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- Firefox 12 for Nokia N9 available at Nokia Store
- Nokia Lumia 900, Pre-Order at Amazon UK
- Finnish MP’s Nokia E7s breaking often?
- Small update for Belle – improves Qt app stability
- Nitroid for N9 updated: Alpha release #3
- N9 Vs Lumia 800 – Random Functions (Notes, Audio Recording, Calculator) #MeegoVSWP
- Lumiappaday #166: 3D Akranoid demoed on the Nokia Lumia 800
- Nokia 808 PureView available for Pre-Order, Singapore?
- Nokia Lumia 900, available for pre-order at KPN Netherlands.
- Indiagames, first developer to reach 100M at Nokia Store
| Firefox 12 for Nokia N9 available at Nokia Store Posted: 29 Apr 2012 08:19 PM PDT Apologies that I missed this the first time around when it was shared a couple of days ago. My schedule is getting rather busy all over again. Anyway, as you can see from incognito’s screenshot, he now has FireFox mobile 12 on his Nokia N9. Timo says this is available at Nokia Store and incognito said it was able to install without the need for uninstallation. For those that have updated, how have you found FireFox 12 so far? Cheers Timo & incognito
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| Nokia Lumia 900, Pre-Order at Amazon UK Posted: 29 Apr 2012 04:27 PM PDT There’s a product listing at Amazon UK for the Nokia N9. It suggests a date availability for May 15th, priced at £479.99. Given the price of Amazon’s other Lumias, it suggests you may be able to find it slightly cheaper directly from phone retailers, some of which actually sell the handset unlocked WITH a SIM. You’ll just have to check before purchase first as that might end up cheaper for you instead. Cheers Prashant for the tip.
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| Finnish MP’s Nokia E7s breaking often? Posted: 29 Apr 2012 04:20 PM PDT
A smartphone, despite all of its advertised features, must do the core applications people rely on flawlessly. Keyboard, email, calendar, browser, and all other aspects of the phone as generally stable, reliable, and quick to use. A story on iltalehti.fi yesterday points to some phones used by Finnish MPs whose phones never worked properly.
The translator is rather hard to follow. If you’re lucky enough to understand Finnish, you can click that link above for yourself. These phones, in the hands of Finnish members of parliament, have been replaced countless of times and some seem to have gone and bought themselves their own phones that would work. It seems only in the last update with Belle have things began to work properly but that might be too little too late.
Although the E7 was capable of many awesome things, the underlying S^3 made it problematic. As I replied to a user a couple of days ago, initially, it seemed like an ok experience.
But over time, I don’t know why, things eventually break requiring a hard reset for maintenance. There shouldn’t have to be any special way we would have to interact with our phone to minimise the need for hard reset. Things should just work. My N8 unfortunately after a month or so, started locking up, freezing, mails not opening (or taking ages to open) and my HD games crashing or not starting up at all. The keyboard was a sad affair, though E7 users are saved from this as they have a physical keyboard. The browser was always an unfortunate experience given that Nokia had spoilt me with MicroB and promised they would do better than this for Symbian – even with the latest iteration, they have not. Belle FP1 seems to have changed things a lot for the better and were this what N8 came with in April 2010 when first announced, or even October when it was available, perhaps things could have been much different for Nokia. BTW, was any hardware problems mentioned? My N8 is now not working and I still haven’t managed to get to the awkwardly located repair place. Source: iltalehti.fi Cheers Janne for the tip
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| Small update for Belle – improves Qt app stability Posted: 29 Apr 2012 04:10 PM PDT Not quite sure what this is but we got sent a screenshot saying there’s a minor update for Belle that improves the stability of Qt. Anyone noticed this yet? Thanks for the tip and screenshot Tuomas.
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| Nitroid for N9 updated: Alpha release #3 Posted: 29 Apr 2012 04:00 PM PDT
Cheers Morpog for the tip
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| N9 Vs Lumia 800 – Random Functions (Notes, Audio Recording, Calculator) #MeegoVSWP Posted: 29 Apr 2012 01:24 PM PDT Apologies in the large gap between the last comparison and this one; but I’ve been swamped with midterms and now finals in a couple of weeks, so many things going on so little time to nap. Anyways today’s comparison is basically a look at the preloaded functions and capabilities of each device when it comes down to random everyday things that you usually don’t consider while purchasing a device. What’s covered:
 Added bonus that it's a WP; shame it's not a Lumia :/
I think that’s about it; as mentioned HOPEFULLY I can push out another video or two comparing Location/Maps services as well as one about Telephony as soon as I grab my brothers sim from his iPhone; if not sorry but I got finals coming up and then some Vacay time. Cheers.
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| Lumiappaday #166: 3D Akranoid demoed on the Nokia Lumia 800 Posted: 29 Apr 2012 10:47 AM PDT
3D Akranoid is another version of a block breaker ‘Arkanoid’ game. This one is in 3D more than most, though the game is not so much about having that paddle and catching the ball, but more like whack-a-mole as you only need to tap the bricks to engage the ball to smash them. You have to do destroy all the bricks before they cross the white line. The whole game can rotate all the way around #166) 3D Akranoid
Developer Blurb:
Rating:Design: 7 Usability: 8 Performance: 8 Price: 10
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| Nokia 808 PureView available for Pre-Order, Singapore? Posted: 29 Apr 2012 03:13 AM PDT This flier was supposedly snapped in Singapore indicating pre-order availabilities. It doesn’t exactly tell me where though. You get a free Bluetooth headset apparently (though the printer didn’t quite reach and it says Headse)
Most likely, official retailers for Singapore may be updated at the main site: Thanks Muhammad ‘Jon Jon’ Zahari for the tip!
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| Nokia Lumia 900, available for pre-order at KPN Netherlands. Posted: 29 Apr 2012 03:06 AM PDT Quick heads up: The Nokia Lumia 900 is available for pre-order in the Netherlands through KPN, which mitun tells us is the largest operator with KPN. Owning the brands Hi, Telfort, combined they make a biggest telecom brand apparently.
Cheers mitun for the tip!
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| Indiagames, first developer to reach 100M at Nokia Store Posted: 29 Apr 2012 03:00 AM PDT
I thought it would have been Pico Brothers since they were reportedly close and on the road to 100M, but UTV Indiagames, part of the Walt Disney Company is actually the first at Nokia Store to surpass 100M downloads. Congratulations guys! 100M is a huge number of downloads. Developing markets are apparently going mad for localised content that are very accessible on Nokia Platforms. Indiagames will soon launch for WP, bringing both current and new games.
Cheers Cocco Bill for the tip!
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