Guys,
I don’t know if you remember us talking about the second ad in our Xperia marketing campaign a few weeks back… well, it’s finally arrived – our new Xperia T TV ad.
Again featuring distinctive artwork and Crystal Fighters’ “Follow” as a soundtrack, the 60-second piece shows how you can snap memories, moments, laughs and smiles… then share from one Xperia smartphone to another with an effortless single touch.
The advert will air this weekend, so keep an eye out 
Ant.
There was a question on the Nokia Facebook page recently asking what your favourite Nokia Lumia game is. The response was incredible. Here’s your Top 5:
Angry Birds
Cost: £0.79/0,99 €/$0.99 in the Marketplace
Availability: Everywhere
In a nutshell: You know what to do…
It has very quickly become a ‘classic’. Simple gameplay and clear graphics make it attractive to the younger audience and the physics of the harder levels make it quite addictive. Load the catapult with a bird, pull back, adjust the angle and let fly at the nasty green pigs who have stolen the eggs. Knock them all from their perches to complete the level.
And as we all know, you can even play the game using a banana, as proved by Advices Media:
Plants vs. Zombies
Cost: £3.99 /4,99 €/$4.99 in the Marketplace
Availability: Everywhere
In a nutshell: Use the plants to defeat the undead
According to Jay, he
‘got addicted to playing this game as there’s so much to keep you entertained’
His Lumiappaday video review is a comprehensive look at the game, and he also has some written thoughts, along with the blurb from the Marketplace and his score (interesting note from the video – the game loads much faster on the Nokia Lumia 800 than a competitor device).
Wordament
Cost: Free in the Marketplace
Availability: Everywhere
In a nutshell: Make words from the grid
Adam wrote about Wordament on these very pages in the summer, and having downloaded and played the game in the name of research for this post, I can testify that when he says
‘it really challenges the mind’
he’s not leading you on. I found this to be mentally stimulating and kind of addictive – once I found where I came on the leaderboard, I immediately wanted to play the next game to try and improve. Have you played Wordament? What’s the highest you have come on the leaderboard?
Asphalt 5
Cost: £2.29 /2,99 €/$2.99 in the Marketplace
Availability: Everywhere
In a nutshell: Drive like the wind!
Choose your car and your track and wait for the green light! In his review on WP Central, Daniel Rubino says the game load time is ‘pretty zippy’ and the steering (by tilting, using the accelerometer) is ‘sensitive’ – which means that until you have some practice it could be a bumpy ride. Have you mastered the steering yet? A fan of this or other driving games? Let us know below.
Snake
Cost: Free in the Marketplace
Availability: Everywhere
In a nutshell: Classic. Eat to grow. Avoid your tail.
As you can see from this pic, and the one at the top of the post, Snake has been reinvented for the Nokia Lumia family. A classic. No explanation really needed for this one. We love it. Always have, always will.
So does this Top 5 match your favourite Nokia Lumia games? Got any other suggestions that you think will oust one from the list? Let me know in the comments or on Twitter.
Image credits [Cnet,Tech Reviews, Nokia Gadgets, TechProlonged]
Click here to view the video on YouTube.
At the heart of any location experience is the understanding of where you are and what’s around you, an awareness often achieved by using a map. While today’s digital maps are much more advanced than the maps of just 20 years ago, they will continue to get more accurate and comprehensive, simplifying how we navigate and interact with an ever-changing world.
So, how do we build a high quality map and keep it fresh? At the core of the process is our innovative collection technologies blended with a team of local experts.
Using their intimate knowledge of local road networks and surrounding areas, these experts, who drive millions of roadways each year, use specially equipped vehicles to collect and verify location data.
Depending on local conditions, product requirements and a variety of other factors, the local drivers use distinct collection technology, ranging from highly mobile pedestrian collection tools to the sophisticated NAVTEQ True technology.
NAVTEQ True is actually composed of four unique technologies:
Worldwide, NAVTEQ True technology is gathering an immense amount of data.
For instance, in one single day, we might collect 12 million signage images, two million panoramic images, a trillion LIDAR points, and 65 million million (65,000,000,000,000!) colour pixels. We’re not just taking pictures of the world; we’re creating a new data model of the world.
With this level of high quality data, NAVTEQ True technology is capturing real world dimension, fueling more realistic and interactive experiences. With data collected by NAVTEQ True, you can explore the world more easily and in a whole new way – you can instantly see all the best places to eat and things to do and see it right on your phone’s camera display. It’s like having x-ray vision, revealing the hidden spots you might otherwise miss.
You can experience an implementation example of the collected data in 3D with Nokia City Lens for Nokia Lumia. Simply by following the instructions on the right.
Taking photos is all about sharing experiences with others and capturing moments just for yourself. Memento is a photo editing app that keeps on giving, long after you’ve purchased it.
Memento comes in two packages. The first and free version offers you four film effects to begin with, with an additional unlockable two. The second version, Memento Pro costs just £0.79 ($0.99) and starts you off with 11 film effects.
Then, here’s the nice bit, you receive a new film effect every month. Most apps don’t do that. Now, we have no idea there’s a limit of these effects or if in three years time you’ll still receive a new filter, but it’s a nice business model nonetheless. It gives you a feeling that you haven’t been forgotten but are still thought of after your initial purchase.
When it comes to using Memento, it’s really quite simple. Open the app, decide if you want to take a new photo, load a picture from your pictures hub, browse the gallery (not really useful when you first load up the app), or to click through the settings.
In any app like this, we feel it’s best to start off with the settings section. This is where you can set the image quality or to connect the app with your Facebook account, allowing you to share photos with your friends and family there.
As far as social integration is concerned, it’s only Facebook. Maybe the developer is working on that for future releases, but for now we’ve not got word of that – it’d be nice, though.
Now, back to the photo editing.
Navigate back to the previous screen, and select how you want to proceed. Taking a photo will do just that and loading a picture will let you choose a previously taken photograph. Either way, make sure you’ve got a photo on screen.
Memento’s image dimensions are of the square variety, so you’ll always be asked to crop the image as your first edit. It’s then onto adding filters.
Selecting a filter with Memento is a fluid experience. You start with the original image on screen, and by rolling the image up you’re taken through the set of filters one at a time. Admittedly, if you’ve gone for the free version you’ll only have six at most to scroll through, however you can scroll through fast if you need to by just simply scrolling faster. This could prove handy several months down the line when you’re receiving more and more filters with the pro version.
When you’re happy with your newly improved photo, write in a brief description of your photo and hit the upload button to fire it off into the ether and onto your Facebook timeline.
The gallery section of Memento holds a history of all your uploaded images and also retrieves the comments and likes received on that photo from Facebook. It’s a nice little feature that lets you see how well your photos are doing from within the app itself.
What do you think of Memento? Let us know in the comments list below.
The Burj Khalifa? The International Space Station? The Airbus A380 super-jumbo? Sure, they’re big, and sure, we’re impressed, but size isn’t everything; sometimes it’s the tiniest goods that rock our world. To show just how much, we’ve taken a look at some miniature innovations having a ginormous impact.
Microchips
Microchips, aka integrated circuits, aka tiny little electronic kits made up of transistors, resistors, capacitors and diodes on silicon wafers, are no bigger than a fingernail, and yet they’ve made possible the world of computers and mobile tech that we call home. The transistors themselves are so small that you could fit hundreds of then into one red blood cell, and the chips have to made in special clean rooms – even one dead skin cell could ruin a chip. And there’s one of these inside almost every piece of electronic kit you own!
Nanotech
Miniature tech has definitely revolutionised the medical world – nanotechnology allows surgeons to use devices like the endoscopy capsule to conduct exploratory procedures. These capsules, the size of vitamin tablets, contain tiny wireless cameras; you swallow the capsule and the camera travels through your gut, taking hundreds of pictures that are then used to diagnose conditions like cancer, Crohn’s disease or coeliac disease.
Space tech
NASA and the European Space Agency are looking at small tech as a way of reducing the costs of space exploration, which will allow more countries to get into the extra-terrestrial game. They’ve got projects on the go like space-suits incorporating protein-based nanounits which could carry and administer emergency drugs for injured astronauts – and microchip-sized spacecrafts!
Nanogenerators
With oil reserves ever diminishing and everybody hunting for green alternatives, it might soon be the era of the nanogenerators. Scientists are hard at work developing these miniscule gadgets – little devices that generate electricity by yoking the energy of naturally-occurring movements like heartbeats or the shifting of clothing. Boffins at the Georgia Institute of Technology are even busy producing a power-generating artificial skin. Cosy!
Smartphone cameras
Smartphones like the Lumia 920 are packed with miniature marvels. One that’s made a huge impact on our lives is the camera. In 2004, the camera module in the Nokia N90 lens was a mere 13mm for a two megapixel resolution. Now Carl Zeiss camera lenses are less than half that size, and the resolution is four times higher. The result. More people taking and sharing more stunning photos than at any time in history. In fact, according to research by a 1000memories, in 2011, we snapped over 375 billion pics!
Small tech has already made a huge impact on our lives, but which tiny wonders do you think will make the biggest difference in the years to come? Let us know in the comments below.
Image credits: Valdiney Pimenta
Maybe inspired by Paul and Loki’s Lumia moments which they shared on Monday, maybe inspired by the Autumn weather, but there have been plenty of #MyLumiaMoments pics over the last couple of days.
The first Lumia Moments come from Frankie Bloise, who has been out and about with his Nokia Lumia 800 snapping pics like this for his Lumia Diaries:
He also shared another pic, that I have cropped somewhat (hope he doesn’t mind 
– full version)
More Lumia Moments are flooding in *as I type*, so here’s one from Jey Si of a rare flowering in the back yard:
And a final pic from Elayne that I think is great (I have a liking for this type of photo):
So now it’s time to share your own Lumia Moments. The best will get themselves a trial of a phone (different to the one they took the pic on, of course) – so get snapping. Send them to us on Twitter (using #MyLumiaMoments) or as a comment on this post.
People have grown to love their Nokia Asha phones for different reasons.
The stories told in the Me and My Asha video series revealed that some of the favourite features are fast Internet access, being connected with friends on social networks and the ability to download apps.
However, as we approach the first anniversary of the range’s launch it seems fitting that we reflect back on another aspect of Asha’s tremendous success – games.
The inclusion of 40 free EA games for Asha phones, available to download and keep forever, firmly established its gaming reputation.
Then, as the year unfolded, there were further boosts with the news that 22 classic games from NAMCO BANDAI were being added to the Nokia Store and that Zynga’s smash hit titles Draw Something and Zynga Poker are also coming soon to Asha.
Click through for the larger image.
Alex Bubb is Nokia’s head of games partnering and is responsible for the global team managing publisher relationships. As well as the publishers mentioned above, there are other key partners, such as Rovio, whose worldwide smash, Angry Birds, was a pre-install on the Asha 311.
Alex says working with so many companies is a healthy thing and that his aim is to have a ‘depth of partners to drive the proposition of games.’
As well as the range of Asha devices, Alex works with games publishers on Series 40 and Lumia smartphones too. Having leverage across different mobile platforms represents ‘a unique opportunity for partners.’
“The Asha platform has established itself as a great ecosystem for partners to bring their newest and best games to those devices and we are seeing that momentum continue from key publishers,” said Alex in an interview with Conversations.
Key among those partners is EA Games and the unique business model that allowed Asha owners free to download 40 of their biggest titles.
Alex explains how that partnership got off the ground.
“This was an opportunity for EA to use Nokia’s mass volume and reach in emerging markets like India and China,” he says.
“Working with Nokia, EA was able to legitimise gaming on mobile platforms in these markets, and as an organisation bring new customers to their global franchises using innovative business models.”
The partnership with EA also served to underline Asha as an exciting gaming platform and helped to create the ecosystem that would later bring in other partners.
“Consumers say they want easy access to games and EA delivers on that. The feedback we have had from them and from the trade press has been very positive indeed. We are certainly looking to continue rolling this out on upcoming devices.”
Alex also wants to encourage innovation and bring exciting new social experiences for Asha owners, such as Zynga’s Draw Something.
“It’s a very casual social gaming platform and we see a lot of opportunity on the Asha platform because of the volume,” says Alex.
“Although people are not paying premium prices for the games, where there is volume and casual gaming then that is the real sweet spot for Asha.”
In the first 12 months there have been plenty of sweet spots for games fans on their Asha devices, and they have plenty more to look forward to.
Another publisher, Gameloft, is releasing a whole host of new games for Asha phones by the end of the year. Among those titles will be Assassin’s Creed 3, Real Football 2013, Fashion Icon, Littlest Pet Shop and Bubble Bash 3.
Alex says:
“One of the things that consumers love about games is that there are always fresh new games coming to the platform and what I find really exciting is that you never really know what the next game experience is going to be.”
There was a question on the Nokia Facebook page recently asking what your favourite Nokia Lumia game is. The response was incredible. Here’s your Top 5:
Angry Birds
Cost: £0.79/0,99 €/$0.99 in the Marketplace
Availability: Everywhere
In a nutshell: You know what to do…
It has very quickly become a ‘classic’. Simple gameplay and clear graphics make it attractive to the younger audience and the physics of the harder levels make it quite addictive. Load the catapult with a bird, pull back, adjust the angle and let fly at the nasty green pigs who have stolen the eggs. Knock them all from their perches to complete the level.
And as we all know, you can even play the game using a banana, as proved by Advices Media:
Plants vs. Zombies
Cost: £3.99 /4,99 €/$4.99 in the Marketplace
Availability: Everywhere
In a nutshell: Use the plants to defeat the undead
According to Jay, he
‘got addicted to playing this game as there’s so much to keep you entertained’
His Lumiappaday video review is a comprehensive look at the game, and he also has some written thoughts, along with the blurb from the Marketplace and his score (interesting note from the video – the game loads much faster on the Nokia Lumia 800 than a competitor device).
Wordament
Cost: Free in the Marketplace
Availability: Everywhere
In a nutshell: Make words from the grid
Adam wrote about Wordament on these very pages in the summer, and having downloaded and played the game in the name of research for this post, I can testify that when he says
‘it really challenges the mind’
he’s not leading you on. I found this to be mentally stimulating and kind of addictive – once I found where I came on the leaderboard, I immediately wanted to play the next game to try and improve. Have you played Wordament? What’s the highest you have come on the leaderboard?
Asphalt 5
Cost: £2.29 /2,99 €/$2.99 in the Marketplace
Availability: Everywhere
In a nutshell: Drive like the wind!
Choose your car and your track and wait for the green light! In his review on WP Central, Daniel Rubino says the game load time is ‘pretty zippy’ and the steering (by tilting, using the accelerometer) is ‘sensitive’ – which means that until you have some practice it could be a bumpy ride. Have you mastered the steering yet? A fan of this or other driving games? Let us know below.
Snake
Cost: Free in the Marketplace
Availability: Everywhere
In a nutshell: Classic. Eat to grow. Avoid your tail.
As you can see from this pic, and the one at the top of the post, Snake has been reinvented for the Nokia Lumia family. A classic. No explanation really needed for this one. We love it. Always have, always will.
So does this Top 5 match your favourite Nokia Lumia games? Got any other suggestions that you think will oust one from the list? Let me know in the comments or on Twitter.
Image credits [Cnet,Tech Reviews, Nokia Gadgets, TechProlonged]
Taking photos is all about sharing experiences with others and capturing moments just for yourself. Memento is a photo editing app that keeps on giving, long after you’ve purchased it.
Memento comes in two packages. The first and free version offers you four film effects to begin with, with an additional unlockable two. The second version, Memento Pro costs just £0.79 ($0.99) and starts you off with 11 film effects.
Then, here’s the nice bit, you receive a new film effect every month. Most apps don’t do that. Now, we have no idea there’s a limit of these effects or if in three years time you’ll still receive a new filter, but it’s a nice business model nonetheless. It gives you a feeling that you haven’t been forgotten but are still thought of after your initial purchase.
When it comes to using Memento, it’s really quite simple. Open the app, decide if you want to take a new photo, load a picture from your pictures hub, browse the gallery (not really useful when you first load up the app), or to click through the settings.
In any app like this, we feel it’s best to start off with the settings section. This is where you can set the image quality or to connect the app with your Facebook account, allowing you to share photos with your friends and family there.
As far as social integration is concerned, it’s only Facebook. Maybe the developer is working on that for future releases, but for now we’ve not got word of that – it’d be nice, though.
Now, back to the photo editing.
Navigate back to the previous screen, and select how you want to proceed. Taking a photo will do just that and loading a picture will let you choose a previously taken photograph. Either way, make sure you’ve got a photo on screen.
Memento’s image dimensions are of the square variety, so you’ll always be asked to crop the image as your first edit. It’s then onto adding filters.
Selecting a filter with Memento is a fluid experience. You start with the original image on screen, and by rolling the image up you’re taken through the set of filters one at a time. Admittedly, if you’ve gone for the free version you’ll only have six at most to scroll through, however you can scroll through fast if you need to by just simply scrolling faster. This could prove handy several months down the line when you’re receiving more and more filters with the pro version.
When you’re happy with your newly improved photo, write in a brief description of your photo and hit the upload button to fire it off into the ether and onto your Facebook timeline.
The gallery section of Memento holds a history of all your uploaded images and also retrieves the comments and likes received on that photo from Facebook. It’s a nice little feature that lets you see how well your photos are doing from within the app itself.
What do you think of Memento? Let us know in the comments list below.
The Burj Khalifa? The International Space Station? The Airbus A380 super-jumbo? Sure, they’re big, and sure, we’re impressed, but size isn’t everything; sometimes it’s the tiniest goods that rock our world. To show just how much, we’ve taken a look at some miniature innovations having a ginormous impact.
Microchips
Microchips, aka integrated circuits, aka tiny little electronic kits made up of transistors, resistors, capacitors and diodes on silicon wafers, are no bigger than a fingernail, and yet they’ve made possible the world of computers and mobile tech that we call home. The transistors themselves are so small that you could fit hundreds of then into one red blood cell, and the chips have to made in special clean rooms – even one dead skin cell could ruin a chip. And there’s one of these inside almost every piece of electronic kit you own!
Nanotech
Miniature tech has definitely revolutionised the medical world – nanotechnology allows surgeons to use devices like the endoscopy capsule to conduct exploratory procedures. These capsules, the size of vitamin tablets, contain tiny wireless cameras; you swallow the capsule and the camera travels through your gut, taking hundreds of pictures that are then used to diagnose conditions like cancer, Crohn’s disease or coeliac disease.
Space tech
NASA and the European Space Agency are looking at small tech as a way of reducing the costs of space exploration, which will allow more countries to get into the extra-terrestrial game. They’ve got projects on the go like space-suits incorporating protein-based nanounits which could carry and administer emergency drugs for injured astronauts – and microchip-sized spacecrafts!
Nanogenerators
With oil reserves ever diminishing and everybody hunting for green alternatives, it might soon be the era of the nanogenerators. Scientists are hard at work developing these miniscule gadgets – little devices that generate electricity by yoking the energy of naturally-occurring movements like heartbeats or the shifting of clothing. Boffins at the Georgia Institute of Technology are even busy producing a power-generating artificial skin. Cosy!
Smartphone cameras
Smartphones like the Lumia 920 are packed with miniature marvels. One that’s made a huge impact on our lives is the camera. In 2004, the camera module in the Nokia N90 lens was a mere 13mm for a two megapixel resolution. Now Carl Zeiss camera lenses are less than half that size, and the resolution is four times higher. The result. More people taking and sharing more stunning photos than at any time in history. In fact, according to research by a 1000memories, in 2011, we snapped over 375 billion pics!
Small tech has already made a huge impact on our lives, but which tiny wonders do you think will make the biggest difference in the years to come? Let us know in the comments below.
Image credits: Valdiney Pimenta
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