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It’s the summer of great sports in London, with so many unforgettable milestones from Michael Phelps, Andy Murray, Usain Bolt, Jessica Ennis and other star athletes who have made their countries proud. I met up with my friend Katie in London to check out the excitement and lend support to her on-going quest to meet Prince William. To get around the city, we turned to Nokia’s outstanding location-based apps to navigate London’s streets and transport networks while the city was at its busiest for the games. Nokia Drive, Nokia Maps, Nokia Transport, Nokia City Lens and Nokia Pulse, along with our trusty Nokia Lumia smartphones, served as our travel guides. In our Day in London video diary, we show how these apps work together to solve, effortlessly and intuitively, many of the where questions we all encounter each day. In this way, Nokia is redefining the where category, providing consumers with the best resources to navigate and anticipate the world around them. Our video diary also ...

If you’re a traveller in London right now, there’s more to this great city than a certain set of summer games. We’re here to help you explore and find the best tourist attractions and hidden gems using maps.nokia.com. When it comes to finding out about cities around the world, the City Pages on maps.nokia.com are overflowing with information. You can see the local time, the weather, city facts and recommended places to explore all on one screen. Maps.nokia.com also offers something called heat maps. This is a fast and easy way to see where you should be heading based on the number of POIs (Points Of Interest) in that location. To make it even easier still we’ve sifted through these heat maps and plucked out a load of places for you to go and see. We’ve split them into five categories, depending on what you might be interested in: Famous Landmarks; Museums and Galleries; Shopping; Food and Drink; and Hidden Gems. To access these maps on your Nokia Lumia, Nokia N9 or Nokia Belle smartph...

Posted in: Digital cameras, Fun stuff, iOS August 3rd, 2012, 16:23 by Johnny Dan Chung, a photojournalist on Guardian’s payroll has realized an interesting idea – capturing the all you can eat 2012 Summer Olympics action with a smartphone. The device in question is an iPhone – a 4 and 4S. To aid him in making the results matter he uses the Snapseed photo editing app and occasionally some add-ons like binoculars and special lenses. His photoblog-slash-Olympics-portfolio is very interesting. He posts regular updates with captured moments both on the floor of the London Olympics and off it – in the subways where he meets and snaps away at smiley-faced fans. Dan Chung uses a Schneider lens to capture fisheye pictures, or sometimes Canon binoculars to get closer to the action. Finally, he edits the end results with Snapseed, which is an iOS app with some heavy adjusting tools to tune a photo’s saturation, depth of field, color efects, etc. Source | Via View the original article here

“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford,” Samuel Johnson, September 1777. As a Londoner, I’ve found Johnson’s words entering my thoughts quite a bit recently, particularly as the games get underway this week, with the UK capital as the host city for the world’s most important sporting event. From William and Kate’s royal wedding to the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and now the events over the next couple of weeks, I know I haven’t tired of this great city’s ability to meld history, pageantry and athletics onto the world stage. And now there’s a new way to appreciate London from a bird’s eye view – and in 3D to boot. CNN has created some amazing flyovers of London using Nokia Maps 3D. You can track the Torch’s whereabouts as it’s carried through the city streets. You can peer down on Hyde Park, the setting for the triathlon, or take in an aerial of the aquatic arena that plays host to swimming and diving. It’s breathtaking to fly o...

Published by Pino Bonetti on July 26, 2012 This is a summer of sporting events in Europe. Last month, Spain set new football records in Poland and Ukraine (of course, as an Italian, I was less happy) and as of tomorrow the world’s foremost and oldest sports competition is going to keep London busy for a while, for the third time in history. To help you follow your favourite sports and athletes, there is a dedicated section about the games on maps.nokia.com with all the information you need, plus public transportation lines and schedules, photorealistic 3D tour of London and tips for accommodation, restaurants, shopping and sights. Also CNN is using our stunning 3D maps to show what’s happening in London this summer. This is for instance the route of the marathon: You will really appreciate our city page maps.nokia.com/uk/london, especially if you are a London newbie. The city pages, as you might already know, are available for many locales around the world and actually for all the pre...