Live at the Nokia Go Play Virtual Event

August 29th, 2007 • Mark Guim • Filed Under •

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. Clopin on 29 August 2007:

    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. Mark Guim on 29 August 2007:

    you’re welcome. this is exciting stuff.

  3. Phil on 29 August 2007:

    yeah – thanks so much for blogging this! Exciting stuff indeed!!

  4. Aaron on 29 August 2007:

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

  5. Mark Guim on 29 August 2007:

    @aaron No not yet.

  6. Clopin on 29 August 2007:

    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. Mark Guim on 29 August 2007:

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

  8. R2 on 29 August 2007:

    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. Michael aka BeerBong on 29 August 2007:

    you did what i wanted to do .. somehow i wasn’t able to take any screens … :(

    Great Work Marc!

  10. edunmc on 29 August 2007:

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

  11. Mark Guim on 29 August 2007:

    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. Marko on 29 August 2007:

    what’s that “sexy navy wheel”??!

  13. Jaro on 29 August 2007:

    You are doing an excellent job Mark, keep going!

  14. Paulo Jovando Brito Dos Santos on 30 August 2007:

    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. Nokia is Flying Me Over to Los Angeles! at the Nokia blog on 18 September 2007:

    [...] sent the plane tickets and hotel confirmation yesterday. I think the party will be related to the announcement of the Nokia N95 8GB, Nokia N81, and the new music service. I can’t [...]

  16. I’m Going To Finland, An Nseries Launch Next Week! at the Nokia blog on 7 November 2007:

    [...] up to date. The invitation also mentioned that the event will be available virtually similar to the Go Play Virtual Event to those unable to [...]

  17. shamir on 26 November 2007:

    can nokia n95 8g

  18. shamir on 26 November 2007:

    can nokia n95 8g watch tv like n77??

  19. mackarus on 15 December 2007:

    testing the refresh

  20. Ron on 15 January 2008:

    And use Wavelog to post text, photos, videos and sound to your blog!
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  21. WOM World / Nokia » Blog Archive » Live blogging from Go Play and the Virtual Event! on 14 April 2008:

    [...] Guim, from the Nokia Blog is live blogging about the Go Play event that’s taking place in London right now, with info about the N95 8GB, N81, Ngage and new [...]

  22. SMS Text News » Archives » Two weeks with Ovi: Day 1 on 28 April 2008:

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  23. Hrishi on 15 December 2008:

    Is nokia n85 available with 2gb inbox memory card version?If yes than what will be its price?
    Please answer my problem.Its urgent!!

  24. Hrishi on 16 December 2008:

    Please answer the question asked by me on 15 dec 2008.
    because its urgently needed

  25. Hrishi on 16 December 2008:

    Please reply my comment asked on 15 dec 2008.
    Ron,mackaru,shamir,paulo,mark,michael,R2,clopin,phil are specially requested to reply on my comment as early as possible.

  26. Mark Guim on 16 December 2008:

    @Hrishi, it comes with 8GB microSD card.

  27. Hrishi on 16 December 2008:

    Mark,but is it available with 2gb card
    thanks for your response

  28. Hrishi on 16 December 2008:

    @Aaron, the current price of n81 is $300 & n81 8Gb will cost you $370.

  29. Hrishi on 17 December 2008:

    Mark,my problem is that i can’t afford more than $410 & the current price of n85 is $470.I think if there is a 2gb version than it would cost less.If n81 & n95 comes with 2gb version,why cant n85?Should i wait for 2-3 months for price to come down.

  30. Hrishi on 13 January 2009:

    I have bought a new n79.my problem is that i cannot uninstall the themes which i had installed in the memory card.

  31. Sanket on 19 February 2009:

    Hi frends,i am Sanket & i am new to this blog.I own a nokia N70 ME phone.Last week it was infected by some sort of virus.So i had to format both the MMC as well as the phone memory.Now how can i get back the applications which came pre-loaded with my MMC.

  32. Sanket on 19 February 2009:

    You need a filemanager which can view you system folders.Then search for a folder which consists of mbm,ini & skn files.Open the mbm file,if you want to delete that theme then delete the entire folder which consists the mbm,ini & skn files.
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