Nokia World 2008

Nokia world starts off with a big green carpet bang! All the top are here and everyone is talking about the N97, slide screen, every detail such as the orange around the camera protective lense, the touch screen, the hinge everyone is talking about. This is really the season for talking about mobile mapping, advertising, green eco moves by the company globally, new improvements in mobile email and messaging, my top model friend renata came with me to the private dinner with nokia france (that was so cool to finally have a model friend come into this techy world), lost luggage by vueling, relentless tracking of it by the beautiful art hotel with an amazing view. I had a great day with the lovely and intelligent, Darla Mack, and bugged a lot of people about women and mobile...:D I'm meeting a lot of great new people and the wifi is holding up. The press one on one's with the top people in the company is really interesting. I was with the social media group for some meetings and will post the videos tomorrow. I got to talk to the nokia share guy about why sixapart states on it's website that it's compatible with share--and it doesn't work--plus in v3 of share it's not possible to imput your own servers like in v2. hopefully he will find out why they took it out and get it put back in :)

everyone is talking about the hinge on the N97. everyone is talking about the touch screen. it's a slim phone and comes in white and black. every curve on it's shape has a reason and a rhyme for being there such as the raised area on the back cover so that you can grip it easily for taking photos in your right hand. the carl zeis lense got a cover back on it after the N96. this phone is the phone that conjurs up the image of a 30 something startup exec sitting at a table in the morning with his coffe and a briosch reading this feeds for the day and getting his news from the curved up hinged design. they say it's a blogger, multimedia phone, but it seems to be more ready to let you read information or watch internet videos, yet it has a 5 mega pixel camera and facebook, ovi, maps, email, feeds, widgets, inside it's touch vga screen.

ps. the backchannels and the twittering is cool. what i miss right now is the great LEIKI software of the past that helped me meet and make appointments during the event. this time around i'm just meeting people by chance. with the LEIKI software is was really great to figure out who to meet of the participants, and the mobile calendar application where you could plan your sessions was fantastic. no one on the twitter or the chat channel could tell me if nokia world had a mobile website this year. it seems that they are all used to getting the regular web on their mini computers. even if wap site days are over, the calendar was really helpful, with the possibility to build your own personalized schedule at the event and the LEIKI intelligent networking tool was truely missed. lets see whom else i will meet at this event!