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·         Xperia Z finalistą nagrody CNET Best of CES 2013 w kategorii Mobile, przyznawanej produktom, które zdecydowanie wyróżniają się spośród prezentowanych na targach CES

·     Xperia Z zwycięzcą konkursu TechRadar Best of CES Awards 2013 w kategorii Najlepszy telefon komórkowy – nagroda przyznawana jest najbardziej innowacyjnym gadżetom i elektronice, które wyróżniały się przełomowym projektem, technologią i doświadczeniem użytkownika

·     Xperia Z zwycięzcą w kategorii Najlepszy smartfon dziewiątej edycji konkursu Best Annual Awards CES 2013 wiodącego magazynu mobilnych technologii Laptop - Pulse Mobile Tech, nagradzającego przełomowe  produkty pod względem designu i wydajności

·         Xperia Z zwycięzcą Best of CES2013 przyznaną przez TechnoBuffalo - dla najlepszego produktu na targach CES, który wygrał konkurencję z największymi graczami w sektorze telefonów komórkowych na CES

·         Xperia Z otrzymała nagrodę Popular Mechanics CES 2013 Editor’s Choice Awards, które wybiera najatrakcyjniejsze i najbardziej innowacyjne produkty technologiczne roku

·         Xperia Z otrzymała nagrodę Ubergizmo Best in Show – jednego z najbardziej popularnych blogów technologicznych

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Augmented reality? Sounds like The Matrix, we hear you cry! In fact, the Wachowski brothers’ movie was all about virtual reality; augmented reality is much less creepy and much more exciting (and useful) than that. Plus, it’s already here.

In layman’s terms, augmented reality is where your view of the real, physical world is added to by some computer-generated input, whether that’s sound, pictures, or GPS information. Think Arnie’s robotic POV in the Terminator movies—but think benign!

The Master Key

Writer Frank L. Baum, best known for his Oz books, came up with the idea for augmented reality back in 1901, in his story The Master Key, in which a kid gets a pair of fancy specs which tell him whether the people he sees are good, evil, wise, foolish, kind, or cruel.

War games

It took another ninety years for anything like that to become operational, but, in 1992, the US Army trialled an AR system in combat vehicles that used two-way streams to channel real-time simulation data between live and virtual players. Obviously these guys were thinking of developments in weaponry, but they also suggested how the tech might be used in civilian life—in architectural and scientific visualisations, manufacturing, training, and gaming.

ARQuake, rattle and roll

And, sure enough, in 2000, ARQuake was unveiled. The first outdoor mobile augmented reality game, and a spin-off of Quake, this was a first-person shooter that used GPS, a special controller, and a hybrid magnetic and inertial orientation sensor, to let you strap a laptop onto a backpack and run around the real world firing virtual bullets at monsters and buildings that the game overlaid onto your actual surroundings. One mainly for the boffins due to its high price (and unflattering headgear) it still gave us a glimpse into what AR could do…

The magic map

So, how, you ask, does all this obscure high-tech wizardry affect me? Well, if you get your hands on a Nokia smartphone, like the new Lumia 920 or 820, or even the slightly older Lumia 710, 800 or 900, you’ll be able to access Nokia’s augmented reality app, Nokia City Lens. This is a location-based gizmo that uses the phone’s viewfinder and Nokia Maps to give you a 3D what’s-what view of your neighbourhood. Hold your phone up so the camera can see where you are, and the app will immediately overlay your street-view with virtual signs to the best places to eat, drink, sightsee, or shop.

Keeps you ontrack, offline

And don’t worry if you’re temporarily offline—Nokia have that covered. The Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 can put you on the map even without internet access, using their autonomous assisted GPS and GLONASS receivers.  Handy? You bet. We’ve all followed our GPS to some unfamiliar street and then stood scratching our heads because we couldn’t find the café that was allegedly under our noses—well, Nokia City Lens can solve that particular bugbear by showing you exactly where to go. As well as labelling what you’re looking at, it will, of course, also give directions, and allow you to share your findings with your friends. Snazzy, hey?

What’s more, we’re sure Frank L. Baum would have approved.

It’s well known that HERE provides great maps at here.com and also applications for several different phone platforms. Additionally, did you also know that Nokia provides tools to help developers of all levels to create their own location applications? Let us explain.

There are two parts to this story; one for the web API (developing on the web) and the other is for the native API (developing on mobile phones). We’ll focus on the former this time.

The first stop for anybody wanting to create any kind of location app is Nokia’s developer site. Once there, you can find detailed information about all the tools Nokia provides to Web developers and for native application developers to start creating location apps.

For example, ‘Maps Mashups’ can be created relatively easily using the HERE API (Application Programming Interface) and another API from another source. Let’s use Flickr as our first example.

FlickrHeat

A heatmap is a great way to visualise a large amount of data on a map. The more items in a particular area, the more intense the colours.

Combining the HERE API with the Flickr API can display a heatmap of the most popular locations for photographs in an area. You could also use this when planning a trip to a new city to find the ‘must-see’ photo ops.

Start by creating a basic map. You’ll need to register with the Nokia Developer Portal and get your own App ID and Authentication Token first.

Once a basic map has been created, you can code it to try and determine the user’s location. This functionality isn’t supported by older versions of Internet Explorer but recent versions of all the browsers allow the user to decide whether or not to share their location with the web page.

If finding your location isn’t possible, the map will just display default location – the HERE office in Berlin.

Nokia Lumia 820

Personalisation meets power

Learn more, here.

Once you have a map and it’s centered on the user, it’s time to ask Flickr for images. You’ll need to sign up with Flickr to get your authentication token with them, too.

We can make a request to Flickr that returns the 500 most recent photos around a certain point. When the data comes back from Flickr, we gather it all together and pass it to a ‘Heatmap Overlay’.

With HERE API heatmaps, you have the ability to modify the colours any way you like so that the popular areas show green while the unpopular ones are pale yellow. Or, have them range between neon blue and pink. If you’d prefer, you can use the default rainbow colour scheme.

Once the photo data from Flickr has been added to the heatmap, we add that heatmap to the actual map. Areas where lots of photos have been taken show in orange and red while areas with fewer photos are pale yellow.

We can now see at a glance where the most popular places for photos are.

You’ll notice that you can’t actually see the actual photos, but the locations of where the photos are. Adding some extra code can populate the map with photos.

There are so many different APIs available; the number of ways they can be mashed together is limitless. Here are a few more examples.

InstaHeat

This is exactly the same as the Flickr example but with the Instagram API instead. This would be handy to highlight areas where people are hanging out.

Neighbourhood Hangouts

Use the Foursquare API and heatmaps to visualize on the map the areas where your neighbours like to hang out and the spots that people like the most in your neighbourhood.

SoundScape

Note: this requires a modern browser that supports the Web Audio API

This little application uses the Web Audio API together with the concert information available from the Last FM API to create an immersive, directional soundscape of a city. Fly around and discover the sounds of upcoming gigs. Best with headphones.

HERE Winter Hackathon – Jan 19th

For anybody interested in learning more, Nokia’s Location team are hosting the HERE Winter Hackathon this Saturday in the Berlin offices to encourage external developers to try and make more of these kinds of hacks. Entry is free, but you must register, as spaces are limited.

I’ve you’re a developer and you’ve got an idea of how to use HERE, go ahead and develop it and let us know what you’ve created. If however, you’re not a developer but can think of something great to create, why not share it with us here. Who knows, somebody may create it.

Use the comments section below to share with us any ideas you may have.

You wonder what you’ve been doing with your life when you come across someone as creative, dynamic and downright talented as Baron Chat.

The 38-year-old resident of LA is a photographer, writer and illustrator, who just happens to be directing a couple of music videos ‘one for an indie artist and another for a big label artist.’ 

Currently, he’s also working on a ‘digital, graphic-illustrated series’; he has a novel in the pipeline, a mobile app, and most pertinently for us, a new Tumblr blog of photos taken on his beloved Nokia 808 PureView. 

Conversations caught up with Baron to ask him about his photography, his “One Was… One Wasn’t…” blog and we delve deep into his Nokia phone history.

What was your first Nokia phone?

It was the Nokia Xpress Music 5300. I can’t remember enough to tell you much other than it was a great music player with a truly loud speaker. I used that phone as my alarm clock and never slept through it once. I bet I still have it buried around here somewhere.

I understand it was the Nokia N8 that started your interest in mobile photography?

It was my second Nokia handset, the N8, that helped me become the monster I am today. I’d never taken mobile photography seriously until that point; I thought you needed a fancy camera to take a great picture, and fancy cameras were way out of my budget.

All of a sudden I’m looking at these gorgeous pictures and incredibly sharp video.

I no longer saw the phone as just being a communications or messaging device but a bona fide art creation platform in the pocket. I had to get one, so I did. In green.

Can you remember your initial thoughts when you first heard about the Nokia 808 PureView?

First, I thought that I’d read it wrong. Then, I thought it was a typo in the press release and that it should’ve been 14-megapixels, which made sense: the N8 had about 12, so 14 seemed like a logical upgrade.

Then I watched the Damian Dinning interview on Engadget, and the video you released, the one featuring Paul Hames, with Dinning, Eero Salmelin and Juha Alakarhu, and read the white paper they published.

Click here to view the video on YouTube.

And I saw the sample shots. At that point, my only question was what colour do I want this one in?

When did you manage to get your hands on the Nokia 808 PureView for the first time?

Early November 2012. There were no retail outlets in the USA that carried it, so I had to order it online. I took it out that afternoon to the Kenneth Hahn Park for some test shots and the image quality was stupefying; the detail is just tremendous.

It just never gets old, looking at some of the pictures, knowing they came out of a phone.

The N8 had that effect as well, mind you, but with the 808 PureView it’s just exponentially greater.

To what extent has the Nokia 808 PureView replaced your standalone camera?

My standalone camera is a Ricoh GR DIII, which I got a few months after the N8, when I wanted to explore photography more deeply. It’s a great compact prime lens camera, but the 808 PureView has almost completely replaced it. The image quality on the Nokia is absolutely superior.

I’m working on a project right now that we were sure was going to require the rental or purchase of a DSLR, but we took the 808 PureView downtown for a day of shooting and after reviewing the shots, realised the phone was more than up to the task.

When and why did you start the “One Was… One Wasn’t…” Tumblr blog? Tell us about the name.

I started that blog on Thanksgiving  day, so it’s young. My friends had been incredibly complimentary on my photography, but I wanted to know how people who didn’t know me would react to them, so “One Was…” began. It has been well-received so far and I’ve even given an interview to the PureViewClub about it.

The name, One Was, One Wasn’t, is an English translation of a Persian phrase “yeki bood yeki nabood”, that a good friend taught me.

Old Persian stories or poems would begin with that phrase, in the same way we begin lots of ours with “once upon a time”, only this stretches that space-time paradigm by sort of saying, “once upon a time, not once upon a time”, or, “this happened, or it didn’t, or “it’s happening now, or it’s happening sometime in the future”.

It’s beautifully ambiguous, and ambiguities make life all the more interesting to me, particularly when they’re so elegant.

How would you describe your photography?

It’s probably odd to say this but I love the mundane. The everyday stuff.

I’m fascinated by the world around us, the stuff in our backyards, the things in our friends’ apartments, and so forth.

I’m very much into textures, surfaces, geometry, moods, moments. I’m largely a black and white guy, but occasionally I like colour as well, when it’s not too distracting.

I guess, with tongue in cheek, I’d describe my photography as Post-Impressionist, but I don’t really know.

Any thoughts on replacing your Nokia 808 PureView with the Nokia Lumia 920 perhaps, or do you think you’ll be keeping that for a while?

I admit that when the time came to pull the trigger on the phone purchase, I had a hard time deciding between the 808 PureView and the Lumia 920. I’ve been to a Microsoft store and checked out the Lumia 920 in-person and really liked it; they’re gorgeous devices and feel great.

Moreover, there’s an entire aspect to my life in LA that happens after dark, and I thought that the low light performance and OIS in that smartphone’s camera would make for some really great night photography, or creative dark photography. Ideally, I’d have both, of course! 

As for replacing the 808 PureView, you’ll have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands. I’ll be using it till it breaks.

Follow Baron’s blog on Twitter: @onewasonewasnt

A New Year, a new series of Nokia Connects Challenges – and this year they’ll be coming at you thick and fast, so you’ll have lots of chances to get your hands on some amazing Nokia accessories. For this challenge, we’ll have two winners who each get a Nokia Purity HD stereo Headset by Monster.

For this challenge, we want you to colour match your Lumia (or Nokia phone) to something super cool – the cooler, more out there, the better – and send us a photo. It could be the blue version against the bluest of blue lagoons, or the yellow in a field of buttercups. To help you, we’ve come up with some examples (finding something cooler than the Lumia was tough, but we think we managed quite well):

We will be picking winners based on how inventive you have been in finding an appropriate match and how interesting and cool the match is. Extra points will go to matches that make us go ‘wow, that is really awesome’ and overall look of the images. Make your colour matches exciting and unique!

Can you find something as cool as these? Leave your picture as a comment on this post, or pop it on Twitter using the #NokiaLumiaChallenge tag

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What did we do with ourselves before Twitter came along?

Such is its popularity that many of us check it first thing in the morning before we even look at our emails. On our timelines, we can easily see what’s happening in the world and what all our friends are up to.

Perhaps, one reason why Twitter has become such an integral part of our lives is precisely because it’s so quick and easy to discover new content, as well as keep in touch with people.

Amid Twitter’s ubiquity, it is often forgotten that the service very much has its roots in the humble world of SMS.

The 140-character limit is a lasting legacy, as well as one of Twitter’s defining characteristics, of its founding in 2006 as an SMS-inspired product.

It has come a long way since then and you are now just as likely to find URLs, images and videos as well as plain text in Tweets.

However, mobile continues to play an important role in the Twitter experience today – not to mention in its future. Around 60% of monthly active users access Twitter on a mobile device.

This is particularly pertinent in high growth countries, where many people are accessing the Internet – and Twitter – for the first time on a mobile device.

With this in mind, Conversations spoke to Twitter’s Martin Essl, Senior Partnership Program Manager, Mobile, about Twitter on mobile and their partnership with Nokia on the Asha family and other Series 40-based devices.

How important is mobile to Twitter?

Mobile is very important to Twitter. Twitter was founded as an SMS-based product back in 2006 and since then mobile devices have always been one of the first touch points for Twitter.

We are committed to reaching every person on the planet, and our work on mobile and through partnerships like the one we have with Nokia help us get there. We want to ensure that people have a great and simple Twitter experience, no matter what device they are using.

Have you ever defined yourself as a mobile company or desktop company?

I’d say we are a primarily mobile company but we, of course, have a significant web presence with twitter.com as well.

What potential is there for Twitter in some of the emerging markets?

We are highly focused on emerging regions. While Twitter is a generally well-known brand, there’s still work that we can do to make Twitter easier to use and more accessible to those areas. We are at the early stages of exploring opportunities in South East Asia, Latin America, India and many other regions.

We see a lot of potential in those countries and we want to help users there discover content, follow their interests and give them a way to communicate with the world.

For example, a police chief in a Kenyan village was using Twitter to communicate with other villages. Or many protestors during the Arab spring were using Twitter to communicate with the world in real time and show everyone what was happening. 

Do people use Twitter differently in different parts of the world?

Twitter has many different meanings to many different users. For many people it is a social platform and for many users it is an interests-based platform.

We don’t define ourselves in one special category. We want to be a communications tool and a content tool for people – so they can discover new content, create content and communicate in different ways.

How does working with Nokia help Twitter?

Nokia have been a great partner, helping us to reach every person on the planet and, in particular, helping us reach consumers in emerging markets, especially around Series 40 and Asha projects.

We love the relationship with Nokia and we love to work with the team to find new ways of bringing Twitter and the mobile Internet closer to the user. We really appreciate everything that we have accomplished together. 

We are getting new forms of communication in the hands of people who haven’t had Internet before on their first Nokia device.

Finally, do you have a favourite Asha?

I have on my desk the Nokia Asha 308 and it’s been an awesome device so far. I love the Twitter client on it and I would say that it performs just like a smartphone.

 The CES 2013 expo in Las Vegas wrapped up last week, and we saw a flood of innovative technologies, great gadgets, and stuff that just made our jaws drop.

Nokia is all about creating “wow” experiences for consumers, so we’re excited to see new technologies and trends that enable us to take Lumia to the next level and augment what we’re already doing in the mobile space.

Qualcomm opened the conference on January 7 with a keynote that had everybody talking (watch it here). The company announced a host of new SnapDragon processors that offers “stunning performance and extreme battery life.” The flagship chip, the Snapdragon 800, is a quadcore monster with speeds up to 2.3 gigahertz per core. It supports video recording in Ultra HD, which has four times as many pixels as 1080p and can handle 55 megapixel photos.

On the wireless front, the Snapdragon 800 offers 4G LTE with data rates up to 150 megabit per second and Wi-Fi at speeds up to one gigabit per second.

Qualcomm expects the Snapdragon 800 processors to show up in premium smartphones, smart TVs, digital media adapters, and tablets in the second half of the year.

Almost unbreakable

Our family of Nokia Lumia smartphones is equipped with the amazingly robust Gorilla Glass to protect the screen and to make sure your phone can survive the rough conditions associated with constantly being on the go. Corning, the makers of Gorilla Glass, just announced the third generation of the damage-resistant glass.

Gorilla Glass 3 is designed to resist scratches even better and to retain more strength when it is scratched. Overall, Corning claims that Gorilla Glass 3 is three times more damage-resistant than is its predecessor.

“Our scientists made improvements in the glass composition at the atomic level and have developed a new way to improve durability,” said Joe Dunning, Supervisor of Media Relations at Corning.

What’s even more amazing is that should you actually manage to scratch the glass, it’s going to be much less visible.

Engadget has a great video that shows the strength of Gorilla Glass 3. Check it out on YouTube right here!

Wires no more

Are you a fan of the wireless charging? Well, we have great news from the Wireless Power Consortium behind the Qi standard used in the Nokia Lumia 920 and the wireless charging shells for the Nokia Lumia 822, 820, and 810.

Wireless charging was everywhere at CES, and the Qi standard is now backed by more than 130 well-known companies. The terrific thing about Qi is that you’re able to charge your phone using any Qi-compatible charger, regardless of brand. Fulton Innovations even demonstrated device-to-device wireless charging that can essentially turn any device (like your tablet) into a wireless charging pad.

We were especially excited to see an armrest from Toyota that comes with built-in wireless charging. The new Toyota armrest will be able to wirelessly charge your Nokia Lumia and will be available in the 2013 Toyota Avalon with the technology package. Connect your phone to the infotainment system via Bluetooth, and you’ve officially ditched all wires.

The Wireless Power Consortium is working on improving the Qi standard so that you’ll be able to wirelessly charge larger devices, such as tablets, and increase the distance between the charger and the device.

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The sense of freedom, the sense of mobility, the outstanding feeling of knowing you left nothing behind. The Nokia Booklet 3G, where do I start? , but first let me make a statement. The Nokia Booklet 3G is a ‘Netbook’ and not a laptop so treat it as such.

Design, Size, Weight, Screen are flawless. I couldn’t say anything else, because I was surely impressed on how much Nokia put thought into this device. Speed for me is just fine; some have complained about its RAM and processor, frankly I would tell them they have no idea about computer mechanics. There is something they haven’t noticed and people like me would pay top dollars for. That is the NO FAN option, finally can sit in bed and not disturb anyone with the whizzing sound of the cooling fan. Plus what more can you ask from a netbook, use it as it was design and supposed to be used so just plug in a 2GB Flash drive and use it as a ReadyBoost or have you totally forgot about that?. Coming back to the essential elements of this device, using the 3G gave me the ability to sit where and when ever I want. No Dongles, Bluetooth, or Cable connections required. Power on and connect, simply amazing feeling you’ve got knowing you can get what you want in no time. The Nokia Booklet 3G is such a good device that I know use it as my own corporate computer device. Called in IT and asked them to remove my bulky laptop back it up on the local network so I could access it on my booklet. My desk is so clean right now it’s not even funny. I put this device to the ultimate test on the first day of work, dropped my notebook pens and every manual item you can possibly take to a meeting. Fired up OneNote, held a 3 hour meeting took all the notes I needed on my Booklet, attached pictures from my N900 and I was the first one out of the door. Didn’t have to gather all my papers, put together my laptop disconnect my charger, and wind up all sorts of wires. The best part I even leave quicker, All I’ve got is my Booklet and I’m out, charger is at home.

Last but not least, and I know most of you want to hear some partially negative things about this device and I don’t blame you. Nothing is perfect, and yes for some the Nokia Booklet is not the perfect device. But I can highlight some things that can be on the list of improvements for the RX-80 probably. First I would love a touch screen integration, which would make things a lot faster for me. The keyboard keys to be backlit, would make a big difference in low light environments. The ‘Ctrl’ key to be on the very left instead of the ‘fn’ key. More Nokia related software built-in, to control the connectivity. Would love a remote viewer built-in so I could make calls with my device but talk and hear it through my booklet or my BH-504 connected to my booklet. Why bother all your customers with the SIM lock by AT&T, It’s very easy to crack save us the hassle and include a Nokia UI for the SIM connectivity.

Final review thought, if you’re looking for being connected ‘Full Internet As It Happens’ the Nokia Booklet 3G is the device for you. If you’re a laptop speed oriented and has 16 million applications and programs the Nokia Booklet 3G won’t do for you. If you’re a on the move business person, looking for agility and essential connectivity, the Nokia Booklet 3G serves every single part of that.

Nokia Booklet 3G