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Zu Besuch beim Nokia Lumia Wheel in Wien

Jan 13

Posted by Michael Hell in Nokia, Trip, Windows Phone | 2 Comments

Nokia Österreich hat vor kurzem auf der Facebook Page bekannt gegeben, dass es am Wiener Westbahnhof jetzt ein Nokia Lumia Wheel gibt, für alle, die gerne mal am Lumia 800 schnuppern möchten. Am vorletzten Tag die Gelegenheit beim Schopf gepackt und direkt nach Wien gepilgert, um auch einen Blick auf das Lumia Wheel zu werfen. Zugegeben, ich konnte es bereits live in London bei der Weltpremiere bewundern, aber hey, man will sich ja nicht beschweren. Kaum am neuen Westbahnhof angekommen, stand es auch schon – voll ausgestattet mit 6 Stück Nokia Lumia 800 und unter anderem dem Nokia Play 360 oder den knallbunten Nokia Luna NFC Bluetooth Headsets.

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Peugeot RCZ Nokia Driving Experience 2011 Nürburgring – Saturday Diary

Sep 17

Posted by Michael Hell in Nokia, Personal, Trip | No Comments

Welcome back to my diary of the Peugeot RCZ Nokia Driving Experience at the Nürburgring! Saturday started with probably the biggest breakfast I have ever witnessed, which just underlined how great the Hotel Lindner was. Friendly service and different types of breakfasts for everyone. Needless to say, i went for the full english. And i mean full. After breakfast, the Peugeot and Nokia guys equipped us with our VIP guest badges, tickets for the track, a very nice jacket to keep us warm (and make us even more a part of the team!), german SIM cards with more data you can shake a stick at, and brand new silver Nokia N8s, all equipped with Anna! Since I left my Canon at home, the Nokia N8 was my camera for the weekend, with my orange N8 first, and now the silver one! very cool! As expected, the N8 performed like a champ the whole weekend, as you can see in my pictures!


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Peugeot RCZ Nokia Driving Experience 2011 Nürburgring – Friday Diary

Sep 11

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You’ve seen the pictures, I told you about the facts of the Nürburgring, and I’m pretty sure you’re interested now, about what really went down at our great weekend at the VLN Race Series. We have been kindly invited by Nokia, to experience a full race weekend, including time at the pits and hanging out with the drivers and team. It’s been a fantastic weekend, so sit back, grab a cup of coffee and enjoy reading along!

I have been invited by Suria from Nokia about a month before the trip, asking if I’d be interested in a “car/race-related event at the Nürburgring”. Being a long time car enthusiast, my answer was an immediate YES! Little details have been known until about a week before the trip, and what I read got me excited, to say the least. Hanging out with a race team, having full access to the pits and crew areas, and even drive a car around the “Ring” ourselves. I was pumped..

Day 1 – Friday

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Recap: Peugeot RCZ Nokia Driving Experience 2011 Nürburgring – Part 2: Photos

Sep 3

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Continuing with my Recap series of the fantastic weekend at the Nürburgring, here’s something for your eyes! Enjoy all the pictures from past weekend, when Nokia invited Dani Adassa, Iain Wallace and yours truly to the famous Nürburgring in Germany, to be part of the Peugeot RCZ Nokia Driving Experience! Some great days, great friends, great cars and lots of adrenaline!

 

Check out the full gallery after the break and on Flickr – enjoy and share! :-)

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Recap: Peugeot RCZ Nokia Driving Experience 2011 Nürburgring- Part 1: Facts

Sep 2

Posted by Michael Hell in Nokia, Personal, Trip | 3 Comments

I am sure you came to my blog, to expect another post of phone impressions or some new rants. If you did, please move on, there’s nothing like this to see here. You may or may not know, but I am also a big car enthusiast, especially tuned cars or sportscars. I have appreciated everything with 4 wheels since i was a little boy, when my uncle (at the time around the same age as I am now), was playing around with his cars back then. With this in mind, i had the absolutely great privilege to drive a Nissan GT-R a few weeks back (see my Flickr gallery here: Riding a Bullet – Nissan GT-R), one of my all time favourite cars. I am not sure if those pictures and my enthusiasm for the car were a factor, when Surya from Nokia contacted me a month ago, asking me if I’d be free at the end of August, to join a few selected Nokia bloggers for a special car/race-related … at the NÜRBURGRING!! But first, I feel like I need to bring you some facts about the Nürburgring and everything that happened there, before I bring you my experiences and thoughts about our weekend!

The Nürburgring – Nordschleife

It is the mekka for every car enthusiast, heaven for some, hell for those without control. 22 kilometres of high-speed straights, tricky bends, blind parts, and of course famous locations like the banked bend called Carousel, or the Airport, where cars could almost completely leave the ground jumping. It’s a wild ride, as i would find out on Sunday. If you love cars, you have to be there at least once in your life!

The Weekend

Peugeot has teamed up with Nokia, to take part in the VLN racing series. The VLN, properly the Veranstaltergemeinschaft Langstreckenpokal Nürburgring (Association of Nürburgring Endurance Cup Organisers) is an organisation of motorsport clubs of which each hosts one event of a ten-race series held on the Nürburgring Nordschleife, the “VLN Langstreckenmeisterschaft Nürburgring” (VLN Endurance Racing Championship Nürburgring). Participants of VLN races range from amateurs in small road legal cars with rollcages and harnesses to professional factory teams racing ex-DTM cars, or Porsche 996 GT3 RSR as in the 24 Hours of Le Mans and similar races. The VLN series is closely associated with the 24 Hours Nürburgring, as it has similar rules (mostly), and mainly the same participants. Find out more about the race series here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veranstaltergemeinschaft_Langstreckenpokal_N%C3%BCrburgring

The Cars

The Peugeot RCZ, a very sporty, cool looking car was beefed up to 200hp in the race version, powered by a 2.0ltr HDi FAP engine and features all the race goodies, like a roll cage, slick tires and more. The Team, a very good mix of veterans, and young up-and-comers has had an incredible successfull season thus far, and well.. it wasn’t the last great race for them, as you will read later on!

The (Nokia) Bloggers

Dani Adassa: I have met Dani at some of the other Nokia events I’ve been to, and she’s always great fun. Female geeks are a rare breed, and Dani represents them with great passion. Dani blogs over at http://dani2xll.com/ and of course http://dailymobile.se/
Iain Wallace: I have met Iain last year at Nokia World, and of course via Twitter. I’ve got to know Iain a lot better this weekend, and he turned out to be a very smart, intelligent guy. Iain blogs at http://doitdifferent.wordpress.com/, a nice little blog, full with useful how-to’s and workarounds! How to upload pictures from a Nokia N8 to an iPad wirelessly? Iain shows you :-)

We were accompanied by Kee Cheng and Jan Bonnevier, both working at Nokia, and Jan’s father. They took very very good care of us, as usual at Nokia’s unique events and I can’t thank them enough for having me! Also with us, was a bunch of Peugeot- und Automobile bloggers from France, who also were invited by Peugeot! All in all, a great bunch of people and fun to hang out with!

But enough with the facts already, check back here this weekend to find out what happened, in my Nürburgring diary!!

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Eingetaucht: Nokia Deep Dive

Apr 17

Posted by Michael Hell in Nokia, Personal, Symbian, Trip, zfeatured | No Comments

Da ich hier auf dem Thoughts from Hell Blog ohnehin in sehr unregelmässigen Abständen poste, und alle meine Tech Posts in englischer Sprache auf www.fonearena.com/blog zu finden sind, kann ich doch meinen Recap-Post genau so gut hier machen, und das noch dazu auf Deutsch! Ha!

Anyways, ich möchte hier zuerst mal meine Liebe zu Nokia Österreich bekunden. Einer der Gründe warum Nokia immer einen Platz im Geek-Herzen hatte, ist der toller Support gegenüber Bloggern wie mir. Klar, wir reinen Mobile-Blogger sind in good ol’ Austria rar gesät, trotzdem ist es schön dass Nokia Österreich uns immer wieder gerne unter die Arme greift. Am Donnerstag war es wieder einmal soweit, Nokia Österreich hat die üblichen Verdächtigen wie Roman von S60inside, meinen guten Freund Markus von der Wiener Softwarefirma Calista, mich selbst, und einige andere Blogger und Software-Entwickler (in Fachkreisen auch Developer genannt) nach Wien eingeladen um uns beim Nokia Deep Dive eine Vorschau auf das demnächst kommende Symbian Anna zu geben, und uns unsere technikgeilen Finger auf die neu vorgestellten Smartphones Nokia X7 und E6 legen zu lassen!

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The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport.. and the Nokia N8!

Jan 16

Posted by Michael Hell in Personal, Photography, Symbian, Trip, zfeatured | 4 Comments

IMG_4025, originally uploaded by 3dmg.

Presenting: the fastest Road Car in the World and the best Cameraphone in the World. The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport and the Nokia N8. I absolutely love this Picture.

shot by my good Friend Markus aka @3dmg

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Hashtags for the Nokia Meet and more!

Aug 30

Posted by Michael Hell in Nokia, Trip, zfeatured | 1 Comment

Here I am with just a short update regarding the upcoming awesomeness that is Nokia World and the Meetup the day before it, organized by my good Friend @Mickyfin:

  • Throughout the Day, People have settled down on the official Hashtag #NokiaMeet. Follow this hashtag for all updates on Monday, 13th.
  • My buddy @ClintonJeff has created a Twitter List with all People attending the Meetup, which you can find here!
  • And last but not least, i have created a Flickr Group for Nokia World 2010, where everyone is invited to join, no matter if you attend or not. See what we see as we give you updates as they happen.

So this is it, feel free to join us, even if its only virtually!

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Not at Nokia World, still fancy a Meet-up with a Ton of Bloggers?

Aug 25

Posted by Michael Hell in Nokia, Trip, zfeatured | 3 Comments

As you might know by now, me and a bunch of bloggers from all over the World will be in London next month for Nokia World 2010! Since we know that Nokia won’t go with our “ye giant meetup” plans, my friend Micky Aldridge, of Nokia Users and NokiaDNA fame, immediately suggested to do a little meetup. Said and done, and thanks to the ever awesome People of WOM World Nokia / 1000 Heads we had a location ready. Drinks and Snacks will be served by the Team as well, which is truly appreciated.

So if you can’t make it to Nokia World, but are in or around london at the time, make sure to drop by and say hello. have a relaxed chat with us about tech, phones, or just say hello! There are a ton of bloggers on the Micky’s list already, so if you wanna have a great evening with Micky, Dan from World of Nokia, Rafe of AAS, Nirave or myself, pop over to NokiaDNA for all details, times and more!

Nokia World 2010

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All Hell will break loose at Nokia World 2010! :D

Aug 4

Posted by Michael Hell in Photography, Trip | 13 Comments

Yes thats right, I just secured a Deal with Nokia Austria for Nokia World 2010 in London!! I will be in London from Sept. 13.-16., making the most of my time over there, visiting Nokia World, WOM World Nokia/1000 Heads and more. I’m also extremely looking forward to meet fellow bloggers again, some people i already know and hopefully some new contacts as well. This is not an all expenses paid trip, which means i’ll sort Hotel and Flights on my own, but i’m just happy i dont need to pay the ridiculous 700 Euro for the 2-day ticket.

The Goal is that Nokia Austria teams up with me to bring some exclusive live Coverage, as well as Pictures, Videos and more, in return for the Ticket. Additionally i will cover everything thats going on at Nokia World for Fone Arena readers, so whatever is going on, you will read/see it at www.fonearena.com first.

Nokia World 2010

Nokia World 2010 is shaping up to be the first thing of many to come, in Nokias plan to get revenge. Nokia knew that they messed up in the past, big time. faulty hardware, buggy software and lots of stupid decisions. they have lost a lot of space to the competition, mostly Android and Apple in my opinion, and with that in mind, Nokia will fight back, full steam ahead. I am pumped and excited to see what they have in store for us!

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