02 February 2014

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Video: Lumia 1520 Gaming Performance

Posted: 01 Feb 2014 04:29 AM PST

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uConsidering that the Lumia 1520 has the best GPU and processor of any Nokia phone ever, the current selection of WP games should be a cake-walk for it, so here’s a quick video showing how it deals with the more popular WP8 games (N.O.V.A , Temple Run 2 & Subway Surfer).

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ib6io5edmTQ#

SailfishOS update 3 (1.0.3.8) Naamankajärvi available #Jolla

Posted: 01 Feb 2014 12:41 AM PST

SailfishOS update 3 (1.0.3.8) is available.

Quite a few changes.

https://lists.sailfishos.org/pipermail/devel/2014-January/003225.html

What’s new
———-

- Landscape mode for Browser, gestures and notifications
- Pinch to zoom support in Camera viewfinder
- SMS support in Android runtime environment
- Clearly distinguish Android apps from native apps in Store
- Settings to disable/enable Quick call support in Phone app (from
Settings->Apps->Phone)
- ‘Clear clipboard’ functionality
- Delete all contacts in one go ( via pulley menu option in People app
settings)
- Improved recovery mode functionality introducing new features such as
bootloader unlocking, shell and filesystem recovery options
- Exchange ActiveSync policies introduced (‘DevicePasswordEnabled’ only)
- Event location support to calendar events

Note: On first boot after the upgrade, you will experience delayed
application start for Android apps (depending on the no. of Android apps
you have installed on your Jolla). Wait for a bit before you attempt to
launch them. If the environment has not been fully loaded, you will
experience apps closing on startup.

Fetch the update
—————-

Important: You need a working Jolla account configured on your device in
order to receive update notifications. If you are unable to successfully
configure the account, please visit account.jolla.com and try to reset
your password.

If your Jolla is connected to WLAN network, an OS update notification
should pop up shortly. If you just can’t wait, you can manually trigger
an OS update check as follows:

- Open Settings app
- Go to System Settings -> About Product
- Pull down the pulley menu and select ‘Check for update’
- Once an OS update notification is received, tap on it and follow the
instructions.

Do not reboot the device while the OS update installation is in
progress. The process takes up to 10 minutes. During the update, the
device screen might blank out. You may awaken the display by a short
press on the power key to monitor the progress. When the upgrade has
completed successfully, you will see the LED light up red before the
device restarts.

Highlights of improvements
————————–

* TOH
- Fixes the issue with NFC leaking power when TOH is attached.
- On connecting the Other Half, associated ambience will not change
unless it is being used for the first time or the ambiance has been
earlier marked as favourite.
- Installed ambience is only activated if the Other Half has been
changed.
- Improvements in profile handling.

* Accounts
- Multiple accounts of the same service can now be differentiated by the
display name entered in the ‘Account information’ field
- Improved country list search while setting up new accounts
- Fixes “account needs update” messages displayed for
still-authenticated accounts

* Settings
- Fixes issues with sound profile due to ambience ringtone volume
settings

* Visual improvements in the UI
- Performance improvements to pulley menus
- Rendering improvements during scrolling through disabling subpixel
dragging
- Fixes to multi-line text editor layouts
- Fixes the search field text clipping issue
- Automatically close menus when an app goes to background
- Commit composed text when user drags the cursor
- Unfocused text fields are now less dim and more readable
- Label fade effect made less aggressive

* Camera
- Audio quality Improvements to video recordings
- Front camera now has a resolution of 2 Mpx in aspect ratio 4:3
- Fixes an issue where images in certain conditions have very cold
(blue) tones.

* Calendar
- Option to select calendar when creating an event

* Gallery
- Shows active image on the cover
- Shows transferred mp4 videos if tapped on the video in the Transfer UI
- Modifying email tone in Gallery Ambience album is actually taken into
use now

* People
- Automatic SIM contacts availability can be turned off
- Characters not part of locale alphabets are appended to the alphabet
groups when required
- Removes editor restriction on one detail of any specific type
- Search indexes more information in the background
- Search correctly distinguishes between diacritic forms for locales
- Address format corrected for locale conventions
- Contact favorite status can be changed from Messages and Phone
- Duplicate IM addresses are suppressed
- Cleared detail fields are removed rather than preserved
- Email address field does not auto-capitalize
- Import VCF file listing shows filename
- VCF import creates nickname for contacts without sufficient
identification

- SIM contact modifications no longer lost after flight mode activated
- ‘Title’ field applies to organizational role, rather than name prefix
- Fixes invalid link suggestions with Mail for Exchange
- Fixes a crash after linking contacts

* Bluetooth
- Fixes audio issues with SE VH410 bluetooth headset
- Bluetooth visibility timer no longer pauses when the device is in
sleep mode

* Browser
- New tabs can be cancelled by navigating back
- Fixes issues in saving content downloaded from password protected
websites
- Tab thumbnails now sorted in most recently used order
- URL input method for search/url field
- Fixes an issue in having wrong thumbnail in tab grid

* Mail
- Fixes an issue that prevents sending emails only with CC or BCC
- Better visual separation between messages when replying to a email
- Fixes an issue related to opening a html email via notification
- Several improvements for the reply and reply all actions
- Fixes an issue related to the handling of ‘reply-to’ header
- Fixes an issue related to the handling of ‘In-Reply-To’ and
‘references’ message headers
- Fixes an issue in the communication with SMTP servers that don’t
accept authentication command in two steps
- Fixes an issue related to email encoding
- Fixes an issue that prevents the “Email info” page from scrolling

* Exchange ActiveSync
- Improvements in contacts and calendar synchronization
- Fixes an issue that prevented communication with Open-Xchange servers.
- Improvements on the error handling when login fails
- Fixes an issue that cause exchange to sync automatically outside peak
hours

* Battery & power saving
- “Recharge battery” notification now displayed before the device
completely shuts down

* Security
- Fixes an issue that allowed bypassing devicelock code with usb cable

* Transfers and Sharing
- Initiated downloads that are unfinished or closed by the client now
expires after 3 minutes
- Sharing PNG images doesn’t fail anymore

* Virtual keyboard
- Portuguese layout added
- Enhanced prediction for Italian and French
- Some missing characters to key popups added
- URL and email modes now available for layouts
- Better landscape support

* Calculator
- Scientific notation is not used anymore for single digit decimal
numbers

* Android
- Disables Android phone app playing ringtone on receiving an incoming
call
- Fixes issue in detecting mobile data network connection
- Improvements to remote keyboard, audio service and window handling
- Fixes issue where flight mode was not persistent after reboot
- Improved memory handling while running low on available memory

Cheers Janne for the tip!

Gallery: Lumia 1520 in Small Hands

Posted: 31 Jan 2014 10:51 PM PST

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The Lumia 1520′s 6″ screen can seem dauntingly huge for some, and as I have relatively large hands I felt like I wasn’t properly conveying the size of the device in my pictures; so I enlisted the help of lovely friend Amanda to act as a hand model for me while I snapped a couple pictures. Hopefully the smaller (and admittedly much nicer) hands/fingers give a better idea of what the device would look in the hands of those who don’t have abnormally long fingers.

Although the device is quite large, she said it didn’t feel large enough to dictate two hand usage at all times, in fact when I asked her to type naturally she only used a singe hand to grasp and type the device; only using both hands after I asked her to see how that felt.

(I’d like to apologize for the dirty background in these images, I tried taking these pictures in the street but the white balance was way off; so I was forced to take them in my car which as you might be able to tell hasn’t been vacuumed in a while.)

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Here’s a picture of the Lumia 1520 in my jeans pockets (relaxed fit, not slim!); the top of the device pops out occasionally if it’s not angled slightly, and if I’m wearing pants with shallow pockets like khakis it can dig into my pelvis while driving/bending over/climbing stairs.DSC04864

 

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