Daily Archives: January 25, 2013

Upcoming Windows Phone events in Poland, Finland, Germany and Estonia

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The following are some of the upcoming events centered around Windows Phone. For a full list of our events, visit our events page.

Windows Phone Camp
Windows Phone Camp is a free event where you can learn everything you need to know to develop and publish a Windows Phone application. Whether you’re a student just starting out or a seasoned developer for Windows Phone, Android, Symbian, Web OS or iOS, we’ll share tips and tricks and all-around Windows Phone development know-how.

App Developer Day Phone Edition: Innovations in Windows Phone 8 for Developers
Come to this special Phone Edition event, part of the successful App Developer Days series, to educate yourself in app development for Microsoft Windows Phone 8. You’ll benefit from expert insight into the planning, design, and programming of apps for Windows Phone 8. Nokia is a co-sponsor of this free-of-charge event.

INTERGAME 2013
Mark your calendar for INTERGAME 2013, a conference and exhibition of key players in the games industry who are interested in collaborating, exploring new opportunities, and exhibiting the latest products.

The Future of IT
This event will bring together experienced IT professionals and leading IT companies in Poland, with a focus on recruitment and business-development strategy. The event will feature business presentations as well as substantive talks conducted by experts. Among the participating companies will be Nokia and Microsoft, covering Nokia Lumia phones and Microsoft Windows and Windows Phone 8.

Sanoma Group report on Finland: “Lumia became more popular than Android, and reached the popularity of the iPhone.”

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Check out the latest news from, Sanoma Group, one of the largest media companies in Finland. They just came out with an interesting press release for those of you who are interested in evaluating the business case for developing on Windows Phone.

A couple of highlights from a Nokia perspecitve:

“Nokia is a favourite among Finns

The visitor statistics of Sanoma online services also indicate changes in the popularity of mobile devices. It seems that Finns really embraced Nokia Lumia last year.

”Sanoma’s network and number of mobile visitors indicates that the total traffic from Lumia phones exceeded that from Android phones in the summer and it also reached the traffic level of the iPhone at year-end,” says Anders Stenbäck, Director of Sanoma’s digital partnerships.

In the autumn, Sanoma and Nokia launched co-operation through which new Lumia phones have Helsingin Sanomat and Ilta-Sanomat apps pre-installed.

“The co-operation with Nokia has been productive and it has also clearly increased the number of users of our Windows apps. Finland still remains Nokialand,” says Stenbäck.”

Check out the full press release here >