My Nokia Blog

LumiAppDates: Whatsapp Beta, Nokia Camera, Amazon Mobile
Nokia Q3 Results: $162 Million Profit & 8.8 Million Lumias Sold
Video: Sailfish OS running on Nokia N9 (VERY Alpha)
Nokia films Children in Need song for Ellie Goulding Music Video on Nokia Lumia 1020, (with 1020 and 925 in video)

LumiAppDates: Whatsapp Beta, Nokia Camera, Amazon Mobile

Posted: 29 Oct 2013 08:48 AM PDT

Yesterday we posted about a new open beta for Whatsapp that anyone can join, the fruits of this beta version have started as now WP8 users can also toggle the screen rotation for the app from the settings menu; something that came to WP7 users in the previous update. Also update are Nokia Camera (no visible changes as far as I can tell), and Amazon mobile as well as a photo sharing app called Phriz.be

Whatsapp Beta:

Scan with Windows Phone

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/whatsapp/6e5405fa-e5cc-4a6c-8e54-3932ab7075c3

Nokia Camera:
Scan with Windows Phone

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/nokia-camera/bfd2d954-12da-415c-ad99-69a20f101e04

Amazon mobile:

Scan with Windows Phone

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/amazon-mobile/351decc7-ea2f-e011-854c-00237de2db9e

Phriz.be:

Scan with Windows Phone

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/phriz-be/ce86d298-b9bd-477d-bacf-91c5f443b6c9

Nokia Q3 Results: $162 Million Profit & 8.8 Million Lumias Sold

Posted: 29 Oct 2013 07:02 AM PDT

Nokia have just released their Q3 earnings, which have managed to create a new record high for Lumia sales, especially in the US. Nokia generated $7.79 billion revenue and $162 million profit off that. Nokia also sold 8.8 Million Lumia devices this quarter, with 1.4 Million going straight to North America (thanks to the 520 and 521). However the average sale price per device dropped from 155 euros to 143 (7%) due to the competitive pricing of the low end Lumias.

Full report here: http://www.results.nokia.com/results/Nokia_results2013Q3e.pdf

*In Q2 Nokia had sold a then record breaking 7.4 million Lumia devices, thankfully that number continues to increase.

*Both HERE maps and NSN managed to maintain a positive outcome, offsetting a negative 1.6% perating balance from the Devices and Services division (meaning that the parts that Microsoft didn’t buy are the profitable ones )

*Nokia also sold 5.9 million Asha full-touch smartphones, now with the release of the 500, 502 and 503 those numbers should hopefully increase.

Thanks for the Tip Janne and Alvester

Video: Sailfish OS running on Nokia N9 (VERY Alpha)

Posted: 29 Oct 2013 04:32 AM PDT

This has been around for a few days, and for some reason I thought I had posted it, but clearly I haven’t. So if you follow what’s been happening in the N9 porting effort, you may or may not be aware that recently the community ported Wayland (the software running the Sailfish UI) to Nemo (the base of Sailfish). Pretty much what this means is the community managed to get Sailfish compatible with the N9, it was just missing the Jolla specific UI.

Well, it seems that some adventurous community members have tried (and succeeded) in installing the packages from the SDK onto the N9 and have a very early (Pre-Alpha if you will) build of Sailfish running on the N9. This is not intended to replace Harmattan in anyway at the moment, but its great to see how close we are to having Sailfish fully operational on the N9.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr_yQwTUv3s&feature=youtu.be

Nokia films Children in Need song for Ellie Goulding Music Video on Nokia Lumia 1020, (with 1020 and 925 in video)

Posted: 28 Oct 2013 11:06 PM PDT

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Ellie Goulding is quite the sensation here in the UK with hit after hit of catchy songs and collaborations. So it’s quite amazing to see her latest music video featuring, not simply the Nokia Lumia 1020 but also filming the ENTIRE video. It also shows the 925.

You may or may not remember it, but the Nokia World in in which the same year which the Nokia N8 was released, one of Nokia’s hired celebrity entertainers? Ellie Goulding! I wish I could find those pictures now.

Nokia, “How Long will I love you?” Forever

Another super cool thing? This song is the official Children in Need song! A huge UK charity yearly event. So it’s definitely going straight to number 1. Other online media talking about this song seems to point to this video .

Official BBC Children In Need 2013 single
Pre-order now*: http://ell.li/CINtw
The video is taken from the forthcoming Roger Michell short film “Tom & Issy”, starring Ellie Goulding and Dylan Edwards.
Shot entirely on a Nokia Lumia 1020. Audio recorded with an external mic. Video edited on Final Cut Pro.

*A minimum of 20p per download will benefit BBC Children in Need, a charity registered in England and Wales (802052) and Scotland (SC039557)