Tagged: Nokia Lumia 620

The Compact Nokia Lumia 620 – Marko Ahtisaari, Nokia Design Team

Marko Ahtisaari, Head of Nokia Design, talks about the design approach behind Nokia’s compact smartphone, the Nokia Lumia 620.
Discover the Nokia Lumia 620: 
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 and Here maps 
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Lumia App Lab #10 – Get started with cloud-based apps with Buddy.com

Creating a cloud-based application offers many advantages, including increased security for your users’ data, the ability to build communities around your app, and the ability to share content across multiple devices seamlessly. However, setting up a server infrastructure to implement your cloud can be a major hurdle. This is where Buddy.com comes in, offering a hosted service for your cloud-based apps. And if you have joined the Nokia Premium Developer Program, you have access to up to 1 million Buddy.com API calls a month, enabling you to build your Windows Phone 8 apps quickly without having to worrying about the backend.

In this webinar coding demonstrations show you how the Buddy APIs deliver common app scenarios as a service. Using the Buddy APIs, you can instantly add functionality such as global user accounts, photo albums, messaging, friends/groups functionality, push notifications, and more to your apps.

A downloadable copy of the slides from the session can be found here

Check out details of the other Lumia App Labs, including the future schedule, here

Intercol’s Nokia display at Bahrain City Center

Today I stopped by the Intercol’s Nokia display at Bahrain City Center. Check out the photos below and head over to Bahrain City Center to have a full Nokia Lumia experience from Feb 20th – March 5th 2013, 10:00am – 10:00pm.

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Lumia App Labs #9 – Developing Windows Phone 8 apps with file and URI associations

App-to-app-communication support is a powerful addition to Microsoft Windows Phone 8 that enables your apps to use the functionality of other apps. It also can help you increase the discoverability of your apps in Windows Phone Store, when you register the types of files and URI resources that the apps can enhance.

In this lab, you’ll learn how to use file and URI associations in Windows Phone 8 for app-to-app communication. You can use such associations to automatically launch your app when another app launches a specific file type or URI scheme. A deep link is used to send a reference to the file or URI to your app. This webinar also introduces the association launching API to launch another app in the same way.

We suggest that you install the Microsoft Windows Phone SDK 8.0 in advance to get the most out of this training lab. While you’ll learn a lot with or without the SDK, you’ll learn more if you have the SDK installed and can begin using the API as soon as you complete the training. Also, it will be helpful to have a Nokia Lumia phone built on Windows Phone 8 available for testing.

A downloadable copy of the slides from the session can be found here: 
https://www.slideshare.net/nokia-deve…

Check out details of the other Lumia App Labs, including the future schedule, here

More from your Music, discover Nokia Music+

If you love Nokia Music and want even more fun you can upgrade to Nokia Music +.
For a small monthly fee you can skip songs as often as you want, take as many mixes offline as your device memory allows and choose to switch to high quality audio streaming when on a wi-fi network.
We’re also starting to add lyric streaming into the mix so you can sing along with your favourite tracks and you will be able stream music on the web as well as mobile. To find out more, check Marketplace or Windows Store to make sure you have the latest version of Nokia Music. You will find more about Nokia Music + under “settings”.

Nokia Nearby – Discover great places all around you

From cafés and bars to cinemas and shops, discover what’s around you with Nokia Nearby. The local search app.
Fancy a coffee or a bite to eat but don’t know the area? Need an ATM or train station? Nokia Nearby can help. It lets you search a range of categories, such as Eat and Drink or Transport, for places that are close at hand. It then displays the results in order of proximity – simply select a result to find out more details.

Lumia App Labs #8 – Developing NFC apps in Windows Phone 8

Near Field Communication (NFC) is an emerging short-range radio technology that is poised to revolutionise how we use mobile phones in everyday interactions. In this webinar, Andreas Jakl of Mopius introduces the basics of NFC and how the technology is implemented in Nokia Lumia phones. He also demonstrates how you can use NFC from the Microsoft Windows Phone 8 Proximity API in your applications to share content, read data from and write data to NFC tags, and create your own application-launch tags.

It is recommended that you install the Microsoft Windows Phone SDK 8.0 to get the most out of this training lab. Also, it will be helpful to have a Nokia Lumia phone built on Windows Phone 8 available for testing.

A downloadable copy of the slides from the session can be found here: 
https://www.slideshare.net/nokia-developer/lumia-app-labs-developing-nfc-apps…

Check out details of the other Lumia App Labs, including the future schedule, here:
http://www.developer.nokia.com/Develop/Windows_Phone/Learn/

Great Lumia Display at Sharaf DG City Centre, Bahrain

Head over to Sharaf DG over the weekend and experience up close the Nokia Lumia range. Intercol Bahrain has been very active in their Nokia Lumia campaign all over the island. Enjoy your experience and let us know what you think of the while lumia experience. Switch to Lumia.

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Skulls of the Shogun for Windows Phone, Surface RT, Windows 8, and Xbox

Check out the first Xbox game to sync across all 4 screens. Skulls of the Shogun is an arcade strategy game featuring dead samurai fighting in the samurai afterlife.

Get Skulls of the Shogun for your Windows Phone: 
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It’s the first game to sync across your Windows 8 PC, Surface, Xbox, and Windows Phone. So you can play the game on one platform, save your progress, and then resume your game on another, picking up where you left off.

Discover more:
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Another feature we’re really excited to show off is asynchronous, or turn-based multiplayer battles across all the above supported platforms. You can challenge your friend to a battle, play your turn, then send it to your friend who then plays his move. It works with up to four players on any combination of supported devices.

More from your Music

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Enjoying Nokia Music on your Lumia, and want more of it? You’re in luck. Nokia today announces Nokia Music+, which brings a slew of new and richer options for a low monthly subscription fee of €3.99/$3.99. For those that love the original free Mix Radio service, it will remain intact – this is all about adding extra. Jyrki Rosenberg, VP Entertainment at Nokia, told us, “People love Nokia Mix Radio – in fact, many people are amazed that we can offer it for free.“It’s the only smartphone music service out there offering access to millions of songs out of the box without the need to sign up, sign in, or suffer adverts in between enjoying the music. When you add in the ability to skip songs and save playlists for offline uses like the tube, you have something unique. “We spend a lot of time listening to how people use the service and have even managed to half the amount of skips per songs played, which is a combination of our systems and musicologists understanding and shaping Nokia Music around the users. “Nokia Music is great for discovering new music, and we’ve found that there’s a core of users that want even more of it. This is how Nokia Music+ came about. By introducing features like infinite skips and unlimited downloads, we’re opening the doors for unlimited music discovery at only €3.99 per month. “This is for people who care enough about music to pay something for more quality and choice, but don’t want to pay €9.99 monthly.”

So what do you get?

  • Unlimited skips. Whether you like to skip from track to track, or just want extra control over what you hear. There’s no stopping you with Nokia Music+.
  • Unlimited downloads. The free service allows you to download up to four Mixes (each of which contains hours of music) and play them without an Internet connection. The paid service removes this limit – you can download a massive supply of offline music you can swap as you wish.
  • Higher quality. We were surprised by the high quality of streaming music from Nokia Music, even over a 2.5G connection. Nokia Music+ allows you to download music at eight times the existing quality. Plus, you can set rules to only download high quality when you’re on WiFi, for example.
  • Lyrics. Words to the songs you’re listening to, right on your Nokia Lumia. Either in a scrolling list, Karaoke-style format, or a display you can scroll up and down.
  • On your desktop. The Nokia Music+ subscription also gives you access to the service without your phone. A web-app gives you the ability to play Mixes on your computer, smart TV or other connected screens.

Nokia Music+ will roll out in the next few weeks. The price will vary slightly according to territory, but is expected be available at around €3.99/$3.99 per month.

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New features for Nokia City Lens

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Reveal what’s around you like never before. With Nokia City Lens, you instantly see all the best places to eat and things to do and see right on your Lumia phone’s camera display. It’s like having x-ray vision, revealing hidden spots you might miss. City Lens is an augmented-reality browser that overlays attractions and points of interest on top of the visual backdrop of what’s around you. Freeze the screen for easier browsing, change your view to just what’s in front of you, or tap for more information or to share with friends. With City Lens, discovering what’s all around you has never felt more natural.

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