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Foursquare Provided NFC Powered Tap to Check-in Feature at Nokia World

Todd Ogasawara — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 06:30:37 +0000

Nokia’s Near field Connectivity Blog provided interesting, if somewhat dated, information in a recent post. It lets us know that Nokia and Foursquare enabled NFC (Near Field Communications) check-in at Nokia World which took place in London a month ago (October 26-27).
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Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone Social & Other Video Tips

Todd Ogasawara — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:30:07 +0000

Nokia is making a multi-billion dollar gamble with its switch from Symbian to Microsoft’s Windows Phone smartphone platform. Now that Nokia’s Windows Phone 7.5 based Lumia 800 is shipping (but not in the U.S.), Nokia is stepping up its effort to promote what Windows Phone can do and how to do it. Nokia released a series of introductory and how-to (“uncovered”) video clips on YouTube to provide this information.
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Watch: What If Every Part Of Your Phone Was A Touch Screen?

Megan O'Neill — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:02:29 +0000

What if every part of your phone was a touch screen—the front display, the back display and even the sides, top and bottom? Nokia answers this question in an awesome video showcasing their new Nokia GEM concept device.
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Nokia Drive & Maps Apps for Lumia 800: Free Turn-by-Turn Navigation, Maps & Sharing

Todd Ogasawara — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 05:30:20 +0000

Nokia’s Windows Phone 7.5 based Lumia 800 will not be available in the U.S. until sometime in 2012. But, some of the custom software only available for Nokia’s phones can be previewed now. Nokia’s Drive and Maps apps curiously separate the functions of turn-by-turn navigation with map viewing.
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Nokia City Scenes: Prototype App with Mapping, 3D Panorama & Social Network Data Overlays

Todd Ogasawara — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:30:44 +0000

Nokia City Scene is a prototype app from Nokia Beta Labs that combines street maps, 3D panoramic views with gesture navigation and social network integration to provide what appears to be a powerful map discovery tool.
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Google+ Support Pages for the Rest of Us: BlackBerry, Nokia, Windows Phone

Todd Ogasawara — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:31:36 +0000

If you have an iPhone running iOS 4 (or newer) or an Android phone running Android OS 2.1 (or newer), accessing Google+ is a matter of downloading and installing the appropriate free app. However, there is no app for an iPhone running an older version of iOS, an Android phone running an older version of Android or some other phone (Nokia with Symbian, Windows Mobile or Windows Phone). If your phone is in this last category, Google has a support page to help you out.
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Nokia Mobile Web Maps Work Great on iOS/Android. Windows Phone? Not So Much

Todd Ogasawara — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:00:10 +0000

Google is not the only company trying to move its services from mobile native apps to mobile web apps. GigaOm’s Kevin C. Tofel used Nokia’s updated web-based mapping service and gave it a thumbs up for features while noting its limitations in saving offline maps due to the large size of the data involved.
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Nokia Creates Foursquare Check-In Vending Machine

Kenna McHugh — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:00:08 +0000

I found this new concept pretty interesting and have been wondering if it is really worth all the excitement it has been generating. Nokia looks to be involved in one of the first location-based technology vending machines. You may think that it seems to be a cool match, but will the connection last beyond its introduction at Social Media Week?
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Nokia Nearby: Hyper-local Search for Feature Phones

Todd Ogasawara — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 06:40:39 +0000

It wasn’t that long ago when the vast majority of phones were feature phones with little or no graphics capabilities. And, features phone are still a huge market and important in developing nations. Despite the lack of high resolution graphics and GPS in many of these phones, they are not being left out of the ability to make use of geo-location and local search. Nokia Beta Labs released an app for Nokia’s Series 40, S60 and Symbian phones to get such information even when GPS hardware is not available.
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Nokia Teams Up with Polar Mobile to Develop Symbian and Windows Mobile Apps

Bilal Hameed — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:00:49 +0000

Nokia has teamed up with Polar Mobile Inc, a Canadian Mobile developer, to produce more than 300 media applications for Nokia smartphones within one year time frame. The Apps will be launch on Nokia’s Symbian smartphones, the upcoming N9 and Nokia’s Windows Mobiles for more than 300 top tier global media brands including Wired UK, Kompas, Advertising Age, Globe and Mail, Shanghai Daily and 7DAYS.

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Nokia To Launch Windows Phone 7 Devices Through China Mobile

Bilal Hameed — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:34:53 +0000

Nokia is planning to launch its Windows Phone 7 handsets through China Mobile (China’s largest mobile phone carrier). China Mobile accounts for two-third of the country’s total mobile phone user base i.e. over 600 million users. This looks like a desperate move from the struggling handset maker to support his falling sales and hold off against fierce competition from Android devices and iPhone in China. It is expected that the initial launch will take place later this year and mass shipments will happen in 2012.

Nokia is struggling to hold its position as the top selling handset manufacturer in China with growing sales of Android and Apple’s iPhone devices. According to the financial report for the second quarter, Nokia is experiencing a downward trend in its sales. Nokia’s sales have fallen by 55% in china and 32% globally from the previous quarter. Competition and pricing tactics from the rivals have played a vital role in the downward trend. Further the distributors are also sitting on higher inventory levels for Nokia products, resulting in fewer new purchases.

Nokia is expecting to consolidate its position with the launch of smartphones running Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 operating system. C.K. Lu, an analyst with research firm Gartner said:

Nokia’s strategy is to use Windows Phone to position its smartphones as higher-end devices. But if you want the mass market, you have to drive down the price. I think this Windows Phone 7 will help them, but I don’t think it will have a big effect.

According to Lu, Nokia’s Windows Phone 7 devices are estimated to cost around $300, with main emphasis on the high-end market. However, Android handsets have already reached the low-end market and cost 1,000 yuan (US$157). With Android devices already available in just half the price and Google planning to directly place itself into the handset business with Motorola Mobility, Nokia’s plans to capture the smartphone market looks to be doomed. Only time can tell, lets wait and see.

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Feature-Phone Priced Nokia Windows Phones in 2012?

Todd Ogasawara — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 05:26:48 +0000

Feature phones are awfully smart for phones that are not smartphones. The Vodafone 555 Blue with its dedicated Facebook button is a good example. However, we are starting to see the feature phone category getting pushed into a corner by low priced smartphones. A pair of news items this week indicates that Nokia will be using a lower-end version of Microsoft’s Windows Phone for low-priced phones. All Things D’s Ina Fried reported that:

Exclusive: Nokia to Exit Symbian, Low-End Phone Businesses in North Americ

Meanwhile, ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley reported that:

Windows Phone ‘Tango’ to be Microsoft’s lower price-point operating system?

One source told Foley that Tango was being designed with Nokia in mind and for lower price point devices. A feature phone priced smartphone running a lower-end (and presumably lower resource requiring) Windows Phone version would fill the feature phone void Nokia will have in the U.S. after they withdraw from that segment of the market.

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foursquare Debuts Updated Nokia S40 App

David Cohen — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:47:05 +0000

Nokia S40 mobile phone users can now enjoy a bigger, better version of foursquare, as the location-based mobile app rolled out a new version of its app for that platform.

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Nokia First Windows Phone Model Sea Ray: What We Didn’t See or Hear

Todd Ogasawara — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:28:37 +0000

Credit: Technet.hu

A Hungarian tech blog (Technet.hu) recorded a video of Nokia CEO Stephen Elop giving the first view of Sea Ray – the first Nokia Windows Phone. He asked the crowd not to take photos or videos. But, I suspect that was a “wink wink” kind of request.

Nokia’s first Windows Phone: images and video, codenamed ‘Sea Ray’ (Engadget)

Elop and the person who provided a longer demonstration of the Sea Ray did not really say a lot about the device or how Windows Phone “Mango” runs on it. They did talk about:

- 8 megapixel camera with a Carl Zeiss lens
- Face recognition in photos
- Enhanced people hub
- Color coded calendar
- Smooth running graphically intensive apps

What we didn’t see or hear was:
- Multitasking apps
- Whether it has a front facing camera
- Nokia’s unique custom features

Does this mean that Nokia will be able to launch the Sea Ray with Windows Phone “Mango” by this fall when we also expect the fifth generation iPhone to be released?

Credit Technet.hu: Exclusive: secret video of the first Windows-based Nokia

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Nokia Smartphones to be Overtaken by Both Samsung and Apple This Year

Todd Ogasawara — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:48:13 +0000

Samsung smartphone & tablet lineup.

Nokia’s smartphone presence in the U.S. is barely a blip on the marketshare radar. However, Nokia has been worldwide smartphone market leader since day one. Reuters sets this day one date as 1996. Reuters quotes a Nomura analysis predicting this worldwide dominance coning to an end this year.
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