“Urbanista diaries” – N82 promotion

A storytelling project as a promotion for the Nokia N82 . The urbanista diaries: Four Bloggers are travelling around the world, recording their journey and people with their N82. By Nokia’s Sports tracker application the audience can track the bloggers’ activities in real time.

More on the campaign at GPS Business News.

Black N82 arriving

The Nokia N82 is a true travel companion. From the data sheet (PDF):

Photo and Video

• 5 megapixel camera with Xenon flash, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus with a dedicated autofocus assist lamp, and MPEG-4 VGA video capture of up to 30 frames per second with video stabilization
• High speed camera performance
• One-click photo and video uploading from gallery to compatible online albums or blogs with Wi-Fi or 3G
• Easy playback of recorded videos and photos on compatible TV using TV out cable or Wi-Fi/UPnP
• Geotagging: adds location information to images when they are captured

Navigation

• Built-in GPS: Nokia Maps with integrated GPS, Assisted GPS (A-GPS) support
• All standard Nokia N82 Black sales packages will come with some local maps preloaded to the memory card
• All standard Nokia N82 Black sales packages will have a minimum 3 day free navigation trial
• Maps data available for over 150 countries, navigation supported for over 30 countries, 15 million location highlights

And it has a barcode scanner for mobile tagging.

GPS Phones – Nokia

Nokia announced in February at 3GSM that four handsets equipped with GPS will be launched in Q3 2008:

• Nokia 6220 classic with an electronic compass for pedestrian navigation
• Nokia N96 which will be the new flagship, following the N95
• Nokia N78 as a multimedia computer with A-GPS
• Nokia 6210 Navigator as an origin automotive assistant

Press Kit from Nokia: www.nokia.com/A4686367?kit=80

Photos: Nokia

locr@Nokia

Germany-based company locr states that their software for Symbian S60 phones is available at Nokia’s EMEA download site – in a press release for instance via inar.de. locr offers a community and a software for geotagging photos.

www.locr.de | http://www.locr.com/index.php?lang=en

GyPSii phone community

Screenshot: Locative Media

A geo community for web and phone users, where everybody can upload geolocated photos, audios, videos, points of interest. About GyPSii:

“GyPSii is the consumer application for mobile, web & Internet connected devices.GyPSii allows users to share their real life experiences in the virtual world using mobile devices and the web. It is a social networking, search & location based suite of integrated mobile and web applications – for users to share, view & upload pictures, video, text and POI (points of interest) with a Geo-location – place and track each other in their select communities. Find people and places, points of interest, map and navigate to them all.

A record of a Life History of Events in Full Context (Video & audio clips, location(s), photos, text, shared experiences & people, etc.)

A seamless mobile & web experience built on the convergence of locations based services, social networking, mobile & web 2.0 technologies, agnostic access across devices and networks.”

http://www.gypsii.com/reader.cgi?id=about

The phone client is available for Windows Mobile – for Symbian S60, Nokia only, it is soon to come.

Interesting is the “Market Overview and Introduction to GyPSii” (PDF).