Thankyou for that but i was already aware of online stores shutting shop.

What i am on about is the actual Nokia retail stores that are shutting down now and it looks like everywhere in the world not just europe !.

I have a friend currently going around Asia to find that every Nokia shop so far is shut.

Anyone know why?.

Um, those stories also mention the physical shops being shut too.
Online & mortar was only being shut down in select countries...
Countries where it was/is still doing okay-ish, they were being kept open.
Which isn't many because it was never a big initiative by them.
They've always had affiliates who act as retailers or service centers.
Not only dedicated Nokia stores etc...

Don't ya'll reckon?

I suspect they'll only allow it for their WP phones
http://thenokiablog.com/2011/08/03/n...io-technology/
Same might end-up happening for BT4 too

When will this become talk.mango.org?

the wirless music receiver supports apt-x, in the ad video it is demoed with an N9, so I hope it works.

What's Jamify?
Jamify is an application which can browse and play content from Jamendo.

Jamify is a browser/streamer/explorer for the Jamendo service. Jamendo is an on-line service which provides music under the creative common license, free to listen to as much as your heart desire without any registration if you don't want to.

WRT the hardware discussion, and specifically the comparison to GSII: has the owner of a dual core android phone seen practical differences and improvements in the daily use of the phone? When the HTC Hero was my primary phone (way, way back in the ancient days of myth and android 2.2) I used the phone mainly as a pdf that could make phonecalls. By that I mean I had some productivity apps like notes (evernote etc) voice recorders, some light yet insanely addictive games like tower defence, pdf, ebook and office readers and of course the dear to my heart android e-mail client and not so dear browser. On these tasks, the plucky Hero excelled- I still use it as a sim-less pda, in fact.

So, disregarding games, are there practical differences in the ease and efficiency of these tasks? The only thing that would probably be noticeably better, I think, would be the handling of pdf and office files, in which the hero is pretty bad. I'm very suspicious, generally, that the multi core craze is anything else than a textbook example of a constructed need (sorry if the term is not appropriate-not a native english speaker and going through caffeine withdrawal) mainly by marketing games. I mean, smartphones are still pretty much internet terminals for the majority of users, and even hardcore grease/web monkeys would never run mathlab or autocad on a 3.5 inch screen if you pointed a gun at them, no matter how smooth it would run. Same goes for photoshop or final cut, and every other high spec piece of productivity software.

So, that leaves us only games-and they still are mostly arcade ones or simple time-wasters, with little to distinguish them except continually fancified graphics (wake me up when a good ol' big-a@@ rpg or strategy game hits the smartphone market and then I'll take notice). So, where else is the desire, nay, the NEED many feel for monster CPUs in their phones rooted? Am I missing something? For me, good, innovative software trumps insanely powerfull hardware- and, on that front, things don't look good: my second favorite mobile software platform was killed two days ago and my favorite is on life support. Seems thinking new and different ways of using your smartphone, implementing them, and having the cojones to put them to market is harder that just keeping sticking an ever bigger cpu on a phone and running same ol' same ol' software on hardware that was reserved for supercomputers in days of yore... who knew?!

Ad video, which one can you recall?
Hopefully that means N9 gets it....

@giorgosmit

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