Nokia Developer Summit 2009, Monte Carlo Day 1
April 29, 2009 by Bernard Leong
Filed under Events
The first half of the day was packed with keynotes for the first half of the day, with an opening introduction from Rob Taylor, Head of Forum Nokia, followed by Tero Ojanpera’s Nokia keynote “Developing for the era of social location”.
In Tero’s presentation, he discussed the Ovi as an one stop shop for developers and consumers to get the latest applications and the details on Ovi Store was elaborrated by Eric John in the Business Stream talks in later afternoon on “Ovi Store – Next Generation Personal Media Network”. Of course, like all keynotes, Tero announced the launch of the Nokia 97 Software Development Kit (SDK) and the first 5 projects that will be funded by the Adobe and Nokia Open Screen project fund. One of the takeaways for Nokia is that they want to enable the 3rd party developers to reach 300M camera devices (a magic number from them) out in the market. During Tero’s keynote, it was accompanied by two demos: (1) A news widget by Associated Press which is just a news aggregator and (2) Eye-Sight – a gesture based algorithm that allow a user to make hand gestures close to the phone to control the music player or playing games – which we think it’s the highlight of this event for an innovative 3rd party app.
“The Evolution of Open Mobile Platforms” – A keynote by Lee Williams, Executive Director of Symbian, is rather a strategic talk rather than a talk about the platform itself. It is important to note that Symbian does not limit to just Nokia but other handset operators such as Samsung. Lee announced a new communication channel for developers to stay connected with the Symbian world – via twitter, @symbiandevco. This channel will complement the existing @symbian account, catered for general information exchange to a general audience, for e.g., gadget enthusiasts, industry watchers, geeks and etc. He also did a “Symbian biased” comparison with the other platforms: iPhone, RIM and Android.
Finally, before we break for lunch, the last guest keynote is by John Faith from MySpace Mobile. A few interesting points came up: (1) The highest time usage per user: 32% on personal profiles, 19% Read Messages, 19% photos and 12% Send Messages with the rest of activity taking the bulk of remainder, (2) How MySpace is tapping into the mobile space with their apps.
Then lunch come and followed by an afternoon of talks split into both business and technology streams. In between the talks, the press (both social and mainstream media) gets a 20 minute access to interview some of the main Nokia executives. Together with my counterparts from Malaysia, we met Rob Taylor and Tero Ojanpera for a social discussion. I will talk about that more in the next post.
Here are the other photos for the event:
Related Links:
[1] All about Symbian takes a first look at the new N97 beta SK
[2] BL’s personal blog, Nokia Developer Summit 2009: Prologue.
[3] BL’s photos on Nokia Developer Summit 2009 (with photos on Monte Carlo, Monaco).
[4] You can follow @bleongcw via twitter with the tag #nds09 for live-twittering of the event. :)
Here are some additional information for the event from Nokia which might be of interest to entrepreneurs (developers) in the mobile space:
Nokia N97 Beta SDK:
To support the growing interest and demand of our latest flagship device, the Nokia N97, we’re making the Nokia N97 Beta SDK available to anyone who registers with http://www.Forum.Nokia.com.
This version of the SDK will offer a preview to developers how they can publish their content directly to the device homescreen. This means the developer can provide their customers with updates as constantly as they wish. The user does not need to open the application; they can be aware what is happening simply by looking at the phone’s large homescreen.
Both native applications and widgets can take full advantage of Home screen publishing. Web apps for the Nokia N97 (eg WRT and Flash) as well as other S60 5th edition devices have extensions that can access platform services. So, now, native functions such as camera, location, and calendar can be incoporated in to widgets to provide a more personalized experience.
Core assets in S60 platform such as multi-tasking, performance, open distribution and the upcoming Ovi Store will all be present thru the Nokia N97.
Please visit this site to download the SDK. Additionally, a final version of the SDK will be released at the same time the device will ship in June.
Adobe and Nokia Open Screen Project fund:
Times have never been better for Flash developers. Nokia has more than 300 million Flash enabled
devices in the market. Naturally you need a distribution channel and Ovi Store will connect Flash
developers to millions of Nokia consumers worldwide.
Adobe and Nokia announced the Open Screen Project Fund in February at Mobile World Congress. This $10 million joint market development fund between Adobe and Nokia is designed to accelerate the creation of applications, content and services that leverage the Adobe Flash Platform and run across mobile, desktop and consumer electronics devices.
The first five applications to receive funds from Nokia through the Open Screen Project Fund:
- MyFestival, by Little Big Ideas (Denmark): a guide for the Roskilde Music Festival with integrated LBS functionality
- Golfbox, also by Little Big Ideas (Denmark): a golf companion to set tee times, check scores, and more
- ìSocial Portfolioî (working title) by Tui Interactive (UK): a stock news and portfolio tracker application.
- Pocket Piano, by Better Day Wireless (US): a virtual piano player for touch devices
- Barking Seed by Breakdesign (Singapore): a Web and Flash-based games community for players of Flash Lite games
Adobe and Nokia has more in the pipeline representing short and long-tail brands and developers from
all over the world, proving, once again, that the time is now for the Flash community.
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