Hi everyone, I’m happy to tell you that today and tomorrow I will be your personal Nokia World live reporter.
I will bring you all the big news about Nokia and Ovi announced on stage and interview for you the experts who are showing live in the Experience Lounge the latest Ovi features.
Particularly exciting are the new fantastic social features: last Thursday you’ve got a sneak peak of what is possible with Symbian^3 and today we are introducing Check in for Maps.
It’s not hard to believe that these are my favorite features ever My social life is reaching a whole new level: amazing!
Let’s look now, in the details, how exactly they work and how well they play together.
Check in for Maps
With version 3.06 beta, which you can download right now from Nokia Beta Labs, Ovi is introducing various improvements to Maps: a more powerful search, a more relevant and more beautiful place page, more place sharing possibilities, public transportation lines in 85 cities and live traffic flow in 19 countries around the world. And on top of this, a fantastic new feature, Check in, that Jennifer and I are going to explain in the following video:
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With Check in you can manually share where you are and what you are up to with your friends on Facebook, Twitter and many others such as RenRen and StudiVZ. And if you don’t feel like sharing your whereabouts you can always collect personal statistics and see the history of all the places you’ve been visiting. I totally love this! And apparently Henry VIII loves it too
Most importantly, in the place pages of the venues you are at, you can see how many people checked in with you or you can discover where the party is getting started
Do you want to try it out? Just download Maps v3.06 right now from Nokia Beta Labs for the following devices: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia 5230, Nokia 5230 Nuron, Nokia 5235 Comes with Music edition, Nokia X6, Nokia N97, Nokia N97 Mini, Nokia C6 and the newest Nokia N8, Nokia E7, Nokia C7 and Nokia C6-01 which, as Symbian^3 devices, also support pinch to zoom.
Symbian^3 social features
So how do you stay then in contact with all your friends on all your networks? How do you immediately know where they have just checked in? Of course with Symbian^3 phone which comes with integrated social features
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Forget Facebook or Twitter applications, now, your favorite social networks are part of your Symbian^3 phone, as they should be.
No matter how you want to interact with your friends, by calling them, via email, text message, Twitter reply or Facebook message: you can do all that from one place, your phonebook. Isn’t that just… natural?
And what do your friends do when they want to meet up with you? Do they send you a Facebook invite? That’s why you can now fill up your phone calendar with the entries that really matter: your social events.
Personally, I’m a big fan of the Social Home Screen Widget.
One of my personalized Symbian^3 Home Screens is for my most used contacts and applications, one is for work related stuff and the last one is for my social life: I’m immediately up to date with the latest tweets and Facebook feeds and without opening any application I always know whether I’ve got email on my personal accounts (Ovi Mail, all the main email providers, POP3, IMAP and Exchange are supported) or on Facebook.
Social on Symbian^3 is not only about knowing more. It’s also about sharing more. And with the tremendous 12MP Nokia N8 camera you can’t wait to share your pictures and videos on your favorite social networks, can you?
Source : http://blog.ovi.com/2010/09/14/say-hello-to-ovi-wh...