My Nokia Blog

Nokia Nostalgia: Nokia Necklace, the Nokia Medallion I (And Medallion II Nokia watch/locket)
Lumia Locket – Live Tile Necklace with Windows Phone (April 1 from WP)
Any Love for a Mint Green Lumia 920?
Snapchat Working on a WP App; Talks in progress
Leakyleak: Sleek New Nokia Ashas (N9 Minis?)
Nokia Lumia 520 enters best sellers list in India, straight in at #2, (620 takes two places in top 8)
Windows Phone continues to make gains, says Kantar Worldpanel
BaconIt just got a whole lot more AWESOME – April Fools Day prank included
Video: Nokia Seidhr – Google Glass competitor in Metro style
Lumiapps: Tuenti, Spanish Social Network available in store

Nokia Nostalgia: Nokia Necklace, the Nokia Medallion I (And Medallion II Nokia watch/locket)

Posted: 01 Apr 2013 04:00 PM PDT

Yesterday we saw the Lumia Locket. A wearable accessory as part of the jovial April Fools pranks. A MNB commenter, ‘efekt’ pointed out that Nokia actually has a wearable digital necklace – the Nokia Medallion. Actually they have two. The Nokia Medallion I and Nokia Medallion II.

Below is the Medallion I.

The squareness screams Lumia tile, no? :p

In ‘action’. [source]

This harks back from 2003. The manual is still available at Nokia’s servers.

What was it for? Mainly as a fashion accessory to carry pictures, aka, a digital locket. It came with one of the latest new features for 2013 – infra-red :p.

http://download.fds-ncom.nokia.com/supportFiles/phones/files/guides/Nokia_Medallion_I_UG_en.pdf

Note the removable straps:

The removable strap continued on with the Medallion II. This was less cumbersome, more like a real locket.

Moreover, you could use it as a watch. So for all them concepts of Nokia Watches, they actually had that product.

Here’s an ‘unboxing’ [source]

Oh Nokia, so ahead of your time. :p

Lumia Locket – Live Tile Necklace with Windows Phone (April 1 from WP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2013 11:43 AM PDT

April Fools from @WindowsPhone comes in the form of these Lumia Lockets – Necklaces with WP tiles. Now since they’re US based at the time of posting they were still before 12pm (you usually don’t post the prank afterwards, unless you’re already just discussing the prank as we are).

https://twitter.com/windowsphone/status/318757010332065792

As a single screen locket with tiles, that could actually work (or as a wearable watch).

Any Love for a Mint Green Lumia 920?

Posted: 01 Apr 2013 08:34 AM PDT

First off this IS NOT real, and that sucks; cause I would buy the hell out of this phone! I know a lot of you have been asking for green Lumias (besides the 620); and Nokia Jordan posted this on FB with the caption “April Fools”. Although it’s admittedly a very lame joke (as there is no real pranking going on) I can’t help but think how awesome this phone looks!

But why oh why couldn’t they have made the tiles match

So Mint Green 920 Yay or Nay?

Source

Snapchat Working on a WP App; Talks in progress

Posted: 01 Apr 2013 08:25 AM PDT

I’m not gonna say we told you so, but we kinda did; on twitter Snapchat have replied that they want to make a version of the popular app for WP. And are actually planning on meeting some WP team guys to see if their “vision” is supported.

For those who haven’t heard of it Snapchat is an app that is used to send pictures that delete themselves within a specified time limit (Ex 1 minute). This is of course a great app for planning a surprise party for your significant other; or for flash card style studying (here at MNB we have innocent minds).

Source

Leakyleak: Sleek New Nokia Ashas (N9 Minis?)

Posted: 01 Apr 2013 06:31 AM PDT

Narrowing the gap further between the colourful Lumia and foundation Asha handsets come these colourful new Ashas that were said to be like ‘mini N9s’

Evleaks says:

Remember that Nokia Asha design language preview? pic.twitter.com/0B02vIHOct

Remember that Nokia Asha design language preview? twitter.com/evleaks/status…

— @evleaks (@evleaks) April 1, 2013

Check out the home button which seems to be a back button too. All these rectangular rounded corners looks a tad iThingy though that comparison has been done to death with every rectangle/round corner device now.

Update: We are told there are two devices, one with a physical button the other with capacitive.

If the back is like we saw before, it’ll be very N9/Lumia/Fabula filled.

http://mynokiablog.com/2013/03/22/rumour-new-nokia-n9-mini-is-coming/

Interaction wise, it’ll be full of Swipe and other things from the N9.

http://mynokiablog.com/2013/03/02/a-closer-look-at-the-new-asha-design-language-leak/

Source: evleaks

Cheers Matiz and Muerte for the tip!

Nokia Lumia 520 enters best sellers list in India, straight in at #2, (620 takes two places in top 8)

Posted: 01 Apr 2013 02:15 AM PDT

If Flipkart is anything to go by, the newly available Nokia Lumia 520 appears to be doing well there, climbing straight to number two.

Also present in the top 8 of this list is the Nokia Lumia 620 (as separate colours, white and black).

http://www.flipkart.com/mobiles/~bestsellers/pr?sid=tyy%2C4io&layout=grid#jumpTo=0|40

The Nokia Lumia 620 is relatively new there too but almost catches up to the 920 regarding number of positive reviews.

Via: WMPU

Cheers manu for the tip!

Windows Phone continues to make gains, says Kantar Worldpanel

Posted: 01 Apr 2013 02:09 AM PDT

Data from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech USA's consumer panel says Windows Phone continued to make gains with up to 4.1% of smartphone sales. That’s up from 2.6% in the previous quarter.

http://www.kantarworldpanel.com/Global/News/Android-Sprint-and-Samsung-Increased-Share-In-Early-2013

Both Android and WP grew at the expense of iOS which was said to be down a consecutive period.

Update: In UK, Kantar says WP is up to 6.7%, up 3% from the previous year. Nokia’s share finally beginning to show gains, holding 5.6% of the market.

http://www.kantarworldpanel.com/global/News/Google-branding-helps-LG-back-into-the-smartphone-market

Cheers Muerte for the tip!

BaconIt just got a whole lot more AWESOME – April Fools Day prank included

Posted: 01 Apr 2013 01:55 AM PDT

BaconIt, arguably one of the most popular app for Windows Phone has pulled off an April Fools Prank in true Reddit style. When using the app, it will flicker green and give you an error code, pretty much saying Windows Phone has crashed and you need to do a system restore.

I’ve seen the prank first hand and it is really something funny! Take a look at the screenshots I grabbed.

Good stuff guys!

Have you seen an app with an April Fools prank? Let us know!

Video: Nokia Seidhr – Google Glass competitor in Metro style

Posted: 01 Apr 2013 01:29 AM PDT

No, no, the day’s not done yet. There’s more. Here’s Recombu’s hands on with the Nokia Seidhr, a Google Glass competitor with Metro. Now this isn’t a me-too product since Nokia’s had augmented reality glasses concept before google (though never had one physically to show). Here’s what it looks like ‘in real life’.