Thanks to Nokia Developer for the great gift! By the way the model is the 64GBytes !!

Let me say this, it’s the best phone I ever used. It’s incredible how Nokia created this MeeGo powered devices with an incredible UI and UX that is really intuitive! For example to exit from an application you just swip it from left to right side where the multitasking screen is located. This means that you might not need an exit button! There is also the option to swipe it top to bottom which exit the application. Swiping from the right to left of the screen you can to the messaging screen which includes messages from all messaging application such as Twitter, Facebook, SMS and so on.

Also as first firmware is pretty stable and did not find any major issues.

By the way, at Nokia World 2011 S. Elop also mentioned that where the Nokia N9 is on pre-order it’s sold out !!! It’s going to be interesting to understand what is going to happen if they Nokia end up to sell every single unit!

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Here are the information on all AIR 3 changes which are quite a lot !

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“Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced that LG and TiVo have become the latest partners to bring Adobe(R) Flash(R)-based applications via Adobe AIR(R) to connected TVs and digital home devices. Content partners can now take advantage of AIR to deliver Flash(R)-based console-quality gaming and premium video across TVs, Blu-Ray players and set-top boxes.”

If you are not familiar with AIR for Digital Home here is a video showcasing apps running on TVs and other devices.

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I think Amazon Kindle Fire might be the same idea. The secret behind the iPhone success is iTunes! iTune has been the platform that lead Apple to drive all paying customers into the iPhone/iPad era. Yes, iTune had millions on customer, paying customers with credit cards already in the portfolio!

Amazon is in the same situation with the Amazon Kindle Fire, they build for years a base of paying customers ready to spend money on any content, now for Tablets and Smartphones.

Why I am saying this? Because anyone in the mobile business knows that the most difficult thing to do is to make someone paying for content. So if you already build a base of paying customers you are well positioned to provide more content to them to pay for! Simple, just add more content to your original portfolio.

We’ll see how it goes.

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“The new Market client is designed to better showcase top apps and games, engage users with an improved UI, and provide a quicker path to downloading or purchasing your products. For developers, the new Android Market client means more opportunities for your products to be merchandised and purchased.”

Here is a video showcasing the changes

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• Adobe AIR App Challenge sponsored by Adobe and Sony. “Today we’re announcing an exciting new Adobe AIR App Challenge for two upcoming Sony Tablet devices. It’s available to those of you in Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, UK and USA.”
• Adobe Mobile Challange for EU residents only. “The submissions end on the 1st of September. Then the members of the jury will elect the best applications. You can discover the full list of prizes on this page (travel to Adobe MAX in Los Angeles, Creative Suite Web Premium licenses, Flash Builder licenses…).”

Here more infos.

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“The next generation of Adobe® AIR® on the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet has arrived! With the availability of a new Adobe® AIR® 2.7 runtime, developers will have full support for Adobe® Flex and Adobe® ActionScript on the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. The new Adobe AIR runtime is now available for free to BlackBerry PlayBook tablet owners, who can download it over Wi-Fi® using the “Check for Updates” option on the device.”

Check the dev forum for more details.

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I installed about 52 apps, many social networking apps (missing a facebook dedicated app for Android Tablet yet) including Google+

Several games, applications and new apps. I have to say that many are not optimized for the Tablet, few are not at all!

The Google apps are the best, very well integrated and notifications are great. You get anything that happens on the bottom right corner beside the clock, twitter, skype, news, apps install, Gmail notification and more.

Battery life, did the first charge 4 days ago, recharged today (it was still at 18%), which is pretty good since I have used it a lot by watching videos, listed streaming music, read news, some social and played some games.

If you got a Android Tablet get QUI Tab to share your GPS location! Little experiment !

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I made an unboxing video but forgot to turn on audio (yeah I know!!!) , so my exaplantion of the device has no use!

In any case here is the video and I can tell you few things.

• It’s light and it’s fast
• Screen is great and works on every side (4 way rotation)
• 2 app stores, Android Market (many apps are not Tab optimized) and Samsung Apps (does not have much conent yet)
• Google+ works great on it
• Notifications system is great, you get all of them (from installed apps) on the bottom right corner, email, installed apps, tweets, skype and so on
• Only thing missing is: memory expansion slot, HDMI, it has a proprietary plug for USB

If you have any specific questions please leave a comment and I will try to answer.

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Hopefully I will attend since this year there will be a lot of news.

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“BlackBerry Partners Fund™ has launched today the fourth annual BlackBerry Partners Fund Developer Challenge. This year, developers of BlackBerry® smartphone and BlackBerry PlayBook™ tablet applications can enter their applications in a series of competitions to win US$3 million in prizes. Winners will be selected on a regional basis across four global regions – North America, Latin America, Europe/Middle East/Africa and Asia Pacific.

This year’s Challenge includes the following three competitions:

• Best Adobe Flash®/AIR app
• Most Innovative BlackBerry WebWorks™ app on the BlackBerry PlayBook and BlackBerry 6
• Most Addictive social app using the BBM™ Social Platform
  

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“This white paper describes techniques, best practices, and recommended functionality for developing media player applications that are optimized for mobile devices. It is an addendum to the white paper, Mobile encoding guidelines for Android powered device”

• Best practices for mobile device video player optimization

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“Nokia today announced that its Ovi Store has grown by nearly eight times over the last year and now reaches up to 5 million downloads per day, propelled by the latest Symbian devices – the Nokia N8, Nokia C6-01, Nokia C7 and Nokia E7 – which account for about 15 percent of the daily downloads.”

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• Two full days and nights of events, plus one day of optional pre-festival workshops
• Over 50 presentations and panels covering the Creative, Technical, and Business aspects of Flash and digital media
• Over 750 attendees anticipated from around the globe
• Over 50 internationally renowned design and technology presenters
• Includes FITC evening events

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• YouTube on Symbian^3
• Skype on Symbian^3
• Real Golf 2011 HD roll out
  
• Nokia Messaging and Mail for Exchange updates for 5800, 5530 and X6
• Update on the Symbian Foundation website closure
• Kindle for Symbian, leads to discussion of Nokia and Amazon
• One, two of three homescreens?

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Check the workshops:

• Marketing Zone
• Developer Zone
  
• TV Apps & Operator and Handsets Zone
  

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• 200,000 new users are signing up to Ovi daily
• Ovi Store downloads are now topping 2.3 million per day (that’s 300k more than a couple of weeks ago)
• 70 developers have each passed 1 million or more downloads on Ovi Store
• Ovi is now available in 190 countries
• 4.7 million people now subscribe to Ovi Life Tools
• Ovi Mail and Ovi Chat now have more than 17 million users
• Ovi Music packs a whopping 11 million tracks across 38 countries
• every day usage of Ovi Maps is the staggering equivalent of driving around the world 80 times

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