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- Lumiappaday #212: Finger Slayer demoed on the Nokia Lumia 800
- Nokia 808 PureView available in Pakistan and Philippines (And Sweden)
- Press Release: Nokia announces executive changes; renews Leadership Team
- Press Release: EQT VI to acquire Vertu from Nokia
- Press Release: Nokia to acquire developers, technologies and intellectual property for imaging from Scalado
- Leak(?): Vertu running WP8 with 64GB and “Cloud Storage” in tow
- Big Nokia News today: Scalado in, Vertu, DeVard, Savander, McDowell out, 10,000 to go by 2013 and more
- Video: Nokia Reaction, very intuitive NFC Bluetooth Headset announced – demoed with Nokia N9 #earDetection
Lumiappaday #212: Finger Slayer demoed on the Nokia Lumia 800 Posted: 14 Jun 2012 02:54 PM PDT Finger Slayer is a super simple reaction style game where you put your finger in a little figner guillotine. It counts down to 3, 2, 1 and any time after that the blade will fall. You have to take your finger off so it doesn’t get cut in order to gain points and not lose the finger. If you do it too early, you also lose. Obviously you won’t be losing any actual fingers in the game. It’s apparently a super hit of a game on iOS. #212) Finger Slayer
Developer Blurb:
Rating:Design: 7 Usability: 8 Performance: 8 Price: 10 |
Nokia 808 PureView available in Pakistan and Philippines (And Sweden) Posted: 14 Jun 2012 06:00 AM PDT
I’ve been hearing some news from our Filipino readers/friends that the Nokia 808 PureView is available in the Philippines. There’s nothing yet on Nokia Philippines facebook page but the Nokia Pakistan page says the Nokia 808 PureView is available in Pakistan.
Thanks Taha, anonymous and others for the tip Oh, whilst we’re here, a retailer in Sweden has the 808 available. Cheer Mats for the tip |
Press Release: Nokia announces executive changes; renews Leadership Team Posted: 14 Jun 2012 04:47 AM PDT Final part of the individual press releases I think. This should explain a little bit more about the reshuffling going on at Nokia’s leadership team. As a summary from the last post. Promotions/Staying
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Press Release: EQT VI to acquire Vertu from Nokia Posted: 14 Jun 2012 04:35 AM PDT Here’s a little bit more info on what’s happening regarding Nokia divesting Vertu. I’m not sure myself why Nokia is selling of Vertu if it is one of the only things showing growth over the past few years at Nokia.
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Posted: 14 Jun 2012 04:31 AM PDT
Here are the individual press releases from the big news unveilled today. First up, Nokia getting Scalado. As I mentioned before, Scalado has some very exciting stuff related to imaging. Scalado PhotoFlow on Symbian was pretty cool, as well as the enhanced camera effects with Scalado’s face timemachine thing (as highlighted most recently by BB10, who did not mention Scalado at all). Check out some of their cool products here: http://www.scalado.com/display/en/Products
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Leak(?): Vertu running WP8 with 64GB and “Cloud Storage” in tow Posted: 14 Jun 2012 01:49 AM PDT WPXap have reportedly gotten hold of images of a Vertu device running WP8. The pics show the about screen, detailing the 64gb internal storage(says 54.72 gb, but you need to remember OS takes space and 64GB is based on 1GB=1000MB), as well as showing device model as Vertu, and OS version. Not sure how reliable these images can be, but since Nokia has sold off Vertu, it is plausible that this prototype device has made its way into the wrong hands. As you can see from the above image, there is something called “Cloud Storage” now in the settings menu. Here you can select to have cloud storage enabled on your device, as well as giving you a glance of how large your SkyDrive account is, and also how much free space you have left on your account. Side Note: I never understood why Vertu never ran a good OS, instead only recently being updated to Symbian Anna. To me, being an “exclusive” device, it should have been running something unique, like MeeGo-Harmattan. Source: WPXap via Nokia Innovation |
Posted: 14 Jun 2012 01:30 AM PDT Oh here we go. I was warned of some major news coming today but I wanted to wait it out instead of getting buried in speculation. Here we go, official Press Release. There’s quite a lot to take in:
Starts with the Shuffling of the executives Promotions/Staying
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I’m not quite sure what to make of that. Whilst I was at Finland one of my consistent complaints was about marketing letting great Nokia devices down. Awesome accessories, incredible products – but the marketing was not showing any of it, there was no focus, no consistency (some ads/promos may be great and then some are dull as heck). Now I didn’t expect their head of marketing to go though, just shape up a bit. It doesn’t say anything about DeVard stepping down as EVP though they’re all exiting Nokia Leadership team from June 30th. Mary McDowell stepping down – the head of mobilephones. McDowell was key for whatever the next billion was supposed to be. We’re still yet to see it, especially whatever Qt for the next billion was supposed to be. It makes me anxious because Nokia’s non-smartphone segment faltered in the last quarter, which, if it had maintained Q4 level sales would still see Nokia grasping at Number 1. We need to see where the next billion thing is supposed to be going. S40 touch is a nice transition but I’m looking forward to whatever Meltemi eventually becomes. Timo Toikkanen is in charge of this now. I’m sure some people who were very much against McDowell being at Nokia will still change their tune again here just for the sake of complaining. Well let me remind some of you of your reactions so you can at least try to be consistent. BTW, Who is Timo Toikkanen? Hopefully I’ve pulled up the right linkedin profile.
As for Niklas – I’ve not really thought a lot about his position at Nokia.
“Nokia is significantly increasing its cost reduction target for Devices & Services in support of the streamlined strategy announced today,” said Timo Ihamuotila, executive vice president and CFO. “With these planned actions, we believe our Devices & Services business has a clear path to profitability. Nokia intends to maintain its strong financial position while proceeding aggressively with actions aimed at creating shareholder value.” I’d like to follow this up more but must step out for a while…full info at least is from the press release. I’ll update when I get back. Press Release
Thanks Prasenjit for the tip
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Posted: 14 Jun 2012 12:47 AM PDT Well, well, well – the much awaited Nokia Reaction bluetooth headset is now official. Much awaited as its name was leaked a few times on Navifirm. I was hoping it would be a successor to the bH-905 (though there was a small possibility it would be instead part of the 904 earpiece family) This bluetooth headset is NFC capable, BUT it has something cool called ‘ear detection’ where if you decide to pick up the phone instead, it will automatically accept the call through the phone. LOL, I’ve had a few instances in the past wondering why I couldn’t hear the caller, forgetting the BT headphones were active. Contains 3 integrated microphones and volume control – helps you hear the world talk without raising the volume. Advanced always ready feature – the moment you take it out of the holster, it connects to receive calls. Whilst in the holster of course, it stays powered down. I like it – it’s a very intuitive bluetooth earpiece. I love that chair. That’s a bluetooth Luna headset right? :p |
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