Nokia World, day 2

The party was good, and the Noisettes incredibly good. Despite the fun, I managed to get myself to the Messe in time for morning's second keynote. I heard from colleagues that the first one, Chris Moon had been an amazing survival story. Luckily all keynotes are webcasted from the events front page.

Niklas talked us through the Ovi and services story, and launched the Ovi SDK. Ovi SDK is good news to those planning to utilize the massive scale of Nokia's user base, and offer applications for social location (SoLo).

For me personally, Mary's news were more captivating. She talked about mobile services for the next billion, and used  Nokia Money, Tej, and Life Tools as examples on how mobile services can make a real difference in places where infrastructure and opportunities are otherwise limited. Carol Realini told us that more people in the world have mobile phones than they do have bank accounts, and that mobile prepaid money can help. This is not an issue in the developing world only, 30 million people in the US are underbanked.

Henry Moissinac from Facebook announced Facebook Connect for mobile web, a tool for integrating Facebook with mobile services and applications. Both Nokia and Facebook seemed genuinely excited about the cooperation that has already produced the N97, "the world's greatest Facebook phone".

As on day 1, the best part of day 2 was again the demos. It took me several hours on both days to see the most interesting demos, and I still didn't see them all. Here are some videos, I hope you find them interesting.

Demo of Nokia N97 mini
Demos of Nokia Research Center's Mixed reality explained
NRC Explore and Share
NRC Gaze Tracker
NRC Mixed Reality, gesture demo
Nokia Ovi SDK
Nokia N900 zoom demo
Nokia Maps API
Nokia Green Explorer
Nokia Web runtime

More videos in http://www.youtube.com/PetraSoderling

All pictures from both days, and the party, are uploaded to http://share.ovi.com/album/PetraSoderling.NokiaWorld2009

Posted by Petra S at 9/6/2009 2:31 PM
Categories: Phones'n'Stuff
Tags: Nokia
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