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2013-09-10 , 06:13
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#41
Originally Posted by Dave999 View Post
No, Nokia is the joke.

Nokia dropped the ball with cool tech like IR and Audio transmitter. Samsung has half of the ball since they have IR in all their new phones and tablets. Waiting for Audi transmitter as well.

Lets hope Newkia can give the excluded features another GO.
you too ir paranoid or what whats your use case ? bad intentions like trooling people or just cool
 

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Founder says Newkia branding will not be on its phones

Newkia's founder and interim CEO of mobile social media company Yuuzoo, Thomas Zillacus, told CNET Asia that the branding which will appear on a potential Android smartphone will not be Newkia, despite the hype the name had generated.

Zillacus also said that he already has ideas for the new name but have no announcements to make at this time.

He also added that he will not be the CEO of Newkia, though he already has someone in mind, someone whose "name you have all heard of before."

Other details revealed include the fact that there were already plenty of job applications since the story broke last week from all around the globe. Zillacus said that there were some current Nokia employees who wanted to come on board as they didn't want to work for Microsoft.

A mayor in a Finnish city has also offered Zillacus some incentive to base the company there in the form of free office space, but the Newkia founder seems committed to having the company based in Singapore, having lived in the country for the last 27 years.

When asked if Newkia would be approaching Jolla, makers of the MeeGo-based Sailfish OS, Zillacus played that option down and said he would prefer jumping on the world's leading mobile platform Android as opposed to one with a poor app ecosystem like Windows Phone 8.

Zillacus also admitted to us that he had not tried out Windows Phone 8, though he has heard plenty of good things about the Lumia range of devices.

Lastly, the Newkia founder showed us a prototype MyOrigo handset, made ten years ago by former Nokia engineers, which sported a touchscreen, a UI resembling the old Nokia Symbian handsets and the ability to rotate the orientation of the screen based on the phone's position.

He mentioned that the Nokia management had looked at the handset and turned it down , saying that they thought no one would want a screen that would have plenty of fingerprint smudges.

Pics here.
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#43
Originally Posted by Dave999 View Post
Waiting for Audi transmitter as well.
I want one of those!
 

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So this is basically a Singaporean company?
 

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Originally Posted by Kozzi View Post
So this is basically a Singaporean company?
The current CEO, Zillacus is a Finn who was Nokia's boss on their Asian operations. The company is based in Singaporean, R&D being in Finland. Zillacus has lived in Singapore for 27 years.

So it's certainly not a Finnish company, but neither is it purely Singaporean. That will be determined by the funding that is still open.
 

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Newkia sounds like a joke. Yuuzoo sounds like a cheap Chinese brand. And the idea of going Android... already too played out.

This sounds like a failure in each and every way possible.
 

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Because seems like Jolla is not going to do it, the world still need one mobile device company, which would make and sell devices with 100% open source operating system.

Newkia (or whatever it will be called eventually) would find a slot on the markets by adopting Replicant Android and fixing the few missing open source issues it has.
Many companies need to find suitable phone to their employees, so company secrets wouldn't leak via NSA to their competitors. NSA has already admitted, it also does industrial espionage. It is BS, they would do it just because potential terrorism. It even is one of the official jobs of NSA to do industrial espionage for USA.

"We need to take the Internet back!"

http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...net-nsa-spying
"we can design. We need to figure out how to re-engineer the internet to prevent this kind of wholesale spying. We need new techniques to prevent communications intermediaries from leaking private information.

We can make surveillance expensive again. In particular, we need open protocols, open implementations, open systems – these will be harder for the NSA to subvert."
 
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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
Newkia sounds like a joke. Yuuzoo sounds like a cheap Chinese brand. And the idea of going Android... already too played out.

This sounds like a failure in each and every way possible.
Yet another Android manufactor is epic fail IMHO. Those investors are stupid *****s. They should put the money in Jolla portfolio instead and let Jolla use most for for marketing. Because thats what Jolla is missing.
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#49
Quick message...
Actually, the phone looks very original amidst the current black-flat-rectangle smartphones. If they make the phone reasonably water-dust-sand-shock-proof, it could sell. They would have to find the optimal features-for-money point for their first model: camera, radio, infrared, et cetera. Supporting non-Android operating systems, like Mer, would have been a huge bonus.
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Maybe Newkia will use CyanogenMod?
Some news coming in couple of next weeks about something.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-576...e-os-conquest/

At least for CyanogenMod, this sounds good:
The first step for Cyanogen will be releasing a Cyanogen installer app sometime in the next few weeks to the Google Play store that will create a much easier path to update your phone's ROM. The app won't lead to one-click rooting and ROMing, but will streamline the ROM installation process and guide you through it.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/18/47...ion-of-android
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