Nokia have released an official beta version of Internet Radio - this allows you to use your phone’s internet connection to stream audio from a huge list of internet based ‘radio’ stations using the popular Shoutcast protocol.
This release supports only the Nokia N95, N91 and N82 handsets, with promises of full integration into new as-yet-unreleased phones.
If you have an older phone (and don’t mind getting your hands dirty, tech-wise), you can still be able to join in some of the fun by downloading this open source Shoutcast player.
For best results, Nokia recommend accessing Internet Radio via a WLAN access point rather than GPRS.
This week Nokia held its annual Nokia World Conference in Amsterdam, outlining its 2008 plans. The key themes in CEO and President Olli-Pekka Kallsvuo’s keynote address were; the ‘convergence of mobility and the internet’; and the need for environmental sustainability.
Ovi
Central to Nokia’s ‘vision’ of ‘convergence of mobility’, is the merging of individual services such as mobile applications and mobile internet services, into a kind of joined-up suite of integrated services.
The aim of Ovi is to link different services across mobile, online and PC platforms – for instance linking Nokia Maps to Nokia Photos, to enable people to take pictures of/at a location, share them with friends on their mobiles and online.
Ovi launched this year with Nokia Maps, Nokia Music Store and this month, N-Gage games service. Nokia Intellisyc Email was also launched as well as web communities (such as Widsets and MOSH), and app downloads via the new Nokia Download! service available on new NSeries devices.
A web portal to Ovi is being launched next year, while an on-device version is already available on the 8GB versions of the Nokia N81 and N95, with new NSeries devices getting Ovi in 2008.
Read on for more of the highlights of the 2007 Nokia World Conference….
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