs on it's got to be the big daddy of them all, My Nokia Blog. Set up by smartphone maestro Jay Montano in the mid 2000s, it is the perfect one stop shop for people to keep up to date with what's happening Lumia-wise across the web. Check out the full post here: http://conversations.nokia.com/2013/06/04/5-websites-every-nokia-lumia-lover-should-bookmark/

2011 Nokia E6 vs 2013 BlackBerry Q10 Posted: 04 Jun 2013 12:04 AM PDT Whilst Nokia only seems to be pursuing Qwerty through ASHA, since it’s BB’s staple, they’ve brought out the Q10 along side Z10 for those BBMers who can’t part with their physical keyboards. The price point is what’s going well for the E6. http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/features/item/17636_Head_to_head_Nokia_E6_and_Blac.php We can only wonder what a current iteration of QWERTY might look like were it a higher end smartphone from Nokia.

Lumiappdates: Cut the Rope updated to v1.3.0.0 Posted: 03 Jun 2013 11:47 PM PDT Cut the Rope just got an update as has Nokia Music which Ali wrote about yesterday. It doesn’t mention in the app section what got updated but the date of the update was 03-06-2013

Official Adobe PDF Reader Lands in WP8 Store Posted: 03 Jun 2013 09:54 PM PDT Something that I thought would never come to the WP8 marketplace finally arrived today, the official Adobe Reader PDF client; although we have found other alternatives to suite our needs it’s nice to have one more in your app drawer. According to the WP Blog: With the free Adobe Reader you can open and read a wide variety of PDF documents, including ones that come password protected. Built-in features include the ability to copy and paste, search the text for specific words, and zoom in on a page. Navigate docs quick with thumbnails, then read page-by-page or in continuous scroll mode. Hyperlinks and bookmarks are supported, too, so you can jump directly to a webpage or to a particular section of a PDF. You can grab the app from the link below: http://windowsphone.com/s?appId=134e363e-8811-44be-b1e3-d8a0c60d4692 Unfortunately the PDF experience on WP8 is nowhere near complete, even with the latest addition to PDF clients; as one of the comments mentions on the WP blog: This is the best they could do? Besides reading a PDF, I can do a search and see the term highlighted, and step through occurrences. That may be better than MSs PDF Reader app, which lets me search, but provides results outside the document. Other than that Adobe’s does little. MSs app at least allows a kludge method for sending a PDF, and allows rotation. Beyond the barely adequate offering from either source, the whole PDF experience is embarrassing. You can get a PDF in an email, and now you can opt for PDF Reader or Adobe Reader to open it. Either one you pick, does not put it in the other’s library, they are separate. You can of course open it with the other app, but since they are separate, you now have three copies on your device, mail attachment and each app store.  Can you see it in Office documents, heck no, that’s a different place.  Of course you can get a PDF into Office Documents three ways, sync via desktop app, copy to Documents folder from desktop via file explorer, and download from SkyDrive. Can either PDF app see stuff in the Office documents. Heck no, put if you click one from Office it will offer to let you chose which app to open it with. Then it will be in the apps directory, AND in the Office Documents. Again multiple copies. At least you can delete copies you no longer need. How about sending one out. Well if you got it via e-mail you need to use PDF Reader (MS) as it has the load it to SkyDrive and attaché from there kludge. Adobe Reader (Adobe) has no such feature. Of course if have it in the Office Docs you can ‘share’ it from there. Remember there are a few ways to get a PDF into the Office Docs folder, but one of them is NOT save it from an email attachment. That all clear? Sure it is. So how about we get the option to save a PDF that comes in an e-mail to the Office Hub, and get one PDF app that combines what the two do now…..at least. I really don’t care who does it. Personally I think MS has enough of a handle on PDFs that they could do it and have a vested interest in getting it right. So far though ADobe’s has sone a better job rendering a few sample files I threw at both apps. Not sure Adobe gives a rat’s hindquarter about WP though.. Source

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