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- Windows Phone 8 launch on October 29th
- Nokia Xpress vs Internet Explorer
- InfoGraphic- Lumia 920 Features Summed up, Time to #Switch
- Stephen Elop interviewed at Wired
- Video: At&t Mobile Minute; Announces Lumia 920 Exclusivity and Roundsup Innovative Features
- Lumia 920 & 820 Officially Confirmed for USA on At&t for November, 920 Coming in Cyan
- Random: Nokia Music Hosts #SilentDiscoParty- Lumias and Purities Galore
- Gigaom with Stephen Elop: Nokia can do things with WP that MS can’t
- The Atlantic: “Nokia Has Better Maps Than Apple and Maybe Even Google” (+Great story on NAVTEQ)
- Nokia working on Windows RT Tablet?
| Windows Phone 8 launch on October 29th Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:52 PM PDT Engadget reports that October 29th will be the date that Windows Phone 8 will be officially launched. We’ve already seen the developer preview, and we are already waiting for the release of the Nokia Lumia 920 and 820. The last piece of the puzzle is the consumer end features that are yet to be made public. As mentioned by the comments: Nokia Lumia 920/820, Windows Phone 8, Windows 8, Xbox Smart Glass, Surface, Office 2013, Xbox Update, Server. It will be an interesting autumn/fall Source: Engadget Cheers James Scott for the tip!
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| Nokia Xpress vs Internet Explorer Posted: 04 Oct 2012 11:48 AM PDT Yesterday, Ali posted about Nokia’s new release called Xpress for Lumias, something that compresses data to save on bandwidth and load times. Rafe Blandford at All About Windows Phone has done a test to see how much, if at all, Xpress lives up to its job.
Whilst just a small sample test, it shows that when connection is slow, Xpress really comes in handy, with the most savings on heavy websites. Rafe’s conclusion?
Source: allaboutwindowsphone.com Cheers jiipee for the tip!
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| InfoGraphic- Lumia 920 Features Summed up, Time to #Switch Posted: 04 Oct 2012 09:20 AM PDT Infographics are great, they supply you with a list of details in a fun and enjoyable manner. Nokia UK’s Facebook page just posted the image above which nicely sums up the Lumia 920s greatness (I really want a video which is no more than 2 minutes long completely covering all the features being demoed- it’s a must have tool when trying to convert people). However I feel the dig towards the iPhone was unnessecary, simply say “Other Smartphones don’t”- especially when the lack of glove usage isn’t iPhone exclusive.
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| Stephen Elop interviewed at Wired Posted: 04 Oct 2012 09:16 AM PDT
This is another interview with Stephen Elop, this time over at Wired.
When asked about the HTC signature WP, Elop defends the Nokia Lumia brand. He says they could have called the 920, Windows Phone 920 but Nokia Lumia is much more than that. Nokia has put significant investments into the WP to make WP and Nokia stand out. The Nokia brand stands for something unique and Nokia is proud to have their phones known as Nokia Lumia first. (HTC can go suck it up to MS as much as they like with their Lumia clones. They never were one to do something original). When asked if Elop/Nokia knew that first gen devices could not get WP8, he pretty much says yes. It was in the best interest of everyone to advance WP (if Nokia did not, WP would be dead. Face it MS. And if Nokia didn’t they would not have a platform to differentiate the way they needed to – not going to discuss it again why they chose this platform over others as we’ve been doing that for 18 months. Congratulations to MS on making their restart of an OS require another restart halfway. It’s like they specifically do things to fail in mobile). Nokia wanted to make sure the older platform gets support, such as some new features including the WP7.8 homescreen. Next up, they discuss why people should switch to Lumia. Now Elop says quite correctly than being cheaper is not a good approach. Being better and being able to differentiate is the way to go. (Nokia Lumia 920 offers so much more compared to the first gen Lumias. They can actually go toe to toe on other smartphones in terms of specs and show off several other features they won’t have). Some other quick points:
Future of mobile phones? Fraction of the time used as a phone – Nokia sees them as a collection of sensors, that sense what you’re doing and going in the world around you.
On future devices, tvs, tablets? Nokia will participate into a greater or lesser extent into the seamless experience users are expecting, moving from their phone, tv, tablet, automobile etc.
Cheers Viipottaja for the tip!
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| Video: At&t Mobile Minute; Announces Lumia 920 Exclusivity and Roundsup Innovative Features Posted: 04 Oct 2012 08:49 AM PDT As is usual when At&t announced a new phone they release a short video covering the highlighted features for the phone, and basically why it’s so awesome; here’s their take on the 920: Is it just me or do the side buttons in the image above looks like its silver/chrome (like the 900) rather than the ceramic black?
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| Lumia 920 & 820 Officially Confirmed for USA on At&t for November, 920 Coming in Cyan Posted: 04 Oct 2012 08:36 AM PDT We all knew this was coming, it was only a matter of when. Just now Nokia Conversations announced that the Lumia 920 as well as the 820 will be headed to At&t This November . The Lumia 920 will arrive in yellow, red, white, black, Edit- Our good friend the General The Destroyer just pointed out that the Gray version is no longer listed (at least in the press release)- seemingly replaced by Cyan, we’ve contacted Nokia trying to get more details about this (awaiting a reply).
The Lumias will launch alongside the full range of accessories we saw a couple months ago, including the charging pillows and the JBL speakers:
The only question that remains is, “is the Cyan 920 Matte Finished?” If so sign me up for it (to replace my lost 800), or actually maybe not; I’m tempted to go back to black…. so confusing… -The announcement page states that the 820 supports up to 32GBs of expandable storage, while our Q&A with the product manager confirmed support for 64GB Micro SD cards, we’ve also contacted the editors regarding this.
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| Random: Nokia Music Hosts #SilentDiscoParty- Lumias and Purities Galore Posted: 04 Oct 2012 06:09 AM PDT
Last week was Social Media week in Berlin (from what I gather it’s the European version of SxSW); Nokia Music was present there to give a little splash and color to the party, sponsoring their own “SilentDiscoParty” where attendees rocked out (silently) to music playing on those Beautiful Purity headsets (they seem to be the older version though, lacking the BT connection). Looks like fun!
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| Gigaom with Stephen Elop: Nokia can do things with WP that MS can’t Posted: 04 Oct 2012 01:50 AM PDT Well, just yesterday we heard Stephen Elop at AllThingsD saying he had no indications that Microsoft are planning on building their own phone Perhaps that’s just a clever way of skirting around the question or if it’s just that he can’t say even if he knows. Gigaom also explore the same topic.
Stephen Elop explains that the 920 contains years and years of work that can’t just be duplicated by people deciding to suddenly build a WP. The prospect of a MS WP would not change their relationship apparently. Nokia will continue to build innovative devices, and the likes of the 920 is worth years and years of work and investment.
The next question is also important to many – how can Nokia prevent themselves from losing control with their eggs in one basket? Things are apparently defined contractually and in practice. The way Nokia operates, jointly setting priorities for what needs to be done, making sure there are exclusive capabilities for Nokia in things most important to them e.g. giving nokia the ‘hooks’ to expand in imaging, but .
Elop says MS could create custom parts for WP if they wanted. Quite an important comment -
So Nokia aren’t just making things that spend all their days in the labs. R&D that actually ends up on devices and in consumer hands. Gigaom pushes further on getting Elop to talk about a special version of WP for Nokia. Elop is still keeping lips firmly closed, saying:
Finally, when Gigaom says competing with MS makes the world a little different, Elop says that regardless of who is making the phones, Nokia preserve the same rights under the contract. Cheers Liju for the tip!
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| The Atlantic: “Nokia Has Better Maps Than Apple and Maybe Even Google” (+Great story on NAVTEQ) Posted: 04 Oct 2012 01:27 AM PDT The Atlantic, globally ranked 1639 on Alexa Worldwide, 542 for Alexa US ran a story that clearly gives some recognition for Nokia’s maps. It’s a very interesting read and even shows some of Nokia NAVTEQ’s world crawlers in their NAVTEQ cars, and what life is like living in a hotel whilst you map out a particular city. There’s about 200,000 USD worth of NAVTEQ stuff on the car. Panoramas are captured for the ‘Bing’ street view, two GPS antennae, three laptops and a “LIDAR system that shoots 64 lasers 360 degrees around the car to create 3D images”. The atlantic goes on to explain how this is used at Nokia, such as automatic extraction of street names, working out height/length of bridges etc. The difficulty is apparently not the process itself, but that once you start one end, by the time you get to the other, you’ll need to go back to the beginning because the world changes with time. Unlike Apple’s prehistoric maps, Nokia wants to give you as up to date maps as possible. When I moved to Preston, my accommodation this year was on a new estate. But Nokia Drive was able to find it. I had things delivered to the property but the drivers using TOMTOM could not find it at all (it was also TomTom that got the uni driver lost last term which ended up having to get Nokia Drive out to save the day) We learn that Nokia has something called a ‘living map’ that kinda knows what you’re looking for. if you search for ‘Blue Bottle Coffee’ in San Fran, you’ll also get suggestions of other venues that sell Blue Bottle. If only the POI was as innovative and comprehensive. In response to a passerby who said “We’re so close to the day when you can put on VR goggles and literally just walk through the world, anywhere in the world.” Nokia and NAVTEQ are apparently close to making a map of the world that is a copy of the world. Someone who used to work at NAVTEQ left in the comments their disappointment of having to work with Apple Map data, as well as saying “ I can truly say that this article just touches the tip of the iceberg.”. Source: theatlantic.com Cheers M for the tip!
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| Nokia working on Windows RT Tablet? Posted: 04 Oct 2012 01:05 AM PDT Nokia is supposedly ‘confirmed’ as working on a Windows 8 RT Tablet, according to ‘WMPU’s sources’. We know Nokia’s making some kind of tablet. Marko Ahtisaari says he’s spending 1/3 of his time on it (and if Marko is spending any time on anything, you know it’s going to be good). Whether it’s the same Windows tablet is another thing. Apparently this tablet is already being used by Microsoft to test ARM based Windows App. Source: WMPU Cheers Viipottaja and Peter_L for the tip
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