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Durante el evento se presentaron nuevas experiencias y servicios Ovi, como Maps on OVI o Mail on Ovi, que convierten Internet en un entorno personalizado y mucho más móvil gracias al nuevo Nokia N97 diseñado para el mundo Web 2.0

Barcelona, 02 de diciembre de 2008– Nokia ha presentado hoy nuevas experiencias y servicios para desplegar todo el potencial de Internet en los dispositivos móviles convirtiéndolo de esta manera en un entorno más personal, social, instintivo, espontáneo y divertido. Para hacer posible todo esto, Nokia ha presentado el dispositivo multimedia Nokia N97 y los nuevos servicios de Ovi, que incluyen Maps on Ovi y Mail on Ovi.

“Nos encontramos hoy a las puertas de un gran cambio en nuestra forma de conectarnos y relacionarnos entre nosotros y con nuestro mundo” ha afirmado el presidente y consejero delegado, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, en la inauguración de Nokia World 2008. Kallasvuo añadió que Nokia, con más de mil millones de clientes en todo el mundo, tiene la oportunidad de poner Internet al alcance de todos y en más lugares que cualquier otra compañía, y “esa es nuestra intención”.

El alcance global de Nokia, incrementado con NAVTEQ y la lista de servicios Ovi, hacen que Nokia transforme Internet en un entorno más personal y relevante para nuestras vidas. Y ese es el mejor legado que puede crear una compañía de Internet.

Nokia N97: Internet móvil más personal

Hoy se ha presentado el Nokia N97, el dispositivo multimedia más avanzado del mundo. Diseñado específicamente para las necesidades de los internautas, el Nokia N97 combina una amplia pantalla táctil de 3,5”, menú principal personalizado y un teclado QWERTY deslizante, ofreciendo una ventana “siempre abierta” a las redes sociales y comunidades de Internet. El dispositivo multimedia Nseries más completo de Nokia incorpora una tecnología de vanguardia con múltiples sensores, memoria, potencia de procesamiento y velocidad de conexión para que los consumidores puedan crear un Internet más personalizado y compartir su “localización social”. Con el A-GPS y la brújula digital integrados el Nokia N97 localiza intuitivamente dónde se encuentra el usuario en cada momento.

Maps on Ovi: más que una simple herramienta de mapas

Maps on Ovi es el primer servicioque permite a los consumidores planificar su trayecto desde casa, en su PC, y sincronizarlo luego con su móvil, facilitando así el acceso a sus rutas planificadas y destinos favoritos desde cualquier lugar. En los próximos meses, Nokia Maps se convertirá en un servicio muy avanzado donde incluso se podrán guardar y organizar lugares, planear viajes y editarlos posteriormente. Los usuarios podrán compartir su localización y todos los contenidos relevantes desde el punto de vista personal y social con sus amigos y conocidos, invitándoles a participar en sus actividades.

Mail on Ovi y Nokia Messaging: el correo electrónico móvil para el gran consumo

El 75% de la población mundial aún no ha utilizado el correo electrónico. Para muchas de esas personas su primera experiencia de correo electrónico será en un móvil, y no en un PC. Mail on Ovi, junto con Nokia Messaging, movilizará el correo electrónico y la mensajería instantánea del consumidor en los móviles Nokia, haciendo posible el correo electrónico móvil para todos y no sólo para unos pocos privilegiados. Con Mail on Ovi los usuarios podrán crear su cuenta de correo electrónico y acceder a ella a través del portal online Ovi, así como desde su propio terminal móvil. Nokia Messaging permitirá a los consumidores acceder a todas sus cuentas de correo electrónico y mensajería instantánea ya existentes como Yahoo! Mail y Yahoo! Messenger, Microsoft Hotmail, Gmail y GTalk, y AOL IM, así como a las soluciones de correo electrónico de miles de proveedores de servicios de Internet de todo el mundo, todo ello desde la propia pantalla de la mayoría de los móviles Nokia. Hasta la fecha, Nokia ha distribuido más de 200 millones de móviles que permiten el uso inmediato de sus soluciones de mensajería, como Mail on Ovi, Nokia Messaging y el correo electrónico móvil para empresas, con Nokia Mail for Exchange para Microsoft Exchange Activesync e IBM Lotus Traveler.

Abiertos a la innovación

Un elemento fundamental a la hora de hacer realidad la idea de Nokia es su carácter abierto e innovador. Esa innovación facilita a otros proveedores la creación de servicios y aplicaciones para las soluciones de Nokia. Por ejemplo, la Fundación Symbian (que tiene prevista su puesta en marcha a corto plazo) implicará a los líderes del sector en la creación de una plataforma de código abierto para dispositivos multimedia y servicios basados en el sistema operativo Symbian, que es ya la plataforma más abierta y consolidada para la innovación móvil. En la actualidad, hay 3,5 millones de desarrolladores de software trabajando en la plataforma S60 del sistema operativo Symbian, con más de 10.000 aplicaciones de todo tipo disponibles hasta la fecha.

Nokia continúa abriendo nuevas oportunidades para que cualquier proveedor y empresa de software pueda crear nuevas herramientas e innovadoras aplicaciones de servicios en Internet, para toda la gama de móviles Nokia, como ocurre con los Widgets que permitirán ver en la pantalla principal del nuevo Nokia N97 el acceso personalizado a las redes sociales y comunidades de Internet. A lo largo del próximo año, Nokia iniciará nuevas e interesantes oportunidades de colaboración para crear una experiencia de Internet altamente personalizada en los móviles Nokia, y llevar así el Internet móvil hacia una nueva dimensión.

Tilting touch display, QWERTY keyboard and personalized home screen – a true mobile computer

December 2, 2008 – Barcelona, Spain – Nokia today unveiled the Nokia N97, the world’s most advanced mobile computer, which will transform the way people connect to the Internet and to each other. Designed for the needs of Internet-savvy consumers, the Nokia N97 combines a large 3.5″ touch display with a full QWERTY keyboard, providing an ‘always open’ window to favorite social networking sites and Internet destinations. Nokia’s flagship Nseries device introduces leading technology – including multiple sensors, memory, processing power and connection speeds – for people to create a personal Internet and share their ‘social location.’

“From the desktop to the laptop and now to your pocket, the Nokia N97 is the most powerful, multi-sensory mobile computer in existence,” said Jonas Geust, Vice President, heading Nokia Nseries. “Together with the Ovi services announced today, the Nokia N97 mobile computer adjusts to the world around us, helping stay connected to the people and things that matter most. With the Nokia N97, Nseries leads the charge in helping to transform the Internet into your Internet”.

Sensing your ‘So-Lo’

The Nokia N97 introduces the concept of ‘social location’. With integrated A-GPS sensors and an electronic compass, the Nokia N97 mobile computer intuitively understands where it is. The Nokia N97 makes it easy to update social networks automatically with real-time information, giving approved friends the ability to update their ‘status’ and share their ‘social location’ as well as related pictures or videos.

Widescreen – Internet and entertainment

The home screen of the Nokia N97 mobile computer features the people, content and media that matter the most. Friends, social networks and news are available by simply touching the home screen. The 16:9 widescreen display can be fully personalized with frequently updated widgets of favorite web services and social networking sites. The Nokia N97 is also perfectly suited for browsing the web, streaming Flash videos or playing games. Both the physical QWERTY and virtual touch input ensure efficiency in blogging, chatting, posting, sending texts or emailing.

The Nokia N97 supports up to 48 GB of storage, including 32 GB of on-board memory, expandable with a 16 GB microSD card for music, media and more. This is complemented by excellent music capabilities, full support for the Nokia Music Store and continuous playback time of up to 1.5 days. The Nokia N97 also has a 5-Megapixel camera with high-quality Carl Zeiss optics, 16:9 and DVD quality video capture, and support for services like Share on Ovi for immediate sharing over HSDPA and WLAN.

The Nokia N97 is expected to begin shipping in the first half of 2009 at an estimated retail price of EUR 550 before taxes or subsidies.

New version with Ovi integration offers 3D landmarks and other enhancements including online planning on the web

December 2, 2008, Barcelona, Spain – Nokia has released the latest version of its award-winning mobile mapping and navigation service, Nokia Maps, as well as its personalized online mapping experience on Ovi by Nokia. This combination of Nokia Maps plus Ovi is the first free service that allows people to pre-plan their journey at home on their PC and synchronize with their mobile, giving access to pre-planned routes and favorite destinations while on the move.

In addition, Nokia Maps has been updated to include a number of new features such as high-resolution aerial images, 3D landmarks for 216 cities and terrain maps, as well as a new route overview during routing and during Drive, the purchasable turn-by-turn car navigation guidance.

“Nokia has clearly increased the usability of Maps, and now with the integration of Ovi services, the functionality of this service can also be seen,” says Michael Halbherr, vice-president, Nokia location based experiences. “Enabling Nokia Maps the ability to synchronize my favorite places between my mobile and PC. becomes the main reason for anyone to switch from other personal navigation devices to Nokia Maps.”

Maps on Ovi is becoming more than just a mapping tool. Over the coming months, Maps will become a destination for people to save and organize places, pre-plan trips and post-edit them. People can share their location and all their personally and socially meaningful content with friends, inviting them to join in activities and share experiences.

Other new options for Nokia Maps include instant access to real time information such as camera alerts, safety spots and traffic information for selected countries, as well as Wcities event guides that give real-time information for events and movies in over 450 destinations.

Walk, pedestrian navigation, improves from where the last version left off, by adding straight-line guidance, which allows you to walk the shortest distance between point A and point B. Should your journeys be more urban, beeps and vibrations during Walk navigation alert you when you need to make a turn along your route. The level of detail in the maps has increased to the point that you can view multiple entrances to the same underground metro station.

The higher map quality is a direct result of the relationship that now exists between Nokia and NAVTEQ. The close working relationship allows Nokia to better utilize the map data that NAVTEQ supplies, which provides a higher quality and extensive coverage that enables more effective location based experiences.

The new version of the Nokia Maps application for selected devices is available on the Nokia Beta Labs website: http://www.nokia.com/betalabs. The online version will be accessible from http://maps.ovi.com. As both versions are released as a Beta, some product features may not be available in the Beta release, but instead, will be added into future releases.

http://maps.ovi.com

New service for consumer email and instant messaging on Nokia devices, along with Ovi email address for email and cross access to other Ovi services from a mobile phone or a PC

December 2, 2008 – Barcelona, Spain – Nokia today announced the launch of Nokia Messaging, which mobilizes consumer email and consumer instant messaging (IM) solutions on Nokia devices. Nokia Messaging will give millions of consumers access to email and IM accounts from Yahoo! Mail® and Yahoo! Messenger®, Windows Live Hotmail, Gmail and Google Talk, and AOL Mail as well as email solutions from thousands of ISPs around the world on the majority of Nokia devices. Nokia also introduced the online portal for Mail on Ovi, which will enable PC users to create and access Ovi email accounts as well as gain cross access to other Ovi services with just a single sign-on account.

“We believe everybody should have mobile messaging – it’s not a privilege service that’s meant only for a certain segment of the market. With Nokia Messaging, our customers can simply and affordably gain mobile access to the world’s most popular email and IM accounts. We are making mobile messaging an affordable experience for everyone, not just for those with specialized phones designed for messaging, but for everyone with a Nokia device. In response to overwhelming consumer feedback that messaging is a critical, must-have feature, Nokia has responded with solutions to bring messaging to the broadest range of devices and to ensure the service works with the most popular messaging services in the market. Windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, email accounts provided by thousands of ISPs around the world, and even brand new Nokia-provided email accounts, can now be accessed from mobile phones with a few simple clicks, directly from the home-screen,” said Tom Furlong, Senior Vice President, Consumer Messaging, Services & Software, Nokia.

Mail on Ovi

Nokia announced the introduction of web access to Mail on Ovi, which gives users 1GB of storage space and spam filters to block unwanted emails. Creating a Mail on Ovi account will give users access to their email, as well as cross access to other Ovi services, both on the mobile phone and on the PC. The beta version of Mail on Ovi will roll out globally in December 2008 in 12 languages, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Hindi, Bengali, Tagalog, Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Malaysia on all currently shipping Nokia Series 40 devices, with many more languages to be added later. The web access version will launch in February 2009.

Nokia Messaging

Nokia Messaging will launch commercially in the first quarter of 2009 in Australia, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, the United Kingdom and Venezuela, and in select countries later in the year. Agreements with key operators will establish Nokia Messaging as an operator supported service so that users who purchase a data plan that includes Nokia Messaging will be able to take full access of the built-in push email and IM access without additional service charges.

The Nokia Messaging push email service is available today for free as a limited-period beta trial. Owners of popular Nokia S60 devices such as Nokia E71 and Nokia N95 can immediately go to email.nokia.com and install the service on their devices. Nokia Messaging is an email application that’s been designed from the ground up to support mobile email. The application makes it simple to set-up the email account – all users have to enter are their email address and password, and emails are seamlessly pushed to their mobile device. Nokia Messaging also makes it simple to read, send, forward and reply to emails, download and read attachments, and attach files to emails directly on the Nokia device.

Nokia Messaging is immediately available on a wide range of Nokia S60 devices to mobilize consumer email. Instant messaging and support for Nokia Series 40 devices will be enabled in the second half of 2009.

With Nokia Messaging and Mail on Ovi together, Nokia will enable consumers with and without email accounts to experience mobile email as a standard part of the Nokia device experience. To date, Nokia has shipped about 200 million devices that immediately enable the launch of its messaging solutions, including Nokia Messaging, Mail on Ovi and corporate mobile email (Microsoft Exchange Activesync).

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