This visually mesmerising app first seen in the iPhone showing of Paris in 3D will soon be available for the N900. mobile3dcity shows us a 2 minute preview of what that’ll look on the N900.
Pinch and Zoom is missed, but you have buttons instead to zoom. It’ll be interesting to see if the final version will be as smooth in panning and also if it will contain city guides like the original.
(Maybe we’ll get an update and more iPhone ports when we get the multitouch capable Maemo 6 device?)
Back in December, Trusted Reviews published their review of the N900. There were some concerns with the review (commissioned, no live photos at the time) after apparently seeming to be no more than a preview (it was a commisioned review, originally without any pictures), not fit for a gadget oriented site.
Over a month later, the video review has been added, with actual in house pictures for the written review too:
You’ll have to head over to trusted reviews to check out that video.
Like every other review, size/keyboard/resistive are big sticklers for them. However:
Ed says the N900 is not for day to day use. Actually, I beg to differ again. This grows with you. Not like how Nokia said the N97 would grow with you. It’s actually true with the N900.
Once you get your head around the OS logic, N900 is marvellous. It’s a bit like learning the shortcut route to a new place. At first it’s confusing, “why the hell am I taking this route”, but afterwards you’ll realise that you’re getting to your destination faster. 2010’s consumers seem to be all about pick up and play. If the shortcut isn’t obvious, it doesn’t matter if it’s more functional as any “learning” is considered unintuitive.
There are areas of improvement still to come with firmware updates, but the N900 is a stonkingly good day to day phone.
I’m not being pro Nokia here for the sake of it. I’ve made several rants against how frustrating my N97 got. With the N97, there were some really obvious and horrendous errors in the OS/UI. With Maemo 5, it’s much more streamlined. In this ranting post again, I just feel that rather than just echo Ed’s positive findings from the N900, I’d point out areas which shouldn’t have gotten a bad a reaction as the video review implies.
The whole video seems to dwell a lot on negative points of the N900, but glosses over places that it does extremely well or not even mentions it at all. I don’t know, maybe I’m a little agitated with other looming deadlines and becoming really evangelical over the N900. :p But I’d be one of the first on the list to point out N900’s flaws. I’m aware of the N900’s shortcomings, and know there are several areas that could be improved. < Overall the written review gave the N900 7/10, Scoring highly with 9/10 on performance, 8/10 on features, but only 6/10 for both value and design.
The Nokia 6103 with T-Mobile
I was able to sample this Nokia 6103 for a couple of months in early 2008 before passing it on. It is a nice-looking little clamshell, although the external stub antenna is a bit annoying. Also, the hinge on the flip mechanism seemed a little flimsy. The best features of this phone include its FM radio, VGA camera, Bluetooth, and a relatively large full-color external display. Operating on T-Mobile’s GSM network in the Lancaster, PA, area, this phone pulled in signal like any other Nokia; voice calls could be made on no bars, as long as the operator logo was showing. However, T-Mobile signal in the York, PA, area was poor, and the phone did not have service in some important places.
Pros;
1 ) battery life; only needed charging every three to four days
2 ) pulled in signal well, could call on no bars as long as operator logo was visible
3 ) outer display; full-color and easily visible in outdoor conditions
4 ) keypad is large and has bubbled keys; easy for dialing/texting
5 ) the D-pad is huge, and the navigation buttons are nicely spaced
Cons;
1 ) FM radio requires wired headset to be connected at the pop port
2 ) flimsy hinge for the flip mechanicsm
For the time I had this phone, I liked it, but it lacked some features. Yet, this phone is just another example of Nokia’s ability to design phones that make them legendary for signal-pulling, battery-sipping, and abuse-taking. Great show by Nokia!
Dear Olli-Pekka
You’re keen on telling people how Nokia is the world leader in smartphones by market share. That’s true. At the moment. But since you don’t get to be the head honcho of one of the world’s biggest companies without having your wits about you, we’re pretty sure that you know that’s simply not going to last. The fact is that your market share is flat at the moment and, unless you act today, you’re going to start losing it. We’d like to suggest 10 things you need to do, right now, to avoid that happening.
But first, some introductions. We haven’t met but rest assured that we’re big Nokia fans here at The Prodigal Guide. We absolutely loved our E90. When you released the E71, we hailed it as better than an iPhone. And our old 8800 Scirocco still gets palm time even now. More recently, the E75 and N97 mini have both impressed – albeit with caveats. And we continue to use our trusty N86 which we think is the best camera phone on the market.
So, we’re friends. But sometimes friends have to say things to one another that hurt. It’s because we care. You see, we think you’re heading the wrong way. But we also think there are some fairly straightforward things you could do to remedy the situation. Here then, in the spirit of constructive criticism, we offer you a suggested To-Do list for the day.
Give your hardware designers a raise: Yes, that’s right, we’re going to start off with something you’re doing right. How your hardware looks is crucial in this game. It has to get noticed on the shelf and – more importantly – people want it to get noticed when they take it down the pub. The good news is that your hardware team is more than pulling their weight, the N97 mini, N900, N86, E71 are all great looking designs that retain a distinctive Nokia flavour. And – the story gets even better – this is an area where you have a clear opportunity to outdo Apple. Not because the iPhone isn’t also a gorgeous design – it is – but because it is now so ubiquitous. A backlash is surely coming; people will want to stand out from the crowd, they’ll soon be looking for great looking devices that don’t have a half eaten apple on the back. And if your hardware guys keep up the good work, you’ll be all set to capitalise on this. Make sure you don’t let them get tempted by job offers from Cupertino though; give them a raise.
Stop dithering, renew your software now: There are no two ways to say this: touch is the future and S60 5th edition simply isn’t up to the challenge. It’s unintuitive but – worse – completely inconsistent. Forget eye-candy (sure, that would be nice) you need to fix the fundamentals. Let’s take email: in our iPhone we have perfectly rendered HTML email delivered instantly. On our Nokia devices, confusingly, we have two choices: Nokia Messaging which is some half-baked service that – even when it works, which is only sometimes – delivers the last few days worth of email and a tiny selection of our IMAP folders. Oh, and though it claims to render HTML, guess what? It doesn’t. Not accurately anyway. Pictures are often missing and the layout never looks right. Choice number two is your old, built-in email client. In many ways, this works better: all our IMAP folders are available and, after half a dozen clicks we can get to a properly rendered (in your browser) version of our mails. But it’s old, very clunky and requires a lot of button pressing. And that’s just one example. If you want the full run-down, read our recent N97 mini review. Yes, we know, Maemo is on the way. Thank goodness. Renew your efforts and plan to provide it on a broader selection of devices. You can’t compete in the high-end smartphone market with S60 no matter how much you polish it. (You can’t polish a turd, you know that right?). So, pick up the phone right now, call the S60 team and get them to down tools and head on over across the corridor and get working on Maemo with the others. You can’t wait another minute.
Put an end to penny pinching: Trust us, saving small amounts on memory, processors and screens is a very, very poor economy. Here’s an area where you do need to copy Apple: install plenty of memory in your smartphones; give them high-end processors; add graphics acceleration; and please, please don’t even think about fitting another tacky resistive screen to any of your phones ever again. It’s too late, the cat’s out of the bag: now that Apple, Palm and HTC have shown people how much better interaction with their device can be when phones have these features, they won’t put up with anything less. Not here in the high-end market anyway. If this means your prices go up a little, that’s fine. Don’t worry; people will pay for a better product. So, get that product pipeline and the red marker out of your top drawer right now and up the spec on every single one of the devices on the list. Don’t let another smartphone out the door which isn’t fit for purpose.
Get on top of your manufacturing quality control: We’ve praised your hardware designers and we stand by that, but you need to get on a plane to China today (Finnair flight AY051 to Beijing leaves at 18:00; get your secretary to book it) and sort out what’s going on with your assembly lines. We loved our E71 and our E75 but both had dust under their screens. And our E75 had one button that simply didn’t work properly – straight out of the box! What’s that you say? Exceptional manufacturing mistakes that happen rarely in any production process? Well, you should know that when we returned our dusty E75 to your flagship store on Regent Street, all six replacement models that your staff offered us suffered the same problem. This is unacceptable in the high-end smartphone market. You need to get on top of this once and for all.
Get on top of your software quality control too: We’re going to be succinct with this one. The state of the firmware released with recent models like the N97 was a disgrace. You need to take on board one simple fact: your paying customers are not your beta testers. Oh, and while we’re on this topic, when you do release firmware updates to fix the bugs in the existing firmware, it would be great if someone would pick up the devices and test them briefly before you ship the update. Our experience has been that nine times out of ten, you fix one problem but create two more.
Change your pathetic customer service model: Were anything to go wrong with our iPhone (ha, as if it would!) we would find ourselves visiting the compelling, welcoming retail experience that is the Apple Store. There, we’d get our hands on all the other Apple products, learn about how to get the most out of them, feel like we’d bought into something that was bigger and more special than simply owning a phone. We’d likely walk out with an iPod nano or something under our arm. Oh, and we almost forgot why we came, the nice guys at the Genius Bar would fix our iPhone for us too. When something goes wrong with our Nokia device (and it has, see above), the experience is rather different. Until recently you had the flagship store in London’s Regent Street at least (good move). But here’s how you messed that up: 1) you’re closing it (ludicrous) and 2) even when it was open, you didn’t use it properly. Here’s what happened to us when we brought our phone back there because it has dust under the screen. We were treated like second class citizens and told that no one could help. Instead, we were sent out into the rain to the nearest Nokia Service Centre. Guess what? The nearest Nokia Service Centre is 10 mins walk away in the basement of a Carphone Warehouse whose staff – quite understandably – had no motivation to help or to show us a good retail experience. Why would they? We weren’t Carphone Warehouse customers, we were Nokia ones. Doing customer service for Nokia was just an after-thought to them. As we stood in the 20 min queue of teenagers waiting to have the covers swapped on their cheap, free-with-contract phones, clutching our 400 pound, SIM-free smartphone, we couldn’t help thinking how much we’d rather be in the Apple Store. No doubt about it, your customer service model sucks. So please, fire up Outlook now, before reading the next paragraph, and send just two emails: one to reopen the flagship stores and another to assign one of your direct reports to overhauling your global customer service model within the next 3 months.
Focus; have the courage of your convictions: Stop chasing every little niche. How can you possibly produce truly class-leading products and then service them properly when you’re constantly rushing to come up with the next design variation for some sub-niche that Juhani in marketing has just unearthed!? Every device permutation distracts your hardware teams and requires another iteration of your OS. This is crazy. Stop. Focus. Pick five or six form-factors and then deliver the very best in each. Take time to innovate. Take time to think and have the courage of your convictions. You used to have unique designs that no one else made – the Communicator springs to mind – which you’ve since abandoned to chase the iPhone. We have some distressing news for you: you’ll never build a better iPhone than Apple. Never. But did you realise that you can build half a dozen other phones that will be different and yet still best in class. In case you hadn’t noticed the clamshell business phone segment is still yours for the taking. While we’re at it, you could absolutely ‘own’ the quality camera phone segment if you’d just focus on it properly. Your N86 is so close to perfection it hurts. Add a bigger (possibly capacitive touch) screen, a xenon flash and a QWERTY keyboard and you’d have a home run. So, after you’ve got Katariina to book you those Finnair tickets to Beijing, why not head on down to see the E-series team and get them to dust-off those next generation Communicator plans, then track down the N87 product manager and make sure he or she has everything they need to hit it out of the park?
Keep going with the advertising: Until 22 January this year we would have said you need to fire your advertising agencies. Simply put, they were doing a lousy job of getting your benefits across. The launch of Free Navigation for All was a, eh, turning point (not withstanding that you messed it up by limiting it to a small selection of handsets – where’s the N86 support for example!?) The advertising around that was excellent. That’s how to advertise: identify one unique selling point that none of your competitors can deliver and communicate it clearly, imaginatively and exhaustively. Well done.
Respect your customers, reward your early-adopters and advocates: You’ve got a loyal fan base out there – The Guide included – and they want nothing more than to sing your praises. Make that easy for them. If you release a device with a bug in it, fix it fast and make sure that fix gets pushed out to all customers straightaway (we’re still waiting for the latest firmware on our N86 four weeks after bloggers in other countries started writing about getting it). And don’t limit your firmware releases to bug fixes, enhance functionality over time. Customers love that and it keeps them loyal. Again, take Apple as your example here. Don’t’ worry, it won’t stop them upgrading; they’re going to do that anyway. All it will do is ensure that, when they do upgrade, they come back to Nokia . Which leads us to your last to-do of the day…
Give your PR and Word of Mouth agencies a bonus: We’re going to finish with something else you’re doing right. Your PR and WOM agencies are doing a stellar job in keeping interest in your products high. Flying in the face of all the problems we’ve highlighted above and fierce competition from manufacturers who are offering far better, more enticing products right now, they have managed to keep a buoyant community of writers, bloggers and tech-journalists more positive than they really should be about Nokia. Your WOM people deserve a bonus; they’re doing great work.So, there you have it OPK, your ten-point to do list. We won’t keep you any longer because we know you’ve got a very busy day ahead of you. Just before we go though, we’d like to offer you one last bonus suggestion:
We wish you a productive day and a succesful trip to China (don’t forget to pack the Dust Buster.)
Yours hopefully
Your Friends at The Prodigal Guide
OK, I’ve had the new pocket-puter a couple of weeks now, and apart from that keyboard I like it. As predicted, I’ve come to terms with the touchscreen and find it easy to use (except for some web controls which can be hard to pick up: e.g. the volume control on the BBC iplayer).
Overall, I prefer the hardware on the old E71, with the obvious exceptions of the screen and camera where the N900 excels. But the Maemo software is incomparably better. Just to take one example, I want to connect to the ‘net using a wifi network where available but otherwise defaulting to the telephone network. While Symbian requires a lot of faffing to do that, Maemo “just works”.
When I was contemplating the purchase, I asked on this blog what Maemo really is, and was assured that it’s a real Linux. I can confirm that it is indeed that, and that I can install Linux packages through the Debian tools (apt-get et al). I have yet to install gcc and a developer environment, but I don’t anticipate any difficulty with it.
Maemo is not stripped down to a toy: rather it takes a Debian base, and adds an alternative GUI, which is optimised for the small screen. It’s intuitive and easy to use, and makes brilliant use of available screen space and the touchscreen. Interactive applications toggle easily between fullscreen, fullscreen-with-toolbar, and thumbnail (minimised) with a consistent look-and-feel. The web browser is a small-screen skin on gecko (firefox), and is not bad. The mailer is positively nice, or will be when I figure out how to fix composition to get rid of pseudo-HTML: much better than some mainstream mailers I use, including thunderbird and to a lesser extent Mac mail.
One thing has me baffled: how do I bootstrap a password either for root or sudo? After googling for a solution, I worked around it by installing a rootshell which gets me passwordless root powers (!), but that’s not the kind of hack to which I expect to have to resort. /me shudders.
I’ve looked at Nokia’s OVI store, but I don’t see so much point to most of it when I have the whole repertoire of *X apps at my fingertips. OK, having said that, I’m sure I’ll install some things: the radio player, for instance. I installed a weather widget, but I don’t even recollect if that was from OVI or pre-loaded, and it’s only really a toy. The only serious app I installed was the root shell, which seems to be a prerequisite for using apt!
One more slight niggle: on the E71, Nokia’s maps are nice, but Google’s are nicer. On the N900 there’s no google maps: I can get them on the ‘net, but that loses the GPS functionality. So it’s Nokia or nothing with the GPS.
But in a sense, all this is mere detail. What I now have is connectivity from anywhere I can get the ‘phone network. So I needn’t lose email access / etc (and be fretting to get home) when I spend a day or two somewhere with no wifi available, whether it be in a technophobe house or up on the moors. Yay!
今天试了下用Nokia Web Runtime（WRT）来创建s60 widget应用程序，感觉很不错哦，直接用js和html像写网页一样，打包后直接拿到手机上安装就OK了，签名都不用，oh yeah~
不过发现Platform Service 2的Camera API有一处问题，WRT调用摄像头拍照完成后，退出摄像头应用程序的时候，WRT会去检查媒体文件，看看哪些的创建时间比刚才打开摄像头的时间晚，就认为那些是刚才新创建的文件并以数组返回这些文件的路径，文件的创建时间是用字符串来存储的，英文操作系统存储的是：“Sun Jan 24 2010 00:34:31 GMT+0800()”这样，然后用Date.parse把这串东东转换为Date，但是中文系统存储的是：“星期一, 7月06, 2009 23:43:34”这样，parse后返回的是Invaild Date … 囧
The worldwide smartphone battle is a lesson in geography, according to figures released this morning by AdMob (PDF), which shows that Apple’s (s aapl) iPhone dominates in the Western world while Nokia’s (s nok) Symbian operating system outpaces the rest of the field in Africa and Asia. But the iPhone operating system is picking up steam in some of those emerging markets, too.
Symbian devices accounted for 69 percent of smartphone ad requests in Asia through AdMob’s network in the fourth quarter of 2009, down substantially from its share in the third quarter. Meanwhile, the iPhone nearly doubled its share of traffic from Asia quarter-over-quarter. And while Symbian maintained a dominant share among users in Africa, its lead was erased in Eastern Europe for the first time as the iPhone generated 51 percent of AdMob’s smartphone activity.
The iPhone OS also accounted for an overwhelming majority of smartphone requests in Western Europe as Symbian activity fell to a mere 10 percent, and Apple gadgets maintained a substantial lead in North America. In the meantime, Android (s goog) is beginning to emerge as a force, generating more than one-fourth of AdMob’s smartphone activity in North America and 8 percent in Western Europe. Android is beginning to find an audience in Eastern Europe, too, primarily at Symbian’s expense.
Nokia’s strong traction in emerging markets is nothing new, of course, and the company has opted not to focus on North America with its ambitious Ovi service. While that may be a sound strategy, it will require the company to ramp up Symbian traffic on the mobile web and maintain the leads it’s built in the African and Asian markets that have become its focus. If AdMob’s figures are any indication, that simply isn’t happening.
Image courtesy Flickr user Jeffrey Simms Photography.
Nokia's Ovi Maps
In an attempt to ward of competition from the likes of Google, Nokia (s NOK), the largest maker of mobile phones has released the latest version of its
Ovi Maps software and making the app available for free. Nokia, despite an early start in the mobile phone focused maps and navigation has lost attention to Google and Apple’s mapping and navigation efforts. With the new Ovi Maps app, the company is hitting back, especially at Google. More importantly, it is Nokia’s big chance to become the GPS-device-of-choice in countriers where standalone navigation devices are still hard to find.
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For the past lets say 5 years, different phone manufacturers have tried to catch our attention with various nice looking, high performing and inovative phones. But looking at this Nokia concept all of the previous releases from Nokia seem to be come from the stone age. The concept, called Morph, would use nanotechnology to reshape itself, display information, and accept input in any form. However, we must take into consideration the sad fact that this tech is years and years away and it will probably never happen in our lifetime.
It is worthwile taking into cosideration the main collaborators to this project. The Nanoscience Centre and Centre for Advance Photonics and Electronics both parts of the University of Cambridge.
Morph concept technologies might create fantastic opportunities for mobile devices:
(http://www.nokia.com/about-nokia/research/demos/the-morph-concept)I’ve only started using Ovi Share on the N900 and I was surprised by how flawlessly it worked – find/take a picture/video, share, done. Maybe edit title/description tags along the way. Otherwise, it’s online in a few clicks.
I wanted something like that for Twitter, as at the moment, it’s a little difficult to send a picture through the browser as you have to go through file browsers and scroll through files etc.
Some plug-ins became available at the Ovi Store that allows N900 users to directly upload media to selected locations (e.g. YFrog/YouTube) and then post to Twitter. After setup, you can simply upload photos and videos either from gallery view or straight after capturing that photo/video.
Instructions1. Download and install which ever upload service plugin you wish to use.
2. Once installed, click the share icon in either gallery or camera app.
3. Click “Share Via Service”
4. If you’re new to “Share via service” you will need to add a new account. On the left are accounts I’ve already added. Click “New”.
5. You’ll get a selection of upload services that are installed. Scroll that list for more as only 3 are visible at a time.
6. You’ll need to set up and validate that account.
You’ll need a Pixelpipe account first. You can make registration simpler by signing in either with your Ovi Share or Twitter account.
Follow whatever instructions is provided with Pixelpipe, and then go back to gallery and authorise.
After that, future uploads are as simple as finding the photo/video>Share (icon)>Share with services>Share.
You’ll get a green share icon in the status bar, and opening the status bar gives notification of “Sharing” until that media has finished uploading (see video)
Photos that I upload via YFrog also get sent as my tweets along with the title as my comment.
Same thing goes for videos. Alternatively, you can upload via YouTube (see video). Below is a sample clip uploaded from the N900.
Huge congratulations to AllAboutSymbian’s Steve Litchfield whose The Phones Show (aka The Smartphones Show) has reached episode 100. Here’s to 100 more!
The very first Smartphone show was released in 10th January 2006! Check out the Pilot Episode, Smartphones Show 1 . Though Steve was already a natural presenter, he’s really improved a lot since then. (Does anyone know when the first episode was shot on a phone? I know it’s been a feature since N93….?)
You’ll need quicktime player to view episode 1. His show didn’t get to YouTube until episode 21, Jan 07. In August 08, from episode 64, the Smartphones Show became The Phones Show. Who’d have thunk it, but we got into the Phones Show recently with Episode 96.
Episode 1In the first episode, Steve explains what a smartphone is, how the best OS at the time was Series 60. Bluetooth and 3G were pretty new then too.
It’s a brilliant watch as it’s a great snapshot back in mobile-geek time. In just 4 years, look how much has changed from what we think a smartphone and a smartphone OS/UI should be. Looking at navigation on the 9500 was giving me headaches!
Steve looks pretty different tooo :p
How odd that Steve talks about one hand phone operation is better as opposed to two hand with stylus as Nokia’s sort of gone back to that with their touch devices. (Well ok, stylus isn’t necessary, but in general, with QWERTY keyboards (across all manufacturers), physical or virtual we need 2 hands)
Onto Episode 100In the news Steve tells us about the (Hideous) Motorola backflip. That’s not where the oddities lie. It has a trackpad…behind the screen! WTF! Maybe I’m just not used to that paradigm.
Having said that, there are some cool things going on with this form factor.
But that trackpad positioning is just insane and utterly stupid if you’ve already got a touch screen.
Mythbusting with Steve LitchfieldSteve also does a bit of mythbusting on issues such as neccesity of touch screen, capacitive screens, push email, and AMOLED screen.
I must say, those are the things I’d prefer to see in a phone. 3″New Age” UI of minimal swift movement, finger friendly touch UI’s need a feather touch capacitive screen. AMOLED makes colours appear more vibrant with those greater contrasts (and does it not also consume less power?). Push email maybe less important. I don’t know exactly what Nokia Messaging has, but it gets my email before Gmail does.
Megapixel warMyth 6 is about the Megapixel war. In reality, we don’t NEED anything more than 3MP for what the majority of people do with their photos. 5MP is a nice sweet spot. Anything more is just for marketing wars. e.g. People getting impressed at manufacturers moving from 2-3-5mp but disappointed when Nokia stays at 5MP (until the N86). More of the MP numbers does not mean better (but if it helps Nokia push sales…:p). Unless the optics, sensors, processors have improved, you’ll generally get lower quality (larger file sized!) photos.
You Don’t need XenonI love myth 7 about “No need for Xenon”. Totally agree with Steve. As a N82 user, I will fly the flag for Xenon on mobile phones. [see here for some samples]
If you don’t need xenon, strip it off all the digital cameras and swap it for LED. Dual LED good enough? No not really, especially if you’ve been spoilt by the quality and consistency of N82 low light pics. (though it is better to have LED flash than nothing at all – *ahem…3 generations of iPhones* – plus you can use LED as a torch!)
If you ever need a flash to light up a scene, only Xenon will do (unless you’re lighting up macro photos). Xenon not only lights up a scene, getting you your accurate colours, but it also freezes that moment, eradicating most movement blurs.
Unfortunately there hasn’t been that many phones with Xenon flash and so the public aren’t appreciating just how good it is on a phone. Everyone’s stuck on the paradigm that phones generally take blurry photos, especially in low light.
Via The Phones Show
With the everyday developments and innovations breaking in the field of technology, everything is possible which we could ever dream for. Every new technology in handheld gadgets entertains the users more with its modern features, specially the youngsters.
Nokia claims to think about the future of its users. Nokia has planned a new mobile especially for youngsters. Its feature will make your eyes wide open! It’s a handheld, personal communication device which is more than communication and fun. Nokia’s goal through this device is to provide more featured, modern technology to the youngsters who always move from one place to other and love to do different things.
Though full phone specification is not yet known but I can tell you the features which are more than enough to make you astonished. It is fully touch sensitive, flat but flexible device. It is capable to understand the environment and adjust its shape accordingly. It is programmable with anything you want it to be, for any situation. You can carry it in your pocket, wrap around your wrist, attach to your dress, roll it or bend it to change form and put in your bag. Isn’t it fun that you can re-form it as you want? The more interesting thing about Nokia 888 is, you don’t need to learn it, but it will learn you to fit you best.
It turns its shapes according to environment which you can also customize. You can set any form or e-Motion to any function you feel perfect. No phone before Nokia 888 had e-Motion feature. Even you can send and receive e-Motions to other 888 users. If you send a dance e-Motion to your friend, when your friend will receive it, his/her Nokia 888 will move to dance. If you send a heart shape to your friend, your friend’s Nokia 888 will turn into heart shape on receiving it. Not only this, it can be your best assistant gadget for your whole day activities. It is just done by a finger touch!
It is ready to inspire you more when it is announced to be available in market. It is not wrong to title it as “The Phone of Future for Youngsters”. The perfect form does not exist, but you make its form your follow your choice.
[You may need extras testing apps. See here on how to install that catalogue]
The N900 is easily one of the most customizable phones on the planet. It’s a given that most phones can change wallpapers, ringtones, themes, but normally you can’t change your operator logo, and if you could it was slightly complicated.
With an app called “Custom Operator Name” you can change the operator logo to say whatever you’d like, other than being trapped with “T-Mobile, Virgin, Verizon” or whatever.
In yesterday’s post,
Video: Dual LED Flashlight for the N900A couple of eagle-eyed readers noticed the AT&T logo. Though they found it more odd that it was displaying 3G, what’s more odd is that I’m in Britain and we don’t have AT&T. That was just to demo that you can change the operator logo
Instructions:1. Install “Custom Operator Name” App. You may need extras testing apps. See here on how to install that catalogue
2. To set a custom name, you access controls via the standard Maemo settings.
3. Not only can you change the operator name you can:
- Change the operator logo depending on whether it’s connected, offline or in between connection
-Change the colour and shadow of the operator logo
-Alternatively just leave it blank.
Semua orang mungkin menganggap klo angka “13” merupakan angka damned shit f**k sial. Saya juga ga ngerti kenapa mitos ini muncul. Tapi saya kira pasti ada orang yg pernah mengalami kesialan yang berkaitan dengan angka “13”. Salah satunya adalah saya.
Kemaren saya mengalami beberapa kejadian yg dapat memancing nafsu syahwat amarah saya. Ga tau kenapa ini terjadi, apa mungkin karena kemaren2 saya banyak mengeluh tentang hidup. Ato karena saya banyak melakukan hal yg berdosa. Ato lagi mungkin kah saya sedang diuji untuk dapat menempuh kehidupan selanjutnya. Hanya Allah SWT Yang Maha Mengetahui-lah yang punya jawaban dan kehendak.
Pertama saya kehilangan charger hempon. Ceritanya 2 hari yang lalu saya mengisi batre di kantor, gara2 pas mau berangkat tiba2 batre lemah syahwat. Daripada harus nge-Charge di rumah, kan pasti butuh waktu yang lebih dari 1 jam bisa2 telat ke kantor, yoowis saya bawa charger aja ke kantor. Setelah makan siang perut kenyang dan batre hempon pun ikut kenyang saya cabut charger dari hempon. Charger hempon pun saya simpan di atas CPU deket tempat makan, soalnya teman sebelah meja juga suka nge-charge di kantor jadi ga usah bongkar tas lagi klo dia mau pinjam.
Pas mau pulang saya ambil tempat makan, tapi saya lupa apakah charger ikut masuk ke dalam kantong ajaib saya ato ga. Pas sampe rumah pun saya ga ngebuka2 c’kantong ajaib, karena capek saya ga sempet menggeledah isi c’kantong ajaib.
Keesokan harinya alias kemaren alias tanggal 13 saya baru ingat klo kemarennya nge-Charge hempon dikantor. Dan setelah parkir kendaraan saya lekas ke meja kerja dan liat ke CPU untuk memastikan ada ga c’charger tercinta itu. Ternyata… setelah diselidiki dengan mata saya sendiri yang bulat dan hitam agak kecoklatan ini saya tidak menemukan c’charger yang sudah menemani pasangannya, yaitu hempon Nokiem 5130 XpretMusang selama 4 bulan ini.
Saya tanya temen2 seperjuangan di kantor one by one (ceileh so’ Engress 
). mereka pun ga ada yang tau di mana keberadaan c’charger. Karena males tanya2 lagi saya pasang status aja. Dan ada temen yang kasih komeng “Dah dijual mam ku urang!hehe”, truz “Tuch dikolong ranjang! Makanya klo maen tuch jangan sampe hilang ingatan ”, dan ada lagi komeng yang paling ngehe “Sok mam tukeran aja ma CD (celana dalem) gw! Mau ga?”. Saya ga tau apa maksud komeng yang terakhir. Huuuuh…
Setelah saya berpikir dan memfleshbek kejadian sehari sebelum tanggal 13 setelah pulang dari kantor saya sempat mampir sebentar ke tempat Photo Copy buat menjilid buku tutorial. Apa mungkin chargernya jatuh pas saya ambil buku yang belom dijilid. Ato kah tertinggal di kantor dan ada yang mengambilnya. Hmmmm… hanya Allah dan c’charger yang tau. Yach saya pun mengikhlaskan kepergian c’charger ke alamnya.
Sebenarnya saya pernah kehilangan hempon 2x sebelumnya. Dua-duanya hempon Nokiem. Sayangnya charger kedua hempon itu sudah di reQuest sama sodara2. Jadi ga mungkin kan klo harus meminta chargernya dikembaliin. Gengsi Dong!
Selamat Tinggal Charger Tercinta.
PS : klo ada yang bisa menerawang dimana keberadaan charger saya harap hubungi saya. Thanx!
The original Apple logo was designed by Ron Wayne, who started Apple with Jobs and Woz in 1976. he image is a pen and ink illustration of Sir Issac Newton leaning against an apple tree.
The Swoosh Nike logo was designed by Carolyn Davidson in 1971 – a graphic design student that Phill Knight met while teaching an accounting class at Portland State University to supplement his then-fledgling business. He paid a grand total of $35! Phill never liked the logo but stuck onto it quoting “I don’t love it, but it’ll grow on me”.
The first logo of Nokia was created in 1966 showing the image of a fish. This image should be inspired by the salmon fish of Nokianvirta River.
Art Paul was working as a freelance designer when he in 1953 was contacted by Playboy founder Hugh Hefner who needed a logo for his new magazine.
“To symbolize the melding of two companies [Il Giornarle and Starbucks] and two cultures, Terry Heckler came up with a design that merged the two logos. They kept the Starbucks siren with her starred crown, but made her more contemporary…dropped the tradition-bound brown, and changed the logo’s color to Il Giornarle’s more affirming green.”
From the very beginning, the company worked with an ambition of reaching out to the outer world and as such the company wanted to adopt a name that will be acceptable globally. With this intention, the company name was changed from Kwanon to Canon and it was registered as the logo trademark name of the company in the year 1935.
An interesting case is the refinement of the FedEx logo, where the brand consultants convinced the company to shorten their corporate name and logo from “Federal Express” to the popular abbreviation “Fed Ex”. Besides creating a shorter brand name, they reduced the amount of color used on vehicles.
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As I said in my X6 review, I thought I would test out the Camera on the X6 and compare this to the N900 (as it’s the only other phone I have right now).
You can see below how they compare:
As you can see the Nokia X6 seems to actually be better in pictures 1, 2, 4, 6 and 8 where the images are a lot more clear, vivid and colours match to how they look in real life. I think image 5 is a bit of a tie, both seem to have come out very similar and the N900 is better in images 3 and 7.
I’m a bit disappointed in the N900 now but I suppose Nokia where not concentrating on the camera when they made it, but on the other hand I have to give Nokia credit on the X6, I think it is one of the best all round Nokia smartphones right now…if only they made one with this + the N97’s qwerty, they would have a truly great phone!
The Nokia N900 is a mobile Internet device and smartphone, from Nokia based on the Maemo platform, superseding the N810. It runs Maemo 5 Linux as its default operating system and is the first Nokia device based upon the TI OMAP3 microprocessor with the ARM Cortex-A8 core. Unlike the Internet Tablets preceding it, the Nokia N900 is the first Maemo device to include phone functionality (quad-band GSM and 3G UMTS). It functions as a 5 mega pixel camera, a portable media player, and a mobile Internet device with email and full web browsing. It was launched at Nokia World on 2 September 2009 and was released on 11 November 2009 in the United States and 9 European countries.
The N900 was launched alongside Maemo 5, giving the device an overall more touch-friendly interface than its predecessors and a customizable home screen which mixes application icons with shortcuts and widgets. Maemo 5 supports Adobe Flash Player 9.4, and includes many applications designed specifically for the mobile platform such as a new touch-friendly media player.
My plans is to get it next month most probably (Depending on financial status), and really looking forward to own it because had the chance to put my hands on it
