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The Indestructible Kevlar & Leather Belt

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A belt is a belt with not much rocket science to it. Evolving from simple drawstrings that kept pants in place to this indestructible Kevlar & Leather belt by Harmattan Design, you can expect this fashion accessory to be your partner for life.

Using innovative materials like Kevlar – a synthetic fiber of high tensile strength used especially as a reinforcing agent in the manufacture of tires and other rubber products and protective gear such as helmets and vests – team Harmattan have reinvented the leather belt for us.

Unlike most Kickstarter projects that fail to ship at all, this belt comes with the promise of being shipped on time! Just for that, it scores major brownie points with us!

Elegance and and life-time guarantee, two unlikely combinations, but they seem to match the energy of the indestructible Kevlar & Leather Belt.

Designer: Harmattan Design

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Behind the scenes history of MeeGo reveals Nokia’s abandoned tablet and Verizon N9

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Finnish site Taskumuro has produced an incredibly detailed behind-the-scenes history of Nokia's wonderful, yet doomed, MeeGo OS. Talking to current and ex-employees of the phone maker, it learned that a tablet (codenamed Senna) and CDMA Nokia N9 for Verizon were both in development before Stephen Elop killed the project dead around the time of the "burning platform" memo. The report also claims that the company's decision to develop Maemo (later MeeGo) in tandem with Symbian led to a developer turf-war, that the Swipe UI was cooked up at the 80/20 Design Studio in New York and the team had planned an Apple-esque strategy of releasing a single phone every year. If you'd like to learn more (and about how the original article was translated from Finnish into English in under 10 hours), head on down to the source links.

[Thanks, Masa and Justus]

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Behind the scenes history of MeeGo reveals Nokia's abandoned tablet and Verizon N9 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Oct 2012 10:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Unreleased Nokia Lauta QWERTY slider emerges, shows where MeeGo might have tread

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Unreleased Nokia Lauta QWERTY slider emerges, shows the MeeGo future that never was

Those of us who remember Nokia's late-stage MeeGo phone development will recall how the dreams fell apart: we got the N9 and the developer-tuned N950, but the future grew dark almost immediately as Nokia swung its attention further towards Windows Phone. If MyNokiaBlog's prototype leak is accurate, however, the engineers in Espoo had planned at least one more MeeGo phone for the general public: meet the Lauta, or RM-742. It would have been an "immediate" follow-up to the N9 that brought a tilting, sliding QWERTY keyboard to the party, with performance identical to its touch-only sibling. Nokia was reportedly committed enough that it had fully functional prototypes and had penciled in a fall 2011 release to give the N9 some company. We don't really know why Nokia scrapped the Lauta, although it's not difficult to surmise that the company wanted to simplify its lineup at a time when profits were falling fast. The real tragedy may not be so much the decision to axe the Lauta as the absence of a true heir to what it represented -- between Nokia's public silence and recent departures from the relevant software team, MeeGo's future is more in doubt than ever.

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Unreleased Nokia Lauta QWERTY slider emerges, shows where MeeGo might have tread originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nokia N9 updated to MeeGo PR1.3, boasts 1,000 improvements

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Nokia N9 updated to MeeGo PR13, boasts 1,000 improvements

MeeGo isn't quite dead, and Nokia N9 users are getting another update pushed to their phone to prove it. PR1.3, a firmware refresh that's been in the works at least since 1.2 was released a few months ago, has finally been made official. But this is no simple bug fix -- the latest version of MeeGo offers an impressive 1,000 "quality improvements, including mail, Facebook and Twitter." According to Nokia's official support page, the update will also provide several network and connectivity enhancements. The 203MB OTA download is now beginning to roll out, starting with unbranded devices and branching out from there. Continue past the break for the full statement from Nokia.

Update: We'll give a hat tip out to our commenters, who clued us in on a forum thread that discusses many of these "quality improvements." It appears that a large number of them are indeed bug fixes. Some of the actual boosts involve camera feature enhancements, higher volume, NFC fixes, better video decoding and more precise copy and paste [thanks BertrandsBox!] We also initially experienced sluggish behavior on the new update, but a factory reset seemed to resolve the concern.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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Nokia N9 updated to MeeGo PR1.3, boasts 1,000 improvements originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 03 Jul 2012 21:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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