is a partnership between Nokia, NAVTEQ, and UC Berkeley, supported by the U.S. Department of Transportation's SafeTrip-21 Initiative and the California Department of Transportation. Researchers from Nokia and Berkeley have constructed an unprecedented traffic monitoring system capable of fusing GPS data from cell phones with data from existing traffic sensors. The research and development phase of this project was dubbed Mobile Millennium for the potential thousands of early adopters who will participate in the pilot deployment, launched on November 10, 2008.

Mobile Millennium will cover not only highways, but also the arterial network, where there is currently almost no sensing infrastructure. The software will work on Nokia and non-Nokia phones, and the public will be able to register and download it free of charge. It gathers data in a privacy preserving environment, relying on the Virtual Trip Lines technology, a data sampling paradigm that anonymizes the GPS-based position information and aggregates it into a single data stream. The aggregated data is then encrypted and sent to a computer system, which blends it with other sources of traffic data and broadcasts this real-time, data rich information back to the phones and to the internet through a user friendly interface.

User experience as intense as live! 3D enables immersive and emotionally rich communication. Implementation of emerging MVC (multi-view video coding) standard on a portable device with real-time 3D video, stereo 3D content from free-hand photos and stereoscopic movie content will be shown.

enables people on the move to access information and services on the internet, simply by pointing a camera phone at real-world objects. In the first beta version of Point & Find to be released in the near future, users can instantly watch the film trailer, read the review, or find the closest cinema to buy tickets, simply by pointing a camera phone at a poster for a new movie.

launched alongside The Museum of Modern Art “Design and The Elastic Mind” exhibition, showcases some revolutionary leaps being explored by Nokia Research Center in collaboration with the Cambridge Nanoscience Centre in United Kingdom. The nanoscale technologies that will potentially create a world of radically different devices open up an entirely new spectrum of possibilities. More about the Morph concept and the Morph concept video: http://www.nokia.com/A4852062

- Touch UI for image bursts. Touch displays on smart phones allow interactive blending of several images captured as a burst into a final image that is better or more interesting than any of the inputs. Our prototype uses a touch interface on an N810 internet tablet to edit multi-exposure and multi-focal image stacks.

- Automatically generated tourist maps. With a large enough dataset of geo-located and tagged images from online repositories, our system clusters matching images and deduces the popular tourist areas, their locations, names, and images that are representative of those areas. It then creates a tourist map where the areas are highlighted and a unique map icon is generated for each landmark.

- Landmark-based pedestrian navigation. Online collections of geotagged photographs can be leveraged to automatically generate navigational instructions, which are presented to the user as a sequence of images of landmarks enhanced with directional instructions.

Dedicated conferencing devices are mature technology, yet rarely used in homes. Jeppe is a playful prototype designed to discover insights into improving user acceptance of domestic conferencing and telepresence. Acting as a physical avatar of the caller, it supports movement, voice and video communication enhanced with gestures for richer emotional expressiveness.

is a public website where the most passionate Nokia users can explore exciting beta applications and services by Nokia, and make a difference in their further development by engaging in a direct dialogue with their development teams. The website is open to everyone at: www.nokia.com/betalabs. Watch the Nokia Beta Labs video.

The BT loopset provides hearing aid or cochlear implant users with a hassle-free and hands-free connection to their mobile devices and also any other Bluetooth enabled devices.

With voice idle, the user may access phone functionality with spoken feedback. This means that the device may be used without looking at the display. With clear spoken instructions the user can browse recent calls, look up someone in their phonebook, check the time and their voice mail, launch voice dialing and read out messages. Watch the Voice Idle video.

The convergence of Web and wireless technologies offer an unprecedented level of convenience for information access using mobile devices. Web applications are increasingly taking advantage of the so-called 'long tail,' each offering specialized services to a small number of users. At the same time, there has been a tremendous growth in both the amount and quality of data available to these applications. This has led to the steady growth of narrowly focused data driven applications, or more precisely services, which provide either a window into a private data set or perform some useful synthesis, filtering or display on publicly available data. With the advent of the Web 2.0 paradigm, we may see traditional, monolithic applications disappear in certain environments over the next several years, replaced by a collection of mutually interlocking data manipulation services.

As Nokia re-positions itself as a services company for both the Web and the mobile, it will be important to develop and maintain a strong presence in this new area of seamlessly meshing various unique communities that are social, spatial and temporal in nature. The goal of SMashUps is to leverage online social communities such as Flickr, Facebook, Wikipedia with that of the mobile to come up with new value propositions both as a viable online service and on the mobile device itself. One such visualization example that we will demonstrate, is the automatic comic stylization of SMS data for better understanding how users can visually recall and search SMS data over a period of time.