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Nokia with Windows Phone is here with a brilliant and stylish range of four phones, including the latest: Nokia Lumia 610 smartphone.
Shipping in over 35 countries, and coming to more markets every month, these phones are complimented by unprecedented retail support and aggressive consumer marketing campaigns: You will be seeing more of Nokia with Windows Phone in new markets, every day.
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Developers from around the world are increasingly publishing apps for Windows Phones including the Nokia Lumia smartphones, with more than 65,000 apps already in Windows Phone Marketplace. So the time to take your opportunity is now: Create apps and games to take advantage of a diverse and vibrant new market of smartphone consumers.
Using proven development tools and imaginative new capabilities — such as the Metro UI, Hubs, and Live Tiles — you can create
amazing experiences that will become part of everyday life for millions of smartphone users. Then deliver your apps to customers
through Windows Phone Marketplace.
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Match’em Poker Example App
El Mundo and Orbyt: Powered by Windows Phone
Nokia Developers on the Microsoft Partnership
Nokia Developer Projects: Surveillance Camera apps
Voddler: Powered by Nokia with Windows Phone
Pah!: Powered by Nokia with Windows Phone
Nokia Reading: Lumia 900 hands on demo with Jim McKenzie
El País: Powered by Windows Phone
Goal.com: Powered by Windows Phone
Match’em Poker Example App
Match'em Poker is 'match 3' style game: Against the clock, players switch cards on a grid to form different poker hands. Originally developed for iOS, the game has been ported to Qt and Windows Phone. The objective of the porting projects was to keep the app changes and therefore effort to a minimum: Reusing all of the original assets and modifying the code as little as possible. The ports were achieved to Qt using Qt GameEnabler and Windows Phone using XNA. As such, these ports demonstrate an efficient way to implement a sprite-based 2D game using custom animations with Open GL ES 2.0.
El Mundo and Orbyt: Powered by Windows Phone
Launched two years ago by Spain's El Mundo, Orbyt offers digital news content to consumers on a variety of platforms, including a new app for Nokia Lumia smartphones. According to Enrique Rivas, Product Manager of Unidad Editorial, individuals can download the newspaper that they want to read in one minute, and then enjoy the content wherever they are, even without an internet connection.
Nokia Developers on the Microsoft Partnership
Recorded at the Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona, these are the candid reactions of developers to the announcement of the Nokia Microsoft partnership. The developers talk about the impact of the news, and the effect it will have on their immediate and long term plans.
Nokia Developer Projects: Surveillance Camera apps
This Surveillance Camera example project demonstrates the use of Nokia's Notifications API. The Notifications API enables you add real-time push notification features to your apps. This example consists of two mobile apps: A Windows Phone Silverlight application uses the Service API to send push notifications to a Qt Quick app on a Symbian smartphone. The Qt application receives alert notifications from the Silverlight application when movement is detected.
Voddler: Powered by Nokia with Windows Phone
Anders Sjoman, VP of Communications at Voddler talks about the company and its app. Voddler provides users with streamed movies and TV shows to their desktop and mobile. The new Voddler application for Nokia Lumia smartphones provides users with the ability to create 'movie nights', where they can invite friends to watch a movie or TV show in person or at the same time virtually. Anders states that, 'Voddler blends the whole idea of movie experience online with the power of a phone'.
Pah!: Powered by Nokia with Windows Phone
Yosi Taguri, CEO of Labgoo gives us a demo of their latest application, Pah! Pah! is a game that is completely voice activated. By shouting and make various noises you guide your ship through each of the levels shooting anything that gets in your way. Yosi states that their app is installed on around 1 million devices across various platforms.
Nokia Reading: Lumia 900 hands on demo with Jim McKenzie
Jim McKenzie, Head of Store Merchandising in the Entertainment Group at Nokia gives a demo of the new Nokia Reading app, which is being pre-loaded on the Nokia Lumia 900 in France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain, and the UK. This app fronts a service that enables users to read e-books and listen to audio books, as well as read RSS feeds.
El País: Powered by Windows Phone
El País is Spain’s leading newspaper, with 400,000 copies printed weekly and two million unique users online every day. ‘From the development experience, we realised [we could deliver] a more homogeneous user experience by leveraging the functionality that Windows Phone [enables] within the development kit,’ says Jesús Moreno, Digital Content Director for El País. The paper’s Windows Phone app uses the Metro panorama to make news stories and sections easy to browse. Users can pin sections to their home screen as a Live Tile and keep up with the latest stories. ‘We are very happy with the final application,’ says Moreno. ‘It’s a very clean, efficient, and practical-to-use.’
Goal.com: Powered by Windows Phone
Goal.com is the world’s largest football portal; available in 15 languages and 22 editions. ‘The mobile experience for Goal.com fans is actually incredibly important — it's all about up-to-date information and scores,’ says Daryn Wober, Head of Global Business Development for Perform, which owns Goal.com. The Windows Phone app makes full use of the Metro UI and Live Tiles, including one for the main Goal.com content, the English Premier League, and team-specific tiles. Daryn notes that the benefits of working with Nokia and Microsoft are ‘a combination of the platform itself, the potential reach, and the commercial opportunities it brought to us as a business.’
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Nokia 800C takes Nokia Lumia to China
Announced jointly with China Telecom, the Nokia 800C is the first CDMA Windows Phone in China and was Nokia's first Lumia
product for the world's largest smartphone market. The Nokia 800C ships complete with the latest update to Windows Phone 7.5,
and is tailored to the Chinese market with apps for local social networks Sina Weibo, QQ, and Renren, as well as offering
China Telecom services. As the world's largest CDMA operator, China Telecom is a key partner in further accelerating Nokia
Lumia volumes.
The Nokia 800C is shipping now.
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The Nokia Lumia 610 — brings Windows Phone to a larger audience
The Nokia Lumia 610 is built on a new software release from Microsoft that delivers enhanced capabilities to the Windows Phone
7.5 platform. This new release provides support for lower memory and processor requirements, while still delivering the same
great experience. As the most affordable Lumia smartphone yet, and being aimed at a larger audience, the Nokia Lumia 610 opens
up new opportunities for your apps.
Explore Nokia Lumia 610's specs ›
The Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Update offers features designed to help you create apps for the Nokia Lumia 610. New APIs and
tools will enable you to configure and test your app against the specification of the latest Windows Phone devices.
Download the Windows Phone SDK 7.1.1 Update ›
Get tips on developing you apps and content for the latest Lumia smartphones ›
Windows Phone Marketplace is also expanding, to help connect you with customers in the new markets the Nokia Lumia 610 is
opening.
More about the new markets and opportunities ›
Create experiences that will amaze
The Nokia Lumia family of phones pair iconic Nokia hardware design with the unique Windows Phone people-centric experience
and dynamic content. Rather than a pure iconographic approach, Windows Phone delivers an infographic experience: Hubs and
Live Tiles show users up-to-the-minute status information delivered by push notifications naturally and easily. Better still,
all this information is integrated seamlessly across functions. Within the app UI the unique features of Metro, such as panorama,
create opportunities to rethink UX then deliver fresh, new experiences to your customers.
Explore Metro UI for Windows Phone ›
Proven, trusted tools from Microsoft
Use the proven C# and XAML frameworks to build applications for the Nokia Lumia family of smartphones. If games are your interest
then rich graphical experiences on Windows Phone — as well as Xbox — are created using XNA Studio.
If you are into web-based development, Windows Phone 7.5 comes with the improved IE9 browser which offers you the ability
to deliver rich HTML5 services.
Get started with Windows Phone tools ›
Bring your Qt apps to Windows Phone
Your Qt apps for Symbian and the Nokia N9 smartphone can be ported to phones in the Nokia Lumia family. If you're ready to
take your Qt app to Windows Phone, all the information you need to get your app onto Nokia Lumia smartphones is available
in the Nokia Developer Porting section.
To help you get up to speed quickly, Nokia and Microsoft have created a porting guide with a comprehensive comparison of Qt and Windows Phone development. The API mapping tool helps you easily find the Windows
Phone APIs equivalent to each Qt API you used in your app.
The Nokia Developer porting guide has practical examples of how to port Qt to Windows Phone, with practical demonstrations and code examples.
More about porting on the Microsoft website ›
Visit the Nokia Developer porting guide ›
Explore the porting examples ›
