It’s about damn time sheesh! Nokia just released version 1.0 beta of their Media Transfer software for Mac users and it looks pretty cool. Via USB or Bluetooth, you can drag and drop photos directly from iPhoto, sync non-DRM’d music and movies from iTunes, and install additional applications and games. They’re still working on syncing calendars and contacts but all in due time.
Media Transfer is compatible with all Symbian S60 phones and applications. I hope Sony Ericsson decides to do the same thing soon for their Symbian based mobiles.
Wow that’s a really bad attempt at making a good title that succinctly describes this Nokia concept. It’s called the Scentsory and the whole premise revolves around, you guessed it - smells. The design is made from a flexible paper LCD material that unfolds like a paper airplane. Each contact is assigned a unique smell. The whole concept attempts to bridge the technological coldness of cell phones by using odor as an emotional conduit. It sounds cool and all but I’d hate to be in a room full of people with smell phones.
Play your cards right and that something could be a brand new Nokia N95. In support of their current interactive memory game ads, Nokia wants you to create and upload your own videos based off the ads which are just people pulling N95s out of their pockets. Each week, Nokia will choose the best out of the top 10 most viewed videos to win an N95.
From the current crop of videos, I don’t see anything terribly creative. Even if you don’t like the phone, it’s a $700 device that’s fetching upwards of $900 on eBay. KA-CHING!
Video of the interactive memory game ad after the jump.
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Do you have enough creative talent to color within the lines? If the answer is yes, why not enter the Nokia N76 design competition called Show Off Your Talent?
All you have to do is download a template and have at it. Submit your design online by May 3rd and if yours is chosen, Nokia will produce your N76 just for you.
The first prize winner of the Nokia Open cell-phone concept competition was announced, and it looks like a prop from a science fiction movie. Designed by Hugo Danti, a talented graphic artist from Spain, this hi-tech mobile device features everything from a foldable, scrollable, touch-screen display to an adjustable screen size, allowing several space-management options for visual media, video conferencing, and internet browsing.
Nokia L’Amour is a web site dedicated to creating, discovering and sending emotions. Each day, a new emotion tree grows with each bulb representing a person’s feeling. The bulbs are color coded to represent one type of emotion, everything from love to sadness. Clicking on a bulb sends it exploding upwards, revealing its owner’s emotion.
The web site slyly keeps track of your click-thrus and rewards you with hidden wallpapers. OH JOY! If nothing else than a viral marketing scheme to promote their line of fashion phones, at least Nokia L’Amour is pretty to look at.
NextLust readers may know that I’m seriously hot for Nokia’s all-in-one wonder, the N95. I’ve found some lovely video of an unboxing - nice and slow, just how I like it. Watching him touch it makes me so jealous, but he teases and never turns it on. And Steve (the vid blogger) gets a little suprise with the included manual. I’ve been there.
Again, I feel like the N95 cuts into Apple’s iPhone territory, and while it may not send Apple packing, it’s going to make a lot of tech-addicted phone buyers like me really happy.
If you’re like me you’ve decided to play hacky sack with your cell phone several times. Nokia’s working on a way to protect my phone and break my feet at the same time. The casing in the works is a diamond like coating applied to plastic covers. The shielding is made by fusing coal ions to plastic casing. It turns out the material is tough, smooth, biodegradable and doesn’t attract dirt… all qualities I flaunt when talking to the ladies, but I digress.
This would help out any chronic phone droppers. As for phone misplacers, sorry, no Nokia LoJack yet. No word on when the new casing is expected to make it into user hands but lets cross our fingers and hope it’s soon. Hit the jump for more information on the process being used.
This concept, being called the “Achieve”, isn’t actually a product…yet, but it does show the direction Nokia could be heading. The functionality and interface seem to be calling out the iPhone, although this may just be well placed/timed to take some of Apple’s thunder. The fact of the matter is that this is just a concept, and it has nothing on Apple’s product that is already preparing for release.
