As you probably know by now, WOMWorld/Nokia is living it up out in Turkey right now for the FIBA World Basketball Championships. We’ll level with you… our knowledge of basketball before the tournament was a tad patchy, so we brought a few basketball loving pals out with us. They are:

Mark at A Stern Warning

Marcus at Vampyr.se

Pinar at Pinar Ilik

Yesterday we filmed a quick video outside the Sinan Erdem Dome in Istanbul where the bigs games are happening to get some of their thoughts on how the tournament has gone so far – and also the Ovi BBall app that the guys are blogging on…

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Vikas over at Tech Knots reports on his visit to the Nokia office and the time he spent with the N8 recently. The stand out feature for him? USB on the go.

Have all the N8 hands on videos whetted your appetite even more? What do you think of the device? Let Vikas know.

In his Nokia Innovation post gwapz09 asks for your opinion, saying he’ll let the camera ‘do the talking’. A section of one of his samples below.

Cj has also been taking pics - and he admits to being ‘a bit surprised’ by the difference made by the lack of a Carl Zeiss lens:

What do you think? Let the guys know.

Symbian World’s Jade Bryan has posted a video from AutoTV which gives a very clear and eloquent demonstration of the Nokia N8’s FM Transmitter capabilities and even includes tips on how best to listen to music through the car radio:

Ready to rock? Jade Bryan certainly is, as he notes he is ’super excited’ now about the device. Share his feelings? Let him know.

Mark Guim (as one half of Team USA) has found an ingenious way to make his entry into the #NokiaBox C6 typing challenge:

So who has won the typing challenge? Stay tuned for the results soon.

Widely reported recently (by Andre on My Nokia Blog among others), here is the video from Nokia Beta Labs showing Swype on the Symbian platform:

There’s more info on the Betalabs pages, and they are looking for feedback, so get involved.

Cj has brought news that the Ovi Daily App Blog has introduced an India-centric section of it’s pages - on its 1st anniversary! So be sure to have a look if you’re in that region and see what’s new.

In other news from India, Phat^Trance (among a host of others) shared the fact that Nokia has been voted India’s ‘most trusted brand’. Again.

Some of you may have seen that the N8 has been on a tour of Germany recently, and Volker Weber got his hands on a prototype. He reckons it looks like ‘a winner’ and shares why.

There’s some comparison to other devices in terms of the screen, but Volker reckons the device is a ‘breath of fresh air’, and is looking forward to spending more time with the ‘very usable’ Symbian ^3.

There’s a healthy comment stream already, so head over and share your thoughts.

Pic thanks to Symbian World

The eagerly anticipated match between Turkey and Greece happened on Tuesday night and it was…. EPIC.

Greece crumbled in the most intense atmosphere you could possibly imagine – with the hosts coming out comfortably on top by 76 to 65. It’s difficult to put into words quite how loud it was in there, suffice to say my ears were still ringing 24 hours on.

I’ve witnessed the famous atmosphere of Liverpool FC’s Anfield on a European night, but honestly, the Ankara crowd on Tuesday night made The Kop seem like a shy and retiring bunch. Truly incredible.

Myself, basketball experts Mark and Pinar, and Luis of Nokia enjoying the red hot atmosphere in local colours. Thanks to Markus for the pic.

It’s still only the group stages on the FIBA World Championship, so there’s still plenty more action to be enjoyed. You can keep fully up to date with the tournament (with daily blog posts from Markus and Mark, no less) with the Ovi Bball app.

… these three talented individuals who snagged themselves tickets in the Ovi Blog’s competition.

And with 3 very different entry styles too:

Iain went the whole hog and built an app! It pulls in all the latest images tagged from Nokia World, so you can see what’s going on and where. Impressive effort indeed.

Maria went for the video approach - featuring an impressive line-up of devices she has owned

…and finally Simon, who went all out with a song - it’ll start if you click.

And of course, there is the NokiaMeet that will be attended by…well a cast of many.