Nokia Q4 results are out and things are looking a bit better for people’s company (yes.. i said the the people’s company) with well over 1 million lumia 800 & 701 devices sold, it’s  less than the 2 million targets that they had but if you ask me  , it’s a good start for a company that changed Os and focus and with in 6 months made an amazing and sexy device such as the lumia 800. So with that good start and a cool $250 million this quarter from Microsoft all i have to say is keep it up nokia!

you find other numbers here (including how much money they lost in 2011)

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Yes boys and girls!  according to the latest online rumors the nokia lumia 900 will be out on march 18th for $99.99 on  a two-year contract. The information came from Boy genius report who said that it came from a source close to the carrier (AT&T), so we don’t know how true it is but nokia did say they will be marketing the nokia lumia 900  aggressively so the rumors may have more truth to it then anything else we have heard so far.

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The great guys at Nokia wom world (now called Nokia connects)  are having a “follow the Mapstronaut and win” competition to celebrate the launch of the new Nokia Maps blog. The goal is to go where no one has gone before on Nokia Maps and to do that they are taking suggestions of places to visit from you! i mean us

As a matter of fact I have already entered and the mapstronaut visited my location not to long ago….

That’s the Stadio Olympico in rome by the way, home to one of my favorite football/soccer teams.

So if you guys would like to enter jump over here where you’ll find the rules and the prizes that you can win! have a good one!

I have been thinking about why I like the n9 so much and I am I willing to spend
almost $6000 TTD on it without having even used it yet and on a platform that many
think is already dead and the truth is, I really don't know why I want the n9, when it comes to
gadgets "anything but simple" is what I like to say, I like customization and I love sitting
down for hours setting up a new device just the way I want it.

So why do I want the n9? Well maybe it's because I just like having the latest gadgets or
maybe I'm just a big nokia fanboy or maybe I have gone mad and have nothing better to
do with my money......it could be one of those but I would like to think it's because the
n9 is so new and so different for the other.

The n9 brings something never see on a mobile phone before and yes! I know these days
every phone has something never see/done on phones before it but with the n9 it's not
just one new app or one new feature, almost everything is new about the n9, it's about
a new way of using a phone, a new way of thinking, a new way of living with you mobile
device, and I must say out of all the great new features in the n9 I think the swipe home
feature is what I like the most. And just to make something clear the "all touch screen, no
keys" thing isn't really new, it's something meego/maemo had from the start if you really think about, other than
the keyboard keys, the n900 had not keys on the front just like the n9 but that's not here
nor there.

So why do I want the n9? Well because it's something new and the swipe home feature
look really nice, simple, as does the hole OS. The n9 is simple and easy to understand and
use but it also has to the tools that allow you to make it the device you want to make it
plus I really like the design of the body.

So again why do I want the n9? Because it's what I've wanted all this time, I just didn't

know. So blue n9 here I come.

The Meego powerhouse is said to be available in singapore this month  from all telcos. The N9 will be sold sim free and unlocked  for a retail price of $799 for the 16GB version and $899 for the 64GB version.

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Ever since nokia announced that they were making windows phone 7 there main OS I have more or less fallen out of the blogging game, mainly because I didn’t understand or support their decision however over time I came to a better understanding of why they did what they did, I didn’t support it 100% but I understood, so as nokia got ready to move to wp7 and kill off symbian, My self and many other nokia fans just stood back waited to see something from nokia to make us happy and excited again.

Then they announced the Nokia N9 and I just like everyone else was happy again, I loved nokia again, I wanted to blog about nokia again and from no way nokia were back in the game, until I really started to think about it, I stated thinking about what would be a good  reason why nokia would move to wp7 after seeing what meego could do months before anyone else did, why would you leave an OS that had much promise to go with one that little to no one likes?  I would have understood if they said meego would not be ready on time and it couldn’t ship this year or if symbain couldn’t be update to match the like of android, so they had to move to wp7 to save them self, If they said something like that I would be able to level with them and say “yes, it’s time for a change” but you can’t show me a fully operational meego device with no buttons, a new swipe home interface with the best multitasking ever seen on a phone and expect me to say “yes move to an OS that is basically trying to do the same thing that meego is doing just that it doesn’t look as good or works as well.

I know some people think that they are two completely different OS and to those  people I ask: what is Microsoft’s aim with wp7? it’s to make everything simple and easy, an easy to navigate UI that keeps you connected to your friends, family and social networks…right? yes! now let me ask you this: when you look at the meego OS what do you see? A simple and easy to navigate UI, right? yes! and when you look at the notification screen on meego what do you see? A place that keeps you connected and up to date with  friends, family and social networks. right? yes!  what’s the differences between them? you ask, The look and feel! when you look at the home screen of wp7 what do you see? two rows of colored moving boxes, now look at the home screen of meego, what do you see? a new bright fresh Ui with colorful  icons.

An other difference  is that meego comes with more than half of the things that Microsoft is now trying to put into wp7 for example: Multitasking, meego was built with multitasking in mind, as a matter of  fact, the hole OS was built around multitasking and I really like that. To me being simple don’t mean plain and that is why I think meego has beaten wp7 at it’s own game but anyways back to to what I was saying.

So they announced the N9 and everyone is happy and likes nokia again, until we look at meego and wp7 and realize just how bad making the decision to move to windows phones 7 really was, so at this point everyone is a little mad and we’re all thinking “fine! move to wp7, i’m just going to get the n9..f#ck wp7” and that was a good plan but big boss Elop knew we would do that, so to make sure we all didn’t just get the n9 and forget about wp7 and making him look bad for making a bad decision, he more or less killed n9 before it even came out by making it only available in a very very limited amount if countries, Mexico &  Malaysia being the only places known so far.

So now being  die hard nokia fans means that we have to watch them hopefully fail with wp7 run back to meego and work there way back to the up with meego being the main OS, symbian on the lower priced phones and wp7 on the touchscreen feature phones.

Ohh Nokia.

The first thing that caught me about this app was it’s name. Now for those who don’t know I’m from Trinidad and Tobago and if you’re familiar with my people you would know that we have our own dialect and one phrase used daily from this dialect is, “yuh done” or “u done” So it makes sense now right? Honestly I heard about this app and I wasn’t excited, I thought to myself, “damn another boring task manager” and when I opened it, I was greeted by nothing exciting, however when I dug further I realised it was packed with various goodies, like a voice recorder, sketch app, etc.

This makes recording tasks very simple. You can draw, record, take a picture or type out text to attach to your “task” to make it easier to remember. The lite version is what I used to write this review and it loads reasonably fast although my devices is overclocked to 1.2Ghz. It comes packed with themes so the programme can match your current theme as best as possible however in the future, I would like to see an integration with my social networks so that important events can be broadcasted into the app and then you can be alerted via a tone and get to see what tasks you have available. Maybe also task sharing where, your boss or friend can write out a task and send it to you over Wifi in the work place,for now you’re just alerted of your tasks when you set the alarm for it.

It comes also with a neat calender and the *Help button actually is animated so no need to read a list of boring help notes. But honestly I’m not a task manager person, and even though it comes with so many nice things to make jotting down tasks simple fast, I rather just take a mental note, but it is a great looking app though and very useful for those with a busy schedule.

Download U-done Here

Along with the announcement of the new n9, nokia also announced the Nokia play 360 bluetooth speaker with nfc, which means all you need to do to pair your phone with speaker is tap it! it looks pretty awesome to me!

At the Nokia Connection event in Singapore today, Nokia introduced the Nokia N9, the first-ever pure touch smartphone that is all about making things simpler. Navigating the UI is done with a simple gesture, a swipe of a finger. See the full specs below

SWIPE

The team behind the MeeGo-based Nokia N9 brought together elements of industrial design, software development and user interface advancements, as well as a developer platform to create a better way to use a phone. All that’s needed to use the Nokia N9 is a simple gesture, a swipe of the finger. It is an intuitive way to use all the different features and functions. Whenever you are in an application, you just swipe from the edge of the screen to go back home.

UNIBODY DESIGN

The Nokia N9 has a beautiful one-piece, unibody design where the hardware and software fit together seamlessly. The large, 3.9 inch curved glass AMOLED display lets the applications shine and take full benefit of the user interface. Thanks to the innovative laminated display technology, it looks like applications are literally floating on top of the screen. The body of the Nokia N9 is made from the best in polycarbonate material engineering today, enabling superior antenna performance over most other competitors’ smartphones. This means better reception, better voice quality and fewer dropped calls. The Nokia N9 comes in three colours: black, cyan and magenta and with large storage capacities of 16GB and 64GB on the two variants to be made available.

NO BUTTONS

The Nokia N9 is the world’s first pure touch screen phone without any front-facing buttons at all. You unlock the phone by just double-tapping the screen.

THREE HOME VIEWS

The user interface in Nokia N9 is designed around the things people typically use the most. This is why there are three recognizable home views arranged in a carousel: 1) Applications for launching and organizing your apps. 2) Events for social networking feeds and notifications for calls, texts, calendar events, etc. 3) Open applications for switching between all live apps you have used recently. You can pinch and zoom the screen to see either four or nine open app icons. In fact, the Nokia N9 delivers the best multitasking experience on any phone!

POWERFUL CAMERA

The 8MP auto focus camera with Carl Zeiss optics, dual LED flash and super wide 28mm lens works faster from start to capture than any other manufacturer’s smartphone camera in the market. HD video and true 16:9 resolution photos are supported. You can share your photos via MMS, email, NFC and many online services including Flickr and Facebook.

FAST WEB BROWSER

The fast web browser is built on the latest Webkit 2 technology. Even while loading a web page, the screen remains responsive. You can have several browser windows open in the open applications view and switching between them is, again, fast and easy. Favourite websites are shown as visual thumbnails, supported by a full browsing history. Wide HTML5 support offers access to rich web applications and fast video playback.

LATEST MAPS

The Nokia N9 has the latest Nokia Maps with free, voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation for walking and driving. There is also a dedicated Drive app for in-car navigation, which lets you start navigating to your destination instantly after entering your destination. Public transport routing in 85 cities means you can find the quickest route on foot or by tram, metro or train. You can also discover nearby places with cafés, shops, hotels and more, all marked along the way.

DOLBY SOUND

Dolby Headphone and Dolby Digital Plus support on the Nokia N9 turns regular stereo audio into personal surround sound on any headphones – first on any mobile phone.

NFC-ENABLED

Pairing between NFC-enabled accessories is easier than ever before – you do Bluetooth pairing only once and after that you can connect to them just by touching. You can also share content like photos or business cards via NFC.

The things that make the Nokia N9 unique – the industrial design, developments in software and user interface, and the ease of developer experience with Qt – will live on in a variety of ways in Nokia. You can go and experience the Nokia N9 for yourself at swipe.nokia.com. The site is full of interactive videos that show how the product works in real life – it is the second best thing to actually having the product in your hand! The Nokia N9 will be in stores later this year, with availability and local pricing to be announced closer to the sales start date.

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Hey guys, Today I have got a nice little review of the nokia e7 that I got from the boys and girls at womworld/nokia, so watch and enjoy the video below and thanks to the Womworld guys again.

What do you guys think about the nokia e7 and i’m planing on getting the nokia e6 good idea?

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