Nokia & Microsoft Windows Phone 8 Event [Live]

By Salman On September 5, 2012 · Add Comment

We are covering the Nokia & Microsoft Windows Phone 8 event live, so keep refreshing the page for live updates. The event will begin in a few moments, so if you think you will get bored then you can read our Lumia 920 rumor roundup.

Live:

CEO of Nokia, Stephen Elop, is here. He says “This meant giving people beautiful phones whilst ensuring we deliver services.”
“First, we joined the Windows Phone ecosystem. We shared a vision with Microsoft that we could create a new smartphone experience.”
“An alternative to the grid of applications. Windows Phone already offers something very unique in the marketplace.”
“In only six months we’ve brought two Lumia smartphones to market.”
Elop is saying how the Lumia 800 has a beautiful design and how the ecosystem is growing.
“The Nokia Lumia 610 has allowed us to expand our presence in South America and China.”
“Together with Microsoft we captured the attentions of developers — the Windows Phone ecosystem has grown to 100,000 apps. Three times faster after Nokia joined.”
“We’ve brought some big names to the ecosystem…to deliver a unique experience.”
Elop is talking about Nokia’s Asha devices.
“Smartphone experiences are all happening on Asha today.”
“There’s so much more innovation in this space ahead.”
“Going forward we are pleased with the sales start of the new Asha.”
“We are identifying ways to challenge the shortcomings of today’s mobile experiences.”
“Across all of our strategy we said Nokia would differentiate, we said Nokia would create a unique Nokia experience.”
“Nokia photography and optics are changing the way people capture the world around them.”
“The Nokia location platform provides maps for almost 200 countries.”
“Four out of five cars with navigation are using Nokia maps.”
“We are extending the Nokia location platform to Windows Phone.”
“Deeply embedded” into Windows Phone 8
“Perhaps the most important step we took as part of the shift in Nokia’s strategy is to change the way Nokia operates.”
“Simplying our organization by removing layers of management.”
“We’re going through a remarkable transition at Nokia.”
“Today we are all very excited that next very important step.”

Jo Harlow is here to discuss Lumia:

“As Stephen said, we’ve taken several important steps over the last 18 months.”
“We’re ready to take the next step.”
A video is playing with a grid and the design of a Lumia.
Yellow, Black and White colors.
We’re looking at the camera in great detail, 2000mAh battery
“Today we are introducing the next generation of Lumia”
“The Nokia Lumia 920.”
“This is the most innovative smartphone in the world.”
“The latest Nokia PureView camera for taking the best pictures and videos of any smartphone.”
”Advanced Nokia mapping experience on Windows Phone 8 including Nokia City Lens.”
“The most immersive viewing experience on any smartphone.”
“We’ve built in wireless charging to squeeze more out of your day.”
“This is Lumia and it’s time to switch.”
“Nokia PureView stands for the latest smartphone camera innovation and the highest quality images and video.”
“With PureView we apply cutting edge innovation.”
“The Nokia Lumia 920 captures better images and video than any competitor smartphone.”
“IDC predicts that 2012 that images taken from a mobile phone will surpass the number of images taken from a traditional camera.”
“1.4 million images taken every day with mobile phones.”
“We don’t usually have time to fiddle with settings to capture a perfect moment.”
“We’re all familiar with the dark or blurry pictures that sometimes result when we’re shooting indoors or at night without using flash.”
“The shutter has to stay open longer…those few extra tenths of a second…exposes the shutter to the minute movements in your hand that causes blur in the images.”
“The technology reacts to the minute movements in your hand to balance the lens.”
PureView lets the shutter stay open longer
“Since the Nokia Lumia 920 has the best smartphone camera for taking pictures and video for everyday use we wanted to help people find places to use it.”
“Nokia Maps, Transport, Drive are frequently cited for reasons that consumers choose a Lumia device.”
“We are bringing together Nokia’s location-based technologies.”
“Offline maps will be a key feature of the Nokia Maps experience.”
“I’m not talking about caching offline data for use later.”
“We’re talking about the real deal, whether you’re connected or not.”
“You can launch Nokia Drive for free voice navigation out of the box.”
“Since we’re adding indoor maps on Windows Phone 8 we can get you to exactly where you need to go.”
“The mapping experience on Nokia Lumia just keeps getting stronger.”
“Nokia City Lens provides the most intuititve way to explore the world around you.”
“It’s a much more intuitive and human way to explore your surroundings.”
“Nokia City Lens is only the first application to use this approach, Nokia Maps will also get augmented reality.”
“Once you set the route, lift up the phone at any time to switching into an AR mode.”
“We set out to deliver the best viewing experience of any smartphone display.”
“Welcome to Nokia PureMotion HD+”
“PureMotion is the best smartphone display innovation from Nokia.”
“Better than HD resolution…fast refresh rate.”
“The clarify is so incredible that video just pops right out of the screen.”
“4.5-inch curved glass display.”
“When you scroll through an email or webpage the text stays crystal sharp.”
“Nokia has pioneered clear black displays using smart polarizers.”
“Clear black has just gotten better.”
The screen’s tone and brightness adjusts itself based on the sunlight.
“The Lumia 920 is a smartphone that is so immersive that you never wanna put it down.”
“How do you make sure that you get all the power you need to get the most out of your day.”
“2000 mAh battery, enough to get anyone through an average day.”
“We then selected the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor”
“Up to 30 percent more battery efficient that quad-core alternatives.”
“The Nokia Lumia 920 comes with built-in wireless charging.”
“Whenever you recharge your phone can recharge too.”
“This is the fat boy recharge pillow.”
“Fat boy is one of the many partners we are working with to make wireless charging fit into your everyday live.”
“There is a lot of momentum building behind the Qi operatbility standard.”
“We are announcing wireless charging with Virgin Atlantic.”
Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf will install plates on tables to recharge phones
“These are just the first of many partnerships…to make it possible to top up on the go.”
“The best viewing experience of any smartphone display.”
“There’s one other innovation I haven’t yet talked about…that’s the Windows Phone 8 platform experience.”

Joe Belfiore comes on stage to talk Windows Phone 8:

”Pleased to be here to talk about Windows Phone 8.”
“I am going to sneak in a couple of extras features,”
“Not going to show all the terrific features in Windows Phone 8…we’re saving that for a later date.”
“This is the Lumia 920…this is my own phone.”
“We intend for Windows Phone 8 to deliver the most personal experience that anyone can get on a smartphone.”
He is talking about the Start Screen experience
“I want to customize it so it suits me.”
Demonstrating the People Hub now
Demonstrating the new small sized live tiles in Windows Phone 8
“We aggregate together text messages, Facebook messages and Facebook posts.”
“The next thing I am going to do is focus on apps.”
“We’re well over 100,000 apps.”
“A lot of the announcements we made in June relate to our core technology…common code base with Windows 8.”
“Our app platform becomes much easier as the ecosystem for developers to target.”
“Windows Phone 8 of course runs the Windows Phone 7 apps.”
Demonstrating some of the Windows Phone 7 apps.
“These apps work unchanged and they still work on Windows Phone 8.”
“CNN has built an app and what they’re going to do with Windows Phone 8 is support some of the new features.”
Joe is showing how the CNN live tile works in large mode.
He is now showing Internet Explorer
You are now able to change the button in IE to favorites or tabs.
“I can see all the open tabs I have in IE10.”
Switching over to Pulse news app.
Pulse running on IE10 with HTML5.
“Now I have an excellent HTML5 web site as part of customized Start Screen.”
Finally screenshots are now supported in Windows Phone 8.
You can take a screenshot by holding the home button and power (just like the iPhone).
Joe just tweeted a screenshot, you can check it out here https://twitter.com/joebelfiore/status/243357525167194112
“That’s our screenshot feature and personalization possible with Windows Phone 8.”
Now he is focusing on photography.
Zoom bar is gone, pinch zoom is now supported on camera.
Lenses button in the interface.
“Let me explain this concept of Lenses.”
“Each is an application, a Lense application…integrated deeply into camera experience.”
“Bing Vision lens built into Windows Phone.”
Showing a photo that was captured by Photosynth.
“I used the camera button to engage the Microsoft Photosynth lens.”
“Really useful to engage the Photosynth viewer.”
Photos can be opened by other viewers.
“What you’re actually seeing here is a third-party application.”
“The net benefit is that the experience of taking photos…you get an experience that lets third-parties add value.”
Full res auto upload of photos to SkyDrive in Windows Phone 8.
Showing the Photos app in Windows 8 to see the SkyDrive Camera Roll
Even third-party photos will be uploaded to SkyDrive automatically
“Capturing multiple images and then storing them can enable some fantastic image quality.”
Blink Lens app, written by Microsoft’s Research team to get best picture of a face.
Taking a lot of frames to capture the best picture.
“It chooses the one that it thinks is best.”
“If I want to, that’s just one image in my Camera Roll…what blink is doing is actually storing all the data associated with that photo.”
“I can later on, go back and re-engage the Blink Lens and modify the picture.”

Kevin Shields now here to talk Lumia 920:

“WIndows Phone 8 and the new Lumia 920 were developed side-by-side to build a better smartphone experience.”
“World’s most innovative smartphone.”
“There is some pretty amazing stuff in here.”
“A phone that matters more to you and not the other way around.”
“From a design perspective the Lumia 920 is a smartphone that proudly stands apart from the crowd.”
“The Lumia 920 celebrates the return of the curved glass display from the Lumia 800.”
“Also delivering terrific performance.”
“We expand our color story by adding the speculator yellow.”
Slate grey, Red, and Yellow for the Lumia 920
“It begs to be picked up.”
“You may have seen the video of our proud engineer driving nails into our Lumia.”
Glass even stronger on the Lumia 920.
“No cracks, certainly not a phone falling apart in your hand.”
“Right down to the ceramic side keys and camera badge on the back — nearly impossible to scratch.”
“Lets start with the display.”
“We are super proud of the display on the Lumia 920. In our opinion this is the fastest LCD display ever shipped on a smartphone.”
“Brightest smartphone HD display ever.”
“WXGA, higher than 720p resolution.”
“All adds up to the best smartphone display for every day use.”
“We’ve included a technology called super sensitive touch.”
Super sensitive touch allows you to touch the display with gloves.
This is really great for those of us who live in cold climates.
“The Lumia 920 comes with wireless charging intergrated.”
Demonstrating how the Lumia 920 charges
“It’s charging on top of the Nokia wireless charging plate.”
“Wireless charging makes charging effortless.”
“it’s easy and simple. It just works.”
“Introducing the JBL power up.”
New speaker designed by JBL for Nokia.
“Has wireless charging integrated as well as NFC.”
“The Lumia 920 also has integrated NFC.”
“Demonstrating Nokia Music, tapping on the JBL Power Up and the music switches over to the speakers.”
“Now the device is on the JBL speaker and its charging.”
“Nokia Music is coming to the United States, should be downloadable in the Windows Phone Marketplace any moment now.”
“Exclusive new apps that come with the Lumia 920.”
Demonstrating City Lens
“Use your camera as a way to explore the real world around you.”
Address and phone number information provided within City Lens
“Effortless and intuitive.”
“We worked with Rovio on Angry Birds Roost.”
“Angry Birds Roost is an integrated experience that allows me to discover the best of Angry Birds.”
“I can download ringtones or wallpapers, I can buy and launch directly here — the games from the Angry Birds experience.”
Switching over to two new Lenses for WP8.
“Smart Shoot.”
“Imagine you’re in an art gallery, you wanna take a picture of your friends but there’s people around.”
“You can open images in Smart Shoot, it analyzes and finds the objects that are moving.”
You can tap and remove the moving people in images.
“Cinemagraph” is the second Lens.
“It takes a capture and does some processing.”
The output allows you to modify the images to add motion
Basically it’s a GIF maker.
Showing how you can animate parts of the image.
“A little bit more than that still image to remember the experience.”
Discussing the PureView camera in the Lumia 920 now.
“There are two direct ways to capture more light.”
“The first is by increasing the aperture, we’ve done exactly that.”
“We keep the shutter open for longer to let more light through.”
Object image stabilization, a technique to float elements of the camera.
“It works to hold the camera steady even when your hand is shaking.”
Tiny springs stabilize the images.
“Our engineers decided to put springs around the entire assembly.”
“Up to 50 percent more effective than many high-end digital cameras today.”
“The camera can be held so smooth, you can capture all that extra light.”
“The Lumia 920 is a phone that really adapts to your life and not the other way around.”
“As great as the Nokia Lumia 920 is we know not everyone needs that functionality.”
“This is the Nokia Lumia 820.”
“The Lumia 820 is an evolution on the Lumia design.”
“4.3-inch display.”
Built in NFC, comes with Nokia locations services
“It also comes with all those Nokia digital lenses.”
“The back shelf pops up, underneath you’ll find a 1650mAh battery and microSD slot.”
“The standard shells make it easier to choose a color to suit your move.”
New purple color.
Protective shells, third set of shells adds wireless charging
“So the Lumia 920 and 820 together bringing innovation that you’ve never seen before.”

CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, comes on stage:

“Thanks to all of you for spending time here this morning.”
“This is a very important milestone.”
“In a sense it’s unbelieveable how far we’ve come in 18 months working with Nokia.”
“It was a full on sprint.”
“You start to really see the incredible power of the partnership.”
“I think it’s unlike any other phone on the market.”
“What we’ve done with our live tile user interface is truly stunning and unique.”
“Make no mistake about it, this is the year for Windows.”
“Windows Phone, Windows tablets, Windows PCs. It is a year for Windows.”
“We’ve reimagined Windows from the ground up.”
“The user interface commonality.”
“All of the devices are designed to be beautiful and functional.”
“With Windows 8 the software is all out there.”
“We’re starting to see from our hardware partners a round of introductions of next-gen PCs.”
“The launch today of the two new Lumia devices really fills out of the proposition in a really powerful way.”
“Over the course of a month or two we’ll see the rest of the Windows Phone 8 software.”
“We bring the power of Bing as both a search engine and a set of technologies that support NUI.”
“We integrate in the Microsoft account, a single place to log in and get access to SkyDrive, Skype, and Outlook.com.”
“You see the integration of Xbox services across Windows Phone, Windows tablets.”
“Perhaps as importantly as anything else, we bring a developer platform and a store in a common way to Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.”
“We’ve done a lot of work to standardize the applications.”
“Certainly in the one year from now, between Windows Phones and Windows tablets we should see close to 400 million new devices running those operating systems.”
“That means Lumia, that means Surface. A variety of the devices you saw introduced in Berline [IFA 2012] last week.”
“Largest single opportunity available for software developers today.”
“The next app developer to hit it really really big will be on Windows.”

Stephen Elop is back on stage:

“We started with 7,000 apps and now we stand at 100,000.”
“We started by bringing our exclusive Carl Zeiss optics to Windows Phone.”
“Today we introduced the best way to captures images.”
“We started by joining the Windows Phone ecosystem and today we are creating the most personal experience.”
“This is Lumia, the world’s most innovative smartphone. Thank you very much.”

QnA Starts:

Q: When will the new Lumia 920 come to China?

A: ”We are not announcing dates but China is a large focus for us.”

Q: What about Arabic support on the Windows Phone 8 platform?

A: “Windows Phone 8 will support this on the platform.”

Q: Will city view be available for canadians?

A: ”I can comment on navigation capabilities, certainly part of the offering for Canada.”

Q: I was wondering how do you feel about Samsung stealing your thunder with Windows Phone 8?

A: ”Of course anyone can go on stage and introduce a device at any point. We are particularly proud to stand on stage to show Windows Phone 8 fully working.”

Q: Is Nokia developing a Windows 8 or RT tablet?

A: ”We have not announced any plans to introduce tablet products.”

Q: VPN on Windows Phone 8?

A: ”Key eight pillars are enhancements to the security platform. You will see enhanced security capabilities in Windows Phone 8 – full encryption, DRM etc.”

Q: Will all apps work on Windows Phone 8?

A: ”Expectation is full forward compatibility.”

Q: Where do you see market share heading?

A: ”Each step that we take, along with Microsoft and other OEMs – our intention is to grow that market share.”

That’s it, the event ended. Thanks for tuning in, we hope you enjoyed our liveblog. Don’t forget that we will also be covering the Motorola event which is in a few hours so stay tuned.