Nokia Mobile Communities provides a unique way to connect with people by creating private and public communities. Private communities, called Conversations, help you connect with friends, families and coworkers. Public communities, called Streams, allow you to follow people and topics that matter to you.
With Conversations you can communicate simultaneously with up to ten people by sending a single message, similar to instant messaging. This feature is ideal for short conversations with friends, family, and co-workers (like coordinating a weekend plan or checking how their day is going).
With Streams, you can broadcast messages to your subscribed followers and, likewise, view messages from all people you subscribe to. This feature is intended to create channels for community building and following a topic (e.g. career tips, hyper-local news) or a person (e.g. fan group for a Bollywood star).
It provides a community experience entirely on your mobile phone without any dependency on the PC or Internet. As long as your mobile phone supports SMS you are ready to go! To experience it, download the Java client from this site. If your device is not yet supported or if you are on a non-Nokia device you can still experience the service using the plain SMS interface.
As per the Nokia Beta Labs blog, the service is now available to Indian audiences in a new version. New features are accompanies by several bug fixes in this facelift.
The new add-ons brought in by the company enable users to share streams as well as specific posts in a simplified registration flow. They can further view particular stream posts and receive the search results directly on the stream walls. Other than this, users setting has been also added which controls charge notifications, location sharing and message history. Some bug fixes found during the testing phase have been improved as well.
To get this new version, users need to completely uninstall the old version. With this, users might lose their old messages and stream posts though no activity will be affected, as the application will sync the conversation groups and subscribed or created streams effortlessly. They can further download the new version as the underlying data structures have been enhanced.
Unfortunately the company claims that due to the many inclusions in the Streams feature, the performance of the application probably has been affected. And Nokia is closely working on releasing new bug fixes for the same.
Indian users can download the updated Nokia Mobile Communities application from the company’s official website. Those with GPRS capabilities can messages nmc to 55555 and receive the download link directly onto their devices.
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