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- Microsoft Releases Classic Minesweeper, Solitaire, and Mahjong Games for WP
- Sailfish Update to 1.0.2.5 #Jolla
- MNB RG: Nokia CTO office mystery: Android? Meltemi? Wearables?
- Nokia Lumia 1320 sales begin this week
- Video: Nokia Lumia 1520 gets the Rozetka treatment (Russian)
- Video: Nokia Lumia 1520 vs BlackBerry Z30 (Italian)
- Nokia Poland animated promo for Beaver Ride game on Nokia Lumia 1520
| Microsoft Releases Classic Minesweeper, Solitaire, and Mahjong Games for WP Posted: 27 Dec 2013 02:14 PM PST
Solitaire collection: Minesweeper:
Mahjong Tiles: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/microsoft-mahjong/3533f0fe-4110-4a87-95c2-50b869b2845e
Happy gaming.
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| Sailfish Update to 1.0.2.5 #Jolla Posted: 27 Dec 2013 05:28 AM PST
There’s an update available for Sailfish OS to v1.0.2.5. New changes:
Camera also apparently sees some improvements in exposure time and low light focusing with better switching between front and main camera. There also seems to be quite a few bugfixes. Source: JollaSuomi |
| MNB RG: Nokia CTO office mystery: Android? Meltemi? Wearables? Posted: 27 Dec 2013 03:10 AM PST Janne takes on the task to write about the possibility of Meltemi, Android and Wearables. Cheers Janne! A new kind of rhetoric has been rising in the Nokia blogosphere after the Microsoft Devices & Services acquisition news: discussion of the Nokia CTO (Chief Technology Officer) office and projects therein. Nokia CTO office, headed by longtime Nokia Research Center boss and a PhD of considerable academic credentials Henry Tirri, is of course important in the wake of the D&S news, because it will remain with Nokia. Whatever Nokia is cooking directly under its highest technology leadership, will remain in-house even after the Microsoft deal is (expected to be) completed (barring Chinese interference, it seems). In some past MNB write-ups, I have explored Nokia’s possible post-D&S paths. In the very first one, “Will cars soon be tracked by Nokia black boxes? Jorma Ollila heads a car tracking taskforce” I explored the possibility of Nokia being somehow behind the initiatives to tax cars in Finland based on their location. Apparently this kind of work is not only getting lift in Finland, but e.g. in Germany as well. Since then at least one list of companies making proposals to the taskforce has been made public, and Nokia/HERE were not on the list, so no further confirmation for this angle has been received – of course we don’t know if HERE plays a part in the listed companies work. Still, it seems plausible HERE – as one of Nokia’s remaining pillars – would remain interested in work inside this area. Whether HERE has anything to do with, directly or indirectly, with the Finnish plans is unknown. For all we know, Nokia could still be considering spinning HERE off entirely. In my second and third stories, “New Nokia HERE interview – and what is Nokia Guru, really?”
and “What will the post-D&S-sale Nokia look like?”
I took a broader look at what will remain at Nokia after the D&S unit is sold to Microsoft. Current NSN and HERE operations of course being the obvious ones, but more interestingly talk behind future Nokia consumer products was gaining some wind. While the Nokia Guru I mentioned in this context was later revealed to be nothing more than a Bluetooth headset that will probably transfer over to Microsoft (Nokia Treasure Tag is still unreleased though), Nokia HERE boss Michael Halbherr’s comments about Nokia releasing future consumer devices that "do a few things well" still stands. In the latter article I also mentioned the CTO office when discussing the third pillar (after NSN and HERE) of the “new Nokia”, Advanced Technologies: “Advanced Technologies is, really, what remains of Nokia's Future Disruptions, CTO office and Nokia Research Center after the tumult of the last few years. Nokia dubbed it "a leader in technology development and licensing”…” In the fourth story, “Nokia planning "bounceback", "new weapons"”
the man himself – head of Nokia’s CTO office Henry Tirri – was being interviewed in a link. Henry Tirri talks about the kinds of innovations Nokia Research Center has worked on and how Nokia could bring them to market themselves or through licensing to others. Parallel to and since these stories, a few interesting additions about the Nokia CTO office have surfaced. First one was, quite a long time ago, when infamous MNB contributor Random Random tipped us that Nokia had moved some Meltemi people after its cancellation (for a bit more about Meltemi, see:
to supposedly work on a new, secret project. Random Random indeed tipped this multiple times in conversations here on MNB quite a few months ago. Second interesting tidbit was that Nokia’s Project N/Normandy low-end Android phone project was actually inside the CTO office, not inside the D&S being sold to Microsoft. While the Android phone seems to now be cancelled
it is possible the Android project remains at Nokia after the sale. Maybe something could come of it later. Indeed, it is quite possible, likely even, none of the speculation or leaks collected in this article are accurate – some probably are completely false. However, a pattern seems to be emerging that what was once known as Nokia Research Center, then Future Disruptions, then just talk of the “CTO office”, now Advanced Technologies, may at least have been plotting Nokia’s return to consumer goods – and might still be. Might it manifest itself in the form of wearable Nokia technology or other Nokia consumer products in 2014? I guess the possibility isn’t completely within the realm of fantasy, as distant as it now in the aftermath of the D&S sale might seem. Finally, while the eyes of the world are on Microsoft’s CEO selection, more relevantly for us here on My *Nokia* Blog, we shouldn’t forget Nokia too has a CEO to select. The current CEO/President combo of (Chairman) Risto Siilasmaa and (CFO) Timo Ihamuotila is just a temporary one. At the same time, Nokia’s board is said to be involved in strategy work around the new strategy of the company – some fruits of which expected to be announced once the Microsoft deal is finalized early next year. Will that strategy include consumer products directly from Nokia and, if so, under what brand? Will they come in the form of wearables? Maybe run Meltemi or Android? Or will Nokia simply abandon consumer products and concentrate on licensing their technology research to others? |
| Nokia Lumia 1320 sales begin this week Posted: 27 Dec 2013 02:57 AM PST When Nokia started on their proper phablets (4.7″ 625 doesn’t count) Nokia went with the all guns blazing 1520 but also the more modest, value centric 1320. NokConv reports that sales of this handset begins this week.
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| Video: Nokia Lumia 1520 gets the Rozetka treatment (Russian) Posted: 27 Dec 2013 02:44 AM PST When we first got a Rozetka review, despite it being in Russian, it was great to watch as it was very well put together. Here’s their take on the Nokia Lumia 1520. Their links lead to a Ukrainian retailer which has very positive user reviews of the 1520.
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| Video: Nokia Lumia 1520 vs BlackBerry Z30 (Italian) Posted: 27 Dec 2013 02:37 AM PST Here’s a comparison between the Nokia Lumia 1520 and the BlackBerry Z30. Both are each respective company’s attempts at a bigger screen device.
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| Nokia Poland animated promo for Beaver Ride game on Nokia Lumia 1520 Posted: 27 Dec 2013 02:31 AM PST
Here’s Nokia Poland’s promo for the game, Beaver Ride on the Nokia Lumia 1520.
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