Nokia World 2007 Video from Amsterdam

Just realized that I never shared my Nokia World video montage from Amsterdam last December... enjoy

Nokia releases Nokia Maps 2.0 - Drive, Walk, Discover

Finally out of Beta, Nokia Maps 2 is here. Updates include enhanced pedestrian navigation, new satellite images and support for integrated compass orientation. Nokia Maps 2.0 has improved its optional Car Navigation, enhanced its pedestrian navigation, added multimedia city guides, now offers satellite images, and is sporting a redesigned user interface. Nokia's mapping and navigation solutions give people navigation features, local content and world maps directly on their mobile device, in a way that only connected devices can. The tagline from Nokia... Drive, Walk, Discover... see http://www.maps.nokia.com

Nokia Labs - Nokia Text Messenger

The application fetches you the latest text messages from your connected Nokia device. Naturally, the latest messages are displayed first. A gadget for Windows Vista, Nokia Text Messenger comes in two different sizes. If you want to place the application in your Windows Sidebar, you can opt for Nokia Text Messenger in a smaller size. The sidebar gadget lets you view three text messages at a time. See more at http://www.nokia.com/betalabs/textmessenger

Nokia Beta Labs Introduces Nokia Step Counter

This comes from Beta Labs Blog... Nokia Step Counter does what it says on the tin: it counts the number of steps you take by analyzing how you ’shake’ your phone. Since most people have their phone with them everywhere they go, it is natural to use the accelerometer in an S60 product to track your daily activity. Download at http://www.nokia.com/betalabs/stepcounter

Tip - Nokia Labs' Location Tagger

With Nokia Location Tagger, you can automatically tag your location data to your pictures. As you take a picture, your GPS coordinates are saved to the EXIF header of the JPEG file. You can use this data later, for example, to locate your pictures on a map. Try it out!

GeoTagging with Shozu explained

Are you a mobile camera power user? If so then you know about Shozu (I hope) if not then you should, particularly if you like to blog your photos, flickr them or share them with others. Shozu recently updated to R4 and the geotagging support has been enhanced - to date I was never really happy with the results. Over on the Shozu Blog the team has provided a nice primer on how the shozu GeoTagging works and provides a cool tour of San Fran - see also shozu.com

Win a Nokia N95 from Utterz - see Get My Message Contest

Utterz has announced a chance for users to win a cool smartphone. Simply create your very own commercial, embed on your website and you could win. See details or jump to utterz.com

Nokia's Mobile Games Innovation Challenge

Nokia today launched the worldwide Mobile Games Innovation Challenge. the Mobile Games Innovation Challenge seeks the best in groundbreaking ideas and game concepts from the brightest and most creative minds in mobile gaming today. Sponsored by Nokia Publishing, the Mobile Games Innovation Challenge invites developers to submit mobile gaming concepts to help drive mobile gaming to the next level, relying on the advanced features and functionalities of N-Gage compatible devices, and Java- or Symbian-based Series 40 or S60 devices from Nokia. developers wishing to compete for the Mobile Games Innovation Challenge can submit their game concepts online at http://developer.n-gage.com/innovation

Deadline for submission of all applications is August 20, 2008 at 11:59 p.m. GMT.

User generated content, WHERE platform, Nokia N95 - hot at LBS Challenge

One couldn't help noticing a few trends in this year's Navteq LBS Challenge - perhaps you watched the award ceremony via live webcast? Some of the obvious trends that I noticed while getting the skinny on the finalists:
- the uLocate WHERE developer platform is the developer tool of choice this year for LBS apps - 10 of the top 15 apps used WHERE!
- The Nokia N95 seemed to be the device of choice for demos - most of the demos I saw were running on the N95, although not the N95 8GB... odd!
- According to Navteq, more than half of this years' apps incorporated some form of user-gerated content - of note, last year the hot trend was social networking apps.
See more at www.lbschallenge.com or www.lbszone.com

The latest from Shozu ?

I recently updated my Shozu to the latest release. I have to admit, I'm on the fence with this update. I'm constantly having issues getting uploads to go through (ie. they are all stalled in a queue). The navigation is way diff than the last release and as far as I can tell I can no longer get flickr comments sent to my device - a feature that was awesome! Contacts backup is no longer supported either. See www.shozu.com

Event of interest - Explore the Mobile Future

Heads up on this one... Carnegie Mellon, UC Berkeley Conference to Explore the Mobile Future, April 22. Details - Acknowledging the rise of handheld mobile devices as a dominant computing platform both in the United States and abroad, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of California at Berkeley have joined together to sponsor “The Mobile Future: Technology Revolutionizing Our Lives.” The one-day conference gathers leading academics, researchers, pundits and industry experts to discuss their visions of this mobile future, along with technology and business models for achieving them. The conference will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., April 22 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif. For more details, please visit http://west.cmu.edu/sofcon08/13867052.html.

Nokia Sports Tracker (beta) for facebook users

A new facebook application enables users of Nokia Sports Tracker (Beta) to share their tracks with their friends via facebook. To install the facebook application, simply visit http://apps.facebook.com/nstbeta/, login to your facebook account. See more HERE

N95 8GB ships in the USA with six months free navigation

This out of the Nokia PR Bulletin Board... The Nokia N95 8GB has arrived on US shores – with six months of free turn-by-turn directions and voice guidance in Nokia Maps. See more

Nokia PC Suite 6.86.6.1

Interesting to note that another update to Nokia PC Suite is now available with release of PC Suite 6.86.6.1. One issue though, if you try to search for it all you find are hits to blogs that mention it... whay can't we easily find this from Nokia? Odd!

The Location Tagger from Nokia Labs

With Nokia Location Tagger, you can automatically tag your location data to your pictures. As you take a picture, your GPS coordinates are saved to the EXIF header of the JPEG file. You can use this data later, for example, to locate your pictures on a map. According to the labs, this app will likely soon come shipped on select devices (likely those with integrated GPS) - see more details and download (free) from http://www.nokia.com/betalabs/locationtagger

Find and share your Geocaches with your Nokia n95

This from Nokia, a free download for you Geocaching buffs... Ad-Supported Geocache Navigator Application Now Available as a Free Download for Select Nokia Devices - Text CACHE to 32075 (US and Canada) or +447781488133 (International).

Trimble's Geocache Navigator is now available as a free download for the Nokia N95, Nokia N82, and Nokia 6110 Navigator. Three options for downloading the application include:

-- Texting CACHE to 32075 (U.S. and Canada) or +447781488133
(International)
-- Downloading the application from the Geocache Navigator web site at
http://www.geocachenavigator.com/nokia
-- Pointing a mobile phone browser to m.getGN.com

A detailed demo video is now available from Trimble

or view the video clip below

GPSed real time GPS trip tracking, social networking

SHAPE Services officially announced the release of GPSed (http://gpsed.com/), a complete solution for real time GPS trip tracking and a social networking place for GPS, digital photography and mobile users. GPSed installed on the latest BlackBerry, some Symbian or Java smartphones with a built-in or external GPS receiver can record tracks and transfer them to GPSed web service in real time. Users who already have a GPS receiver and some tracks may easily upload, view and share them using the software.

The eco-friendly Nokia and the sensor project

I ran into an interesting video clip from CES that shows some of the research Nokia is conducting under the topic of sensors and and environmentally aware technologies, like solar powered sensors etc.. interesting stuff!