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- Google sells Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for 2.91B USD
- Lumiappdates: Nokia Story Teller Beta, Bing Sport, 6Snap, Asphalt 8, Viber
- Nokia Lumia 520 Disassembly & Assembly – Digitizer Display Screen Replacement
- Nokia’s OIS available for other OEMs as ST Microelectronics exclusivity ends
- Video: How to Insert the Nano SIM into the Lumia 1520 (and Micro SD Card)
- Poll: What size memory card do you use in your main phone?
- Video: Nokia Lumia 1320 video sample (1080p) and Review
- Accessories: Nokia Lumia 1520 with 64GB Sandisk MicroSD XC Class 10
- The only real WP8.1 image so far, says Tom Warren
| Google sells Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for 2.91B USD Posted: 29 Jan 2014 04:09 PM PST
A surprise move indeed. Google has sold Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for 2.91 billion USD. Lenovo was previously rumoured to be buying Nokia. Turns out, they were after another old giant. Google was said to have picked up Moto (12B USD) for the patents to protect Android. It was initially feared that Google was going to give preferential to Moto treatment now it owns its own phone manufacturer. Whilst there were some privileges, that wasn’t always the case with Moto devices often not launching with the latest build that was available for Nexus and other Droids. Lenovo isn’t just getting the phone business, but about 2000 Moto patents. Google also retains the rest.
Perhaps we might see MS sell off Nokia D&S once Nokia D&S manages to serve its purpose for them? (or not? Motorola unit has been costing Google a fair bit with their losses) Larry Page says this does not signal a shift to Google’s hardware efforts. What does it mean for Lenovo’s Android/Windows efforts? |
| Lumiappdates: Nokia Story Teller Beta, Bing Sport, 6Snap, Asphalt 8, Viber Posted: 29 Jan 2014 03:52 PM PST
The updates above were just pushed to my Nokia Lumia 1520 (Nokia Story Teller Beta v1.8.1.10, Bing Sport, 6Snap v 2.5.1.0 and Asphalt 8). Viber also got an update today. That was from my 1020 |
| Nokia Lumia 520 Disassembly & Assembly – Digitizer Display Screen Replacement Posted: 29 Jan 2014 01:05 PM PST
Of course, from none other than LE55ONS, we have another Nokia disassembly and assembly video. This time of the super popular Nokia Lumia 520. Another one of my friends recently purchased one after my recommendations for Nokia Lumia. At just £75, he’s loving that device. Note: You will void your warranty if you do this. 01:42 Back Cover Off
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| Nokia’s OIS available for other OEMs as ST Microelectronics exclusivity ends Posted: 29 Jan 2014 01:00 PM PST  Lumia 920 OIS. When Nokia introduced Optical Image Stabilisation to smartphones (920), it changed how mobile photography was perceived. Low light became another battle ground. Who could do it better? Phones had become quite similar in daylight (only a few shining through, e.g. Nokia). In low light without flash, Nokia’s PureView Phase 2 was a clear winner.
With flash, the xenon equipped N8/808 had previously shown the power of a real flash. The 1020 had both OIS (different ball-bearing based one), PureView phase 1 41MP oversampling and PureView phase 2 OIS. Whilst others have made attempts at also adding stabilisation (digital or optical), none were reaching what Nokia could do. Recent reports suggest that other OEMs may now utilise Nokia’s OIS as Nokia’s exclusivity deal with the chip maker that contained the OIS has finished. I wonder what Nokia’s Juha thinks? Knowing his passion for imaging at Nokia, this will spur more improvement as challenges of the past have driven tons of exciting innovations in Nokia cameras.
Source: TheRegister Via: PhoneArena via: pocketnow.com |
| Video: How to Insert the Nano SIM into the Lumia 1520 (and Micro SD Card) Posted: 29 Jan 2014 10:43 AM PST
The Lumia 1520 is actually the first Nokia ever to use a Nano sim (and one of only a handful of other phones to use it, besides the iPhone I believe only one or two other phones have adopted Nano so far- Moto X I think?); and it’s actually a lot more difficult to cut your Sim into a Nano sim than it is to make a Micro sim, so word of advice, don’t waste your time as you’ll probably end up with a ruined sim and a wasted hour of your life (I cut my SIM fine, and even grinded it down since Nano sims are also thinner than normal Micro sims, however it seems I cracked a connector in the Sim’s microchip while cutting so I had to get a new one).
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| Poll: What size memory card do you use in your main phone? Posted: 29 Jan 2014 09:32 AM PST Memory cards. Nokia fans have been taking advantage of them for a long time, and it was something to differentiate against the iPhone in the early days of ‘smartphones for average Joe’. The 6600 was one of the first mobiles with expandable memory. I sure loved filling up my MMC card on my 7610 with ‘ebaumworld’ videos :/ and super compressed films to watch on smartmovie.
The likes of the N9, early WP and the 92x range were unfortunately missing this feature too. For most, it’s not an issue. The N9 in some markets had a 64GB version. As does the 1020. But for others, being able to add more memory later should they want to is a must. Shooters like the 1020 should have joined the likes of the N8/808 with expandable memory. Fortunately the 1520 has one (as does 1320, 520, 620, 720, 820 etc. Just not the 920/925/1020). Nokia camera eats quite a bit of storage on the 1020. Quite a bit less so on the 1520 but still nice to have more space for apps (especially those big games with some requiring 3GB+ just to install) and other space for pictures, videos and music.
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| Video: Nokia Lumia 1320 video sample (1080p) and Review Posted: 29 Jan 2014 08:54 AM PST
Whilst the big name suggests it might be ‘better’ in all aspects, including camera in comparison to the 9xx range, the 1320 sports a standard ‘Lumia’ 5MP camera. Not PureView, No OIS etc. But it’s decent. AF appears quick and accurate. Sound is not compromised (HAAC mics in all Lumias).
The description has a link to a 1320 review. I guess that should be the main bit of this post but the video is what’s new to me.
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| Accessories: Nokia Lumia 1520 with 64GB Sandisk MicroSD XC Class 10 Posted: 29 Jan 2014 08:44 AM PST
This is the first time I’ve actually gone all the way up to 64GB on a memory card before. I usually just stick with 32GB (in 820) and in my 60D. With the 1520, the first of Nokia’s Lumia ‘FLAGSHIPS’ to have a MicroSD, I wanted to shove in some more memory on top of that 32GB. 32GB worked well on my 920 but less so on the 1020 due to the super large files, I occasionally had to reduce the number of pictures I had. Nokia Camera and the likes of Smart Camera do store much more than the 5MP shot that you view on the phone. This should also hopefully mean I can make more use of Nokia Storyteller, now that I don’t have to remove pictures from the phone too often due to memory constraints. This came in Amazon Frustration Free packaging. Cheaper if you go down that route. Here’s the amazon blurb.
Very small card. It slots into the tray of the 1520. No need to turn the phone out or remove batteries. My SIM tray for the nano sim is still empty even though I did receive my SIM pack in the house yesterday. It was unfortunately misplaced. I’m yet to see a nano-SIM. The N8 is still around in case any MicroSD card needs saving.
When you pop it in, the card is instantly recognised. It just asks you if you wish to store NEW pictures, music and videos to the card. I don’t know if it needs formatting. I certainly don’t know how to do it from the phone if I needed to do that. And then, 90GB memory total.
This card comes with an adapter to use in a full size SD slot. I’m not quite sure what the read/write speeds are but they are hopefully more than adequate being Class 10 standard. I still remember one of the first memory expansions I got. I think it was a eMMC card for my 7610. 128/256MB. And then my parents got me a 512MB card. So much memory! (1GB was the max support I believe). |
| The only real WP8.1 image so far, says Tom Warren Posted: 29 Jan 2014 04:49 AM PST
It did look odd at the time due to it appearing to be a screenshot and then the blur purposely added. Tom also adds that it might be just an early version of the settings. https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/428164191279538176
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With the flurry of supposed images of WP8.1, Tom Warren has tweeted to say that the only one that has been real is the blurry notification centre settings that we saw some time ago.| You are subscribed to email updates from My Nokia Blog To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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