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Nathan Eagle's Forum Nokia Blog

Category: General

Mobile World Celebrates Four Billion Connections!

This is a big day for mobile phones everywhere: The GSMA today announced that the mobile world has celebrated its four billionth connection, according to Wireless Intelligence, the GSMA’s market intelligence unit. This milestone underscores the continued strong growth of...

Nokia Life Tools: SMS-driven Agriculture and Education Services

While today's low-end phones in the developing world can offer extremely important services beyond voice / text communication, these additional services rarely scale beyond small, local markets. With Nokia's annoucement of Life Tools , it looks as if a major corporation is finally...

Reality Mining at Forum Nokia Developer Day

I'll be giving a brief talk about our recent Reality Mining work at at Forum Nokia's Developer day in Budapest on November 19th. I'll overview how we've used mobile phones to continuously gather information including proximity, location, and communication from...

The Mobile Web is NOT helping the Developing World... and what we can do about it.

I attend an increasing number of keynotes where CEOs and EVPs of both major mobile handset manufacturers and mobile operators trumpet their role in bringing the internet to the bottom of the pyramid in the developing world. It's a total fallacy. The phones that are designed and marketed...

Finally - Skype for Symbian! (kind of)

I was enjoying some high-speed connectivity in Geneva on Friday at LIFT07 , and stumbled upon an application I've been wanting on my Nokia for years: a Skype client. iSkoot is the name of the company - and their approach is a bit different from the other (pocket pc) mobile Skype clients I've...

SIM Apps: A single application that will run on all 2+billion phones??

Here’s the problem: I live in a country ( Kenya ) where millions of people have extremely low-end phones (most phones don’t even have WAP browser, not to mention Java-support). I need another way to develop applications for these millions (1+ billion globally) phones besides...

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