My Nokia Blog

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• Nokia teams up with Amazon to bring Maps to Kindle, snubs google maps?
• Lumiappaday #288: Coloring Book demoed on the Nokia Lumia 900 (KidsApp)
• Join Us at the #MyNokiaBlog IRC Chat room
• Video: Nokia Italy’s September 5 Teaser
• Qt 5 beta released
• Nokia India’s facebook says something BIG is in store for you on September 5th
• Carl Zeiss links to Nokia’s teaser that things are about to change :)
• www.nokia.com/webcast, September 5th, 10am EDT/2pm GMT – Are you Ready?
• Video: Father and son play Grand Waltz on Piano #NokiaTune with a twist
• Leak or Fake: Nokia Arrow press pic (back)?

Nokia teams up with Amazon to bring Maps to Kindle, snubs google maps? Posted: 30 Aug 2012 04:31 PM PDT Reuters is reporting that Amazon and Nokia have got together and Nokia is providing Maps for Amazon’s forked-Android powered Kindle tablets! http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/08/30/us-amazon-fire-maps-idUKBRE87T1ML20120830 This is not yet official news, just ‘trusted sources’. I’m glad Nokia is slowly getting noticed for its great maps and location solutions. Hopefully, slowly but surely it can break through into culture whereby people don’t automatically say ‘google maps it’. Perhaps Nokia’s onto something with regards to being the ‘Where’ company. Cheers crisscross  for the tip

Lumiappaday #288: Coloring Book demoed on the Nokia Lumia 900 (KidsApp) Posted: 30 Aug 2012 03:20 PM PDT This is one for the kids – a very basic colouring book. Pretty much like those magic painting books where you paint with water and everything turns into the right colour? Well in Coloring (I dislike spelling colour this way :p) Book, you have outlines of drawings. You then select a crayon colour and just touch a section. Anything within that solid line gets coloured in that way. Much like the colour fill tool in MS Paint. Activities like this could help with hand eye coordination, colour recognition, nurture creativity and learn focus. It might be even nicer if it was possible to have a slightly more advanced mode to see brush strokes. Note again, this is just for kids! A much more advanced drawing app is scheduled for tomorrow (currently processing now). I think colour selection could have been made a little bit better. At the moment you flick up and that selects your crayon. I think it might be nice to have that OSX dock style so as I’m dragging my finger, the particular colour enlarges and then maintain the flick up gesture. #288) Coloring Book  Price:  £0.99 Link: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/bddc50d7-c27d-430a-b828-525ec14b9a77 Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRnbzkygb8A Developer Blurb:   Coloring Book is featured by AppDeals, #1 app for Windows Phone deals ** Update: now you can share your coloring pages with friends! Coloring Book for Windows Phone is a fun coloring activity for kids & kids of all ages. It has a variety of colors to use and show off your creativity.   This will keep any young child busy for hours. Give your child your Windows Phone device and open the Coloring Book! Share the pictures with your friends and family. A very simple and intuitive design makes the Coloring Book the perfect activity for your kids.   This is a cute educational game that increases the child’s awareness and improves hand-eye coordination. Features: - 24 pictures to color - Share your pictures via email - Easy to clear coloring page and start over - Develops hand-eye coordination Rating: Design: 7 Usability: 7 Performance: 8  Price: 8

Join Us at the #MyNokiaBlog IRC Chat room Posted: 30 Aug 2012 08:31 AM PDT If you guys are anything like us, we expect that you’re super excited for Sept 5th. the day Nokia unveils whatever it is it has in stock for us, of course we can watch the event online through the webcast; but it’s always nice to share these moments with other fanatics. That’s why me and Michael set up an IRC chat-room dedicated to MyNokiaBlog: A place for readers and contributors alike to come together and discuss the latest news, rumours, devices, leaks etc in the Nokia world. You can share thoughts, seek help, or just rant about Nokia. There are only two rules: 1. Keep it Nokia Related. 2. Respect each other Join over here: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#MyNokiaBlog Just enter a Nickname and the captcha and you’re set! For those using an IRC client, the chat room is hosted on the Freenode.net server, and the channel is #MyNokiaBlog, so make sure to stop by and say hello. Also if there’s enough interest I’m considering hosting a Google+ hangout during the NewYork event, if that’s something that would interest you guys, so share your thoughts down below or on the chat server. Cheers.

Video: Nokia Italy’s September 5 Teaser Posted: 30 Aug 2012 06:17 AM PDT Seems this video was missed yesterday. Nokia Italy posted a teaser too about the events taking place on September 5. I don’t quite know what they’re saying, but I’m guessing the above screenshot is equivalent to stay tuned (google translate says ‘stay in the line’ in 7 days (well 6 now). There’s lumias in the mix taking the call. by nokiaITA Cheers Vedhas Patkar for the tip

Qt 5 beta released Posted: 30 Aug 2012 04:33 AM PDT Qt 5 Beta is released – still on the nokia.com lab blogs pages. http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2012/08/30/qt-5-beta-is-here/ The Qt 5 Beta is now available as the first major release under the new Qt Project umbrella. A big thank you goes out to all who contributed to this milestone. With this Qt 5 beta release, I would also like to invite everybody interested to go, try, and experience this next major version of Qt. Your feedback now will be very important in making the final release of Qt 5.0 as good as possible. It's now 15 months since we announced the start of Qt 5 development, and I am really happy to see what has been achieved during this time. All of the major architectural changes that we planned for have been implemented. At the same time, the community around Qt and qt-project.org has seen a nice and healthy growth. Qt 5 will make it easier and faster to create: Smooth, accelerated graphics performance with limited resources. Qt 5 makes better use of the GPU to deliver better performance on inexpensive hardware. For example, using Qt 5 you can achieve 60 fps performance on a $35 single-board computer like Raspberry Pi. – See the Qt on Pi project for more info. Advanced UIs and applications written in QML and JavaScript. See the Qt Media Hub as an example Powerful apps connected to the web   Source :Nokia Via: Lars Knoll via @VDVsx

Nokia India’s facebook says something BIG is in store for you on September 5th Posted: 30 Aug 2012 03:06 AM PDT We’re now grasping at every little bit of information that might be able to feed us a little more truth into what’s actually going to happen on the 5th of September. Chintan Dave shared a facebook link showing Nokia India’s page. They say something BIG is coming :p. BIG. https://www.facebook.com/NokiaIndia What could be BIG. The size of the phone? The sensor? The battery? Being different? Exciting?  Intense? Important?

Carl Zeiss links to Nokia’s teaser that things are about to change :) Posted: 30 Aug 2012 02:52 AM PDT @SirajSoft just tweeted a link to the Carl Zeiss facebook page. They mention Nokia’s little teaser and say they’re curious as to what’s about to change. Ok, now we are curious. Any guesses what this teaser by Nokiacould be about? And what things are about to change? https://www.facebook.com/carlzeisslenses? Carl Zeiss must have worked on the new Lumia and it seems (or I’m hoping) they’re quietly proud of the result as they seem to agree (by sharing the teaser) that things are about to change. Hopefully it’s not simply a Lumia branded with Carl Zeiss. I’d like to see performance that made Nokia Carl Zeiss cameras renowned in the first place. Or perhaps it’s something completely different?

www.nokia.com/webcast, September 5th, 10am EDT/2pm GMT – Are you Ready? Posted: 30 Aug 2012 01:52 AM PDT Set this as your homepage so you won’t miss it. September 5th, 10am EDT or 2PM GMT  go to www.nokia.com/webcast Nokia Connects are apparently going to be sending something a little exciting in the post. I wonder what that is. Perhaps some props to feel like we’re at the event . I want a little Nokia flag to wave Email titled: “Exciting News” Hey Jay, We have some really exciting news and we want you to be the first to hear it! Just go to www.nokia.com/webcast on the 5th September at 10:00am (EDT). We’d also love to send you a little something in the post. Just let us know what your shipping address is and you can expect to receive something exciting soon. Hope you can make it on the 5th! Many thanks, Katie and the Nokia Connects team I am going to be firmly planted on my seat all day on the 5th. No conflicts with Uni as it starts on the 6th. I’ll just be very antisocial and locked away on my keyboard that day, hehe. a dream is a wish your heart makes

Video: Father and son play Grand Waltz on Piano #NokiaTune with a twist Posted: 30 Aug 2012 01:30 AM PDT There’s tons of videos of people trying to play the Nokia tune on YouTube. I thought this was was pretty cool as it was a joint effort, between a father and son over two pianos. Alexander Zlatkovski is a pianist, but his son Ariel never wanted to learn how to play until he heard his dad playing the Nokia tune - Francisco Tarrega’s “Grand Waltz/Valse”. Ariel loved the tune and learned to play it completely by ear and even spiced it up by adding ‘Skater’s Watlz’ to the beginning. New ringtone anyone :p? This video started out as a joke. My son Ariel, now 19, has lived with pianos – and a pianist father – all his life, but never wanted to learn to play. Then, a couple of years ago, he overheard me practicing Francisco Tarrega’s “Grand Waltz” – the source of the famous Nokia ringtone. He loved the melody and learned to play it by ear. Later, he added the beginning bars of Waldteufel’s “Skaters Waltz” to the tune, and played this hybrid to his heart’s content. One day I decided to join him. Here is the result… Alexander Zlatkovski http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRQBliDR9bU   by AlexanderZlatkovski Here another rendition of Grand Vals for comparison, played by Adrian Brendle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3hhIdehwow by edition49

Leak or Fake: Nokia Arrow press pic (back)? Posted: 29 Aug 2012 11:56 PM PDT Ali just posted up a picture of what is supposedly the Nokia Arrow currently circulating http://mynokiablog.com/2012/08/30/nokia-arrow-leaked/ The picture above was sent to us by an anonymous tipster (cheers). The camera however is horizontal along the short edge of the phone.

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Fresh Nokia Windows Phone 8 Handset Gets Pictured; Is This the Arrow? Posted: 30 Aug 2012 03:18 AM PDT Nokia is preparing a big event for September 5th, when together with Microsoft they’ll launch a new series of Lumia handsets, with Windows Phone 8 on board. The past weeks have been filled with leaks related to that debut and now we get one more, courtesy of the image below, that seems to portray a new Nokia Lumia model. The pic is all we have, no other photos or specs, so we can only speculate on it. For one thing, it’s weird to see a handset, a new one in yellow, since that’s the kind of color you launch a phone with when it’s already been on the market for months. Then again, if it’s a youthful follow up to the Lumia 710, it would fit the happy colour. The case looks plasticky and you can notice the vertical camera and flash arrangement reminding me of the Lumia 800. This phone is supposed to have a 4.3 inch screen, so it may be related to the panel we saw last week leaked on the web. Its curved edges lead me to believe it’s a lower end plasticky model, in the vein of the Lumia 610 or 710 models. We’ll know more about it next week, on September 5th when I expect Nokia to surprise us, maybe with a WP8 Pureview phone as well. Related posts: Nokia Preparing Arrow and Phi Windows Phone 8 Devices for September Release Nokia PureView Lumia Windows Phone Handset Leaks In fresh Image… Bulky and Featuring Win 8 Button!? Nokia Design Patent Reveals Potential Lumia Windows Phone 8 Device; Could it be The Phi, Arrow or Atlas?

HTC Desire X is Now Official, Even Without IFA 2012 Event Posted: 30 Aug 2012 02:50 AM PDT HTC seems to be keeping a low profile at IFA 2012, especially since they didn’t have an official event to debut their brand new HTC Desire X handset. Now the model that has a leaked a lot over the past days is very much official, sporting a 4 inch display. This handset fits in the midrange segment and it was previously known as HTC Proto when it leaked online. It runs on Android 4.0 ICS and is pretty similar to the dual SIM Desire V. This time it’s a single SIM phone we’re talking about, that packs a 4 inch LCD display with 480 x 800 pixel resolution. HTC also included here a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 dual core processor at 1 GHz. This is not one of the new generation chips however, but rather a Cortex A5 unit created using the 45 nm technology. This chip is called S4 Play and is created specifically for a more midrange experience. Desire X also comes with a 5 megapixel camera with backside illuminated sensor and HTC’s own technology for imaging called ImageChip. It also has 480p video recording, so no 720p here. We get Beats Audio and sadly there’s no price for this model, but we do know that it will be released in September in Europe, Africa and Asia. Related posts: HTC Desire HD Android 2.3 ROM Leaks; Official Update Coming Soon? HTC Desire Will NOT Get Official Gingerbread… HTC Admits Failure HTC Desire HD (HTC Ace) Surfaces in First Official Clip (Video)

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