Nokia Xpress (Beta) now available for Lumia

Today, we are releasing our first Beta of Nokia Xpress for Lumia.  Xpress leverages the power of the cloud to optimize internet browsing to save you data, time and money while you discover and enjoy the latest the web has to offer.

Nokia Xpress is the cloud-based internet service that powers the Nokia Asha series devices and is used by millions of users around the world every day. By rendering web pages in the cloud and minimizing cellular data use, Nokia Xpress allows you to get the most from your data plan.

Xpress for Lumia leverages the Nokia Xpress cloud, and marries it with the powerful capabilities of the Windows Phone platform as well as other compelling cloud-services like SkyDrive from Microsoft.  The result is an exciting new kind of Internet app that let’s you get the most out of your Lumia experience.

Here are some of the key benefits & features of Xpress for Lumia: 

• Save More. Data plans are becoming more complex, so it’s important to understand and maximize your usage. The Xpress internet platform automatically compresses data by up to 85% so you use less of your data plan and save battery charge. Data usage and savings are reported as a live tile on the start screen and via a detailed dashboard in the app, giving you a quick view of your data usage and savings.
• Discover More. Surfing around can be a less than ideal way to see what’s new on your favorite sites. Break the paradigm by using Nokia’s unique Magazine feature. When you’re on a site with an RSS feed, you’re automatically asked you if you want to add these sites to your magazine. Once you’ve created your magazine, it presents the feeds to you in an appealing, easy-to-use layout. So when you’re on the train home, you can simply flip through the latest stories with a swipe to quickly and easily read what most interests you. 
• Have you ever been reading something on the web and wanted to learn more but didn’t have the time to deal with the multiple steps involved in finding more information? With Nokia Xpress for Lumia, more information is a single tap away. Just tap on a word that you want to learn more about and Nokia Xpress will discover related content with automatic contextual search for you.  Swipe through screens of related content from Wikipedia, Bing and YouTube. It’s that simple.
• Do More. On vacation and want to read what the locals have to say about a restaurant, but you don’t speak the language? No problem, use the one click language translation feature to translate the page to your language. This capability is available for virtually any web page, making more content accessible to you. Just navigate to the page you’re interested in, tap on the ‘translate to’ option in the app menu and select from one of the 10 currently available languages. The Nokia Xpress internet platform uses the Bing Translate service to do all the work for you.
• Downloads – Want to save content from the web to view it later?  With Nokia Xpress you can download videos and other content directly to your Microsoft SkyDrive account without having to first download to your device.  As a result, downloads are fast and don’t use up your data plan quotas.

Your help is needed to improve this app!

We want to get this app in Marketplace, for all Lumia users to enjoy, but at the same time want to ensure that they have a wonderful experience.

Please download the application and use it everyday to discover new content. Read news, go to your favorite websites, search for things while browsing and also try some of the suggested articles in Magazine. Please let us know what worked and what did not work, what you liked and what you did not and why. It will help us improve the product.

- The Nokia Xpress team

Comments

#1: 2012-10-03 @ 21:20

I get an error saying I don't have the correct credentials when I try to get the barcode. WTF?

#2: 2012-10-03 @ 21:45

Sorry. Try now.

John - Community Facilitator @ Beta Labs

#3: 2012-10-03 @ 22:26

why does not Nokia change this site to Windows flop beta labs
since u leave millions Symbian users in the cold
ooh wel let me get me front row ticket and watch how Nokia will die next year

#4: 2012-10-05 @ 09:00

I still find my Microsoft browser faster. It is not visible to me whether it is the device or network side slowing the downloading. I would strongly recommend that at least the network resources and tune up should be done. But whether I would use Nokia Xpress, absolutely I would while roaming.
There are a lot of new innovations in there, but at the same time the backwards compatibility to traditional browsing experience should be better (favourits needed... I do not want to pin all the interesting pages to my desk top, or did I got it wrong?).

#5: 2012-10-30 @ 16:37

2016? That's BS

#6: 2012-12-25 @ 19:47

Hi. Problem downloading on Lumia 900. Get message..."credentials you provided aren't authorised to access this page."