Closer look at Nokia TV- #NokiaEntertainment
Regardless of what your thoughts are on the Nokia/WP strategy one fact that can’t be denied is that is has led to an increase in the number of previously dismal Nokia services, and more importantly these services don’t end up in the notorious “Forever-Beta land” (looking at you nokia pulse). Currently Nokia WPs have an impressive number of services provided by Nokia for their line of WPs (Maps, drive, transit, reading, creative studio, camera extras, play to, mix radio, TV, reading…) so here’s my attempt at taking a closer look at these services, starting with the Nokia Entertainment range which includes, Mix Radio/Nokia Music, Nokia Reading and Nokia TV.
As you should have probably guessed from the title first up from the entertainment line is Nokia TV, Nokia TV is one of the more recently launched services and is currently only available for those of you in Finland (shame), Nokia TV is a brilliant “catch up-TV service” that allows users in Finland to view content from some of the countries largest providers on their Lumia phone, Anytime- Completely FREE (there might be the occasional video ad).
Users of Lumia smartphones in Finland will be able to conveniently browse or search through the available catalogues of catch-up TV services from major local broadcasters and then stream a chosen show directly to their phone – without any sign up or registration.
So here’s the video in Glorious 1080p (poll: is there a need for 1080p quality or is 720p enough?- only asking cause of the file size/upload times):
As you can see in the video demo the services are really neat bringing you a HUGE variety of content from talk shows to comedies to sport matches and all free, the other factor that really impressed me in the content provided was the quality of the content as it appeared to be “near-HD” quality.
Category: Applications, Nokia, Video, Windows Phone
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Heyyo, names Ali- Currently a fourth year Dental Student from Chicago; studying in Jordan. I love all sorts of gadgets almost as much as I love my cookies! (Have: Green Nokia N8, Cyan Lumia 800, Black N9, Stormtrooper White Lumia 900, Black 808 PureView, Red Lumia 920). Follow my twitter handle '@AliQudsi' - no pressure. Thanks.Subscribe
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It Sucks when Nokia already had mobile tv on their phones
so nothing new under the table
I don’t have it so bring it to me, love it. We need Mix radio to. Just got the Nokia WRC app and that’s great. The PGA Tour should show up tomorrow. I’m using beta Pulse as my only social app and like that best. Play To took a long time out of beta also. Bring us a Nokia feed app please. Since nokia is going to key in on camera, I wish theY would come out with a camera guide app. Quick guide for camera settings for shots built into camera for Nokia phones only.
Here’s the Nokia list at Marketplaceus…
Dark Knight Rises
Nokia Trailers
Univision
ESPN
The Caddie
Nokia Climate Mission
100th Day of School
Creative Studio
Camera Extras
Contact Transfers
App Highlights
Maps/Drive
Transit
Weather
CNN
TuneIn Radio
Tango Video
ACC Sports
SoundTracker Radio
Viet Keyboard
Goal.com
WRC Live
Nokia Army
Delfi
All listed under Nokia Corporation.
Love the wallpaper!
The UI on all of those apps are just beautiful.
Great demo, Ali.
Hhaha thanks, that was the first thing I did when I got the phone, thought it matched well.
720p is enough for me.
What do you think will happen to Nokia Pulse? Now that they dont have their own platform anymore (except S40) and their volumes have dropped so heavily, it does not really sound like a necessary service. MS will have Skyper or something other similar built-in that one is able to connect to other MS sevices.
720p is enough. Considering the mobile and home internet speeds have to be pretty fast to watch 1080p and that even for PCs you need a good processor/GPU to play it smoothly, I would choose 720p uploads all the time.
The only time I would choose 1080p is if I am uploading a video sample, like a 1080p PureView clip.
Also, we never get anything good like this in the states. There are so many legal agreements, big cable contracts that free tv is a dream and most of the time if you get it, it is illegal or consists of channels that you don’t want to watch.
Nice, I think this can be limited to Finland only. But my question is about how it will run with N9? As I am going to stick witn N9 for longer time and it has capabilities to use this easy could you tell more about this aspect of Nokia TV?
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That has enlighted me. 2012 and Elop still yet in Nokia – end of the world is irrevocable. How Aztecs have known?
any softcore movie broadcasting channel there?