Nokia has gradually been putting up all the keynotes from their event of the last couple of days, in video form, on their web site, and they're all there now. Here's the Nokia World webcast link, should there be any that you particularly want to dip into.
Well done to Rafe and the team out in Amsterdam for winning WOM World's special Nokia quiz (against Symbian Freak and Mobile Burn) in handsome style. Best of all, the prize is a clutch of Nokia N82s for trialling. Congratulations all!
Nokia has announced 'Comes With Music', a revolutionary program that enables people to buy a Nokia device with a year of unlimited access to millions of tracks from a range of artists from Universal Music Group (more publishers to be added). After the year is up, you still get to keep the music, too, on that device at least.
In practical terms this is a music subscription that is bundled with the cost of the device allowing for a consumer perception of a device that comes with unlimited free music. For more commentary read on.
Nokia World starts in an hour or so (for 2 days) and we have Rafe and Ewan at the event, recording video and audio hopefully. You can also watch the main keynotes yourself on the web - in particular the opening hour or so with Nokia chiefs Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo and Anssi Vanjoki [URL now fixed!], starting at 8.15 GMT, although with the N82 already announced, your guess is as good as mine for what they'll talk about or launch - maybe they'll flick the switch on N-Gage? I'll have my N95s on 'Refresh', just in case!
PDA Essentials issue 68 hits the streets today (in the UK, at least), with a special section on their prestigious annual awards (in conjunction with the likes of Clove and Expansys). Of interest here is that the Nokia N95 got voted the 'Best Smartphone', in a hotly contested category (beating the Sony Ericsson P1i, among others). The Nokia E90 lost out to the HTC TyTN II for 'Best PDA' and, curiously, there wasn't a category for best 'communicator' or 'business/email' device. For more detail, go buy your own copy!
Both Ewan and I caught up with David Quin from ALK at the recent Smartphone Show, to find out about the new CoPilot Live 7, becoming available for both S60 and UIQ. My video podcast was something of a lighting disaster and has been scrapped, but fear not for Ewan has a complete interview with David in AAS audio podcast 44.
