This week we're to understand that not only has a filmmaker taken it upon himself to film an entire movie with only a set of Nokia N8 smartphones, it'll be released in theaters soon, too! This movie goes by the name Olive and will bring a story of "a little girl who transforms the lives of three people without speaking one word" to the big screen having been filmed in its entirety by a Nokia N8 smartphone double-taped to a set of traditional film-camera lenses. The director of this film, Hooman Khalili, does admit he had to hack the smartphone to turn the auto-focus and auto-zoom off to make it all work - beyond that it's nothing but Nokia greatness in the clicker!
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Nokia N8 filmed feature film “Olive” hits theaters this month
Nokia Symbian Anna released for N8, C7, E7 and C6-01
Nokia has begun the Symbian Anna roll-out, with the updated software beginning to show up for the N8, C7, E7 and C6-01. Bringing a new, portrait orientation soft-keyboard, boosted browser, better iconography and the much-demanded split-screen text entry, the Anna update also activates the NFC chip in the Nokia C7.
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Nokia think pink with new N8
With all the fuss over the white iPhone 4 last week, we can't really blame Nokia for trying a little color variant hype of its own. Debut the pink Nokia N8, the sixth hue in which the high-resolution cameraphone is available in, following the black, red, yellow, silver and blue models from the initial launch.
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Nokia Gets Design Patent for (MeeGo?) Tablet
There have been plenty of rumors and speculation about a possible Nokia MeeGo tablet, and now there is some solid evidence. The United States Patent and Trademark Office has just published a design patent granted to Nokia for a tablet device.
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Symbian UI refresh previewed on Nokia N8
What looks to be the new Symbian homescreen layout has been briefly previewed, ahead of the promised Nokia update later in 2011. Shown briefly during a presentation by Nokia SVP of smartphones Jo Harlow, the refreshed UI - demonstrated on an N8 - has a slimmed down status bar with Android/iOS-style operator, battery, signal and time iconography, and a much narrower call/menu/options bar at the bottom.
In-between there are new widgets, no longer imprisoned by the traditional blocks fitting six to a screen. Instead it all looks more flexible and streamlined, taking a leaf out of Android's book. The end result is a far more modern looking smartphone, with a UI that actually begins to live up to the N8's slick aluminum chassis.
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Nokia N8 DIY Terminal Mode setup gets video demo
Nokia's Terminal Mode promises to integrate the company's smartphones with in-car entertainment systems, but one N8 owner wasn't willing to wait. He hooked up the Symbian smartphone to his Mazda 6, using the N8's video output, Bluetooth and GPS - together with some custom Qt apps - to bring the Nokia experience to his dashboard.
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Inderes estimates Nokia shipped 3.5 to 4M Nokia N8 smartphones in Q4
Research firm Inderes has offered up some insight on the number of Nokia N8 smartphones that Nokia has shipped and compared the sales a bit to the iPhone and other smartphones on the market. The Finnish research firm says that it has been forced to reconsider calling the N8 a failure. The company estimates that in Q4, Nokia supplied as many as 4 million N8 smartphones.
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2011: The Year of Pentaband?
When Dell’s Streak 7 “Looking Glass” tablet crossed the FCC earlier this week, the surprise wasn’t that the 7-inch M02M slate existed but the radio it used. Boasting both AT&T and T-Mobile USA UMTS/WCDMA compatibility, the Streak 7 looks set to join the exclusive club of pentaband 3G devices. In a market where more – whether more CPU cycles, more megapixels or more screen inches – is generally the easiest fight to compete in, cellular radios seem to have been left behind. Could 2011 be the year pentaband goes mainstream?
Nokia N8 shoots pics for PiX Magazine cover
Being a full time tech geek is a pretty sweet gig and typically, I think I have it pretty good. I get to play with gadgets and spend my days getting paid for doing things I would do even if I had a real job and getting dressed up only involves wearing pants. As cool as being a pro geek is, the sweetest gig ever would have to be a fashion photographer. You get to hang out with hot chicks all day after all.
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Nokia N8 vibe motor shows its strength in bizarre refrigerator stunt [Video]
It's not entirely clear why you'd want to prove that the Nokia N8's vibration motor is capable - with some suitable gearing - of lifting a 60kg+ refrigerator, but that's just what some Chinese engineers have decided to prove. As you can see in the video after the cut, having dismantled the Symbian smartphone (something we already know is pretty straightforward) they then turned to the awesome power of whiteboard calculations to get the fridge off the ground.
Video demo after the cut
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Windows Phone 7 outsold by Android 15:1 in UK suggests retailer
With Microsoft still refusing to provide Windows Phone 7 sales figures, retailers are stepping in with their own anecdotal evidence about the new smartphone platform's market success - or lack of it. UK store deal aggregator MobilesPlease has announced that Windows Phone 7 has accounted for just 3-percent of their smartphone sales, with Android devices outselling WP7 handsets 15:1 and even Symbian doing a good job of eclipsing Microsoft.
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Nokia N8 power problems officially acknowledged [Video]
Nokia has acknowledged some issues with its N8 smartphone, which sees the Symbian^3 handset refusing to power on correctly. According to Nokia EVP Niklas Savander, the issue affects "a limited number of N8 users" who are finding their phones either won't turn on or won't turn off; Savander says Nokia has identified that the fault lies with "the way we assemble the engines."
Video interview after the cut
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