By Mike on 03 July 2009
GLOBAL - Not to get all misty-eyed, but it’s great to see Ovi Maps for mobile finally graduate from almost eight months of Beta Labs learning to become a fully fledged and officially launched service.
It’s been a project fueled with innovative thinking and supported by a fantastic array of active feedback from the ever-engaged Beta Labs community. One member of the Maps team, Kee, has written a short piece on the Beta Labs blog highlighting what they’ve learned from the development and the significance of the suggestions offered by the Beta Labs readership. Read on to find out more, and to get the full lowdown on Ovi Maps for mobile.
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By JBC on 03 July 2009
GLOBAL - Ending our week of looking at Nokia’s various blogs we close out with one of the newer members of the clan, the Ovi Blog. With an ever expanding range of services and applications, Ovi is rapidly establishing itself as the “door” to the Internet (Ovi is Finnish for door), providing a wide range of mobile users access to the services and applications on their devices that previously simply weren’t possible. Ovi Mail is possibly one of the best examples of this, where hundreds of thousands of people, many of whom wouldn’t have previously had access to a PC, have already set up and run an email account directly from their mobile device.
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By JBC on 01 July 2009
GLOBAL - Back in the day, Nseries devices were often referred to as multimedia computers. Of course now they’re known as mobile computers, and given the likes of the Nokia N97, that’s a very fitting description. It’s fitting too, that multimedia plays a central role in the Nseries blog, the latest Nokia blog to have the Conversations spotlight shone on it. With a video on pretty much every post, the site manages to bring Nseries devices to life in a way words simply can’t, something I think adds a huge appeal to the site.
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By JBC on 30 June 2009
GLOBAL - Following on from yesterday’s introduction of our look at other Nokia blogs, we have the gamers’ favourite - n-gage. The n-gage blog offers the latest games charts every week along with a host of reviews round ups and the latest n-gage gaming news. The top 5 games post is a weekly chart which does what it says, helping to highlight the most popular games that week. Information on new games and games development is offered up regularly and the full archive goes right back to 2006.
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By JBC on 30 June 2009
GLOBAL - Fancy getting your hands on an N97 for free, nowt, nada? Thought so. Online as it happens is a new Nokia campaign site designed to raise awareness of the Internet as it happens and how widgets can help bring it to life on your device. With more than 200,000,000 websites on the Internet now, it’s getting harder to find and access the information you want. Widgets can help, particularly on your mobile.
More a bit of fun than a serious widget creating device, the effects can be quite funny, as you’ll see from our own creation at the end of the story. Taking part is easy, it only takes a few minutes to create something quite cool and when you’re done you can share it with friends, or add it to your blog. What’s more, the winning widgets will be turned into mobile widgets and made available through Ovi Store.
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By JBC on 29 June 2009
GLOBAL - July is typically a quiet month here at Conversations (well, it was last year) so to see us through we’ve got a whole series of features to keep us busy for the month (which we are well aware, doesn’t start until Wednesday, but we like to start stuff on a Monday).
First up we’ll be focusing on some of the other blogs run by folks at Nokia, so check back every day this week to get a highlight on the main Nokia blogs and what each one has to offer. Don’t forget to check back throughout the month too so you can see what other treats we have in store. Today though we’re going to kick off with one of the greatest Nokia blogs of all, BetaLabs Blog.
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By Mike on 26 June 2009
UK - This time last week the Nokia N97 officially stepped onto UK turf, debuting in the Nokia flagship store in London alongside the new N86. Following a week of exclusive sales through Nokia stores, today the N97 goes on sale via a number of UK networks, and as we reported in our ‘How much is your phone?‘ piece a couple of weeks ago, there are some stunning deals to be snapped up should you have fallen for Nokia’s latest flagship handset.
Read on for more details on a couple of the best UK offerings we’ve spotted so far, and if you find any others share them here.
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By JBC on 26 June 2009
LONDON, England - New lessons were learned in shooting and directing music videos recently when the video for the Noisettes new single ‘Saturday Night’ was shot using only Nokia devices. 64 Nokia N95 8GBs were attached to metal arms to create “The Transformer”, a multi-eyed video camera which captured much of the footage. 70 fans were also armed with Nokia devices to help capture the scenic stuff.
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By JBC on 25 June 2009
GLOBAL - Ovi Suite is evolving and that’s clearly in evidence with the release of the new 2.0 beta version today on BetaLabs. Eventually Ovi Suite will replace all your Nokia software with one simple, elegent yet powerful piece of software that’ll handle all the tasks you’d expect it to for your device. Designed to bring your PC and device together as one, you can use it to sync and back up your device, manage your messages, download and install free maps and keep your device’s firmware up to date. This latest version takes the most important features from Nokia Software updater, Nokia Map loader and Nokia Photos and integrated them into one single application. You can also access key Ovi services by signing in with your Ovi login.
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By Mike on 25 June 2009
MUMBAI, India - Earlier this month we were stoked that one of our favourite Nokia services, Nokia Life Tools, officially touched down in India. Following its successful pilot scheme in Maharashtra, Life Tools has now officially launched via the Nokia 2323 classic and Nokia 2330 classic devices, and will be later become available on other Nokia devices and extend its reach to many more rural areas in India.
If you’re new to Nokia Life Tools, the concept is to deliver valuable and up-to-date information on the core topics of agriculture and education, providing rural communities without access to the internet, with timely information via SMS at a low cost. Perhaps the best example of this in practice is the agriculture tool that has been designed to deliver farmers with precise commodity prices on from a network of 291 local mandis (marketyards), meaning farmers don’t need to travel often long distances to the nearest town to arm themselves with these details, saving them time and money and enabling them to improve their quality of life.
We’ve gathered together a few initial reactions to the launch of Nokia Life Tools from a handful of Indian websites, so read on to see what others are saying, plus if you find any other reactions or want to voice your opinions, share them here as we’re keen to hear your thoughts.
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GLOBAL - Not to get all misty-eyed, but it’s great to see Ovi Maps for mobile finally graduate from almost eight months of Beta Labs learning to become a fully fledged and officially launched service.
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