GLOBAL – The story behind the making of the Nokia N97 is a fascinating one that gives a real insight of what goes into to forging a flagship device from scratch (the topic of what makes a flagship device has been sizzling on Conversations recently). So this morning we were excited to get our hands on a rare video exploring the making of the Nokia N97, and as one of the creators puts it, the “blood, sweat and tears” that have gone into bringing this new device to life.
Click to watch the full-length video on the making of the Nokia N97.
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GLOBAL – Earlier this week we managed to get hands-on with the Nokia E52 and give it the close-up camcorder treatment to bring you a proper fingertip tour of the latest Eseries smartphone in the flesh.
Following in the design footsteps of the Nokia E71 and adhering to the build quality hallmarks of Eseries, the new E52’s shell looks and feels great in your palm thanks to its slim-line profile, top notch materials and sleek finish. To show you, we went all macro and took some close-up footage of the E52 in detail.
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HELSINKI, Finland – Nokia is involved in a number of initiatives to help develop and support the ambitions of young people (such as YouthActionNet), and similarly raise awareness for crucial global concerns such as sustainability (see Dreams Workshop). This week our attention was drawn to a program that Nokia has been supporting since 2007, started by the European Commission with a view to addressing the lack of women in IT careers. To tackle this problem, Nokia joined the ’shadowing days’ scheme, which sees girls visit Nokia and shadow the women working there to get a much greater understanding of the life and careers of women working in this area, and as the EU Commission puts it, prove that technology is not “strictly for geeks!”.
Recently a 13 year-old girl called Rosemarie Hartman, with ambitions to study Maths, Science and Technology, visited Nokia headquarters to do exactly that, and created a video diary of her day shadowing women within the company, from meetings about Comes With Music to teleconferences about recycling and a visit to the Nokia flagship store in Helsinki. It’s a great little video, that gives a candid insight into how the ’shadowing day’ program works as well as a peek behind the scenes at Nokia House. Click to watch the full video.
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ESPOO, Finland – First announced back in February at Mobile World Congress (see Nokia at MWC), today sees the Nokia E75 officially debut in stores.
To mark the occasion (we’re all out of party hats), we’ve decided to pull together a round-up of info and videos on the Nokia E75. Click through for your full E75 round-up, including a video of it alongside the upcoming N97.
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Austin, USA – Last week, I had the good fortune to work at the South by Southwest Interactive conference (SXSW 09) with some very clever and energetic colleagues. Led by the inestimable Molly Schonthal, who works on the same team as I do in Social Media Communications, Nokia made its first big foray into one of the premier Web and design conferences in the US.
Our goal was to spread the word about Nokia, its products, what we do, and where we’re going. As with most companies at SXSW 09, we sponsored a VIP Lounge (at Fogo do Chão). Unlike most companies, on one of the nights, three of us sang a song about Nokia. Without making judgments as to whether it was cheesy or funny (it was both) I thought I would share it with you.
Video after the jump.
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SYDNEY, Australia – Nokia has just confirmed that the touchscreen Nokia 5800 XpressMusic handset will be will stepping foot on Australian soil on 20th March, hand-in-hand with Comes With Music.
Read on for full details on the song-stuffed offering that will be available Down Under. Plus, catch up on our videos on how to install Comes With Music, watch a walkthrough of Comes With Music and how to manage it via your desktop, and pour over our photo gallery of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.
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BARCELONA, Spain – We’ve written about Nokia Research Center’s Image Space project before. It’s a photo sharing service that creates a navigable, immersive interface to images, maps, and video. Using data from a phone’s GPS, compass, and tilt-sensor, the service builds a 3D representation of the images.
What’s new is not only the ability to hear sounds and see videos, but a new 3D Point Cloud View that aggregates photos from a single object into a very cool three-dimensional model of all the images. Well, you have to see it to get it, so I’ve made a video (below) of Severi Uusitalo demonstrating this and all the other cool stuff in Nokia Image Space.
More after the jump.
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BARCELONA, Spain – Earlier this morning we brought you official news of the new Nokia N86 8MP. Since then we’ve managed to rustle up and cut together a bunch of videos on Nokia’s debut 8 megapixel camera phone. We’ve got a hands-on video of the Nokia N86 8MP in the flesh, along with an interview with one of the key people behind the creation of the new device, plus a rather posh promo video, which more than anything gives you a super detailed look at the handset.
Click through to watch all our new videos of the Nokia N86 8MP in action.
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BARCELONA, Spain – News of the Nokia E75 has just surfaced and already we’ve got a couple of videos of the Eseries device in the flesh. The first video is a hands-on with the Nokia E75 and the second takes a look at the packaging and we speak to E75 product manager Igor Vinogradoff, who lets us in on the thinking behind the sales box.
Click through to watch videos of the Nokia E75.
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GLOBAL – The story behind the making of the Nokia N97 is a fascinating one that gives a real insight of what goes into to forging a flagship device from scratch (the topic of what makes a flagship device has been sizzling on Conversations recently). So this morning we were excited to get our hands on a rare video exploring the making of the Nokia N97, and as one of the creators puts it, the “blood, sweat and tears” that have gone into bringing this new device to life.
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