Now: Nokia TV

Nokia launched its Nokia TV application, at the moment only in Finland. This application gives Lumia phone users access to the online collections of (at the moment) Finnish TV companies. For example, one can view news, documentaries etc. which one did miss on TV. Of course, it is a bit like YouTube, but, due to format issues, these online TV depositaries cannot be viewed using the iOS on iPhone or iPad. To use this application one needs a good 3G connection or WiFi, otherwise the data stream gets interrupted. Real time TV is does not show you, but off course this may change in the future.

Finland was probably chosen to launch this new feature, for two reasons, first of all,  TV companies maintain web sites hosting online program material, news, documentaries, series etc, and secondly the 3G and WiFi coverage for mobile devices is extremely good in Finland. 

TV programs can be viewed only, not downloaded for obvious copyright reasons. But a great addition to the growing list of WP Apps. It runs in Nokia Lmia 710, 800 and 900 phones. 

Lumia 800 camera issue

A few words about the Lumia camera, I had problems with image quality, as had many others, sometimes the images were great, sometimes out of focus. There seem to be two issues, first of all some phones had beed factory defaulted to “Macro” photography, making focusing quit impossible. First go to the setup, change all features to normal and remember to save to changes.

The other feature is focus, I am hasty, and usually do not read instructions, and blamed the camera for that. The camera operates in a two stage fashion, first press the button halfway and wait for the BEEP, and press the button fully down. Pressing the shutter button all way down without the beep will result in an out of focus image for most of the time.