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We’re excited to introduce the In-Location Alliance, launched today by 22 technology companies with the goal of driving the innovation and development of indoor positioning. As a founding member, we feel it’s important to continue supporting the innovation of indoor mapping. It’s also a relevant continuation to our ongoing work here at Sony Mobile, as mentioned in our previous indoor maps blog post. Read on for more details on what this unique collaboration means to the mobile community.

The Accurate Mobile Indoor Positioning Industry Alliance is founded by companies representing different roles in the ecosystem – chipset vendors, mobile operators, system integrators, handset manufacturers, application developers, solution vendors, and technology vendors. The Indoor Alliance’s main task is working toward the adoption of interoperable indoor positioning solutions and technologies. The indoor positioning system (IPS) technology will primarily be based on enhanced Bluetooth™ low-energy and Wi-Fi® standards.

For Sony, this is especially important, since the Alliance will work together to define specifications and ensure open interfaces and standards for interoperability between vendors, we can ensure that the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi® connectivity already present in Sony smartphones and tablets will continue to follow industry standards.

Magnus Persson, Positioning Specialist at Sony Mobile, is not only a key evangelist for indoor mapping technology; he is also the Sony spokesperson for the Alliance. Magnus believes that Sony has much to offer by becoming involved with the In-Location Alliance.

- We’ve already demonstrated our interest and know-how in indoor positioning technologies by creating our own indoor navigation service, so we’re eager to share our knowledge and work with and learn from other Alliance members on how to address positioning issues, such as availability and accuracy limitations.”

Magnus Persson, Positioning Specialist.

Benefits of indoor positioning
Through accurate indoor positioning, the Alliance hopes to achieve a solid technical base that anyone can use to create indoor location-based mobile services on top of it. For consumers, this could mean receiving directions to personalised product promotions in stores, getting real-time navigation in a museum or other public place, or even getting the precise location of patients or doctors in hospitals.

For local service providors, indoor positioning could increase customer satisfaction by deploying resources to where and when it is needed.

If you’re planning to create and indoor navigation solution of your own, or if you already have experience from creating indoor maps, we encourage you to join the Alliance. Or if that is not an option for you, make use of the results from the Alliance. This way, you directly make an impact and help out in the work to create a globally interoperable and user friendly indoor positioning experience!

Feature image courtesy of cohdra @ morguefile.

More information

• Read the In-Location Alliance press release.
• Learn about our work with indoor positioning in our indoor map blog post.

The empowerment of women in business lies at the heart of a new mobile phone service in Nigeria that was launched today by a partnership between Nokia, the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women and the leading mobile operator, MTN Nigeria. 

The new Nokia Life service, called Business Women, will offer essential tips and practical advice on starting and running a successful business to female entrepreneurs in Nigeria on their mobile phones.

With micro & small businesses accounting for over 90% of Nigeria’s employment, helping more women in Nigeria run successful businesses is seen as a great way of empowering women and enabling personal improvement that benefits not just the individual, but their children, family and society as a whole. 

Strikingly, women already own a significant percentage of the small enterprises in the Nigerian economy. That statistic can only increase as the Business Women service will help to build confidence and get even more women to run, or think about running their own businesses. 

The service will help by providing them with information and guidance on skills that every entrepreneur needs: 

• Lead their business and personnel better
• Market their products & services and manage customer relationships better
• Manage their cash flow, inventory, book keeping and accounts better
• Get access to loans and credit from banks by maintaining good credit history
• Safeguard the business and staff with insurance and deal with taxes, legal and registration aspects of the business

Reaching more women

Set up in September 2008, the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women works to support and empower women in Africa, Asia and the Middle East so that they can play a larger role in their national economies and societies.

After investigating around 200 different platforms to see how they could use mobile phone technology to empower more women entrepreneurs, Nokia Life was chosen as a partner for this project in Nigeria. 

Research by the Foundation found that: 

• 93% of women entrepreneurs in Nigeria were willing to use a mobile service like Business Women to address the business challenges they face
• 75% believe that such a service will add significant value to their businesses

Cherie Blair, founder of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, was present at the Business Women launch event in Nigeria today, along with female entrepreneurs, women’s associations and local students. 

Mrs Blair said working with Nokia was a ‘welcome development’.

“Giving women the chance to become financially independent and make the most of their talents is the key to higher living standards and stronger economies,’’ she said. 

“With the extensive reach of Business Women through Nokia Life and content tailored especially for Nigerian women entrepreneurs, this new service has the potential to empower thousands of women business owners.”

Life improvement services

The partnership between the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women and Nokia Life services is a natural fit.

When Nokia Life was launched about two and half years ago, it set out with an aim to connect the next billion to information and Internet. Now, 70m people have experienced and benefitted from Nokia Life services in India, China, Indonesia and Nigeria.

Designed so that the most basic of mobile phones can benefit, and with no need for any data consumption, Nokia Life provides a lifeline for people at a grassroots level when they might otherwise find it difficult to access the Internet, or find other sources of education and information.

“Right from the very beginning, we knew that information was a great leveller,” says Jawahar Kanjilal, Nokia’s Vice-President of Emerging Market Services and Global Head of Nokia Life.

“If you were you to bring in knowledge and awareness in society then you put people on the path towards empowerment. That is a key enabler that can be delivered by a mobile phone and that is where Nokia Life comes in.”

Alignment of goals

The Nokia Life portfolio of life-improving services is based on education, health, agriculture and entertainment. A large proportion of the people opting into Nokia Life services are students, young adults, farmers and, yes, many of them are women. 

“When we were discussing the opportunities with the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women and with Mrs Blair herself, there was very big alignment of goals,” says Jawahar.

“They were looking for services that could lead to a better quality of life for women in developing countries and here we had the ability to reach out to individuals on an on-going basis.”

“It is about driving confidence and giving information which can be actioned by the individual.” 

SMS but not as you know it

While the Nokia Life service is based on SMS technology, it would be wrong to assume that it is just sending a whole bunch of texts to people.

Click here to view the video on YouTube.

When the message arrives on a handset it opens up and renders with a colourful format, icons, and the pretty user interface of the Nokia Life application. 

As Jawahar says, it is using ‘existing SMS technology but differently’. Importantly, it is very simple to use and Nokia Life works wherever the phone works.

All this is achieved even on relatively simple handsets with low memory and little processing power.

However, the power of the technology cannot be denied. With the launch of the Business Women service in Nigeria, Nokia Life continues to play a very big part in creating a better future for millions of people. 

The Nokia Life Business Women service will be available for free, for the first six months, to Nokia Life users who are also currently subscribed to MTN Nigeria. The service does not require 3G or GPRS.

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Skateboarding, BMXing, free running, you name a crazy, adrenalin pumping sport and the likelihood is you’ll find someone with a Lumia in-hand. Maybe it’s the smartphones’ creative design or the crazy colours. Who knows? But one thing’s for sure, extreme sports people love to think outside (cartwheel over and jump) the box. To see for yourself, prepare to marvel at the most imaginative sports ever invented. And, please, do NOT try these at home…

Human Slingshot

Well, this does what it says on the tin. Think bungee cord, a hill, an 8ft jump, a willing victim and a big lake. A quad bike and a bungee cord tug you and your dinghy down the slope and over the jump; the bungee whips the dingy away, and you’re in the air! Definitely not for the weak of heart, but still the closest you might ever come to flying.

Train Surfing

When waves just don’t cut it for you anymore, you could always take to the rails – though we don’t recommend it. People all around the world risk their lives clambering onto the roofs of moving trains to save their fares, but others do it for sport. Outlawed left, right, and centre (fatalities really do abound), train-surfing was popularized as S-Bahn surfing in 1980s Germany, and it’s still going strong today. Surfers cling to the running-boards of the cars or, more unusually, stand upright on the roofs themselves and dodge obstacles like bridges and power-cables. Gulp.

Rock-Boarding

Here’s a creative solution to a topographical conundrum. Not all of us are lucky enough to have ski-slopes close to hand – but rocky hills? They’re almost everywhere! So never mind your snow-boarding – take up rock-boarding instead! All you need is a decent gradient, some loose rubble, and you’re off! Nothing like a bit of good old lateral thinking – though you might need to dig out those knee-pads…

Bog Snorkelling

Think snorkelling’s out of the picture just because you’re nowhere near a clear lagoon? Think again! Some creative soul in Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales, came up with bog snorkelling back in 1986, and the town now hosts – yes! – the World Bog Snorkelling Championships. You need a mask or goggles, a snorkel and a pair of flippers, and you have to swim two lengths of a 60ft trench dug specially in a peat bog. World Champ wins fifty quid – and you can compete in fancy dress. Get in!

Underwater Hockey

One of the official sports at the World Alternative Games is Underwater Hockey. Players have masks, fins and snorkels, and the sticks are smaller, but otherwise it’s pretty much ice-hockey – just a bit slower, non-contact, and, well, wetter. Spectators have to enter the pool to have any chance of following proceedings, so most fans rely on underwater video-cameras to beam the action out. It’s played all over the world, but the best detail is its alternate name: Octopush!

They’re all completely bonkers of course, but if you had to bite the bullet and try one which would it be? Let us know in the comments below.

Image credit: Martin Terber

It is one of the greatest debates in popular music: Would The Beatles’ White Album be better as a single LP? Plus, when did you last listen to Revolution 9 in its entirety, anyway?

I love Liverpool’s Fab Four as much as the next man, but even they are not immune from the mighty power of the playlist phenomenon.

Digital music has made it possible for us to select our favourite songs from our favourite artists, programme a collection of songs to suit a particular mood and, yes, even to remove tracks and play with the running order of classic albums.

Setting up playlists with Zune

It is possible to create playlists on your Lumia handset, without your PC but I would advise against this. Doing it with Zune on your PC is much more flexible. This is especially true if you have a large collection of music – it will just be easier to pick out the songs you want.

First you will need to create the playlist on Zune before synchronising it to your Lumia.

1. Open Zune on your PC
2. Go to your Collection, where all your music, videos, photos and podcasts are stored
3. On the right-hand side of the screen, underneath the Search box, select Playlists
4. This is where you will be creating new and editing your existing playlists
5. To create a new one, press ‘New Playlist’ – this is towards the bottom left of the screen
6. Give the playlist a name, such as ‘Exercise Music’ or whatever you want to call it and click OK.

Now that the playlist has been created, you now need to add tracks, delete tracks and synchronise the playlists to your Lumia smartphone.

Adding/removing songs to the playlist

Songs are added to the playlist back from the Artists screen and there are two easy ways you can do it. Note, that you can add individual songs or whole albums or an entire artist’s collection to a playlist.

The first method is by dragging a song, album or artist to the playlist icon in the bottom left of the screen – this is the black sheet of paper with three white lines across it.

The second way to add tracks to a playlist is to right click on an artist, album or song and select ‘add to playlist’ from the menu that appears. 

If you have more than one playlist, then you will need to select which playlist you want to add the song or songs to – this is why it is important to remember the name of your playlists.

If you are dragging and dropping the songs onto the black playlist icon, then the choice of your different playlists will appear if you hover over it for an instant. 

Removing songs from a playlist is also easy to do. Select the playlist so you can see all the songs that you’ve added to it. Right-click on the song you wish to remove, and select ‘remove from playlist.’

If you wish to delete or rename a playlist, right-click on the name of the playlist and those options will appear.

Synchronise your playlist to your Lumia

Finally, we want to get your playlist on your Lumia so you can enjoy those tunes on your smartphone.

1. Connect your Lumia to your PC with the USB cable
2. Then, just like how you sync pictures to your phone, just drag each playlist that you want to synchronise to the phone icon in the bottom right corner.

Any songs that were not already on your phone will also be synced together with the playlist.

To access the playlist on your Lumia, just open Music & Videos > Music and then swipe across until you see the playlists screen.

Playlists are a really nice feature and offer much more than just a bespoke listening experience. You can also send a playlist to a friend or create your own CDs with a playlist.

With a playlist, you can also judge for yourself whether you think The White Album would have been better off without Revolution 9, Rocky Raccoon, Piggies, Yer Blues… For the record, though, I love it just the way it is.

When was the last time you had that frustrating experience in a large supermarket, where you’ve been walking around in circles trying to find a small item?

Or, maybe you once found yourself wandering for ages around a huge airport or shopping centre, trying to find a toilet?

Problems such as these, and other many other needle-in-a-haystack scenarios cannot be solved with GPS, but they are waiting to be solved by a new industry alliance based on indoor navigation that is being launched today.

The In-Location Alliance, of which Nokia is a founding member, includes more than 20 companies across different industries.

The alliance will be working together on the innovation and promotion of a new standard-based short-range wireless technology that will make it possible to locate objects or positions indoors with extremely high accuracy using mobile devices.

High Accuracy Indoor Positioning (HAIP) based on Bluetooth low energy

Click here to view the video on YouTube.

Nokia has focused on and promoted the Nokia High Accuracy Indoor Positioning (HAIP) Solution, using a modified new generation, low energy feature of the Bluetooth^® 4.0 specification, that allows for an accuracy of one metre. The technology can also be extended to an accuracy of 20cm with additional changes.

The modification to the standards-based Bluetooth Low Energy has been developed and prototyped by Nokia, and the changes are being formalised by Bluetooth Special Interest Group body.

The indoor location of a component in a position or on an object can be calculated by HAIP antenna elements installed in the ceiling or the area from the reception of the wireless signal that is transmitted by the component. The components can be installed in a mobile device, or they can be made as separate tags, which can be attached to any asset.

The key criteria for the indoor positioning technology are high accuracy, low power consumption, mobility, and the low cost. The solution has to be easy to implement and easy to use.

The Alliance members are confident that the key criteria have been met and technology demonstrations have already been designed and deployed in trial sites.

Why an alliance?

If Nokia has made so much progress, why is there the need for the alliance?

Nokia’s Jouni Kämäräinen, chair of the In-Location Alliance, told me:

“We are seeing the value of cooperation with companies that are interested in bringing out products based on indoor positioning; we are accelerating the market deployment of these indoor positioning solutions and services and with the alliance we can predict that companies will be more willing to invest and start implementing of these features into mobile devices.”

Jouni hopes that, with other industry players in the alliance, the alliance members can bring the technology to the market sooner and also extend the technology in the future and provide new use cases and opportunities. 

Creating an eco-system

With an alliance working together, consumers will ultimately benefit since different applications, systems and devices will work together. Also a standards-based solution (as opposed to a proprietary one) will make it low cost and easier to deploy.

Jukka Rantala, who has worked on the commercialisation of the HAIP solution for Nokia, said:

“We are building an eco-system for companies to bring the indoor positioning solution to every building in the world and therefore we need to have companies who are representing different roles in the value chain, like telecom operators, system manufacturers, application developers and handset manufacturers other than Nokia.”

The In-Location Alliance will work together in three areas: 

1. Continue working together on system architecture based on a standard based indoor positioning solution.
2. Alliance members will prepare and execute pre-commercial pilots and practical demonstrations starting in the second half of 2012.
3. Alliance members will brainstorm and evaluate new use cases and new business opportunities based on indoor positioning technology.

In the real world

It is that third area, where the alliance looks at how and where an indoor positioning solution, like HAIP, might be used, that is particularly exciting because that is how we will be using the technology in our daily lives. 

One of the possible new applications is the ability to receive special offers, coupons and advertisements to your phone when you go past a shop. Other use cases in large factories are also being explored.

The indoor positioning technology could also help you find objects in your home, guide you towards your departure gate at an airport, track the players on a football match or work as a safety and monitoring device for an elderly person at home alone.

Picking up on the theme of possible uses, Jouni says:

“You can use the mobile phone as a navigation tool at the airport or in a shopping mall. If you are in a big arena, like football stadium, then you could connect yourself to your friends because you can get your location and your friend’s location.”

“We can see the benefits of indoor positioning technology, especially in big venues, such as hospitals, railway stations, factories, museums and schools. We’ve even had discussions with ship owners who would like to offer better services for their passengers on cruise ships,” says Jouni.

“The Compatibility and Industry Collaboration (CIC) unit in the Nokia Chief Technology Office wants to promote standards and open interfaces to ensure multivendor environment and interoperability”, adds Jouni.

Next steps 

HAIP could become a reality much sooner than expected.

There is work underway within the Bluetooth Special Interest Group by its member companies to evolve the specification to enable high accuracy indoor positioning. The technology can be deployed in in new phones, tablets, laptops or any kind of handheld device.

As a new industry standard, indoor positioning functionality will not add any significant cost to the price of new handsets. Companies may choose to use it as a premium service where there is a cost to the end user at the point of use.

What makes it exciting is that so many different use cases are still being explored, and many of which are yet to be thought of. This could be the strength of the alliance: to make it happen quicker and to make it happen in many ecosystems. 

Jouni says:

“This Alliance is a new form of cooperation and should be seen as a bold answer to heavy and inflexible standard based institutions. We are aiming to focused objectives and concentrate on pilot programs. At the moment we have more than 20 companies who are in the Alliance, we would welcome more companies to join.”

Members of the In-Location Alliance include Broadcom, CSR, Dialog Semiconductor, Eptisa, Geomobile, Genasys, Indra, Insiteo, Nokia, Nomadic Solutions, Nordic Semiconductor, Nordic Technology Group, NowOn, Primax, Qualcomm, Rapid Blue, Samsung Electronics, Seolane Innovation, Sony Mobile Communications, TamperSeal AB, Team Action Zone and Visioglobe.

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A ‘first impressions’ post is always a good way to get a handle on what someone thinks of a phone ‘out of the box’, so I thought I’d bring you one looking at the Nokia Asha 311.

Nilabh Jha reckons that the Asha 311 gives the user ‘a smartphone-like experience’ in his review on IBN Live, and goes on to add that ‘the colour combinations available will appeal to most’. He also highlights the new download manager which will suspend a download when the phone leaves a WiFi network, and restart when the phone comes back into range. Neat. Nilabh also compares the Asha 311 to similar phones on the market, and reckons that the 1 GHz processor running this phone would be faster than a smartphone. Anyone tested this theory?

And as an added bonus, how about this unboxing video and first impressions from (long time friend of Nokia Connects) Cj:

In other news, The Times Of India reports that Nimbuzz will soon be preinstalled on the Nokia Asha 311, along with the EA games and the Nokia Music tunes that are already offered.

Have you had your hands on the Nokia Asha 311? Have you seen the ‘Me and My Asha’ series of video stories? Let me know in the comments, or drop me a link to your thoughts Fakhre on Symbian Tweet

It’s not that often Team Connects get to feature some of the amazing Nokia accessories out there, but today, for your reading (and listening) pleasure, I bring you some auditory awesomeness.

First up the Nokia Play 360 speakers that, according to Rahul Gupta at The Mobile Indian, have some ‘serious kick’. He mentions that the Bluetooth speakers mean

‘wires are definitely out [making the speakers] clutter free’

…which is quite handy if, like me, tangled wires are your nemesis. Aside from the aesthetics and connectivity, Rahul goes on to share thoughts on the sound quality which is the nub of the matter when discussing an audio accessory such as these. Here, he says, the Play 360 speakers ‘do justice to highs and lows/bass while not killing out the mids/vocals’.

So, in no uncertain terms; turn them on and ‘don’t forget to party all night’!

For a more personal listening experience (for taking calls, as opposed to music), Dhruv Bhutani of FoneArena has taken a look at the Nokia Luna Bluetooth headset. He focuses initially on the ‘absolutely tiny’ design, but then goes on to discuss the ‘loud and crystal clear’ quality of sound when receiving a call. He describes his troubles with the multifunction key, but ultimately gives the ‘quirky yet attractive’ Luna the thumbs up.

What are you using to listen to music/make calls? Have you reviewed a Nokia accessory recently, maybe a set of Monster headphones? Leave me a link in the comments or on Twitter and I’ll be sure to take a look.

Image credits: Play 360 – The Mobile Indian
Luna – FoneArena

The first portrait photo was taken way back in 1839. Technology has come a heck of a long way since then. Just pick up a Nokia 808 PureView to see how far. Unfortunately, most of us still flounder when it comes to taking people pics, both with our phone and camera. Happily, our resident photography pro, Adam Monaghan, recently shared some top tips on how to turn yourself from a portrait zero into a portrait hero.

Contextualise

People mostly assume that the term portrait means the subject is filling or nearly filling the entire frame. But a photograph can be just as much ‘of’ someone, even if they only make up a small part of the image. Giving the subject a little contextualisation can work wonders and can help generate some depth of meaning in the picture. Legendary photographer John Hedgecoe was a great example of someone who used props and backgrounds to help bring his pictures alive.

Whites in the eyes

A sure fire way to bring a portrait to life is by making sure the eyes have a highlight in them. These little glints can be achieved by using reflectors, flash guns, natural light or even an old desk lamp but whatever way you do it, you’ll be guaranteeing your model that extra bit of sparkle!

High key and low key

High Key and Low Key photographs are those which feature extreme contrast. In High Key shots most of the shadows are ‘blown out’ with strong lighting; consequently they are very light and often associated with upbeat subjects. Low Key shots are, inevitably, the exact opposite. Black will normally dominant the composition and only the contour or outlines are really visible. Low Key shots are often used to create a feeling of tension or drama.

Go natural

Everyone loves a blue sky and a bright sunshine in their landscape shots, but when it comes to portraits too much light can be a bad thing. Strong sunshine creates harsh shadows and will leave your subject squinting at the camera. Instead, make the most of slightly more overcast days when the light can still be bright but is far more subtle. And even if you’re shooting indoors, use the windows to give you great natural light and wistful and pensive positioning opportunities.

Exploring the shadows

Moving the light source away from the camera can help create all sorts of dramatic effects and atmospheric photographs. Although it’s best to use proper photographic lights, since they are infinitely more controllable, you can always start out with bare (and bright) domestic bulbs or work site lamps. Just remember – lights get HOT!

Depth of Field (DOF)

One technical trick that has to be mastered for portrait photographs is depth of field. DOF refers to those bits that are sharply in focus while the rest of the image goes blurry. The DOF is determined by the f-stop you use; the smaller the f-number the wider the aperture is open and the shorter the DOF. The blurry bit (known as bokeh) can also play a big part in the composition.

Who’s that then?

It’s possible to reflect someone’s personality by photographing other parts of them instead of their faces. Perhaps the subject has an amazing tattoo or great hands or shapely legs; they are all elements that go together to make that person who they are. It can also be fun to make portraits that don’t immediately give away who the subject is – even if the subject is you! Artist John Coplans is a good proponent of this type of image; using his own aging body as the focus of his work.

Get them candidly!

Whilst it’s nice to set up portrait sessions with perfect lighting, very often the best shots can be those quickly grabbed candid ones. Most people have some sort of ‘photo face’ – that smile / grimace they pull when they’re being photographed – and unless you’re very lucky, it’s not usually their best look! Capturing people in more natural situations will often give a far more flattering shot.

Some brilliant tips from a man who’s been there and snapped that for more than a decade. But which of these bright ideas gave you the biggest flashbulb moment? 

Image credit: Adam Monaghan

Twitter is a social network that enables millions of people around the world to connect with peers, fans or businesses directly – in no more than 140 characters. If you’re a Twitter user, the chances are you’ll want to be connected to it when you’re away from your computer; that’s where Twitter apps come in useful. Here are a handful of Twitter apps for your Nokia Belle smartphone from Nokia Store.

Tweetian – £Free, receiving 4 out of 5 stars by users
Tweetian has been developed using Qt/QML, so there’s a Nokia N9 version, too.

With a easy to navigate UI, this is a really clean app. Swiping from left to right, you’ll switch between your own timeline, your @mentions and your Direct Messages (DMs)

Supports many different image upload services and allows you to see other people’s images, too, with no hassle.

The autofill feature of @mentions and #hashtags are really useful when composing a Tweet.

Gravity – £8.00, receiving 4 out of 5 stars by users

Gravity has long been considered the best Twitter client for Symbian smartphones over the past couple of years. It’s developed by one guy named Jan Ole Suhr who makes regular updates to the app to add features and fix bugs; listening carefully to his fan base and communicating directly with them.

The User Interface (UI) is what most people like and it’s easy to see why. It’s fluid, smooth and just works.

Posting updates, following people’s timelines, adding locations to tweets and uploading photos are all possible with Gravity. And, naturally, all the usual functions you’d expect to find at Twitter.com can be achieved with this app.

It even supports multiple Twitter accounts, for those that have them.

Nearby Tweets – £Free, receiving 3 out of 5 stars by users
This is a little different but still quite cool.

Sometimes you don’t want to see the world’s Tweets. Sometimes you just want to know what’s happening around you, right now. That’s where this app can help.

Using your phone’s GPS signal or cell tower connection, Nearby Tweets finds tweets from people in close proximity. This is particularly useful if there’s been an accident, if police have blocked your street or you’re just looking to find out what locals are saying about a new street you’ve just moved into. Whatever your reason, it’s a clever little app.

Tweeties: Best Twitter Client – £4.00, receiving 4 out of 5 stars by users
With a title like that, it really needs to deliver – I’ll leave that for you to decide, though.

Tweeties has been designed to provide a clean and simple UI, with an optimised keyboard for hammering out those Tweets during a busy day.

Naturally, you’ve got the option to add photos to your Tweets and add other people’s Tweets to your favourites section, as you would online.

What’s your favourite Twitter app for Nokia Belle? Do let us know in the comments section below.

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