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- Weekend Watch: Asphalt 8: Airborne – Windows Phone 8, iOS 7 and Windows 8.1 comparision
- Win a £5000 Trip to Your Destination With HERE Maps
- Some At&t Stores Already Selling Lumia 1520s
- Nokia Music and Mix Radio Coming to iOS and Android and more
- Video: 10 minute with the 6″ 1080p Nokia Lumia 1520 proto preview
- Weeked Watch: Cute Nokia Asha Touch promos – Swipe
- Nokia Australia Giving $20 WP8 Store Credit With New Lumia 925, 1020, 1520
- Lumiappdates: Nokia Camera with DNG capture, WhatsApp and more
| Weekend Watch: Asphalt 8: Airborne – Windows Phone 8, iOS 7 and Windows 8.1 comparision Posted: 16 Nov 2013 10:57 AM PST
Hello MNB Readers, Welcome to another Weekend Watch! This time we have a comparison of Asphalt 8: Airborne on Windows Phone (Lumia 1020) vs the iOS version (iPad 4) with a late in the game guest appearance by Asphalt 8 on Windows 8.1 (HP Desktop, Nvidia 560 Ti OC). As I said in a previous article, this is the best port ever! Gameloft put a LOT of effort into optimizing the Windows Phone version and it shows as the car models, track details, special effects, draw distance, load times and game content matches the iOS paid version almost 100%. I say almost because in all of my play time on Windows Phone, approximately 300 stars worth, I have only noticed 2 very minor graphical differences. 1. The Windows Phone version does not have any shine on the tires like the iOS version. The Windows 8 version is missing the tire shine as well so it appears that the Gameloft programmers simply forgot to change the tire shine value from 0 to 1. 2. The Windows Phone version is missing the additional “on-screen” lens flare effects. The effect is similar to wearing a helmet with a dirty visor and there being splotches of light/water droplets on the visor/screen. Beyond these EXTREMELY small differences the graphics are basically the same as the iOS version running on the powerful GPU of the iPad 4. This is an amazing feat, amazing port, amazing arcade racer and it feels like having a 4.5 inch iPad 4 when playing Asphalt 8 on my Lumia 1020 and that is well…….amazing! Take a look for yourself.
Also, one thing that I discovered is that you can listen to your own music when playing Asphalt 8 on Windows Phone. The last time I used a feature like this was on the original Xbox where I would copy my CDs to the Xbox hard-drive and then play my own music in my Xbox games. To enable this feature, simply start playing music on your Windows Phone 8 device BEFORE you launch Asphalt 8 and you will be present with the option in the screenshot below:
Click NO and the music from your phone will continue to play as the background music for Asphalt 8 and the game will only play the sound effects, therefore creating a complete, custom audio experience. If you haven’t downloaded Asphalt 8: Airborne for Windows Phone 8 or Windows 8/8.1, you can download it via the Windows Store links below. The game is currently $.99 for Windows Phone and $1.99 for Windows 8. Asphalt 8: Airborne – Windows Phone - Windows 8 What is your favorite thing about Asphalt 8? Are you surprised that this isn’t a sloppy port? Are you surprised that the game looks 99% the same on WP as it does on iOS via the powerful iPad 4? I really hope that a LOT of people buy it for Windows Phone as it is a great game with extremely high production values that are a rarity in the Windows Phone ecosystem.
Thank you all for watching the lengthy video and for choosing to spend a part of your weekend on MyNokiaBlog, Deaconclgi |
| Win a £5000 Trip to Your Destination With HERE Maps Posted: 16 Nov 2013 10:52 AM PST
The competition carries on till December 6th, so there’s plenty of time to enter; head over to the link below and start trekking:
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| Some At&t Stores Already Selling Lumia 1520s Posted: 16 Nov 2013 10:11 AM PST
Although the Lumia 1520 isn’t set to go on sale until the 22nd of November (next Friday), it seems some At&t stores and booths are already selling the device. Some users have been able to purchase the device already (off contract for $540). This seems a bit unorthodox, especially since eager customers might have already pre-ordered through the Microsoft store, or At&t stores and are waiting on their phones and the 22nd to come around. Hopefully we won’t see any stock shortages like the 920 this time around.
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| Nokia Music and Mix Radio Coming to iOS and Android and more Posted: 16 Nov 2013 10:03 AM PST
Nokia Music and Mix Radio are easily one of my favorite Nokia exclusive features at the moment (unfortunately since I’ve gotten my 1020 Mix radio won’t work :/ ). However it seems they won’t be exclusives for long, as according to the screens below Nokia Music is on its way to almost all platforms, including iOS and Android, as well as MacOS (the Windows 8 app is already available). Nokia Music can also be accessed through the HTML5 web app that can be seen below. It seems Mix radio will also be available, as in the screens below you can see the option to “create a mix”; it’s still unclear however if it’ll have the same functionality as the WP apps, which include downloading mixes for offline listening. It’s possible this change in exclusivity is related to the Microsoft deal, as till now we haven’t heard if Nokia music will continue to operate (like the HERE maps platform), or if it’s included in the services that Microsoft purchased.
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| Video: 10 minute with the 6″ 1080p Nokia Lumia 1520 proto preview Posted: 16 Nov 2013 07:17 AM PST
Here’s a 10 minute preview of a prototype Nokia Lumia 1520.
They think that despite its size, it’s one sleek and svelte smartphone.
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| Weeked Watch: Cute Nokia Asha Touch promos – Swipe Posted: 16 Nov 2013 05:15 AM PST
A short set of cute Nokia Asha promo videos:
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| Nokia Australia Giving $20 WP8 Store Credit With New Lumia 925, 1020, 1520 Posted: 16 Nov 2013 01:37 AM PST
Nokia Australia is running a promo in which customers who purchase Australian stock (sorry Kogan) of the Lumia 925, Lumia 1020 and the latest Lumia 1520, between Nov 15 (yesterday) and Jan 15 2014, will be eligible to receive $20 worth of Windows Phone Store credit. Now, if you visit the source link you will note it says only Lumia 925 and Lumia 1020. However, if you dig further into the T&Cs, you will see the Lumia 1520 is explicitly mentioned several times. Hence, to make things easier, we just mentioned it all in one go, rather than have to issue a new post later on updating the promotion. What’s better than getting some store credit to help boost the amazingness (yes, its not really a word I know) of your new Lumia! Full T&C’s of the promotion can be found here Source: Nokia Australia Cheers Glenn for the tip! |
| Lumiappdates: Nokia Camera with DNG capture, WhatsApp and more Posted: 16 Nov 2013 01:27 AM PST
These updates are gathered from the past two days or so.
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