Today, there are changes afoot at the Nokia Conversations blog. If you don’t already know, Nokia Conversations is Nokia’s official public blog. While they sporadically announce new devices there, the site is mostly focused on simply being an external face for Nokia. The site was started by Charlie Schick, of Nokia Lifeblog fame, and has
A couple of weeks ago now, Nokia Conversations held a fun free game called Pass the Parcel, where they randomly selected twenty Nokia enthusiast sites, and blogs from around the www, and then over a period of fifteen days, each day, they posted up a short video of the parcel having one of its many wrappers removed. Each day was randomly allocated to one of the twenty parcel passers, myself in...
With the Nokia N82, most fanboys have assumed that Nokia has given up on cameraphones. The Nokia N86 8MP is coming soon, but without a Xenon flash, most of you have said you’ll be holding onto your N82s, despite the updated camera hardware and software on the N86 8MP. Charlie Schick, over at Nokia Conversations,
SAN FRANCISCO, USA - Last week Conversations editor Charlie Schick was out at Web 2.0 expo 2009 in San Francisco, shooting clips of some of the coolest stuff from the show floor. One of the lesser-seen slivers of software was a smart Associated Press (AP) touchscreen news app, slated to launch in May to coincide
During my trip to Austin for SXSW, I had the privilege of joining Ewan Spence, Molly Schonthall, and Charlie Schick for the All About Symbian podcast. Sitting on the patio of the Austin Convention Center, the four of us had a great chance to chat about a few topics, including the E75, Nokia’s presence at
Charlie Schick over on the Nokia Conversations blog discusses a topic that comes up often as companies try to wrestle with the new world order created by blogs, wikis, Twitter, Facebook, and the lot: how to promote your brand in these mediums without harming the brand in the process. There’s a fine line there for
In a very interesting initiative launched by Charlie Schick and the team over at the Nokia Conversations site, an N96 has been packed in a nice black suitcase, with what seems to be a Nokia BH-604 headset and some cables and chargers. The suitcase is meant to travel the world, yes literally. It will switch
Om Malik says: “some of [Nokia's] new handsets, such as the new N78, are not VoIP compatible anymore.” Charlie Schick of Nokia Conversations says the report of the death of VoIP has been groosly exaggerated. While I haven’t seen the N78 or the N96 up close and personal for more than a minute or two, I’m
Over at Nokia Conversations, Charlie Schick has an update with the development of the next generation of Nokia chargers, that use almost 90% less energy when left plugged into an outlet than the current chargers in the market also known (Going from 150 mA to 15 mA). This power being wasted as a result of leaving chargers plugged in without charging anything is called Vampire Power. He also explain...
