A few words from the new guy
Hey there! John Markow here. The new guy.As Tommi mentioned, I've recently joined the team behind Beta Labs to help everyone involved at Beta Labs get value out of participating - from the community of lead consumers, to the R&D teams developing the apps, to our employees participating in alpha testing. I'm really honored and excited to have the chance to work with people that share the same passion to improve Nokia's products and services in this way.So who am I? Well, I'm an American originally from near Boston, Massac

Beta Labs 2007-2009 in numbers (…and introducing our new community facilitator)
Written by Tommi Vilkamo, Manager of Nokia Beta LabsFriends, a lot of things have been happening lately, and it's time to give you a recap about where we are now – and what’s about to happen next.First, let's look at our Beta Labs app portfolio:To sum up:on average, we have been launching 2 new innovations every monthmore than half of the innovations have been graduated to commercial Nokia offeringI think this has been a good run, but it’s not enough. We need more cool stuff.Next, l

Ovi Contacts updated based on your proposals
Written by Kristian Luoma, product manager, Ovi ContactsHello Beta Labs,It's been a while since we made updates to the Ovi Contacts client, so it is about time to share some of the progress again. Today we have an update for the Ovi Contacts client for S60 5th Ed and 3rd Ed FP2 devices.The updated client contains some new features like: file transfer and improved compression. File transfer obviously is a nice feature if you need to quickly beam up your newly taken photo to your friend and you don't want to be restricted by the size of the photo (as in, you can transfer bigger files than before). And our new compression

Nokia Image Exchange for S60 updated with Activity Notifications
Written by Janne Kaasalainen, Nokia Image Exchange TeamA new version of Nokia Image Exchange for S60 is now available for download. In addition to multiple bug fixes and accelerometer support for 3.2 devices, we've added notifications to inform you about activities relating to your images and contacts.Notifications inform about new images from your friends present in the People menu as well as comments to your images and images that you have commented. There are also a few new settings to control the notifications. If you want to give us suggestion about the defaults, please

Updated Nokia Point & Find: Real-time mobile discovery now available globally on most S60 device
Written by Sophie-Charlotte Moatti, Point & Find team Hello all, It has been a little while since my last post. Our team has been busy over the past few months incorporating your feedback, and preparing a brand new UI for the Nokia touch devices. I had also hinted that more people around the world would be able to download and use P&F, read on to learn more. We look forward to hearing from all of you now. Let’s start with improvements to the user experience. We’ve fixed short of 100 bugs in network connectivity and overall stability of the client on some of our best-selling devices: N82, N95 8GB, N95, E71, E66, N81, N81 8