Delicious Ice Cream White Nokia Lumia 800 – When you think that the Apple iPhone is the prettiest phone in the world, take a break, look at the new Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone in white! It’s so pretty and delicious. It’s only available in UK at the moment, hopefully it will come to Malaysia too!

Another thing, Lumia 800 is coming to Malaysia via DiGi.

Nokia Lumia 900 LTE Windows Phone – CES 12 is going on right now and Nokia just confirmed the latest device of Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone which supports LTE next-gen connectivity. LTE gives you a download speeds of up to 50mbps.

The Nokia Lumia 900 looks identical to the Nokia Lumia 800 but with a bigger size at screen size of 4.3″ ClearBack AMOLED screen. The built quality is pretty good which is a polycarbonate unibody.

Official specs of the phone is as below:

• Networks: GSM/EGSM 850/900/1800/1900, WCDMA 850/1900/2100, LTE Band 4 (1700/2100) & 17 (700)
• Processor: 1.4GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon APQ8055 + MDM9200
• OS: Windows Phone Release 7.5 – Mango Commercial Release 2 (Mango + LTE)
• Memory: 512MB RAM
• Storage: 16 GB internal memory (14.5GB user memory) + SkyDrive cloud storage
• Camera: 8MP with 28mm wide-angle F/2.2 lens, Front Camera: 1MP
• Weight: 160g (5.6 ounces)
• Dimensions: (max): 127.8 x 68.5 x 11.5 mm (5 x 2.7 x .45 inches)
• Others: A-GPS, Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g/n), USB 2.0 high-speed, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, 3mm headset connector
• Battery: 1840mAH, 7hrs talk-time and up to 300hrs on standby

This phone is also the first LTE smartphone from Nokia. At the moment, Nokia did not reveal the release data and pricing yet. I have no idea when it will come to Malaysia and hopefully when it comes, LTE-technology is ready in Malaysia by DiGi and Maxis.

Available in black and cyan. I have tried Lumia 800 before and the built quality is very good.

Nokia N9 – Good Concept, A Little Too Late – Last week, I was walking in Sunway Pyramid, a shopping mall in Malaysia and I saw a demo unit of the Nokia N9 on shelf. I was curious and went to have a little hands-on on it. The design looks very good and sleek with a 3.9″ capacity Gorilla glass display.

What’s so special about phone is the button-less homescreen. There’s no home button like on the iPhone or Android. It’s just a screen, with a function button on right and the volume key on the left. So how it works is actually on swiping the screen. Swiping the screen from right to left actually wakes up the phone. I find that it is a very good idea and concept. Swiping from left to right changes your opened application screen and from top to bottom is to close your application.

Sounds pretty cool right? It runs on MeeGo OS and has a 1GHz Cortex A8 CPU, with 8megapixel shooter on the back that is able to shoot HD-ready 720P video at 30fps. The feeling on hand is very solid, not too light, nor too heavy with a perfect size. The MeeGo system is smooth and has a good looking UI too.

Unfortunately, MeeGo is a late-comer where iOS and Android is taking most of the smartphone market share and Windows Phone Mobile is coming up while RIM’s BlackBerry is doing not so well. With apps that are already ready built for the other platforms, MeeGo might not get much third party app support and development. Well, I just got to say that the idea of the phone is very good, and sadly, MeeGo is just too late, it should have join the competition few years back when iOS and Android were released.

As you know, Nokia dumped Symbian for Windows Phone 7 (WP7) and they in fact still working on another operating system which is the MeeGo. Somehow, the Nokia N9, known as the swipe phone might be the first and last phone from Nokia running the MeeGo platform.

Recent 21 June event in Singapore, Nokia stunned the world of tech with the Nokia N9 smartphones, can be said as the successor to the Symbian Nokia N8 and Maemo N900.

The N9 features a new interface experience that doesn’t require any navigation buttons or even a home butter. The only physical buttons are the power button and volume control.

The sleek design of Nokia N9 handset features a 3.9″ AMOLED screen with WVGA resolution of 854×480 which has a cruved Gorilla glass, upgraded from 3.5″ of Nokia N8.

It’s Nokia phone with the highest hardware specs and wun with a 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 OMAP3630 processor and a 1GB RAM. It has a 8MP camera with Carl Zeiss lens and Nokia claims that it has the fastest image capturing phone in the market, that a shot can be taken in just 2.6 seconds.

It also included NFC which lets you share files and media by tapping onto another device, and Dolby audio support.

The design is real awesome and what’s special is the MeeGo platform which features the Swipe function. Navigating through apps and homescreen just requires different swipe gesture. According to its Harmattan implementation, Nokia centralized the device into 3 main functions and they are notifications, apps and multitasking.

There’s no news about release date, but it’s one of Nokia’s best phone up to date and MeeGo is obviously better than Symbian but the support for it lies in Nokia hand.

Check out the full specification at Nokia’s site.

What do you think? Hehe.

It’s not all yet! Boys Like Girls will be there, Khalil Fong will be there! And other artist too! I like Khalil Fong a lot. =)

Unfortunately, I am so far away from the location, I stay in Penang, somewhere 400km away from the venue and unless there’s sponsor want to cover my transportation and accommodation, only then I can go cover the event for you. I so wish that I could be in the line and buy a phone for such a low price and meet up with Boys Like Girls and Khalil Fong. OMG!

[via Nokia Malaysia]

Though, it’s not out yet, only that it keeps quiet and turned on silent mode, it still vibrates. Some hacker installed Android OS on the Nokia N900 and it dual boot Maemo and Android too! A little bit cool, but I prefer running just one OS. The most important of all still is SPEED!

What this tell us is not running Android on N900, it is telling us that Maemo on N900 is open source, and it is possible to run other OS.

[via jkOnTheRun]

The app allows you to do some simple Facebook stuff like updating your status, adding friends, sending messages, browsing and uploading photos and more. Unfortunately there’s no Chat feature like on the iPhone.

Feeling a little bit disappointed because they online release app for the E71 and E72 but not the others Nokia S60 v3 phone like N95 (I use a N95 8GB). Some people tried to install it on a E75 and it works, so you might wanna give it a try too.

Download it now at Ovi store.

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My previous original home screen.

Recently I found a new application that will replace your standby screen with various customization. Actually it’s out quite some times in Chinese version. It’s actually created by the Chinese and have been ported to English recently.

It added weather, Google search, a big digital clock, and a rotating news feed. The to do notes and memos are still there and it shows the number of to dos you have in your calendar instead of one in the original standby screen. Another thing I didn’t set is that it allows two rows of shortcut instead of one. I don’t really have that many shortcuts, so a row is fine for me. One row that is missing is the Share Online thing that was on the original standby screen, this is a good thing because I don’t use it and I believe many of you don’t too, another is the WLAN scanning, but you can add the WLAN wizard shortcut into the shortcut line. =)

On the original setting, the right key is actually MyFav which shows a list of your frequent used contact. I prefer having Calendar as my right shoutcut key. Pressing the red End Call keys will switch between opened background application. So let’s say you have Gravity on, you hide it, you need not to go can choose from your shortcut but instead, pressing the End Call button brings you straight into unclose app.

For the left shortcut key, it actually opens up a menu which brings to a list of shortcut again. So you actually can get a lot of shortcut with this Voyager Homescreen. One thing that bothers me is that I don’t know why my Start menu is in Chinese, maybe is the install and uninstall of different version causes this. I can read Chinese so it does fine to me. A little big translation on my Start menu, the first *key is Lock Keypad, 1. is News Feeds, 3. is Setting, 3. is More Setting and 4. is Camera.

Clicking on the weather bar brings up this 4 day weather forecast. You need to have a Internet connection for this and the rotating news feed. Setting up the weather was a little bit troublesome at first, I recommend you to use a Wifi or 3G, it just can’t detect the city when I got an EDGE connection.

Another feature that comes with it is vApp which is like a App Store built in with the vHome app. Showing some of the useful free app. This is faster than Ovi, but I didn’t really use it because I have what I want already.

Besides that, you can do smart dialing which is like on the E71. Straight dial a name and the names on the phonebook or app will show on screen. I like this feature a lot.

I also found out that the app has changed my web browser’s home screen, showing a list of shortcuts. That’s pretty good, but if I am allow to change the links of the shortcut will be nice.

One feature that is missing from the Chinese version is the social networking bar, which you can update Facebook and Twitter right from the standby screen, hopefully next update will include this.

Available for Symbian S60 v3 and it’s unsigned. So look way around to install unsigned app in your phone and have fun!

Download here.