GLOBAL – About a week ago, we asked you what you’d like to see in terms of apps, features or settings that we could demonstrate via a screenshot or two. We’re lucky enough to have a prototype Nokia N9 and we’ve perused through your screenshot requests to bring you this: the Nokia N9 apps screenshot gallery.
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Monthly Archives: June 2011
GLOBAL – Arm eight filmmakers with two Nokia N8s each, a $5,000 budget and ask them to produce a short film within a few weeks and what do you get? A bunch of amazing mini-movies, that’s what. However, there can only be one that wins the top prize of $10,000 USD. That award goes to JW Griffiths, for his movie – Splitscreen. You can see it below.
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SINGAPORE – Just like David Hasselhoff is loved in Germany, Nokia Conversations appears to be loved in Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, and The Philippines. These countries make up the 20th, 34th, and 6th most visited countries to Conversations, respectively. Thanks for reading! During Nokia Connection last week, we had the pleasure of spending time with some of these country’s hottest tech bloggers, to ask them about the Nokia N9, Dual-SIM, and more. Check out our chats with Abe Olandres (www.yugatech.com), Hiep Tran (www.tinhte.vn), Faisal Alsaif, and Mark Macanas (www.techpinas.com) in the video above.
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PORTLAND, OR, United States – Ask a few smartphone owners, and we would like to think that we’ve moved beyond needing a phone number. With email, instant messaging and other communication methods, have we moved on from a traditional phone number? Also, with data plans getting less expensive, I see a common thought that telecommunication companies (called telcos here in the States) should just become ‘dumb pipes’ and just deliver fat data connections and ditch the notion of proprietary add-on services.
GLOBAL – Last week, Jens Wilke shared some of the secrets behind the Nokia N9′s camera. On Monday, Damian Dinning dived into the finer details of some of the innovation in the module. Fascinating stuff. But it did leave a bit of a burning question on everyone’s lips… so what are the pictures like, then? Today we’ve got the answer – they look like this. Note that these images were taken with pre-release hardware and software. (more…)
GLOBAL – If you’re the proud owner of a Nokia E72, Nokia 5230 or other Nokia phone powered by a Symbian version prior to Symbian^3, I’m sure you’ll be as pleased as we are to hear that some new features will be coming to your phone soon. Read on to find out what’s being added.
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GLOBAL – Moving on, today’s Nokia N9 investigation concerns the web browser: how it works, what makes it different and what you’re going to enjoy about using it. It’s a tricky post in some respects, in terms of giving you something to see. For 99 per cent of the time, the browser interface keeps out of your way and lets you get on with your business on the Web. Click through to see what we discovered. (more…)
GLOBAL – Today, Nokia announces a new initiative to bring more great apps to the Series 40 platform and to the Next Billion. Create 4 Millions invites consumers to come up with a great idea for an app and developers to submit their Series 40 Java or web apps. The winning app creator and idea submitter could win some prizes. Want to take part? Read on for more details.
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