Posts Tagged ‘Nokia’

Nokia and EA Mobile Start Dutch N-Gage Promotions

May 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Since last week, Nokia is putting a lot of effort in promoting the N-Gage service to Dutch consumers. The company offers a special trail period with six of their mobile games.

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N-Gage to ease Download Limitations?

May 19th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

One of the issues raised by consumers a long time ago was that they where not able to take their mobile games to their new N-Gage devices. N-Gage fixed this by introducing a license transfer service, but rumors say Nokia will even go beyond that.

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Location, location, location

May 15th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Analysis & Editorial | No Comments »

‘Social location’ is a buzz word being used by many but what does it actually mean for mobile games and the industry? Jaakko Kaidesoja, Director of Games, Nokia, discusses

S60 is Ending

May 3rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: Symbian | No Comments »

As part of the new plans for the Symbian Foundation, Nokia has announced that it will pull the plug on S60 by the end of June 2009.

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Nokia Moves Widsets to Ovi

April 23rd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Following the closure of Mosh, Nokia is now taking another big step in their portal strategy as it will close down their Widsets service and integrate it into the Ovi Store.

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Nokia Promotes Launchpad with N97 SDK

April 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Development Platforms | No Comments »

Nokia has started to promote it’s Launchpad memberships again toward mobile game developers. Amongst the benefits are early access to the highly anticipated Nokia N9 SDK.

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Ovi Signs thousands of Content Providers

April 2nd, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Distribution | No Comments »

Nokia’s Ovi service has signed up thousands of mobile content providers to date. This while it’s public launch is still a month away and the announcements of the Ovi platform was just a few months back.

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N-Gage Officially Dropped N73

March 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

In our latest interview with Dr. Mark Ollila, we asked him if there where any plans on supporting the good old N73. Sadly enough, he did not give us a yes or a no when it came to this subject.

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Nokia Acquired Minority Stake in Obopay

March 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Marketing Strategies | No Comments »

Nokia seems to further diversify its reach in the global mobile content industry. As so, the Finish giant has invested enough in Obopay to acquire a minority share in the Redwood based mobile billing provider.

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GDC: N-Gage Hits 1 Million

March 25th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Other news | No Comments »

Nokia’s N-Gage platform is growing fast. Though in October, the platform was still at only 400.000 subscribers, it has now grown all the way to 1 million of them now.