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My Dream Nokia #70: Titanium Nokia Lumia FX800
Symbian App Review: Ebook Reader Demoed on 808
Official Utorrent Client for WP now Available in Marketplace
Weekend Watch: Surface Commercial – Pretty Awesome.
WeekendRead: “What Does The Internet Think”
Nokia Asha 205 gets leaked on Navifirm
Weekend Watch: Nokia Lumia Smartphones Diwali Offers with Priyanka Chopra
Nokia Lumia 820 coming to Carphone Warehouse, expected November 2012
Weekend Watch: Nokia Lumia 920 Ash Grey vs Nokia Lumia 820 gloss white

My Dream Nokia #70: Titanium Nokia Lumia FX800

Posted: 20 Oct 2012 12:36 PM PDT

My Dream Nokia #70 comes from Vilim Plužarić, an industrial designer and philosopher from Zagreb. He’s based in Croatia and is working as a freelance designer as well as writing articles for Gadgeterija.net. He previously designed concepts for the iPhone 5 and works on the “Apple Conspiracy project”. I’m pleased he’s taking an interest in Nokia concepts too.

Vilim emailed us his to help spread his new concept called the Nokia Lumia FX800. It’s somewhat higher end than the 920 with a larger 4.65″ display.

This is the back story behind the titanium built Lumia FX800

The story behind Lumia FX800 is a true rivalry to iPhone 5. It draws its inspiration from 2002 model 8910 Titanium in terms of material, stealth-bomber-looking X7 and of course, the already iconic design of N9/Lumia 800. Its name represents the visual effect, the “FX”. This one is not in color, as opposed to other Lumia range. It will come in titanium unibody and packed in extremely thin chassis.
It’s intended is to be limited edition, high-priced, high-class and high-style smartphone that puts style over innovation. Innovation is presented through Lumia 920, but it comes at the cost of bulky body. This one has almost same specs, without innovative technologies, but on the other hand, it comes in a sleek and classy form. It’s purpose is not to do harm to Lumia 920 sales, but to cover style-conscious market, and certainly market largely covered by iPhone.
It utilizes the same 4.65″ AMOLED screen seen in 2011 model from Samsung, the Galaxy Nexus. Nokia uses those AMOLEDs for their Lumias 800 and 900 with addition of their own ClearBlack technology. It is the larger screen than in Luima 900, but it keeps the same device dimensions. Unfortunately, there are no non-PenTile HD AMOLEDs from Samsung right now for the diagonals below 5.5″, so it has to suffice.

Feel free to contact me in case you have some questions and remarks.

Very slim, same footprint as the 900 except with less bezel so more screen.

About "My Dream Nokia"

I'm sure you've dreamt up your PERFECT Nokia device/UI. What it would look like, what it would feel like, what features it would have. Why don't you share it with the world? Or at least with other Nokia fans .

It could be your own photoshopped or rendered work (seriously, you don't need mega skills in either, basic paint job is often enough to convey a concept) of your dream product.

SEND this in similarly to tips@mynokiablog.com with the title "My Dream Nokia" and perhaps the model number (and a little description, maybe a few specs in the message area? Though this bit not necessary).

Who knows, maybe an image might flutter over to Nokia and through whatever route end up being real.

Cheers Vilim Plužarić!

Symbian App Review: Ebook Reader Demoed on 808

Posted: 20 Oct 2012 09:41 AM PDT

It’s been a while since we’ve covered any apps at all, let alone one for Symbian; but here’s one for all the book worms out there. Ebook reader (pro) by Artsoftic is a great reader that carries out all the functions any basic reader should have, and a bit more (but as you can see in the video my version of the app somehow ended up being in Russian so I wasn’t to sure about the options).

On a side note the search on the Nokia store REALLY sucks, searching by the developers name doesn’t work; and searching for “ebook reader” gives me a bunch of spam results and apps that have been resubmitted ten times. Absolute mess.

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Official Utorrent Client for WP now Available in Marketplace

Posted: 20 Oct 2012 09:28 AM PDT

For anyone who hasn’t heard of it (highly unlikely) Utorrent is the torrent file sharing program, and everyone’s favorite. The official app is now available in the marketplace (beta 1.0) that gives you control over your Home client of uTorrent, allowing you to add, remove, pause, start stop… any torrent file on our home PC or MAC securely and wirelessly over the web.

Secure remote access to µTorrent from anywhere. µTorrent Remote Beta is part of the latest µTorrent for Windows and Mac. This Windows Phone app securely connects to your home computer from anywhere you have an internet connection. Use µTorrent Remote to add, remove, start, stop torrents and check download progress of all your torrents. Check your RSS feeds and start downloads on the go. Use your mobile browser to find torrents and they will automatically be added to your home µTorrent! Completed downloads can even be shifted directly back to your Windows device for local playback.

Get it at the marketplace here: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/%C2%B5torrent-remote/6f626785-a6f6-4913-ab0c-ae8b67ced086

or follow the QR code below:

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Weekend Watch: Surface Commercial – Pretty Awesome.

Posted: 20 Oct 2012 08:32 AM PDT

The Surface Tablet, complete with Nokia style iconic cyan/magenta[red]/black colours won the tech blogosphere around with some high attention to detail you’d expect from the Jobsian Fruit company.

One highly precise but possibly easily overlooked aspect is the sound that the stand makes as the hinge clicks into place (makes me remember the video where Nokia designers talk about the sound the N97 hinge made). That satisfying hinge sound takes quite a prominent role in the video below. (As well as the sound when the magnet clips from the super slim keyboard latches on).

I don’t know about you but I really like what they’ve done with it. Modern, interesting, memorable and leaves me with an impression that this is a device to watch out for. Nokia marketing peeps, take note please.

I love the focus on the hinge, on the keyboard part, and on the metro UI. Unique things for this particular product subset.

I love the colours, the music, the host of dancers (all very good looking peeps, the fit ladies, the well groomed men, the family, the guy who looks like JLG – makes it easier to like the product somewhat)

Watch “Movement,” the premiere commercial for MICROSOFT SURFACE from Director Jon M. Chu (DS2DIO, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, The LXD, Step Up 3D).

“From touch to type, office to living room, from your screen to the big screen, you can see more, share more, and do more with Surface.”

Discover more about Surface: http://bit.ly/RtKZ2W
Follow @Surface on Twitter: http://bit.ly/V2cMbW

Choreography by Christopher Scott and Jamal Sims.
Music by The Bangerz.

“Movement” stars Daniel “Cloud” Campos and features some of the world’s top dancers. You can find them in videos throughout DS2DIO — YouTube’s Dance Lifestyle Channel. To learn more, click here: http://bit.ly/JebFQl

Featuring:
Anderson, Corey
Andrews, Kendra
Azizian, Paulette
Boedekker, Stacy
Bonnevay, Marie
Brewton, Bianca
Brown, Jesse
Burns, Leon
Chapman, Lorenzo
Chynoweth, Jade
Clemmons, Vincent
Davis, Kylie
Exum, Kelli
Germar, Marko
Grahms, Daniel
Graves, Corey
Gutierrez, Jay
Guzman, Gabe De
Hoffman, Sky
Holt, Bailey
Hott, Julian
Inniss, Marc
Johnson, Josh
Kadish, Jake
Keller, Jessica
Kitama, Mayuko
Koumaev, Ivan
Lamkin, Brandy
Livingston, Emilie
Loftis, Will
Maas, Taylor
Markarian, Rachel
Medina, Marie
Monaco, Tony
Monnie, KC
Mour, Linda
Nairobi, Saidah
Nino, Ashlee
Prudich, Bill
Radomski, Kayla
Rodriguez, Ricardo
Rosado, Luis
Russell,Brittany Perry
Sandvig, Melissa
Scott, Christopher
Shaw, Brandon
Sherbman, David
Shibata, Tracy
Sims, Jamal
Smith, Chadd (Madd Chadd)
Spencer, Terrence
Stecklein, Tyne
Steffens, Timar
Stewart, Britt
Stewart, Nicholas
Tanaka, Bryan
Tanner, Jean
Thompson, Larsen
Todey, Kersten
Velez, Ivan (Flipz)
Washington, Tyrell
Williams, Brooklyn
Wilson, Dana
Wong, Alex

Cheers Dan for the tip!

BTW, I also liked MS’ own promo.

Not sure I’m interested in getting the Surface myself – especially at that resolution. I don’t know what MS was talking about when they’re saying their screen is easier to read. I’ll have to see it in person first.

WeekendRead: “What Does The Internet Think”

Posted: 20 Oct 2012 02:48 AM PDT

So I stumbled across this site called What Does The Internet Think, a search engine where your term is broken down into positive, negative, and in-differnet opinion across the internet. Here is how the site says it works:

Since launching, this has sparked up some discussion as to how it all works. Well, you can understand that I don't want to disclose too much of the 'algorithm' of the site. However: basically it searches based on associative (so far just English) sentences. The given search term is used in these sentences which are then sent off to the various search engines, counting the amount of results returned. (Sentences are double quoted before they are sent off, so as to make sure the search-engines search for occurrences of the *whole* sentence).

This, of course, produces questionable results which should not be taken very seriously. However, the more results (hits) returned, the more reliable these results can become. Do a search for George Bush and then Barack Obama, and you'll see that the internet is certainly not far off – or perhaps even in-sync – with the result you had in mind.

My advice would be to do 10 'obvious' searches, of which you are almost certain of the results, based on your perception of general opinion (e.g. 'beer', 'sex', 'sleeping', etc.) and then do 10 less obvious searches. If the first 10 convince you of even the slightest accuracy, the second 10 will perhaps be not as random as you thought.

Of course, this is far from accurate, but I thought I would have a go, searching Nokia, Nokia Lumia, Nokia N9, Symbian & iPhone5. Here are screenshots of the results:

Overall Nokia, and related terms, seem to all be fairly positive, with the highest out of my search terms being Nokia N9, followed by Nokia Lumia, Nokia, Symbian and lastly iPhone 5.

Again, I know this isn’t conclusive in any way, but it is nice to see Nokia being ahead of the iPhone, even if it is solely wishful thinking.

Nokia Asha 205 gets leaked on Navifirm

Posted: 20 Oct 2012 01:10 AM PDT

It has been months since I looked on Navifirm, but every time I do, I find something news. This time was no exception.

We have previously seen leaked product codes for devices such as Nokia RM-838/852, etc which were also quite a mystery, even for a while after they were first spotted. They turned out to be Asha and Lumia devices.

So for this device leak, we actually have a picture, well it is actually just a thumbnail, showing what we are led to believe is the Asha 205. As we know with all Asha devices, it will run S40.

Regards.

Edit: Michael

Weekend Watch: Nokia Lumia Smartphones Diwali Offers with Priyanka Chopra

Posted: 20 Oct 2012 12:50 AM PDT

In addition to the Diwali offer for Nokia Asha, Nokia’s also doing some Diwali promos for Nokia Lumia wherein you can get free accessories too, starring Priyanka Chopra.

Stay away from the noise and transform those fireworks into colours this Diwali. Buy a Nokia Lumia Smartphone and get colourful accessories free. Even Priyanka Chopra agrees, this Diwali, let’s celebrate Holi.
Please visit http://bit.ly/thisdiwalicelebrateholi for more information

by NokiaIndiaOfficial

Thanks rishabh for the tip!

Nokia Lumia 820 coming to Carphone Warehouse, expected November 2012

Posted: 20 Oct 2012 12:09 AM PDT

Just a follow up to our last post that looked availabilities for the Nokia Lumia 920. DKM commented that whilst the 920 isn’t there, the 820 certainly is.

http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/news/coming-soon/nokia-lumia-820

An expected date has been set for around November. I really should have upgraded back in September but I’ve been holding out for its big brother, the 920 (in yellow).

It’s odd that the 920 isn’t in the UK carphone warehouse as it’s available in France (ThePhoneHouse)