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The new Nokia E6 device with its portrait QWERTY keyboard, and touch screen is proving very popular in the US amongst other places around the globe, but is this mainly due to its BlackBerry style design

Nokia Conversations, Nokia’s Official Blog may hold the answers as they recently interviewed the Nokia E6 designer Tuomas Reivo.

Tuomas Reivo tells the story from beginning to end on how exactly the E6 came about from actual paper design to the actual handset now on many Nokia Store Sheleves around the world. Here are a couple of questions, and answers from said interview.

What ideas were the design based on?

We wanted to combine a QWERTY keyboard with a touch screen. Considering the target group, of busy business folk, the key features also included a screen that could be operated with one hand. In addition, the Nokia E6 offers e-mail access from any application with just one push of a button. A really durable battery life was also absolutely key.

What user expectations were you aware of?

The QWERTY keyboard is a necessity because text input is important for business users: getting that right was a real priority, and it’s always difficult. Although the keyboards on mobile phones are always relatively small, we were able to make the keyboard on the Nokia E6 wider and easier to use than those in earlier models.

Full interview can be found here.

Prime Focus has completed post production on two new viral videos for the Nokia ‘Push‘ campaign. Both videos feature protagonists engaging in otherworldly experiences to promote the malleable software and hardware of the new Nokia N8 phone.

‘Skater’ features a skateboarder speeding down a suburban street and pays homage to classic 1980s video games like Paperboy and Super Mario Bros, whilst ‘Balloon’ follows the release of a cluster of balloons from a pop-art sculpture, the moment captured by a phone as it floats high in the air.

Enjoy! Oh, and just to let you know, Push has their final eight films to show off in the coming months, so be sure to stay tuned for those, as we will exclusively be covering these for you all.

The virals were created by Pulse for Hyper, and were post produced at Prime Focus by Belinda Grew.

Here’s several Qt related videos for you’re viewing, and learning pleasure from NokiaDevForum that went live yesterday on their Youtube cannel.

In the first video, Christian D. Kamm, software engineer at Qt Development Frameworks, Nokia, introduces the new features delivered in the Qt SDK 1.1. Christian discusses the capabilities of Qt Quick and the Qt Mobility APIs. In addition, developers from Digia and Futurice talk about their experiences using the Qt SDK 1.1.

Next up, Alexander Kluwe, UI designer and project manager at Futurice, talks about the development of 90elf using the Qt SDK 1.1. 90elf is an application that enables users to listen to live commentaries on German football matches. The application took Alexander and a Qt developer 30 days only to create.

Wilhelm Taht, marketing director, and Juha Turunen, senior software specialist, of Digia talk about the development of Flowd using the Qt SDK 1.1. Flowd is a location aware application that enables a social network for music lovers. The development took Juha about six weeks only, which included learning how to use Qt Quick from scratch.

Nokia Smart Installer for Symbian is a deployment solution that ensures that installed 3rd party applications have always access to the required versions of their dependent libraries. Lucian Tomuta talks how to utilize the Smart Installer in the Qt application.

And finally, Lauri Jääskelä from Forum Nokia gives you a kick-start with Qt SDK 1.1 and Qt Quick.

According to the Finnish news site Iltalehti, Nokia’s Stephen Elop has moved properties recently, and is now a neighbor of Finland’s Ex-President, Mauno Koivisto.

Elop’s new rented Penthouse, costing €4000 Euros a month is not short of space either with 184 Square Meter layout, the valued 1.5 Million Euro property has six rooms, a kitchen, and of course a Sauna.

Nokia Beta Labs have just released a new Beta of Ovi Maps 3.07, and are looking for your help in developing it.

All they ask is that if after installation of this new version, your Symbian^3 device reboots, could you let the Beta Labs team know what widgets you had on your homescreen prior to reboot.

The installation log on your phone is also helpful for the team to see.  It’s located either here c:\data\ovimapsinstaller.txt or here c:\ovimapsinstaller.txt (on your device, not your PC).

Then email the file to feedback-ovimaps@nokia.com with the subject line Ovi Maps v3.07 Installation Issues and they’ll take a look at it ASAP.

This information will help the team make Ovi Maps a much better experience for all Nokia Users.

Head across to Nokia Beta Labs for further details, or head across to the download page here, remember, you will need to be logged into your Nokia Account in order to access the download information.

Not long ago, Nokia Conversations, Nokia’s Official Blog asked their readers, “What new Colour N8 Would you like to see?” Well with the N8 already available in five stunning colours to suit every need, there was one colour that won their poll, and that was Pink.

The Pink N8 has now been announced, and already twitter is alive with people wanting the Pretty in Pink N8, mostly of course the female variety. You have to admit though, the N8 in Pink does look damn sexy, and of course, you don’t have to be female to own one.  As to the availability of the Pink N8, stay tuned, and we will keep you posted.

There’s even the Little Pink Diva Theme for adding some colour into your menus and a great Pink Neon Clock too when it comes to making sure you’re not late for your next meeting, and the ELLE fashion app keeps you up-to-date with the latest fashion, beauty and celebrity news. I can certainly see this N8 being popular with celebrities too.!

Tags: Nokia, N8, Pink

A few of my good friends have gone on video for Nokia to share their thoughts on the new Nokia E7 Symbian^3 QWERTY device, talking about how its user case can be for both Business, and Pleasure.

Having an E7 myself, I can confirm its familiar form-factor to that of the failed N97 brings back new hope for many Nokia users.

The E7 is everything, and more that the N97 should have been.

In the video below, posted to NokiaUS Youtube channel you will find a few familiar faces. Mark Guim from The Nokia Blog, Jeb Brilliant from aBrilliantBlog, and finally, Mike Macias from themobilefanatics

All three of these tech lovers are indeed US based, and it’s interesting to hear their personal opinions on Nokia’s new E7 device, as the US is one place Nokia really do need to break more ground.

As you may of noticed, its been pretty quiet here on Nokiausers homepage for a few weeks now, but that does not mean we have not been busy working.  There has been a lot of new things happening behind the scenes here at Nokiausers HQ in Finland, and the USA.

First up you will have noticed our new look, both on our homepage, and within our forums.  Not just this though, but we have also upgraded the sites software bringing it right up to date with all the latest forum, and publishing features.

Some of these new features have been requested by many of our registered forum members.  One such feature is iTrader, which is to help keep our members safe when buying or selling mobile related devices within our Marketplace. If you are not familiar with iTrader, you can find out more here, but basically what it allows members to do, is rate buyers and sellers based on their experience during any transaction between said member/s.

We have also added new sub-forums to cater for new Nokia devices, and upcoming models also.  One such area is to cover the new Nokia E7 QWERTY device, and has already proved popular.

If you had previously subscribed to our homepage, you may want to upgrade, and replace the existing RSS feed with our new one, which can be found here.

We have also updated both our twitter page, and facebook page, bringing them both up to date with the new related themes.

Nokiausers facebook page

Nokiausers twitter page

Now, not all these new changes to Nokiausers have been welcomed with open arms, and in saying that, we have been open to feedback here within the forums, and value you opinion. So if you have any ideas, suggestions, or complaints, then please do let us know, as there are still several changes to the site pending implementation.

Another addition also to be added is a TIPS link here on our front page, so if any of our readers have an inside scoop on any Nokia News, they are welcome to TIP us, and they will be credited for their efforts by way of link to their blog, or twitter account.

Simple test from mobile, sorry for the inconvenience while we get Nokiausers ready for daily Nokia news updates.

Work In Progress

As you may of noticed, there has been a few improvements to Nokiausers forums, and our site as a whole, this is in part our move to a relaunch of Nokiausers.

It was high time that we refreshed our content, and added features within the forums that our registered members deserve.

This is a test post via WordPress, but we are still working on our remote publishing, so please bare with us, and all will be back up and running very soon.

I would like to thanks Brandon, Nokiausers Admin for all his hard work, and efforts behind the scenes on renewing Nokiausers.