UPDATE: Video is now live. Check it out after the jump!
We love the Parrot AR Drone indoor chopper, which can be controlled via an iPhone, Android or Symbian phone. Add Meego to that list today too: today at Nokia World, scientists at the Nokia Research Centre showed off the app running on a Nokia N9, all in the name of indoor GPS.
Considering Nokia is now backing Windows Phone and only Windows Phone, we must say its staff continue to do a sterling job of supporting the wonderful N9 and its MeeGo OS. Case in point: it’s even crafted a Spotify app for the Nokia N9 in partnership with the Swedish start-up, complete with offline caching and 3G streaming. It looks, as you’d expect, delicious.
The Spotify Nokia N9 app is in the Ovi Store now and free for Premium subscribers, but really, we have to wonder. Where is the Windows Phone app? Spotify says it’s coming – it already supports the older Windows Mobile – but perhaps it could have got Nokia staff to lend a hand with that platform instead.
I’ve just played Angry Birds. On a candy bar phone. A Series 40 candy bar phone.
Today, Nokia didn’t just join the Windows Phone brigade: it killed off the term “smartphone” once and for all. And I for one, couldn’t be happier.
We’ve just got up close and personal with the Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone here at Nokia World in London, where CEO Stephen Elop described it as the first “real Windows Phone” – a slap in the mouth for HTC, Samsung and LG. But after playing with it today, we’re inclined to agree.
Here it is folks, the new Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone, or as Nokia CEO Stephen Elop puts it, the first “real Windows Phone”. It’s not exactly been a secret these last few months, but now we’ve got the precise details on it. As expected, it adopts an almost identical shell to the doomed but wonderful Nokia N9, made out of machined polycarbonate, and sports a 3.7-inch Clear Black AMOLED screen, 1.4GHz processor and 16GB of internal storage.
Sure, we’ve been coming to Nokia World for years, but never has it meant quite so much as today. At 9am on Wednesday 26 October, Nokia boss Stephen Elop will lay all his cards on the table, likely unveiling one or more new Nokia Windows Phone handsets. And guess what? We’ll be covering it live as it happens.
We’re here at the Excel Centre in London’s docklands for the next two days and justnabbed front row seats, so stay tuned on the homepage for all the latest straight out of Espoo.
