Ghoulish camera phone game wins Nokia top gong

ROME, Italy – Earlier this week we brought you the full lowdown on the ten shortlisted developer finalists competing in the Nokia Games Innovation Challenge. The winners were announced at the Nokia Games Summit in Rome, with the most innovative game concept snatching the number one slot thanks to some clever camera tech trickery based on a principle dubbed Augmented Reality – an idea we reported on that’s currently also being explored at the Nokia Research Center.

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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Is Nokia still in the phone business?

ESPOO, Finland – Nokia reorganized recently around Internet service creation and deployment, is rolling out Internet service after Internet service, and using a lot of brain cycles of very smart people to fuse mobile services with the Internet services. Yeah, this isn’t your father’s mobile phone company anymore.

But that got me thinking. What parts of Nokia could stand on their own? I mean, is Nokia just in the phone business?

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It’s all about you – who, how, what, why

ESPOO, Finland – This past week I found myself do what a lot of the product designers here do – see someone struggle with something (an opportunity!) and start working out how to help. It goes without saying that understanding the person who will use this product or service is central in creating something useful.

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Meet the mobile anthropologist

GLOBAL – You’ve seen some of his research, you’ve heard a bit about how we works and what he does. Now though you can find out everything you’d ever want to know (almost) about Nokia’s Jan Chipcase. His work takes him around the world observing and understanding how mobile design fits into and affects lives, societies and cultures. But don’t call him an anthropologist; because he’s not fully qualified he
much prefers ‘design research’ to describe his job.

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Nokia’s software springboard in place

ESPOO, Finland – Way back in January news emerged of Nokia’s plan to buy Trolltech. In mainstream terms it’s a little known organization, but despite the lack of glitz this is a smart outfit equipped with world class cross-platform development software and tools. So today’s news that the acquisition has been unconditionally approved by the European Commission marks an important milestone on Nokia’s journey towards enabling everyone to access the software and services they want on multiple platforms and devices, a vision championed in the recent evolution of Ovi.

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Design in motion

GLOBAL – Deep inside the Nokia design team are a couple of people who spend a lot of their time traveling the world, talking to people, taking pictures and turning that research into meaningful insights for the rest which Nokia can react to.