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No i znowu nie wyrobiłem się z infografiką przed redaktorami z Telepolis. Gratuluję, ale nasi ludzie ciągle coś tam aktualizują. Pamiętam jak po pierwszym kwartale pojawiło się sporo komentarzy, że w tym roku oddamy koszulkę lidera MNP. Konkurencja robiła zresztą wszystko co możliwe w tym temacie Dosłownie wszystko co możliwe, nawet jeżeli niewiele to [...]

No i znowu nie wyrobiłem się z infografiką przed redaktorami z Telepolis. Gratuluję, ale nasi ludzie ciągle coś tam aktualizują. Pamiętam jak po pierwszym kwartale pojawiło się sporo komentarzy, że w tym roku oddamy koszulkę lidera MNP. Konkurencja robiła zresztą wszystko co możliwe w tym temacie Dosłownie wszystko co możliwe, nawet jeżeli niewiele to [...]

8 stycznia, 2013 rok, godzina 2:00 (czasu polskiego), targi CES2013, Sony Mobile prezentuje nowy, flagowy model oparty na Androidzie. Xperia Z – 5″ ekran FullHD 1080p z technologią OptiContrast i silnikiem Mobile Bravia Engine 2, czterordzeniowy procesor Snapdragon™ S4 Pro, aparat 13mpx z sensorem Exmor RS (CMOS IMX135) i optyką f/2.2, moduł LTE i 4G. Bogate wnętrze chroni „Szkieletowa” obudowa, która zapewni dużą wytrzymałość i wodoodporność (IP55 i IP57).

Dzięki zastosowaniu technologii Mobile BRAVIA ® Engine 2 obraz wyświetlany na ekranie Xperii Z jest bardzo ostry, realistyczny i jasny. Smartfon posiada pierwszy na świecie przetwornik Exmor RS™ dla telefonów z funkcją HDR do nagrań wideo. HDR jest to technologia, dzięki której nagrania nawet pod silne światło są wyraźne, co pozwala na filmowanie bez względu na warunki. Nie zabrakło również dwóch przetworników Exmor R™ (z przodu i z tyłu), które pozwalają wykonywać doskonałe zdjęcia nawet przy słabym oświetleniu.

Xperia Z posiada również tryb Stamina, który w lepszy sposób zarządza baterią. Według producenta pozwala to wydłużyć czas gotowości baterii czterokrotnie lub więcej. Kiedy ekran jest wyłączony, telefon automatycznie wyłącza wszystkie aplikacje, które wyczerpują baterię, po czym uruchamia je, kiedy ekran jest włączony.

Całość pokryta jest smukłą i wytrzymałą obudową o grubości 7,9 mm, która chroni przed wodą i kurzem (IP55 i IP57). Ramka smartfonu Xperia Z wykonana została z poliamidu z włóknem szklanym, czyli z materiału będącego zamiennikiem metalu przy tworzeniu części samochodowych. Z przodu umieszczono hartowane szkło, które jest trwalsze od zwykłego szkła. Ekran dodatkowo chroni powłoka zapobiegająca pęknięciom.

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The time has come to let you know who out of the hundreds of  absolutely amazing entries has been selected to win a Nokia Lumia 820. As with the Nokia Cardboard Challenge we have been blow away by the levels of creativity shown by you, our community. It makes me proud to know so many of you would embrace this contest with such gusto, paying attention to the smallest detail and producing such quality work.

Unfortunately, not everyone can be a winner, but a lot of you came very close – here are just a few of the entries that almost won prizes:

Shiva

Barbara

Aditya

After much deliberation, the judges finally managed to choose three winners. So without further ado…

Pratish

Pratish has made the entire Nokia Lumia family, plus accessories, plus a great Nokia logo. This must have taken some serious work:

Well done.

Davis

It think it’s clear to see why Davis was chosen as a winner – sheer size, detail and overall awesomeness was what caught the eye of the judges. The attention to detail is phenomenal.

Darren

Darren’s entry was clean, crisp and everything the judges were looking for. That he made various different screens was impressive, as was the selection of colours.

There were SO many more that we’d like to be able to feature, we just don’t have the space. I *highly* recommend visiting the original post and spending a few minutes scrolling through the comments. Some of the work was unbelievable. Sadly, though, you can’t all be winners. Keep those creative juices flowing, though, and keep your eyes open for the next contest.

Winners, I’ll be contacting you soon for your details

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CES, the world’s largest electronics super show, kicks off this week in Las Vegas and Nokia is on the scene with our latest smartphones and accessories.  

Because CES can be a very draining experience (on humans and our devices), Nokia is on site helping people stay powered up.  Throughout CES, we’ll be roaming the halls giving out Nokia Universal Portable USB Chargers, so if you see us – don’t be shy to hit us up!  We’ll help juice your phone so you can make sure you have the power to get through the day.

If you haven’t tried it, this charging stick is pretty cool. It fits easily in a pocket and provides an extra boost to your phone. We are also showing off the JBL PowerUp Wireless Charging Speaker for Nokia which packs a booming sound, easy NFC pairing and wireless charging to boot as well as its little brother, the JBL PlayUp Portable Wireless Speaker for Nokia that serves as a great travel companion.

Don’t worry – the fun isn’t confined to Las Vegas. Mention #NokiaPoweredMeUp in a tweet for the chance to win one of 10 JBL PowerUp Wireless Charging Speakers for Nokia that we’re giving away to lucky Nokia fans all over the world. We’ll be giving away two per day – so be sure to keep tweeting for a chance to win.

As the week progresses the Nokia Conversations team will be looking at the trends at CES and will report back later in the week. 

We will also be reporting on Nokia’s participation in the AT&T Developer Summit and Hackathon, which brings developers together from all corners of the world to learn and create the latest and greatest apps.

What are you most interested in at CES 2013?

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Dirk is the Senior Vice President (SVP) in charge of Mobile Phones’ research and development, based in Beijing, China. He spends a lot of his time looking at technologies that are five years ahead of current specs. 

So what space-age wonder has he chosen as his favourite among the current Mobile Phone range?

It’s the Nokia Asha 308.

Who in your family would you recommend this phone to?

My 12-year-old son Maxime, who is really into instant messaging. He would love the perfect balance of size and input with very responsive touch.

What do you think is the one unique feature in this phone?

There’s not just one single unique feature: it’s the overall package, which allows us – Nokia – to offer such a great user experience at such an affordable price. Even from within the industry, people cannot believe that we are able to deliver such a smooth experience in the UI and touch at such low price points. You couldn’t get any better value for money.

What’s the killer app you recommend on this phone?

This clearly depends on what you are into. If you like social messaging, then all the global and local clients are the key (e.g. Facebook and Twitter for global appeal or in China – as an example – Kaixing or Tencent QQ IM, which comes in its very latest version and runs in the background – even on the DualSIM version).

Or the 40 free EA games, if you fancy entertainment, or the Nokia Xpress Browser, with its web apps and discovery features, which not only let you browse the Web but also saves significant time/money due to the Nokia Cloud technology employed, which compresses up to 90% of the data.

Believe it or not, though, the “app” which I  appreciate most myself in the 308 is the standard SMS: the virtual keyboard and the responsive UI/touch lets me write my messages quickly and accurately, which makes one of my most-used, everyday features in a smartphone just the way it should be. 

Companies that embrace diversity tend to be more successful than those that don’t. They are able to recruit and retain the best talent from a variety of backgrounds and create products and services that appeal to more people. 

It is with these thoughts in mind, that Nokia is able to celebrate – for the first time ever – a 100% rating in the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) 2013 Corporate Equality Index, which rates workplaces on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality.

The Corporate Equality Index is a national benchmarking tool in the USA that looks at corporate policies and practices that affect LGBT employees. Every company that scores 100% on the Index, such as Nokia, is recognised on HRC’s ‘Best Places to Work’ list.

LGBT at Nokia

Diversity at Nokia, or indeed any company, is beneficial for all sorts of reasons, but there is also a compelling business case. 

Consider this approach:

The best way to understand customers around the world is to have a truly diverse workforce with people of different cultural or ethnic backgrounds, skills and abilities, lifestyles, generations and perspectives.

Jonathan Silverman, HR Manager, Berlin; Susan Macfarlane, Compensation and Benefits Manager, Americas, and Nokia’s Head of Diversity & Inclusion, Adam Travis, have been working towards securing the 100% Corporate Equality Index rating for several years. One step was the launch of the LGBT@Nokia employee network.

“One of the objectives was doing things with the LGBT community and going out to recruitment fairs and getting involved in product development, for example in Grindr. Also with HRC, achieving 100% was one of the things we wanted to do,” says Adam.

Corporate Equality

With the 100% rating now successfully attained (Stephen Elop will be particularly pleased as this target was officially sponsored by Nokia’s CEO), Conversations spoke to Neil Wilks, Nokia’s HR director in North America to discuss the significance of the award.

How important is the 100% rating for Nokia?

I think it is easy to say that this achievement is really important to us; although I think it is also important to say that performance in surveys is not the driver for us to make changes in our employment policies.

The real driver is that we are able to attract and maintain the highest quality of employees, no matter their background and we are always looking at ways to continuously improve our offering – both to the external employee market and to the internal staff who are already part of our community.

Nokia has previously scored 50% and 70%. What steps were taken to secure the 100% rating for 2013?

The main thing that was done was to change the scope and provision of the healthcare benefits in the US. For some context, of the major benefits that any employee gets in the US, healthcare is the most important.

We recognised that the LGBT health and welfare requirements have a unique set of costs outside of the standard welfare policy and we took a deep look at this.

In terms of being sure that we were offering a fair and widely covered policy for our entire employee base we wanted to include transgender-inclusive benefits into our offering. 

With the support of Tina Kremenezky, Nokia’s Director, Employment Law, a number of amendments were also made to Nokia’s spousal and partner benefits.

Can this recognition from the Corporate Equality Index help Nokia’s core business?

It can only help. One of the things that I hear regularly from consumers and operator customers is that Nokia is a well-loved company all over the world and despite our recent financial struggles; many, people want us to come back and to come back strong. Every little bit of recognition helps us with that. So I think this is a very good thing. 

People in general have a very high emotional IQ and we make products that people are emotionally connected to. To know that there is a much-loved company out there that supports unique issues adds an additional bond to that.

How important is the leadership of a company to help create a culture where diversity can thrive?

The leadership in any company shapes the culture in a really positive way.

My take on the Nokia culture after six years here is that it’s an incredibly open environment. I like that having your opinion and questioning of the management is really highly valued here. In that respect I think the leadership at Nokia have created something quite unique in a corporation of this size.

If you think about our business environment, we’re always at risk of people leaving our company and joining our competitors. However, they stay because of our culture, the relationships that they hold with other people and all the things that bind ‘Nokians’ together. 

That can only be based on trust and respect for everybody. The diversity that we’ve achieved is good and is really powerful for our business because we get a different level of thinking.

As the editor-in-chief, Tiina is the big boss here on Nokia Conversations.

She recently wrote a post looking back on 2012 and declared it a bold year when Conversations truly came of age.

As we all hope 2013 is going to be even bigger and bolder than the last 12 months, let’s see what the boss has on her Lumia 920 Start screen.

Tell us the apps you’ve prioritised and why?

I have put some inspirational apps to the top like Photos, Nokia Music and a customized Mix Radio playlist that I play to my colleagues in the morning when they arrive to the office.

I also have a shortcut to Family Room (the one with the cute little dog pic) and the live tile of The Weather Channel App, so that I know what to wear and how to plan for travels.

I have all “personal” messaging tools like personal mail, messaging, phone, and PhotoBeamer (in case I’m in the mood for a magical picture show) grouped together next to my Me Tile. Me Tile is where I make quick updates to Facebook and Twitter and it also gives me quick access to notifications from different social networks.

Then I have the People Hub – all my contacts form all networks and phone books in one single place. I love the People Hub Live Tile as it shows people’s profile pictures reminding me to get in touch with someone that I might not have spoken to for a while. Next to People Hub I have my “office” tools – work email, calendar, Lync and Skype. 

Next, I have some apps I use to kill time. And below the screen fold I have my mobile banking app, specific social network apps (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn) as well as Nokia location apps, Nokia Drive and Nokia Maps, so that I don’t get lost when I’m out and about. 

What apps do you use to pass the time?

It’s either People Hub where I go to check what’s happening in the world through social discovery, or those apps that are on the last visible row of my start screen.

There I have Angry Birds Roost (gives me access to all the Angry Birds games I’ve downloaded), Helsingin Sanomat (Finnish newspaper), the Guardian app and last but not least the brilliant Nokia Conversations app by @dotnetnelson, and actually I use the Nokia Conversations app all the time – not just to kill time but also to check stories and read comments on our blog when I’m on the go.

What is the last app you paid for, and what does it do?

Angry Birds Star Wars – makes the day go by too quickly!

Which app(s) is your guilty pleasure?

I love maps in any shape or form, so it has got to be map apps. I love planning routes so sometimes I can spend hours just zooming in and out with Nokia Maps. Also I’m currently browsing through the Windows Phone Store to find some good and useful navigation apps for sailors. If you have any recommendations, let me know:)

We had a feeling we were on to something rather special when the Nokia Purity Pro Wireless Stereo Headset by Monster was unveiled at IFA in Berlin last September.

The very first comment on our original blog post gushed:

“Who do I have to bribe, kill or sleep with to get a pair??? Take my money NOW!!!!”

Now, that excitement has been given an official stamp of approval with the news that the headset has been honoured with a prestigious CES 2013 Innovations Award. 

Monster + Nokia = Purity Pro

The Nokia Purity Pro Wireless Headset by Monster connects to your phone with ‘one-touch’ NFC pairing (standard Bluetooth pairing is also available) and music from your library is streamed using advanced Bluetooth capabilities.

The sound quality is pretty stellar too as they feature Monster’s active noise cancelling. This includes feed forward and feedback technology for ambient and percussive noise cancellation. 

In addition to all this audio wizardry, it’s impossible to miss the Purity Pro’s striking looks and its choice of bold colours: Red, Yellow, Black, and White. They’ll go perfectly with your Nokia Lumia 920.

“We are extremely proud of the selection of Nokia Purity Pro Wireless Headset by Monster as an honoree in the Headphones category of the 2013 CES Innovations Design and Engineering Awards,” said Tomi Penttila, head of Nokia Gear. “This is an acknowledgement of the innovation, excellent sound quality and superior craftsmanship that the product and the two brands stand for.”

All told, this wireless headset represents a perfect marriage between Monster’s advanced audio expertise and Nokia’s mobile technology know-how and design flair. 

The Purity Pro isn’t just cutting edge; it’s a delight to use as well. The noise cancellation and Bluetooth activates automatically when the headset is unfolded, and switches off again when you fold them up after use.

CES 2013 Award

In its citation for the CES 2013 Innovations award the judges said of the wireless headset:

“Nokia Purity Pro is a high definition over the ear wireless headset with active noise cancellation that gives you the freedom of movement and true sound reproduction that’s rich, powerful and dynamic.”

 The Nokia Purity Pro Wireless Headset by Monster is expected to hit retail shelves at the end of this month.

Click here to view the video on YouTube.

What comes to mind when you think of a QWERTY phone? I always imagine someone in a business suit furiously typing urgent emails on the train, or while they’re walking down the street.

This common preconception of QWERTY phones – that they are mainly business devices – was part of the challenge facing Ruth Ng and her colleagues at Nokia’s Colour and Material Design team when they started work on the new Asha 205. 

This is the most ‘social’ Asha that has been unveiled so far, a fact that is underlined by the first ever appearance on a Nokia device of a dedicated Facebook button.

As well as being a social phone that makes it easier to connect with your friends, the Nokia Asha 205 was designed with young and aspirational people in mind. How did they manage to achieve this?

Conversations spoke to Ruth Ng, who is based at Nokia’s design studios in Beijing about their approach to the Asha 205, how they came up with different colour combinations and changing how we think about QWERTY phones.

One of the most striking features of the Nokia Asha 205 is the two-tone colour approach. Why did you decide to go down this route? 

This was inspired by some research that we did in the India and China markets, which are two of our biggest markets. One of the micro-trends that we discovered was something called dark sumptuous tones – these are tones that are nearly black but not quite.

It’s very fresh and that was what inspired the dark brown colour on the Asha 205 with cyan on the front. The juxtaposition of the dark sumptuous tones on the front and the bright colour on the back is what we thought could give a fresh kick to the QWERTY phone.

How did you decide on the colour combinations? 

We did a lot of trial and error. We brought a lot of colour chips together and got the design team to come up with all sorts of combinations, we documented them and we kept eliminating combinations.

In the end we came up with combinations that we thought are fresh, but still appealing to the full spectrum of different consumers.

For example, you have the more neutral one, which is the dark sumptuous brown with cyan and then there is the light variant, which is the white and orange. Then there is the more female-skewed one, which is the light pink and magenta at the back. 

What about the materials used in the Asha 205?

The material combination on the Asha 205 is really interesting. I don’t think that many people will have realised that if you look at the battery cover it is made of a two-shot material, plastic and soft polymer. The idea is to bring some aspiration to this value proposition.

A lot of thought has gone into the design of Asha 205 and the choice of materials. The front has the glossy integrated front cover with the screen to give a more seamless look and feel. The pattern on the battery cover helps to give a high gloss effect, which contrasts nicely with the tactile grip along the sides. 

How did you manage to design a social element into look and feel of the Asha 205?

When we start designing the colour and materials of this phone, or any device, we usually start with the consumer. With the Asha 205 targeted at young people, we knew that this was going to be a social QWERTY phone. That’s why we had the unusual colour combinations and the use of soft polymer, a material that resonates with the young and aspirational.

When you think of QWERTY phones, you will conjure images of businessmen. We wanted to break free of those preconceptions and make sure that young people could really relate to our design.