Nokia’s love for pure(ity) seems to never go away, since the days of the Nokia PureView to the current Nokia Pure UI.

Nokia had announced its new logo as part of MWC 2023 with the spirit of keeping the future more digital. Today with Nokia Pure UI, they have taken one more step towards the digital future, which seems to be more trending to being more minimalistic.

The new Nokia Pure UI introduces new visual concepts to the Finnish brand’s digital products.

According to Nokia, the new design system was developed towards creating digital products which will be future-proof, using various elements and guidelines which are focused on giving users a minimal and “fresh” new style, in-line with the logo reveal from a month ago.

Nokia laid out several details in designing the new UI. The icons as well as typefaces have been thoughtfully redesigned, with a focus on flexible strokes that can adapt to different hardware platform sizes. This design language extends to the onboard illustrations, as well as infographics and screens which display visualized data feeds and infographics. The Nokia team has also prepared standard elements that designers can use to quickly build consistent-looking screens.

Nokia Pure UI has powerful components that can be used to build complex web-based dashboards, for example. The interface is designed to scale from tiny wrist-worn displays to large wall-mounted panels. Looking forward to see the UI integrated across Nokia products, including its own website and maybe wearables in the future.

Nokia will reportedly be launching 4G internet on the moon on a SpaceX rocket in the coming months and it will be powered by an antenna-equipped base station which will be stored in a Nova-C lunar lander. It will also be accompanied by a solar-powered rover. The LTE connection will be set up between the lander and the rover. The latest 4G network will be used during Nasa’s upcoming Artemis 1 mission, which will send human astronauts to walk on the moon after a long time since 1972.

At MWC 2023, Nokia had already confirmed its plans to launch a lunar network.

Nokia says the technology is designed to withstand the extreme conditions of space. The aim is to show that terrestrial networks can meet the communications needs for future space missions, Nokia said, adding that its network will allow astronauts to communicate with each other and with mission control, as well as to control the rover remotely and stream real-time video and telemetry data back to Earth.

After the extravagent event that ended last week, here are all the 2023 MWC Barcelona Highlights targeted to the consumer market, for those who couldn’t attend!

MWC Barcelona 20203 edition attracted over 88,500 visitors from 202 countries, including decision-makers and top executives.

MWC live telecast

Like the previous couple of years, MWC Barcelona 2023 was also broadcasted live. All the recorded videos including the keynote sessions, interviews, and highlights from the showfloor, covering the biggest stories from the event are now available at Mobile World Live broadcast site.

Nokia New Logo

Nokia announced an update of their logo almost 60 years after their last branding activity! With the announcement of the new brand identity and logo, Nokia plans to accelerate their enterprise business towards selling telecom equipments and helping telecom operators setup their 5G networks globally.

GSMA Open Gateway, a framework of universal network APIs

GSMA announced the Open Gateway – A framework of universal network Application Programmable Interfaces (APIs), designed to provide universal access to operator networks for developers.

GSMA Open Gateway will enable single points of access to ultra-broadband networks and provide a catalyst for immersive technologies and Web3 – giving them the ability to fulfill their potential and reach critical mass. By applying the concept of interconnection for operators to the API economy developers can utilise technology once, for services such as identity, cybersecurity or billing, but with the potential to be integrated with every operator worldwide.

Google announced new features to Keep notes, Meet and WearOS

Google announced 9 new features across their products including Google Keep, Google Meet and their smart watch OS WearOS. Google has been working on leveraging their ecosystem of multiple devices and as a step forward, they have now enabled Keep notes on their WearOS based watches! Along with that, many more features on Google Meet and PDF annotations and others.

Xiaomi demoed their 300W charger

With Xiaomi demoing their 300W charger, its now possible to charge your smartphone from 0 to full in less than 5 minutes!

Huawei Showcases Petal Maps

After the all so famous exit of Huawei from the American market, they’ve been dedicatedly working on getting their own eco system built for and AOSP based OS for Huawei range of smartphone devices. One of the biggest announcement this year from Huawei, as part of this new ecosystem, comes the Huawei Petal Maps – The Google Maps rival.

At MWC Barcelona 2023, they demoed the full-screen lane-level guidance, real-time traffic monitoring, diverse map layers, life services, and watch collaborative navigation. These functions mean Petal Maps can provide global users with reliable navigation and map services that are supported by a co-created ecosystem.

Currently, Petal Maps covers more than 160 countries and regions, boasting over 40 million MAUs, and can display map data in over 70 languages. Thanks to its extensive suite of functions, Petal Maps has been well received by users around the world, and serves as an always-on co-pilot that is ready to support users as they explore the world.

2023 GLOMO Awards

“Apple iPhone 14 Pro” gets the award for the best smartphone with their “Emergency SOS via Satellite” receiving the award for the best disruptive device innovation amongst the devices in the consumer markets. You can get the details of all the other winners of 2023 GLOMO awards here.

The GSMA has honoured Martin Cooper, as the first recipient of the GLOMO Lifetime Achievement Award. This award recognises Marty’s innovative and pioneering leadership in the technology industry. Martin placed the first public call from a handheld portable cell phone at Motorola, on 3rd April 1973. Now cited as the ‘father of the cell phone’, within ten years, Martin had led the team that brought the first handheld cellular mobile phone to market in 1983.

The GLOMO Awards are the most prestigious accolade in the mobile industry, judged by over 150 independent judges worldwide.

It was an eventful MWC Barcelona 2023 with a lot more announcements on the enterprise side, which we’ll soon be summarizing. However at the above is more or less the summary of some of the most important and note worthy highlights of the consumer mobile industry.

Nokia announces its new logo, more modern and and more digital.

The new visual identity captures Nokia as they are today, with renewed energy and commitment as pioneers of digital transformation. The brand was launched today at MWC Barcelona and it is now being rolled out across our sites and assets. The website has a new look and feel already – as you can see – and Nokia sites will begin transforming soon.

“In most people’s minds, we are still a successful mobile phone brand, but this is not what Nokia is about. We want to launch a new brand that is focusing very much on the networks and industrial digitalization, which is a completely different thing from the legacy mobile phones.” Nokia CEO Pekka Lundmark told Bloomberg.

With the announcement of the new brand identity and logo, Nokia plans to accelerate their enterprise business towards selling telecom equipments and helping telecom operators setup their 5G networks globally.