Nokia Beta Labs Nokia Green Explorer Widget
Helping you to enjoy sustainable lifestyle
Green Explorer works with its partners to provide sustainable tips and advice on how to live green and travel clean. You can share your experiences and ideas here and help make a world of difference. The service is designed to help you decide where to go, how to get there and what to do when you’re there. The idea pushes the environmental aspect by trying to provide small solutions and actions which when combined have a greater impact on the environment.
Green Explorer provides information on a range of travel issues including tips on the most sustainable methods of transport, eco-friendly places to visit, and a way to offset the CO2 emissions from your trip if you have to fly. It is also a place for travellers to share advice on a range of issues from the best routes to where to find organic food or recommendations for the best eco-friendly hotels.
Green Explorer is already a public beta service available at greenexplorer.nokia.com. There are more partners and more user generated content coming as the service develops. Join the community and start contributing!
Note: at this beta phase, the service hasn’t been integrated with Nokia Account yet
Who is this service for?
This service is aimed at travellers who would like to have a more authentic, eco-friendly, and place-based experience while away from home. In today’s highly mobile world, people are travelling more and more. Whether travelling for work or for pleasure this service is targeted towards those who are choosing to live their lives in the most sustainable and eco-friendly ways.
Where is this service available?
Currently this service already has eco information covering about 30 countries and travel information on almost 3000 locations. In addition, eco travel guides are available for 10 of the world’s most well-travelled cities. We are currently expanding this and it will eventually have global coverage. User created content can already be added to any country/city. The service itself is accessible globally, from your PC or mobile device at greenexplorer.nokia.com.
Why would I use this service?
In comparison to any other sort of travel guide on the market, this offers people the freshest, most up-to-date information, accessible from a mobile device, which can enrich trips and at the same time lessen your impact on the earth. This information will be generated by people with a similar mindset that values sustainability, thus forming a community. This service enables consumers to connect with one another, exchange information and give guidance, and communicate about more sustainable ways of travelling.
Which devices support this service
Any internet browsing capable mobile device can access the mobi site. The Green Explorer widget is available Nokia devices with supporting wrt framework.
Specifically, the following models of Nokia devices support the application: 5800 XpressMusic, N96, N85, N79, E66, 5630 and 5320 XpressMusic, N78, and the 6220 Classic.
How much does this service cost?
Nokia provides this service for free for the customer. To avoid any additional roaming charges, the widget can be downloaded to the device and accessed offline from the mobile device.
Where does the content for this service come from? Who are the partners involved in creating this service?
The current content for this service has been created in partnership with:
WWF, who have provided country-specific information and tips about local conservation issues.
Lonely Planet has provided content specific to tourism for currently almost 3000 locations with more being added all the time. In addition, from Green Explorer people can link directly to the Lonely Planet site.
RouteRank provides different options to select the most sustainable way to get to your destination based on mode of transport, cost, time to destination, and CO2 emissions
Jamblemag offers and eco news feed and eco city guides for 10 cities that are popular travel destinations.
The application also provides links to the web sites of two other partners in this service: Freecycle, GreenThing and We Are What We Do.
Known issue:
We are currently having a problem with sending the automatic confirmation emails to registrations. We are working on it and will hopefully have a solution soon.
Compatible Devices :
Nokia N78,Nokia N82,Nokia N95,Nokia N95 8GB,Nokia N96,Nokia 5320 XpressMusic,Nokia 6210 Navigator,Nokia 6220 classic,Nokia E90 Communicator
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