GLOBAL – Battery life and phone charging remains one of those intriguing and forever passionate topics of chatter here on Conversations – over the past year we’ve set our brains buzzing with the big phone charger debate and been impressed by environment and sustainability announcements, security shake-ups, and explored how important long-lasting mobile power is for many groups with different unique requirements.

This week’s comment of the week winner responds to the results of our recent business phone reader poll, which saw long-haul battery life come out on top as the most important feature in an enterprise device. Read on to find out who has won a copy of Gravity for Twitter, and to join the discussion and share your thoughts.

Comment of the week – Thoughts on today versus tomorrow

GLOBAL – A deluge of great debate and comments have flooded a number of stories this week on Conversations, ranging from the soft and cuddly to the fierce and fiery (we’re fans of all varieties). It’s been a tough one to pick, but we’ve got a winner. Read on to find out about the top discussions happening right here on Conversations, and discover who wins this week’s comment of the week award and a copy of the Twitter Gravity app.

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Video: Rafe’s Nokia World Tour – Part 2

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Nokia World comment of the week

I have too many phones, identify and comment GLOBAL – As we reported yesterday, Conversations has been awash with great comments since the build-up to Nokia World 09 took hold, with over 680 comments and trackbacks centered around new products and solutions that were recently announced. So we’ve scoured through the mountain of opinions and debate highlights to hunt for the comment of the week from all our NW09 coverage.

Read on to find out which comment has won this week’s copy of the Gravity Twitter app.

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Follow Nokia Convesations on Twitter all throughout Nokia World

STUTTGART, Germany – Heyyy all! Just arrived to blue skies and +27C (80F) temperatures in beautiful Stuttgart. Finland just began getting chilly, so it’s nice to journey south and keep the summer spirits for a little while longer.

Just to let you know – I’ll be rockin’ the Nokia Conversations Twitter channel throughout the entire week, so be sure check in regularly for all the latest up-to-the-second news, updates, highlights and a little of my own personal commentary. Hope you’ll all enjoy!

And don’t forget to follow the #NW09 hashtag for all the Nokia World discussions from around the globe.

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Comment of the week – Gravity winner

GLOBAL – It seems quite clear that our current polls are proving to be the center point of discussion on Conversations. The latest on mobile web browsing has no less than 21 comments right now, but for me one stood out just a nose in front of the others. Of course there’s a ton that can be said about mobile web browsing, and plenty of people made similar points relating to speed (all very valid) which is proving to be one of the hotter notions on the poll, but Kanak Bhandari went a little bit further with something I hadn’t previously considered. Read on to find out what he had to say.
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Keeping us rooted but reaching for the clouds

BOSTON, USA – In this last of my catch-up link round-ups, I want to focus on more general industry items. These links do show a bit of what I find most interesting, such as cloud computing, entrepreneurship, and the future of mobile.

But I cheat a bit: two links point to pages chock-full of links and analysis, two pages showing the best collection of thinking out there. Of course, you need to read on to find those links below.

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What if the moon landings happened today in a world of Twitter and mobile?

GLOBAL – As I’m sure many of you are aware today marks 40 years since man first kicked up dust on the surface of the moon. But what if the moon landings had taken place today, documented and shared in a digital-savvy culture where Twitter and online distribution tools are cemented in our everyday lives and informal info gathering routines?

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Nokia Surge on sale next week

DALLAS, USA – AT&T and Nokia have announced the Nokia Surge will go on sale in the USA on July 19. The device is a “socially supercharged smartphone” designed to make messaging and texting a breeze, for text, IM, email, MMS, AT&T Video Share or just connecting on social networks. The S60 device sports a slide-out QWERTY keyboard for rapid-fire typing, a 2.4-inch QVGA display and is a neat 15mm thin.
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