Get ready to learn and win

For the next three months, you could be among the lucky participants in Nokia Developer webinars who receive a free Nokia Asha 311 phone or accessory.

To be eligible, all you need to do is register for a Nokia Developer webinar held during October, November or December of this year; attend the webinar, either live or on-demand; and fill out a follow-up survey form that will be emailed to you. If selected, you could win a Nokia Asha 311 phone, Nokia Portable USB Charger, Purity HD Headset, Nokia Play 360 Wireless Speaker, or Essence Headset.

Whether you walk away with a prize or not, developing apps and content for Nokia Series 40 phones is a winning proposition. By distributing your content on Nokia Store, you reach more than 120 million consumers in over 190 countries. These consumers are currently downloading apps and content at a rate of 15 million downloads a day, and 42 per cent of the most recent billion downloads from Nokia Store were for Series 40 phones.

Speaking of Nokia Store and Series 40 phones, you can learn the ins and outs with a series of free Nokia Developer webinars coming soon:

Would you like to know how to make money with free apps? Then don’t miss How to Make Money with Free Apps. There will be two sessions. Session 1 speakers will include Alexey Sazonov of HeroCraft, who will describe how his company – which has achieved more than 50 million downloads – monetises its free games with in-app purchasing and in-app advertising.

Session 2 of this webinar will include a representative from Twist Mobile, which has achieved more than 16 million downloads in just eight months, describing how the company uses  in-app advertising to monetise its free apps.

  • Session 1: 2 October; 8 a.m. San Francisco; 10 a.m. Mexico City; 4 p.m. London
  • Session 2: 3 October; 8 a.m. London; 12:30 p.m. New Delhi; 3 p.m. Singapore

If you are still thinking of joining the Series 40 community, another webinar is just for you: UI Design for Porting from Android to Series 40 full touch. This webinar will present techniques for adapting and optimising your Android application for Series 40 full touch. Also featured will be exercises and a follow-up treatment in a Nokia Developer Wiki article. Two sessions have been arranged for you convenience:

  • Session 1: 4 October; 8 a.m. San Francisco; 10 a.m. Mexico City; 4 p.m. London.
  • Session 2, 10 October; 8 a.m. London; 12:30 p.m. New Delhi; 3 p.m. Singapore.

Learn to work with the Lightweight User Interface Tool in another webinar, LWUIT for Series 40 Java Development. Held on 8 October at 8 a.m. London; 12:30 p.m. New Delhi; and 3 p.m. Singapore, this webinar will include a discussion of a programming paradigm similar to Swing. (If you don’t know what Swing means, don’t worry; we’ll cover that in the presentation.)

Nokia Web Tools 2.0 is the subject of another free webinar this month. Developing Series 40 Web Apps with Nokia Web Tools 2.0 will be held on 11 October at 8 a.m. San Francisco; 10 a.m. Mexico City; and 4 p.m. London. Michael Samarin from Futurice will show you how to develop for the new Nokia Asha phones with a full-touch UI. He will also provide an overview of new templates and code samples.

Looking for more? Check out the full descriptions of all topics on our webinars page.

Join us at JavaOne!

Nokia will be well-represented at the Oracle® JavaOne™ conference next week, and we’ll be speaking at four of the conference sessions on a variety of topics. Additionally, Futurice, who you may recognize from some of our training webinars, will share their knowledge in three sessions related to Mobile Java App development.

At each of these sessions, we’ll be giving away a Nokia Bluetooth headset or Asha 303 to the two attendees with the best questions. And session participants can also get a USB stick with the latest Nokia SDK for Java and loads of training and design resources.

If you’re going to be in town for the conference, be sure to register for the sessions you’re interested in at the links below:

  • Session CON4925: The Right Platform with the Right Technology for Huge Markets with Many Opportunities
  • Session CON11253: In-App Purchasing for Java ME Apps
  • Session BOF4747: Look Again: Java ME’s New Horizons of User Experience, Service Model, and Internet Innovation
  • Session BOF12804: Reach the Next Billion with Engaging Apps: Nokia Asha Full Touch for Java ME Developers
  • Session CON6664: Java for Mobile Devices: New Horizons with Fantastic New Devices
  • Session CON6494: Extreme Mobile Java Performance Tuning, User Experience, and Architecture
  • Session BOF6556: Mobile Java App Innovation in Nigeria

Hope you can join us!

Demo your app @ Mobile Monday Silicon Valley, Boston or Austin

Nokia Lumia 900 ATT smallIf you are in the US and have a cool Windows Phone app, we want to help you show it off to hundreds of people at a Mobile Monday event.

If you have a unique, cool, or downright amazing app, tell us about it for a chance to join us at the upcoming Mobile Monday event in your area. Mobile Monday is a global organization that brings together the mobile community in cities around the world.

We are sponsoring Mobile Monday events in Silicon Valley, Boston and Austin this month. Along with demos of our latest smartphones – including the award-winning Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone – we will pick several developers to show how apps become amazing experiences on Nokia devices and the Windows Phone platform.

Here is when Nokia Developer will be at a Mobile Monday near you:

Mobile Monday Silicon Valley  – April 16th
Mobile Monday Boston  – April 23rd
Mobile Monday Austin – April 30th


How to be part of the Mobile Monday showcase:

  1. Have an app that works on a Nokia Lumia Windows Phone device
  2. Send the following brief details via e-mail to nokiadeveloper@thelucidway.com
  • Your name, company and contact information (include your e-mail and phone)
  • A link to your app in Windows Phone Marketplace, or link to the private beta of your app in Windows Phone Marketplace
  • A brief description and any screenshots of your app
  • Why your app is amazing, cool, or unique

Selected developers will be notified seven days prior to the event. That’s it. We look forward to seeing you at Mobile Monday later this month!


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