Nokia N8 official!

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Finally comes the announcement a New Nokia Device with much awaited Symbian^3 and Qt .


The best thing i like about the N8 is this is the first Device from Nokia which has Qt integrated with it, which makes it possible to build applications once and deploy across Symbian and other software platforms. Nokia has also made the powerful and simple to use Nokia Qt SDK available, in its initial beta, to enable developers to start realizing the potential of Qt.



Nokia N8 has great specs like a 12 MP camera with carl-zeiss optics and Xenon flash

Check Nokia Conversations Blog for more details.
Read the detail Nokia N8 Specifications.

Nokia Brazil has been recognized by different awards in the country

Nokia Brazil has been recognized by different awards in the country, clearly demonstrating the relevance of the company in the local market. The awards demonstrate the strength of the Nokia Brand, the innovation of our solutions and the quality of the people practices we have in place in Brazil.

Below is a list of the prizes Nokia won in 2009 and so far in 2010:

- 7th Cunhantã Prize - Biggest exporter in Manaus Industrial Pole in 2009. The Cunhantã prize recognized 21 companies. The criteria was the result of the performance indicators provided by the federal agency that manages tax incentives and plans Amazon region development.

- Top of Mind Internet (UOL) award – Mobile phone category – The award was created in 2007 and last year Nokia won the mobile phone category for the 2nd consecutive time. Nokia Brazil got 29% of the votes!

- Folha Award Top of Mind – Top Family (2nd place) and Mobile Phone (1st place) - It’s the most important brand awareness award in Brazil. It’s the result of extensive data research made in 161 Brazilian cities with more than 5,000 interviews with people over16 years old from all social and educational levels. In the Mobile Phone category, Nokia won the prize for the 10th consecutive time with 40% of total votes.

- Best companies to work for 2009 - Nokia Brazil was chosen one of the best companies to work for in Brazil in 2009. The 150 Best Companies ranking is part of Voce S/A – Exame guide – one of the most important and respected guides in the country.

- Info magazine Best Music Service award – Comes With Music - The Comes With Music service was the most voted by Info magazine readers and named the best music service on the web. This is the 1st time that Nokia has won this prize. The Comes With Music service received 56% of the votes.

- Company that most respect the consumer - The study “Companies that most respect the consumer”, prepared exclusively for Modern Consumer magazine, gave Nokia the 1st place in the mobile device category. 57% of total respondents said that Nokia Brazil is the company that most respect the consumers.

- The most admired companies in Brazil – Electronic equipments category - The Most Admired Companies in Brazil, an award sponsored by Carta Capital magazine, put Nokia Brazil in the 1st place in the Electronic Equipments category. Nokia Brazil received 25% of all votes.

- Nokia Brazil is one of the best in Leadership - Nokia Brazil was awarded one of three Best Foreign Subsidiaries in Brazil and the sixth best in Latin America when it comes to Leadership and Talent Development.

Travel+Leisure Design Awards: Nokia N900 is a Winner

What do the Nokia N900, a Swiss airline First Class suite and Berlin’s Neues Museum have in common?

If you guessed ‘winners of the Travel + Leisure magazines Design 2010 award', you are right. The Nokia N900 along with the 1st class airline suite, museum and other examples of design were awarded the magazine’s annual design honors. The winners are showcased in the magazine’s March issue.

Each year, the magazine looks for examples of design and architecture in the traveler’s world as selected by an esteemed panel of judges. The design awards cover a range of categories including best resort, restaurant, spa, museum, luggage, car, retail space and for the Nokia N900 mobile computer, the best travel gadget.

T + L magazine honored the winners at a gala held at the Academy of Sciences, Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on February 23. Representing Nokia, Samir Agarwal, Devices R & D, attended to receive the prestigious award. Unlike a museum or resort, Samir was able to pull out his Nokia N900 and show why it was worthy of a design award.

Guests arriving at the gala saw a group of models wearing orange labcoats, each with an award category and winner printed on the back. The models stood on individual cubes with their backs to the door. Design-wise, the presentation of the models upon guests’ arrival was an indication of the fun evening ahead.

The Nokia N900 was up against stiff competition for the best travel gadget category. Joe Gallo, NAM Comms, submitted the Nokia N900 last October and recalls that “we beat out a variety of netbooks, digital cameras and eBook readers including the new Barnes & Noble Nook”. Additionally, he commented “other mobile devices were considered including the Palm Pre, HTC Hero and the Garmin NuviPhone.”

Congratulations to the entire N900 team.

Return your junk phone, get a tree planted

Every time you return a junk mobile phone to a Nokia dealer, the firm will thank you by planting a tree, apart from recycling that phone in an eco-friendly manner.

Announcing the initiative on World Environment Day, Ambrish Bakaya, director of corporate affairs in Nokia India, said the firm had already tied up with two NGOs in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka to plant 22,000 trees. The programme would soon be extended to the top 15 cities of the country, he added.

"We already have 1,300 bins at our main dealers' shops around the country where people can throw in their junk phones," Bakaya said.

The mobile phone manufacturer with the largest market share in India has been getting a good response. "Now we have tied up with an NGO called Ahimsa in Kancheepuram district of Tamil Nadu to plant 12,000 trees, and with Bangalore's Rotary Midtown to plant 10,000 trees in educational institutions around that city."

Nokia has also been working computer manufacturers to strengthen the laws on recycling of e-waste, which threatens to become a major problem in India.

Saying that the firm was working with the Manufacturers Association for Information Technology, the Ministry of Environment and Forests and the Department of Telecommunications to put together stronger guidelines on the subject, Bakaya added, "We welcome any step which helps strengthen e-waste management and creates awareness about the need to recycle e-waste in an eco-friendly manner".

Nokia OVI Store launched

Today the Nokia OVI Store finally launched starting from Australia. The OVI Store look like is a WRT application.

How to purchase Apps/Games from Ovi:

Reorgnizing blog !

Till this time, I was just publishing news which I found interesting.
Now a days I have spare time to write what I think. I am going to focus more on Qt and LBS as I am currently working in these areas.

I am also planning to re-organize and re-structure my blog.

Nokia - voted best place to work in New York!

Nokia White Plains was recently named the #1 Best Company to Work for in the State of New York for 2009. The Best Companies list is made up of 40 companies split into two groups: 20 small/medium-sized companies and 20 large-sized companies; Nokia was placed in the large company category. Companies from across the state participated in a two-part process to compete for this designation.

The first part, which comprised 25% of the total evaluation, consisted of reporting each nominated company's workplace policies, practices, philosophy, systems and demographics. The second part consisted of an employee survey to measure the employee experience. Over 120 of our Nokia employees in the New York area participated in this survey. Their input constituted 75% of the total evaluation process!

Nokia received this recognition at the Best Companies to Work for in New York awards dinner on Thursday, April 23, 2009 in Albany, NY. We continued the celebration at the White Plains site with a cake and a champagne toast from Mark Louison!