09 October 2012

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Gallery of Cardboard Nokias – Make your own and win either a Nokia 808 PureView or Nokia Lumia 900

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 05:37 PM PDT

We like DIY Nokias. Most recently, we’ve seen it made out of plasticine, paper or 3D printed.

Nokia’s in the creative mood too, and is allowing you guys the chance to win a Nokia 808 PureView or Nokia Lumia 900 if you make a cardboard Nokia product. You’ve got until October 21st 2012, so plenty of time.

Darn – I made a cardboard Nokia 3310 a few months ago as a costume and didn’t think I’d need that again.

I meant to write about this over the weekend so apologies it’s late. On the upside, you can see some of the entrants which look pretty awesome. There are more pictures available over at NokConv.

http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/10/05/nokia-cardboard-challenge/

This is a 710 made by ‘sherwood’

Here is JovT’s Nokia 808 PureView, complete with hump

A very well done Nokia Lumia 920 by Ronilson. I thought it was one of those paper print outs but it is made of cardboard, even the icons.

Nokia N900 from  Catalin Ursachi

Catalin Valet brings a classic, a Nokia 8910i

Which is your favourite so far? Have you made a cardboard Nokia yet?

Lumia 810 Announced, Headed to T-Mobile Soon

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 01:01 PM PDT

Here’s one to please the folks who were upset by the exclusive deals Nokia struck with At&t, just now T-Mobile have announced the Lumia 810 (yes 810, not 820) coming to them exclusively from Nokia. The 810 comes with a  4.3″ screen (WVGA/CBD), 8MP rear facing Camera, 1.2MP FFC (Skype Certified) and an all new design. The design itself seems to be aluminum or metal (or some very shiny poly-carbonate  perhaps a gloss black?) Cyan picture is definitely polycarb. with rounded corners (uh-oh :P ); however I’m honestly left wondering how we haven’t heard a peep of this device, as well why it wasn’t announced alongside the 820 & 920. Till now the full specs sheet hasn’t been announced, nor has there been any word about the variety of colors, but expect the internals of the phone to match those of the 820 (just a hunch).

The main noticeable difference besides the subtle design changes (the 820 seems more rounded across the back) is hte inclusion of wireless charging out of the box in the 810, as well as access to T-Mobiles 4G speeds.

*As usual no specific release date or pricing… great.

Nokia Lumia 810 cyan shell

LUMIA 810 VS 820

Full Press Release:

T-Mobile and Nokia Introduce the Nokia Lumia 810

An exclusive T-Mobile device, the Nokia Lumia 810, coupled with T-Mobile’s Unlimited Nationwide 4G Data, gives customers a truly unlimited Windows Phone 8 experience

BELLEVUE, Wash. – Oct. 8, 2012 – T-Mobile USA, Inc. and Nokia today announced the upcoming availability of the Nokia Lumia 810 – an exclusive to T-Mobile. The new Windows Phone 8 smartphone offers an enhanced camera, simple design and integrated navigation features. Combined with the only unlimited nationwide 4G data plan, T-Mobile customers will see a superior value with the Lumia 810, the latest addition to T-Mobile’s expanding lineup of Windows devices.

“We’re providing our customers with a unique Windows Phone 8 experience by offering an exclusive device paired with our Unlimited Nationwide 4G Data plan and a comprehensive set of enhanced features,” said Andrew Morrison, vice president of product management, T-Mobile USA. “The Nokia Lumia 810 gives customers speedy, 4G access to T-Mobile’s nationwide network and the content and features they want, whenever they need it. From navigation tools to an enhanced camera, the Lumia 810 provides a great value and a high-quality experience.”

“The Nokia Lumia 810 features a sleek design and high-quality hardware, combined with the efficient and intuitive Windows Phone 8 operating system,” said Olivier Puech, President, Nokia Americas. “When combined with applications such as Nokia Drive and Nokia City Lens, the Lumia 810 ensures that T-Mobile customers are getting the best experience possible out of their smartphone.”

Sleek Unibody Design and State-of-the-Art Wireless Charging
Featuring a 4.3-inch OLED WVGA Clear Black display, the Lumia 810 offers high-end performance in a compact package. The new smartphone is powered by Windows Phone 8, making it easy for users to personalize their device and experiences and always stay connected to friends and family. T-Mobile will offer exchangeable shells in cyan and black, which will allow the device to take advantage of Nokia’s convenient and innovative wireless charging solution.

New High-End Camera Features to Capture and Share Quality Photos
With an 8-megapixel camera engineered with Carl Zeiss optics, the Lumia 810 takes crisper and sharper pictures, bringing memories to life. The device also features a new 1.2-megapixel Skype HD certified front-facing camera, providing a high-quality mobile video chat experience. With the Lumia 810, users can capture, share and relive life’s moments with new camera features such as Cinemagraph, a lens that creates animated GIFs, as well as panorama settings and Group Shoot, which allows the customer to choose the best faces and smiles from a burst of photos and stitch them together to produce the perfect group shot.

Enhanced Navigation Experience
The Lumia 810 also comes with new and enhanced navigation features including Nokia City Lens, which overlays information about restaurants, shops, hotels and more on the surfaces of buildings, providing a new augmented reality experience. The smartphone also provides a comprehensive, integrated mapping experience through new enhancements to Nokia Drive, a voice-guided, turn-by-turn navigation system, as well as through Nokia Transit, which provides directions to a location using public transportation.

Easier Entertainment
The Lumia 810 also comes with Nokia Music, which features playlists that are curated by an expert team of global and regional musicologists, spanning a wide spectrum of music genres. Completely advertisement-free, and requiring no registration or subscription, Nokia Music allows consumers to enjoy the songs of their favorite artists without disruption. Nokia Music can also be enjoyed offline so consumers can listen to their favorite playlists anytime, anywhere.

Availability

The Nokia Lumia 810 is expected to be available in the coming weeks. For more information on T-Mobile’s devices, visit http://www.t-mobile.com/. For more information on T-Mobile’s Unlimited Value and Monthly4G plans, see: http://family.t-mobile.com/phone-plans.

About T-Mobile USA. Inc.
Based in Bellevue, Wash., T-Mobile USA, Inc. is the U.S. wireless operation of Deutsche Telekom AG (OTCQX: DTEGY). By the end of the second quarter of 2012, approximately 130 million mobile customers were served by the mobile communication segments of the Deutsche Telekom group – 33.2 million by T-Mobile USA – all via a common technology platform based on GSM and UMTS and additionally HSPA+ 21/HSPA+ 42. T-Mobile USA’s innovative wireless products and services help empower people to connect to those who matter most. Multiple independent research studies continue to rank T-Mobile USA among the highest in numerous regions throughout the U.S. in wireless customer care and call quality. For more information, please visit http://www.T-Mobile.com. T-Mobile is a federally registered trademark of Deutsche Telekom AG. For further information on Deutsche Telekom, please visit http://www.telekom.de/investor-relations.
About Nokia
Nokia is a global leader in mobile communications whose products have become an integral part of the lives of people around the world. Every day, more than 1.3 billion people use their Nokia to capture and share experiences, access information, find their way or simply to speak to one another. Nokia’s technological and design innovations have made its brand one of the most recognized in the world. For more information, visit http://www.nokia.com/about-nokia.

Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that reflect the current views of Deutsche Telekom management with respect to future events. These forward-looking statements may include statements with regard to the expected development of revenue, earnings, profits from operations, depreciation and amortization, cash flows and personnel-related measures. You should consider them with caution. Such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, most of which are difficult to predict and are generally beyond Deutsche Telekom’s control. Among the factors that might influence our ability to achieve our objectives are the progress of our workforce reduction initiative and other cost-saving measures, and the impact of other significant strategic, labor or business initiatives, including acquisitions, dispositions and business combinations, and our network upgrade and expansion initiatives. In addition, stronger than expected competition, technological change, legal proceedings and regulatory developments, among other factors, may have a material adverse effect on our costs and revenue development. Further, the economic downturn in our markets, and changes in interest and currency exchange rates, may also have an impact on our business development and the availability of financing on favorable conditions. Changes to our expectations concerning future cash flows may lead to impairment write downs of assets carried at historical cost, which may materially affect our results at the group and operating segment levels. If these or other risks and uncertainties materialize, or if the assumptions underlying any of these statements prove incorrect, our actual performance may materially differ from the performance expressed or implied by forward-looking statements. We can offer no assurance that our estimates or expectations will be achieved. Without prejudice to existing obligations under capital market law, we do not assume any obligation to update forward-looking statements to take new information or future events into account or otherwise.

In addition to figures prepared in accordance with IFRS, Deutsche Telekom also presents non-GAAP financial performance measures, including, among others, EBITDA, EBITDA margin, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, adjusted EBIT, adjusted net income, free cash flow, gross debt and net debt. These non-GAAP measures should be considered in addition to, but not as a substitute for, the information prepared in accordance with IFRS. Non-GAAP financial performance measures are not subject to IFRS or any other generally accepted accounting principles. Other companies may define these terms in different ways.

Via

Thanks for the tip DKM

#N9Apps: Best Third Party browser for Harmattan

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 05:38 AM PDT

I was scrolling through Twitter a few weeks ago, and saw a post about Nemo Mobile ( MeeGo 1.3 CE), and a browser it shares with the N9, HeliumReborn. I decided to try it out again, as it had apparently been updated a lot from my last experience. Using it, I thought about SnowShoe, that Qt 5 browser. So I went and installed that again, also largely improved. So there I had 5 browsers, Native, Opera, Firefox (v14), SnowShoe and Helium.

After posting about having “all” the Harmattan browsers on Twitter, I was directed to another, UC Browser. Also installed that. Then I remembered there was a Qt rewrite project of Fennec (Firefox). Although the rewrite is limited, it is still super slick, with no checker boarding. I say limited as it cannot click links, and needs terminal to launch it. You can see a video of it running below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HUmjHWpe-XI

So for me, its current state made it no longer a competitor. Hopefully in the future, it will be a contender.

Down to the deciding.

UC Browser

This is the same as the Symbian counterpart. It is in Chinese, with the possibility to get partial English support by way of a mod. It is fairly average, and is no longer supported for the platform. Thus, I don’t recommend it at all. Its current state is poor, and with no hope of it getting better, there is simply no reason to use it.

Verdict: Stay away

Opera

Opera has always been an awesome browser. I used it heaps on Symbian, and when it came out for the N9, I jumped at the chance to use it. It is super slick. Easy to use, and fairly feature packed. Earlier versions were a bit buggy, but the latest version has definitely come along way. With the option to use Opera as the default browser, data compression, no checker boarding and easy-switching to a desktop user agent, it is a serious option.

What I don’t like, is the lack of customisation in the keyboard department. I like the Harmattan keyboard and with various custom keyboards available, I find myself switching between them regularly. With Opera, you are stuck with the included one. I would like to see a Harmattan style UI, but it is understandable why it is the way it is ie. standard across all supported mobile platforms.

Verdict: Recommended Install

SnowShoe

Snowshoe is awesome! It uses Qt5 and webkit2 technologies to bring a really slick and refined experience. Sadly the project hasn’t been updated in around 2 months, and it had great potential. Its fully open sourced so hopefully we will see it improved by the community. The UI of Snowshoe is cool. You have a tab view, and also a top sites page.This is one of my favorite browsers, just a shame that it isn’t fully stable yet.

Verdict: Give it a try

Helium

Now for the browser that kick-started the whole post. It is slick, it is fast, it is just all-round, well, awesome! It is understandable why this is the default browser in Nemo. Although being different, it still keeps the Harmattan-esque UI. I’ve been using Helium as my main browser for the last week on my N950. It has been hard to fully swap from the native browser on my N9 (especially since my native browser has the iOS6 User Agent and Qt 5), but it is a very solid, and finished browser. Pinch to Zoom is extremely fluid, and pages load quickly.

Not really anything bad I can find about it, except that I haven’t found an option to make it the default browser.

Verdict: Recommended Install

Fennec (Firefox)

Finally we have Fennec or Firefox for Maemo. Its a decent browser, and with the ability to have Flash support, makes it hard to beat. however, the UI is average, found to be a resource hog and besides support as default browser and for flash, it doesn’t really offer anything over the other browsers. The ability to use SOME firefox addons is nice, but there is definitely a limited number compatible.

Verdict: Give it a try

So, from that, it seems fairly clear that I would choose the best browser to be either Opera or Helium. I am leaning more towards Helium. Mainly due to the UI, and the fact I can use the native keyboards. Its a great browser that I would recommend to all Harmattan users to at least try.

Have you used some of these browsers? Have your say in the comments section below!

Michael

Updates available for Nokia C2-02, C2-03, X3-02, X2-02, and Asha 300

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 05:31 AM PDT

There are apparently new updates available for the following mobile phones.

  • Nokia C2-02/C2-03 v07.63
  • Nokia X3-02 to v07.51
  • Nokia X2-02 to v11.9
  • Nokia Asha 300 to v07.57
Thanks Marc Aurel for this info in the comments:
From Nokia firmware change logs (www.developer.nokia.com/Community/Wiki/Nokia_firmware_change_logs):

Change log of Nokia C2-02 7.63 firmware release:

A warning is now given when the volume is too loud
Improvements to the display brightness
Can now unsubscribe from the Tips and Offers service
Timezone fix for Russia and Argentina
Fix for device camera sometimes crashing during taking photos
General usability & performance improvements

(C2-03 is the same.)

Change log of Nokia X3-02 7.51 firmware release:

This firmware version is only for the RM-639 device variant.
General usability & performance improvements.

Change Log of Nokia C3-01 7.51 firmware release:

This firmware release is for RM-640 device variant.
Performance & usability improvements.
Better Applications.

(looks like I answered my own question above)

Change log of Nokia Asha 300 7.57 firmware release:

A warning is now given when the volume is too loud
Improvements to device memory management
Improvements and fixes to device notification messages
General usability & performance improvements

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No change log for X2-02 there yet.

Source: ST

Cheers Marfan for the tip!

Awesome Nokia 808′s Rich Recording tramples iPhone 5′s hollow sound recording (+Keane 808, Philippines)

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 02:53 AM PDT

This was left as a comment in the last post comparing the iPhone 5 against the Nokia 808 PureView. The newer iPhone 5 still has nothing on the Nokia regarding audio-visual quality.

Listen to the richness from the 808 vs the empty hollow sound from the iPhone 5. Where is the bass in the iPhone 5? Some parts sound like a studio track, or even being there at the gig itself when the crowd chants.

I guess the iPhone is acceptable only until you meet the forceful nature of Rich Recording from the Nokia 808 PureView.

Also note that the guy with the Nokia 808 PureView seems to have been recording for 1 hour and 20 minutes! Zoom is in action but not helped by the jumping and hand waving.

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Via: 808Recordings

Cheers EasycapExpertti for the heads up

Oh, as I replied to someone in the comments excusing the quality of the iPhone 5 because no one takes professional photos on a phone cam (or thus in this case professional recording)

Nobody takes professional shots with a phone camera? FALSE. Nokia 808 PureView is not just a phone camera. It's rare, but you can take very high quality shots on a Nokia 808 PureView. The brilliance is that unlike my DSLR, I only ever need to bring the 808 that slides into my pocket. My DSLR? Ha. It's nice to have the option of having great pictures all the time, and not, "oh I've only got my phone with me, this will have to do".

I couldn’t even take this kind of audio recording with my DSLR if I wanted to. I’d need an external boom mic.

Here’s some Keane from MOA, Philippines.

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iPhone 5 still can’t touch Nokia 808 PureView (Low light comparison)

Posted: 08 Oct 2012 01:45 AM PDT

The iPhone 5 is heralded by its biggest fans as having a much better camera than the predecessor, with evangelists claiming you can now take low light pictures that you could not before on an iPhone 4S.

It uses something that attempts to be like oversampling by combining pixels (though not precisely like the 808, and it can’t since the sensor and pixel starting point is not the same). Whilst it is known that the low light optimised Nokia Lumia 920 slaughters iPhone 5, the Nokia 808 PureView gives the iPhone 5 a good kicking too.

http://mynokiablog.com/2012/09/21/nokia-sets-trends-again-iphone-5-attempts-oversampling-like-nokia-808-pureview/

After the comparison pics on the weekend that oddly showed the older 4S in a more favourable light, Vlado shares these pictures that correlates more with what the rest of the blogosphere has shown us.

We really don’t need to label the photos. The worse one is the iPhone.

 

 

 

1 (1) 2 (1) 3 (1) 4 PUREVIEW IPHONE 5 NOKIA 808 PUREVIEW IPHONE 5 NOKIA 808 B PUREVIEW IPHONE 5 SUCK 808 WIN

Cheers Vlado for the pics!

Video: Nokia 500 running symbain belle refersh 111.021.0028

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 10:44 PM PDT

Here’s Belle Refresh on the Nokia 500. (no GPU).

What’s with all those icons at the bottom toolbar?

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Nokia Lumia 920 exclusive November launch with Rogers Canada

Posted: 07 Oct 2012 10:44 PM PDT

MobileSyrup reports that Canadian carrier, Rogers, will be launching the LTE Nokia Lumia 920 exclusively.

Although Nokia were making a joke on the iPhone and supposedly bringing a splash of colour with the Lumia, black is supposedly the only colour available for Rogers. Odd.

Source: MobileSyrup

Cheers stylinred for the tip!
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