Nokia Conversations

Top of Amazon doesn't really mean much. http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/04/12/nokia-lumia-900-dominates-am… Here's some analysis based on browsing data usage which shows sales were worse than Windows RT. http://www.zdnet.com/first-real-world-usage-figures-suggest-chromebook… If Chromebooks sales are good , why don't they release real official numbers?

Android: http://www.war-worlds.com/blog/2012/06/on-android-garbage-collection-c… C#: http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/06/01/interview-with-matthieu-laba… Ruby: https://blog.twitter.com/2011/building-faster-ruby-garbage-collector (It was not good enough, they dumped Ruby) Accepted answer? "Manual tracking of objects" http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2484079/how-can-i-avoid-garbage-col… Google has 14 million web pages about Garbage Collector issues...

WOW, the 12 megapixel photos are amazing! http://conversations.nokia.com/2010/04/27/first-12-megapixel-sample-ph…

Usability. I strongly disagree that Android has much of that, and I suspect that a great many Android users simply don't know any better. Windows Phone really is that much better. Rant: My first smartphone was a Lumia, and then when it broke i went to a Sony Xperia (with a rather clean Android 4.3 on it). I never even realized how well-designed WP was until I went to Android. Examples: - Operation. Nearly all of WP is easy to operate with just a thumb, single-handed. All important controls are either near the bottom or reachable by swiping. On Android, I have to reach to the top for all kinds of stuff. It's simply, apparently, an Android design pattern to put a bar with buttons on the top, as far away from my hand as possible. This is plainly ridiculous. On WP, there's a clear relationship between "how important is this action" and "how close is it to the bottom". As it should be. - Consistency. All well-designed WP apps work the same. Swipe left/right for different screens/tabs, touch the left-side of an item for select-boxes, operations on the bottom and more operations by selecting "...". This is the same nearly everywhere, both for built-in apps and for most well-designed apps from the store. - Cleanliness and clarity. The Xperia forced me to choose a home screen background picture, making it very difficult to read text and icons. I google-image-searched a "black.png" to work around this, but still, it's cluttered by default, and you need to do work to clean it up.…

I won't comment on Symbian, I don't know enough about it and it's been covered by others. The Maemo project was going in a nice direction for a while, but Nokia missed the mark when it released the N900. I was one of those chomping at the bit waiting for it to finally be released... then it was, with a screen that is too small for the phenomenal resolution, and with a UI that is geared toward (finger input) touchscreen and a touchscreen geared toward the precision of pen input. I'm one of the oddballs that loves the precision of pen input. People I meet are still amazed when they see my aged N800! They are disappointed when I tell them it's not a phone, and even more disappointed when I tell them it hasn't been made in years. Nokia was relying on word-of-mouth advertising for their Internet Tablet platform, but then they changed the platform to something it's not. When I tell these people there's a newer, much more powerful version that adds a phone - called the N900, they get excited! When I tell them that it has the same resolution, but compressed into a smaller 3.5" screen, they are disappointed. When I tell them that it is not subsidized by any carrier, and that you have to pay full price (or if discounted, is still $550), it doesn't matter that it's "unlocked" (never locked in the 1st place), as: 1, the price is too high and 2, GSM limits you to only 2 carriers in the US. I hope the new direction (MeeGo) helps, but I'm not holding my breath. Nokia had a "design by…

I swear I've heard this messaging before... http://conversations.nokia.com/2011/02/11/mobile-phones-the-next-billi…

Ah of course, Nokia, should have guessed. Interesting video on their stabilisation technology - on the 925 it doesn't seem to add that much thickness, that one is only 8.8mm thick, vs 7.7mm for iPhone 5. They should have licensed their camera tech to all manufacturers. Wonder how much of it will pop up in iPhone 6 now that they snagged one of the main PureView engineers. http://conversations.nokia.com/2013/09/25/how-nokia-lumia-optical-imag… I think the earlier 1020 etc were thick because of huge sensor size. I have OIS dSLR lenses but none of them are quite as good as that Sony's Optical Steady Shot linked above - it's almost as good as some brushless gimbals I'm using on drones, which are rock steady. Sony claim it's 13 times more effective than their previous stabilisation.

The first thing that came to mind was the Nokia Gem concept from around 2011: http://conversations.nokia.com/2011/11/10/nokia-gem-what-sort-of-phone… The whole thing was a touch screen. Here's an Engadget article on the Nokia concept with a fair amount of comments: http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/11/nokia-gem-concept-dazzles-with-exce…

spec: http://conversations.nokia.com/2014/02/24/nokia-x-family/ Looks rather poor. 800x480px on a 5-inch screen would be painful.

It should be a challenge for Nokia buy not allowing Google Play Services and Promoting Windows and Nokia based apps but this is the only way windows will allow Nokia to develop more android based devices. As of this post from Nokia http://conversations.nokia.com/2014/02/24/nokia-x-family/ I think they still allow other 3rd-party sources for downloading the apps and there are still more Android based phones to come.

With the sale of the phone business to MS, Nokia is pivoting to mapping and connected cars: http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/09/28/top-auto-brands-turn-to-noki… Nokia bought Navteq for ~$8 billion a few years back. They're the only source for mapping data that is comparable to Google.

Nokia already has it on the lumia: http://conversations.nokia.com/2013/07/03/nokia-smart-camera-remove-mo…

There is Nokia Music too - 20 million songs http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/11/17/10-things-you-didnt-know-abo… Free streaming on Nokia Lumia devices and free 1 year subscription. 3 hours of offline mixes ( at a time ) for download.

I'm waiting for this phone to hit the U.S. this fall. If your N95 ever breaks, you should check it out. http://conversations.nokia.com/2013/08/28/iconic-style-meet-the-nokia-…

The original piece in Nokia Conversations blog says: "On smartphones, we’ll be seeking to create a unified brand across Lumia and Windows. " [1] "Nokia" brand won't be used with smartphones but my understanding is that the fate of "Lumia" is not yet decided. Personally I think it would make sense to have "Lumia" smartphones and "Surface" tablets. [1] http://conversations.nokia.com/2013/09/04/whats-next-for-lumia-and-ash…

It's already being done. Nokia has a nice one, but they weren't the first: http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/11/13/livesight-immersive-experien…

The whitepaper on an older version of the technology is here. http://i.nokia.com/blob/view/-/849564/data/2/-/Download1.pdf The Xenon flash eliminates the blur in standard flash. Comparison pictures against the S4 and iPhone 5. http://i.imgur.com/fUe8rLC.png The optical image stabilization is cool, with ball bearings replacing the coils on the Lumia 920. Sample video comparison against the S4(Edit: S3, my bad). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuLlAa4zDbU&t=0m55s More details here. http://conversations.nokia.com/2013/07/11/nokia-lumia-1020-the-smartph…

It's possible to push maps from a PC to at least some S40 phones: http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/03/13/using-nokia-maps-for-series-… I doubt they disabled it for this one.

>Microsoft got so such pass with WP7 and that was an entirely new OS/platform! Well, around tech circles, Apple and Google frequently get more free passes compared to Microsoft. And that's kind of funny because Nokia just put out a comparison with Apple and Google maps to cash in on this hoopla. http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/09/20/benchmarking-mobile-maps/

I'm also skeptical about the floating lens claim. That doesn't seem like something you can just turn on and off. It looks more like software stabilization if you look at the video in their apology http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/09/06/an-apology-is-due/

Here's the real video they released with an apology, apparently taken by strapping two phones on a bar. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HSbhyaH0vw&feature=player_embedded http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/09/06/an-apology-is-due/

Here is an apology from Nokia: http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/09/06/an-apology-is-due/ Here are videos (OIS off and on) shot with a Lumia 920: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6HSbhyaH0vw

Link to the apology: http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/09/06/an-apology-is-due/

I don't think so. Their site says: Display: 4.5 inch Nokia PureMotion HD+ WXGA IPS LCD, Super Sensitive touch, Nokia ClearBlack with high brightness mode and Sunlight Readability Enhancements http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/09/05/video-introducing-the-nokia-…

They introduced a family of NFC paired accessories too, http://conversations.nokia.com/2011/06/21/nokia-steps-it-up-a-gear-wit…

The only Windows Phone feature that really matters: All Nokia phones will ships with WP7 on them starting in the fall. http://conversations.nokia.com/2011/02/11/open-letter-from-ceo-stephen… Seriously, though, it's pretty exciting.

This article[1] suggests that the Ovi store gets 2.7 million app downloads a day. The Apple App store gets 17 million app downloads a day with less than half the marketshare. [1] http://conversations.nokia.com/2010/11/09/10-reasons-why-you-should-de…

He's from Canada. http://conversations.nokia.com/2010/09/10/stephen-elop-to-join-nokia-a…

Yes, 370€ unlocked & untaxed according to Nokia: http://conversations.nokia.com/2010/04/27/nokia-n8-official-price-spec…

The actual blog post: http://conversations.nokia.com/2010/06/28/how-do-you-hold-your-nokia