My Nokia Blog |
- Phones4u Teasing Nokia’s May 14th Announcement, “The Lumia Story Continues”
- Rumours: Nokia Lumia EOS and Catwalk appearing by May-August?
- Editorial: Why Windows Phone Doesn’t Need a File Manager
- Itsdagram coming soon to WP; FULLY featured Instagram client
- Video: AT&T Sales promo video for the Nokia JBL PlayUp Wireless NFC Bluetooth Speaker
- Video: Film tips – Cinematic Challenge – Nokia Lumia 920 and Nokia 808 PureView
- Lumiappdates: Lync 2010 and Rail Planner (with calling points in Journey planner, real-time departure info)
| Phones4u Teasing Nokia’s May 14th Announcement, “The Lumia Story Continues” Posted: 02 May 2013 01:27 PM PDT Earlier we posted about the event Nokia are holding in London on May 14th (which Jay should be covering first hand); now it seems one of the popular phone re-sellers in the UK “Phones4u” has gotten in on the action, putting up a “Sign up” page to receive the latest information about whatever Nokia are announcing on the 14th. It’s not clear whether they know what’s really coming or not, but they do seem quite excited! Perhaps even excited enough for it to be a same day launch!? (dare we dream?) You can sign up for the notifications here: http://www.phones4u.co.uk/nokia/lumia/ (or you can just pop by MNB and join in on the action). Personally I think we’ll be seeing the Catwalk/Lumia 925; with the EOS being held back till September (if there’s a Nokia world this year, I’ve heard conflicting reports about that). |
| Rumours: Nokia Lumia EOS and Catwalk appearing by May-August? Posted: 02 May 2013 11:36 AM PDT
Cheers arts for the tip!
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| Editorial: Why Windows Phone Doesn’t Need a File Manager Posted: 02 May 2013 09:03 AM PDT
Let’s be honest for a second, and think back to all the times we’ve used the file manager on Symbian, sure I used it on a daily basis (I had it as a shortcut on my home screen, as any avid smart phone user would). But what would I use it for? Thinking back I really can’t think of a time when I wasn’t using the file manager for something besides fixing a problem on my phone, or side-loading an app (yes those were dark days). My main usage of the file manager was either downloading an app on my PC and transferring it to my phone (since the Nokia store completely sucked) or trying to copy a self signed .sis file to my phone. Oh and let’s not forget frantically rummaging through the “C/” folder looking for anything that wasn’t supposed to be there in order to get rid of that pesky “low memory” error. If I think about it, why did I have to go to those lengths? Well most of the time it was because the browser on my N8 was so horrible it was easier to find what I wanted on my PC and transfer it over, the rest of the times I was either installing an app I couldn’t find in the store (or didn’t want to/couldn’t buy) or I was installing a 3rd party bug fix/hack. *I know Nokia Drop exists, but it wasn’t always reliable Sure there were some good times with the file manager like selecting 80 songs and Bluetoothing them over to a friend, or keeping a back-up of all my apps; but what’s the one thing that all these have in common? The fact that you either can’t or don’t need to do that on Windows Phone. *Note: I’m not saying WP is the perfect OS, but what I say next relates to how Windows Phone is in this current state. Windows Phone is a closed OS; meaning that short of having a developers account there really is no way to side-load pirated apps and games (be honest! We’ve all done it!) so there’s one huge use for a file manager gone. In terms of stability the OS is rock solid, and the benefit of being a closed OS is the fact that there are none of those “icky viruses” you can get by playing around with your phone, further more this means that I don’t have to delve into the file drawer and search for the offending file that was eating up all my precious ram, or causing my photo gallery to crash (I can’t remember the exact specifics but there was an app I had installed which kept force closing my gallery and pixelating images, it might have been Fring or Skype iirc). With Windows Phone I can transfer apps to my phone wirelessly with the click of a button, without the phone even being in the same room as me; which fixes another issue/reason to need a file manager. In terms of actually finding a file/image/document etc. WP does a terrific job of automatically adding each file to its respective client, PDFs are automatically detected by the reader as are Images, Music & videos (regardless of their source of origin, be that via the browser, email attachment, MMS or other). All in all the only *true* reason I can see people wanting a file manager on Windows Phone is simply for media transfer to a friend’s device; but that’s not supported in Windows Phone (besides some limited sharing of photos via bluetooth I think) so honestly I don’t see what all the fuss is about. Feel free to RESPECTFULLY share your opinion down below, if I got something wrong please do point it out, and be nice to your fellow readers folks |
| Itsdagram coming soon to WP; FULLY featured Instagram client Posted: 02 May 2013 06:32 AM PDT So there are plenty of rumours still regarding the possible launch of Instagram this month, but here is something that isn’t. The developer of Pinsation, a Pinterest for WP app, has contacted WPCentral and let them know that he is working on an Instagram client. Like Instagraph, Itsdagram has upload support, although this uses APIs and as such has the potential to face a few issues if Instagram feels like being nasty. Unlike Instagraph, you can use Itsdagram as a fully featured client, browse images, like, comment etc. Since it uses the APIs, you can also create an account right from your phone! However, the one down side is there are no filters or editing properties, but with so many apps on WP offering filters, and image editing, I’m sure you’ll find something that works. To give you a better idea of the app, Daniel Rubino has recorded a quick hands on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7hFsVt9iE Itsdagram will reportedly cost $1.49, with a single upload free trial.It Source: WPCentral Cheers knobtviker for the tip! |
| Video: AT&T Sales promo video for the Nokia JBL PlayUp Wireless NFC Bluetooth Speaker Posted: 01 May 2013 11:35 PM PDT
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| Video: Film tips – Cinematic Challenge – Nokia Lumia 920 and Nokia 808 PureView Posted: 01 May 2013 11:32 PM PDT
I’m loving the use of professional filming accessories. Stabilising the 808 PureView negates the need for OIS, but when handheld, the 920 OIS helped keep things more steady.
Thanks Amir for the tip
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| Posted: 01 May 2013 11:24 PM PDT
Lync 2010 and Rail Planner have received an update. Not sure what’s new with Lync 2010 (I don’t use the app myself) but Rail Planner has a few rather useful updates (which is great as I use it a lot travelling between Wales/Uni or our different Hospital/Community placements). Lync 2010: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-gb/store/app/lync-2010/9ce93e51-5b35-e011-854c-00237de2db9e Rail Planner: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-gb/store/app/rail-planner/8dce4a78-1b3e-e011-854c-00237de2db9e
Onto Rail Planner. It has picked up the journey indicator that we saw in a different train style app, making Rail Planner even more useful. The refresh also means
Loving the updates folks are bringing to their WP7 – WP8 apps.
On long train journeys, I now don’t have to switch to maps to see where abouts I am or what station I should be reaching next |
Last week Deaconclgi posted about Symbian’s amazing file manager system, and how it was
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