Category: Gadget Shows
Liveblog: Nokia's Phil Brown talks mobile strategy at Nokia World 2007
The second day of the Nokia World conference kicked off this morning to a hall of whey-faced delegates still recovering from last night’s party (in short: the Dutch Beach Boys, a mountain of Pina Coladas, and Finnish beach-volleyball playing twins).
Universal Music Group gives more details on Nokia's 'Comes With Music' service
The talk of today’s Nokia World Show is ‘Comes With Music’, the freshly announced partnership between Nokia and Universal Music Group, which will be a subscription based music download service.
Rob Wells, senior vice president for digital at UMG, got up on stage this afternoon to explain the thinking behind the deal, and gave some more details.
Get yourself a 3D mobile secretary
One of the more eyecatching mobile applications on show at Nokia World today is called Mobile Secretary, from Chinese firm InterGrafx. It’s basically a 3D avatar that acts as your virtual secretary, residing on your phone.
Nokia Ovi is shaping up for a fight with Google
Nokia’s multimedia supremo Anssi Vanoki showed off the company’s new Ovi service at Nokia World today, demonstrating how it’ll work on PCs, online and on mobile handsets. My takeaway thought is this: everyone bangs on about Nokia taking on Apple and its iPhone, but with Ovi, Nokia seems to be setting its sights at Google.
Nokia launches Come With Music unlimited download service
If you read my Digital Music Trends post yesterday, you’ll know about Total Music, an idea cooked up by major label Universal Music Group that involved mobile handset manufacturers and MP3 player makers paying a monthly subscription to the labels, to give their users free, unlimited music downloads.
Well, Nokia’s gone and done it. At least, I think they have.
Nokia boss: “Expect us to take more risks”
Nokia chief Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo kicked off this year’s Nokia World conference, on a whopping 47-metre-wide stage that over the next couple of days will hopefully see at least one speaker do a Mick Jagger and prance its length while hollering into a radio mic. Steve Ballmer would love it.
Anyway, Kallasvuo was on stage to talk Big Picture stuff, explaining Nokia’s overall strategy and vision. And cor, Kallasvuo mentioned the iPhone (by name) within a couple of minutes of taking the stage. He’s feeling confident, then, buoyed by Nokia’s prediction that there’ll be 3.2 billion mobile subscribers by the end of this year.
Nokia launches WH-600 and WH-700 stereo headsets
Nokia has launched two new add-ons available for music and calling on the go – the WH-700 and WH-600 stereo headsets, both promising ‘premium audio quality’ and ‘seamless changeover’ between your calls and tunes.
Shiny Video Preview: Ash looks at Sony's DSC-200/S digital camera at IFA
Still rolling out the videos from IFA last week, this one shows our very own Ashley Norris with Sony’s new DSC-200/S digital camera, complete with a Smile Shutter mode to help ensure beaming smiles in all your photos. All together now – cheese!…
IFA 07 Video Preview: Hitachi Blu-ray Camcorder
Hitachi have launched the world’s first straight-to-Blu-ray-disk camcorder, and Susi got up close with it at IFA 2007…
Top five IFA 2007 stories from Tech Digest
IFA is well and truly over, with most Berlin-bound geeks back in their natural habitats, in our case, Shiny Towers. If you missed our coverage last week, and over the weekend, here are the top five most news-worthy stories. Expect these products to be rolled out over the next few months.
1.) LG’s ‘Design Art’ LCD TVs – two models, the LF75, LB75, with the first model coming in 1080p Full HD and 10,000:1 contrast ratio, and the latter model packing a still-impressive 720p/1080i and 8,000:1 contrast ratio. Three HDMI 1080p inputs and LG’s Intelligent Eye technology which ‘optimises brightness and contrast according to ambient light’ are also included…
