http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/ Engadget Comments for Nokia Vasco viral video ready, N8 flagship too? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/]]>Apr 5th 2010 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/Apr 5th 2010 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/
Got it from warranty service the last week, tried installing the new Maps 3.03 while the Nokia Maps Updater kept telling me to quit unplugging the device in the middle of the update (I didn't). In the end it did install (for no particular reason). I resumed the installation 15 times in a row.]]>Apr 5th 2010 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/Apr 5th 2010 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/
Also, Nokia, I love you guys. Really. But it's going to take a bit more this new-fangled 'viral makerting' thing you've been hearing so much about to dig yourselves out of your current hole. Though, Symbian itself is probably the name of the hole, and all the geek cred in the world isn't going to make the Maemo or Meego the ladder that's high enough to climb out with.

Surprise me.]]>Apr 5th 2010 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/
Actually I think Symbian isnt their hole at all. Its the fact they have tried to become a services company through Ovi. As a hardware manufacturer this is a lot of work and has kept them from doing more in the handset development area.

Symbian is, functionality wise, top of the bill. Its just the UI that was, well, made for devices without a touchscreen. Once Symbian^3 and Symbian^4 come out, I do not think Symbian will be a problem anymore.

Nokia is the giant battleship that is slowly changing its course. Slowly.]]>Apr 5th 2010 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/
When these things happen I generally abuse the phone's hardware in a medieval sort of way and for this I want to blame something with a name. Since the only thing that relates all these problems I have is Symbian I'm going to keep hurting the phone until either this thing called Symbian is dead and gone, or well the phone is dead, in which case I will not dare touch something else with Symbian in it.

Offcourse, if the hardware is so awsome that it holds up untill symbian is gone I will send more money to Nokia.]]>Apr 5th 2010 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/
Right. Tough luck dude, shit like that never happened to me. (or anyone I know)]]>Apr 5th 2010 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/
No, it's not the UI as such that did those things - but that doesn't necessarily mean it's the OS itself that does that. You'd have to elaborate on what you were doing when all your data got destroyed (twice), and as for the browser - well yes it does crash and hang up, but at the same time Opera Mobile is like lightning and doesn't do any of those things. You can still write buggy apps for a great OS. ]]>Apr 6th 2010 4:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/Apr 5th 2010 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/I think ther will be a MeeGo with no physical keys also, but for sure the next flagship of Nokia will have the physical keys, grabbing its predecessor's physical keys, the N97 Mini. But N8 and N9 for sure do have its own field. Photo and Internet tablet for sure.]]>Apr 5th 2010 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/
http://greatpockets.com/index.php]]>Apr 5th 2010 9:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/Apr 5th 2010 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/
Please explain how they have abandoned you...]]>Apr 5th 2010 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/Oh myk! N900 was not abandoned. ]]>Apr 5th 2010 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/And that's just to name a few.
Additionally don't even get me started on them abandoning the tried and proven Debian ARM branch in favor of yet another distribution as if Linux wasn't already fractured enough. All that probably because somebody at Intel had a divine epiphany while taking a shit or something along those lines.]]>Apr 5th 2010 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/
Choice of branch for MeeGo has nothing to do with Nokia abandoning users of N900 or not
Micro USB ports coming off sucks. Good Point.
Ovi Maps will come to the N900, and its logical they went for Symbian first.

You knew when buying its a phone with rough edges. I think only your point on the micro usb is valid. ]]>Apr 5th 2010 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/
That's a few more.

But by favorite still is the whole Ovi store clusterfuck (Angry Birds level pack anyone???) which pretty much drove away the majority of companies interested in developing commercial applications for the device.]]>Apr 5th 2010 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/Strange, my N900 doesn't have any loose parts, my media player works without any problems and above all - I don't think Nokia abandoned me at all, so maybe they've just abandoned YOU?
Go buy yourself an iPhone and browse HTML5 web-pages (all 3 of them), and let someone else decide what to think and what to do for you...]]>Apr 5th 2010 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/
Again, its unfortunate you have those issues, but i do not see that a typical behaviour for that specific handset.

On Ovi, its not as bad as you indicate. There is a LOT of room for improvement, I agree, but its not bad now.

On your last point, the majority of developers going away, do you have any numbers to back up that claim?

M
]]>Apr 5th 2010 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/
The dude can have an opinion man. No need play the abandonement card and risk inflicting serious psychological trauma ;)]]>Apr 5th 2010 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/What do you mean "shipping the device underclocked"?
It has the actual speed set by the manufacturer, it is not underclocked. You can choose to overclock it over what the SOC manufacturer has deemed safe like I did, but it is not underclocked.]]>Apr 5th 2010 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/Apr 5th 2010 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/Apr 5th 2010 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/
E71, E72]]>Apr 5th 2010 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/
@6300, 6700, etc.

Honestly, if you don't know what you're talking about it's probably best not to type anything.]]>Apr 5th 2010 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/
Hurry up NOKIA!! and please dont disappoint me again!!]]>Apr 5th 2010 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/
I've been holding off on my upgrade for almost 8 months now... I'm still plugging away with my N95. If they don't wow me this time I'm going to either nexus one, iphone 4g (this summer), or the hd2 w/ windows 7.]]>Apr 5th 2010 9:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/nokia-vasco-viral-video-ready-n8-too/Feuervogel said "Something about tweeting the completion of your viral video doesn't make a ton of sense to me".

Writing about such a job doesn't make a lot of sense at all in such a context. Unless you want to promote it, of course. Neither does using someone’s real name, photo and contact info either. Of an actual person. Me!

I am the said individual of the article. I am writing here on the basis of defence of my good name. I have been in touch with the Editor in Chief, Joshua Topolsky and Thomas Ricker, the author of this unsubstantiated, crass, defaming and incriminating article to which they have both chosen to ignore.

The original poster of this story has since taken down the story as a result of its unfounded sensationalist apparent scoop. Sorry to say folks, and we all like a good story, but it wasn’t me who wrote this.

I did not make any such statements. Neither have I served as a cameraman on any such viral shoot. I know nothing about the said product and have zero affiliation to Nokia. And yet, Engadget / AOL have the bold audacity to use my name, have photoshopped a picture found online of myself from a film magazine and have put that on top of a speech bubble which to most would be suggestive that I took this leaked photo of the item. Sounds like they went to the same training schools as those who get caught doing just on the larger newspapers. I guess they’re the rejects.

The defaming story has gone global. Of the many examples that there are of this supposed scoop, all that most of these so called writers do online is copy and paste information from another site and treat it as gospel without checking their source material or contacting the individual in question. If everyone did this in global news gathering, we'd need a special hand in crisis management. Having worked in real news gathering in the past, this is a basic fundamental rule when you write about something or someone you do not know anything about. Let alone know anything about that said parties involvement about such a job. This is a huge damnation of character by means of portrayal. The above picture is seen as highly incriminating. Again, Engadget / AOL have chosen to ignore my wishes to have the story pulled on the basis.

These are the types of people that you follow ladies and gentlemen. Unethical, callus, irresponsible and damn right cowardly.

All they promote are the goods of other peoples work, or criticise but what do they actually do? Anybody could do that…

Yet when a random hard working individual has been spectacularly targeted in a crass story which they have helped go world-wide….

Let this be a global lesson to everyone who uses social networking and the internet for fun. How easy is it to create a profile with a particular persons name, find a photo of them, and do something like this. This is a pretty damn big wake up call for everyone.

It could be used as a landmark case of global defamation vs. schoolboy journalism. This is the world we now live in. 24/7 superficiality. Most of these write ups have all come from American sources.

Target a random individual who now has to spend the time and energy to clear his name, worldwide? A massive assist to tarnish my name and integrity. Bastards!

Anyone up for a percentage for pro-bono?

Danny Gagatt
London, UK

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