GLOBAL – Four times in the last 10 days, things that I deal with on a daily (hourly, sometimes continuous) basis have run out of memory. There was the server that hosts this very site (sorry!), my laptop (so small at its launch it was pulled out of a manila envelope) and my phone. With our computers, we sometimes expect it. Over ambitious in our use of applications on our computers (I discovered that I had, hidden in the dock, some 30+ websites open, amongst pretty much every useful app I have on the machine) we tend to occasionally ask more than they’re capable of delivering. For our poor server it was some bad settings, some rogue scripts and the sudden excitement of our readership that combined to take us out. For my phone, similar to my laptop I was simply trying to do too much at once. Continue reading>>
BARCELONA, Spain – What a week it’s been for Nokia at Mobile World Congress, with loads of new unveilings including big hitters such as the N86 8MP, E55, and your favourite announcement of Monday, the Ovi Store (currently our reader poll which has registered over 450 votes shows that 34% of Conversations readers were most excited by word of the upcoming Ovi Store which launches in May).
Read on for a round-up of Nokia at Mobile World Congress.
GLOBAL – At the beginning of the week we asked you to vote for your favourite announcement from the first day of Mobile World Congress – the Ovi Store came in first place (34%), with the Nokia E55 coming in second (31%) and the E75 in third place (26%). But since then a bunch of other Nokia news was announced, including the new N86 8MP and Skype on Nokia, so now it’s time to vote for your definitive favourite product, service or announcement from the show.
Below are the contenders, listed in a random order. So simply pick what you think deserves to be crowned best in show and hit the vote button!
GLOBAL – We wrote in December about the addition of S60 support to Aptana Studio, the open source Ajax and Web development suite. With 3 million downloads so far, Aptana is one of the best app suites to develop mobile applications in, and the addition of support for Nokia Web Runtime (the plugin is available now) means the path to getting apps onto Nokia devices suddenly got a lot easier. Add to this the new Ovi Store and the next phase of the Calling All Innovators competition, and things are looking very rosy indeed for mobile app development.
BARCELONA, Spain – Nokia today unveiled details of Ovi Store which is set to go live to consumers in May this year. Offering a range of content including applications, games, videos, widgets, podcasts, location-based applications and personalised content, Ovi Store will be available on S60 and Series 40 devices. The first device to include the mobile storefront on board will be the Nokia N97, set to launch in June. Meanwhile tens of millions of existing S60 and Series 40 devices will be able to take advantage of the store from May. Ovi Store is unique in its ability to target content based on where you are, when you’re there, why you are where you are and who else has downloaded similar content. Continue reading>>
GLOBAL – Four times in the last 10 days, things that I deal with on a daily (hourly, sometimes continuous) basis have run out of memory. There was the server that hosts this very site (sorry!), my laptop (so small at its launch it was pulled out of a manila envelope) and my phone. With our computers, we sometimes expect it. Over ambitious in our use of applications on our computers (I discovered that I had, hidden in the dock, some 30+ websites open, amongst pretty much every useful app I have on the machine) we tend to occasionally ask more than they’re capable of delivering. For our poor server it was some bad settings, some rogue scripts and the sudden excitement of our readership that combined to take us out. For my phone, similar to my laptop I was simply trying to do too much at once.
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