A quick check on the DNLA website revealed that the N78 joins devices like the N95, N95 8GB and N82 in being DNLA certified devices. DLNA-compatible devices serve two different functions: Server, Client or both. "Servers" distribute media such as image, music, or video files, and "clients" receive and play the media. Devices like N95 8GB, N82 and now N95 are classified as a Mobile Media Server, allowing you to make the content available to clients like the Sony PS3 and DNLA printers. If you’re wondering how exactly this certification can be put to use you can see how it can be connected to a Sony Playstation 3 to play music, show pictures and control your media, like in the video below. Pretty soon you’ll also be able print wirelessly via WIFI using DNLA certified printer.
I was informed from my sources close to Sandisk that those sought-after 16GB microSD cards are supposed to be available to online stores in about 4 weeks, which should put availability sometime in July. This pushes availability 1 month later as these were supposed to available in June as we hoped. Apparently SanDisk seemed have had few issues lately and due to the large inventory of 8GB cards that needs to be moved, all have lead to the delay of the 16GB cards.
With an impending release of the N96 with its built-16GB of memory and the option of adding microSDHC cards, you could very soon be walking around with devices holding no less than 32GB’s of memory.Will you be getting the N96 with one of those 16GB Sandisk microSDHC cards?
Update: Some of you have been asking about the 12GB Sandisk microSD cards. It seems Sandisk will completely skip these and go straight for the 16GB models. Looking ahead, 32GB microSD cards should be arriving in the next 12 to 18 months, making it possible for users to carry a total of 48GB of memory in a device like the N96.
As Tzer2 at Allaboutsymbian has pointed out, the N95 does have gaming keys.He has heard mixed reports about the N95 8GB, but I can confirm that on my N95 8GB (N95-2) with the latest firmware, the gaming keys work in N-Gage. What variant of the N95 do you have and do the gaming keys work in N-Gage?
Over at Allaboutngage there’s a well-written article indicating something that I personally wasn’t aware of: your N-Gage library is locked to the original handset forever. I always thought that my purchased games would somehow be linked to my N-Gage account, but as it turns out getting a new phone means losing every single purchased game! The article goes on suggesting that Nokia should fix by either doing game activation by consulting Nokia's servers or Linking games to a single N-Gage account, and linking that account to a single phone.Personally, I won’t be making a single purchase until this is sorted. What do you think? How should the N-Gage system deal with game purchases, activation and transfer?
In what seems like one of their most anti-climate high-profile launches, Nokia has finally released the much anticipated and delayed N-Gage platform. Stranger still is the fact that there wasn’t any announcement.After downloading the pretty large 6Mb+ (for phone installation files at least) I was pretty much ready to be wowed, but in the end I ended up not impressed. Here are the reasons why, going from bad to even worse.
1)First of all, when installing the N-Gage app it replaces the demo app, but instead of putting the replacement at the exact same spot at the top level of the menu (Root Folder) It chooses to place it in the Application folder. Why? Who would ever consider putting such an important app in the top level of the Menu, that would be crazy, wouldn’t it? I decided not to worry much about this, and moved the icons to the Menu’s top level where it should be.
2)I must admit however that the amount of functionality and interface look pretty nice, but the app itself opens up at a snail’s pace and again moving through the different tabs it feels unresponsive. Opening trial games like System Rush Evolution or Asphalt you are confronted with an upside down screen orientation. You’ll have to go all the way into the options to flip the screen. I remember that I could just flip the N95 8GB and revealing the media keys would automatically reorient the screen, why doesn’t this do it?
3)But the thing that got me the most was playing the actual Trial version of System Rush Evolution on the final N-Gage app. Remember the Demo System Rush Evolution that came with the N95 or even the N93? Remember how amazing those graphics looked? Personally I was a bit surprised at how noticeable the difference in graphics was when I compared the Demo version against the one that comes with the final N-Gage. The newer one, which I’ll suppose doesn’t use hardware acceleration and effects supported in hardware looks pixilated, less detailed and many light effects seen on the demo version just aren’t there anymore. This little YouTube video shows exactly what I mean, see the difference?
I do remember that Nokia had decided to take a software approach when it comes to N-Gage graphics, the reason given was to support a higher amount of mobile devices. Why not make specially made versions that specifically make use of the available horsepower?
Knowing Nokia they could easily fix the problems I described in point 1 and 2, but not having 3D accelerated graphics to me means not having getting the graphic detail that I was originally promised with the orginal SRE Demo and for this reason Nokia should seriously reconsider the move of abandoning 3D accelerated graphics in N-Gage.
Unofficial, but reliable sources have informed The Nokia Guide that the soon-to-be-released 16GB Sandisk microSDHC card was tested and confirmed working with the Nokia N95 (with the right firmware).Other Nokia phones that were tested and are confirmed to be working with the new 16 GB card include:
Nokia N96 (Totaling 32GB, including the built-in 16 GBs of storage) Nokia N78 Nokia 6210 Navigator Nokia 6220 Classic
As it has been expected Sandisk will not release a 12GB microSDHC card and will jump straight from 8 to the new 16GB cards which are expected to be released this summer (Possibly June or July.)
No word yet on the support for the N82, N81, N77, N76 and N75, but if the N95’s support for the newer cards is any indication, things are looking good for these devices, but with the proper firmware support of course. Soon I’m expecting final, pre-release samples of Sandisk’s latest and greatest so stay tuned here at The Nokia Guide. In the mean time you can grab some pretty good deals on the 8GB microSD cards over at Moby Memory.
For a while the N95 8GB had the exclusive title of being the first and only DNLA certified mobile device.It was quickly followed by the N82 and now we can add another member of the Nseries family: the N95. They don’t specify whether it’s the classic N95-1, the N95-3 or both. If I had to guess I would say the N95-1, but considering the similarities there shouldn’t be anything technical difficulties impeding them all (including the N96) to get this certification, it just a matter of time. The N95 DNLA certification can be downloaded here.
DLNA-compatible devices serve two different functions: Server, Client or both. "Servers" distribute media such as image, music, or video files, and "clients" receive and play the media. Devices like N95 8GB, N82 and now N95 are classified as a Mobile Media Server, allowing you to make the content available to clients like the Sony PS3 and DNLA printers. If you’re wondering how exactly this certification can be put to use you can see how it can be connected to a Sony Playstation 3 to play music, show pictures and control your media or pretty soon print wirelessly via WIFI using DNLA certified printer.
Usually I don’t cover Apple news, but this one was just too good to let it pass by.
During Apple shareholder’s meeting Mac World informs that Apple CEO Steve Jobs went on record to warn that the iPhone needs a Flash Player that works like it does on a computer, warning that the Flash Lite Player Adobe develops for mobile phones isn't sufficiently advanced for an iPhone.
"Proper" Flash "performs too slow to be useful," on the iPhone, Jobs warned. "There's this missing product in the middle. It just doesn't exist," he explained. Basically no Flash for the Iphone, well at least not in the foreseeable future. While Jobs still thinks that Flash Lite isn’t sufficiently advanced enough I’ll be watching Flash video on my N95 8GB. While we’re on the subject when is the rest of the Nseries line getting Flash Lite 3 Support?
