11 December 2012

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Nokia Lumia 920 awarded Reader’s Choice Mobile of the Year 2012

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 04:10 PM PST

We posted about Gizmodo Australia taking votes on the handset you thought deserved to be crowned the winner of 2012. The votes are in, and the Nokia Lumia 920 won with 49% of the total votes. Not only is this awesome news, the next bit of awesome news is the percentage at which they beat the iPhone 5 and Nexus 4.

• Apple iPhone 5 — 13.5 per cent
• Google Nexus 4 — 8.97 per cent

Good work Nokia!

Source: Gizmodo Australia

Nokia DT910 Charging Stand teardown

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 01:33 PM PST

Nokia's DT900 charging plate is probably already know by most of you, the one that isn't as well known to most (probably because the DT900 comes free with a Lumia 920 purchase) is the DT910, or the charging stand with NFC built into the base. Today we can bring you a few pictures of the insides of the DT910 similar to those we showed you a while ago of the charging plate.

The stand and charger itself

The insides

This is NOT the coil from the stand, it is the one from the plate. Notice how it has 3 coils instead of the one that is inside the stand. If this will affect charging times in any way is unknown at this time, but early reports indicate there should be no noticable difference between the two.

And the insides of the baseplate where the NFC chip should be located somewhere

The stand seems like the practical and more usable choice, although the plate is probably easier to use beyond the confines of your desk or tabletop. Anyone who bought the stand?

Thanks to AIKON for the tip and for a few more pictures check out the sourcelink right here.

Custom Firmware for C6-01 Brings Belle FP1 Design and Widgets to Belle Refresh

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 10:52 AM PST

A new custom firmware for the Symbian powered C6-01 (I always forget that this phone existed) was published on dailymobile forums last week. This CFW brings the UI and looks of Belle FP1 (808) to the Belle Refresh powered device. Sme of the changes include the new Belle FP1 Task switcher (vertical plains instead of small squares), new widgets (notepad, clocks, toggles etc..), and Dolby headphone support. The full changelog is as listed below:

Details and Changelog
***********************
Nokia C6-01 RM-718 & RM-601
Custom Firmware
The Black
Belle Refresh(111.040.1511)
***********************

Mods added
- Task Switcher from Belle FP1
- Dolby Headphone
- Unlimited Home screens(100)
- First home screen can be deleted
- Restart option added to the power button menu
- Custom Profiles mod to rename all profiles
- Nokia pure Harmattan‎ fonts added
- Theme Effects to E mod added
- Tactile feedback while connecting,Disconnecting,Second incoming call
- Hacked with yinstallserver.exe
- RomPatcherPlus 3.1 with Auto start
- Added some important patches(Enable the Installserver and open4all patches after flashing)
- Enabled Rename & Move to folder in main menu
- Create sub Folders in main menu
- Disabled Active Diverts
- Kinetic Scrolling Fast
- File manager extender mod added
- Song Metadata Editing mod added
- Display Brightness to minimum by default
- Light time out to 5 sec
- Browser Cache to E
- Browser Default home page to Google.com
- Camera-Image settings(Save location info selected to NO)
- Camera sound removed
- Disabled Ovi Sign in At First Start-up
- Removed SMS sending after Flash or Reset
- High Quality Voice Recording+3 Hours
- Data,WI-FI,Bluetooth,Silent in the notification bar turned off by default
- Notification Lights(Blink light for No limit)
- Power saving query disabled
- Predictive text is turned OFF
- Send Protected Files from default file browser
- Call duration is on By default
- Summary after call is on By default
- Call image is set to None by default
- Screen saver turned off
- Fota cache to 0
- Writing Language set to English by Default
- Ram UI Heap size System Cache,CPU and GPU,Battery Saver Extender mod added
- Removed all Feeds
- Removed all Bookmarks
- Bluetooth Default Name to The Black
- CFW name as The Black
- Boot-screen and Sound disabled

Widgets and Apps added
- Comms launcher widget
- Flip clock
- ZDSync Time
- Gallery widget
- mem check
- Kill me
- Easy key lock
- Notes FP2 widget
- Transparent notification widget

 

MyNokiaBlog is in no way responsible for any damage or warranty voids caused by hacking/changing your phone’s software. If you don’t know what you’re doing; simply don’t do it. 

The files for the CFW can be found over at DailyMobile: http://forum.dailymobile.net/index.php?topic=85978

Source

 

Thanks for the tip Mahindar

 

Your Lumia 620 Questions Answered!

Posted: 10 Dec 2012 02:03 AM PST

We just took part in the Q&A sessions regarding the Nokia Lumia 620, and we have the answers for you below. We were joined by Anssi Hakkarainen from Nokia product marketing team, Timo Joutsenvirta from Nokia Technology Marketing, and Ben from Nokia connects.

So here are the questions we asked and the answers we got.

Me: It was mentioned that the Lumia 620 is scratch proof, but no mention of Gorilla Glass. Is it GG or some other tech?
Timo:  The display is hardened glass with Clear Black technology.

Me: The 620 is double shot coloured, will we see this technique in more devices? Also, is the black a black black, or more of a grey, the online images seem to be inconsistent.
Anssi: The colour is matte black. Black layer in the bottom with tinted transparent black layer on top.

Clinton Jeff: Will aftermarket covers with inductive charging be available/supported?
Anssi: At the moment no plans for wireless charging shell for Nokia Lumia 620.

Me: Is the super sensitive screen tech included on the 620 as well?
Timo: It does not have the Lumia 920 super sensitive touch technology

Me: Will 512 MB RAM have any restrictions on WP8 like the 256 MB RAM on the Lumia 610 with wp7?
Anssi: Only handful of apps that have been tested (we’ve tested more than 70k) did not work with 512MB RAM and they were not in top 100 apps.

Is it intended to be a successor of the Lumia 610 or merely a new product?
Anssi: 620 is a new product within our Windows phone 8 range

Me: I read it uses Adreno 305, why does the Lumia 620 use it whereas the more expensive Lumia (820/920) with WP8 use Adreno 225?
Timo: Adreno graphics is integrated into the processor and depending on processor selection you get Adreno 225 in Lumia 920 and Adreno 305 with Lumia 620.
Me: @Timo, Okay, so it was more processor choice than Graphics?
Timo: Exactly. Processor in different price points have different versions of the graphics core at a given time.

Me: What cell radio bands will it have?
Timo: Quad band GSM and Quad band WCDMA.
Exact bands can be seen @ http://www.nokia.com/global/products/phone/lumia620/specifications/

Clinton Jeff: Btw I also *love* how the headphone jack is built into the rear cover rather than the phone itself. Very clever, and kudos to whoever thought of that :o )
Me: With CJ’s comment, what made you guys take that approach?
Anssi: Headphone jack built into the shell has been specifically designed for 620. It guarantees good connection no matter how many times one changes the shell.

Clinton Jeff: When will it be available in India?
Me: Will it be coming to Africa?
Anssi: Clinton: We haven’t announced for India.
MFaroTusino: Yes, coming in 2013

That was all the questions and their respective answers given during the session. I was a rather short session, but still very helpful. Thanks for the questions guys, hopefully this helps the majority of you.

Monday LOL: End of The World and how to protect yourself

Posted: 09 Dec 2012 10:57 PM PST

Here’s a funny pick me up on this Monday morning. The end of the world is suggested to take place on December 21st, 2012. The image depicts this taking place by raining Nokia 3310s, a known indestructible force.

Is all at a loss then? Not for those who construct a shelter out of Nokia Lumia 920s apparently! :p

Cheers jmlion for the tip!
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