Nokia is coming to your city – Ready. Set {Code}

pkrass | 08 February, 2012 21:59

Nokia is on tour with Mobile Monday Americas, and we want to meet you. We are bringing our developer program, apps, smartphones and experts to your U.S. city. Get exclusive, hands-on time with Nokia’s latest Windows Phones – the Nokia Lumia range. You will hear about plans for the U.S. market, and learn about Nokia’s continuing commitment to mobile apps and developers, including seeding thousands of new phones to developers, along with access to the best tools, support and training.

“We want developers to unleash their creative forces and build an experience – not just an app – to bring smartphones to life for brands and consumers,” said Chanse Arrington, Nokia’s Head of Developer Marketing, North America.

As the winner of the Best Smartphone of CES with the forthcoming Nokia Lumia 900 for AT&T, Nokia is back in the smartphone business and investing heavily in the U.S. market. With our new phones, carrier partners, and the WP7 platform, Nokia has opened vast new opportunities for developers.

Come see us in your city and bring your questions, suggestions, and app ideas. Here’s where you will find the Nokia Developer Mobile Monday Americas over next few months:

- Chicago: March 19
- New York City: March 26
- Silicon Valley: April 16
- Boston: April 23
- Austin: April 30

We look forward to seeing you at one of these exciting Mobile Monday events, and we will update this calendar as more events are scheduled.

 

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Focus your creativity at Photo Hack Day 2 in New York

kevinSharp | 08 February, 2012 18:35

If you have a great idea for an app that plays with images in fun and useful ways, there's a hackathon coming up that is built for you. Our good friends at Aviary are hosting the Photo Hack Day 2 in New York City 25-26 February, and we’re excited to be the headline sponsor. Aviary is the company behind the incredibly powerful but simple photo editor which can be embedded in any web or mobile app for a beautiful, seamless editing experience wherever you are. If you can join us in New York, you'll be among the first developers to use a pre-release version of the new Aviary SDK for Windows Phone 7.

Almost all the ingredients for some great hacks await you in New York.

  • Our award-winning Nokia Windows Phone 7 smartphones, like the Nokia Lumia 800 and the Nokia Lumia 900 which won 13 awards at the International Consumer Electronics Show last month, feature Carl Zeiss optics to produce some of the best photo and video images.
  • The Aviary APIs allow you to build world-class image editing right into the experience of your mobile app.
  • The Aviary SDK for Windows Phone 7 makes its preview at the hack day, bringing the power of the Aviary APIs to the productivity of Visual Studio.

The combination of this SDK, the great user experience that Windows Phone 7 OS provides and the best in class hardware from Nokia should result in some amazing apps. All that's missing is you, your skills, and your creativity. We’re looking to you to hack together some kick-ass apps that make your friends and family go “wow”!  We’ll provide Nokia Lumia 800 smartphones as prizes to the top two teams who create Windows Phone 7 apps using the Aviary SDK for Windows Phone 7.

The hacking is happening at General Assembly, a great location for hosting events in New York City.  Bill Perry from Nokia and an expert team from Microsoft will be there to answer questions about Nokia’s latest smartphones, imaging, and designing apps using the Metro UI.

Need inspiration? How about these starter ideas:

  • Integrate device sensors with the APIs to manipulate photos and create unique images.
  • Create a game where players manipulate a shared image.
  • Give a pic special meaning by adding signposts, weather effects, or something else derived from the time and place where the user snapped it.

If you need more inspiration, take a look at the other great APIs with expert support at the event. We look forward to seeing what you hack together during this 24 hour event.

 

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Make free advertising banners for your apps

pkrass | 08 February, 2012 18:30

How would you like a fast, easy, and free way to create online advertising banners for your app that you can use on the Windows Phone Marketplace and Nokia Store? Nokia’s updated Online Marketing Tool can do just that.

To create your own professional-looking online advertising banners, all you do is provide your app’s URL in either the Nokia Store or Windows Phone Marketplace, and then the online tool will take you through the remaining steps, including auto-filling in details like the app name, category and price.

You will have the opportunity to select from several options to customize the look of your banners, including banner size, application icon, compatible phones (including the new Nokia Asha and Nokia Lumia series), copy text and screenshots. Then the Online Marketing Tool does the rest. It first displays a preview of your banner. Then, once you’re ready, the tool quickly creates your banners for easy downloading and can produce banners in standard formats and sizes for placement on the web or mobile.

Also, because the Online Marketing Tool supports applications from around the globe, it also supports multiple language variations.

It is also worth noting that you can use the Online Marketing Tool to update your older Ovi-branded banners. As you are probably aware, Nokia no longer supports the old Ovi Store brand; instead, the company now supports the Nokia Store brand. So if your advertising banners still read ‘Ovi Store’, now is the time to use the Online Marketing Tool to update your banners.

Start creating -- and updating -- your own online advertising banners to promote your apps now.

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