Have You Experienced Forum Nokia’s User Experience Service?

pkrass | 23 July, 2010 17:10

Mobile developers can now have their apps evaluated by Forum Nokia user experience (UX) experts and partners, who use mobile usability heuristics and Nokia’s own UX Evaluation Model. For a reasonable fee, developers can receive a written evaluation that clearly identifies and illustrates any UX issues, then provides clear suggestions for how the issues can be resolved. Developers can also receive end-user feedback to their apps thanks to Forum Nokia partner Mob4Hire, which has access to some 45,000 mobile users in 150 countries.

Six mobile developers recently had their apps evaluated by Forum Nokia UX experts and real-world end users; then they used the feedback to improve their apps. Case studies of these six developers have just been published on the Forum Nokia site. The case studies cover the six developers' apps (five of which are now offered on Nokia's Ovi Store): Earthcomber, MakeMyTrip, Mobile Documents, Shazam, Speedhero, and TuneWiki.

Explore Forum Nokia’s UX services today.

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Forum Nokia VP Named a ‘Top Woman in Wireless’

pkrass | 20 July, 2010 20:22

Purnima Kochikar, VP of Forum Nokia, has been named to the 2010 Top Women in Wireless list compiled by Fierce Developer. The 10 women on this year’s list were selected for their accomplishments, technical savvy, leadership, and influence on the industry, the publication says. Kochikar joined Nokia in 2003 and has held several positions in both consumer and enterprise products. She was appointed to her current position about a year ago. Congratulations, Purnima!

Meet the 2010 Top Women in Wireless.


Watch a video of Purnima Kochikar introducing the new and improved Forum Nokia community.

 

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Podcast: Using the Ovi App Wizard

pkrass | 13 July, 2010 19:01

In a new Forum Nokia podcast, Forum Nokia Champions Dale Rankine and Alessandro Pace discuss their recent experience using the new Ovi app wizard tool to create mobile apps for use on Nokia devices. The Ovi app wizard tool lets anyone -- even those without programming experience -- create mobile apps quickly, easily, and at no cost.

Listen to Part 1 of the podcast

Listen to Part 2 of the podcast.

 

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This Champion of the Month has a P2P Outlook

pkrass | 06 July, 2010 16:53

Gergely Csúcs, Forum Nokia’s Champion of the Month for July, is a Zurich, Switzerland-baed electrical engineer. While Gergely jokes that he has a ‘fading knowledge about wires’, the Forum Nokia community knows him for his extensive knowledge about Symbian mobile software development. In fact, Gergely is well known for his work in mobile peer-to-peer (P2P) file transfer, information retrieval, and energy-saving techniques in cooperative wireless networks. He has also co-authored the chapters of several books on mobile development. To share his knowledge with the Forum Nokia community, Gergely appears on the discussion boards as wizard_hu, and he has helped many developers keep their projects on schedule.

 

Meet Forum Nokia Champion Gergely Csúcs.

Explore the Forum Nokia Champion program.

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Important Update for Developers Using the Nokia Qt SDK Beta and Qt Mobility 1.0.0 APIs for Symbian

pkrass | 01 July, 2010 19:46

Developers who have used the Nokia Qt SDK beta to create Symbian apps that use the 1.0.0 Qt mobility APIs must repackage their apps with the 1.0.1 version of the mobility APIs. Nokia has discovered a deficiency in the 1.0.0 APIs that causes apps to crash when devices are updated to a later version of the Qt libraries. Fortunately, Nokia caught the deficiency at an early stage, and very few apps and developers are affected. The issue applies only to Symbian and only to applications that use and are packaged with the 1.0.0 Mobility APIs. The deficiency has been fixed in both the 1.0.1 APIs and the Nokia Qt SDK version 1.0.

Any developer now using the beta version of the Nokia Qt SDK for Symbian should move to the 1.0 version. Developers who used the Nokia Qt SDK beta for Maemo, however, do not need to repackage their apps, although they may wish to move to the SDK 1.0 version to keep current. Also, to protect consumers, Nokia will soon introduce a mechanism for Ovi that detects which mobility APIs are bundled with a submitted app. Once the mechanism is in place, apps with the 1.0.0 mobility APIs will not be accepted by Ovi, and developers will be instructed to repackage their apps with the 1.0.1 mobility APIs.

Read more about this issue on the Qt Labs blog.

Download Nokia Qt SDK 1.0.

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Java Verified Program Updates Status, Adds Developer Resources

pkrass | 01 July, 2010 16:44

The Unified Testing Initiative (UTI), home to the Java Verified program, has become an independent, not-for-profit industry association run by AT&T, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Oracle, Orange, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Vodafone. At the same time, it has launched the Java Verified Submission Portal, released an online Table of Supported Devices, and launched Simple App Testing to gain Java Verified endorsement cost-effectively. These ‘simple’ apps, which account for the majority of mobile apps offered, are those that do not require midlet permissions.
 
Explore the new Java Verified program.

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