Becoming super-human with your mobile sixth sense

LONDON, UK – Today we’re excited to be at Nokia’s London base for a rare behind-closed-doors design event dubbed The Inside Story.

Alastair Curtis, Head of Design at Nokia, has just introduced the themes of today’s event and the things we can expect to find out during our time here. Alastair shared a design insight that your mobile is becoming more of a “sixth sense”, equipping you with “super-human” abilities. Read on to find out more about this concept that is being explored by the Nokia design team, and what else we’ll be reporting back on.

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Nokia at location fest 2009 (a.k.a. Where 2.0 Conference 2009)

CALIFORNIA, USA – This week Nokia is in attendance at the Where 2.0 Conference in San Jose, California, the world’s biggest event focussed on exploring location-based services.

Read on to find out more about what to expect from the Where 2.0 Conference.

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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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Invisible handsets. Invisible services. Indispensable tools.

INTERNATIONAL – With location-based services (LBS) stealing so many online column inches recently, one aspect that I think has dodged discussion is the hardware – most of the limelight has been shone on the warranted significance of Nokia’s recent acquisitions of NAVTEQ, Trolltech and Plazes, alongside the tangible releases of pioneering new LBS apps such as Nokia Chat .

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The future is knowing where you’re going

SAN FRANCISCO, USA – Last week, Nokia’s head of location-based activities, Michael Halbherr, told Reuters that Nokia is on track to have half of its devices shipping with GPS by 2012. That’s just four years away. Right now there are five GPS devices with four more due out in the coming months. That means a lot is going to change in the next couple of years.

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A new era of location, location, location

HELSINKI, Finland – Having recently stated, “We expect to ship about 35 million GPS-enabled Nokia devices in 2008, which is equal to the entire GPS device market in 2007,” Nokia CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, paints a picture of GPS as standard. But the significance of this goes way beyond just personal navigation. Having GPS so interwoven into our mobile lives, paired with the rapid increase of faster data connections, encourages a brave new world of location-based interaction, enabling us to effortlessly mine our surroundings for information consciously and unconsciously.