The flagship SmartPhone from Nokia, N8 has finally hit the shelves in the UK worthy of a long wait. N8 is the first N-series Smartphone from Nokia based on Symbian ^3 operating system.
Nokia N8 is up for grabs SIM-Free at £429 on Nokia online store, a week before its October 22 release. Mobile service providers have put the deals for the Smartphone on their own websites too.
To brief out about Nokia N8, it is bundled with a 3.5 inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen display, a 12-megapixel camera with Xenon flash, HD recording, a mini HDMI slot, Ovi Maps, Dolby Digital Plus technology along with 16GB memory. The 12-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and Xenon flash is the eye-catching feature of the device which helps users capture stunning images and also shoot 720p HD video.
The Smartphone also features MP3 player, FM radio, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, social networking integration and three different home screens. N8 owners can also tune in to Web TV and get their dose of Paramount, CNN, E Entertainment, and National Geographic channels.
N8 is backed up by a great array of mobile apps thus making it all the more enviable. The free Ovi maps help N8 don the role of a GPS device across 70 countries.
Nokia N900 users have a reason to smile as they will get to load the Linux-based Open Source Meego 1.1 platform on their handsets pretty soon.
MeeGo is a fusion of Intel’s Moblin operating system for MIDs (mobile internet devices) and Nokia’s Maemo operating system for smartphones and MIDs custom made to suit the systems which use Intel’s low-powered Atom chipset. Given the fact that Nokia is facing chin music because of its antique Symbian OS Meego might help Nokia get itself out. Community developers have helped Nokia to prop up its N900 Smartphone to be amongst the first devices to get Meego.
Meego has got many updates including GCC compiler, battery loading meter, Kernel, and Fennec browser. The project spokesman noted that work is on to iron out some bugs to deck up Meego 1.1 for N900.
Work on Maemo, the other Linux based OS is also on and a release of 1.3 is on the cards as per the spokesperson. One can dual boot the Meego and the Maemo OS on N900 and that might mean a lot more flexibility for N900 users.
Being a hybrid device from Nokia, the N900 was touted as the Pint-sized Tablet or the Internet Device and gained a cult status to itself though it did not translate into commercial success. Linux based OS, and development on C, Java and other such languages resulted in a pretty active community for N900.
Nokia launched the Nokia C5-03 Touch Screen mobile which is not to be confused with the Nokia C5 launched in July. With a 3.2-inch resistive LCD TouchScreen, a 4x zoom 5 megapixel camera sans flash, and in-built 40MB memory which can be expanded to 16GB using MicroSD cards the Symbian^1 powered Nokia C5-03 packs quite a punch. The camera in the handset can also be used to capture videos at 15 frames per second in 640×480 resolution.
The handset has support for recognition of hand-writing apart from a full QWERTY keyboard to help you type all that you want in a jiffy. With W-Fi connectivity and a pre-installed GPS function with the Ovi Maps latest version, the handset is quite helpful. Powered by a 600MHz ARM 11 processor, 256MB ROM and 128MB SDRAM there should be enough power to run the Symbian^1 OS.
Measuring 105.8 mm x 51.0 mm x 13.8 mm with 93g as weight, the mobile phone is similar to the upcoming C6-01 and visibly smaller than NokiaC7 and N8 as per a blog on Nokia Conversations. Ovi-Music and the Ovi-Store are accessible from the handset apart from support for mail set-up for any webmail or POP3 provider thanks to Nokia messaging.
The Nokia C5-03 will get launched to the world for 170 EURO by 2010 end.
With release of most awaited Smartphone and its next release in Nokia N series, Nokia N8 and lineup of most anticipated X5, Nokia claims that its Ovi stores site has surpassed 2.3 million downloads a day.
Nokia has releases set of statistics, which supports its claim of making progress in building out its Ovi Stores and distributing applications. As per those statistics 200,000 people sign up on Ovi Stores site on an average day.
Count of Ovi Stores users worldwide have crossed 140 million mark. Ovi store is available in 190 countries. Across these countries, application communities reaching 1 million users include Digital Chocolate, Gameloft, Indiagames, Electronic Arts, PepsiCo, Qik, HeroCraft, Shazam and Offscreen Technologies. Geographical spread of users of these communities includes 39 creators from EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), 14 from US, 10 from Asia Pacific and 7 from China.
Ovi Maps is another popular application, which is available in 78 countries and 46 languages. This application which provides maps along with public transit details in more than 80 cities. Its daily usage is equal to driving around the world 80 times.
After Ovi Maps another most popular feature in Ovi music store, which hosts 11 million tracks across 38 markets, which has become most popular source of revenue in Brazil, India, Mexico, South Africa and Finland.
Nokia is name of trust for most of its users. One of the mobile companies, which has tradition of offering ground breaking new technologies coupled with top quality features to its users. The company has offered many firsts to its users, which has improved their loyalty to the brand. Nokia X5 is yet another release from Nokia to prove Nokia. Increasing demand for its contract proves this point.
The Nokia X5, a stylishly designed Square shaped gadget is a light weighted, which weighs 129 grams with dimensions of 74.3 X 66.4 X 16.8 mm. The handset comes with internal memory of 200 MB, which can be augmented up to 32 GB of external memory in form of Micro SD Card.
This gadget comes with 5 Mega pixel camera to capture images with superior quality up to resolutions of 2592 X 1944 pixels. Its 2.36 TDT color screen provides high quality display resolution of 320 X 240 pixels, which allows viewing high quality images taken with 5 MP camera.
Thus Nokia X5 is dynamite of features on the shelves of Nokia dealers and retailers.
Nokia has finally launched its next version of Smartphone – the N8 – it has taken a long pause after N97 before releasing N8. N8 comes with lot of firsts like – it is first phone with 12 mega pixel camera, it is first phone with new Symbian 3 operating system and it is first phone with a breaking technology, which allows N8 to come with a non – removable battery.
It is a sleek phone with 113.5 X 59.1 X 12.99 dimensions, which makes it very easy to carry. Equipped with a screen as big as that of iphone (3.5 inch), the powerful Smartphone is enclosed with aluminum chassis, which gives stronger look to this Smartphone. The phone comes with almost scratch proof glass display. Though all these features make it look like a stronger, it is still have slightly narrower and slim look on the balancing side. Symbian 3 has allowed it to come with a strong and refined user interface, which has minimized lags and frozen screens.
Nokia N8 is equipped with one of the best cameras fitted in Smartphones. It not only has best and superior 12 megapixel still camera, it also allows to shoot full HD video.
As whole N8 is nice package from Nokia after a long time, which may give good competition to Android based phones and iPhone.
Virgin Mobile has confirmed that, it has filled up its inventory with Nokia X2 to make it available for orders with monthly contract plans.
Nokia X2 is another piece on Nokia stack for music lovers. Nokia X2, available in combination of Black and Red or White and Blue, is equipped with dedicated music keys on its comfortably crafted body for easy and quick access to your favorite tunes. This one is definitely better than its peers of affordable range of mobiles in terms of music player quality.
The mobile set comes with inbuilt functionalities to browse through music albums and it also has FM radio receiver to catch up your favorite shows on the walk. Not only just music the handset is loaded with set of features to keep you entertained alongside.
Currently the handset is available on Virgin stack with multiple offers, one of which gives you handset free with monthly pay of £ 8.50, which also comes with 100 minutes of talk time and 100 text messages free.
While it is also available with Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone, Virgin has come up with most attractive offer amongst.
After Sony Ericsson it is Samsung’s turn to drop Symbian OS Platform, which is no good news for Nokia and their Symbian OS platform. As a result most members of Symbian developers’ community are left with no option other than developing apps for other platforms like WebOS or Apple’s iOS or Android. WebOS is the newbie in the mobile world, which as per schedule will be launched by Hewlett Packard very shortly.
Samsung broke the news about withdrawal of support for Symbian platform on Friday (1st of October) and all the related reference content or any developer forums will be deleted by December 31st from Samsung’s official websites. As a final nail in the coffin, Samsung will not be certifying Symbian Applications anymore.
Korea based mobile manufacturer, Samsung also announced that they are developing their own Bada OS and is “No more interested” in Symbian OS Platform. Efforts in that direction are already on. The company’s labs are geared up for release of its new Windows Phone 7 and Android based Smartphones.
Simultaneously, plans are afoot for hardware to support its new Bada platform. With these back outs, prospects for Symbian seems to be very thin as all its one time loyal partners are dropping off.
Nokia has finally started shipping the much awaited N8 Smartphone. Despite the fact that the handset will be made available depending on the country and the service provider, customers who pre-ordered the N8 shall be the first ones to lay their hands on the Smartphone.
The N8 was available for pre-order since mid-August and Nokia claimed that it got the largest number of pre-orders in its history. N8 is the first N-series Smartphone from Nokia based on Symbian ^3 operating system.
To brief out about Nokia N8, it is bundled with a 3.5 inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen display, a 12-megapixel camera with Xenon flash, HD recording, a mini HDMI slot, Ovi Maps, Dolby Digital Plus technology along with 16GB memory.
The smartphone also features MP3 player, FM radio, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, social networking integration and three different home screens. N8 owners can also tune in to Web TV and get their dose of Paramount, CNN, E Entertainment, and National Geographic channels.
The globe’s biggest mobile phone manufacturer, Nokia has revamped its popular ‘Brick’ communicator phone into a sleeker and jazzier handset christened as the E7. The full QWERTY Smartphone was launched at Nokia’s annual World Event in London.
By Q4 of 2010, the Smartphone is expected to hit the stores with a probable price tag of 495 Euros. The Nokia Communicator phone was the first business phone from Nokia in its Communicator series and was once considered a status symbol by the business tycoons.
Nokia Communicator was known for its bulky looks weighing 397 grams and now Nokia has made a sleeker snazzier lighter handset weighing just 176 grams ( heavy by today’s standards though).
The E7 has a 4-inch TouchScreen display, an 8 Megapixel camera which helps you shoot 720p video apart from clicking stunning imagery. The handset comes packed with a 16GB storage and the battery lasts up to 18 days on standby and 9 hours while talking.
E7 also has business features including support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, Microsoft Communicator Mobile, Microsoft SharePoint Server, and Mail for Exchange. Unlike its predecessors, the Nokia E7 will sport colours viz., Silver White, Dark Grey, Blue, Green, and Orange.
Stephen Elop, the new CEO of Nokia had to postpone the launch of the much awaited Smartphone, Nokia N8 as one of his first decisions at the top.
It is the second time that Nokia has delayed the delivery of the top-class Smartphone Nokia N8. Nokia will leave its N8 pre-order customers high and dry as it announced that the customers can expect the N8 sometime in October.
The Finnish mobile major has tried all the tricks in the bag to play down the delay and boast of the disclosures as transparency. Nokia stated that it wanted to maintain transparency with its loyal customers who helped it bag a record number of pre-orders online. It also stated that the Nokia N8 shall reach the customers some time in October instead of the earlier end-of-September plan.
Given the fact that Nokia showed off the N8 at its World event in London last week, this delay is all the more surprising. The handset did not really create a big flutter after the show-off but people have good expectations from the handset, thanks to Nokia’s reputation.
N8 is the first and last N-series smartphone from Nokia based on Symbian ^3 operating system. To brief out about Nokia N8, it is bundled with a 3.5 inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen display, a 12-megapixel camera with Xenon flash, HD recording, a mini HDMI slot, Ovi Maps, Dolby Digital Plus technology along with 16GB memory.
Will customers pardon Nokia for the delay and continue to support the phone maker because of its highly usable handsets so far? Let’s wait and watch.
Nokia World saw the unveiling of its C3 Touch and Type handset on the second day thus creating more choice for Touch and Type users.
The Nokia Series 40 phone has a rare combination of traditional keypad along with touchscreen. The C3 comes equipped with a 5MP camera with flash, FM Radio, music player and a 32 GB memory card. For connectivity, the handset supports WLAN and 3G.
The C3 Touch and Type is expected to be out in the fourth quarter with a price around €145, exclusive of taxes and subsidies. The handset was however shown to the world during the Nokia World on second day.
Analysts at the The INQUIRER however were not able to understand how people can afford to buy a mobile phone for €145 when many people in the emerging economies have a $1 per day income.
Nokia N8 smartphone, the first mobile powered by Symbian ^3 OS and the latest model designed from the mobile phone giant, Nokia is all set to land the UK market by the end of September.
The customers who have placed pre-order for the N8 are expected to place their hands on the smartphone from September 30th onwards as per the news from a Finnish website.
The SIM free N8 smartphone will be charged between €459 and €499 across Europe. However, according to Play’s site, the unlocked N8 will be available on October 8th of 2010 with a price tag of just £420.
Moreover, it has already been announced that the smartphone would be sold by T-Mobile and Vodafone. The handset which would come with a lower price tag than that of the iPhone 4 16GB will however cost more than the HTC Desire.
OVI, the mobile-based file sharing service from Nokia will now be called off by Nokia from 1st of October. Nokia has introduced Ovi as one of its ventures into internet services.
The Finnish company Nokia Corporation which is the world’s biggest mobile phone maker has decided to shut down Ovi, the file-sharing service as per an email received by the service users.
Nokia says that effective from 1st October 2010, the Ovi files connector service will be called off by the company. Nokia is looking forward to expand its horizon in offerings like email, messaging, mobile maps, social networks, media and music.
The Ovi users have been requested by Nokia to uninstall the Ovi Files Connector app by 1st of October from their systems. Users will lose nothing by uninstalling the app. According to Nokia, less number of subscriptions is referred to be the reason for its shut down decision. However, there are above 1.5 million members who have registered the service worldwide as per the company.
Nokia which acquired the US-based company Avvenu in 2007 rolled out the Ovi file sharing service by using its technology. Using this service, users can remotely track their files on their systems by connecting any Nokia device.
Text messaging has never been as easy as it is turning out to be, thanks to Swype text messaging. Swype was available on select Android handsets only; however Nokia Smartphones can now get a hang of it.
The Beta version of Swype for Symbian platform is now available to Smartphone users with Symbian for S60 5th edition. In effect, it is the Nokia 5800, 5230, X6, N97, N97 Mini and C6-00 users who can experience the power of Swype.
Nokia has staked claims that Swype has seamless integration with all applications on the handset thanks to Symbian input method.
A continuous movement by one’s finger is all it takes to trace the path and recognize the word. The user is provided with options where there is lack of clarity and when you are in control of things, it should be possible to input above 40 words per minute.
Feedback is sought by Nokia from users across the board so that it gets to know the effectiveness and efficiency of Swype. Positive feedback is surely going to result in Swype being made available in more and more Nokias.
Nokia has got a 4 star rating so far from reviewers on the Nokia labs site. So, it is time Nokia users be game to the all new way of texting.
Finnish Mobile phone manufacturer, Nokia is reportedly on track to unveil a new array of handsets very soon. Nokia C6-01 is one amongst them, which has already got leaked.
The C6 slider Smartphone launched last month runs on Symbian S60 5th edition platform. However, the new C6-01 handset would most probably be powered by the Symbian 3 platform. Rumours are agog that the yet-to-be-announced handset would come with enhancements like an 8-megapixel camera.
There is also quite a chance that the Nokia C6-01 would end up as a different mobile from Nokia C6-00. The Sliding QWERTY keypad might no more be there and the handset would apparently be a touch-screen phone.
Nokia has however made no other details available though there is a good chance that the official announcement could be out in mid-September.
For that matter, there is a good chance that Nokia would announce the handset in London at the Nokia World 2010 event on 14th of September. And we need to live with the leaked details and couple of photos till then, thanks to Engadget.
The Nokia C6-01 would hit the shelves as a middle-rung device though we have no information about when it would hit the markets and at what price tags.
Nokia lovers will be more than happy to know the Tesco Grocery app has been announced by Nokia on its Ovi Store. Using this application, Nokia users will be allowed to do online shopping of their groceries as well as other Tesco goods without any location constraint.
The Tesco Grocery app is exclusively available to the Ovi Store for a period of one month. Using this app, Nokia smartphone users can log into their account and then go with a delivery booking slot, viewing their favourites as well as placement of an order just the way they do on their laptop.
The Tesco Grocery app which works just like the online store on a laptop or desktop PC also allows the sharing of data between the two devices. Using this app, you can access all the functions of Tesco.com online shopping and the changes made will be synced automatically between your handset and your PC.
Things have been made very easy with the launch of the Tesco Grocery app. Tesco are targetting the busy Mums for their grocery app and will probably have one of the mainstream Nokia handsets for this app rather than an iPhone.
Also, the Tesco Clubcard app is being offered by the Nokia Ovi Store that stores your Tesco Clubcard details in a barcode form on your Nokia smartphone to be used at Tesco checkouts.
The Nokia E55 is a slim and snazzy gadget with a raft of mind blowing features. This handset with most of the latest technologies in it measures 116 x 9.9 mm and weighs just 98 grams. You can avail this handy mobile in two colours viz. white and black aluminium casing.
The Nokia E55 boasts a 2.4 inch wide TFT screen with 240 x 320 pixels resolution. The screen also has auto rotation facility. Users can enjoy high speed internet access as the handset has technologies like EDGE, HSCSD, WLAN, HSDPA and Wi-Fi. Users can use the handset anywhere globally, thanks to the Quad Band GSM network.
Additionally, the handset sports FM radio equipped with RDS system and a 3.5mm audio jack. It also supports all basic and advanced music formats like AAC, MP3. It features a 3.2 MP camera coupled with 4X digital zoom.
The internal memory of 60MB can be extended up to 16GB using micro SD card. The handset also comes with a free 2GB micro SD card. Also, you can use the device as an organiser phone. You can make calls with clarity even from a noisy area, thanks to the advanced voice cancellation features.
Nokia E55 contract deals are available in the market.
Nokia N8 smartphone, the first mobile powered by Symbian ^3 OS and the latest model designed from the world’s largest mobile manufacturer is expected to be available on T-Mobile UK soon.
You can see the ‘coming soon’ status for the Nokia N8 deals on T-mobile’s website. Though the much awaited smartphone is expected to hit the market on 31 August, official confirmation is yet to be received from Nokia. N8 would be the last Symbian based smartphone from Nokia.
N8 has a similar appeal as that of the iPhone 4. N8 boasts of Ovi Maps enabling customers in more than 70 countries across geographies to navigate with ease. The 12-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and Xenon flash is the eye-catching feature of the device which helps users capture stunning images and also shoot 720p HD video. As such, you can use the device as a mobile phone cum camera.
The Nokia N8 supports USB On-The-Go (OTG), an extension of the USB 2.0 standard. The N8 is bundled with a mini HDMI slot, a 3.5 inch OLED capacitive touchscreen display that has the ability to display 640×360 pixels and internal memory of 16GB with a microSD card reader.
The smartphone also features MP3 player, FM radio, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, social networking integration and three different home screens. Moreover, it is claimed by Nokia that the handset has 960 minutes of video playback capacity without charging and a battery with a standby time of up to 400 hours.
Mobile phone giant Nokia is always a step ahead in launching new phone models in the market frequently. This time, Nokia is all set to launch a new model named Nokia X2 bundled with all the advanced features that a latest handset should possess. The exciting Nokia X2 deals might hit the UK market this September.
A candybar design of the handset and the small 2.2 inch screen hide a lot of surprising facts and functionalities about the phone. The handset comes with a 5MP camera and it also allows video recording. It has a 2.2 inch TFT display screen which can display 256k colours.
Other specs available are dedicated music buttons on the side, FM Radio, 16 GB expandable memory and dual speakers which can turn a bus into a dance floor. And for those who care not to disturb others around, there is an option to listen to music either using Bluetooth 2.1 or the 3.5 mm audio port.
Facebook access is made easy from the home screen and a lot of funky apps can be downloaded, thanks to the Ovi Store. Users can enjoy high speed browsing with 32 GPRS and EDGE facilities provided with the phone. Lot many video games are also bundled with the handset for the video game freaks.
Nokia X2 can be owned by going with either Pay As You Go deals or contract deals. The handset is much more in demand with lot many companies coming up with enticing Nokia X2 contract deals. Network carriers like Vodafone, O2, Orange and others are offering exciting deals by associating with Nokia. Additionally, free gifts that come with these mobile phones is like icing on the cake.
