Tag: Nokia
Nokia World: Hands on with the Nokia 770 internet tablet
Slipping out of one Silicon Valleyspeak presentation today ("Push the envelope!", "Innovation!", "Quadrants!"), I took the chance to get hands on with Nokia's 770 Internet Tablet. I hate the name – could it sound any more nerdy? – but the…
Nokia World: WidSets bring the best Web 2.0 sites to your phone
There’s been a lot of talk at the Nokia World conference about the coming together of Web 2.0 and mobile. But a lot of it’s just that: talk. It seems logical that people will want to do similar things on…
Nokia World: video of Nokia's future mobile concepts (part 2)
Here's another video shown at the Nokia World conference by the firm's head of design Alastair Curtis. This one shows off the way they think the user interface of phones may go, turning into a whizzy touchy-feely touchscreen type affair….
Nokia World: video of Nokia's future mobile concepts (part 1)
The presentations at the Nokia World conference have just finished – I've got a stack of stuff to post up in the next few hours, so keep checking back. But in the meantime, here's one of the animated videos shown…
Nokia World: Are you a life juggler or a technology stylist?
One of the interesting running themes of the Nokia World conference has been the way Nokia is splitting consumers (i.e. us lot) into 12 distinct segments, which are being used to help the firm design its new mobile phones. The…
Nokia World: Fancy a 100GB mobile phone with a built-in projector?
What will mobile phones be like in 2010? Ask Tero Ojanperä, Nokia’s chief technology officer, who did the final keynote speech at the Nokia World conference today. And he's not short of ideas: 1. “A navigation device in 2010 will…
Refresh Mobile wins Nokia "Developer of the Year" award
Refresh Mobile, a London-based company that runs the Mobizines service allowing users to access 'snack sized' versions of their favourite mags, web sites and brands via their handsets, has won Nokia's prestigious "Developer of the Year" award, beating off competition…
Nokia World: Next-gen N-Gage to work on 5-7 phones from Day One
Interviewed at Nokia World, the company's games chief Jaakko Kaidesoja said that when Nokia's N-Gage 2.0 platform launches next year – and no, they're not calling it that, I'm just trying desperately to coin a phrase – it will work…
Nokia World: Nokia declares war on the iPod!
Or, in their words: "I don't see any reason for standalone MP3 players to exist in the long-term. There's no reason for standalone non-connected MP3 players. You have a worse experience." That's what Nokia's Tommi Mustonen said earlier this afternoon,…
Nokia World: Ruud Gullit on gadgets and marriage: "It's like warfare"
The vast majority of the Nokia World conference is tech-focused, as you'd expect. But I've just come out of a strange session hosted by Clive Anderson, which focused on how celebrities are using mobile technology. Actually, it was more like…