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Live streaming of Nokia Quiz

As you read this, the mobile community has gathered in Amsterdam and besides Darla, Ricky, Rafe, Ewan, Jay and Teo there are members from All About Symbian, Mobile Burn and Symbian Freak.  While we wait for them to post the juicy info they have gathered in Amsterdam let’s talk about an event that will be held tomorrow on Wednesday the 5^th of December at 19:00 GMT.  The event is organized by WOM World and hosted by two of my friends from WOM World: Donna and Frank. So what’s exactly going to happen? Members from three mobile communities are going to go head-to-head in a Nokia themed quiz. The winning community will guarantee 5 of their members (selected by the team captain) an N82 trial. You at home will be able to test your own knowledge and follow their progress as it will be streamed live using Ustream.tv.

Nseries Urbanista *Update*

To update you on the Nseries Urbanista blogger global relay race I had talked about a few days ago, I can now confirm the identity of two other participants. One of them isn’t unknown to the Nokia/S60 community, I’m talking about Mobileburn’s Jay a.k.a. Jose_R.A.M. The other confirmed participant is Ms Jen, from the Black Phoebe blog who also uses Nseries for moblogging. As you guys already know this trip is going to be highly interactive, but I was passed along a few details that I didn’t know about. It seems each participant will get a customized widget on their sites/blog which will be streaming all their produced content during the trip. It will make use out of what seems like a modified version of the Nokia SportsTracker app. It will track our route across an image of the world, on which you will be able to click down on certain locations which will then reveal thumbnail images with text produced by each participants.  This trip is getting even more amazing as the details get in. I just got to confirm now who the 4^th blogger is going to be. Let me see what other crazy stuff I can convince the WOM World team, especially Siobhan to add to the trip :)

Going to be part of Nseries Urbanista Diaries!!!

Hey guys just wanted to let you know that I’m going to be part of WOM World’s Nseries Urbanista Diaries. It’s basically a blogger global relay race where one blogger is dropped off somewhere in the world where he or she encounters challenges along the way. He or she will then have to use the N82 to document and share the experience as well as using it as a tool to find his or her way to the next blogger who will continue the journey. The cool thing about this is that it’s going to be entirely interactive in the sense that you guys will be able to follow the 4 bloggers including me along the trip as we document the journey in images, video, sound and text. We will keep you posted about the route and where we are located at the moment, this will allow you to suggest things to do, activities to attend and in some cases even meet up with some of you who are in the area! This will be an opportunity to showcase the N82 as tool (to find your way around as I never been to some of these places), but as a way to share the sights and sounds, not just when we get back, but actually during the trip. I will keep you guys posted as the details come in. Once the trip starts, my blog/N82 combo will be my tools to keep everyone informed where I am. I will probably use the GPS function to pinpoint my exact locations. Hmm, I wonder who the other three are going to be? :)

Mark your Calendar for the 29th!

These days I’ve been quite busy trying to keep up with all the latest news and rumors surrounding next week’s announcement. Thanks to the FCC and some other sources we did get a glimpse of what we may expect. But I guess we’ll all have to wait until the 29th. In the mean time I was lucky enough to score an invite to an exclusive Nokia virtual event that will be held on that same day, not sure what it’s all about but I can guess that it’s music, N95 8GB and N81 related. (?) Knowing Nokia, I’m pretty sure there will be a few surprises here and there. As always I will be reporting back, so do check the Nokia Guide for all the latest updates! What do you guys think? What surprises do you think Nokia has in store for us?