Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Tuesday Morning Spice

Putin honours Steven Seagal, Harry cashes in on his trauma, $500 Million of Unsold Yeezys to go up in flames, Siya Kolisi story to air, hectic petrol increase this week, Ramaphosa still has no backbone, Nokia gets a new logo, Spotify has a secret function for that earworm, and US sherrif goes nuclear on Neo-Nazi’s.

Cape Town Is Wasted On Most Camera Phones – This Is Why [Video]

For residents or tourists, every visit to Cape Town brings about an amazing experience. Usually this happens just too far for your nifty camera phone to capture the true feel of that moment, and you end up sharing rubbish. The new Nokia camera phone (‘Phablet’) is a game changer.

It’s So Easy To Win This 20 Megapixel Nokia Lumia 1520 [COMPETITION]

You might not know about the Nokia Lumia 1520. It’s fairly amazing, to say the least. Why? Because it comes with a 1080p Full HD screen with a 20MP PureView camera with optical image stabilisation, oversampling technology and zooming capabilities. And you can win one right here.

Tuesday Morning Spice

Microsoft buys Nokia’s devices unit. ‘Shoot the jew’ song slammed. Officer wants Zuma subpoenaed for Guptagate. Kanye West plays for president. Joost moving back in with Amor. Pippa Engaged? Roger Federer crashes. Image shows John Kerry with Assad.

Nokia Subtly Throws Down The Gauntlet To Apple [VIDEO]

It was only a matter of time before Nokia jumped on the versus-Apple bandwagon now that their new flagship, the Lumia 920, is all but on the shelves. Instead of launching into a drawn-out tirade concerning specs and features they focused on small aspects that could actually make all the difference.

Friday Morning Spice

Nokia admit advert was fake. Putin discusses group sex. Motlanthe chosen to challenge Zuma. NY Fashion week party photos. Dr. Dre topples Jay Z. Natalie wins third gold. Why you shouldn’t boycott Woolworths. Top 100 apps for all phones.

Samsung Now Outsells Nokia, Apple

Nokia is no longer the world’s biggest selling cell phone manufacturer. For the first time ever, Korean handset manufacturer Samsung has outsold Nokia in the last quarter – by an estimated 93 million mobile phone units compared with Nokia’s 83 million. It’s also predicted that Samsung has outsold the iPhone in the smartphone market in recent months.

Nokia Develops World’s First Vibrating Tattoo

So! Nokia filed a patent for the world’s first vibrating tattoo, to alert users about call, text message or email alerts. Because that’s something people would want. The idea being that Nokia’s haptic tattoo would transmit “a perceivable impulse” through the skin whenever it receives magnetic signals from a phone. The future is gross.

Nokia Unveils 41-Megapixel Camera Phone

There is no error in that headline – Nokia has really just unveiled the PureView 41-megapixel-sensor camera in one of its new smartphones – the Lumia 808. Additionally, the device has extremely good sound recording capabilities and will also allow the user to capture video content in full HD.

Violist Interrupted By Nokia Ringtone, Brilliantly Incorporates It Into Recital (VIDEO)

It is weird to think that there are still people in this world who forget to turn their cell phones off during concerts. This happened during a recent performance by Slovakian violist Lukas Kmit, when a concertgoer’s Nokia ringtone suddenly interrupted the show. But the violinist responded by cleverly incorporating it into his performance, and the video has since gone viral. See it after the jump.

Secret Software Is Probably Tracking Everything You Do On Your Phone

The Carrier IQ software, installed on most modern Android, Blackberry and Nokia phones, is supposed to record some of the things phones do so manufacturers can do quality control. Except it’s also been logging everybody’s text messages, web searches, and phone calls. Which is pretty bad.

Nokia’s New Flexible Phone [VIDEO]

Nokia has released a concept video for their new HumanForm phone – which isn’t so much human-shaped as it is oblong. What’s interesting about it is that the casing is meant to be flexible, and the entire surface is meant to run off of touch recognition, which is fairly rad.

Nokia CEO’s “Burning Platform” Email – The Gettysburg Address Of Company Memos

Nokia is in a bad place right now. Ten years ago they led the cellular telephone market. In a time when the division of origin between hardware and software one one device was not concievable, Nokia led the pack with hardy engineering and familiar, easy to use operating systems. They’ve since suffered a catastrophic drop in sales and creativity. They’ve finally lost all points of market leadership that they used to hold. And their new CEO, Stephen Elop, has just given the whole company a literary ass-kicking. Check out his fire and brimstone company memo after the jump.