Nokia World 2007 Highlights
- Nokia brings you music - free music downloads (not streamed) for 1 year. When CEO was asked the question about how they will make money, the answer wasn't so clear to me. Rumour has it though that the price of the handsets will go up to cover this. - New Star Wars N-gage game release. - http://www.pangeaday.org/ announced (see my previous post). - Ovi - announced some months ago, more details and screenshots shown today. Looks cool. Syncs your mobile, web and pc client. Looked bit Netvibes with room for mashups and your favourite apps. - Nokia embracing Open Source - Why? Cost savings, quality, flexibility and simplified licensing. - N810 -powered by Linux-based Maemo OS and Mozilla browser. Knows as the geeks device. - Open Source Maemo Apps - S60 Apps (not open source but many API's available for developers), also uses Apache web server and Nokia web kit - Tools - Open C, Carbide and Python (fast prototyping tool) - Developer Support websites Open C Developer website - Grand prize $10,000US - Prize winners anounced in forum - 3rd place runner uip - Steve DeLaney (developed video app) - 2nd place - Tong Ren (virtual multimedia courseware) - 1st runner up - Pu Zhihua (Traffic assistance) - 8500 lines of code in 1 month!!! - Winner - Sittiphol Phanvilai (Flash lite video player) 25000 lines of code in 10 weeks. MobiTubia. When asked what he would do with the prize money, said he would buy a car for his sister :-) Here is a screen shot of his appication demo that i just took 5 mins ago on my N95
