Live at the Nokia Go Play Virtual Event

Follow me as I liveblog the Nokia Go Play Event.

09:46 Few more minutes to go…
0946

09:50 Curtains open…. still blank
0950 curtains

09:55 Jussi explaining Nokia
0957 welcome

10:00 Here we go. I am sent to a new window where a new window opens to the live webcast.
Start

10:17 Intro of new User Interface called the fourth screen with Suites (music, photos, etc.). Very iPhone and Apple like.
interface

10:20 A clip of the Nokia N81 with a Scroll wheel like iPods! A clip of a future iPhone-looking Nokia shows up. Pictured below.
Go Play

10:30 Introducing what Nokia is doing with Music in 2008.
music

10:35 Explaining what a music phone must have.
Must Have

10:38 He brings out Nokia 5310. He says it is light and thin. Stacked with music functions. $225 Euros. 4th quarter
nokia 5310

10:41 Nokia 5610: Music Slider with 3.2 mp camera and flash. Battery whole day? 300 Euros. Available Q4
Nokia 5610

10:51 Introduce OVI, the new Nokia umbrella brand. Games, music, internet.. The word means door in Finnish
Ovi

10:54 Explaining the evoulution of Nokia games. I think he is leading into the new N-Gage service.
Evolution of Games

10:58 N-Gage will work on these CURRENT and FUTURE Nokia phones. Will launch on November.
Compatible

11:05 Nokia Music Store is introduced. URL is music.nokia.com. A preview of how it looks like is below. They will launch a PC client for music management. No mention for Macs. Grrrrrrr…
Nokia Music Store

11:11 Nokia N95 8GB Introduced. 2.8in Screen. He connects it to a TV-OUT and show a music video by Maroon 5. Available late october.
Nokia N95 8gb

11:15 A Boyband video shows up singing about the Nokia N81. HAHAHA. It features a “Navi Wheel” similar to the scroll wheel on the iPod. It also has two dedicated buttons for games.
Nokia N81 8Gb

“When I caress your sexy Navi Wheel you’re second to none… my N81″
Nokia N81

11:24 Now questions and answers. In response to the Iphone similarity question, Ollis the CEO responds “If it is copying, we are copying with pride.” First touchscreen in S60 will be next year.
Q and A

11:50 Back to the Virtual event by WOMWorld, TVC stands for TV commercial titled, the next episode. It is an ad for the Nokia N81. Notice that the buttons are not lit up? Pretty cool!
Next Episode

11:55 Service announcement Videos for OVI. Basically the clips we saw from the webcast are being played again, but we can pause this time and take closer look.

12:15 the Nokia N81 Product managers are answering bloggers’ questions about the Nokia N81 via Jaiku. There will be 2 versions: 8GB internal flash memory version and microSD card version (2GB inbox *may vary by region). The amount of free RAM will be ~90MB.

12:30 The Nokia N95 8GB product managers started to answer bloggers’ questions about the Nokia N95 8GB via Jaiku. RAM memory is doubled, bigger screen, better battery. I love it already.

13:00 I need breakfast. It is now 8AM here in New York. Be right back.

14:00 The Nokia virtual event initially opened to a few bloggers, is now available for everyone. Head on over to the Nseries WOM World Nokia Go Play Virtual Event page to see the video webcasts for yourself. I will no longer need to liveblog the virtual event now that access is public. Thanks for visiting!

By the way, I’m so excited that the Nokia blog made it to Techmeme! Wooohoo!

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  1. Thanks for blogging this, proxy is holding me from viewing it. Make sure to let us know if a price is mentioned on this beauty!

  2. you’re welcome. this is exciting stuff.

  3. yeah - thanks so much for blogging this! Exciting stuff indeed!!

  4. Again, fantastic information. Just wondering, was a price for the n81 released yet?

  5. @aaron No not yet.

  6. N81 specs are up on nseries.com.
    BTW, Mark: I can’t post comments because of the Spam Protection (it stores the answer to the question and I can’t seem to change it), I had to switch browsers :)

  7. Thanks for letting me know! I deactivated it just now. Refresh your browsers

  8. Thanks for this post, it’s awesome because I wasn’t able to get anything of the virtual event to work on my N800!

  9. you did what i wanted to do .. somehow i wasn’t able to take any screens … :(
    Great Work Marc!

  10. Thanks for the “live-updated” post!!!
    I’m here at school @ Opera Mini in my Nokia 6230, reloading every 15 min! =D

  11. Thanks for all the comments! @edun that reminds me of what I do while in class during Apple events, checking up on TUAW.com or engadget.

  12. what’s that “sexy navy wheel”??!

  13. You are doing an excellent job Mark, keep going!

  14. hi my name is paulo
    i’m sorry for this but i worked at nokia go play at ministy of sound for you guys and i really love it
    i think you are fantastic people.so i would love so much to work with you,doing anything you dont have to pay me till you think i diserve it because i want give my best first and learn alot more from you please give a chace in my life so many people had their on i never had nothing in life please i really need it im a brazilian boy trying my best to be some body in life for that i need your help thanks god bless you and your family

  15. can nokia n95 8g

  16. can nokia n95 8g watch tv like n77??

  17. testing the refresh

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    http://www.telewaving.com

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