What are your favourite experimental Nokia apps?

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.

GLOBAL – Nokia Point and Find is still taking baby steps as it evolves during this early beta phase of its life, yet it has already become one of the most intriguing (and public) innovations on the mobile landscape, primed for businesses to explore and anyone to benefit from.

Recently we posted a video on our Conversations YouTube channel, highlighting the Nokia Point and Find management portal – a smart tool that enables people and businesses to create and control new realms of digitally tagged realities. Click through to watch the full video and for more details.

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Ovi Contacts updated and polished

GLOBAL – Earlier today a new beta version of Ovi Contacts was made available on the Nokia Beta Labs site. The S60 3rd FP2 version promises to run a lot smoother and offer a much slicker experience, according to Kristian Luoma, Product Manager for Ovi Contacts.

He posted a piece on the Beta Labs blog this morning explaining what to expect from the new version, and champions the Beta Labs community in the face of horrible hiccups. Read on for highlights, plus find out how you can help improve Ovi Contacts.
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Mail on Ovi beta – an inbox for everyone

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Best of 2008 in Design – Co-creation at Beta Labs and Nokia Pilots

ESPOO, Finland - This was the year that Nokia really engaged with their most passionate users over new and future products and services. Two of the best examples of this are the Nokia Beta Labs and Nokia Pilots. Fascinated by their progress, we visited the respective teams repeatedly over the past year. Both are driven by the growing understanding at Nokia that the company can’t do all the innovation alone, that it helps to involve real users in the process.

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Point and find to hit beta soon

ESPOO, Finland - The astute amongst you will remember Point and Find from last year’s The Way We Live Next conference. Well, it’s just been revealed that it’ll be seeing the light of day some time soon, in the form of a beta app. We’re pretty excited about this, as full evidence of what we’re seeing as an idea in NRC becoming a real life business.