We heard a while back that the co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak, was lining up for a Nokia Lumia back when it was originally released, and now he lets everyone know what he thinks about it in an interview from aNewDomain. Here are a few good quotes: Just for looks and beauty, I definitely favor the Windows 7 Phone over Android. I’m kinda shocked how every screen is much more beautiful than the same apps …
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Do We Still Need Skeuomorphs?
First lets talk about what skeuomorphs are. It’s a new buzz word used to describe design elements that have no purpose in their current form but are used to give a familiarity to something from the past. Skeuomorph design elements are extremely prevalent in Apple’s software designs. In iPhoto for iOS you’ll see your photo albums represented as books sitting on shelves with pictures on them. You’ll see pictures of paint brushes and pencils to …
Continue readingWindows Phone 8 Fan Concept Art Looks Feasible
A designer and Windows Phone fan by the name of Jonas Dahnert has created some mockups of a Nokia styled device running what he envisions as a possible design for Windows Phone 8. You’ll see the new Windows 8 logo as well as new icons for search and back which more closely echo the design style of Windows 8. The designer calls this a Nokia Lumia 920 and his renders are very nicely done. Of …
Continue readingKeep Your Free 25GB SkyDrive
Microsoft has announced today that the free storage amount for SkyDrive accounts will be reduced to 7GB. It turns out that 99.94% of users take advantage of much less than 7GB in their SkyDrive accounts, so most of that space goes unused anyway. If you already are using more than 4GB of SkyDrive storage then don’t worry, you still have 25GB of storage for free. If you are one of the 99% who is using …
Continue readingWhy You Shouldn’t Care About the Apollo Upgrade Right Now
Lately everyone has been up in arms over all sorts of rumors as to wether the next version of Windows Phone codenamed Apollo will be coming to existing Windows Phones or not. Now we’re seeing rumors that it is being tested on the latest Nokia devices and may be available for the Lumia 800, 710, 610, and 900 as an upgrade, but at this point we really can’t say. So let’s just step back and …
Continue readingBuild Your Own Lego Lumia Docking Station
We had noticed one of our Microsoft Facebook friends had built her own Nokia Lumia docking station built from Legos last week. It looks like she had learned this from a Baris Eris blog post and Nokia has decided to put together a full gallery of images on Facebook so that you can learn how to make your own. If you’re not interested in the challenge of finding all the right Lego pieces to build …
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