If a piece of music reminds you of a place and time and makes you want to connect with someone, you’re not alone. In a recent international survey conducted by Nokia, there is a distinct relationship between people and the music they hear. The survey results, which formed the foundation for Nokia’s “Music Gets You…
Business professionals in a need for increased mobility
According to a recent survey of 1,200 mobile professionals, conducted by mobile and wireless research consultancy iGR, Inc. and commissioned by Quickoffice, Inc., mobile business professionals who travel with handheld devices are suffering from “laptop lag”, impeding their productivity and efficiency. “Laptop lag” is defined as the time between when people receive emails with Microsoft…
Nokia works on smell sensors, solar charging!?
Apparently Nokia is working to bring all kinds of sensors integrated in their mobile devices. According to the interview from Reuters India, Nokia sees this as one of the components of the future mobile devices. The fact is that sensors will play an important role in the future, as we can already see in the…
Changing mobile gaming habits
The new research from Nokia indicates that mobile phone gamers are looking to the next generation of mobile gaming to meet their needs to easily discover, share and play fun and high quality mobile games. The results found mobile phone gamers frequently play mobile games for an average of 28 minutes per session, value improved…
The human side of communication technology
A new study sponsored by Cambridge Judge Business School and Nokia, shows that in today’s fast changing global world, maintaining productive, high morale teams relies heavily on companies’ investing in both the right mobile technology and rewarding collaborative behavior. The changing world of work with knowledge workers often working across distances and time zones requires…
This Box Was Made For Walking
A new report commissioned by Nokia and conducted by Dr Shani Orgad from the London School of Economics, “This Box Was Made For Walking”, indicates that the personalisation and interactivity will be the key drivers of mobile TV. According to the report, the introduction and adoption of mobile TV will ultimately give way to a…
Nokia Research's MARA project
Thanks to the GigaOm, we’ve spotted an interesting research project from Nokia. It’s the Mobile Augmented Reality Applications (MARA) project, which explores utilizing camera equipped mobile devices as platforms for sensor-based, video see-through mobile augmented reality. The project also investigates new and exciting applications enabled by this technology, and UI solutions and paradigms motivated by…
Nokia enters the Silicon Valley
Nokia’s research division, which recently celebrated its 20 year anniversary, now has a new Research Center in Palo Alto, California. At the same time, Nokia announced a three-year agreement with Stanford University, to develop joint research projects on collaborative mobile computing and applications. Nokia Research Center Palo Alto will initially focus on four core areas:…
EMEA smartphone market growth rises to 11.7%
Growth in the EMEA smart mobile device market in Q3 rose slightly from the previous quarter, but remains well below the 100%-plus rates seen for most of last year. Nokia’s lead, achieved largely through shipments of its consumer-focused Symbian S60 devices, remains comfortable. With new UIQ models shipping last quarter, fellow Symbian-based vendor Sony Ericsson…
Mobile TV audience grows 45% in Q2 2006
Recent report from Telephia, indicates that mobile TV revenues grew 67% in Q2 to $86 million, while the mobile TV audience grew 45% to 3.7 million subscribers. The report also includes ratings of viewership for top mobile channels: ABC News – 40% The Weather Channel – 32% Fox Sports – 31% ESPN – 29% Fox…