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Podcast 34: the Nokia Music Store

In our final audio podcast from Nokia's Go:Play event last week, Ewan chats to Nokia's Mikka Tomminen about the new Music Store, part of their 'Ovi' brand.

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 15:31, Sep 7th

Go:Play in video, plus GPS tips and the Top 5

Smartphones Show 42 just went live, with video from the Go:Play event, featuring the Nokia N95 8GB, the N81, N-Gage gaming and the Nokia Music Store. Plus tips for GPS-equipped smartphones and my own rundown of the top 5 most desirable smartphones in the world. Read on for links and other information.

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 08:46, Sep 7th

Casing the Nokia E90 Communicator

Phew! Enough of the myriad of Nokia E90 cases that we'd ordered had finally come in, so I proudly present my review roundup of E90 cases. Bottom line? Most of them have genuine downsides, in some cases severe design defects, from not letting the E90 open to being impossible to insert or extract! Buy with caution...

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 15:04, Sep 6th

Ovi - Doorway to the Future?

In this definitive editorial, a week after the Go:Play event, Rafe Blandford looks in detail about Nokia's new Ovi strategy (Music Store, N-Gage, Maps) and its core components and then predicts how it will evolve and connect to other mainstream Internet players over the next few years.

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 08:28, Sep 6th

Nokia talk with Rafe and Ewan about the N95 8GB and N81

More podcasting from the recent Nokia Go:Play event as Rafe and Ewan get their hands on the new S60 devices and chat to two of the Nokia team members behind them. First up is the N95 8GB, while the Ovi-focussed N81 takes up the second half of AAS audio podcast number 33.

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 10:30, Sep 5th

The Symbian Smartphone Show goes 'final'

Symbian has finalised its agenda and show layout for its annual Smartphone Show in London, on 16-17th October at the ExCeL centre. Listed below are some of the last minute speaker sign ups and some thumbnails, plus links. The show is free to attend, as is the AAS pub meet on the evening of the 15th, details to be announced, but the prize list is pretty impressive....(!) Oh, and keep the evening of the 16th free as well - watch this space.

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 13:22, Sep 4th

Carnival Of The Mobilists 89

Carnival Of The Mobilists 89 is now available to read over at WAP Review. This week the topics raised in these choice links include Nokia's recent announcements about Ovi and N-Gage, as well as more stuff about the iPhone and an assortment of articles about business and society. And... I'm very glad to say... several dozen rubber ducks.

# Posted by Tzer2 in News || Comments 22:48, Sep 3rd

Back... Way back.... to the Nokia 9300i

Ewan drifts back from the E90 to his trusty Nokia 9300i Communicator and finds that life with the latter isn't quite as rosy as he'd remembered. Still, he reckons the 9300i wins for some email and most writing work.

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 07:47, Sep 3rd

N-Gage and the path to world domination

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.

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 16:53, Aug 31st

Ah - Rafe's N95 8GB Gallery - at last

Sorry for the wrong URL on Wednesday night - here's the real link to Rafe's photo gallery of the Nokia N95 8GB, with commentary. Enjoy!

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 07:11, Aug 31st

Go:Play:Reloaded

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....

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 15:27, Aug 30th

Going Walkabout at Go:Play with the AAS Podcast

Want to know what Rafe and I thought of the Go:Play event? Well now you can get it straight from the horses mouth, with the next two AAS podcasts. #30 sees the team walking through the main Ovi area discussing the products and services, while #31 sees us joined by Scott Emsen from the Arena community to look at the N-Gage platform, and discover a bit more about Snakes Subsonic.

# Posted by Ewan in News || Comments 08:35, Aug 30th

Nokia Music Service announcement

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.

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 13:40, Aug 29th

N95 8GB, N81, Ovi, N-Gage and a panel

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.

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 12:14, Aug 29th

Nokia's interface vision for the future

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?

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 09:26, Aug 29th

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