Steve Litchfield went along to the informal Go:Play:Reloaded event (ok, ok, a boat trip and lots of chatting) held the day after the main launch, to get some quality hands on time with Nokia's new devices and interface. Longer analysis to follow, but here are some of the most interesting images from today....
Just for completeness, Nokia's new Music Store announcement is reproduced below. As part of the Ovi brand, it will work in conjunction with specific XpressMusic phones (listed at the bottom of the release), plus a brand new PC-hosted music synchronization application. Interesting highlights are that tracks are only 1 Euro each, delivered in very high quality 192kbps DRM-ed WMA files and that you can pay by PayPal. See below for more.
If you want to watch the goings on in London on the Web, here's the direct streaming feed. Update: The link now shows the footage from the Go Play event.
Interested to watch OPK's keynote on the webcast. The video of Nokia's interface vision for next year more or less exactly matched my editorial from a few months ago: I've seen the future and it looks a lot like the iPhone. Watch this space for more analysis from Rafe and Ewan later this week. After Nokia's video I detected a few laughs from people in the audience - the Apple copying was perhaps just too obvious?
That's right, we couldn't possibly talk about tomorrow's big Nokia launch day in London, although other mainstreammedia have no such reservations. Suffice it to say that Rafe, Ewan and myself will be there in person and reporting live on any music or gaming devices, platforms or services that may (or may not) be announced and demonstrated. Watch AAS during Wednesday for more...
MOSH, Nokia's own (S60) mobile-centric social network is now fully into an open beta and anyone can sign up. The URL is http://mosh.nokia.com/ and looks very promising. Now I'm wondering if there are any tie-ins to the big Go Play launch event on Wednesday....
The official N-Gage blog has now confirmed that the new N-Gage logo seen at the GCDC is indeed genuine. They've also released an animated version of the new logo (click Save As and open it in Windows Media Player). The animation is reminiscent of the one Nintendo used when launching the Wii. This may be a clue as to Nokia's intentions with the Next Gen N-Gage: to appeal to casual gamers and expand the phone game market, just as the Wii has done with the console game market.
We've teamed up with mVoIP provider Truphone to give you the chance to win a year's free mobile calls with Truphone plus a fantastic S60 3rd Edition Nokia N95. You can enter on the competition page.
Enough with the emails already! Nokia E90 fans who have been emailing in asking when my big case review round-up will be ready, please a) be patient and b) read on... Oh, and c) don't buy anything yet until the verdict's in...
S60.com has just introduced a new feature called 'Wishlist'. It's an automated way of gathering together the niggles that bug each of us about S60 and want to see improved. Get involved and let's see what wishes become most requested. [update: link fixed]
So, you've got a 332 MHz top-of-the-range smartphone from 2007 with 3D graphics acceleration hardware and a 16 million colour screen. What do you do with that? Obviously, you'd use it to emulate 8-bit home computers and consoles from 1982! Another winning feature from Krisse...
Good news and bad news. The bad news is that I think we'll be seeing a bit less of Krisse on AAS in the next few months. The good news is that Krisse is the driving force behind our sister site, All About N-Gage (RSS feed available here), with a terrific lead article on the really important points behind Nokia's N-Gage relaunch and the implications of it not being dependent on specific hardware, shops or operators.
That's right, we couldn't possibly talk about tomorrow's big Nokia launch day in London, although other mainstream media have no such reservations. Suffice it to say that Rafe, Ewan and myself will be there in person and reporting live on any music or gaming devices, platforms or services that may (or may not) be announced and demonstrated. Watch AAS during Wednesday for more...
So, you've got a 332 MHz top-of-the-range smartphone from 2007 with 3D graphics acceleration hardware and a 16 million colour screen. What do you do with that? Obviously, you'd use it to emulate 8-bit home computers and consoles from 1982! Another winning feature from Krisse...