My Nokia Blog

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• Avanade and Nokia to bring packaged WP8 Nokia Lumia devices devices and apps to enterprise customers
• Video: Fruit Ninja with a Knife and Nokia Lumia 920
• Nokia Time Warp: 7650 & 9000 Communicator
• First impressions: Lumia 920
• AT&T announces Record Q4 Smartphone Sales, hopefully some decent Nokia Lumia performance
• NokConv: Nokia powers up CES 2013 #NokiaPoweredMeUp

Avanade and Nokia to bring packaged WP8 Nokia Lumia devices devices and apps to enterprise customers Posted: 09 Jan 2013 12:42 PM PST Avanade (majority owned by Accenture LLP, joint venture with Microsoft Corporation) and Nokia have announced a partnership to deliver packaged Nokia Lumia devices to enterprise customers. One of these is a “Large” UK bank which, together with Nokia, will replace their current mobile platform with WP8.  Avanade®, a global business technology solutions and managed services provider, today announced an agreement with Nokia to create and deliver packaged Nokia Lumia devices, applications and services to large enterprise customers. As consumer mobile technologies spread into the workplace, employees increasingly want to use their personal devices for business functions. In an Avanade survey, over half (54%) of C-level executives and IT decision-makers report the majority of their employees use smartphones for work functions such as email, web content and calendar invitations. Additionally, many employees (42%) now want to use their own devices for more complex, mission-critical tasks, such as content creation and customer relationship management (CRM), which drive productivity. But greater use of smart devices for business systems requires the development of specialized applications to enable seamless and secure integration. Avanade and Nokia plan to deliver packaged offerings combining Avanade's application development and system integration services, Microsoft technology and Nokia's Lumia products and related services. Together with Accenture, Avanade and Nokia are also providing enterprise customers with Windows Phone and Microsoft infrastructure expertise to support the pilot adoption and testing of Nokia Windows Phone 8 devices through to production deployments. Ian Jordan, executive vice president of Sales, Marketing, Innovation and Alliances at Avanade, said, "There is a significant gap in the market for a new class of business-focused mobile services and solutions. Avanade and Nokia are working together to fill this gap; integrating Nokia Lumia smartphones built on Windows Phone 8, with business applications such as Microsoft Office, CRM and access to company information to improve collaboration, productivity and sales." As an example, Avanade and Nokia are helping a large UK bank to replace its current mobile device platform with Windows Phone 8, integrated with its Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint environments. They are also working with the bank to build a new corporate enterprise hub that will enable employees to access corporate business applications, content feeds and information relevant to the organization, as well as user profiles and other Microsoft SharePoint content. Additionally, Avanade is implementing Mobile Device Management (MDM) to apply security policies to the devices thereby simplifying provisioning and enabling the distribution of corporate business applications directly to the devices. Niko Mykkänen, global head of B2B Sales, at Nokia said, "The growth in the use of consumer devices at work has created opportunities for businesses, but also vulnerabilities that need to be addressed. Working together, Nokia and Avanade will create business solutions to meet the needs of the enterprise, as well as delivering the exciting user experience which people expect from today's leading smartphones such as Nokia Lumia." http://www.avanade.com/us/about/avanade-news/press-releases/Pages/-avanade-and-nokia-to-deliver-packaged-windows-phone-8-devices-page.aspx Cheers Jipee for the tip! Jipee said: One has to note though that Avanade is joint venture between MS and Accenture (and I dont really like either  ) As Ive said from the beginning, they should be more aggressive towards the business segment and really fight against Iphone when they have superior device and UX to offer (which should not take longer than 3 months) Do you agree?

Video: Fruit Ninja with a Knife and Nokia Lumia 920 Posted: 09 Jan 2013 12:35 PM PST   Well this guy’s certainly playing Fruit Ninja like a boss. He says he saw it done by someone else on their iPhone but upon trying, it doesn’t actually work in real life (nor on his Android). But due to the super sensitive screen, it is possible to play it on his Nokia Lumia 920. He says he finds it easier to play with a knife than a finger. by adrianisen· Cheers cache for the tip!

Nokia Time Warp: 7650 & 9000 Communicator Posted: 09 Jan 2013 04:42 AM PST Marc at PureView Club has gotten his hands on some retro Nokia devices. First up, he looks at the Nokia 7650, the first Nokia camera phone. There are heaps of photos and a bit of a historical walkthrough as well. Go check it out!   http://pureviewclub.com/2013/9666 Next, he looks at the Nokia 9000 Communicator Similar to the previous post, Marc talks a bit about his personal connection and origins surrounding the Communicator range. http://pureviewclub.com/2013/9983 Cheers Marc for the tip!

First impressions: Lumia 920 Posted: 09 Jan 2013 02:55 AM PST The Lumia 920, in many ways the true successor to the original Lumia 800. Where the 900 was more of a supersized 800, the 920 should be the perfected design. After all, over a year has gone by since the original design first saw the light of day. So how does this new addition to the family stack up hardware wise? ‘No matter what age you are, the idea of a new gadget always brings out the child in you’ This past Friday it finally landed, a knock on the door and there was the delivery man with a much anticipated package from the lovely people of Nokia Connects. It contained one Lumia 920. No matter what age you are, the idea of a new gadget always brings out the child in you. And so it did, the packaging was quickly dealt with and the moment came to open the box. What colour had they sent me? Please don't let it be the black one, please let it be a colourful one. Sliding the box open revealed one of the brightest of colours to ever grace a phone, a near neon yellow. Colour is a very personal choice, even more so with the yellow of the 920. However, this really is a colour you should go and see in person. It's actually pretty nice to look at and truly is a conversation starter, as I experienced over the past few days. Upon picking the phone up out of the box I thought: 'this isn't heavy' and 'how can someone complain so much about it' Yes, the flagship Lumia does weigh more than what you will find from the competition, but it doesn't weigh nearly as much to make it uncomfortable to handle. What does make it uncomfortable to handle is the sheer size of it. This things is big, not so much in length but in width.  It took me a fair bit of time just to be able to navigate through the OS comfortably, but after a day or two of use you should get the hang of it. ‘Size and weight aside, this thing looks good’ Size and weight aside, this thing looks good. The attention to detail is astonishing and it really is a better made Lumia 800 in many ways. It starts with the SIM tray sitting flush with the body, the solid buttons on the side, the well placed USB port and speakers on the bottom and ends with the sinister black plate surrounding the camera. There are, however, some chinks in the armour of this beast. Most noticeable is the flex just underneath the camera strip which flexes inward when pushed and sounds hollow when you tap on it, unlike the 800 which sounds and feels like a solid chunk. This undermines the otherwise solid feel of the 920. Asking around a little reveals that this might be just relegated to the unit I have here, hopefully. What is a more common issue apparantly is the vibrate motor, it feels like it is broken when it is activated. It might be partly due to the OIS system in the lens as most of the noise stems from that area, but even taking that into account it still feels cheap. Not worthy of the luxury look and feel of this top end Lumia. Nokia's flagship Lumia does pack some great hardware to make you forget the negatives. The speakers were one of the things that performed surprisingly well. Considering the size they can push quite a loud sound without crackling or getting tinny. Couple the speakers with the excellent IPS LCD screen covered by that glorious curved Gorilla Glass (which is less curvy than that of the 800 though) and in a way you have a small mobile movie theatre on your hands. ‘Four days with the 920 and it is already winning me over..’ As a first preliminary impression, the new Lumia 920 is an excellent follow up to the original 800 on the hardware front. There are some flaws, some related to size and are down to personal preference, others made by Nokia. All in all though it does feel good and is worthy of the title flagship. As some of you may have read, I was torn between the 920 and the 820. Four days with the 920 and it is already winning me over, lets see how it feels after the full two week trial.  A special thanks to Jay for reaching out to Nokia Connects and creating the opportunity to trial a 920. And of course, many thanks to Katie from Nokia Connects to actually send me one, on a very short notice I might add. If there is anything you want to know about the 920 and how it is as a daily driver, feel free to ask me on twitter (@haranguemnb)

AT&T announces Record Q4 Smartphone Sales, hopefully some decent Nokia Lumia performance Posted: 08 Jan 2013 10:58 PM PST It may be the faintest indicator if it is any at all, but it’s better to see the environment Nokia Lumia is in doing better than worse I guess. With the Nokia Lumia 920 (and initially 900) exclusive only to AT&T, it’s good in a way that AT&T Q4 Smartphone sales are supposedly a new record. It’s somewhat a similar way that it’s better if there are a higher number of WP handsets sold, more breathing room for Nokia. Though of course, Nokia’s got much stiffer competition with AT&T’s selection of other flagships. The proportions of what phones have been sold are not mentioned yet (full quarter financial results, due 24th Jan) They do unfortunately indicate that it was the best ever quarterly Android and best ever Apple sales. Windows Phone is mentioned only in conjunction with getting more than 100,000 smartphone sales a day from their portfolio INCLUDING the “latest Android, Apple and Windows devices”. Should we have expected AT&T to mention best ever quarterly Windows sales too for an actual indication of good Lumia performance at AT&T? AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) announced today that it sold more than 10 million smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2012, topping its previous record quarter of 9.4 million, set in the fourth quarter of 2011. This included best-ever quarterly sales of Android and Apple smartphones. "We had another incredible quarter of smartphone sales as the mobile Internet continues to drive strong growth in wireless," said Ralph de la Vega, president and chief executive officer for AT&T Mobility. "These are the industry's most valuable postpaid subscribers with average revenues twice that of non-smartphone subscribers.  During the quarter, we averaged more than 110,000 smartphone sales a day as customers flocked to our leading portfolio of the latest Android, Apple and Windows devices. Combine that with the nation's largest 4G network and lightning-fast LTE network that now reaches more than 170 million people and you'll understand why customers continue to choose AT&T in record numbers. AT&T is scheduled to release its full fourth-quarter 2012 financial results after market close on Thursday, January 24.   http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?. Cheers Bloob for the tip..

NokConv: Nokia powers up CES 2013 #NokiaPoweredMeUp Posted: 08 Jan 2013 10:48 PM PST Events like conventions can be a drain, on both unsuspecting humans and their electronic gadgets. That’s why at CES, Nokia made sure that your pocketables were powered up. I love the Nokia charging stick. Discreet, useful to power up your phone through a busy day or, in my case, rescue friends on last legs of their phone batteries. It’s well designed with one short, same coloured microUSB cable. No need to have one cable for charging the stick itself. Just pull it out and plug the USB into the computer and microUSB into the stick, and when you’re done, plug the fat USB into the stick and the microUSB onto your device. No need to press a button, it will automatically start charging. There’s led dot indicators to tell you how much is left. The next accessory on show were the JBL powerup speakers. These look super cool. Wireless charging with NFC built in to what I expect to be some quality wireless speaker experience, if the Play 360 is anything to go by (this larger beast should sound even better).   http://conversations.nokia.com/2013/01/07/nokia-powers-up-ces-2013/   You can even win one (two people can win one everyday, 10 in total, and the post was dated 7th Jan so there should be four left). Just using the tweet, #NokiaPoweredMeUp. Cheers Alan for the tip!

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