Apparently he tried to upload a video of himself playing with his new phone but wasnt able to.

Sorry about the bad link:( sucks! It’s a vid of me and this new Nokia Lumia I just picked up. Pretty sweet #techgeek twitter.com/waynebrady/sta…

— Wayne Brady (@waynebrady) May 17, 2012

Woo, more celebrities with Windows Phones, must be a good thing, eh?

And Monster headphones to match. I’m sorry IPhone. I can’t stop touching her big assed display! Daaaaamn! I still love you though

— Wayne Brady (@waynebrady) May 17, 2012

Comedian Wayne Brady gets a Nokia Lumia 900 is a post from: UnleashThePhones.com

Enter Tasks Widget.

This widget shows currently running OS tasks in home screen.
Add two instances of widget to one home screen page to get MeeGo style look.

You can add multiple instances of the widget, so adding two widgets to the same homescreen gives you a MeeGoisque MultiTasking UI. The app is as simple as it sounds, yet it gets a Must Buy recommendation from me.

The app is priced at Level 1 Price Range, which means you can get it for as little as Rs. 5 if you are an Indian user or $1 for the international market.

Nokia Store – Tasks Widget

Tasks Widget brings the Multitasking UI to your Belle Homescreen is a post from: UnleashThePhones.com

The app is basically meant to help Page owners manage their Facebook Page, instead of having to use the Facebook app and navigate all the way to the Pages section, yada yada.

Pages Manager helps admins connect with their audience and keep up with activity on multiple Pages, all in one place.

Features:
- Post new updates and photos as your Page
- Get notified about new activity on your Page when it happens, no matter where you are
- Respond, post and comment as your Page while you’re on-the-go
- Manage all your Facebook Pages from one app
- View your latest Page Insights

Just install Pages Manager and then log in using Facebook to quickly access and manage all of your Pages from wherever you are.

Available free, over on iTunes.

iTunes Link

Facebook Pages Manager App released for iOS is a post from: UnleashThePhones.com

See Windows Phone taking on the public in Newcastle. Were our contenders’ Smartphones faster than ours? If they were, the challenger pocketed a crisp £20 note. But if they weren’t we challenged them to a pulse raising dare. Want to have a go? Join our presenters Johno and Hersha, plus our intrepid street team out on our UK tour. See where we’ll be next: http://bit.ly/JNgdgv

Video: Dares TV Episode 4 from Windows Phone UK is a post from: UnleashThePhones.com

Win a Nokia Lumia 900, visit: http://nokia.ly/SmarterApps

Up for a challenge? Find out where we end up as the Nokia Lumia 800 goes up against the iPhone 4 en route to one of London’s top landmarks. In today’s Apps challenge the Nokia Drive app shows us how you can access free turn-by-turn voice guided navigation.

You can even pre-load maps so it work’s when your signal doesn’t. With more than 100 countries across 6 continents, you’ll never get lost again. Unless you want to.

Are you big fan of the smarter, faster, funner apps featured in our films? The beautifully different Nokia Lumia family? Or looking for a slice of The Amazing Everyday? Visit http://nokia.ly/SmarterApps to find out more.

Video: Nokia Lumia Challenge Episode 4 [Turn-by-turn directions] is a post from: UnleashThePhones.com

Does sports come first in your life? The ESPN Hub is exclusively available on the Nokia Lumia so wherever you are you won’t miss a minute of the action. Check out our latest TV commercial featuring John Kruk.

Video: Nokia US ESPN TV spot for Nokia Lumia 900 is a post from: UnleashThePhones.com

Nokia Belle Feature Pack 1 is the latest software update for Nokia 603, Nokia 700 and Nokia 701. Read more at http://nokia.ly/JA3jVZ

This update offers improved entertainment options, personalisation choices and boosted performance. Dolby ® Headphone & Dolby ® Digital Plus support, ~20 new and improved widgets, faster browser with HTML 5 support and the recently announced Microsoft Apps are all available via over the air update. Make sure that you update your phone!

Video: Nokia Belle Feature Pack 1 “New experiences at your fingertips” is a post from: UnleashThePhones.com

The low-end phones are meant to appeal to “young, urban consumers” who can’t really afford high-end smartphones, priced at about 35 euros (approx $45) and 38 euros (approx $50) respectively, and feature a 1.8 inch display, a 0.3 megapixels VGA camera, Bluetooth, Nokia Browser with website compression, memory expandable up to 32GB, and the aforementioned dual SIM capability.

The Nokia 110 will also be available in single-SIM versions, under the models Nokia 111 (Europe only) and Nokia 113 (Europe-Asia only). Available in 4 different colors. The Nokia 110 offers about 10.5 hours of talk time from a charged battery, while the Nokia 112 offers 14 hours.

There’s Facebook, Twitter and other social network integration, eBuddy‘s IM software, and both phones will have 40 EA games like Tetris, Bejeweled and Need for Speed available for free from the Nokia Store.

Expected in Q3 2012.

Nokia 110 and Nokia 112 S40 Dual SIM phones announced is a post from: UnleashThePhones.com

My N86 is brokenThis will be my final piece of writing about my time with the Nokia N86. I’ve failed to make it through 2 weeks and it’s all my fault really. It’s not that I ended up succumbing to my urge to head back into the modern, super-slick world of Android. On Sunday night (i.e. shortly after I pushed out my last report), the N86 decided to stop recognizing my SIM card.

Despite the money and effort spent on the repairs after I annihilated the SIM tray’s contacts the first time round, the inevitable has happened and I’m once again stuck with a smartphone that can’t be used to make phone calls. I’d tried to get it working; I inserted and reinserted the SIM card multiple times, rebooted the phone multiple times – no dice. Hence, I’ve had no choice but to cut the experiment short and switch my SIM back into my Xperia Mini Pro.

That’s not to say the past week with the N86 hasn’t been extremely interesting, not just from a daily usage perspective but also in terms of how different my experience with this phone has been compared to every phone I’ve used in the past 6 months. There are several thought-provoking comparisons that can be made between the N86 and today’s smartphones, and I’ll be discussing what these comparisons are through this entire article.

It is no secret that there really isn’t much of an app ecosystem left on Symbian S60v3, and throughout the week I had been pining for apps such as Instagram, Evernote, Pocket and a decent news reader. In terms of social apps, I was pretty much limited to sharing on Twitter and Facebook via Gravity – I set up my Foursquare account within the app but I hardly remembered to check into places. As a result, there are certain social networks that I was simply cut off from when using the N86 – Instagram is a prime example, in addition to Path and Google+. I’ve stopped sharing stuff on social networks just for the sake of sharingBecause of this limitation, my social sharing became a lot more focused and less about sharing something on some social network just for the sake of sharing. I realized which of my social networks are really important to me – Twitter, Facebook and Instagram are the big ones in my life, while Path and Google+ are far less essential to me. Never once during the week did I feel disturbed about not being able to access my Path feed or see what’s happening on Google+, which means that even if I were to close my account on either social network it wouldn’t really matter to me.

It’s quite amazing, though, to be toting a smartphone that can last an entire day on a full charge without compromises. For everything that the N86 can’t do, it really makes up for it in terms of being able to get me through each day and still have a decent amount of battery power left to stay alive and play music on the evening train journey home and then some. Do you still remember what “good battery life” is?No need for external plug-in batteries, no need to make sure WiFi is turned off, no need to turn the screen brightness down, no need to be mindful not to check Twitter too often – it just keeps going. The smartphones of today are far more powerful and can do more than the N86 can even at its best, but what’s the point of having so much speed and functionality when I wouldn’t use my Android phone as a mobile WiFi hotspot because that would kill the battery, nor would I download podcasts on the go via 3G because it would mean a dead phone after lunch? In contrast, I have used the N86 as a mobile WiFi hotspot and downloaded podcasts via 3G while on the train without worrying about whether the phone will die on me shortly. It’s been such a long time since I last used a phone that I could truly rely on to last through the day without help from my Nokia DC-11 power pack and this aspect of the N86 experience has been really refreshing.

The biggest difference between the smartphones of old, such as those running Symbian or Windows Mobile, and the smartphones of today lies in the prioritization of hardware quality and design versus software, user interface design and user experience. There is zero sense of fluidity or smoothness in S60v3 running on the N86, while modern smartphones like Windows Phone 7 have been built around fluidity and smoothness. Yet, in the past, buying a smartphone meant you were guaranteed top-shelf hardware components and nifty hardware features. Hardware vs SoftwareThe N86, for example, still has an amazing 8-megapixel camera even by today’s standards. Its stereo loudspeakers sound better than any modern smartphone I’ve ever owned or reviewed. It had cutting-edge (at the time) display technology, a flip-out kickstand, hardware media controls and an FM transmitter. But S60v3 on the N86 is a complete bodge prone to spontaneous reboots, freezes and general weirdness. And in terms of usability, one has to wonder how an average N86 user even managed to figure out the menu structure or customize the homescreen. The settings menus on the phone are literally scattered everywhere.

On the other hand, any modern smartphone – take the Sony Xperia S, for example, provide an excellent and seamless user experience supported by a rich ecosystem of apps and services. Even a platform like Android, which is often criticized as being messy and complicated, is far more user-friendly than S60 ever was. Getting around the Android user interface is painless for most, the phone remains stable and problem-free in everyday use and there is a wealth of apps available for the platform. Yet, corners have been cut on the hardware; build quality isn’t great on the Xperia S, the loudspeaker is mediocre at best, and the 12 megapixel camera is hampered by an overly-small image sensor. But despite these flaws, the Xperia S is still considered one of the better high-end Android devices available at the moment, given how certain rivals competing in the same price bracket are encased in cheap glossy plastic, have Pentile displays or a worse camera. The only aspect of the hardware where manufacturers aren’t skimping on is the internals.

This is why Symbian is dated and obsolete in a post-iPhone worldDelving deeper into the then-versus-now comparison, it’s worth looking into how smartphone platforms have evolved since the S60v3 era. Trying to use the N86 as my only smartphone for a week has helped me realize how Symbian S60 was originally designed and why it eventually gained a reputation for being dated and obsolete. The Internet is, at best, an afterthought in S60, and perhaps this is really attributed to its existence in a decade where cheap and plentiful cellular data was nonexistent until the latter part of the decade. S60 was designed with traditional phone features and PIM features at its core, with multimedia and location capabilities added on later when advances in hardware demanded it. Most pre-2007 S60 users didn’t even attempt to install third-party apps. If asked to name a strength of Symbian, most would quote the fact that S60 devices are still fully functional even when not connected to cellular data. However, I would argue that this ended up making S60 irrelevant in the post-iPhone smartphone space.

Every smartphone platform developed post-iOS is built first and foremost with the web in mind. That’s how big the paradigm shift has been. It’s not even about touchscreens and user interfaces, it’s about how iOS, Android, Windows Phone and webOS are designed around the Internet. Social networking, online sharing, cloud storage, streaming media, desktop-class web browsing, downloadable games, email, instant messaging, background sync, integration with web services – all these aspects of modern smartphone platforms take priority over being able to dial a number straight from the homescreen, being able to sync data with Microsoft Outlook, supporting the greatest number of video codecs or making efficient use of limited hardware and data allotments. Symbian quickly became unappealing to the average consumer simply because it hadn’t evolved to keep up with the web-focused capabilities of post-iOS smartphone platforms.

In many ways, the N86 symbolizes how progress in smartphone hardware has gone forward in some areas, yet backward in others. Design and construction techniques have improved since the N86 – we have seen phones with unibody casings, curved and scratch-resistant glass, use of aluminum and other premium materials, micro-arc oxidation, coloured polycarbonate and even mid-range devices today are mostly solidly built. The N86 comes from an era where Nokia was notorious for slow processorsOf course, who can ignore the hardware spec race that has been the story of every new top-end Android smartphone in the past year? Today’s devices are all about multi-core gigahertz processors, powerful graphics chips and copious amounts of RAM, yet the N86 comes from an era where Nokia was notorious for skimping on internal specifications. Display technology has also seen much progress since the N86, with capacitive screens replacing their once-commonplace resistive counterparts, improvements in both AMOLED and LCD displays, big steps forward in terms of smartphone display resolutions and of course, ever-increasing screen sizes.

Today, virtually every single smartphone on the market is a big touchscreen slabAll this ought to be fantastic, but in many ways smartphone hardware development has taken backward steps since the N86. We no longer have a choice between different and unique form factors when buying a new smartphone – even smartphones with slide-out keyboards are a dying breed. There was once a time when we could choose between a full touchscreen slab, a plethora of landscape QWERTY sliders (some of which packed rather unique sliding mechanisms), a durable monoblock smartphone, a dual-sliding device and even a few flip phones. Today, virtually every single smartphone on the market, particularly at the high-end, is a big touchscreen slab. This is a microcosm of the impact that the 1st-generation iPhone has had on the entire mobile industry. The average person readily identifies a ‘smartphone’ as being an iPhone or a similar-looking device. I think it’s a real pity that we’ll probably won’t see much experimentation in the form-factor department from manufacturers again. Every new smartphone design today is just an additional iteration of the basic touchscreen slab.

It’s been an interesting week and an interesting experience with the final dual slider in Nokia’s now-defunct Nseries range. It’s been a more usable phone that I thought it would be. There’s something really enjoyable about selecting an old smartphone, living with it for a while and making the most of it. Furthermore, I’ve been feeling rather jaded about Android for a while now, but this experience has really rekindled my love for the platform.

Maybe I’ll try not to break the phone the next time I do something like this.

Feature: The N86 and Me is a post from: UnleashThePhones.com

Insanely impressive. Click the images to go to the full resolution image on Flickr. That’s where the magic happens. Even more impressive than the ones taken in India and camera sample last week.

You can see why we’ve been so insanely in love with 808 pureview. These are just a few, so check out the full album over on Flickr (link below). What do you think of these camera samples? Pretty good, eh?

Nokia on Flickr

Nokia 808 Pureview Camera Samples from Iceland [Gallery] is a post from: UnleashThePhones.com