Nokia Chat: how open do you want to be?

INTERNATIONAL – Last Friday we posted a story on the release of a beta version of Nokia Chat, an instant messaging micro app with GPS location-based features. Since then, I’ve been playing around with it with the team, setting it up, but have barely scratched the surface. In that first piece I simply asked “What do you think to GPS-enabled instant messaging. Good or bad?”, and one response from a reader, Sven Koerber, raised the interesting point of ‘trust’ and when you’re using a service like this – a little mentioned, yet extremely important word, that is definitely worth us all considering with regards to a location-based communication apps.

INTERNATIONAL – Instant messaging has reared its head in many guises on mobile, from standard IM, to text message versions (SMS Chat for S60 3rd edition and Conversation), and multi-service solutions such as IM+. But today Nokia Beta Labs, released the first beta version Nokia Chat, the first IM app to use GPS to pinpoint the location of you and your friends.

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Co-creation and conversations

ESPOO, Finland – Finns are renowned for their silence and modesty, so it’s understandable that a Finnish company like Nokia is not a loud and flashy company. Nonetheless, when we see something that benefits our customers, we go for it.

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Add, divide and multiply

ESPOO, Finland – Would you be surprised to know the iPhone is a talking point within Nokia? Of course you wouldn’t. Now would you be surprised to hear the S60 calculator hasn’t been touched (bar minor bug fixes) in almost eight years? But what have the two got in common?

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Get on your bike

ENGLAND – The UK’s annual Bike Week event is only a few weeks away and in preparation, the team at Nokia have put together all the activities taking place using Sports Tracker. It works really well with a neat search function to find routes near you and the ability to click on an activity to get all the details. Nokia is an official sponsor of the week and will be showing off the latest in mapping and navigation.

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Beta Labs blows out its first birthday candle

INTERNATIONAL – This week sees Nokia Beta Labs celebrate its first birthday. Headed up by Tommi Vilkamo and his small team, it’s kind of incredible to have witnessed how quickly Beta Labs has matured into such a dynamic site fuelled by an invaluably engaged community.