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You only have to hold a Nokia Lumia 820 in your hand to see it’s a fine example of industrial design. Hardly surprising when you consider Nokia’s heritage and the fact the company has been crafting mobile technology for nearly two decades. But time stands still for no company, and we’re always looking for ways to make the sublime even better. To do this with the Lumia 820 we’ve launched the Nokia Lumia 820 Design Challenge. Our aim? Simple, to challenge design’s brightest young stars to dazzle us.

A swell shell

One Lumia 820 feature that’s gained big thumbs up across the blogosphere is its multifaceted, multi-coloured shell. Whether it’s the wireless charging feature or the rainbow range of colours, owners are loving it. Happily it also offers a great canvas for designers in Finland, the US and the UK to make their mark.

Head to head

Between now and the 3^rd of February, we’ve asked students in three of the world’s most prestigious institutions to show us what they’ve got. Creative whizz kids in the Institute of Design and Fine Arts, Lahti University of Applied Sciences, Finland, Parsons, The New School for Design, New York, U.S.A. and Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, London, UK will go head to head. The winner will be the designer who creates the most amazing new shell. And that’s where you come in.

Once the competition closes on the 3^rd of February a jury of expert judges will shortlist fifteen designs. And then, we’ll be asking you, via our Nokia Facebook page, to vote for your favourite.

A vote of confidence

Your votes will count towards making design history. As for the designers themselves, well, the designer with the most votes will get the chance to kick start their career as a paid design intern with Nokia in London. What’s more, they’ll also win a Nokia Lumia 820 with their cover design, and a trip to Social Media Week in NYC. And if that wasn’t enough already, their design will be showcased and made available in limited quantities of fifty pieces each.

It’s a great prize, but a tough challenge. To help inspire the guys and girls, why not tell us what you’d like to see on the back of a Lumia 820. Wild, wacky or just plain wonderful, it doesn’t matter. And who knows, when we showcase the shortlist for you to vote on in a couple of week’s time, your ideas might just be there.  

Exclusive to Nokia Lumia Windows Phone 8 smartphones, the Cinemagraph app has been receiving acclaim from the people that use it, receiving 4.5 stars our of 5 over at the Windows Phone Store. Just how good is it? Let’s show you.

But before we do, we took a look through just a few of those extremely positive reviews found on the Windows Phone Store – posted by Cinemagraph users.

“Never seen anything like [this] before. It’s very fun!”

Reviewed David, while Satish wrote this:

“This is an amazing feature, absolutely love it.”

Sarkis simply exclaimed:

“Awesome !!!!”

Cinemagraph received an updated just before Christmas that added a sharing function, which allowed people to share their Cinemagraphs via email, SMS, Facebook or Twitter.

We’ve collected some of those publicly shared Cinemagraphs from Twitter and thought they deserved to be seen by all. They’re quite spectacular, we’re sure you’ll agree.

This would’ve made a great photo by itself. However, @LinzLew turned it into a Cinemagraph making the whole picture much more interesting.

@RCWhitesnake captures what we imagine is a mundane car journey and adds some life into it.

One of the most famous landmarks in the USA, @Ihnatko captures Times Square. Our favourite part of the Cinemagraph is the guitar-wielding, semi-clad cowboy.

We’re not sure what this is, but it looks like ice cream sizzling on a hotplate. But, thanks to @aboodesta, it’s kind of making us hungry.

With snow falling all across the UK, @dfwneal was just one person to capture the scenes.

As you can see from these images – they’re not videos – the photos are almost magical. Cinemagraphs allow you to capture more, focusing people’s eyes on to what matters to you. You could say that the creator of a Cinemagraph is creating an emotional moment.

If you’ve got a Nokia Lumia Windows Phone 8 smartphone, such as a Nokia Lumia 920 or Lumia 820, you can download Cinemagraph for free. We recommend you give it a go.

Take your time to perfect your Cinemagraph. Make it interesting, funny, or heart-warming. If you tweet it, we’ll possibly feature it on Conversations in the future. Make sure you connect with us via Twitter so we can find it easily – Follow @NokConv

Nokia’s Mobile Phones division has long been a key contributor to the company’s business. The Nokia Asha range has proven especially popular, with the most advanced phones in the range now accepted as smartphones by some analysts.

We talked to Jussi Nevanlinna, VP product marketing, to find out more.

So what is a smartphone and how do some Nokia Asha phones fall into that category?

Well, I think it’s more about what customers define as a smartphone than any definition laid down by us. There seems to be three things that people expect. The first is a touch screen. Then, inside, they expect web browsing and the integration of certain apps and services into the operating system, especially in the areas of social and location. And third, that they have the ability to get more apps.

Of course, we have touch screens on all the Nokia Asha Touch products, from the Nokia Asha 305 to the Asha 311.

With integrated services, the Nokia Xpress browser is key here, compressing pages by 90 per cent compared to other mobile browsers. And the cost implications of less data downloaded are really important to people who are perhaps new to smartphones and being connected to the Internet from their mobile. Then of course, we have Nokia Maps on all Asha Touch smartphones. These are the same great HERE Maps that we have on our Nokia Lumia family of smartphones, and you can preload them onto your phone – so there’s no need to wait for them to download when you’re on the move.

Click here to view the video on YouTube.

When it comes to more apps, people set a lot of importance on what games are available, and how many. Our deal with EA which lets owners download up to 40 leading titles for free is of enormous importance here. And that gives them the confidence and experience to download and buy more. Nokia Asha has become a very large apps platform with the Nokia Store on board.

So will all phones be smartphones in a few years?

The demand for smartphones is massive and it’s the affordable end of that market that is growing fastest. Over time, they will increasingly be the products people want.

However, people are different. There’s a whole set of users who are actually looking for a phone that does just a few key things very well. They want a curated experience.

Then, of course, there are a large number of countries where people are still entering the mobile phone market for the first time. They want the best they can afford, but that may well not be a smartphone for their first purchase.

So how does the cost of manufacturing a phone break down? Which parts contribute most to the expense?

Well, as always, ‘it depends’. The costs in creating a touch-screen phone are very different to those involved in creating a feature phone.

The biggest cost is definitely the screen, and there’s a clear relationship between screen size and the overall cost of a phone.

Then it’s often the memory and storage space that’s the next highest cost.

Following that, it’s the speed of the processor. And then it’s often the choice of construction materials for the case that’s a key consideration.

Do these components get more powerful and costs reduce every year, as we’re used to with PCs? i.e. Moore’s law.

Generally speaking, that’s the case, yes. Though not everything evolves at the same speed, so sometimes there are pauses and then big steps in the evolution of the specifications.

Sometimes particular components in the Asha range are actually ahead of the curve. Take battery life, for example. People who use a smartphone have been taught not to expect a particularly great battery life – a day or two, perhaps. So a phone like the Nokia Asha 309 comes as a real revelation to them. This phone has a standby time of 42 days. You could leave it on the kitchen table, go off sailing round the world for a month, come back and still have several days’ work left in it.

This is, of course, the result of years of research and investment into battery technology and making the most out of a limited resource. It’s not because battery capacity technology manages to double every year. But “trust and quality” is one of the keystones of how we’ve shaped the Asha brand, and great battery life is a proof point of us delivering on that.

And lastly, how is the Series 40 operating system holding up into the 21^st Century?

Pretty well, we think. Again, we have to base this on what our customers tell us. The OS has an extremely high Net Promoter score – that’s a measure of how likely people are to recommend something to other people. They describe the user experience as “rich” and say that it “performs quickly”.

And, of course, while Series 40 was first conceived quite some time ago, it’s in a continual process of evolution. When we moved to touch, that demanded a whole host of technical improvements and redesigns for the interface and user experience.

Asha Touch devices are actually the leading smartphones in a number of markets. In China and Indonesia, the Nokia Asha 305 is the top-selling smartphone in its price band. In India and Pakistan, in fact, across the IMEA (India, Middle-East and Asia) region, it’s the top-selling smartphone overall.

One reason for this is the way we go about creating them. We don’t just take an expensive design and then shrink it down or chop things off until it hits the price point. Some of our competitors do this, and it can lead to phones that feel ‘cheap’. Our phones are built from the ground-up to deliver a particular set of user experiences. They are purpose-built, not cut-down.

The first couple of times I bought a mobile phone I remember having to manually input each and every single entry in the contacts list or address book. Thankfully, we’ve come a long way since those early days.

However, even now, importing all your contacts will be one of the first things you’ll want to do when you get a new phone.

Many people will have their contacts stored in the ‘cloud ‘as part of your email account or social networks. To add these contacts to your Lumia, you just need to sign in and set them up for the first time.

It’s a real doddle to do and here are some instructions to help you further.

That’s all well and good for contacts in the cloud but what if you’ve recently switched to a Nokia Lumia and want to get the contacts off your old phone?

Here’s an app that you’ll be very grateful for: Transfer My Data. 

Transfer My Data is for Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 owners and allows them to copy over contacts that they have on an old phone via Bluetooth.

Using Transfer My Data

Transfer My Data can be downloaded from the Nokia Collection in the Windows Phone Store on your Lumia device.

Make sure that Bluetooth is switched on your Nokia Lumia and the old phone that you wish to transfer the contacts from.

Once the app has been installed, tap on the icon to launch the app and begin the process of ‘pairing’ the two devices.

On your old phone, you may see a pop-up message asking you if you want to pair and allow access to the contacts information. Make sure you grant this permission!

Your new Nokia Lumia will find how many contacts you have on your old phone and ask you to confirm that you the transfer to go ahead. Select ‘start’ to begin the transfer! 

While the transfer is taking place there will be a progress bar on display and you’ll be informed approximately how long there is left before the process is complete. 

It is important that you don’t navigate away from this page before the transfer has finished. When transferring 205 contacts the whole process took less than a minute so it is pretty fast. 

Hey presto! Just like that you’re done! 

Transfer My Data isn’t an app that you’ll be using very often; perhaps you’ll just use it the once. But it will save you a lot of time and means that you can get with discovering all the other wonderful things that are waiting for you in your Nokia Lumia smartphone.

Turn on, tune in, and drop out! Your Nokia Lumia 820 is already an outstanding smartphone—for a start, it’s got Nokia City Lens, an 8MP camera with a Carl Zeiss Tessar lens and you can charge it wirelessly!—but on top of all that, it’s also a kick-ass music machine. Let’s pop the bonnet and take a closer look.

Dolby headphone technology

Nokia have always been happy to partner with other tech companies to give a better user experience, and the Lumia 820 is yet another example of this. Music lovers will be happy to hear it includes Dolby Headphone technology.

Also known as Mobile Surround for mobile devices, Dolby Headphone simulates a multi-channel surround sound listening experience; wearing only headphones, the digital signal processing technology will make you feel like you’ve got up to five loudspeakers at your service. And all from your smartphone! Just remember, you need to sport a pair of wired headphones to jack into this technology—we promise it’s worth it!

The Pro way to party on

Speaking of headphones: the Nokia Lumia 820 has a phenomenal range of accessories. Release your inner DJ by trying the Nokia Purity Pro Wireless Headset on for size—just tap your phone to get the music pumping! These beauties are Bluetooth-enabled, noise-cancelling, and the battery lasts for up to 24 hours of playback time.

Of course, you can always go wired if you prefer the old-school vibe, and that way you’ll get to use Dolby Headphone technology. The Purity Pro headsets are versatile! If you prefer to share your tunes with your mates, try the JBL PlayUp Portable Wireless Speaker for Nokia. More a design object than a mere speaker, this Bluetooth baby is available in four colours and will keep the music coming for up to ten hours at a time. Party on! 

In the mix 

Excited? You just need some tracks to get started—and with the Lumia 820, the Nokia Music Store and Nokia Mix Radio are at your fingertips. The Music Store catalogue is stuffed with more than 17 million tracks ready for download, but if you’re finding it hard to choose, check out Mix Radio, a Lumia special—pre-selected playlists created by real-life Nokia music fans, like Rene Goodland, an amateur film-maker who’s in charge of the soundtrack mixes. Inspirational!

Get in tune with Zune

Of course, you can upload your own tracks, too. The Nokia Lumia 820 uses Microsoft Zune software to sync your smartphone and your computer. After an initial set-up with a micro-USB cable, it all works wirelessly, so there’s no messing about with cables after you’ve painstakingly set up your latest workout soundtrack. On the Lumia 820 itself, organising and navigating your music collection couldn’t be easier, and you can control your sounds from the lock-screen, which is exactly what you need on the go.

Space bass

Finally, no need to worry about space fir your music library—there’s 8GB internal storage and an SD card expansion slot that supports up to 64GB! But that’s not all: you also get 7GB on SkyDrive, which is the integrated Cloud service for Windows Phone 8 OS. The particularly nifty thing for music lovers here is that not only can you stream music from the Cloud using your Lumia 820, but you can also use the Cloud to sync playlists from Nokia Music and listen to them offline at no extra charge. Rock on!

Any other Lumia 820 musical features that get you shaking your booty with excitement? Let us know in the comments below!

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When the first modern snowboard, the snurfer, was created in 1965 it was considered a kid’s toy. Snowboarding has come a long way since then, but it still prides itself on its playful nature (Just check out the names of the tricks). If a sport like this fires your creative urges, we have some good news.  A few weeks ago, we launched a competition in conjunction with the snowboarding company Burton, for playful artist, photographers and film-makers just like you.  

Win a trip to Colorado and a Nokia Lumia 920

To win a Nokia Lumia 920 and a trip to the Burton US Open in Colorado, USA, all you need do is submit a short film (2 mins max), photographs or artwork inspired by the subculture and lifestyle of snowboarding, on or off the slopes. We’ve had a ton of fantastic entries already. To inspire you, and show you what you’re up against, here’s some of the best so far.

“Snowboarder” by Diego Boscolo

“Just another day at the office” by Janez Mikec

“Bang” by Guillaume le Guillou

“A way of life” by Fede Musqui

“Nokia + Burton” by Timur Abasov

“Nicolas Muller at Mt. Cook, New Zealand” by Jeff Curtes

“Big Air” by Tony Dinse

“Sequence party mode in Val Senales” by Davide Costanzo

“Snowboard Nights” by Rodney Hallenberg

“AllOver” by Sylvain Cotte 

Needless to say we’re loving all these entries and we hope you are too. However, if you think you can do ever better, you’ve got until January 31st to submit your entries here. And, who knows, in a few weeks time it could be you flying off to Colorado, with a shiny new Nokia Lumia 920 in your back pocket.

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