Amit Kankani's Forum Nokia Blog

siliconindia Mobile Application Conference India 2009

2009-10-27T11:26:37+02:00

Hi All,

Just wanted to let you know about an exciting event siliconindia is organizing on October 31^st (Saturday in Bangalore). This is a full-day conference that will explore the new opportunities that are emerging and ask the larger questions of the industry leaders within mobile space, shedding some light on where the industry is headed and how entrepreneurs and developers can take advantage.

you can read the complete details about the event at : http://www.siliconindia.com/mobileconference/index.php

Come listen to some of the brightest minds in mobile technology discuss the future of mobile technology.

SPEAKERS
Arvind Rao, Chairman, CEO and Co-founder, OnMobile
Vishnu Sunderam, Co-founder CEO, Interchain Solutions Surinder Saini, President, Sales, Satnav
Raj Oswal, Founder & CEO, O'interface
Dilip R Mehta, IIM Bangalore, Ex-MD RPG Cellular and HMV Saregama
Prashant Dogra, Customer Marketing Manager, Navteq
Shanker Janakiraman, Director & CEO - India, Symbioun Technologies
Amit Mehta Head,Sales and Marketing, VAS, SDP and Mobility Group, TCS
Taranjit Batra,Vice President, Sales, Kirusa
Prakash Sayini,Forum Nokia India Lead
Bakshish Dutta, General Manager - Startups and Emerging Markets, Sun Microsystems India
Praveen Nallapothula,MD and CEO, TeleDNA
Sanjay Swamy,CEO, Mchek
Shrinath V,GM, Product development, Mapmyindia
Sunil Rao,Developer Relations Manager, Forum Nokia
Mohan Kumar, Executive Director, NVP India
Khamir Bhatia, Head of Sales - South Asia, InMobi

TOPICS:
Mobile applications explode. Who wins and who loses?
Carriers and handset makers want a piece, too: Where will they go?
LBS Challenge: Maximising Revenue and Engaging the Consumer
Mobile Payment Services: The Road Ahead
Mobile Marketing

Sponsors: Nokia, Sun, Navteq, Satnav , TeleDNA
Exhibiting companies: Eterno, iPath, MapmyIndia, Mobikwik, OnMobile, ObjectSol, Satnav, ShortHand, Symbioun, Tencube, Trakut, Trademarkia, Vassoft, Wirkle, Trignon, Geneva

WHEN: October 31, 2009 (Saturday)
TIME: 9 AM to 6 PM
WHERE: NIMHANS Convention Center, Near Diary Circle, Bangalore

To attend this event, register FREE at http://www.siliconindia.com/mobileconference/register.php

Hope to see you there,

Amit Kankani

Ovi Store - Differentiate Freeware vs Adware vs Demos and Trials...

2009-08-26T16:50:19+03:00

Ovi Store is out now for the past few months and is indeed doing good.

However from the various reviews from different people, it is very clear that they are not happy about one thing atleast: "Why are demos and trials given under free and only after download you get to know it is not the freeware complete version?"

I too have downloaded over 50 applications from Ovi Store on phones like N95, 5800 and N97 and I too have similar views on this issue...

So I guess there should be more differentiator actually, which clearly differentiates between absolutely Free vs Demos and Trials. Also any Adwares differentiated too would be good.

Any takers for this idea ? I hope Ovi Store keeps improving and becoming better application and Content store...

Nokia - now looking not only on manufacturing, but on services also

2008-07-22T15:30:01+03:00

Note: This blog is with respect to Indian market as I understand.

Nokia offlate has jumped into Services field too, because it has started various camps like the current USID to give not only devices to the masses, but also a complete set of services around it, so that it can provice what can be called as a complete solution.

Why is Nokia doing this?

* One clear reason why Nokia is doing this is to fight out competition, as today in market, there are too many brands and models to choose from.

* The next big market is that of rural India, where mobile plague is at the begining of its emergence. So if anyone can truely capture it, will be a clear winner.

What are the effects of this:

* It will make the life of farmers, villagers easier, as they can now use applications and services to improve efficiency of lot of work.

* It will create more jobs to create such applications/services.

What are the minimum requirements which Nokia should keep in mind to go ahead successfully:

* It should provide "regional language" support for its application/services, this is because, most of the rural population doesn't understand english, and can only understand their own language.

* The applications/services should be easy to use and understand with minimum complexities. The look and feel could be compromised, if by doing so, the simplicity and usability increases.

* More over it should provide for support (something like e-choupal ref: http://www.echoupal.com) in say every group of villages/grams. This is important to create the eco system which Nokia dreams of. This need not be computer based, it can even be mobile based.

Though this is a very short blog, I hope I have been able to put across my view points, and my main intentions here are to see Nokia fulfill this dream, and I somewhere, should be a part of this.

Note: I am not a regular blogger, not atleast on techinical stuff, and hope will learn stlyes and rules of blogging here better in time to come :) So please comment, either on the topic or any feedbacks to improve the blogging style.