Good news for everyone on facebook (so good new for everyone pretty much) Nokia has  launched a new competition on there Lndonesia facebook fan page, where you could win a lumia 800 or lumia 701 windows phone.

The best thing about  the “Nokia Time Machine” competition is however  how easy it is to enter, all you have to do is share your best memories of your first nokia device….that’s it! to enter just go to nokia’s Lndonesia facebook fan page

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The great guys at Nokia wom world (now called Nokia connects)  are having a “follow the Mapstronaut and win” competition to celebrate the launch of the new Nokia Maps blog. The goal is to go where no one has gone before on Nokia Maps and to do that they are taking suggestions of places to visit from you! i mean us

As a matter of fact I have already entered and the mapstronaut visited my location not to long ago….

That’s the Stadio Olympico in rome by the way, home to one of my favorite football/soccer teams.

So if you guys would like to enter jump over here where you’ll find the rules and the prizes that you can win! have a good one!

You can win a new nokia e7 by entering Nokia’s Search for 7 competition that is running all week long, Each day this week nokia will be giving a way a Nokia E7, but if you want to win the e7 you will have to solve the clues to find where it’s hidden.

The location today is online, which means anyone can enter and win you can find the clues here and other info as well. To win today’s search you have to find the location head over to your Ovi Maps and if you are the FIRST person to share the correct virtual location in Ovi Maps via TWEET @WOMWorldNokia you win and the first Nokia E7 is yours! The winner will be announced via @WOMWorldNokia Twitter after 3pm GMT.  Have Fun!

The Nokia Cityman Contest is UP! And guess what? We got shortlisted with two pictures. Well actually, my girl and I took some pics and uploaded them on our own accounts which are different. So when I woke up today I found our pics shortlisted. She had 8 votes, and I had 0 so decided to fully support her and let myself sink down. Anyways, Im sure she will let me review the beast that the N900 is for your pleasure!

VOTE FOR US!

http://blogs.nokia.com/nseries/index.php/2009/10/14/which-is-the-best-photo/

THANK YOU!!

Two weeks ago I had the great oportunity to travel up to Montecarlo to the Nokia Developer Summit 2009. I was competing in the Nokia N97 Widget Competition, and along with Plusmo and Yalla-Ya I worked in the Hackathon to deliver the best widget-application for the Nokia users. The result was Rocket, a Social Location App that you will see very soon!

But apart from that, I took my time to test the new Nseries, the Nokia N97. As you may know this is the most expected phone of the year. It was announced on december of 2008, and will be released next month, causing great hype amongst the mobile users. The expectations are hight, this phone is thought to change the way we use the internet.

Equipped with a 3.5 in resistive touchscreen and a full qwerty keyboard, the N97 separes itself from the rest of the Nseries. And if you are a Nseries fan, you may know that these are two characterisitics that we were waiting for so long ago. So let’s start!

What I liked*

The N97 is solid. The screen flips out and tilts on a 40 degree angle to be easily visible for the user. I loved the mechanism. It doesnt creaks, and has zero play on the sliding mechanism. It is great! The resisitive screen is beatiful and big enougn. There are many concerns around the resistive screen. People saying that it is not responsive enough like the capacitive, but I tell you, this screen is perfectly responsive and it doesn’t lag or hangs. The OS is the fastest Ive ever seen in an Nseries. But I would reserve my final word until I have all my widgets and memory loaded on. There are two colors, white and black, the white color is awesome, I’m sure I will get the white one.

The qwerty keyboard is spaced enough and the keys are well distributed. I was typing long texts as soon as I had 10 seconds trying it. So it will do good even for people with big thumbs. The materials are plastic and with a silver strip on the screen border, it feels good and not cheap.

The camera is great, the people of Carl Zeiss had been working hard I guess. This cellphone takes the most beatifull pictures I have seen on an Nseries, after the N82. Overall, the phone feels right in the hand, a bit big, but nothing too big we have not seen before

What I did not like*

Well, I was getting used to the N85 which is the slimmest Nseries around, and using the N97 makes me feel like Im back with my N95 which is kind of big. It is also a bit heavy. It is on the very edge of the pocketability, Im very sure I will be carrying it with a case hanging on the rim of the jeans’ pocket or on my belt. But I have read that Nokia considers this a mobile computer insted of a phone, so I guess having a computer so small is now a benefit.

The white model has a light leak under the red and green button, I’m not sure if Nokia pretends to fix it before the mass release but if they don’t they will have upset consumers. I mean, such a expensive phone should at least try to be perfect at this kind of things. The black one has the fingerprint magnet syndrom, one of the reasons I chose white instead of black.

And finally, the hinge seems a kind of fragile, and if you watch it by the sides, you can see the screen ribbon. I hope it won’t be a problem. One of the things that may worry me is the dust from my pocket or from the environment gathering around the ribbon or inside the phone. So I hope the screen closes thight inside one’s pocket.

To round it up*
The N97 pretends to be the most selling cellphone of this year. Nokia has been hyping it up since the announcement, and they have done well. Im sure it will sell very well. Since I won the widget competition Nokia will send me a free N97 as soon as it is realeased on the american market, that will be likely in July, so expect a full review of it when I get it. So, what about you? What are your concerns? Your expectations, tell us in the comment section!! I WANT TO HEAR YOU!!

David Castro

this is my design for the Competition
 

still working on it

COMPETITON AT THE SYMBIAN BLOG

 HOW TO PARTICIPATE

       Download the design package below, design your widget and upload it for others to rate. Keep visiting the site to log your opinions on others’ offerings because the ten highest-rated designs will go in front of a panel of judges selected from the Nokia Nseries team. The panel will choose the best home screen widget based on creativity, usability and quality of design.

DESIGN PACKAGE

WHAT ARE WIDGET

A widget is a time-saving element of the device’s user interface, a visual building block that provides an easily accessible single interaction point with an application, which holds and processes data. There are thousands of types of widget.

PRIZE

DEADLINE

The closing date for the competition is February 27, 2009. The winner will be announced on this site on March 13, 2009.

FOR MORE INFO GO TO http://2009.nseries.com/competition/about.aspx

OR http://thesymbianblog.com/2008/12/19/n97-widget-design-competition-now-open/