ESPOO, Finland - It was 1997 when I bought my very first mobile phone, a Nokia 2110. I had to rationalize why I needed a mobile phone and how it would benefit me. Back then, most of my family members and friends didn’t have mobiles so, being a pragmatic person, my reasoning was very practical. When I’d go to the grocery store and wasn’t sure if we had enough baking power in the house, I’d call home and ask someone to check. Or even better, when I was still at the grocery store, someone in the house would be able to call or send a text message asking me to buy more cereal.
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BARCELONA, Spain – Last week Nokia World was awash with heavyweight announcements such as the N97 and Maps on Ovi. While these rightfully stole the limelight there were a bunch of interesting developments buzzing beneath the radar, such as the Nokia Supernova Theme Coloriser application demoed for us on the 7610.
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GLOBAL – New device launches always get us wobbly round the knees here and after recently wooing the business classes with the fantastic E66 and E71 devices, Nokia has now ventured over to the other side of the handset scale, hoping to attract the fashion set with its new Supernova quartet.
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GLOBAL – Although the invitation to the Academy Awards is probably stuck in the post, Nokia has a long history with the movies. From The Saint to The Matrix Nokia devices have cropped up in all sorts of places on screen. Some worked well, whilst some worked not so well. Not ones to focus on the negative, we hooked up with the people responsible to find out which ones came out on top. Giles Pocock, Entertainment Partnerships and Product Integration works closely with Ruben Igielko-Herrlich from Propaganda Gem to make the appearances happen so we asked them to pick their top five. In no particular order, here they are. Enjoy…
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