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Collaboration with UC Berkeley includes research to lower device
power consumption, increase device performance, and innovate mobile
platforms

Espoo, Finland and Berkeley, California, US - Nokia announced an
expansion of its global research laboratories with the opening of
Nokia Research Center, Berkeley. Located in close proximity to the
University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) campus, the new Lab
is under the direction of Dr. John Shen who also heads Nokia Research
Center, Palo Alto, California.

Nokia Research Center (NRC), now with six labs in eleven locations
worldwide, collaborates with universities and other institutes to
conduct leading-edge research. Working closely with UC Berkeley's
research units, NRC Berkeley will explore innovations in many areas
including parallel computing. Parallel computing research areas
include accelerating the mobile web browser and runtime environments;
increasing mobile device performance while lowering power consumption
in both active and idle modes; and achieving seamless ubiquitous
wireless connectivity and cross-domain interoperability.

"The results of these research areas can greatly improve consumers'
mobile device experience particularly in emerging economies where
electricity is limited and access to the Internet is primarily or
solely via the mobile device," noted John Shen, Laboratory Director,
Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto (and Berkeley). "NRC is pleased to
provide a laboratory environment that will enable us and UC Berkeley
to collaborate in areas that are important to both of us."

Nokia Research Center and UC Berkeley have active research projects
underway today including Mobile Millennium, a project that uses
mobile phones as sensors to provide enhanced traffic data on major
and arterial roads. The new Lab will enable researchers to work more
closely together on existing and new projects.

"Nokia is an important partner because we believe applications of the
future will be partly on cell phones and partly on Cloud Computing
platforms," said David Patterson, UC Berkeley professor of computer
science and head of the campus's Parallel Computing Laboratory, a
multidisciplinary research project exploring the future of parallel
processing. "We look forward to working with Nokia in our exploration
of the parallel computing landscape."


About Nokia
Nokia is a pioneer in mobile telecommunications and the world's
leading maker of mobile devices. Today, we are connecting people in
new and different ways - fusing advanced mobile technology with
personalized services to enable people to stay close to what matters
to them. We also provide comprehensive digital map information
through NAVTEQ; and equipment, solutions and services for
communications networks through Nokia Siemens Networks.

About Nokia Research Center
Nokia Research Center (NRC) looks beyond Nokia's existing business
and product development to challenge current strategies and to
stimulate renewal in the company's direction. Working closely with
all Nokia business units, NRC's research explores new frontiers in
digital services, physical-digital connections, human interaction,
data and content technologies, device architecture, and access and
connectivity. NRC promotes open innovation by working on research
projects in collaboration with universities and research institutes
around the world.  For more information, see our website:


http://research.nokia.com.


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