Nokia Image Space on video

ESPOO, Finland – We’ve just been treated to a preview of a new concept in viewing images – Nokia Image Space. Using the GPS, compass and accelerometer found on the Nokia 6210 Navigator all the necessary data is grabbed for each picture shot. When you get back to base and upload all your images Image Space maps them into groups to create image journeys. You can also share your images with others, and theirs with you so you can extend your journey. It’s all pretty amazing stuff, even showing the image at the aspect at which it was taken. See it, to believe it – after the jump.

ESPOO, Finland – People spend most of their time indoors (up to 90 per cent, according to research). GPS only works outside. Indoor positioning then could prove to be one of those killer apps that could change the way we interact with the world. Kimmo Kalliola, research leader for Wireless Systems and Services, gave us an update on Indoor Positioning, which was first shown off last year.

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Bob Iannucci – The Way We Live Next

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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Running a healthy business

Corporate social responsibility is an important issue for Nokia, and often one of the hardest things to work out is where the border lies between CSR and individual choice. Fitness is clearly an issue where the boundaries blur, and while there’s a sizable and growing fitness community, there are plenty of potential people who would be put off by a phone guilting him or her into jogging. But is prominent awareness of a feature really suggestion?

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GPS maps, ancient sculptures and blind ambition

GLOBAL – Maps that move beyond the visual aren’t new by any means, as these ancient Inuit tactile maps show on Lewism.org. The guy behind the site is Lewis Martin, a Scottich Architect living in Helsinki Finland, posted an interesting take on mobile GPS mapping:

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Video: UbiSafe uses location to keep people out of danger

TREVISO, Italy – In recent months we’ve witnessed an interesting evolution as location-based mobile services have stretched their tendrils into new spaces – social networking (Plazes), conversation (Nokia Chat), and even in combating CO2 emissions (we:offset). So it’s encouraging to see yet another developer take a different approach to context aware services. Dubbed UbiSafe, this location-based service has been designed to help ensure people with special needs, children, or elderly remain safe within a designated area, using GPS tracking technology.

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Next mini milestone in Nokia Maps evolution

ESPOO, Finland – As mobile mapping fuses ever-more irreversibly with location-based services, it’s becomes clearer and clearer where this breed of context aware application is headed. The answer? Significantly more localized, to the point where your personal space is quickly becoming hugely populated with invaluably integrated morsels of info. And the latest large-scale contributer to this pot of on-the-go context aware knowledge within Nokia Maps 2.0 is Lonely Planet – finely detailed location-based knowledge for over 100 destinations are now downloadable to Nokia Maps.

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Vacation reports and other things people are doing (or not doing)

ESPOO, Finland – Humans are insane. We are driven to create nifty tools and driven to use them like mad. Of course, many of our stories here at Nokia Conversations is about incredibly obsessive creative folks grabbing the tools Nokia has created and pushing the tools to their limits, doing things we never expected.

Today is about pushing those limits (but doing the expected). And the theme is adventure and fun. Though, I do end with a disturbing note about something that isn’t being done.

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Location-based answers – what are your questions?

Recently I’ve been on a bit of a mobile behavior binge, writing at any opportunity about context aware services and how their rapid evolution could unwittingly yet positively affect the way we use our handsets. The reason? Simply that I believe that we’re in one of the most fascinating periods of transition when it comes to our mobile lifestyles, as location-based services are now a reality with the growth of GPS and faster connections, making it tremendously exciting as a phone user looking at the horizon.

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Nokia Chat creator teaches you how to chat

INTERNATIONAL – Recently we’ve been a little obsessed with getting under the skin of Nokia Chat, the new beta app for instant messaging with GPS elements mixed in for good measure. On my mission to understand this sliver of software inside-out I spoke in depth to the man behind it, product manager Kristian Luoma. Well, now he’s popped up on the Beta Labs blog as a guest author to teach us how to configure Nokia Chat to your favourite IM client on PC.