January 24, 2012
Nokia is pleased to announce the results of its US University Collaboration funding program for the second half of 2011. Recipients of unrestricted research funds through this program, totaling over $200,000, are first nominated by a Nokia employee, and then carefully selected as the most promising research agendas driven by top researchers in the field.
The nomination submission process is very competitive and only a few nominations are accepted. The breadth of the research projects accepted...
January 17, 2012
Last November, Nokia Research Center launched the Mobile Data Challenge call for proposals, offering the academic community a chance to work with NRC's recently completed data set of mobile sensor information.
November 19, 2011
Nokia Research Center has fueled the creation and development of the mobile industry we all enjoy today, and has contributed to a wide spectrum of ground-breaking innovations which have shaped the wireless world.
This short retrospepctive showcases a few of the contributions coming from NRC, in a fun narrative with the people Nokia has spent decades connecting and inspiring.
November 10, 2011
Nokia HumanForm was created in a joint effort to translate the most promising new nanotechnologies into meaningful user experiences, in order to create real devices and set goals for future product portfolios.
November 10, 2011
This is the new Nokia GEM concept device. What if *every* part of your next phone was a touchscreen?
Launched to coincide with the 25th Anniversary of Nokia Research Center, the Nokia GEM concept phone is the ultimate customizable device. Taking it's name from a polished precious stone, GEM can be admired from many sides. See the video to see how this concept could be used.
November 7, 2011
Nokia Research Center Lausanne and its academic Swiss partners have recently completed a data collection campaign in the Lake Geneva region. Over a year of data from smartphones from almost 200 participants was collected, and now the Nokia Mobile Data Challenge (MDC) releases the Lausanne data for the research community.
November 2, 2011
Nokia Conversations has the scoop on a new app for Nokia Lumia smartphones developed by a team at NRC, demoed last week at Nokia World 2011:
October 27, 2011
GSM Arena was kind enough to stop by and take a video of NRC's hydrophobic nanocoating technology being developed at NRC Cambridge, UK.
For more of their impressions of NRC and Nokia World 2011, check out GSM Arena's blog here.
October 27, 2011
CNetTV posted a video of a Nokia Research Center prototype being demoed at Nokia World in London. The device is controlled by how it's flexed.
October 26, 2011
AMR-WB (Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband) speech codec is a standard that was largely developed by Nokia Research Center. It is a speech codec, which means it captures your voice, compresses it and transmits it wirelessly over the network. Compared to earlier technologies, it can efficiently capture and transmit a much larger audio bandwidth, which makes your voice sound very natural on the other end.
