“Research & Development” Articles

Nokia’s EVP of Mobile Phones, Mary McDowell, spoke at MWC 2011about her role to drive the strategy put in place to get the ‘Next Billion’ connected. The aim is to make mobile phones and Internet services affordable and accessible to more people across the globe, especially to growing economies. Check out the interview after the break.

Here’s a couple of video demo’s from Qt at Mobile World Congress2011 in Barcelona. First up is Qt’s WebKit integration and some HTML5 apps. Secondly Qt showcases it’s potential when it comes to NFC, utilizing an app created be Digia called ShopWizer on a Nokia C7. Hit the jump for the demo’s.

We previously discussed the future of Symbian & Meego in the new strategic alliance between Nokia and Micrsoft, but what about the Qt developer push Nokia was engaged in. Since the Windows Marketplace will become the one-stop-shop for apps on future Nokia devices powered by Windows Phone OS, and has it’s own set of developer tools, what will be of Qt? Daniel Kihlberg, Director of the Qt Ecosystem, Qt Sales, Marketing and Services takes some time out to explain the future of Qt. Hit the jump to find out more.

Forum Nokia introduces a new Twitter Client example made with Qt Quick/QML. The app features a scrollable timeline along with a few basic features. Hit the jump for the video.

During Nokia World 2010, Nokia Research Center demoed some of its future technologies currently in development. The most interesting was the Indoor Navigator, which allows users to navigate indoors by connecting devices to a transmitter within a building that can figure out the angle at which your device is linking from. This was possible thanks to a research concept called Nokia High Accuracy Indoor Positioning technology, the most accurate of its kind in the world. Hit the jump for the video demo.