Introducing Nokia Beta Labs
Today is a good day, as we turn on the lights at Nokia Beta Labs. Go check it out!
The site says:
Nokia is continuously working on new ideas and innovations and improving our current applications and services. Please try them out and give us your feedback on how we can further improve them. Your feedback goes directly to the development teams that are working on the applications.
You know, this just might work.
However, the whole thing is still in beta (pun intended), and initially, there are only a couple of showcase applications/services available:
- Mobile Codes: user generated 2D barcodes
- Wellness diary
- Sports Tracker
- link to Widsets
- Mobile Gizmo (coming soon)
In the coming weeks and months, I hope that we’ll be able to give you all kinds of wonderful apps and services (with some rough edges) through this channel. And in the long run, I would imagine this site as the main portal to find all the latest stuff from Nokia.
In the meanwhile, I’d love to hear your thoughts. What do you think about the whole initiative? How could we make this a massive success for everyone? What do you think about the initial website? What should we add/remove/change?
I’ve been a strong advocate of Nokia Beta Labs inside Nokia, and therefore I’m fortunate to have a direct hotline to the chieftains behind this initiative. So, as always, I’ll promise to pass on your most constructive suggestions directly to them.
I really think this is a good step in the right direction. Does anyone sense that “but” part is about to follow?
Well, here it is: but I would rather see a site dedicated to phones itself, where users could give feedback/report bugs in firmware to the “Lab” staff directly, because I don’t think that mail sending to local Nokia Care lines does any good.
Back to the subject, I am very pleased with this initiative, it can only succeed, there’s no other option
I think its a cool idea… and especially since we can follow updates via RSS!!
Nice one! However, it seems like somebody has forgot to add PC Suite into the list of applications still on beta stage.
Nokia should look at owning Neomedia Technologies and their mobile platform named Qode.
Own the PWC connection.
Congratulations!
Actually Gizmo client is already in N95 Download! client, at least in mine..
This is really a brilliant idea. I have seen similar concept from many big PC’s software companies. And not it comes to Nokia.
Note: Thanks Tommi for the correction about Widsets vs. S60 Widgets on my blog. Somehow I got confused because Nokia Beta Labs and S60 Widgets are announced at the same day; and one of the application from Beta Labs is Widgets.
Well.. that’s life.
Antony