Official Twitter App For Nokia Series 40 Devices Now Available

Are you in to Twitter? Nokia has made available the new, free Twitter for Nokia app for Series 40 phones. You don’t have to be the last to know about the latest news and updates from your friends, industry experts and favorite celebrities.

With the new Twitter app, you will experience some of the richest functionality an app can bring to your Series 40 device, delivering much of the same functionality found on smartphones.

You can post your own Tweets and follow others’ Tweets. With the @Connect feature you can see your mentions and new followers. Using the #Discover feature you can browse the most interesting Tweets from around the world.

This new app brings Twitter to hundreds of millions of feature phones around the world.

So check out the Nokia Store today (http://www.store.ovi.com/) and download the free Twitter for Nokia app to enjoy this popular social networking and microblogging service right on your Series 40 phone.

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1.5 Billionth Nokia Series 40 Mobile Phone, Sold

The landmark device has been purchased by a female consumer in the Brazilian city of São Paulo, (How I wish it was me so I get the spotlight!) which Nokia regards as one of the most significant milestones in its history.

The 1.5 billionth phone was a Nokia Asha 303, a stunning touch screen handset with QWERTY keypad designed for web browsing, social networking and gaming, that features pre-installed entertainment and applications such as Angry Birds Lite.

The device was purchased from a Magazine Luiza store in São Paulo by Mayara Rodrigues, a 21-year-old who loves staying in touch with friends and family through social networks.

The first Series 40 phone was the Nokia 7110 developed in 1999. Since then this family of phones has evolved to such an extent that they are considered ‘Smartphone Lite’ thanks to the innovations of the new Nokia Asha range.

Series 40 phones now blur the line between feature phones and smartphones. With recent innovations including Nokia Maps for Series 40, Nokia Browser and Web Apps, Nokia Money and Nokia Life Tools, millions of consumers have enjoyed easy and affordable access to the Internet and information for the first time, with locally relevant apps and content.

Mary McDowell, Executive Vice President for Mobile Phones at Nokia, said: “We are incredibly proud to reach this milestone. Having 1.5 billion Series 40 devices sold is a hard-to-reach mark, let alone one attainable in a single line of products. At a time when we are maintaining our commitment to connecting the next billion customers around the world – it is gratifying to consider how Series 40 devices have made mobile technology accessible and help continue to change people’s lives for the better.”

I would probably become the 2 Billionth, or maybe you, in a 500 millionth chance, so continue buying Nokia Symbian 40 phones, who knows!

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Smarterphone for Nokia, Thoughts

News recently came out in the web about Nokia purchasing Smarterphone, an Oslo-based company that had created a software platform that enables a smartphone-like user experience on cheap hardware but everything is quite in the Nokia camp yet, no press release or comment whatsoever which lead me to think if theirs really truth behind these informations.

But either way, I see it as a move for the company to push further on the low end market being slowly attacked by Samsung and Cloned phones from China but do they really need another software platform when they have Symbian 40 at the moment and the rumored Meltimi on the pipes. Will this be another move to dissociate the companies name to Symbian believing that its dragging them down like what they did changing Symbian Belle to Nokia Belle.

Sound mysterious enough but whatever there reason be, I do hope they studied it carefully because as far as I've searched about Smarterphone, there's nothing really special about the platform except that it offers new User Interface. Everything is the same feature-wise with that of Symbian 40.

Anyways, nothing is final unless announced by Nokia, I suspect they will disclose it in the upcoming CES event together with new Windows Phone and Symbian devices. It will surely be a busy week ahead for Nokia and the tech community.

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Gedda-Headz, First to offer in-app purchasing

Gedda-Headz, a popular social multiplayer game created by Frank Fitzek for Symbian 40, is one of the first game to use the in-app purchasing feature on the new Nokia Asha 303 phone.


Players of the game, also called Gedda-Headz, will be able to use in-app purchasing to change and upgrade their avatars. The new feature is being tested under a beta program. When fully implemented, it will let consumers pay via either credit cards or billing from more than 134 mobile operators worldwide.

As much as this new purchasing system brings convenience to users by offering easy access to application features, advantages weight more to developers since it will offer new opportunities for them to earn more. The new system will also bring huge improvements to applications being offered.

To know more about this latest offering, watch this video.

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Nokia Browser for Series 40

If your using a Nokia Phone with the likes of Nokia Asha 303, Asha 300, Asha 201, Asha 200, Nokia C2-05, Nokia C2-03, Nokia C2-02, Nokia X3-02 Touch and Type among the rest of devices with Symbian Series 40, then you're in for a treat with the Nokia Browser. Browse the web better, faster and more affordable!

Here are the reasons why..

•Data compression saves time and money for consumers by speeding up page downloads, and is more efficient for operators by reducing over the air traffic on bandwidth constrained networks.

•Makes favorite content easy to find with locally relevant information, the latest highlights and a list of popular web content that matters to you.

•Web apps take the Internet and optimize it for your phone, making the content easy to see and use.

•Makes the mobile web familiar by presenting country or operator specific start screens.

Web apps

•Series 40 web apps are a new and optimized way users can access their favorite Web content on their Series 40 phones. Web Tools for Series 40 makes it quick and easy to create web applications.

•Through web apps for Series 40 phones, developers can now access a much wider consumer base for their applications, driving even more revenue opportunities.

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Create S40 App and become a million euro richer!

Nokia had announced "Create for Millions" a global competition that brings consumers and developers together to create applications for Nokia's Series 40 mobile phones. Create for Millions also provides developers an opportunity to bring Java and web apps to millions of consumers worldwide and win their share of cash and prizes valued at one million euros. Nokia's Series 40 mobile phones play a key role in Nokia's strategy to bring the Web to the next billion, particularly in emerging markets where a consumer's first web experience is often through the mobile phone. As the largest mobile platform in the world by volume, more than half a billion Nokia Series 40 mobile phones are in consumer's hands today.

Developer contest offers cash and prizes worth one million euros

Nokia's Series 40 phones have experienced more than 35 percent growth in download volumes in the past two months making up about a quarter of the total downloads from Nokia's Ovi Store. Nokia's Create for Millions enhances this growing opportunity with a competition featuring a prize pool of cash and prizes worth one million euros.

In this competition, developers are invited to submit Java and web apps for Nokia Series 40 phones in four categories:

In the Know - News and locally relevant information apps
Fun & Games - Games and entertainment apps
Emotional Closeness - Social networking apps
Access to Knowledge - Life improvement apps, for example education or health

For each of the four contest categories listed above, there will be 10 cash prizes, with a top prize of EUR 50 000 in each category. Top apps in each category win a variety of non-cash prizes such as user experience reviews and app marketing assistance. In addition, special prizes will be awarded to apps that showcase the best touch feature in an app, the best location-aware app and the best overall Series 40 web app.

Regional versions of this global developer competition with additional prizes will be announced soon.

"With Nokia's newest Series 40 dual-SIM mobile phones such as the recently announced Nokia C2-03 equipped with Nokia Browser, consumers are enjoying third party web applications with a fast, rich user experience and significantly lower data costs", said Marco Argenti, Senior Vice President, Developer Experience, Nokia. "This competition connects ideas generated by consumers with the creativity and skills from developers, aiming to create great, locally relevant applications together."

Developers, development tools, terms and conditions and detailed information on the judging, prizes and how to enter are available from the Nokia Developer website http://developer.nokia.com/create4millions. Entry deadline is September 20, 2011.

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