GLOBAL – Ok, folks, we are now on Day 5 of the Pass the Parcel game. There’s been a lot of speculation and excitement over this, more than we expected. Indeed, we are really happy with the reaction and all the guesses.
Nonetheless, for all of us who are not on the lucky list of parcel-passers, all we can do is guess what the heck is in the package.
As for what the package has been revealing, we’d like to make a few comments here, if only to occupy our minds while we wait for the final layer to be removed. Read on for more.
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ESPOO, Finland – Small things can slip through the cracks, and indeed this little one did. The Nokia BH-804 was announced back in October as Nokia’s smallest Bluetooth headset. But it was only today that we found out that the designer, Johan Frössén, had stepped in front the camera for a video interview, talking about his thoughts behind the industrial design of the headset, and the materials used.
So, we’d thought we’d share it with you. Catch the full video after the jump.
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ESPOO, Finland – Since posting news of the Nokia N79 Active there’s been a wave of positive reactions to this innovative new Nseries bundle across the web, encapsulated by your great questions and comments right here on Conversations. Since breaking the story on the N79 Active we caught up with Mikko Rieger, a competitive runner who works at Nokia, and filmed him talking us through the device and what he reckons makes it a compelling bundle for folk interested in keeping fit in a casual and enjoyable way.
Click through to watch our video interview with Mikko and to see more footage of the Nokia N79 Active in action.
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ESPOO, Finland – The new Nokia N79 Active has jogged into view with a kit bag stuffed full of sports related talents. This healthy twist on Nokia’s smallest Nseries sees the N79 Active launch paired with a Polar Bluetooth WearLink heart rate belt. This smart piece of heart monitoring kit and the N79 Active will also take full advantage of a new version of Nokia Sports Tracker that will be released simultaneously when the new device begins shipping shortly.
Continue reading for more info on the new N79 Active and what you can expect from the upcoming version of Sports Tracker.
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ESPOO, Finland – I was at a great seminar the other day by one of our executives who has long been in the phone business. He had a great story in response to the usual questions of ‘when is Nokia coming out with <insert latest tech craze here>?’.
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ESPOO, Finland – Opening the second annual ‘The Way We Live Next’ conference at Nokia HQ in Espoo, chief technology officer Bob Iannucci gives an insight into ‘Agenda 2015′ – what Nokia thinks the world will be like seven years from now.
Iannucci talks about the eight areas of focus for research in Agenda 2015 and how the research is actually being carried out.
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ESPOO, Finland – Today I am a bit more thoughtful. The articles run the gamut of word-of-mouth (ugh, what a term), device preferences, and a Danish king in China.
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ESPOO, Finland - Many of us take making phone calls for granted. And why not, after all we have plentiful access to phones, either at home or on the go. But what about those who are hard of hearing? Could you imagine not being able to have a phone conversation for three years? That was how one story started which inspired Nokia engineer behind the new Wireless Loopset, Mikko Haho. Hard of hearing himself, Mikko was demoing a first generation Loopset when a woman skeptical about the device tried it for herself. Having not had a phone conversation with her daughter in three years, the woman burst into tears – she couldn’t believe it.
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GLOBAL – Ok, folks, we are now on Day 5 of the Pass the Parcel game. There’s been a lot of speculation and excitement over this, more than we expected. Indeed, we are really happy with the reaction and all the guesses.
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