The second and last day for the Nokia: Go Play was held in The Oriental Singapore, ballroom 1.

As usual there was an introductory speech followed by 2 panel discussions:

Panel Discussion on the Nokia NGage Platform

• Nokia rep: Ilkka Raiskinen, SVP, Multimedia Experiences, Nokia Multimedia
• Ludovic Blondel, OEM Director, GameLoft
• Vishal Gondal, Founder & CEO, Indiagames Ltd
• Bryan Ma, Director, Personal Systems Research, IDC Asia Pacific
• Moderator: Keith Liu, Head of Internet & Games Experiences, Asia Pacific, Nokia Multimedia

Summary of topics discuss during the above panel includes:

• Battery life
• Gaming violence
• Distribution of games on N-gage platform
• Local gaming content
• Target audience
• From casual gaming to addiction

Panel Discussion on Nokia Music Services

• Nokia rep: Jawahar Kanjilal, Director of Multimedia Experiences, Asia Pacific, Nokia Multimedia
• Nokia rep: Alex Lambeek, Vice President, Sales and Portfolio Management, Mobile Phones, Asia Pacific, Nokia
• Sandy Monteiro, Senior Vice President, Southeast Asia, Universal Music
• Bryan Ma, Director, Personal Systems Research, IDC Asia Pacific
• Moderator: Joe Augustin, Veteran DJ and Emcee

Summary of topics discuss during the above panel includes:

• 20% increased in digital sales and hence physical sales decreases
• Customize to individual
• 2/3 surveyed wants convergence of devices.
• Convergence started with FM radio
• Local music store
• DRM getting bad reputation
• Ease of use in downloading/transferring of music led to growth
• Bitrate vs file size of the audio tracks
• 2 million songs will be ready when launched
• Privacy will decline when people can use it easily and the price is reasonable

I also realized that people who asked questions in the first panel discussion will always ask it in the second panel discussion.

Lunch was next at the MELT and the spread and quality of the food is simply fantastic. I think by just trying a piece from every dish, you will get full. I was eating alone at first till I saw Blair which so happens to be Nic soon-to-be wife. I saw her the day before at the dinner and I find her very familiar, then after checking Nic’s Facebook, I am 80% sure it is the same girl and I confirmed it during the lunch. LOL

After lunch, I proceeded on the Press Room where they have the phones for me to play with and I managed to snap a few lousy quality pictures (photography is just not my cup of tea) and 2 videos showing the new multimedia/music menu. I did not manage to play with the N95 8GB because the battery is FLAT and I can’t find any charger in the room =(

Stayed there for quite a while before proceeding on to Comex 2007 to meet up with my mom.

Here are 4 sample shots and 2 videos that I have taken/recorded:

Nokia N95 8GB

Nokia N95 8GB Live Shot

- My Own Nokia N95 8GB Live Shots

Nokia N81

Nokia N81 Live Shot

- My Own Nokia N81 Live Shots

Nokia 5610 XpressMusic

Nokia 5610 XpressMusic Live Shot

- My Own Nokia 5610 XpressMusic Live Shots

Nokia 5310 XpressMusic

Nokia 5310 XpressMusic Live Shot

- My Own Nokia 5310 XpressMusic Live Shots

Network
Met up with a couple of people like Blair, Aaron, Gabrielle and Sue Lynn from Text 100. Joseph from MediaCorp Press. Julian from Asia One . Lai Chow from Youth.sg and of course people from Nokia Like Dinesh, Julia and some other Nokia staffs which I can’t remember the names. Cheer to you guys and girls! I want to apologize to those whom I had met but not in the list as I am really bad in remembering names and that is the reason why I rely on name cards. Sorry about that.

Check out all the pictures I have taken from the 2 day Nokia: Go Play Singapore event.

I was almost late for the opening speech as I expected it would be delayed till about 5.30pm, but it started on the dot at 5.15pm as stated on the agenda.

The programs for the night are split into 3 major parts, the speech, the live demo of phones followed by dinner.

The Speech
Nokia announced N95 8GB the difference between that and the normal N95 is that is spot a 2.8″ screen, 8GB internal memory, no memory card expansion, no camera lens cover. It will have 2 colors mainly black and brown. I am still trying to find out whether it is using S60 FP2. Keep you all updated.

Nokia N95 8GB Official Press Photo

N81 on the other hand has also 8GB of memory, but it has only a 2MP camera as it meant to be a music phone. Apparently Nokia is focusing a lot of attention onto this phone as a ngage platform (gaming) and a music phone.

- Engadget’s Nokia N81 hands-on gallery

Nokia N81 Official Press Photo

Nokia XpressMusic 5310 has got to be the thinnest phone ever created by Nokia. The buttons on the side of the screen for both Nokia XpressMusic 5310 and XpressMusic 5610 are all made of aluminum. The cameras are 3.2MP.

- Engadget’s Nokia XpressMusic 5310 hands-on Gallery

- Engadget’s Nokia XpressMusic 5610 hands-on Gallery

Nokia XpressMusic 5310 Blue Official Press Photo

Nokia XpressMusic 5610 Blue Official Press Photo

Nokia announced Ovi (which means “the door” in Finnish), an online platform for Nokia online services when you can download music (Nokia Music Store), games (N-Gage) and maps (Nokia Maps) through your Nokia phone.

I have uploaded some photos that I have taken (I suck in photography) and mirrored images from the official press CD to http://files.lesterchan.net/browse/photos/nokia_goplay/. All the images are resized as the images from the CD are just way to huge to be display online, imagine a 7MB image.

The Live Demo
The female models there promoting the phone are so tall, they are taller than me by a head and that makes me look short.

I was surprise by the number of live working Nokia phones there, I managed to play with every phone for a while but due to my lousy photography skills, I am unable to take clear picture of any phones.

The Dinner
Dinner is provided by The Oriental Singapore. It is a 4 course dinner and the good is good.

They invited 3 performers to performed, namely Min Lee, a Singapore rock band which I can’t really remember the name and the singer which did Singapore proud, Corinne May.

Rants
I am definitely getting Nokia N95 8GB as my next phone. Hopefully I can get to review it for 3 months before I buy it.

I will try to upload videos from the presentation when I get my hands on it tomorrow.

PS: Nokia N82 will not be coming to Singapore or maybe even Asia as it is meant for the US market.