Ovi Good Things Launched: Brief Round up!

On Friday Nokia launched their new service called Good Things. Basically, you can go onto Nokia Maps and mark your own place of interest, or “Good Things” which will then be shown publicly. For instance, if you have a favourite restaurant, and you want to tell others about it, you simply mark it as a good thing on Ovi Maps, and then everyone else can see it!

They launched the service in style with a Giant arrow the size of 2 double decker buses hanging over central london with a giant screen on it, and WOMWorld/Nokia were kind enough to take me and 9 other people to the launch of it.

We started at the hotel and were split into pairs. We were then sent off 1 at a time around london with only a GPS coordinate and a N97 each to find our way around. We had 5 locations to visit and each team had a task to do in 1 of the 5 locations. I was paired up with Michael Hell from Symbian freak. Here are so photos from our trip around London.

Our task was to plot the coordinates of the 4 plinths in Trafalgar square.

We then all met up just outside The tower of London where we were rounded onto a private boat. We had a short tour of London from the sea and then we stopped just infront of the arrow. To all of our surprise our names were all put on the giant arrow over London!

On the second day we left bright and early to go to the press launch of Good Things. this was held right at the very top of city hall (The big egg shaped buiding next to the Arrow). As we approached the  building we saw the arrow had changed to something a bit different.

Alexandra Burke was there to launch Good things with a glamourous photo shoot in front of the big arrow to promote the new service.

We then went to visit the site where the arrow was located. It was a large abandoned car park just the other side of Tower Bridge. Thanks to Jay from My Nokia Blog for the video.

And here we are in the actual control room for the Arrow.

We then made our way back to the Hotel where the Product manager for OVI Good Things and OVI Maps was waiting for us to take any questions we had.

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Sorry there wernt more photographs, my Battery gave up halfway through the day so I couldn’t get many photos!

So what do you guys think of the idea of Good Things? I think its a great thing and will certainly be using it when I go off on my travels in the future to find interesting places! Levae your coments below, and dont forget to post your good things on OVI Maps!