---
title: "Nokia: Go Play Day 2"
date: 2007-08-31 00:20:32
permalink: https://lesterchan.net/blog/2007/08/31/nokia-go-play-day-2/
author: Lester Chan
categories:
- Event
- Gadget
tags:
- Nokia Go Play
---
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](http://www.mandarinoriental.com/hotel/509000167.asp) 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](https://lesterchan.net/blogs/2007/06/30/remix-07/) 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**
– [My Own Nokia N95 8GB Live Shots](http://files.lesterchan.net/browse/photos/nokia_goplay/Nokia_N95_8GB_Live_Shots/)
**Nokia N81**
– [Download (759.6KB)](https://files.lesterchan.net/videos/nokia_goplay/Nokia_N81.avi/) | [My Own Nokia N81 Live Shots](http://files.lesterchan.net/browse/photos/nokia_goplay/Nokia_N81_Live_Shots/)
**Nokia 5610 XpressMusic**
– [My Own Nokia 5610 XpressMusic Live Shots](http://files.lesterchan.net/browse/photos/nokia_goplay/Nokia_5610_XpressMusic_Live_Shots/)
– [Download (775.7KB)](https://files.lesterchan.net/videos/nokia_goplay/Nokia_5610_XpressMusic.avi/)
**Nokia 5310 XpressMusic**
– [My Own Nokia 5310 XpressMusic Live Shots](http://files.lesterchan.net/browse/photos/nokia_goplay/Nokia_5310_XpressMusic_Live_Shots/)
## Network
Met up with a couple of people like Blair, Aaron, Gabrielle and Sue Lynn from [Text 100](http://www.text100.com/). Joseph from [MediaCorp Press](http://www.corporate.mediacorp.sg/press/). Julian from [Asia One](http://www.asiaone.com/) . Lai Chow from [Youth.sg](http://youth.sg/) and of course people from [Nokia](http://www.nokia.com.sg/) 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](http://files.lesterchan.net/browse/photos/nokia_goplay/) event.