Nokia Asia Tenggara Tawarkan Ponsel Lumia untuk Lebih Banyak Pengembang Indonesia

Di tengah kegembiraan acara yang memecahkan rekor Windows Phone hackathon selama akhir pekan di Bandung kemarin, ada satu berita yang mungkin tidak diperhatikan oleh beberapa orang. Kami sebenarnya menuliskan berita ini di artikel rekap tentang acara tersebut, namun setelah mendapatkan beberapa detail lain, berita ini kami pikir layak untuk dijadikan artikel tersendiri.

Pada akhir acara Nokia Lumia Developer Day di Bandung hari Minggu kemarin, Narenda Wicaksono, Developer Outreach Manager untuk Nokia Asia Tenggara melemparkan tantangan bagi para pengembang aplikasi mobile di seluruh Indonesia. Tantangan ini berupa Lumia Apps Challenge yang membuka kesempatan bagi para pengembang yang tidak menghadiri acara developer day kemarin untuk ikut berpartisipasi dan mencoba peruntungan mendapatkan Nokia Lumia 710.

Sebagai persyaratannya, pengembang dipersilahkan untuk membuat sebuah prototipe aplikasi menggunakan SDK Windows Phone, kemudian mendaftarkan diri dan mempublikasikan deskripsi dan screenshot dari aplikasi tersebut di situs Nokia Indonesia Community (Nice.co.id) sebelum tanggal 31 Maret.

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Nokia Southeast Asia Offers Lumia Phones to More Indonesian Developers

Amid the excitement of the record-breaking Windows Phone hackathon event over the weekend in Bandung, a little bit of news may have slipped past the radars of some people. We actually posted it as part of our recap of the event but it’s worth mentioning in a separate post as we now have more details.

At the end of Nokia Lumia Developer Day in Bandung on Sunday, Narenda Wicaksono, Developer Outreach manager for Nokia Southeast Asia threw down a challenge for mobile app developers across Indonesia. The Lumia Apps Challenge lets developers who were not at the event to participate in a chance to win a Nokia Lumia 710.

To qualify, developers are asked to build a prototype app using the Windows Phone SDK, register and post descriptions and screenshots of the app on the Nokia Indonesia Community site by 31 March.

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Windows Phone Marketplace Kini Buka di Indonesia dan Empat Negara Lain

Microsoft telah melebarkan jangkuan Windows Phone Marketplace ke lima negara tambahan terhitung hari ini, sebelum peluncuran Nokia Lumia pada tanggal 17 Februari yang akan datang. Kelima negara tersebut adalah Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, Filipina dan Argentina. Bulan lalu, Microsoft menambahkan enam negara ke App Hub agar para pengembang aplikasi dapat mendaftarkan aplikasi mereka untuk didistribusikan di negara-negara tersebut.

Di antara enam negara yang diperkenalkan ke App Hub, Cina menjadi negara satu-satunya yang tidak termasuk dalam ekspansi ini namun para pengembang tetap diperkenankan untuk mendaftarkan aplikasi mereka. Apa yang menghambat penambahan Cina ke dalam daftar Marketplace masih belum diketahui namun dapat diperkirakan bahwa Microsoft masih menangani keperluan legalitas agar dapat mendistribusikan aplikasi pengembang ke konsumen Cina.

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Windows Phone Marketplace Expands to Indonesia and Four Other Countries

Ahead of the public launch of Lumia in Indonesia on February 17, Microsoft’s Windows Phone Marketplace has expanded to five additional countries including Indonesia as of today. Just last month, the Redmond giant added six countries to the App Hub so developers could prepare their apps for distribution in those countries. The five countries are Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, The Philippines, and Argentina, bringing the number of Marketplace availability to 40 countries.

Among the six countries recently introduced to the App Hub, China is the only one not included in this expansion but developers are still welcomed to submit their applications. What is holding back China is unclear although one could speculate that Microsoft may still be working on the legalities and paperworks in order to allow developers to make their apps available to Chinese consumers.

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Mungkinkah Samsung Menjadi Ancaman bagi Google?

Minggu ini, artikel di Monday Note yang ditulis oleh Jean Louis Gassée memicu pemikiran yang menarik serta kemungkinan tentang Samsung yang semakin serius mengambil peran di ‘dunia’ Android dan mungkin menggunakannya sebagai perang terhadap Google. Kira-kira untuk apa Samsung melakukan itu?

Saat ini, Samsung mungkin tidak akan melakukan apapun untuk membahayakan hubungannya dengan Google, lagi pula, Samsung menjual banyak sekali ponsel Android di seluruh dunia dan karenanya telah menjadi produsen smartphone nomor satu di dunia. Samsung berhutang banyak pada Google.

Di sisi lain, justru posisi yang sekarang ini memungkinkan Samsung untuk memberikan tekanan pada Google. Samsung cukup besar dibandingkan pesaing terdekat mereka dan memiliki pengaruh yang cukup untuk menghasilkan dua dari tiga ponsel seri Nexus – tahta tertinggi untuk ponsel Android- menjadi milik mereka.

HTC dan Motorola adalah produsen terbesar berikutnya, namun penjualan mereka sama sekali tidak mendekati Samsung dan pada kenyataannya telah dikanibalisasi oleh pesaing asal Korea ini. Kedua perusahaan tersebut sedang menderita.

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Could Samsung Pose a Threat to Google?

This week’s Monday Note by Jean Louis Gassée sparked an interesting thought and possibility that Samsung is gaining a serious upper hand in the Android world and could use it as leverage against Google. Now why would Samsung do that?

At this point, Samsung probably wouldn’t do anything to jeopardize the relationship with Google, after all, it’s selling tons of Android phones across the world and has become the number one smartphone maker on the planet because of it. Samsung owes a lot of that to Google.

On the other hand, it’s exactly this position that may allow Samsung to put pressure on Google. Samsung is large enough to dwarf its closest competitors and enough of an influence to pull off two of the three Nexus phones, the pinnacle and showcase of Android.

HTC and Motorola are the next largest Android manufacturers yet their sales are nowhere near Samsung’s and in fact have been cannibalized by its Korean competitor. The two companies are suffering.

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Microsoft Tambahkan Indonesia untuk App Hub, Marketplace Menyusul

Microsoft melakukan gebrakan awal tahun dengan menambahkan enam negara baru di App Hub untuk distribusi aplikasi dan game di Windows Phone, sehingga jumlah negara yang terdaftar kini mencapai 41. Negara-negara baru itu adalah Argentina, Cina, Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, dan Filipina. Namun ini tidak berarti bahwa Windows Marketplace sudah terbuka di negara-negara tersebut.

Apa yang Microsoft lakukan adalah membuka lebih banyak saluran distribusi bagi para pengembang yang telah ada dan bersiap-siap untuk peluncuran Marketplace di negara baru, sejalan dengan persiapan perangkat Windows Phone yang juga akan segera meluncur ke beberapa negara yang belum mendapatkannya.

Para pengembang dari negara-negara tersebut masih harus menunggu sebelum mereka dapat mengajukan aplikasi mereka, karena Microsoft masih perlu melakukan penyesuaian akhir untuk pendaftaran Marketplace yang disesuaikan dengan kondisi lokal.

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Microsoft Adds Indonesia to App Hub, Marketplace to Follow

Microsoft kicked off the year by adding six new countries in the App Hub for Windows Phone apps and games distribution, bringing the total number of countries to 41. These new countries are Argentina, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, and the Philippines. This however, does not mean that the Marketplace is open for business yet in those countries.

What Microsoft is doing is opening more distribution channels for existing developers and getting ready for Marketplace rollout in more countries as Windows Phone devices are being prepared to make their way around the world.

Developers from the aforementioned countries though, still have to wait before they can submit their apps as Microsoft still has yet to finalize Marketplace registration and compliance with local conditions.

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Ecosystem is Key in Mobile Industry and Nokia has the Right Pieces to Play

I spent most of Thursday with product managers and PR agents for Nokia Indonesia as the company locally launched its flagship qwerty+touchscreen phone, the Asha 303. The phone, which I think is going to be a pretty strong contender in a mobile market like Indonesia, carries the S40 operating system but offers capabilities popularly sought from more expensive smartphones. We discussed on a lot of points regarding Nokia’s position in the country as well as among competitors.

Yes, Nokia has fallen on hard times, the once mighty creator of the smartphone product category is down in the dumps. Sales dwindled, market share took a nosedive, profits flew the coop, its shares are no longer traded on many of the world’s largest stock markets.

In my hand was my N9 which was just brought back from a coma. We spoke about Nokia’s music strategy and the mobile market in Indonesia. I had been using Nokia Music in my N9 and figured I could give them some of my thoughts about the service directly.

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Foursquare updates its apps to support five more languages

Just as we posted the other day, the latest updates to Foursquare’s mobile apps carry with it support for Indonesian, Russian, Thai, Portuguese, and Korean. These five new languages join French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, and of course, English. The breadth of support gives Foursquare native language for more than 1.5 billion people, though the majority of which obviously don’t use the service, but at least it’s there for those who want it.

While we were only informed of the changes to the BlackBerry app, today’s update actually brings the additional language support to the iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry apps. To switch languages you’ll need to set your device’s language to your own. Apps that have support for your choice of language will switch along, those who do not will remain with its default language, most of which would be English. If you’re not keen on using your local language on your device then there’s no need to bother.

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