Austin, USA – South by Southwest Interactive is one of three parts to the SXSW 09 conference (the other two being Music and Film). It attracts an interesting mix of designers, web developers, performers, artists, and just an all-round compelling crowd of people. While many Nokia designers have attended in the past, SXSW is not the usual sort of conference Nokia would attend. But Molly Schonthal (from the same team as Nokia Conversations) made the case that the people who attend SXSW are certainly the ones who would use Nokia phones, such as the Nseries devices. She said it would be a perfect crowd for us to introduce Nokia to.
What then did Nokia end up doing and learning at SXSW 09? Was it worth it? Will we do it again? Read on to learn the answer to these questions and more.
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ESPOO, Finland – Nokia has officially inked the Nokia Developer Summit 2009 into the diary, reserving 28-29 April for the event which will be held this year in Monaco, with the upcoming Ovi Store taking the lead role. Of course, the vast majority of us here aren’t mobile app developers, but this event remains a significant talking point because the Nokia Developer Summit 2009 will play host to a heap of new innovations and open interesting new avenues for mobile engagement, with the ultimate benefit being that many of these exciting new approaches could soon come to life on our existing handsets via the Ovi Store (and certainly upcoming app-happy devices such as the Nokia N97).
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New York, USA – According to Mark over at the TheNokiaBlog, getting some hands-on time with the new Nokia N97 made him “happier than a fat kid in a candy store”. As well as twittering his experience live from the Nokia Store in New York, Mark has written a full post giving his (second) first impressions with the device (he’d played with it previously when it was first announced).
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LONDON, England – The Nokia N97 hasn’t even launched yet and it’s already snagged the number 3 slot on T3 magazine’s list of the 100 hottest gadgets. Drawn up by the editors of the esteemed tome, the N97 is credited with being “the cleverest, most technologically advanced handset to date”. Lofty praise indeed!
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ESPOO, Finland – We were looking back at the activity across our streams. Comments, views, hits, and stuff all pretty much point to the same top stories that generated the most debate and comments (listed below). I want to point out that we are rapidly approaching that tipping point where the great comments are starting to overwhelm us. That’s the bad side of abundance and we are working hard to keep this whole endeavor interactive in the coming year (with the occasional moments of bankruptcy permitted when things get really hairy).
I also want to use this moment to thank all of you for making this site what it truly is meant to be, a place for us to all talk about stories from around the Nokia neighborhood. Without all of you, we would be just a bunch of hot air.
Now to the top debates of the year!
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Austin, USA – South by Southwest Interactive is one of three parts to the SXSW 09 conference (the other two being Music and Film). It attracts an interesting mix of designers, web developers, performers, artists, and just an all-round compelling crowd of people. While many Nokia designers have attended in the past, SXSW is not the usual sort of conference Nokia would attend. But Molly Schonthal (from the same team as Nokia Conversations) made the case that the people who attend SXSW are certainly the ones who would use Nokia phones, such as the Nseries devices. She said it would be a perfect crowd for us to introduce Nokia to.
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