Jappit.com http://www.jappit.com/blog Mobile blog by Alessandro La Rosa Wed, 13 Jun 2012 15:12:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 First photos shot with the Nokia 808 PureView http://www.jappit.com/blog/2012/06/13/first-photos-shot-with-the-nokia-808-pureview/ http://www.jappit.com/blog/2012/06/13/first-photos-shot-with-the-nokia-808-pureview/#comments Wed, 13 Jun 2012 15:12:11 +0000 pit http://www.jappit.com/blog/?p=1812 Here they are, some first photos shot with the impressive Nokia 808 PureView camera. You can notice the zoom quality, and the beautiful photos shot in close up mode. Click on each photo to view it at the original resolution.

Here are other photos, capturing some beautiful details.

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Images and videos shot with the amazing PureView camera coming soon.

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This update adds the “Favorite Team” section for the Euro 2012 competition, allowing to have the full match schedule for any of the available national teams.

The update should be available in the very next days for MeeGo, Symbian will follow in a few days.

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The update is available for both Symbian and MeeGo.

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You Fit is the perfect app for all sport activities, allowing to create multiple exercise schedules, track workouts, providing hundreds of predefined activities with detailed instructions and images.

The app is currently available in Italian, but will soon be distributed in English as well.

You Fit is available for free on Nokia Store.

]]> http://www.jappit.com/blog/2012/06/03/you-fit-now-available-on-nokia-store/feed/ 0 Some news after a long time! http://www.jappit.com/blog/2012/04/14/some-news-after-a-long-time/ http://www.jappit.com/blog/2012/04/14/some-news-after-a-long-time/#comments Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:48:03 +0000 pit http://www.jappit.com/blog/2012/04/14/some-news-after-a-long-time/ It’s been a while since the last update of this blog, mainly due to a lot of ongoing activities, work and apps.

In the next posts I’ll publish more detailed info about the published apps and the other stuff that involved me in the past months.

As for the very last news, I’m happy to announce that I was announced as a winner of the Symbian Qt Quick Components Competition recently held on the Nokia Developer Wiki.

As for the blog itself, the bugs that prevented new comments to be posted have been fixed, so you’re welcome to contribute with your ideas, questions and suggestions.

Meanwhile, thank you for waiting, and stay tuned!

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You can download the app from the Nokia Store.

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The game uses Nokia Maps to let the player travel around the world, trying to guess where historical locations, country capital cities and other famous places are located. The features of this first release include:

  • More than 100 questions, constantly updated
  • Global rankings, to compete with users worldwide
  • Ability to share a new score on Facebook

Check out the video below to see the game in action.

The game is available for free on Nokia Store.

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The Football App features the major European soccer leagues, including:

  • Premier League
  • Bundesliga
  • Serie A
  • Ligue 1
  • La Liga
  • Champions League
  • Europa League

For each league, the app allows to view live match results with complete scorers and lineups information, standings and top scorers.

You can download The Football App from Nokia Store.

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From the competition page:

Using the PositioningManager from Java ME Location API by Alessandro La Rosa (jappit). This wiki article explains how to use the PositioningManager from the Ovi Maps Java ME Location API to get information about the device location. Alessandro contributed a number of articles and a project; while this was our favourite, they are all very well written and provide an excellent insight into how to use the Java Location API:

Thank you Nokia Developer!

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