Nokia Research Center

Research Projects

• Nokia Image Exchange - A photo sharing application and service. Consists of an S60 gallery application and web service. Novelties over other photo sharing systems include automatic registration, sharing to your existing contacts, real time notifications of comments and new photos, very tight integration of the application and the service. For more information check out the introductory video and the web site, where also a download of the application is available.
• Consumer Services - While the Internet is rather conveniently accessible with a mobile device, the interaction between, and the integration of the mobile device and web services is just beginning.
  • Contacts Browser Plugin - As part of the Consumer Services research we sketched a concept where phone numbers on ordinary web pages are turned into links to interact with your device. The concept was implemented as a research prototype.
• Metadata management on S60 - The S60 based smartphones are powerful devices. Along with many other tasks, they are used to handle images, music, video clips and other multimedia. Managing these items so that applications have access to the same metadata requires a metadata management system. The system needs to offer storage and search operations for multiple applications. I conducted research with open source relational databases and in using them in managing versatile metadata. The research resulted in:
  • Porting a relational open source database to S60 platform.
  • Design and implementation of a metadata management system.