About Mikael Stendahl - Head of Partner and Developer Relations, North Europe

Head of Partner and Developer Relations, North Europe

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

Posted on January 25, 2013 by Mikael Stendahl - Head of Partner and Developer Relations, North Europe

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 >

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

Posted on January 8, 2013 by Mikael Stendahl - Head of Partner and Developer Relations, North Europe

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

Posted on January 8, 2013 by Mikael Stendahl - Head of Partner and Developer Relations, North Europe

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!

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

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Mikael Stendahl - Head of Partner and Developer Relations, North Europe

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!

Great offer from Slush & Garage48

Posted on November 12, 2012 by Mikael Stendahl - Head of Partner and Developer Relations, North Europe

Nokia is part of Slush Helsinki again this year, and this time it is combined with the Garage48 hackathon event. The Garage48 team decided to offer you a chance to join both events for reduced price.

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Have you updated your Windows Phone App geographical distribution?

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Mikael Stendahl - Head of Partner and Developer Relations, North Europe

Did you know that when the Windows Phone Marketplace opens up in new countries, your app does not automatically get distributed there unless you log in to App Hub and update your app.

I would suggest that you check you country distribution from time to time to ensure that you reach the maximum number of Windows Phone users, especially if you app is globally relevant.

Please note, that even if you originally selected “Worldwide”, you still need to reselect this when new countries are added.

For more info, have a look over here: http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2012/03/15/app-hub-accepting-submissions-for-new-markets-soon.aspx

Pico Brothers – new members of the 100-million club!

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Mikael Stendahl - Head of Partner and Developer Relations, North Europe

Last week we told you about UTV Indiagames and their great achievement of reaching 100 million downloads from Nokia Store. Now they are accompanied by our Nordic friends Pico Brothers, who just recently also joined the exclusive 100-million club.

With great apps like Youtube Downloader and Milk the Cow, the Pico Brothers surely lives up to their motto of making mobile phones more fun.

The guys behind Pico Brothers are Niklas Karlström and Kristian Engsjö (and also their dog Viggo). Pico Brothers have been developing great apps for Nokia Store for several years now, and have recently also started developing for Windows Phone, so be sure to check out their apps on Marketplace as well.

We congratulate Pico Brothers for reaching this milestone and look forward to more amazing apps that will make our devices more fun to use!

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