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Nokia Asha deep dives

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Next week, we are hosting invitation-only training on the new Nokia Asha software platform 1.0 at our headquarters in Finland. If you will not be joining us in person, you are invited to join us online. There will be two deep-dive sessions covering the Nokia Asha UI. Both sessions will be presented by UX expert Jan Krebber, and both sessions will be broadcast live from the training sessions held at Nokia House in Espoo. We will have a dedicated online host, so any questions you ask during the session will be answered.

You can attend either of these 3-hour deep dive webinars separately, but you will learn more if you attend both. And don’t worry, Jan will provide a break half-way through each three-hour session!

Join the first webinar, ‘Deep dive into Nokia Asha UI design: fundamentals’, on 29 May at: 7 a.m. London; 9 a.m. Helsinki; 11:30 a.m. New Delhi; 2 p.m. Singapore

Join the second webinar, ‘Deep dive into Nokia Asha UI: designing apps’, on 29 May at: 7 a.m. London; 9 a.m. Helsinki; 11:30 a.m. New Delhi; 2 p.m. Singapore

Join us at WIMA NFC in Monaco next week

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Attending WIMA NFC Monaco on 10-12 April? Then visit our booth, hear us speak, and join us for a special Nokia Developer workshop on Nokia Lumia near field communications (NFC). You could win one of the special prizes we’ll be giving away. And you can enjoy some of the special developer discounts we’re offering for WIMA admission.

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Your New Year’s resolution: Learn and win more with the Series 40 webinars.

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Your New Year’s resolution: Learn and win more with the Series 40 webinars.

You already know that we’re pumping up our Series 40 webinar offering for 2013, but now we can reveal that we’re also creating new possibilities to learn and win. While we’re continuing with the monthly draw, which is now for two Series 40 phones and associated goodies each month, we’ll also be rewarding contributions to the Nokia Developer wiki and the best Series 40 apps and games created by webinar attendees.

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Come and meet Andy Tjin from the Nokia HERE team at FINHTML5

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FINHTML5 lights up January with an event experience shaping the future of digital services. Some of the brightest tech leaders, visionaries, designers and hard core hackers will share their experience and vision for creating services for the multiscreen era on January 24th!

Andy Tjin, Head of Mobile HTML5 works in the Location & Commerce business at Nokia. This business unit aims to build and monetize unique location experiences for great mobile products, as well as the navigation industry, the automotive market and government and business solutions under the name HERE.

Andy will discuss the real life challenges, trade-offs and victories in creating a large scale, state-of-the-art mapping service for iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8 and Firefox OS devices.

Below are some quick specs for the event:

  • A great mix of tech leaders, visionaries, designers and hard core hackers in the speaker lineup
  • People who’ve really made it big time in the HTML5 space, including Andrew Betts from Financial Times, FT-Labs and Brian LeRoux, the father of Phonegap.

Focus

  • Creating fabulous services for the multiscreen era
  • How HTML5  is one of the main building blocks for building experiences today and tomorrow
  • What HTML5 actually is and isn’t
  • How are we stepping away from platform silos towards having your services available everywhere at all times

For more details, please check out the event page http://finhtml5.fi/

Come and meet Lucian Tomuta from Nokia at INTERGAME 2013 in Tallinn

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INTERGAME 2013 is a conference and exhibition of key game industry actors that are interested in cooperation, exploring new opportunities and exhibiting latest products. The conference will take place in Tallinn, Estonia on January 31st – February 2nd.

Lucian Tomuta from our Developer Experience team will join the conference and speak about “Game development for Windows Phone 8″. Check out the agenda here.

Nokia will also support the Pitch Contest, which is your chance to demonstrate your innovative ideas in front of a group of venture investors.

We hope to see you there!

Learn and win prize winners for November

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Congratulations to our November Learn and Win prize winners!

Our 14 winners attended Nokia Developer webinars during November and answered a test question in our follow-up survey. The winners are:

* Ron Hardy of the USA will receive a sweet Nokia Asha 311.

* Adrian Stoicuţa of Romania will receive an equally sweet Nokia Asha 306. Adrian is a two-time winner, having also won a Nokia DC-16 Portable Charger in October.

* Atifa Perveen of Pakistan won a Nokia DC-16 Portable USB Charger.

* Henry Jr. of the Philippines won a Nokia WH-930 Purity Stereo Headset.

* Nokia Asha lanyards with Asha 4Gb USB sticks loaded with S40 tools and training material were awarded to: Ventsislav Ivanov, Kapila Nissanka, Maurilio Silva, Muhammad Ahmmad, Taneung, Vinodh Kumar Raju, Shintu Dhang, Zacharia Mwangi, happyDrim, and Vitali Reif.

‘It’s nice to be rewarded for participating in something as fun, educational, and inspirational as your Nokia webinars’, says winner Ron Hardy. ‘I will put my prize to good use and enjoy it often.’

You still could be a winner. The contest has one more month to go, and we will give away more Nokia Asha phones and accessories. To enter, register for any full-hour Nokia Developer webinar during December, attend the webinar, and then complete a follow-up survey with the correct answer drawn from the session you attended.

HO HO! X-mas Hackathon for Nokia Lumia and Asha in Finland, December 18-19th

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It’s time to wrap up some apps and get them ready for the holidays!

The HO HO! X-mas Hackathon is a two-day event for Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, and Nokia Asha app creation. There will be consultations with Nokia and Microsoft experts, presentations about Windows 8, Windows Phone  8, and Asha development, and, most importantly, plenty of time to hack. Have an app on another platform? Port it to Windows or Series 40. Or start from scratch and build something great for the season and beyond.

There will be Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 tracks in Turku, Tampere, and Oulu, andt he Tampere event will have an additional track covering the Series 40/Asha Java apps. Series 40 is the most widely used mobile platform in the world. The latest full touch Series 40 phones bring a smartphone experience to the mass market, complementing the range of Series 40 phones that deliver many mobile consumers their first internet experience.

Details of the Microsoft Windows 8 Windows Phone 8 side are on the Microsoft Hackathon site. For details about the Series 40 Asha part,check the Tampere Hermia Hackathon page.

For direct links to the registration pages, please follow the links below:

Oulu: http://www.interestid.com/welcome/default/event_basics/20
Turku: http://www.lyyti.fi/ilmoittaudu/HO_HO_HO_Xmas_Hackathon_6916
Tampere: http://www.hermia.fi/windows-8-x-mas-hackathon

Have fun!

Announcing the Nokia and Microsoft Midnight Developer challenge

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Attention, student developers in the Middle East and Africa: Nokia has teamed up with Microsoft to launch the Midnight Developer Challenge, and this is your chance to prove yourself and win amazing cash and prizes.

How? Team up with your mates (up to three students per team), register online between November 8th and December 1st, and develop a great app or game for the most innovative Smartphone around—the Nokia Lumia 920. The apps and games must be developed using the newly released Windows Phone 8 SDK.

The Midnight Developer challenge will also arm you with everything you need to accomplish your mission: weekly webinars and a dedicated hotline and resource center are at your disposal throughout the duration of the competition.

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The contest has two categories: Apps and Games. Each category will have two winners, with first prize being $10,000 (USD), a trip to a Nokia Global event, plus an XBOX and Lumia 920 for each team member. The second place team will receive $5,000 (USD), an XBOX and Lumia 920 per team member.

Additionally there will be a People’s Choice category, where the winner will receive $3,000 USD plus one XBOX and Lumia 920 per team member.

You want more? Your entry might also be eligible to compete in the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2013 Windows Phone challenge. No more reasons to wait!

For more information on the timeline, registration and more, please visit the event’s Facebook page: http://apps.facebook.com/midnightdeveloper/

 

 

Nokia launches new developer products at Microsoft //BUILD conference

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This is an exciting time for everyone in the Nokia developer community. Nokia has introduced a unique set of developer tools and services with the Nokia Premium Developer Program and Nokia Ad Exchange, the Windows Phone 8 SDK has arrived, and a range of new Nokia Lumia devices is starting to show up in stores!

Richard Kerris at BUILD

Last week, we were thrilled to announce our new developer tools and services at //BUILD, Microsoft’s premier developer event, to help developers build amazing apps for the Windows Phone platform.

Nokia was invited to be part of the Day 1 keynote where Richard Kerris, VP Developer Relations, announced all developers attending //BUILD would receive a Lumia 920 from Nokia. The reaction was overwhelming! Over the course of the event, we had a number of developers stop and tell us that they are excited to develop for Windows Phone 8 and impressed by our products, especially the unique design, clear display, incredible camera, and world-class maps.

Nokia also had a well-placed booth where over 1000 developers stopped by to find out more about the new Nokia Premium Developer Program, Nokia Ad Exchange and NFC. We distributed programmable NFC cards that allowed developers to literally “tap” their shiny new Lumia 920 to get more info on NFC app development.

Nokia had the privilege of presenting a tech session at BUILD. In this session, Steve Robbins, Chief Architect – Nokia Music, presented a coding session called ‘Nokia Music Windows Phone 8 App-to-App APIs ‘. You can watch this session here and download slides here. The session was well received and the coding detail was highly appreciated by the audience.

Here are some great early reactions from our loyal developers!

We’re excited too. We hope you’ll watch the videos, check out the Nokia Premium Developer Program and Nokia Ad Exchange, and blow us away with your new Windows Phone apps!

Nokia brings Asha Touch to JavaOne

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Nokia had a broad presence at this year’s JavaOne conference in San Francisco. It was an ideal place to spread the message about the opportunities offered to developers globally by Series 40 phones and in particular Nokia’s Asha Touch line – some of the world’s most affordable touch-enabled phones. In addition to getting the word out, we were very pleased that one of our developers received a Duke’s Choice Award.

Anna Zhuang and Reha Chakroborty from Nokia were joined by Marlon Luz from the Nokia Institute of Technology, and Paul Houghton and Michael Samarin from partner company Futurice.

Paul Houghton sporting one of our Asha t-shirts

Paul Houghton sporting one of our Asha t-shirts

For those new to Series 40 or mobile development in general, we offered an introduction to the Series 40 platform and its ecosystem, opportunities with Asha, and the tools we offer developers. These presentations were complemented with a couple of technical deep dive sessions on coding for Series 40, including one on the in-app purchase APIs.

In Extreme Mobile Java Performance Tuning, User Experience, and Architecture Patterns, Paul provided developers with insight into the hard-core hows and whys of interface and technical design. Making extensive use of performance benchmarks, parallel execution, and associated solution patterns from high-end consulting on several mobile Java platforms, he illustrated the right and wrong ways to make mobile services fast and reliable. For something slightly different, in Mobile Java App Innovation in Nigeria Paul highlighted 10 great mobile Java applications developed there for the local market. His insight into how development differs in emerging markets was deep and sometimes humorous.

Developers attending one of our sessions at JavaOne

Developers attending one of our sessions at JavaOne

Ram Kashyap has been one of our great supporting developers, and is the powerhouse behind the creation and success of the Student Nokia Developers network. Formed in India, the network now has 2000 members in seven countries. Suresh Chande from Nokia University Relations has been working closely with Ram to set up and grow the network. We were all very pleased then, to find that Ram was the recipient of a Duke’s Choice Award for his efforts. Suresh accepted the award on his behalf. Ram has now graduated from the People’s Education Society Institute of Technology in Bangalore, India, and is working on a Java mobile start-up and training students on Java ME, while continuing to help the Student Nokia Developer community grow across borders.

Nokia’s Suresh Chande accepting the Duke’s Choice Award on behalf of Ram Kashyap

Nokia’s Suresh Chande accepting the Duke’s Choice Award on behalf of Ram Kashyap

If you would like more background on this project, listen to the Duke’s Choice Award Winners podcast (starting at 2:40 minutes) or check out the video interview with Suresh. If you are interested in joining this group, you can find more information on their website: http://studentnokiadeveloper.com

Our presence at JavaOne reinforces Nokia’s continued commitment to Java, through affordable phones and the developer opportunities they create. We were able to meet with many developers and relay the great developer story behind Series 40. And we look forward to seeing you all at the next JavaOne.

Slides from and recordings of the sessions are available. Follow the links below, and then click the Media link in the right column of the pages to watch the video online. Alternatively, download the video and presentations from the Presentation download list.