Nokia swings open doors to Beta Labs

by Chris Ziegler, posted Apr 19th 2007 at 5:19PM

A popular trend in the software industry seems to be letting end users have at it with the latest, greatest goodies in the pipe before they're ready for prime time. Frankly, it's great -- power users get access to cool stuff faster, companies get feedback, and there's no one to take the fall when it fails. Nokia's the latest to hop on the bandwagon, inviting the public to take a gander at its "Beta Labs" with products like Mobile Codes (basically a fancy 2-D code generator) and Sports Tracker for the athletic types. It looks like there's more coming down the pike, too -- so even if you don't see something that strikes your fancy, might as well hook up to the RSS feed and keep an eye out.

[Thanks, Ed]

Filed under: Software, Nokia, Symbian

Tags: beta, beta labs, BetaLabs, nokia, s60, software, test

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Jukka Eklund @ Apr 20th 2007 5:09AM

Check your facts, the codes created are Datamatrix not QR.

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Chris Ziegler @ Apr 20th 2007 10:31AM

Indeed you're right - I've updated the story.

Cheers,
Chris

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