In a Q&A session with OPK (check out Stephen’s earlier post if you’re not hip to that TLA), the unsurpressable Ewan MacLeod of SMS Text News brought some much-needed levity when he asked the Nokia CEO what his first handset was (a five-kilo monster in 1984 that stretched the limits of what could be a…
Ewan sums up what’s holding back the mobile internet revolution
There’s absolutely no excuse for Orange’s stupid data policies — and this is where I felt like yelling, ‘HOLD ON A MOMENT! T-MOBILE CAN DO IT, RELIABLY’. I didn’t though. Best to avoid heckling I thought. However, whilst I thoroughly disagree with the stupid cost per meg policies of the likes of o2, Orange and…
Nokia E61 is the most popular amongst attendees at Nokia World
Walking around the Nokia World conference today I was very, very surprised by the amount of E61s I kept seeing. I had NO idea these phones were so popular. No idea at all. In the UK, it’s far more likely you’ll spy Blackberries more than Nokia E-Series handsets, however today I reckon (rough guess) the…
Nokia’s Jaakko Kaidesoja on the next-generation N-Gage platform
When Nokia launches its new mobile gaming platform next year, it won’t just be available on a couple of handsets, and you might not even need to change phone to get it. This is according to Jaakko Kaidesoja from Nokia’s Play New Experience division, who’s in charge of the next-gen N-Gage, and who’s due to…
DJ at Nokia World uses 2 N91’s on a custom deck
Vellu Maurola is a very cool man indeed. Not just because he has cool hair, calls himself DJ Slow, and is DJing at the Nokia World conference using two N91 mobile phones connected up to a set of decks. Although that is pretty cool. But because he made them himself. I caught up with the…
Rodrigo goes content creation crazy! Whole bunch of Nokia World vids
You can check out all of his videos on his vpod.tv site: search for rodrigo and you should see them. Whoever designed this website needs a serious sit down. It’s slow, the UI is non intuitive, you have to make an account to share videos, it’s just … Rodrigo why didn’t you use youtube? Hmm…
Marc Orchant is in Amsterdam covering Nokia World
The keynote by Luca Luciani COO of Telecom Italia’s TIM (a converged service provider in Italy with 40% share of that market and a significant Nokia partner) was quite upbeat, predicting significant opportunities to ride the wave of increasing broadband to better meet the needs of a number of critical market segments including the ever-lucrative…
Nokia bloggers rock, make full use of Flickr and Youtube
Nokia made a Flickr account, and has been uploading pictures to it like mad. Check it out here They’ve also made a youtube account, check out all their videos here of just watch them on my blog. Direct link to video Direct link to video Direct link to video Direct link to video Don’t you…
SMS Text News live blogs Nokia CEO Olli’s keynote
Less than 15% of people are using the internet. Approximately 41% of the world’s population will own a mobile phone. Of this, 13% will be using their mobile to access the internet. 1.3 million new mobile subscribers every day. 15 people every second. More than 500m people have made their first ever phone call from…
Quick Q&A with Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Nokia CEO
So here we go, EXCLUSIVE to SMS Text News (and every other blogger/journalist in the room): SMS Text News: Olli-Pekka, what was your first ever handset? Olli-Pekka: ‘You had to carry it around, it was a 5kg ‘handset’ — this is back in 1985, I think. It was ‘hand luggage’! Woosh! And…