quagmire

I'm assuming it's something big with Ovi so perhaps an acquisition of some sort? Like buying Spotify, Last.fm, pandora or some other music streaming service like apple has. Streaming music services seems to be getting more popular and acquiring one of these companies and rolling it into Ovi Music, or CWM would perhaps help get their services unit headed into the right direction.

Cor72z

This couple of years is all about Nokia trying to catch up others. That's not a good position. They need something where they can be number 1 again. So, better for Nokia to be something good.

Edit: Btw, they said they'll stop with announcing services (and devices?) when they're not still ready. I can't remember when they exactly said that but i know it was last year. So, it's something like if they announce it, it shouldn't be long before it's really accessible/available. I wonder if that's going to be the case in Thursday.

miracle

nokia C5????

http://digi.tech.qq.com/a/20100113/000591.htm

-=Hot|Ice=-

DO NOT CLICK THAT LINK! MCAFEE SHOWS IT AS HAZARDOUS!

teamet

Clicked it .. running comodo firewall and antivirus. Nothing alarming propably phishing alarm.

Hopefully they will announce this C-series on thursday! Otherwise it will surely be at MWC. 'bout time x-series have been around for a few months now.. Wasn't there a third new series aswell?

Anyways im holding out for symbian^3 this summer!

tissot

Maybe C5 could be the leaked qwerty device?

NokiaPort.de

New Cseries models coming...

Nokia C3 (Model: C3-00; Type: RM-614)
- RF specs: Quadband GSM, WLAN, Bluetooth

Nokia C5 (Model: C5-00; Type: RM-645)
- RF specs: Quadband GSM, UMTS + HSDPA/HSUPA, Bluetooth

(Thanks to Indonesian government agency )

Regards,
NokiaPort.de

VSOP

This event is most likely about future services and how people can use their devises.

Eldar twitted about Vision plus strategy...

.................
whats around the bend....

http://technologizer.com/2010/01/18/...-an-event-too/

abstrucity

Im more interested in implementation of Qt in n900.
And some sort of official announcement of portrait mode coming to n900.

TBH, nokia's services never really took off.

tissot

Qt is already in N900 and 90% sure you won't see full portrait ever in N900 other than if you can update to it Maemo 6.

VSOP

Ok, most journalists and blogs are there so i do not think we hear much more before T day.

http://events.nokia.com/countdown/

abstrucity

that page has quite a few members from this forum attending the event ? (karim, awesome aleks, cheltn, nokia boi etc)
If yes, why use forum nicks ?

NokiaPort.de

This is the countdown flash-banner from Nokia:


And this seems to appear after the counter has expired:


I am trying to get the URLs behind these two links... maybe there is ...
Is anybody familiar with decompiled ressources of SWF?

Btw. the countdown time is set via a parameter xml-file.
How about playing around with an other param-file to re-set the countdown time!?

Awesome_Aleks

abstrucity

How bizarre, I haven't had an invite or anything

I'm really quite confused

This will be very interesting though, I highly doubt this is JUST an OVI Store announcement.

Cor72z

Awesome_Aleks, hahahaha.
So, Nokia reads Mobile-review, welcome, you should say something, don't be shy.
Edit: Even Eldar is invited.
It seems, some (or all) guys with over 1500 posts are "invited". Interesting.

æquinox

The exit url is http://events.nokia.com.

zeem35

wish i was invited

abstrucity

You didnt receive any email or anything ??
Weird actually.

Lets start spamming

Awesome_Aleks

LOL Guys calm down, don't start spamming the forum

I just got an email actually

The invitations aren't linked to post count, I think they're to do with WOM World, ie a PR division of Nokia. I have trialled a few devices through them and it seems that they want a few of us to attend

Must be something interesting going on, I'll certainly be there.

a2k24

lol the setup is quite cool... the people sitting in front of the counter have names at their backs.. names of the people invited!!

VSOP

LOL, you double is there....

And some are in Berlin or Frisco.

teamet

Only community supported Qt.. Nokia supported Qt should come with maemo 6 and fully replace the hildon interface

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maemo

Viipottaja

Welll, can't be the 1,500 posts rule - I did not get an invite.. I guess I too should start "a blog".

tissot

Aye but at least it's there. Hopefully we get to see a bit more complex Qt apps with 4.6 because the current ones are pretty simple.

VSOP

Quite new post from today...... Qt Labs, Qt for Maemo 5 going Beta.....

http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2010...-5-going-beta/

Cor72z

Anyone else? What did you do to get an invitation?
This is really interesting.

orange

And it's officially Nokia supported, not only community supported.

http://qt.nokia.com/developer/qt-for-maemo-developers

abstrucity

I just realised, theres some nokia event on 14th and 15th too.. ?
So obvious question is, how come 2 events in less than a months time.. ?

I think, tomorrows event has got to do something with the booklet 3g. Ive not heard of it since its announcement.

Awesome_Aleks

Cor72z

I don't know what I did specifically but I got another email early this morning (which I wasn't awake to send a reply back immediately )

They are having a Q&A session a little later and invited a few people to it

I wonder if this is maybe some sort of syncing service that uploads EVERYTHING on a phone up to a server to be downloaded and backed up onto any other Nokia device

It's starting to get quite exciting for me, I don't know if devices will be there but it seems the star of the show will be some exciting new services.

chilko

i bet on free navigation with ovi maps

Awesome_Aleks

chilko

That would be awesome, and a massive motivator towards Nokia devices. Fits in with everything as well

Would stop the Navigator devices (well...the 6710 mainly) dead in their tracks however

chilko

well, well, i was right

Nokia to offer free navigation

Awesome_Aleks

In a simple step, Nokia have just completely killed the standalone GPS industry as far as I am concerned.

And they have brought themselves a good hand for the general mobile industry. I didn't think Nokia were making that much money off their Maps and I'm sure the money they will get from selling a ton of devices will more then make up for that.

I'm now highly considering selling my Aino...When I get it back

Cod3rror

That is HUGE! Truly a great announcement.

I live in Ireland and Nokia(Ovi) maps is by far the best one out of Garmin XT, Tomtom, Navigon, Sygic, NDrive. The most detailed, up to date and I love the interface.

I love this trend, Thank you Nokia! and Thank you Google and Apple for pushing the industry forward this much.

There will still be a market for standalone devices because they have bigger screens but still, this move will almost push standalone devices into niche.

VSOP

Well, if thats it then hopefully latest Ovi Maps beta is ready and we can download it today? With all location based data?

But maybe something more comes...

Announcements
Speakers
Downloads

tenoce

Congrats Steve!!! Mr. Nostradamus...

Take the hit, steal the march - Ovi Maps Navigation should go free NOW

Cod3rror

wow! nice advice/prediction there.

tissot

What's scary about that article is that Nokia might be doing writedown from Navteq when they report Q4 data. Hmm might sell rest of the Nokia stocks when i'm still nicely in the positive side

chilko

New Nokia phone to be launched on 26 January

Awesome_Aleks

I would expect something special, N97 is a bit old now and N97 Mini is not a successor, maybe a new flagship device?

Razer

Now we're talking. Nokia is on a roll. Hopefully it will be something big. This also confirms that the iPhone will be showcased on 27th. Since that can be the only reason why Nokia is makin an announcement just a day before the Apple announcement.

tenoce

Yeah, usually if it is not related to any 3rd party event, Nokia released many products on Thursdays.

tissot

Wow maybe the E64 gets released or what ever name tag they put it!

Just not confident that they would release any super Symbian phone before MWC(if they even got one coming in close future), not to evet talk about Maemo. Hopefully i'm wrong.

Cor72z

Day before big Apple announcement is really interesting. We know already that Apple is going to announce its tablet and iPhone OS 4.0 and that's going to produce a hell of a lot of hype (think: Engadget and similar ones), so if you want to steal that hype what's the only thing you can do? Announce something even better?
Because everything else is going to vanish in all the hype of the Apple biased blogs and journalists.

rmcrys

To make better annoucements it has to make better than the new LG which will be released sometime in 2010 that has a 1280x720 LCD, 720p video and WinMo 7 Media Player.

I hope Nokia announces SF^3 & 4 devices with such capabilities and 64Gb flash or else 2010 mobiles will eat Nokia phones

Razer

Yea but the source is a biggie from Nokia and also he mentioned that a new mbile phone is being launched.
Exactly my thoughts.

tenoce

I fully agree

tissot

Here's Qt 4.6 running in different Symbian devices and in Maemo. Qt 4.6 should be here in the next Maemo 5 update and much improved over 4.5 in graphics and performance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCx8R...layer_embedded

Cor72z

Said Eldar. S60 -> SF3? Because i think if we see another S60 v5 phone it's going to be ripped in half by IMO all blogs on the internet.