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Tech Stories 21 Mar 2012

Nokia Maps for Apple and Android, Now with Free Voice Guided Walk Navigation

We are pleased to announce the release of a voice-guided walk navigation for our friends that are using our web-based service m.maps.nokia.com. This is a service for people that currently are using other devices such as iPhone, iPad and Android, but still want a first class navigation service. Users are now able to logon to the service from anywhere, and instantly receive accurate walking directions to where they are going. Just type in the destination [...]

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Mikael Stendahl
Manager, Ecosystem & Developer Experience
Finland & Baltics

News, Tech Stories 6 Feb 2012

Update your Apps for Nokia Belle

Hi Champs, As you know, the first Nokia Belle devices are already out there, but soon there will be more. We are about to upgrade a whole set of our most widely used Nokia Anna devices to Belle soon. Those include Nokia N8, Nokia C7, Nokia C601, Nokia X7, Nokia E7 and Nokia E6. Please make sure your apps continue to get the downloads they deserve by ensuring Belle compatibility and marking this accordingly in [...]

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Mikael Stendahl
Manager, Ecosystem & Developer Experience
Finland & Baltics

News, Tech Stories 11 Jan 2012

Metro UI – a few helpful links

Now that you all are re-energized after the holidays and ready for new challenges, what better time is it there than now to start looking a bit closer into the Metro UI. There are quite a few good links around, and this is our best selection so far. Enjoy! Windows Phone UX Guide MSDN Design Templates for Windows Phone 7  Windows Phone Grid – Design Using these Grid Templates    > Photoshop and Illustrator    [...]

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William Milisic
Developer Manager Scandinavia
Nokia North Europe

Developer Stories, Tech Stories 6 Sep 2011

Why the opportunity with Nokia is growing for Qt developers

Qt’s positive impact for smartphone users is becoming more evident and Qt mobile app download numbers are growing every week. There are now 100+ Million smartphones capable of running Qt applications and the submission of Qt apps to the Ovi Store has catapulted! Every day, 9 million downloads are made from the Ovi Store and many of these apps are made with Qt. Belle UI, a new chapter for Symbian
 Increased user appreciation offer benefits [...]

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Christophe Joyau
Head of Ecosystem Developer Experience team
LSU North

Developer Stories, Tech Stories 1 Sep 2011

Report from Garage48 in Tartu

The 48-hour hackathon Garage48 is over for this time. Since many great minds gathered, the event was really successful and the results astonishing. As we mentioned earlier Garage48 is a series of 48-hour hackathons to build new web and mobile services. This time the event was held in Tartu, Estonia. 100 developers, designers and entrepreneurs launched 14 projects on Sunday evening demo night. The grand prize went to Qminder, for a phenomenal solution that takes [...]

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Christophe Joyau
Head of Ecosystem Developer Experience team
LSU North

News, Tech Stories 30 Aug 2011

Optimize your Web pages easily for our brand new Nokia N9 Meego phone

If you would like to ensure our Nokia N9 users will have a perfect user experience when browsing your web pages, please have a look at the simple instructions below for how to make sure you identify Nokia N9 correctly and display the best possible page for that device. If you already have iPhone or Android optimized web pages, your job is already half done. The new Nokia N9 comes with an excellent browser featuring [...]

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Mikael Stendahl
Manager, Ecosystem & Developer Experience
Finland & Baltics