11 August 2012

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My Nokia Blog

Video: Interview: Jolla CEO Jussi Hurmola – Loves N9. Jolla Product WILL stand out from the crowd

Posted: 10 Aug 2012 09:43 AM PDT

Here’s the latest interview with Jolla CEO, Mr Hurmola. Check out the MeeGo neck badge thing.

  • - Jolla will provide something totally new
  • - Differentiation not very hard these days
  • - Will be different in every main aspect, not revealing details.
  • How can Jolla save this burning platform? Doesn’t know about that word or what was burning
  • loves N9, still using it
  • Multitasking UI – will inherit these elements
  • Inherit large number of users and ecosystems
  • Product reveal this year. But don’t want to promise something they cannot keep (ha, learning from Nokia fails)

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Cheers Joni and Muerte for the tip!

Lumiappaday #269: Compass demoed on the Nokia Lumia 900

Posted: 10 Aug 2012 03:55 AM PDT

I’ve come across plenty of compass apps before on several platforms but this one’s the most useful for me because it overlays the compass over a map. This can be centered either at your position or anywhere. The compass will rotate the map around you so it’s easy to get your bearings as roads/streets are aligned with what you see.

Nokia maps used to do this (though only if centered at your position). You can change the compass styles and even remove the map if you just wanted the compass itself. Apparently it’s even more responsive on gyro enabled 900. As can be seen in the video, it is very responsive and accurate. At times you may need calibration (which is that simple 8 figure swing).

#269) Compass 

Price:  Free

Link: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/24dd4ff1-b902-45d5-96a1-40b749b28c42

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlpoAIFA3VU

Developer Blurb:

 

Compass is a beautiful, free, and easy-to-use compass for your Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango). It allows you to pick a theme from one of the available themes to customize it to your liking.

 

NOW with Gyroscope sensor support to improve real-time motion detection. NOTE: Gyroscope is not required for the Compass to function though you would get better responsiveness in case the phone has one.

 

Change Log:

 

v1.2:

- Enhancing fluency even further

- Supporting Gyroscope to improve real-time motion detection (tested on Samsung Focus S)

- Show map and compass as an overlay with support for both North-up and map-rotating modes

- Show your location on the map

 

v1.1:

- Improved smoothness and accuracy

- Displaying angle and heading

- Rotating compass face

Rating:

Design: 10

Usability: 10

Performance: 10 

Price: 10

Filmed with Nokia 808 PureView: Nokia Accessories Promo in Action at Sea

Posted: 10 Aug 2012 03:47 AM PDT

Here’s a look at the Nokia 808 PureView accessories, with Markus Ahonen. This is shot with the Nokia 808 PureView too.

Sailboat action

Nokia boat

Nice wallpaper

HDMI Cable action

Great work by Markus Ahonen on presenting these products. These are some of the guys that know the products and can actually talk about them properly.

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Nokia 808 PureView Seagulls!

Posted: 10 Aug 2012 01:18 AM PDT

We’re highlighting some Seagulls taken by the Nokia 808 PureView after a heads up from Janne. These first few shots you might have seen a while back when Richard Dorman/Sheridan01 snapped them. Full gallery on flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheridan01/with/7371605440/#photo_7371605440

Janne shared a photo that was accidentally taken click of the water that also captured some Seagulls.

Just a couple of 100% crops from a single full resolution Nokia 808 PureView picture taken at the Helsinki harbor. The crops are not great in themselves, and the whole picture just a random click at water, but just show the unexpected detail you can make with this much resolution available after the fact. The original is attached to show that I wasn’t really photographing the birds at all. The crops are at 1:1 pixel resolution, no scaling and no PureView effect, with slight Photoshop adjustments in the crops (I originally prepared the crops to be used elsewhere). The original is not touched in any way.

The original of the above photo can be seen here.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mynokiablog/7751597200/sizes/o/in/photostream/

Some crops

With PureView you can really find pictures in pictures. Here’s our own 808 Gallery from a couple of months back.

http://mynokiablog.com/2012/06/13/gallery-my-nokia-808-pureview-photo-walk-in-finland-pureview-pureawesomeness/

I think this might be a Seagull

From this image

Cheers Janne for the tip!

Nokia E6 vs Motorola Pro+

Posted: 10 Aug 2012 01:08 AM PDT

2011 contenders go head to head in Steve Litchfield’s post comparing these two BlackBerry alternatives. Whilst both phones have VGA screens, the Moto opts for a portrait 3.1″ vs landscape 2.46″ in the E6. They’re not too different in size, but the E6 is slightly smaller.

As a device focused on typing, the E6 wins it for Steve, with bonuses such as better pictures, video, GPS signal as well as superior build quality/materials.

The functionalities are split so despite the 7 vs 4 in favour of the E6, Steve said he can’t award a win.

I’d like to see an E6 successor. Slightly larger screen, portrait QWERTY.

Source: AAS
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