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Tag: Windows Phone
Nokia fan from slovakia @RusnakCOBRA talks to Nokia News Ireland #nokia #ireland
Nokia fan Peter Chomanic is a nokia fan and seen my collection on nokia connects and we got chatting via twitter and email.
He wanted to tell us his story so here it is.
Q1- Hi your a man of many talents,tell us about who you are and what you do.
– I’m mostly a support guy, so I’m working as a server support for one of major players on that market. Aside of that, I’m a huge mobile fan (unfortunately, had no luck to work for Nokia), so from time to time I’m reviewing phones, testing apps, repairing phones for me & friends, collecting phones, sometimes modding some parts of Symbian, MeeGo e.g.: one of alphanumeric keyboards is mine, same as “CzechoSlovak edit of N9’s keyboard.
Q2- You are a nokia fan,what is your current daily driver.
– I’m using N9 (too afraid to use N950 as my daily phone) and I really love MeeGo OS and I have 2 more of them, as the first one is almost completely damaged now. Secondary phone is a BlackBerry Z10, as its OS is currently the closest to MeeGo (you know, swipes, no buttons…). Not fully satisfied with that. The third phones is curretnly being reviewed, it’s a Nokia Lumia 925. Used it to make some really good pictures on SAAB car meeting in Slovakia (https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/107175620946963824496/albums/5933961450698254625) and some trips in local forests (https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/107175620946963824496/albums/5939543106473240769). Well, Windows Phone in version 8 + GDR3 (developer update) is fine, but still, if that phone had MeeGo, I’d love it much much more 🙂
Q3-Your a blogger,tell us some more about your blog
– I was active on many forums about mobile phones, especially about Symbian, later Maemo & MeeGo, but I finally landed on Symbianmania, later renamed to SmartMobil.sk (http://smartmobil.sk) as we added all systems to it. We also started a blog there, publishing some news, guides (e.g. how to downgrade your Symbian phone), some App tis, phone reviews… Simply a voluntary work & support of smartphone users.
Q4- You claim to have alot of nokia devices,tell us about your collection.
– Well, I had few my older phones, I was given some from my friends and family too (as everyone knows how passionate I am about phones), some people donated some too when were grateful for my help on forums, so I started to collect them. Currently, I have 2138 phones in my collection, 820 various models. Nokia, of course, is the biggest part of my collection: 648 phones, 191 models. My dream is to make a Mobile Phones Museum (facebook.com/MuzeumMobilov; twitter.com/MuzeumMobilov), where you can go, see old phones in working condition and remember the the times when you lived with them, or wanted to have some of them. You know, now, most of the phones I ever wanted to have are cheap enough 🙂 I can have all the “toys”
Impressive collection there.
Thanks for requesting us to share your story and show us our collection peter.
Tutorial- Nokia 515 back cover removal! #nokia #ireland #515
We have had several requests on how to remove the back cover on the nokia 515.
Not the usual standard of removing a cover but here it goes.
1 Sim re tractor tool as its known mostly for.
2 Your 515
3 Insert sim re retractor tool into hole at bottom of phone.
4 Push gently until the back pops off slightly,it will be stiff as its new
5 Put the bottom rounded end of the retractor tool in between gap of backplate and device and gently twist.
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The Nokia Lumia 625 Now in Yellow @Meteor_Mobile for only €189 #Nokia #ireland #windowsphone
Meteor mobile has now the exclusive yellow nokia lumia 625 at a bargain price of €189 on prepay
They also sell it in black,this is a very good price for the big screened WP8 phone.
And ideal gift perhaps for the husband or boyfriend at this price ..
The Nokia Lumia 625 features a 4.7″ display giving you even more space for apps, videos, browsing and not to mention gaming on the go.
Features
- 4.7 inch screen
- Main camera sensor: 5 MP
- Qualcomm Snapdragon™ S4 dual core processor
- 4G Ready
More HERE
EXCLUSIVE- NFC commander App for #WindowsPhone #nokia #lumia #NFC
NFC Commander is a Windows Phone application developed give you an easy and useful way to use the NFC capability of your Windows Phone.
The app was developed exclusively for windows phone platform and is designed to seamlessly integrate the OS using the Modern (metro) UI simplistic style with focus on typography giving the user an uncluttered straight forward experience.
There are plenty of nfc enabled applications but with NFC Commander you get the most complete experience. You can think of NFC Commander as an NFC hub if you like.
The main screen of NFC Commander let you pan through the main tabs which are : read , write , about , more.
If you want to see what’s written on a specific NFC tag, tap your phone to it and select what you want to see from the read tab. When you read a tag you can see some general information’s about it in the “tag information”, you can also see what’s really written in the tag on the “data in the tag” and if for some reason you want to see it there is option to take a look at the raw data (useful only for developers).
Now the interesting stuff, NFC Commander let you write to NFC tags actions your phone can do when you tap it to the programed tag. What’s even cooler is that most of those actions can be read/done by any nfc smartphone , windows phone or not. Obviously those who can’t be read by other smartphones are windows phone specific actions. So what can you do by taping an NFC tag?
- send an SMS to someone
- call someone
- send an email to someone
- share a location that open in Nokia maps
- share a web link
- share plain text
- launch NFC Commander
- open one of many windows phone settings
- show gigs around me*
- play artist mix*
- share artist details*
- launch Nokia Music on nokia lumia devices
Planed updates will allow you to create launch tags to any application.
Finally in the about tab you can get in-touch with me and let me know what feature would you like to see in the future, I’m open to all suggestion.
You can follow the developer also on twitter @JasonPap_dev .
Scan the QR CODE to download.
You can try the app or buy it for a small fee.
UPDATE – Yellow Nokia Lumia 1020 appears on Vodafone Irelands website.#Nokia #Lumia #ireland
The yellow Lumia 1020 has appeared on Vodafone Irelands website, this will be a nice addition rather than having the same black colour across all networks.
We will update as we get a reply from Vodafone to see if all is in order.
UPDATE.
Vodafone have said this, do you know or heard of anyone getting a yellow 1020 from Vodafone ireland? If so let us know.
Lumia 1020 Vodafone Yellow.
@Joles from the @MetroHNews reviews the #Nokia Lumia 1020 #Nokia #Ireland.
Dublin’s free quality commuter newspaper Metro Herald, has had the nokia lumia 1020 reviewed by journalist Joanne Ahern.
Joanne gives a great review and again like others highlights the lack of apps,the mainstream apps are there but its localised apps that’s the problem here in ireland such as banking apps for example.
Hopefully this will change with the recent news that nokia lumia sales continue to rise which is a promising sign and will hopefully encourage ,devs and also media groups here in ireland will give us WindowsPhone apps which generally seem to land only on ios and android.
Over to joannes review!
Just to note the 1020 is now also on emobile,meteor, and vodafone,and today 3 ireland announced the launch of the device.
Source- Nokia Ireland bit.ly/1by0j96
NSD guru @AdrianGHughes reviews the nokia Lumia 1020 #NOKIA #LUMIA
Say hello to adrian hughes and his review on the nokia lumia 1020,adrian is also well known from the NOKIA SUPPORT DISCUSSIONS forum.
You will be seeing more from adrian soon!
When Nokia announced to the world the imaging behemoth that was the 808 PureView, I must say my heart skipped about twenty beats, yet was filled with a geeky nerd’s excitement at the same time. Nokia chose to showcase their imaging prowess and go out with a bang on the Symbian side of things, yet also completely obliterate the competition at the time. There were some that were hesitant to invest in such a phone at the time, but plenty wishing and waiting for the same tech to come to a Windows Phone 8 handset. The low-light and optical image stabilisation factor came with the 920 in late 2012, and a further refinement of that in the 925 in early 2013. Then in mid-July 2013, the 1020 was announced. Is it the imaging beast that many wished and waited for?
Read on in Part 1 of my Lumia 1020 review, in which I cover the Hardware and Camera. In Part 2, I will cover the Display, Internals and Software of this phenomenal device.
Hardware/Build/Accessories
The Lumia 1020 comes in yellow, black and white, much like the initial colour flavouring of the 920. Built of a matte polycarbonate, it has a beautiful texture to it that is smooth to the touch. I must say that while the glossy finish of the 920 was charming in its own right, the 1020’s feels even better and exudes a feeling of owning a premium product. This extends to the three hardware buttons adorning the right side of the phone, the standard volume, power/lock and camera keys for Windows Phone handsets. Being made of a ceramic material in contrast to the zirconium of the 920, they complement the matte polycarbonate and accentuate the feel of the handset in the hand. The positioning of the speaker grille this time around and the non-inclusion of screws on the bottom also feels like a refinement of the design of the 920. There is also a seamless transition from the backside of the phone to the camera hump and back down again. Everything feels well designed and thought-out. This is a phone to be seen with, and a phone to be cherished when held in the hand.
The undersides of the Lumia 920 and Lumia 1020 side by side.
The Nokia Lumia 1020 in all it’s glory.
Also included in the retail box is a handy wrist strap that you can attach to the wrist-strap pinhole at the bottom of the handset, which comes in handy for sunny days out taking photos. As the 1020 does not have wireless charging built-in, there are also wireless charging covers available (CC-3066), and the awesome camera grip (PD-95G), which doubles as an extra battery of capacity 1020mAH and a camera grip and tripod mount. These accessories make a product where its main marketing feature is the camera, even more appealing.
Camera
For your Facebook selfie photo and Skype calling needs, there is the 1.2 megapixel wide-angle front-facing camera on the front of the device. Nokia Glam Me takes care of those selfies, or with a wide gamut of apps in the Windows Store, such as DualShot, you can trust that you will have your needs covered.
Now onto the question on everyone’s lips, how is that 41 megapixel camera? In one word: breathtaking. After using the Nokia N8 and Lumia 920 over the course of the past year or so, it is absolutely mind-boggling to see the amount of detail captured in the photos from the Lumia 1020. In summary, scenes are lit up spectacularly by the Xenon flash, and outdoor photography is absolute bliss. As I am a casual photographer, this review will not go into detail about how specific parameters affect the final image output, but let me say this: even in fully automatic mode with the camera and video camera, stills and videos will blow you away. Into the next continent.
While Windows Phone already has a nice stock camera app, Nokia has gone over and above with the Nokia Pro Cam and Nokia Smart Cam apps (now integrated into the same Nokia Cam app as of last week, and only for the Lumia 9xx and Lumia 1xxxx series), which gives settings for manual tap-to-focus in addition to the hardware shutter key, scene modes, ISO exposure and white balance control, manual adjustment of focus timer, shutter speed and and bracketing. This affords incredible flexibility for the user, who is able to adjust settings at will. For example in the photos below, I was able to shoot the same flower with the foreground and then the background in focus. It also has a slide-in feature, so you are able to see the effect of your adjustments in real-time as you are composing your photo.
Nokia Camera with settings for white balance, focus, ISO, shutter speed and exposure.
One of the most hyped features of the 1020 at launch is the ability to re-frame your photo after it has been taken. This way you can take photos from quite a distance away and then due to the PureView oversampling technology, are able to zoom-in to certain subjects in the image and save it, without any degradation of the image quality that is usually associated with digital zoom/optical zoom. If you want to zoom out again and have another part of the image highlighted, no worries, simply re-frame and you can compose to your heart’s desire. There is a plethora of additional options in the Nokia Camera application, ranging from framing grids to the behaviour of the focus assist light to the aspect ratio. Any casual and professional photographer would be more than happy with the amount of options on hand.
Video recording is equally as impressive with controls over white balance and an awesome video assist light. While I though the video assist light on the N8 was handy, the 1020 blows it out of the water. In pitch-black situations, the light is absolutely blinding and does an admirable job of capturing detail and the video subject. You never have to worry about having grainy low-light videos ever again, because the 1020 has it handled. Just don’t go filming your mates at night in a park. Bystanders will think the Blair Witch Project has been hashed out for another sequel 
Nokia Camera in video mode with video focus assist light enabled.
Last but not least, there is the Nokia Smart Cam application, now built-in to the Nokia Camera application. This captures a burst of ten images in very quick succession, allowing you to choose from Best Shot, Action Shot and Motion Focus. I won’t go into too much detail here, but it allows for choosing the best images from a situation that you have captured; motion blur where the object in the image is frozen and the background to the sides of them blurred, and also action shots, where say a person has multiple instances of themselves in the same image as they complete an action (for example, jumping to the side on a sunny day). There are also custom apps such as Nokia Panorama, Nokia Glam Me, Nokia Video Trimmer, Nokia Creative Studio, Nokia Cinemagraph and Nokia Video Upload to curb your photography fetishes. Anything that you can think of editing-wise or photo effect-wise, Nokia and the Lumia 1020 has you covered. It’s an awesome feeling.
I have attached a few sample shots I have taken with the Lumia 1020, to give you an idea of the image quality that it represents.
Join me later this week in Part 2 of my Lumia 1020 review, in which I cover the Display, Internals and Software.
Lumia 1020 close-up with background in focus.
Lumia 1020 close-up with foreground in focus.
Source- http://t.co/uLprWJJFT8
EXCLUSIVE- The Nokia Lumia 925 goes on sale with 3 ireland #nokia #ireland cc @3_News
3 IRELAND have exclusively told us that from today the nokia lumia 925 will go on sale .
UPDATE – Will be available this Tuesday 29th October.
The details will be provided later today by 3 on the three.ie website and we will update this post later.
We would like to thank three,ie for giving us the information and its great to see more networks take up the lumia range.
