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- Video: Another promo from Microsoft showing off Nokia Lumia 920 against Samsung Galaxy S3 (LocalScout)
- Angry Birds Free For a Limited Time on Windows Phone
- Cringe Worthy: Samsung Tries to Get Creative With the Galaxy S4 Design Story
- Amazing Nokia 808 PureView Timelapse Video and other Camera Tips!
- Lumiappdates: Viber, Quick Settings and SophieLens updated
- Lumiapps: “Hungry Now” Polished Free Fast Food Finder For your Nokia Lumia #DevAppTip
| Posted: 01 May 2013 03:10 PM PDT
You’ve seen a few of these now, BenThePCGuy overwhelms the public with how awesome this relatively unknown phone, the Nokia Lumia 920 powered by WP actually is.
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| Angry Birds Free For a Limited Time on Windows Phone Posted: 01 May 2013 01:34 PM PDT
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| Cringe Worthy: Samsung Tries to Get Creative With the Galaxy S4 Design Story Posted: 01 May 2013 08:18 AM PDT
It’s become sort of tradition for manufacturers nowadays to release a “design story” alongside their phones, Apple have got it pretty good with Mr. Ives and their crisp white backgrounds, but sometimes it just feels forced. Like Samsung’s take on the S4 design story below, this has got to be one of the worst design stories (right behind HTC pretending the 8X wasn’t inspired by Nokia).
Reading the comments alone gives you an idea of how people reacted to this:
I especially like the fact they keep on repeating that the S4 is “like nothing you’ve seen before”, really Samsung? Nothing? Nothing at all!? Think harder! Perhaps the S3? No wait that can’t be right; we’ve already seen that. But then again this video is coming from the same company whose previous flagship was launched with the phrase “Designed for Humans”. Well back to how this is relevant to Nokia, is the fact that it reminded me of Marko’s design story of the 920, you don’t need a backdrop of a city with some intense soundtracks to sell a design story, you simply only need a design story (go figure). Check out Marko down below:
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| Amazing Nokia 808 PureView Timelapse Video and other Camera Tips! Posted: 30 Apr 2013 11:57 PM PDT Hello MNB Readers! I couldn’t pass up sharing these YouTube videos from the Camera Check Channel (CCC). There is a lot of flexibility with the 808 PureView’s large sensor and Carl Zeiss optics. Even after having my 808 for a month, I am still learning how to best utilize all of the camera options and usage scenarios that are now possible. Keep in mind that even though these videos are for the 808 PureView, they provide information that may be helpful even if you don’t have a 808. Hopefully, if Nokia delivers a new device with a camera matching or exceeding the 808, more people will be able to try some of the tips on more widely available devices as well. Enough of my rambling, on to the high-quality footage and tips from CCC. NOTE: The direct link beneath each video should help play the videos directly in YouTube if you are unable to view the embedded videos on this page using your phone’s web browser.
Have any of you used any of these tips with your 808 PureView or other device such as the Lumia 920, Nokia N8, N86/82 or non-Nokia smart phone? What camera swag/items do you usually carry with you? I always keep a 72′ tripod in my car and a small bag with all the necessities such as a 2 small tripods, tripod mount, wall charger, HDMI, RCA, USB-OTG, USB, SD Adapters, Micro SDs (2, 4, 8, 16, 32 GB), random non activated SIM cards, cleaning cloth and my trusty N8 as backup. I have a lot of tech with me but I need to widen my usage of said tech and videos like the ones on CCC are just what I need to help get the creative ideas flowing. You can find another video (and hopefully more in the future) and more information over at the Camera Check Channel on YouTube Thank you all for reading MyNokiaBlog and watching the videos. Have a great day! Deaconclgi P.S. I am slowly adding photos to my Flickr set as I gain experience with the 808. I can already see an improvement in composition, lighting, focusing, resolved detail and overall photo quality by using Creative Mode versus how I first started out, shooting everything in Automatic. |
| Lumiappdates: Viber, Quick Settings and SophieLens updated Posted: 30 Apr 2013 11:05 PM PDT
Some nice updates this morning. First up, Viber to v2.24.0.0 dated today, May 01st 2013. Quick settings (v1.6.0.0) and SophieLens (1.1.0.243) have also been updated.
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| Lumiapps: “Hungry Now” Polished Free Fast Food Finder For your Nokia Lumia #DevAppTip Posted: 30 Apr 2013 10:51 PM PDT We received this App-Tip from the actual developers of “Hungry Now”, the “July 03 Apps Creator” team.
Hungry Now is a location based app that finds the nearest Fast Food place for you. The current options seem to be US based only so no localised ones at the moment for your country (and especially no mini start up fast food places). It’s easy enough to change which main four appear…  Pan across the metro settings Whilst you could use something like City Lens or the myriad of other place finding solutions, I suggest taking a look at this one as it seems to have a lot of potential. These use google maps’ data apparently but you can open up Nokia Drive when getting directions.
The bubbles change size depending on how far you zoom in or out, collecting the relevant POIs or expanding them.
Tapping will give you options for directions and will even tell you if this place is closed (though no opening times mentioned. I guess if you were hungry now, you wouldn’t care to wait. You’d just want to go to the nearest place that’s open. Tapping the car gives you the option to open up Nokia Drive (or other mapping solutions you might have). Tapping the walk option initiates walk directions immediately.
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