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Gallery from Nokia Design Day 2009
Yesterday Rafe had the opportunity to attend Nokia's Design Day: The Inside Story. The event, held at Nokia's London design studio, offers a closer look at a number of design projects. This year the topics included iconography (a global design language), gestures (future interaction methods), homescreens (empowering users through personalisation), and the Nokia N97 (merging the physical and online world). We'll have more detailed coverage next week, but, as a taster, here are a few images from the day.
Nokia Design Day
Just a brief note that Rafe's at Nokia's Design Day in London today and is posting updates on the AAS Twitter account through the day, so you might want to follow this, if you're not already.
12,000 miles with the Nokia N79
The N79 certainly seems a suitable device for a hardy, dusty, GPS-enabled, solar-powered cycle ride across the globe. Susie Wheeldon, Jamie Vining and Iain Henderson are using 'Nokia N79 Active' devices to find their way (Nokia Maps) and keep track of their heart rate (Sports Tracker), as they make their way through 15 countries in travelling 12,000 miles. It's all being powered by thin-film solar panels attached to their bike paniers. You can follow their progress over the next nine months on www.thesolarcyclediaries.com. Photo and bits from the PR below.
Your S60 smartphone and the Eurovision Song Contest
The largest political maelstromsong contest on Earth is underway right now in Moscow. But how can you get the Eurovision Song Contest on your smartphone? Ewan explains the hows and wheretos, from news to music to video to schedules.
Ewan, Mobile, Moscow and Eurovision 2009
For those of you interested in Ewan Spence's continuing travels, he's currently away for just over a week, in Moscow, helping commentate on the Eurovision Song Contest. No, really. He'll hopefully be using his mobile tech to fire in photos, tweets and the odd app review and anyone interested can also, of course, follow his main blog for other miscellany.
Developers - 6 days left to win 150K Euros
Sorry, we should have posted this a few days ago, but Vodafone Mobile Clicks is an annual competition for mobile developers that finishes on the 14th May, with a 150K Euro prize. This is the first year that the contest has been open to UK entrants. On Twitter, see hashtag #vmc, or follow @vmc2009 or @momolondon for contest news.
AAS Insight 69 - Ovi Store and Nokia Developer Summit 2009
In All About Symbian Insight 69 (AAS Podcast 127) Rafe, Ewan and Steve talk about Bobba, operating billing on the Ovi Store, v21 firmware for the Nokia 5800 and the new N-Gage game - Age of Empires III. Rafe then reports back in detail from the Nokia Developer Summit 2009. You can listen to AAS Insight 69 here or, if you wish to subscribe, here's the RSS feed.
Hackathon ends and provides winning widget Rocket
As part of the Nokia Developer Summit, the widely publicised Nokia Hackathon ended with a victory for a Mexican designer, with Rocket, a social location widget that will be featured on the front screen of the Nokia N97. It's not known which social network this is compatible with. There's an extract from the press release below.
AAS Insight 67 - Q1 results, Samsung firmware and more
In All About Symbian Insight 67 (AAS Podcast 127) we talk about the Nokia's Q1 results - how good/bad are they? We move on to the news that Samsung firmware updates (and a new PC Studio) are on the way, and discuss two Symbian OS topics. You can listen to AAS Insight 67 here or, if you wish to subscribe, here's the RSS feed.
This year's S****** S********* show
Well, the dates for this year's Symbian Smartphone Show have been set, as has the venue. 27-28 October, at Earls Court 2, in central London (the same venue as the 2008 event). Mark it in your diary NOW. But, curiously, the name itself hasn't been finalised yet. With the new status of the Symbian Foundation, David Wood muses on the official SF blog and asks for suggestions for the name and indeed the general themes for the event. Why not chip in?
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