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[Nokia World 2009] Facebook App Coming at the Nokia Event
Vertu's $565 Per Month MVNO Service Kicks-Off in Japan
[Nokia World 2009] - Winners Announced at Nokia World for its 2009 "Calling All Innovators"
[Nokia World 2009] Rumors and Speculations
Samsung Launches Socially Active Corby S3650
Apple's China Deal in iPhone
[Nokia World 2009] Nokia World 2009 Behind the Scenes Video

[Nokia World 2009] Facebook App Coming at the Nokia Event

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 07:22 PM PDT

According to TechCrunch, Facebook and Nokia are going to make an announcement about some cool Facebook App that will be coming on Nokia phones. The announcement will be made the Nokia World 2009 event #NW09, which starts today. Nokia will be announcing a new service that will use location withing Facebook and Facebook's director of mobile will be launching this service. It will be an integration of Ovi Maps into Facebook, which shows you location and also lets you update your status along with your location. Head over to TechCrunch and be a part of the discussion.

Vertu's $565 Per Month MVNO Service Kicks-Off in Japan

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 06:42 PM PDT

Nokia has finally launched its Vertu premium MVNO service in Japan after moving out of the market nearly 9 months back. In last year, November, Nokia announced that it is moving out of the Japanese market due to the intense local dominance and will only offer its premium Vertu handsets for the Japanese mobile phones users thus maintaining a niche. Following that Vertu also announced that it will start offering premium mobile membership in Japan. Vertu MVNO Service, which launched yesterday in Japan will be available at a price of 565$ per months and no, this does not include the Vertu handset. You also need to but the handset, which starts from 5000$. Thats a hell lot of money man, but yeah Japanese guys are crazy about luxurious things and maybe this crazy MVNO deal by Vertu will work there.

[Nokia World 2009] - Winners Announced at Nokia World for its 2009 "Calling All Innovators"

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 11:42 AM PDT

Nokia today announced the winners of its Forum Nokia 2009 Calling All Innovators contest, #NW09 a global mobile developer competition designed to generate applications and solutions that enhance the use of Nokia mobile devices in real-world scenarios.

Category winners were recognized at the Calling All Innovators Awards Reception held in Stuttgart on the eve of Nokia World. The total cash and prizes for the 2009 Calling All Innovators contest exceed USD 250,000. The top three submissions in each category will receive a cash award, and prizes that include premium placement featuring the winning application in Nokia's Ovi Store and the opportunity to demo their winning apps at Nokia World.

Over 1,700 submissions were received from developers and publishers in 85 countries signaling a strong answer to Nokia's challenge to think big and create mobile applications and services that can help build a better mobile user experience. More than 421,000 visits to the contest website from around the world engaged with Forum Nokia, the world's largest mobile developer community.

"The competition was fierce this year and the winners exemplify the future of apps and the future of Ovi Store," said Purnima Kochikar, vice president, Forum Nokia. "We look forward to working with the developer and publisher community in providing the best mobile applications to consumers around the world."

The 2009 Calling All Innovators Grand Prize winners are:

Internet Innovation

Tech Buzz Homescreen Widget - The Tech Buzz Widget from UK-based Mippin, is a fast, elegant way to reliably access the latest tech news anywhere on Nokia mobile devices. It regularly downloads tech stories from across the web, displaying the headlines and images in rotation on the Nokia N97 home screen, to give users immediate access. Developer website: http://www.mippin.com/web/index.jsp?p=2

Flash

Reuters Slideshow - The Reuters Slideshow app from UK-based Tui Interactive Media, combines Flash and WRT widget functionality to deliver a constantly updated feed of pictures and news. Coupled with its mini-view for use on S60 5th Edition devices, the application offers an engaging way to catch up on the latest news. Developer website: http://www.tui.co.uk/

Emerging Markets and Mobile Necessities

Mobile Credit Card Terminal - Mobile Credit Card Terminal from 2C2P in Singapore gives business owners the ability to charge a credit card/debit card, and to manage transactions securely from Nokia S60 devices without additional equipment. Developer website: http://www.2c2p.com/

Apps on Maps

Winners will be announced on September 3 for this category at Nokia World. The winner in this category submitted a new idea to harness the power of location-aware services using Ovi Maps on Nokia devices. From all of the ideas submitted, 14 developers were given exclusive access to the Ovi Beta SDK to turn their ideas into a completed application for use on Nokia devices.

A complete list of Forum Nokia's Calling All Innovators winners including video demonstrations of the applications can be found online at http://www.callingallinnovators.com.

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[Nokia World 2009] Rumors and Speculations

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 10:49 AM PDT

Apart from Nokia N97 Mini , Nokia Money, Nokia Booklet 3G and Nokia 5900 there were rumors that Nokia might launch a 12 meg snapper smart phone and one 8 meg snapper phone at the Nokia World 2009 #NW09. But most of them are rumors and they wont be true but yeah Nokia's new 32Gb phone is coming and so is the new touch screen phone with capacitative touch screen, which I think will be the Nokia 5900 XpressMusic. Nokia is flooding the market this year with touch screen Mobile phones.

Samsung Launches Socially Active Corby S3650

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 09:11 AM PDT

With Social networking and user generated media becoming a craze among users as well as companies, Samsung has joined band wagon of companies that develop products keeping the social aspect in mind. Samsung has announced, Samsung Corby, a youth oriented phone with features that make your social life on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube easy.Samsung Corby S3650 comes with a 2.8 inch QVGA full touch screen, social network access, Quad band GSM, accelerometer, Bluetooth 2.1 A2DP, 2 meg snapper, FM Radio. The phone comes in catchy Jamaican Yellow, Festival Orange, Minimal White and Cupid Pink colors. With this phone, Samsung has now joined the league of INQ phones. [Via]

Apple's China Deal in iPhone

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 08:49 AM PDT

Finally the iPhone is coming to China in the month of October. Apple must be really excited about getting its popular iPhone 3G to a market, which is number one in terms of mobile phone users. Apple will be bringing the iPhone to China thanks to its deal with Unicom. The details of the deal are out and Apple wont be taking a revenue share by selling the iPhone by itself in China (like it does in other countries). In China, its a different rumor, China Unicom has bought 5 million iPhones for around 1.45 billion USD from Apple. Unicom will be selling the 8GB version for apprx 300 USd and the 16GB for 700 USD. So overall the deal looks good for Unicom as it will also charge customers for the data plan. Now the big question here is that there are already more than a million iPhones who have made their way to Chine through the gray market route, so why will a mobile phone user go for China Unicom's plan, he/she will buy a gray market version and use it on any service providers network.