Hi guys and gals, how are you handling the winter? Here in Berlin, the snow is already melting. But my colleagues are going on a skiing/snowboarding trip to Austria. That got us thinking… how are you guys doing, and how has the winter been for you so far?
We have a Burton snowboard (which is pretty…
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For one of you, Christmas is NOT over thanks to Ovi
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For one of you, Christmas is NOT over thanks to Ovi
Hi guys and gals, how are you handling the winter? Here in Berlin, the snow is already melting. But my colleagues are going on a skiing/snowboarding trip to Austria. That got us thinking… how are you guys doing, and how has the winter been for you so far?
We have a Burton snowboard (which is pretty…
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Wikipedia Offline Reader Puts Quotes and Wiktionary on Your Nokia Smartphone
Wikipedia is the 5th most accessed web site in the world because it contains a wealth of free information on just about any subject that you can imagine. We recently reviewed a free online Wikipedia reader by Easy Things and here we take a look at the Wikipedia Offline Reader by San Francisco-based WikiPock,…
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How exciting will 2011 be for Music? Ovi presents Ness
The ‘world of blog’ has opened up so many streams for people to express their love of music, films, games… pretty much anything that an individual wants to share. I love it!
If I am bored, looking for tips on improving gaming skills, searching for new music, festivals or gigs I…
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How exciting will 2011 be for Music? Ovi presents Ness
The ‘world of blog’ has opened up so many streams for people to express their love of music, films, games… pretty much anything that an individual wants to share. I love it!
If I am bored, looking for tips on improving gaming skills, searching for new music, festivals or gigs I…
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Common chargers are on the way
GLOBAL – You may well have seen news
emerge of a new standard for a Common Charger for mobile phones with which major players in the phone manufacturing business have agreed to make their new devices compliant. That includes Nokia, of course. If it isn’t already obvious, click through to…
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Dave Grohl to receive NME’s Godlike Genius award
The “nicest guy in rock” is to receive the award at the annual Shockwaves NME Awards ceremony in London next month in recognition of his musical career.
With Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Them Crooked Vultures and arguable the best Queens Of The Stone Age album on his resume, it’s a surprise…
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Introducing Moodagent – A new way to explore your music, brought to you by Syntonetic
This is part of a series in which Nokia is inviting the coolest application developers to showcase and pilot their apps at Nokia Beta Labs.Guest-written by Camilla from SyntoneticThose days of making the perfect playlists for any occasion and mood is over. Moodagent is here!Moodagent is an automatic…
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Short service break today at 13:00 EET [Completed]
Hi,Starting at 13:00 EEST we’ll have a service break at Nokia Beta Labs, lasting less than one hour. During that time the site content, forum, and blog will be unavailable. Our apologies for any inconvenience this causes.You can follow our Twitter feed for an alert when things are back up and running…
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SE Hands-On With Xperia arc
The SE Product Blog has posted up a hands-on video showing off the Xperia arc. Apart from the video, which is of course worth a watch, there was mention made of Android, specifically which version will be in use and updates.
The 2.4 version seen at CES is being labelled as a ‘misconfiguration’. Whatever that means the bottom line is that the arc will ship with Gingerbread 2.3. However, and perhaps more importantly, mention was made of the upgrade cycle:
It’s too early to officially give detailed comments around specific later Android versions for XperiaTM arc during its lifecycle but the changes we have made to our way of working with Android puts us in a good position to make sure that Xperia arc will get later versions in a timely manner.
Two things to take from that quote: i) Sony Ericsson know they screwed up big time with the X10 and the ridiculous Donut to Eclair update debacle and ii) the Xperia arc will be updated e.g. Ice Cream in the summer perhaps?
At any rate it’s definitely a positive sign and one that addresses one of the, if not the single, biggest issue with the X10.
Other highlights from the blog posting:
- No front facing camera so no video calling I’m afraid
- Mediascape, as it was on the X10, is gone, replaced by a customisable ‘media pane’ widget (shown in the video)
- The CPU is a MSM8255 running at 1 GHz whilst the GPU is an Adreno 250 affair
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