By Mike on 06 October 2009
GLOBAL – Tucked away in a lesser-visited corridor on the Nokia Beta Labs site live a collection of exciting experimental apps. Last week we drew your attention to them in our video poll (a couple of which we know have already triggered your enthusiasm), to find out which of these innovative shards of software earned your vote as best in show. Read on to find out which app stormed to the top of the class.
By Mike on 05 October 2009
GLOBAL – Since February Nokia has been closely collaborating with Adobe on a smart initiative dubbed the Open Screen Project, designed to help developers create innovative Flash-based apps with a view to getting their creations out to more people. Back in April we highlighting the first handful of these from news that surfaced at the Nokia Developer Summit, and more recently we touched on the CNN app and highlighted Twittle, both born as a result of this $10million joint development. Today sees over 35 new winning apps officially roll down from the mountain of developers involved in the project, and into our eager hands. Read on to find out more about these exciting new apps (many headed to the Ovi Store), and to see some of the highlight apps in action in our videos inside.
By Mike on 05 October 2009
GLOBAL – As the launch of the Nokia N900 draws closer, and appetites grow heartier, we’ve managed to track down a brand-new video that goes in-depth on the N900 web browser and highlights a few neat tricks.
Broken into two easy-to-swallow chunks, the first half of the video sees Mikko Korpelainen, a Senior Product Manager at Nokia, give you a rigorous close-up look at the core features that make the N900 the best pocket device for browsing the web. The second act sees Martin Shüle, Principle Designer in the User Interface design team, show you some smart tricks and gesture touch controls that help make exploring the web even easier on N900.
Click through to watch the full six-minute in-depth video of the Nokia N900 in action, and to share your comments.
By Phil on 02 October 2009
GLOBAL – We ask for a lot of feedback from you, our faithful Conversations readers. Whether its about Nokia phones, services, upcoming products, design or the environment – your ideas, opinions and even criticism have been invaluable, and everyone at Nokia can’t thank you enough for all your support!
But in the 18 months Conversations has been live, we’ve yet to ask for feedback about…us! The blog! We the editors! How are we doing? What do you like about Conversations? What do you dislike? What would you like to see more of? Who are you? What are your interests? What other blogs do you read? What’s your favorite colour?
As we’re constantly striving to provide you with the best site possible, we have one special favor to ask: Please take our reader survey – your contribution will be essential to us improving our offering to you.
And sa small token of our gratitude, we’ve got Nokia Maps vouchers (worth €59.99) to give away to 20 random participants.
So if you have a few minutes to spare, we’d love to hear from you…
Thanks and looking forward to reading your thoughts and comments!
- The Conversations Team: Phil, Carita, JBC and Mike.
By Mike on 02 October 2009
GLOBAL – Battery life and phone charging remains one of those intriguing and forever passionate topics of chatter here on Conversations – over the past year we’ve set our brains buzzing with the big phone charger debate and been impressed by environment and sustainability announcements, security shake-ups, and explored how important long-lasting mobile power is for many groups with different unique requirements.
This week’s comment of the week winner responds to the results of our recent business phone reader poll, which saw long-haul battery life come out on top as the most important feature in an enterprise device. Read on to find out who has won a copy of Gravity for Twitter, and to join the discussion and share your thoughts.
By JBC on 02 October 2009
GLOBAL – There’s a new feature on Ovi Maps and its needs you to make it a brilliant one. Good Things is a way for Ovi Maps users to share their favourite places around the world. Already there’s hundreds of places been added with hundreds more being added every day. What’s more, it’s dead easy, too.
Once you’ve installed the latest Ovi Maps browser plugin Good Things will appear as an extra tab alongside “find places”, “favourites” and “routing”.
By Charlie on 30 September 2009
BOSTON, USA – This is my last day at Nokia.
Back in June I stepped down as Editor-in-Chief and handed over the leadership of this site to Phil, in preparation of my eventual departure from the company.
Since then, I have been just another writer on this team, focusing more on my usual “round ups” of links, generating discussions based on articles from elsewhere in the Nokia neighborhood. I’ve also been transferring as much of Nokia Conversations’ culture as I could to Phil, who has been mixing it with his special sauce to take this site and ancillary channels to a new level.
In this final post as a Nokia employee, I’d like to leave some parting words, pointing to things that I think will be major parts of the conversation over the next year, if not longer. These are more my observations, and, at some points, may deviate greatly from the established corporate line. But these comments are more to generate a discussion that I hope lasts a long time.
Care to join me? Then read on.
By Mike on 30 September 2009
GLOBAL – The folk over at Nokia Beta Labs continue to showcase and give public access to some super experimental Nokia apps, in a dedicated section reserved for innovative research prototypes. The sort of stuff that gives us goosebumps of the good variety. The latest app to appear, and as featured in our video stream, is a new Nokia Braille Reader (watch the full video). We know many of you are keen users of the apps found on Beta Labs, but you may not be familiar with all the cool things going on over there on a more experimental tip. So we’ve decided to run a video poll to find out which ones (yes, by popular demand we’re allowing you to pick more than one thing) you like best.
By JBC on 30 September 2009
GLOBAL – Reading an interview with Nokia CEO OPK in India’s Economic Times, a few lines just struck me. Talking about the evolution of the mobile handset, OPK shines a light on the competition for mobile devices – in essence, saying there isn’t any. Specifically, OPK says “I don’t think that it’s the mobile device versus anything else. It’s a question about the convergence space where a lot of opportunities will arise.” Now, I’m not going to read into what OPK is saying here particularly as he’s talking in a much wider business context, but instead I’d like to use it as a base point to think about what it means from a consumer point of view.
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By Mike on 29 September 2009
GLOBAL – Well that’s the verdict according to our most recent reader poll in which we posed you with the question what is the most important feature in a business device? It certainly surprised me that long battery life landed the top slot as the most crucial aspect of an enterprise device (of course I see it as important, but most important?). What’s interesting is that battery life has proved itself a most popular and top ranking feature in each of our recent series of polls, landing first place in the music phone stakes too. Opening the question, do we underestimate the significance of long battery lives, or does it remain true that some devices require it more than others (such as basic devices aimed at rural communities in emerging markets)? Share your thoughts on this topic and read on to find out all the results of our recent business phone reader poll.
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