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hey everybody Michael Fisher with pocket now this is Tony behind the camera we're still at mwc 2013 at the Nokia booth and yesterday Nokia didn't just announced new hardware it announced some new software initiative on Windows Phone specifically some apps that had partnered with others to build or some that it's just showcasing on its Lumia devices let's head inside and check them out so the first thing we'll start with is something very very basic here map sweet now this is something nokia announced yesterday the none of these apps between here maps here Drive plus beta and here transit are new they are the same Nokia Maps Nokia transit nokia drive plus beta you've come to know and either love or loathe depending on your experience but what's important about this is not just that they've been rebranded with an accessible you know easy to remember name it's that because they no longer carry the exclusively Nokia branding they're available across all windows phone devices that means Samsung means HTC presumably it means while way that we haven't confirmed that ourselves especially here transit which I really really love Nokia transit if you live in a city that's covered with with public transit then this is a really indispensable app if you don't want to go third party and it really is beautiful obviously we have some network issues in here but there it is yeah so at any rate really probably the most important takeaway from this is that Nokia is broadening their offerings and including other platforms in it and we think that's a really cool thing for the Windows Phone 8 platform and ultimately for nokia as well and over here on the other side of the booth we've got music on lumia this is being demoed on a Lumia 720 this is actually nokia music+ and you're not going to see a plus on the on the icon we happen to the apple we've seen nokia music before we're very very familiar with this but what's nice on this is if you hop on in the settings you hid upgrade you're given the option to try nokia music+ and this has several kind of interesting improvements to the base experience first of all it's not it's not free you certainly pay for it it's for euro a month in European countries is four dollars a month of you in the United States but what this does is if you're listening to mix radio and you want to skip a track instead of limiting you to say six skips as the current implementation does you have unlimited skips your instead of just downloading for mixes in the basic implementation you can download an unlimited number of mixes in the new one and your streaming all that music and a much higher bit rate whereas before you were confined to 32 bits kilobits per second you are now is streaming at 192 which is obviously a much higher quality experience and something that real audio files will will definitely appreciate particularly if you're listening to it on some headphones that are that are worth something and finally the last improvement we're going to note which we can't demo on this particular one is synchronized lyrics so if you're streaming a song and you're listening to music and you have that very familiar moment we're like what did that the singer just say the music the lyrics are actually being synced directly on the screen in sync with the music which is really awesome you can get that on some third-party apps and other platforms but they have it integrated with nokia music+ it's a big deal there are more improvements but we're going to finish up on one that is a personal favorite of mine the GoPro integration on the new one this is a in the partnership with the GoPro company that makes very rugged and very tiny outdoor cameras and very durable cameras this is an app that is built for lumia it is not exclusive to Windows Phone you can see this app on other platforms what it allows you to do is remotely control the camera it doesn't function on this demo unit but you can remotely control the camry you can start it rolling you can cut and you can see what the camera is rolling live what's interesting though what's most interesting to me is if we have a look at the demo video here this is kind of how the app you can you can change resolution on the fly you can change a lot of camera settings remotely is through Wi-Fi direct you don't need a cellular connection and what's awesome and what we're told is exclusive to lumia on this is not only can you see what the camera is rolling you can also shoot a second angle from the phone cameras simultaneously so you can be shooting a video from from two angles at the same time using a GoPro remotely from a nokia lumia device that's awesome it shows what you can do when you invest a little bit of time and effort and probably money into building a customized app experience once again i'm michael fisher with pocket now Tony behind the camera here at the Lumia booth at mwc 2013 stay tuned for more