22 July 2013

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Where’s Nokia’s version? Quadcore, 1080p Windows Phone ‘phablet’ coming from Lenovo

Posted: 21 Jul 2013 08:33 AM PDT

 

Nokia Phablet

At the launch of the Nokia Lumia 1020, during the keynote, Elop mentioned there’d be another big launch this year (or words to that effect). It might be when we see the quadcore WP8 handsets with 1080p screens, as ‘enabled’ by the GDR3 update. Not that WP8 needs them, but it’s required for bragging rights, particular for customers that look at the specs on paper (before the other hurdle of apps).

Lenovo are reported to be bringing a Qquadcore 1080p Windows Phone, with a screen size between 4.7-5″. I think I heard there’d be a HTC One version with WP8 too?

http://www.wpdang.com/archives/101470.html

We know at least that Nokia’s going to push the big screen yet budget Nokia Lumia 625. We are hoping for a mighty phablet beast too. Perhaps this is Codename, Mars?

Previously a quadcore Nokia Lumia 720 was spotted.

http://mynokiablog.com/2013/06/16/quad-core-720p-nokia-lumia-pops-up-on-benchmark-site/

Via: Reddit

Wishful thinking? Verizon’s Landscape WP8 tile homescreen

Posted: 21 Jul 2013 08:19 AM PDT

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Verizon has an ad flying about the interwebs featuring a wP8 device with a landscape UI.

Currently, the tiles homescreen is in portrait only, but here, we have it in landscape.

Folks conclude it’s just a little mix up to fit the phone into the advert properly.

Note that instead of the tiles simply rotating to have a horizontal swiping, it seems to still be an up/down vertical scroll. The folks who made this just took the portrait screenshot, placed the screen on top. Hence the small tiles look like one of the larger ones. It would be an interesting solution since the tiles won’t have to move about in positions or rotate on their own axis. You just see a zoomed in view.

The whole width contact is interesting.

Screen Shot 2013-07-21 at 16.15.57

Via: Reddit

Lumiapps: Genesis/Sms/GG/Sega CD emulator (for Symbian too!)

Posted: 21 Jul 2013 08:08 AM PDT

 

 

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The Genesis/Sms/GG/Sega CD emulator is available at the Windows Phone store.

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/emigens-plus/e84b6e61-f951-4bf3-abda-0d849e005957?signin=true

qrcode.14546559

This is also available for Symbian.

http://store.ovi.com/content/345793

Other emulators:

Via Reddit

@TheRock gets ‘exclusive’ Nokia phone, poses with some hot Nokia Execs #1020

Posted: 21 Jul 2013 07:52 AM PDT

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Above is The Rock, supposedly with some Nokia Execs (really?). They met Dwayne Johnson to gift him an Exclusive Nokia Phone which WPC  says is the Nokia Lumia 1020.

Cheers sbw44 and James for the tip!

LeakyLeak: Nokia Lumia 521 for MetroPCS?

Posted: 21 Jul 2013 06:04 AM PDT

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Quick heads up, @evleaks tweets that the above is the Nokia Lumia 521 for the TMobile owned MetroPCS.

The Nokia Lumia 521 is a variant of the popular 520, currently the most affordable and the top selling Windows Phone device to date.

Stephen Elop on Why Nokia continues to pursue the US market despite limited success

Posted: 21 Jul 2013 03:00 AM PDT

eLOP

Why does Nokia push so strongly in the US despite limited success? Stephen Elop says:

With respect to N.A., we believe quite strongly the signalling value of that market is high. We measure this quite carefully by studying the influencers on purchases around the world and the extent to which for example, a powerful launch of the Lumia 1020 in the US is reflected around the world, how that gets picked up from everything from press coverage, to blogger coverage to the encouragement of developers to build apps for Windows Phone and so on and so forth.

There’s an amazing amount of influence coming from the US market.

Now, it is a hard market. At the same time, if we look sequentially we saw improvements in North America which we’re pleased to see, in large part on the back of the 928 going into Verizon, and 521 in T-Mobile and also a number of retail markets and of course some very exciting products which are just coming in, Lumia 1020, which for the first time since November is putting some freshness into AT&T. We think that that’s really important and also the standard of care that the US operators put towards quality of products.

Going through an AT&T lab approval cycle early on is something that  helps us a great deal on a worldwide basis.

So we still believe strongly in that signalling value, it is a big investment. We have to do better, we have to break through. We know there’s a lot of hard work ahead but we remain committed to the Americas.

Source: WMPU

Cheers Janne for the tip

Lumia Tip: Glance Screen – Always on Clock always on, and night mode

Posted: 21 Jul 2013 02:34 AM PDT

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One of the great things Nokia is bringing to the Nokia Lumia range is the always on clock, popularised by Symbian and a feature on the Nokia N9 (as well as double tap to unlock).

By default, the Glance screen turns off after a predetermined amount of time. If you picked it up, or moved it, or double tapped the screen, it would come on again. Great but not ideal if I left it on the bedside or desk, hoping to see the time at a glance without having to touch anything.

I didn’t know or forgot that there was an option, but Rafe Blandford of AllAboutWP/Symbian told me, whilst I was tucking into a ShakeShack burger in NYC, that you can actually set the clock to never turn off in the settings. Awesome!

Now its always on, all the time. Effects on battery? Negligible, not that I noticed. I did mean to make a post to share this information in case there was anyone else who was unaware like me, but with my Mac breaking (and needing 4 hour trips back and forth to the Apple store plus sorting out the uni house to move out for summer) it kinda got set aside in my long list of blogposts to do.

Fortunately WPC have made a video showing exactly what you can do with Glance Screen, including a night mode whereby the clock turns RED which is apparently a lot easier on the eyes than possibly glaring white. You can determine what time Night Mode begins and ends.

Glance screen is a fantastic Nokia feature. The moment people start to take notice of this, I wouldn’t be surprised (if like Active lockscreen, aka Nokia bubbles) this is found on the other platforms (unless Nokia has smartly protected this idea?)

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MNB Reader Generated: BSI Sensors Explained

Posted: 21 Jul 2013 02:21 AM PDT

MNB IMG_0442Nokia Lumia 1020 blackWhile presenting the 1020 Elop made a point to mention that it had a “BSI” sensor, or Back Illuminated Sensor, but what the hell does that mean? Well thankfully Nabkawe has made another helpful post detailing it:

 Hey guys as the days go by we’re very excited to get our hands on Nokia’s latest imaging marvel the Lumia 1020 , and while many reported that it had a BSI sensor I just wanted to explain what BSI sensors are exactly , and what advantages do they offer over FSI sensors like the ones in the 808.

See BSI is short for ”B”ack”S”ide ”I”lluminated sensor   and its a relatively new tech that solved a common FSI problem.  (BSI is also abbreviated as BIS with the S standing for Sensor)

You see an FSI sensor would look like this

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Yes not a brilliant technology as you can see above wires were placed above the light sensitive diodes which reduced the amount of light captured. because light had to go through the space leftover between the wires.

Note: In the figure to the right , those wires kind of look like an aperture;  this meant that  intensive rays of light wouldn’t miss with your end picture , like the lights of lamp posts for example.

now a BSI sensor would look like this

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As you can see , light can now hit the diodes directly instead of passing through those wires. this creates a 60% to 90% increase in the amount of light captured and thus better night time photography.

Note2: As that accidental aperture formed by the wires in FSI sensors isn’t present in such sensor there is the chance of an off angle light ray registering on the wrong pixel.

If you added the above note to the fact that the Lumia 920 has a wide aperture”f2.0″  you’d understand why the Lumia 920 can misbehave in areas where there’s lots of artificial lights ( oil residue can create similar effects too though in the image bellow the lens was just cleaned with a microfiber cloth.)

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So you can now understand why the #lumia1020 went for slightly smaller aperture 2.2 then.( as second generation OIS is much better now , they can make up the decrease in light easily.)

 

 

 

I hope this was a good read for those of you who are new to the photography scene.

 hit me with any “LIGHT” questions you might have (its no pun , I’m not much of an expert :D )  on twitter @nabkawe5 or here in the comments.

 

 
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