Nokia LA Unlocked Event
September 27, 2007, I was invited to an event hosted be Nokia. This event was held in Los Angeles at a mansion in Beverly Hills. The purpose of this event was to show off the new products that were introduced at the Nokia GoPlay event held in London last month.
Nokia showed off new bluetooth headsets, bluetooth speakers and several of it’s high end Nseries phones. Primarily the discussed where focused around the N95-3. Which is the second generation of the N95. The N95-3 includes several enhancements not found in the original N95, including support for the US 3G radio bands used by AT&T (formally Cingular) and other things like including a larger battery.
As I mentioned the event was held at a Beverly Hills mansion. Each room was setup to show off the abilities of these new devices. Including rooms for N-Gage gaming, GPS, and 3rd party applications such as Sling Media’s new S60 client. Nokia wanted to show how these devices allowed users to stay connected on what Nokia calls the 4th screen, your cell phone. These devices allow for third party software integration into the phones OS. With this you can not only capture great viral content on the go but share this content with all kinds of social networking sites, such as Flickr, Jaiku and others.
Nokia is taken a different approach to cell phone consumers by not only partnering with wireless carriers but also selling unlocked devices directly to them. Additionally, they have opened flagship stores in the US to help consumers see everything these devices are capable of. This approach is not to replace the buying experience at your local wireless carriers stores. In fact these flagship stores do not sell you wireless service, only devices and accessories for them. Since most of Nokia’s high end devices in the Nseries line are not sold by US wireless carriers this allows consumers to go into a store and play with these devices in person. This way you can see these devices for themselves without having to purchase them from the internet without ever having laid their hands on the devices.
I have uploaded some photo’s I took at this event onto my flickr account here. Additionally, I am working on a review of Nokia’s super phone the N95. While I have played with the original N95 I am trying to get my hands on the new N95-3 with full support of my carriers network (AT&T) and include my thoughts on this device before finishing my review.
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