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With the launch of the Nokia Lumia 520 and Nokia Lumia 720, this year’s Mobile World Congress saw the Lumia family grow larger than ever. Now there really is a Nokia Lumia for every taste and every budget. Needless to say, we’re huge fans of the latest additions, but what does everyone else think? To find out, check these ten quotes from movers and shakers in the world of tech. 

Engadget: “Altogether, we’re feeling pretty good about a device like the 520; after our excitement with the Lumia 620, we’ll be happy to take its less-expensive sibling for a spin as well.”

CNET: “… the 520 is surprisingly likable. A pronounced rounded back helps it fit comfortably into the contours of the palm, though its sloping spines make the sharp-edged screen stand out.

Tech Radar:  “We rather like the Lumia 520 – Nokia clearly has a market in mind for the device … For that type of purchaser, the cheap and cheerful nature of the 520 will surely appeal.”

The Verge:  On the Nokia Lumia 520“Overall it’s a nice and colorful budget phone…”

My Nokia Blog: On the Nokia Lumia 520 “The device is really thin! And super good looking.”

Phone Arena: On the Nokia Lumia 720 “We get a 4.3” ClearBlack LCD SuperSensitive display with a curved glass that can be uses with gloves, nails and the like. The viewing angles are excellent and there’s barely a reflection under the expo light. 

T3: “The Nokia Lumia 720 looks like a great option if you’re after a Windows Phone 8 handset that won’t cost you the Earth.”

PC Mag: “The high-quality build and bright colors of the Lumia 720 are very Nokia. You won’t mistake this for a phone from Motorola or Samsung.”

V3.co.uk: “During our hands-on at the show floor we were impressed with the 720′s screen; it was far better than most similarly priced Android smartphone’s displays.”

Know Your Mobile: “All told the Lumia 720 is one of the best-looking Lumia handsets we’ve seen to date. It’s slim, constructed from excellent build materials, feels great in the hand, and appears to have a very competent camera.”

Some pretty impressive plaudits from all corners of the Internet, but what most impresses you about the Nokia Lumia 520 and Nokia Lumia 720? As ever, we’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments below.

The rise of the mobile phone camera is one of the 21st century’s most astounding tech success stories. The first camera phone was produced in 1997. By 2003, more camera phones were sold worldwide than stand-alone digital cameras. Five years later, Nokia overtook Kodak to become the world’s biggest manufacturer of cameras. The result of this hasn’t just been an explosion in photography, but in videoing and filmmaking, too. One organization that’s made the most of the rise of mobile phone cinematography is the World Film Collective (WFC).

A filmmakers’ world

World Film Collective, brainchild of filmmaker Alice Bragg, has for the last five years taught young people, with limited access to employment, education or training, the craft of mobile phone movie making. To find out how to make a great mobile movie, we asked some of their filmmakers to share their top tips. Here’s what they had to say.

Manez Sobetwa

1. Take time to get to know your mobile device so you can take full advantage of its features and abilities to get the best shots. It’s a lot easier to find ways of improvising and overcoming its shortfalls.

2. The sunlight is your best friend. When shooting outside make sure you take full advantage of natural light. Keep the light behind your camera and on the subject’s face.

3. Focus on close ups. Learn about the 5-shot sequence, which is made up of mostly close up shots and clearly demonstrates action in your scenario.

Simi Kalimashe

4. Learn to improvise. For example, we sometimes make a tripod using prastick / Blue-tak. It gives you nice framing and a very solid steady shot.

5. If you want a ground view shot, take a sock and put sand or sea salt inside. Tie the sock and put it on the ground. Place your phone on top of the sock and you get a great shot of people walking.

6. For a steady close up, put the camera person inside a shopping trolley.

Layla Swart

7. Make sure that you structure film around the cellphone – often filmmakers wish to make cellphone films look as if they were shot on a normal camera – but rather than pretending, use the cellphone to its fullest. Cellphone being small and light, there are shots you could achieve with it that you couldn’t with a normal camera. Use this to your advantage!

8. Imagine the edit of the film in your head as you prepare your shots. Make a note of what shot leads into the next so that you can be sure it will cut together.

9. Avoid too many long travelling shots without sufficient space to cut if need be. For example if you are following a character, be sure to shoot other things alongside – such as a person walking by – or a sign on the wall. These breakaways give you an opportunity to cut, should you need to, and also make the observational quality of cellphone filmmaking even more intriguing to a viewer.

Ntombi Xaba

10. When shooting at night make sure you have sufficient light and sound so that the picture can be clear.

11. It’s difficult to hold a cellphone camera still, so you either need to have a very steady hand or use a tripod.

12. When shooting with cellphones that don’t have flash lighting look out for lights in your environment. House lights, for example, can give a very clear and crisp feel.

Some fantastic practical tips and tricks from people who learned to make films on mobile phones. If you want to put their words of wisdom into action, why not enter our Nokia Music Short Film Competition? Launched in association with Sundance London, the brief is simple: To showcase the amazing, the unusual and the unknown music happening underground around the world.

Let’s face the music and film

Filmmakers need to simply upload a short 15 to 60 secs video trailer by March 14^th visualizing the underground music scene in their chosen city. Think of this trailer as an audition, which showcases your concept. If your idea is chosen, you’ll receive two Nokia Lumia 920s and a $5,000 budget to shoot your film. What’s more, both films are guaranteed a special screening at the Sundance London Film & Music Festival (2013) in April, and one lucky grand prizewinner will walk away with $5,000 and a Nokia Lumia 920.

Up for the mobile movie making challenge? Then why not get your camera rolling – there are cool things to be filmed out there, right now.

The Nokia Lumia 520 and Nokia Lumia 720 have understandably got a ton of coverage this week. However, let’s not forget that Nokia launched four devices at Mobile World Congress on Monday. The Nokia 301 might not equal the Lumia family in glam appeal, but that doesn’t mean it’s not getting some much-deserved praise. Quite the opposite, in fact. To see for yourself how this funky feature phone, created to help connect the next billion, have been received by some of the world’s best tech blogs and magazines, read on.

CNET: “What typifies a Nokia cell phone? Great call quality, strong industrial design, and battery life that goes forever. The new Nokia 301 promises all three, in a fresh range of bold colors.”

TechCrunch: “The Nokia 301 is an $85 feature phone with smartphone-style camera tricks.”

Engadget: On the Nokia 301 – “It will come with a 3.2MP camera with panorama mode, sequential shots and a clever little self-portrait mode that audibly prepares you for your next glamour selfie.”

FoneArena: “The Nokia 301 is not just a feature phone but a feature rich phone, made for the ever hungry budget user, wanting for more features with as little expenditure possible. According to us, the Nokia 301 fits that bill very well.”

The Nokia Blog: “The Nokia 301 is for more affordable Internet and email access, with camera experiences inspired by Nokia Lumia smartphones.”

Slash Gear:  “Lots of rather strange features equal one especially advanced low-end device. Instead of simply upgrading the smartphone lineup with features galore, Nokia’s decided to bring the lower end of great and bring it up further – inexpensive will continue to be cool.”

Tech Radar: “If you’re looking for a dirt cheap handset which will last you all month then the Nokia 105 or 301 could well be the back up phone you’ve always dreamed of.”

PC Mag: “The Nokia 301 is probably one of the nicest feature phones I’ve seen in quite some time…  Nokia has also put a lot more thought into the 301′s 3.2-megapixel camera than you’ll find in most feature phones.”

My Nokia Blog: “All in all this is a pretty impressive device and really super stylish in terms of design.”

Unleash The Phones: “Both phones, the Nokia 105 and Nokia 301, are really durable and built like tanks; Nokia never disappoints in this department.”

The hundreds of millions of people still in the market for feature phones like this will doubtless be very happy to read these quotes. But what about you? What most impresses you about the Nokia 301?

Taking a look at the newest additions to the Nokia family – the Nokia 105 and Nokia 301 – some of the heavyweights of the mobile blogging world offer up their thoughts on the announcements from MWC earlier this week.

Nokia 105

Once again, Ali of My Nokia Blog brings us his words of wisdom direct from the show floor with his take on the ‘super affordable’ new Nokia 105:

Some of his key take outs:

‘very cool’

‘super light’

‘awesome [phone]‘

For an official hands-on, Mark Guim posted the video he took of a demo at the Nokia booth on The Nokia Blog:

What do you guys think? Is it a good deal for 15 euros?

Nokia 301

Next up, the Nokia 301 and Sam got to spend some time with the phone at the Nokia booth and shared his video of the official demo including a nice example of the voice guided self-portrait function in the camera settings at 1’25 (looking for a bonus video showing just this feature? No problem, Sam’s got you covered):

And just in case that’s not enough for you, at a different side of the Nokia booth, Clinton Jeff gets a one on one demo of the Nokia 301:

There we have it – two awesome new phones for you to get your teeth into. As ever, let us know what you think by leaving your comments below or chat to one of us on Twitter.

Today we say farewell to another successful year at Mobile World Congress, where we announced new phones, new accessories, new apps and new partnerships, bringing high-end innovation to new price points.

On Monday we introduced the Nokia Lumia 520, the Nokia Lumia 720, the Nokia 301 and the Nokia 105. The new devices include our most affordable Windows Phone 8 smartphone and our lowest-priced mobile phone.

We also brought you news that the HERE suite (HERE Maps, HERE Drive, HERE Transit) will be available to download from Windows Phone Store for other Windows Phone 8 smartphones and that the HERE platform will also be licensed to Mozilla for the Firefox OS.

Monday was also a good time to launch the world’s first live social 3D printing experience, with our new pals from MakerBot. One person to receive a 3D printed shell was Michael Hell, and there’s a nice video showing the printer in action.

At the Nokia App Developer Conference, Marco Argenti, Head of Developer Experience at Nokia, together with other speakers, underlined how Nokia is dedicated to helping developers find success and make money from their apps.

In his keynote on Tuesday, CEO Stephen Elop, took to the stage to talk about a vital part of Nokia’s strategy – connecting the next billion to the digital world. While Michael Halbherr, Nokia’s Executive VP of Location & Commerce, explored how location services will help make the future cities smarter, more sustainable and more efficient.

Awards

Over the week, it seemed like there was always a new reason celebrate at the Nokia stand as we scooped nine awards in total!

The Nokia Asha 305 won the award for ‘Best Feature or Entry Level Phone‘ at the GSMA Global Mobile Awards 2013.

Furthermore, Nokia’s new devices and accessories unveiled at MWC 2013 have also been honoured elsewhere:

Ubergizmo: Best of MWC for the Nokia Lumia 720.

“The Nokia Lumia 720 pushes the design and functions of the Lumia line of products deep into “affordable” territory. Technology is great, but it’s even better when more people can actually access it: hats off to Nokia for that.”

Tom’s Hardware: Best of Mobile World Congress for the Lumia 720 and Lumia 520.

LaptopMag: Best Budget Smartphone: Nokia Lumia 520.

“With the Lumia 520, Nokia has proved its dedication to bringing high-end features to lower price points, making the Windows Phone 8 experience available to an entirely new set of users worldwide”

PC Pro: Best Windows Phone for Nokia Lumia 520 and “Greatest Hits” for Nokia Lumia 720.

“It feels much more expensive than the price would suggest, and it packs a powerful dual-core, 1GHz processor and 8GB of internal storage. It’s another sign that Nokia is back on form.”

Expert Reviews: Best of MWC for Nokia Lumia 520.

Mobile Geeks: Best accessory for the Nokia Wireless Car Holder.

“It might not be flashy but it sure is functional.” and “It’s got a great little rotating head and it charges your phone wirelessly.”

Four fantastic new phones, new accessories and all these awards too. What a great way to end a fabulous MWC 2013!

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