At the Nokia World 2009 event in Stuttgart, Nokia Beta Labs has announced a number of new services ready for testing right now. The most interesting one is Ovi Lifecasting, an application we caught wind of yesterday but is now ready for limited early bird beta-testing.
The beta tool, which requires a Nokia N97 device, taps into Facebook to enable you to share status updates and photos with your Facebook friends and also lets you share your location through Ovi Maps (also in beta). Here’s an introduction video featuring two polished young men using the application to hook up with each other in some city:
Also new is an extension of Nokia Messaging called Social Messaging, which interestingly Nokia calls the groundwork for an impending proprietary multi-community social networking client. The company insists this is an early look, and currently only supports Facebook:
In other news, Nokia Beta Labs is discontinuing Nokia Friend View, which was an experimental research project from Nokia Research Center. We covered the app, which was basically a location-aware microblogging tool when it was introduced in November 2008.
Yet another status update, photo sharing tool. Sharing the location seems to be good.
Just as there is no end to status updates, there is no end to tools for them too. I wonder why Nokia dropped Friend View. Would have been great if we had microblogging with location…
the city backdrop of the video with the 2 polished
young men is in Singapore!
Nokia goes social
For the record – the city backdrop is in Singapore.
nice one man
Don’t we have enough of these already? Rather than constantly new ones popping up, I’d like to see different companies get together to create ONE that is really great.
Nokia’s tools are better than the others..
Isn’t this just Facebook for Symbian? Am I missing something?
What exactly this does that the Facbook app for iPhone haven’t been doing for a year?
I find it amusing that phone companies choose to showcase a specific app as the marketing plan for a phone. Similar to this is the DJ phone from Samsung… it’s just an app.
The iPhone, Android and Palm changed the market, almost all features can be duplicated on all the platforms easily.
Facebook is already available for Symbian, genius.
RTFA.
After watching the Social Messaging video (2nd video), it looks ugly interface. The first video (aka the Magic World) looks gorgeous, but iPhone Facebook app or Android Facebook app or HTC Hero SensorUI are much more polished than this. Nokia–
i love Nokia. East and West Nokia is The Best.
Ovi Lifecasting, Social Messaging limited to Nokia N97! Also, seems to only install to the small phone memory! Oh well, a start on new social s/w concept but far from complete as usable!
Yet another failed attempt by Nokia. A) it’s been done…by others…last year, B) it’s only available for the N97 and 5800? Talk about abandoning your other 99% of owners. I’ve been a Nokia user/fan for 10 years, but I’ve released they’re just not keeping up with the times. Forget that no Facebook apps exists (aside from N97), forget that there app store is a joke, forget that multimedia capability is a joke, forget that their OS is ancient, the only thing I mainly care about that every smartphone needs to have is an email client that actually works. The embedded client is a joke, and their new Nokia Messaging is horrible at best.
To be fair, it’s fresh from Beta Labs, so I wouldn’t expect it to supported on their entire range of mobile phones from the get-go either way.
I wrote a post about this back in May, it was always on the horizon. Facebook and Twitter are perfect for location considering how much of the updates are now done from mobile (Facebook now has 20% of its user base using the mobile site) it will defo enhance the experience of the site for many users.
And if you don’t like the idea, simple, just turn it off. All the talk of being stalked is daft considering you’ve already let that person onto your Facebook.
Nokias efforts are going to be pointless when Facebook gets into the location game
Check out the post:
http://mobilein...es-on-facebook/
Ok.. i don’t see what is new here. There are many iPhone and Android app out there updating status everywhere.
Question is if Nokia is doing this, which is mashing up APIs, why do developers care to compete with them. If Apple and Android will to be mashing up FB APIs they would not be so many app out there. Yet another confusing act from Nokia, like what they did building FB app on N97 with Symbian features not exposed to the Web Runtime kit. This really pissed off many developers question why do they want to support the platform if they can only be second class citizen.
wow, the first video is pretty metro/gay
Only N97? What about N95s
WTF .. dont companies like CellSpin and Shozu and 5 other already do this on all Nokia devices ?
I think Nokia will fail this is just one application
Nokia : If you want to compete with the iphone we need more than Life casting on Nokia devices .. and the price has to be $199 !
w t f does Nokia know that their Ovi Store already have apps like CellSpin and Shozu and few others who already do Life casting ?
Also i agree showcasing one app is not the way to go Nokia
if you want to compete with Apple iPhone build a platform that can have 65000 apps
and stop doing your own apps
Why would developers build apps for your platform if you are going to compete with the developers ?
iPhone did not buid a facebook app the facebook guys did
Do Nokia guys have any Strategy people in the company with any brain ?
Hire techcrunch ppl for one day and listen to them .. it may help you ..
I think Nokia will fail if they keep doing this
Compete with the iPhone?
HA HA HA HA!
You might want to look at ex-US sales and see who’s doing the competing.
ooh, nokia entered social network world
Come on, Nokia.
Nokia is desperate to break into the U.S. market so they’ll try any ridiculous idea. Outside the U.S. they reign supreme, but coming from inside the company, I know that they don’t care much about the rest of the world. All their energy is focused on the U.S.
Their problem is that they’ve gotten too big for their own good. They have so many so many bad managers dug in so deep that they can’t accomplish anything.