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Nokia World 2012 has come to an end and we saw some great announcements. New Lumia devices, innovations in PureView technology and Nokia Maps with augmented reality. But let’s not forget about the app; that little thing you load up when you’ve got some downtime or need to get productive while on-the-move.

With Windows Phone Marketplace now offering more than 100,000 apps/games (and counting), it’s really no surprise that other partners want to join in this rapidly growing ecosystem. These will be coming to Nokia Lumia smartphones – including the Nokia Lumia 820 and Nokia Lumia 920 – shortly:

For those who love sport and life in the fast lane, the new World of Red Bull app.

The new World of Red Bull app for Nokia Lumia is a new and unique mobile experience, which offers consumers full immersion in the World of Red Bull. The app delivers all the latest news from more than 400 Red Bull Athletes around the world, and enables users to pin their favourite athletes to the start screen for live news updates.  

In addition to news and information from more than 800 Red Bull events each year, the app offers access to the Red Bull Culture section, with a huge selection of content spanning music, dance, cinema, art and pop culture, as well as access to Red Bull TV and many other Red Bull apps.   

Coming to the Nokia Lumia 920 and Nokia Lumia 820, the enhanced app experience will include the option of small, medium and large Live Tiles, plus Nokia Maps integration and Voice Commands.

Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820

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Become a movie maker, with the new and improved Vimeo app.

The enhanced Vimeo app experience coming to the Nokia Lumia 920 and Nokia Lumia 820 will enable imaging fans to capture HD video using Nokia’s best-in-class camera optics and PureView technology. Offering the highest quality video playback experience, the app will allow users to share videos using NFC tap-to-share technology.

This app also introduces HD video support, features an easy to use design interface with dynamic live tiles, and enables consumers to purchase Vimeo Plus subscriptions through the app.

Addicted to Angry Birds? Us too! Well, the new Angry Birds Roost experience is a real one-off.

Launching on the Nokia Lumia 920 and Nokia Lumia 820, the new and exclusive Angry Birds Roost experience for Nokia Lumia will enable fans to dive into the wonderful world of Angry Birds, with access to hundreds of walk-through videos, news, ringtones and more, brought together in one unique and original hub experience.

A first for Rovio and the Windows Phone platform, Angry Birds Roost will offer fans an exclusive ‘Bird Cam’ feature. Users can take a picture on their Nokia Lumia, add their favourite Angry Birds characters to the picture, and then share it on Facebook, Twitter, MMS or via email.

Additionally, Angry Birds Roost will have tons of wallpapers and wide Live Tiles on the Lumia start screen.

“Angry Birds Roost is a fantastic place for fans,” said Peter Vesterbacka, Mighty Eagle and CMO of Rovio. “Bursting with amazing content, it’s a great way for Lumia users to get the full Angry Birds experience all in one app.”

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For you business folk out there, there’s no better business app than the new Bloomberg Hub experience…

The new Bloomberg app for Nokia Lumia Windows Phone, launching in the coming days, offers consumers a powerful one-stop hub for all their business and finance news, market data and portfolio tracking tools. Consumers can personalise the experience with the information, which matters most to them, and access it instantly with custom panoramas and Live Tiles on the start screen.

Bloomberg – the global business and financial news and information leader – will also showcase the breadth of their media properties. The Bloomberg hub will include on-demand access to Bloomberg Television and Bloomberg Radio, featuring critically acclaimed shows and interviews with the most pre-eminent minds in business and finance.

In addition to this news, Bloomberg will be enhancing the Bloomberg Hub experience for the Nokia Lumia 920 and Nokia Lumia 820 with added features that will utilise new Live Tile customisations.

“Our partnership with Nokia has resulted in a unique mobile experience that provides business executives with the essential news, market information and tools they need to make better informed decisions,”

Explained Oke Okaro, Global Head and GM, Mobile and Connected Devices, Bloomberg L.P.

If you’re a fashionistas, you’ll love the new app from StyleSaint.

StyleSaint is the brand new and exclusive app experience for forward thinking fashion fans, launching mid-September on Nokia Lumia smartphones. Beautifully designed, the app enables users to capture their favourite inspirational fashion images, and transform them into personalised mobile fashion magazines to be shared with the world.

With Facebook integration, users can sign in and start discovering their own sense of style, receive daily go-to guides on how to style the latest trends, fashion feeds, and style tips and tricks. Users can also follow each other to bring personalised fashion favourites direct to the start screen on Live Tiles, and let StyleSaint style their experience everyday with amazing fashion imagery.

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Love a deal? Want it now? Then the new Groupon app has everything you need…

The Groupon app for Windows Phone features deals on the best stuff to do, see, eat, and buy at discounts of between 50 and 90%. Using the principles of collective buying, Groupon aims to negotiate unprecedented discounts with the best merchants in local communities.

Enhanced features launching with the Nokia Lumia 920 and Nokia Lumia 820 will include Wallet integration enabling quick access to purchased Groupons, wallpapers and multiple-size Live Tiles for notifications to the start screen. The Groupon Scheduler tool will allow users to schedule appointments associated with service deals; additionally, seamless app to app integration will allow users direct access to Groupon’s mobile app via embedded deals within Nokia Maps.

“Working together, Groupon and Nokia continue to innovate the mobile shopping experience, making it even easier and more fun to browse, buy and redeem Groupon deals from the best businesses in your neighborhood,” said Andreas Lieber, Director of Mobile Partnerships of Groupon.

Share files from one phone to another using NFC and YouSendIt.

YouSendIt’s mobile app delivers powerful file sharing capabilities for Nokia Lumia users, including NFC file transfer.

The new YouSendIt app, which will be available for the Nokia Lumia 920 and Nokia Lumia 820, allows users to access, sync and share content stored in the cloud. Users can even sign documents using their Nokia Lumia touchscreen, and securely send them from anywhere. YouSendIt simplifies syncing and sharing of large files such as video and photo.

In addition, the new YouSendIt NFC feature enables convenient device-to-device file sharing with a tap of the phone.

If you’re a foodie and want the very latest on the best places to eat, the new MICHELIN app is built for you…

The enhanced MICHELIN app, which launches with the Nokia Lumia 920 and Nokia Lumia 820, brings consumers easier-than-ever access to the MICHELIN Guide – the who’s who of the best restaurants. Using NFC technology, food fans will be able to share restaurant information by tapping devices, and also receive specific information about places to eat by tapping their Lumia on a MICHELIN 2013 NFC-enabled restaurant window sticker. Augmented Reality technology will enable the user to view restaurants near them on the screen.

In addition, the app delivers search, details, calling and reservations, plus Nokia Maps integration to help users find great places to eat. Geo-aware, the app delivers real time content to Live Tiles and MICHELIN images, which change according to the time of day.

Addicted to your mates and messaging? WhatsApp for Lumia has it all…

WhatsApp Messenger is a cross-platform mobile messaging app, which allows you to exchange messages without having to pay for SMS. Because WhatsApp Messenger uses the same Internet data plan that you use for email and web browsing, there is no cost to message and stay in touch with your family, friends, and colleagues.

Current features for Nokia Lumia and Windows Phone smartphones include search, group creation plus photos, messaging encryption, location and contact sharing, etc. Upcoming features launching with the Nokia Lumia 920 and Nokia Lumia 820 will include a new user experience that takes advantage of a more panoramic look and feel, additional languages, emoticons, and more.

“With billions of messages delivered each day, WhatsApp’s core mission is to enable people from all around the world to continually stay connected to those that matter most: their family, friends, and colleagues,” said Brian Acton, Co-Founder of WhatsApp. “Through our partnership with Nokia, we are excited to launch a differentiated user experience tailored for the Nokia Lumia 920 and Nokia Lumia 820.”

We know you all have a favourite when it comes to apps, but which app are you particularly looking forward too from this list? Let us know, below.

In 2007, mobile games that were getting us dizzy with excitement included Resident Evil: The Missions, The Fast and the Furious Fugitive and Pyramid Bloxx. Limited by specs, they now look decidedly retro, so what can we expect five years in the future? We spoke to Aki Jarvinen, Creative Director at Digital Chocolate and one of the world’s only Professors of Gaming to find out.

1. Gameplay will matter even more

By now, audiovisual fidelity in games’ graphics has reached a point where audiences will find it increasingly difficult to perceive the next step, as advances are, arguably, becoming incremental. Thus, more original takes on visual styles will gain ground from photorealistic, immersive recreations of actual events, people, and places.

More comprehensive evolution in the visceral nature of video game will eventually follow, but for the next 5 years they will still remain in the R&D departments of entertainment electronics manufactures.

2. Games will become free services

Ease of discovery and paying a quick buck for convenience are already ruling players’ hearts, just think of the application marketplaces out there. Increasingly, various types of games will adopt the ‘free to play’ model, where money is not spent in individual purchases of the game, but rather, the game is distributed for free. This creates a basis for revenue from a percentage of players who stay and pay.

Another concurrent development is games becoming services, something that keeps on evolving throughout their lifecycle. The service aspect reinforces taking game brands across platforms: the hit game you begin to play in your browser can also be accessed via your phone – as part of a platform-agnostic game service.

2.Video game consoles will adapt and evolve

The buzz is that those boxes we have come to know and love as play stations, xboxes, nintendos, etc. will wither in the hands of mobile platforms, new price points, in-app purchases, and digital distribution in general.

‘Consoles will die’ has been a popular provocation lately, but in 5 years the role of a dedicated gaming machine will not go away. – consoles will not die, but adapt and evolve. But where into – to televisions as a set of their applications?

4. Game design will break out of games

Already now, all around us, media producers are trying to engage us and make us stick to their products. Here learnings from game design will play a bigger part – badges and points as rewards for your activity with a product or a service are just a feeble start; more intricate mechanisms from games will seek to permeate your everyday use of the most mundane things.

The next years will truly signal the beginning of the ‘ludic age’: we will find more and more ‘playful’ ways imposed on us when consuming media.

5.Game makers will gain more respect

As a consequence of the above, people will start realizing that game design is a craft that demands talent and attention to detail. Indie Game: The Movie is a recent documentary film that probes the mindset of independent game developers, companies that might consist of one to two guys.

With the huge success of a game like Minecraft, the rise of the indie is definitely upon us, and it is only going to gain momentum. As the documentary shows, these developers use games as their medium of personal expression, trying to put their flaws and insecurities put into a game. This presents and equivalent for games to that of art house cinema, and it is here to stay.

Some fascinating insights, but how do you think we’ll be playing in the near future? Let us know your predictions below.

Last week we introduced you to six Nokia Asha owners who shared their stories of what they liked, and how they felt, about their phones.

The videos are an attempt to discover the real people who are buying and using the Asha devices, which are designed with young, urban and social users in mind.

Camera crews spent three weeks in late May on the road visiting countries such as Thailand, India, Mexico and Egypt meeting and talking to Nokia Asha owners.

Here are the final videos in the series, as six more people tell us about ‘Me and My Asha.’

Last week we were talking about all the new features of Nokia Maps for the Nokia Lumia 920 and Nokia Lumia 820. Nokia Maps is going to work completely offline, offer voice guided turn-by-turn navigation and venue maps. What is even more revolutionary is that the new Nokia Lumia 920 and Nokia Lumia 820 are going to get a GPS or GLONASS fix within seconds even without being assisted by network connection.

Along with that, we have introduced Nokia City Lens last May with a beta programme to collect your precious feedback and your improvement suggestions. Your response has been overwhelmingly positive and we are proud to have officially released our augmented reality app to the Windows Phone Marketplace for Nokia Lumia 900, Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 710. And we also have a specific version for the newest Nokia Lumia 920 and Nokia Lumia 820 in the works.

What is Nokia City Lens?

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Press the Search button on your Nokia Lumia and then tap Vision
Scan the barcode
Tap on the link when it appears on the screen
Install the application from the Windows Phone Marketplace

For those who haven’t tested the beta, Nokia City Lens is Nokia’s location-based augmented reality application. Using the phone’s camera viewfinder, Nokia City Lens provides an augmented reality overlay view of buildings and instantly highlights places of interest.

It basically turns sight into the next interface for searching the world around you. The app then provides information about each building or landmark in the area giving the user an at-a-glance understanding of what restaurants, museums, shops and others places of interest are nearby. Seeing a place of interest through augmented reality provides a wealth of information not available with the naked eye, allowing you to see the world around you using your smartphone instead of having to perform web searches.

You can download Nokia City Lens now for your Nokia Lumia 900, Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 710 now, following the instructions above.

Nokia City Lens on Windows Phone 7.5

More features in the Windows Phone 8 version

We are not only developing Nokia City Lens for Nokia Lumia 900, Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 710, but we are also going to release the app for the new Windows Phone 8 smartphones Nokia Lumia 920 and Nokia Lumia 820, introduced last week. The new mobile operating system, powered by the Nokia Location Platform, is allowing us to introduce some very cool new features.

Nokia City Lens on Windows Phone 8

The first to be introduced will be a new 3D icons layout, which is going to make the augmented reality experience look even more realistic. We are also going to fix a common problem of augmented reality apps. If you don’t see a place in real life, because it’s hidden behind a building, you might want to see it or not among nearby search results. We give you the choice: you will be able to filter search results so that only those in the line of sights are visible.

The upcoming version of Nokia City Lens for Nokia Lumia 920 and Nokia Lumia 820 is also going to make more use of Windows Phone unique features. For instance you will be able to pin to start any category tile, to find faster what you are looking for, anywhere you are. You can also customize the Nokia City Lens menu by adding your own favorite searches. Last but not least you can also use Nokia City Lens in both landscape and portrait mode.

Another dose of awesomeness from the world wide web, featuring (spoiler alert) Nokia Lumia 900 food blogging, some Star Wars silliness and some amazing art.

Pie always makes me smile, any day of the week

First up, how could I ignore this pic of pie. Not just any photo of pie, either, as this was snapped on a Nokia Lumia 900 by kennytechs and is part of his foodblogging experiment (actually just a chance to test out the Camera Extras on his Lumia 900). Pie makes me smile any day of week, so why not include a sweet photo here?

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Next to make you smile (if only at his dedication), an awesome time lapse video of a drawing of downtown Manhattan, New York (especially apt given this was the location for last weeks’ Nokia Lumia announcement). The detail here is staggering, time-consuming and quite frankly something I would not have had the patience to even contemplate undertaking, let alone complete.

For an extra bonus art story this week, I give you portraits made from the keys of discarded keyboards. The Tarantino is particularly fine and made me smile almost as much as Quentin is scowling:

Keyboard art Tarantino portrait

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You were promised Star Wars silliness, and it would be rude of me to disappoint, so here we are. I seem to remember writing something similar a while back about stormtrooper cake, but this is one step up. Life-sized Darth Vader cake, anyone?

Life-size Vader cake

If cake isn’t your thing or you’d prefer something a little chillier, try lightsaber ice pops that are illuminated from the inside. Oh yes, *that* made me smile!

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Quick Grins

Accurate descriptions of department store items. I don’t recommend trying this, I don’t know how he managed it.

Super slow motion water balloons.

Real life Roller Coaster Tycoon. That would be pretty awesome.

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It’s Monday, what gets you through the day? Let me know in the comments, or dropping a line on Twitter using the #MakeMeSmileMonday tag, and it could be appearing in MMSM #36.