Timeline follows. Latest entry is at the top.

## Lunch time!

## For pornography and other “questionable items” images can be flagged. Nokia does not monitor or moderate content. The community works to flag images and reports them to Nokia, who, in turn removes them in half an hour to 12 hours.

## Uploading of photos demo. You can comment via website or via your mobile phone. Ovi page very similar to Flickr if I may reiterate. It even shows EXIF data of photos. if location tracking it turned on in the phone, GPS, Assisted GPS or cell ID kicks in and determines geotagging data. Nokia does not own copyright to these images. Photographs belong to the one who took it.

## Demo of Share on Ovi mobile site. Basically the same thing, but smaller.

## Ovi allows you to use widgets, similar to Flickr and post your slideshow on your blog.

## (checks Ovi site. Hmm looks like I’ve signed up for this before). Anyway, the Ovi page allows you to create channels ofr privacy purposes. Channels allow you to filter who sees your items. You can also share audio recordings such as lectures and other sounds and basically you’ve just created a podcast. You can share over 100 different media formats. You can even share Microsoft Office documents. Yeah, yeah, they’re going the Google way like Google Docs! Full resolution downloads of photos can be made. You can subscribe via RSS to uploads of your friends / channels.

## Vast majority of media is not uploaded apparently. From media sharing, media hosting and social networking. Share on Ovi is basically a way to upload photos and videos immediately wirelessly. Service is free. The app can be downloaded from the Nokia site. Free bandwidth and storage for uploading photos. Website is http://share.ovi.com.

## In room survey of people who take vacations and take photos with them. Obviously a way to introduce Ovi.

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Timeline:

## Discussion of Ovi. Ovi Share included for all Ovi services including N-Gage, music, photos. Q&A follows. Differences between the E66 and E71 is really just about the keypad options but the features are essentially the same.

## Security: Encryption of the Eseries devices in internal memory and with the memory card. “Lock and wipe” feature for SMS. An SMS can be sent via you or your IT manager to wipe out the phone in case it gets lost with the send of a single SMS.

## Preview of the new browsing experience. Embedded VPN client for the Intranet with automatic VPN setup over WLAN. Flash support in browser (YAY!).

## The new Home Screen. The old home screen added a lot of functionality and customization. The new one improves on this: Personallized application shortcuts, configurable email accounts, plugin customization, home screen notifiers. Inteligent contact search allows you to type in names directly from the keypad from the home screen without having to go to the address book. Effortless mode switching. A “free time mode” and the phone turns into a “free time phone” which doesn’t show anything to do with business (!!!). Provides access to other services to “free time” apps like the music player, N-Gage, new wallpaper.

## Enhanced calendar: you can basically see more in one screen. Column arragement of tasks and meetings within the month view.

## Personal email setup works the same way Mac Mail works — just type the username and password and you’re set. For business email, preloaded with access to Microsoft Exchange: push email, push contacts, push calendar, corporate directory, device management. Supports also Nokia Intellisync: completely revamped – uses less data, saves battery, better UI.

## Nokia Eseries – Everything the Professional Needs. I think this is a preview of the widgets application for the Eseries. 1.5 billion email inboxes in the world. Only 4% are “mobilized emails”

## Sandra Bullock photographed with the E71. Paparrazi go around to photograph the phone, not her (speaker’s joke)

## Demo unit of E71 is placed beside me. Wow. This baby’s really thin. Emphasis on good battery life. Price is 350 Euros. Only 10mm thin. “world’s thinnest QWERTY device”

## Nokia E71 Preview. Available July 2008. Made of stainless steel. Available in grey and white. Concentrating on size of the product – unit is ultra thin. Emphasis on keyboard usability with “pillow type shape.”

## Nokia E66 Preview. Accelerometer to turn unit from general to silent mode.

## Just walked in. grabbed a donut. Really good. Keynote has already started with Nokia reps presenting the two new phones we previewed last night. Eek, I’m a *little* late (Blame it on the roti that didn’t agree with my stomach).

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Huge news for the Asian telco industry. But just to put a little perspective … there’s been a lot of speculation on the Google Phone business model since 2005. With Google’s core competence being contextual advertising (wasn’t it search a long time ago?) they’ve never really kept secret about their plans to use the 700MHz spectrum for a completely free, advertising driven telco and broadband (?) service.

Free, advertising driven telco.

Well, Asia has just opened up it’s first and it’s in the Philippines. Pardon me, I had to break the news in my personal blog simply because of regional implications. I wanted the thought of a free telco to settle in.

So here are a few thoughts about the service and what exactly “free” means.

First off, it isn’t completely free. U Mobile works pretty much like any other telco because it is owned by SMART telecommunications, which is perhaps the largest telco in the PH. The “free” part comes in when you opt in to the contextual advertising program that is sent to your phone and when we say “contextual” we mean something predetermined by a series of lifestyle questionnaires. I filled mine up and it took me a good 20 minutes to get through everything. The form is updated every year. If you don’t fill up the form, you cannot participate in the ad program. There is also a current limit to the maximum amount of free credits you get. I expect this to get higher and higher as they win subscribers.

Not everyone can sign up just yet. Sign ups work like Orkut’s social network where you need to be referred by a friend who is currently a subscriber. The first 350 handsets were generously awarded as raffles to “influential people” who attended the launch (wow, I’m influential!).

Leo Laporte and the rest of TWiT talked about the implications of ad driven telco services. It’s a question of whether you want to allow advertisers to spam your sacred inbox with advertising. Some people may be sensitive to this. Some don’t really care.

The service launched yesterday and there are just so many questions for U Mobile. Hoping to grab an interview with them soon. But yeah this shows how the telco is evolving, and being the first in Asia, well, wow. I’m not sure if similar telco operators in the USA and Europe have an equivalent service. Would appreciate a chime in from the readers!

The image above was taken by yours truly at the ümobile event launch.

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Manila, 12 May 2008 – Globe, SingTel, Bharti Airtel and Optus today announced that they have signed an agreement with Apple to bring the iPhone to the Philippines, Singapore, India, and Australia later this year.

More information will be released at a later date. [source]

The prediction last year was by mid 2008, Asia will legitimately have their shot at the iPhone. With hope, this should be the 3G iPhone running on a fast network that Asia supposedly prides itself in having. But wait, doesn’t Asia already have the iPhone? With a big YES to the iPhone and NO to the iTunes Store, I’m more excited to see a “so it follows” that because we’re now going to have the second coming of the Jesus Phone in Asia, so should the iTunes Store come forth and herald it’s release for applications and the SDK.

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