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Hello World, I have been a frequent visitor to Jay’s excellent blog for a while and have had a lot of opinions on the tech world, in particular the Smartphone world for a while and, but never had the time or patience to write a blog. Well now that I have the loooong summer holidays ( I go to University) I have decided to volunteer and write for Jay’s blog and offer some of my opinions on the Smartphone world shenanigans. Well, who am I ?… you ask I am John and study BA Product design and have had an interest in Technology and  design for a long time and have had too may opinions kept in my head for waaay to long anyway I hope you enjoy my posts and don’t forget to comment good or bad

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Yesterday, Camb078 has some facetime (badaboom, oh dear…) with the Nokia N8 and today has posted his first impressions as well as a stunning photo galleryon blog-n8.fr .  Though it’s the same silver N8, it hasn’t looked as good as in these photos. Some interesting points from Camb078: Excellent manufacturing quality

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Gallery: Silver N8 – Blog-N8′s first impressions

Hmm…this house has no windows or doors (ovi) Today it appears that the New S series has been confirmed as well as the Nokia N9. N9 by common sense was already known when Nokia mentioned their new naming conventions of single letter 1-9 handsets – 9 being the highest – though never explicitly confirming N9. N9 will therefore be Nokia’s Flagship, and first Nokia MeeGo device that will push the extremes of high end for Nokia. Check out this interview with Alberto Torres, Nokia EVP,MeeGo Computers ..

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House of Nokia: New Sseries and Nokia N9 MeeGo phone Confirmed? 7 top limit of C, E, and X phones.

In case you missed it, Ovi Daily App are running a fantastic competition where by you have a great chance of bagging yourself the latest Nokia E73 Mode or the Nokia E72 (if you’re outside US) Remember the exciting search for N competition last year? This is a little bit like that! Every (business) day from last Thursday (3rd June) to Next Wednesday (16th) you will have to scavenge for clues/answers in order to be eligible to win a Nokia E73. How To Enter: You’ll need to have a Nokia Ovi Email account

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Competition: Win the Nokia E73 Mode (Or Nokia E72) in an online scavenger hunt!

Chris Bennets is back again with part 2 of 3 in the Nokia N8 Walkthrough! Presentation skills aside we can see: Smooth pinch and zooming of 12 megapixel images. Photo Editor demo (ooh prepare for cheese) Video Editor demo – it looks pretty capable, especially considering we’re editing 720p videos.

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Video: Nokia N8 Part 2 of 3 Walkthrough!

This is mainly a tongue in cheek rant, written very late so it probably may not make sense.  Note – if you are reading this, you are not the “public” which is described in this article. Again, press X now or prepare for walls of text

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What Nokia needs to learn from Apple Keynotes. Pointers from Steve Job’s iPhone 4 announcement.

Engadget has made a comparison of the iPhone 4 against what they call the smartphone elite – representatives of respective Mobile OS – HTC Evo 4G for Android, Nokia N8 for Symbian, Palm Pre Plus for WebOS and HTC HD2 for Windows Mobile. Based on the hardware categories chosen, the N8 stacks up surprisingly well (and nice of engadget to recognize N8 amongst the “elite”). Well if history is an indicator, this will be it for Apple’s iPhone over the next 12 months. MeeGo phones and S^4 can still improve heavily hardware wise (given the non-flagship price of Nokia N8, it suggests we should expect more from the main Nokia flagship that would unequivocally put it head and shoulders above this list) VIA Engadget

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Nokia N8 vs. the smartphone elite: iPhone 4, HTC EVO 4G, Palm Pre Plus, and HTC HD2

Nokia’s strongest competitor has officially announced a new iteration of their handset, the iPhone4. What does Nokia have to compete with on the hardware front? Safe to say, if you like mobile photography, iPhone is still no match for Nokia

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Apple announces New iPhone 4 – Not much for Nokia to worry about?

Nokia conversations are running an Accent Competition to celebrate their new “ Own Voice ” App to record your own voice packs for Ovi Maps Voice/Turn by Turn Navigation. Check out this cool video above.  At first, the lady (Amy Walker) came across as pretty crazy (wasn’t expecting such contrast of accent, thought she was going loopy!), but after a second watch I found her really charming

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Video: Own Voice Competition: How good is your accent? (Your own or impersonation!)

On Talk.maemo.org , Frals, creator of fMMS (bringing MMS to Maemo 5/N900 users) is working with wOOt to create a portrait keyboard for the N900. I’m glad they chose to do the traditional T9 input as that’s much easier to use with one hand  (for me anyways -I know there are also many who would prefer portrait QWERTY) which would probably be most of the reason you’d want to be using the N900 in portrait mode. As this is an early project there are some known issues: No fast input. Multi-tap to enter a letter, it’s slow and *very* painful. Changing orientation results in the text you’ve written so far being lost To use it, you’ll need to ‘killall hildon-input-method’ after installing the package (or reboot your n900) It’s (a bit) painful to use in landscape mode (the QWERTY keyboard does not show up) Future directions include: Seperate layout for landscape mode, for easier use Fast, predictive input Automatic capitalisation Talk.maemo.org , VIA @gerrymoth

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Nokia N900 Portrait T9 keyboard in the works for Maemo 5

jedibeeftrix shares an interesting post, asking whether Nokia and MeeGo tablet phone could be the ultimate convergence device. In the post is an interesting render of what MeeGo phone could look like (updated with better render) A wonderful wish list of core specifications include: At least 4″, WVGA (the standard of Nokia’s first 3 Maemo tablets) AMOLED screens Dual Core ARM Cortex A9 (Nokia already confirmed first MeeGo phone from Nokia will be on ARM architecture) No hardware keyboard, rely on good capacitive multitouch (so that interface is truly all built for touch) Must be slim so a 4″ heft is more acceptable. jedibeeftrix also wants Nokia to open up Ovi Store to other manufacturers, like Intel is with AppUp. I totally agree with that and the specs wishlist. I’d also like to have some decent N8 like imaging (w/ xenon!) – hopefully that won’t push the thickness too much

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Pic: Nokia MeeGo Phone – Ultimate Convergence Device?

Great choice of app to advertise there. Hope this is not some bad omen. To collate all the MeeGo apps, there’s gonna be of course an App Store. This seems to be coming in the flavour of Intel’s AppUp store. MeeGo manufacturers like Asus are said to be putting their own app store but this will be compatible with Intel’s AppUp.

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Video: Closer look at MeeGo App Store – Intel’s AppUp on MeeGo Tablet.

Click X now or prepare for a mighty wall of text. For crimes against the smartphone and flagship name. This time last year, we were all in anticipation of Nokia’s hottest flagship – the Nokia N97.

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Why the Nokia N8 WON’T be like the Nokia N97. Nokia N8 vs Nokia N97.

With Nokia facing competition from Apple and Research in Motion in the higher end segment, the Finnish giant has officially said that it will soon be launching new breed of smart phones, that will help them close the gap with it competitors. Don’t worry, Nokia is still the world leading mobile phone player but in the high-end smart phone segment its is facing stiff competition from the iPhone and the Blackberries. Nokia has always been good with cracking the lower spectrum of the mobile phone market but now they want to capture the share of wallet of high-end smart phone users. Most of the upcoming Nokia phones will be based on Symbian^3. Its first stepping stone was the Nokia N8 , first Nokia phone with 12MP camera, HD recording, HDMI port and Symbian^3

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Nokia To Focus on High-End Smart Phones and Mobile Computers

I’m sure a lot of you have seen my video walkthrough’s ( April 2010 & January 2010 ) for the previous versions of fMMS, well today frals (developers of fMMS) has released version 1.0.0 which also gives reason to graduate it from extra’s development to extra’s testing (will be done soon – currently still in devel). With the latest version, if you use the application is “Havoc” mode, you do not need to install any additional software like in previous versions where fAPN was required. Now just install and enter the settings into the fMMS application directly! For a quick guide, see the screenshots below: New fMMS update to version 1.0.0 Installation size (This is for update, new installation may be more) Update details (Currently in the Extras-Devel Catalogue but will be moving to testing soon) Select configuration to change settings (when you first start it, this will load up automatically) Enter your mobile number including the country code (i.e

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fMMS 1.0.0 for N900 released

Lucky Ahmed360from arabnokia (via finestfones ) has posted a shot showing Nokia N8′s USB TO GO in action. You’ll see it’s recognized and you can navigate the files all from the N8. This means you can plug in memory sticks (possibly larger powered external hard drives) and manage files with your N8. Great if you’re in need of some files from a friend’s memory stick but there’s no intermediate PC at hand for transfer.

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Nokia USB TO GO demo pic

The wait for the N900 firmware PR1.2 has been somewhat excruciating. On Sunday, the Firmware was leaked. Note, that many users had experienced problems after improperly flashing their N900 with it. Details of the changes were already shown here in this post , but below is a video of pretty much what we’ll be getting when the new firmware for N900 comes out. joshv06

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Video: Nokia N900 New Firmware PR1.2 Preview

The second of today’s postings of Ovi Maps adverts. (Check out “ Lost…Really Lost “) Nokia’s really ramping it up to let everyone know you have FREE sat nav with Nokia Smartphones. I like the phrase at the end…”you have reached your destination….you have reached your destination”. It’s a very global affair. Nokia – getting you where you want to be.

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Video: Nokia Free Navigation Launch TVC (Ovi Maps Advert)

Hot on the heels of “The one that got away ” advert, here’s really, really lost I like the humour Nokia’s trying to put in, the whole exaggerated notion of the unpleasantness of being lost, and how, with Ovi Maps you can avoid all that. Though initial first impressions were that it was odd and creepy (not something you want to be associated with) I think the punchline delivers

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Video: “Really, really lost” New Ovi Maps Advert

Only a few day’s ago, Nokia officially released the Nokia Qt SDK which is a Nokia focused version of the original Qt SDK, and allows better development of applications for all Symbian, MeeGo (sorry does not support MeeGo yet but I’m sure this will come soon) and Maemo operating systems which means games, and applications can work great of all platforms. This is better for developers as it means that they are able to port their application across to a much greater number of consumers quicker, the developers in the video below stated that they have: rewritten an application from native Symbian into Qt in 3-4 weeks seen their applications available in the  Ovi store a week after submitting reached customers in 178 countries in just 48 hours of launching their application Now the developers currently making Apple app store, apps have no excuse, if they make their app using Qt, they will reach probably 10 times more consumers and also have a much greater chance of seeing the light of day, without the worry of creating something which is against Apple’s many overly strict rules. So developer’s if you are reading this, start writing!!! To download the development tool, just head over to the Forum Nokia page: http://www.forum.nokia.com/Tools_Docs_and_Code/Tools/IDEs/Nokia_Qt_SDK/ Don’t worry I have not forgot about us consumers, it is a lot better for us too, now if developer’s can make app’s quicker and across more platforms, it means the number of applications in the Ovi store should multiply in no time at all, so more free apps to choose from, more premium apps which you might be willing to pay for, and more competition between developers to make better apps and for a lower price!! Qt Bounce on N900 Qt Bounce on N8 Nokia Qt SDK Beta Qt Phone Simulator Qt Speed Hero on N900 Qt Shazam on N900 Qt Accuweather on N900

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Just wanted to say thanks for dropping by on mynokiablog.com, reading our posts, retweeting our stories and even finding our posts good enough to track back to (thanks also to our sources!). This week was our busiest week ever, in terms of posting and traffic with over 60,000 views.

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MyNokiaBlog Weekly Post Roundup (Ep 16) Have you heard of the new Nokia N8?