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Nokia connects the next billion with affordable smartphones
Today at Mobile World Congress, Nokia underscored its commitment to connecting the next billion to the Internet by releasing five new affordable handsets, including Nokia X, a family of smartphones that run Android™ apps, Microsoft services and signature Nokia experiences. · The Nokia X, Nokia X+ and Nokia XL are priced to capture the fast-growing affordable smartphone market and provide an on-ramp to Lumia and Microsoft services like Skype, OneDrive and outlook.com. · The Nokia Asha 230 is Nokia’s most affordable full-touch Asha device to date, priced at EUR 45. · The Nokia 220 is an Internet-ready mobile phone with social apps, priced at only EUR 29. Quote Stephen Elop,…
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Flickr Group Showcase – TheAppWhisperer (TAW) – February 23, 2014
This weeks Flickr Group Showcase is so emotionally powerful, many of you are expressing feelings in the best possible way, it is particularly noticable in the portraiture. There are also some phenomenal street and travel scenes, many bringing in the winter skies and atmosphere. Then we move to some outstanding still life floral images – we hope you find this showcase as mesmerising as we do. If you would like to be considered for our weekly Flickr Group Showcase, Please upload your images to our dedicated Flickr group, for this section, here. With many thanks to our Flickr Group Showcase Sponsors – Olloclip.com Each image can be viewed on Flickr…
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Tickle Your Fancy – #27
Welcome back to our twenty seventh post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of five links to articles from around the internet that have specifically interested us during the course of the week. Ones that we feel are relevant to your interest in photography and art. Just to explain the title for this section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ is an English idiom and essentially means that something appeals to you and perhaps stimulates your imagination in an enthusiastic way, we felt it would make a great title for this new section of the site. We hope you enjoy this weeks’ selections… Great literary…
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Mobile Movies Showcase – Week 21 – By Donna Donato
Welcome back to the twenty-first article in the Column, Mobile Movies. We at TheAppWhisperer have been inspired by the Flickr upgrade of 1 Terabyte of storage for everyone and have wanted to launch a mobile movie section for some time. Now seems to be perfect, the new Flickr upgrade will allow for a full three minutes of 1080p HD quality video per single film and you can have as many as you have storage space for. Each week I (you can find me on Flickr here) will curate the movie uploads to our new Flickr group –MobileMoviesTheAppWhisperer – I will view all the videos uploaded and comment on the chosen ones. ”The…
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New iOS Photo/Video App ‘PhotoMotion’ Launches Today
East Coast Pixels, Inc. launches PhotoMotion, a powerful iPhone app that turns photos into an immersive video with motion, titles and music. PhotoMotion videos focus attention, set a mood and tell a story using a photo animation technique made popular by documentary creator Ken Burns. “Sharing a PhotoMotion video puts your friends and family into a moment and has them experience it through your eyes.” says co-founder Steve Troppoli. “It’s like you’re right there with them, telling the story.” Users start by picking photos from their photo library. Photo transitions are then automatically generated incorporating information like face detection. The video can be instantly previewed inside PhotoMotion. All aspects of the…
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Kickstarter – Ember – The Night Photography Tool For iPhone
We’ve just been sent information regarding this new Kickstarter camaign ‘Ember’. It’s an iPhone light accessory for night photography that allows you to capture night images and videos with soft warm light. The Ember is a continuous light tool contoured to the shape of the iPhone 5 and 5s. The back panel illumination provides a soft, warm light. The Ember’s design was inspired by the function of professional fill lights, used by photographers and videographers to illuminate their subjects. The 56 LEDs provide light that’s 10x brighter than the iPhone’s flash, and the built-in diffuser softens and spreads light evenly resulting in a flattering glow. The Ember’s soft, warm light…
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Samsung Redefines Network Possibilites At Mobile World Congress 2014
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd will demonstrate its newest advanced networks and solutions at Mobile World Congress 2014. Under its theme for this year’s congress, ‘Elegant Connections, Possibilities Redefined’, Samsung will demonstrate its higher performance network, combined with versatile functionalities. Rapid growth of smart device users and the data deluge of multimedia radio traffic, mobile operators have faced new challenges in the deployment of advanced networks, improving the end user experience and generating additional profitable revenue streams. At Mobile World Congress 2014, Samsung will showcase its portfolio of cutting-edge network solutions to address these challenges. Quote Simon Stanford, Vice President of IT & Mobile division, Samsung Electronics UK & Ireland…
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Click London – Mobile Photography Workshop Tonight!
We’re delighted to publish news of a wonderful new iniative by the team at Click London. Vivi and Dilshad are both Contributors/Columnists to theappwhisperer and they’ve teamed up to present a Mobile Photography Workshop tonight – February 20, 2014 at Marhba, 26 Porchester Road, London, W2 6ES. This session will run between 1800-2100 hrs. It’s a small group, conisting of a maximum of seven students to ensure everyone receives a good three hours of informal teaching. You can find out more about this and future mobile photography workshops on their site here.
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Exclusive Nokia Lumia Imaging Technology Brings Light Painting to Smartphones and the Masses
The evolution of digital photography has driven a fresh rise in the art of light painting, with the tools to capture and share these unique images becoming increasingly accessible. That goes one step further today with the latest work from leading light artists Ian Hobson of Newcastle, UK and Jeremy Jackson from Virginia, USA demonstrating how people can make stunning light art using a Nokia Lumia smartphone. Armed with a Nokia Lumia 1020 smartphone, the artists have created a series of images and guide which are intended to inspire a new generation of smartphone light painters. All made possible by the exclusive 4 second shutter delay and superior low light…
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iOS Photography App – OKDOTHIS – Updated
Since its launch in November last year OKDOTHIS has been growing in popularity. It is an ‘idea’ community – allowing artists to show their favourite images and creative ideas, known as ‘dos’, that led to it. The developers have just updated this app and it now has faster loading, there’s the facility to customise notifications and even the option to block users if you feel the need. There’s additional features too in this update and we have listed them below. This is a free update to a free app, to download/update, just go here. What’s New? – Faster loading everywhere, especially the Discover section. – Choose which notifications you…