Q1. Most exciting Nokia phone of 2011 As voted by you, the most exciting Nokia phone of last year is the Nokia N9. Announced in June 2011, it's not so much of a wonder that it beat its main rival, the Lumia 800, which was announced at Nokia World in October. Running Meego, the swipe interface supported by no homescreen button excited and intrigued tech enthusiasts everywhere with its new and unique approach. [...]

We are excited to announce the 'Amazing Everyday Challenge', a new four week competition here on Nokia Connects! YOU, the community have the chance to undertake a weekly 'Amazing Everyday Challenge'. If you haven't already caught some of the Amazing Everyday magic, then it's available for your viewing pleasure. How does the competition work? We will be giving you a theme each week, for four weeks, to focus your Amazing Everyday competition entries on. [...]

Being a man of my word, here it is. :) For those who don't know, in a nutshell, what is IdeasProject? IdeasProject is an online community for everybody from all around the world to brainstorm. It enables the two-way exchange of ideas between users and developers around ideas and innovation. So how does the project work? It's very simple: You'll join the IdeasProject community and tap into the expertise of a growing group of over 14,000 enthusiasts and more than 7,700 ideas (and growing all the time!). [...]

Microsoft are calling all students to put their heads together to create a technology solution for some of the world's toughest problems. Held for the 10th year running, the Imagine Cup is a competition that will hone young person's technology skills while they compete against the brightest students in the world. The aim is to create an app or a game that will educate or work towards solving problems people face across the globe today. [...]

For those of you that missed your chance to register for a trial feel free to click ''Trial a Nokia' at the top of this page. For all the people in the community that saw the post and participated in our competition, please read on... We have a rather large waiting list for Lumia 800 trials, so we wondered if there was a way to fast track one lucky Nokia Connects fan to the top of the list? The end result was a competition that asked everyone to guess how many Lumia 800 handsets were in the above image. [...]

We were absolutely mad to bring them to you, and now the madness is due to subside because our batch of Nokia Lumia 800 smartphones has just arrived. Look at them. Look at what we did with them!   We wanted to do something special for you, so first of all we built a huge Lumia logo out of the boxes. It was good fun and it gave us a chance to play with expensive cameras and lighting equipment. Not only that but we had to build a huge platform for our photographer to stand on to capture this masterpiece. [...]

One of those challenges was the photo contest, to see who could take the picture that best summed up the day. Well, our judge, The Cowboy thought long and hard about it, and decided that Rannie Turingan of Photo Junkie was the worthy winner. Taken on an N8 during their day on the ranch, The Cowboy felt that his striking photo embodies the spirit of the horses and the beautiful surroundings of Canmore. [...]