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•Nokia Public Transport, a dedicated public transport application which provides smart public
transportation routing for more than 231 cities worldwide on mobile, including timetable
routing for bus and train routes for 77 cities;
•Nokia Pulse, an application that enables people to instantly share their location or other
information with family, friends or any other pre-defined group;
•Nokia City Lens, an augmented reality application that enables people to see information
about points of interest, such as a restaurant, hotel or shop, in their camera viewfinder;
•Nokia Maps HTML5, a mobile web version of Nokia Maps providing access to Nokia’s rich
mapping experience to owners of non-Nokia smartphones and tablets;
•maps.nokia.com, Nokia’s mapping offering on the web, enabling people to discover the world
easily and comfortably with City Pages, heat maps, 3D maps for more than 20 cities, a rich
places directory, superior content from leading guides, and local insights from Nokia users.
Application Stores
Nokia makes available for download applications and content for its Symbian, MeeGo and Series
40 mobile devices at Nokia Store. In March 2012, the store offered more than 100 000 applications and
was attracting more than 13 million downloads a day. Users of Nokia’s Lumia products are served by
the Microsoft-run Windows Marketplace, which in March 2012 was offering more than
65 000 applications.
Vertu
In addition to our Nokia-branded feature phones and smartphones, we also manufacture and sell
luxury mobile devices under the Vertu brand. Vertu has more than 450 points of sale globally, including
more than 25 Vertu boutiques, in close to 50 countries worldwide. The operating results of Vertu are
reported under Devices & Services Other.
Future Disruptions
Longer-term, more exploratory technology development comes under the scope of Nokia’s CTO (Chief
Technology Office) organization. The teams in CTO organization set the long-term research agenda for
Nokia and, in particular, explore next-generation, disruptive technologies and are organized as several
sub-units, including Emerging Platforms, Compatibility and Industrial Collaboration, Advanced
Engineering, and Nokia Research Center. The majority of our future disruptions-related work is
undertaken within Nokia Research Center, a global network of research centers and laboratories we
maintain, in many cases in cooperation with outside partners. Nokia Research Center looks beyond the
development of current products, services, platforms and technologies to the creation of assets and
competencies in technology areas that we believe will be vital to our future success. In recent years,
the Nokia Research Center has been a contributor to almost half of Nokia’s standard essential patents.
Nokia Research Center operates in a number of locations, including major sites in China, Finland,
India, Russia, Switzerland and the United States. It also collaborates with more than 100 universities
and research institutes around the world.
More recently, some of the latest concepts which Nokia Research Center has developed include Nokia
Kinetic Device, a visionary solution for a dynamically flexible device beyond touch screens and voice
communication; HD voice, technology which brings clearer call quality thanks to innovations in
acoustics, noise cancellation and data compression; Nano Magic, which demonstrates advancements
in the area of nanotechnology, in particular our work in surface structuring and the development of
materials which can behave in different ways, such as repelling water; and High Definition Positioning,
an indoor solution for location-based services.
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