Posts tagged Nokia
Symbian^3 demoed, promises to deliver what users expect
Mar 14th
Symbian^3 is due this year, in fact we’ve heard that S^3 devices should arrive in Q3, but we hadn’t seen a live demo of it. One just hit the Internet – it runs on a laptop rather than a phone but still, the UI is manipulated in real time in front of a live audience.
Touch-driven Nokia C6 strikes with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard
Mar 14th
Nokia C6 will be the third side-slider in the S60 5th edition family and according to the new naming convention, adopted by the Finnish company it shouldn’t be much pricier than the Nokia C5 (135 euro before taxes). The Nokia C6 only has 256 MB of internal memory (compare to 32 GB in Nokia N97 and 8GB in N97 mini) and seems to drop the steel frame in favor of an all-plastic body.
Nokia C5
Mar 3rd
The Nokia C5-00 is mobile phone supporting quadband GSM (850/900/1800/1900), dual band WCDMA (900/2100) and HSDPA/HSUPA (3.5G). Enjoy videos, music, and graphics on the 2.2” QVGA TFT display. Take photos with a 3.2-megapixel FullFocus (EDOF) camera. Additional features include integrated A-GPS and Ovi Maps 3.0, USB charging with simultaneous data transfer, Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR, and USB 2.0 High-Speed.
First Symbian^4 demo videos spotted, innovations missing
Mar 2nd
A few weeks back there were some speculations about Symbian’s future but as it seems, Nokia aren’t keen on leaving the most popular smartphone OS in the mud. Instead, Symbian OS is on its way to a total makeover just like Windows Mobile.
2009 world handset sales ranked, iPhone OS eats WinMo
Mar 2nd
Technology researchers from Gartner have come up with their annual report on mobile phone sales, 2009 edition. And it’s an interesting read.
In short, 2009 phones sales have remained flat despite the economic imbalances but there are some pretty interesting market share shifts.
First Snapdragon-powered Nokia phone in the works
Mar 2nd
It is probably an understatement that Nokia and Qualcomm have buried the hatchet. Kissed and made up is more like it. In a recent interview Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs reveals Nokia have a Snapdragon-powered Symbian smartphone in the pipeline. Due by the end of the year.
Nokia 6303i classic
Feb 7th
The Nokia 6303i classic is a tri-band EGSM 900/1800/1900 phone. Main features are Series 40 6th Edition Developer Platform, WebKit Open Source Browser, Nokia Maps 2.0, 3.2 Mpix Full Focus (EDOF) camera with dual LED flash, FM RDS Stereo Radio, Flash Lite 3.0, Nokia messaging 2.0, Bluetooth 2.1 +EDR and MIDP Java 2.1 with additional Java APIs.
First look at the Cseries with leaked Symbian-running Nokia C5
Feb 7th
Symbian is going to push out S40 out of all but the most basic phones – the newly leaked Nokia C5 is good evidence of that. With a modest price tag this handset would steer many buyers in Symbian direction.
The Nokia C5 is also the first phone of the Cseries we’ve seen yet – remember back in July last year when Nokia trademarked Xseries and Cseries? With the Nokia X3 and the Nokia X6 we saw the Xseries – the successors of the XpressMusic lineup – and now it’s clear that the Cseries takes over where the “classic” phones left off.
Symbian goes fully open source, it’s a free download to all
Feb 7th
There have been quite a few rumors about the fate of Symbian, but now the OS has entered a new stage of its existence – its code is now open source. This move began in June 2008, when Nokia bought Symbian and created the Symbian Foundation to take over the development of the OS. And the Foundation has big plans for the future.
Nokia 2710 Navigation Edition
Feb 2nd
The Nokia 2710 Navigation Edition is a Series 40 6th Edition phone, supporting quad-band GSM 850/900/1800/1900. Other key features include integrated GPS and Nokia Maps, accelerometer (tap), magnetometer, 2 megapixel camera, Flash Lite 3.0, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and MIDP Java 2.1 with additional Java APIs.
Nokia X6
Feb 2nd
The Nokia X6 is a S60 5th Edition device with a responsive capacitive touch screen and tactile feedback. The device has a 3.2“, bright nHD (640 x 360 pixels and 16:9 aspect ratio) display with homescreen featuring Contacts Bar and media bar. Other features include a 5 megapixel Auto Focus camera with Carl Zeiss optics and dual LED flash, integrated A-GPS with Ovi Maps 3.0, Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR, and USB 2.0 High-Speed.
Mobile Battle Heats Up Between Apple, Nokia
Dec 31st
One company is the entrenched market leader, still powerful and in command, but losing share regularly to an upstart and media darling that is again challenging the status quo to the delight of its fanatical followers. But this isn’t Microsoft and Apple and the desktop PC market we’re talking about, not this time. Instead, the market in question is the mobile market, and while Apple is again in the role of underdog innovator, the market giant it’s targeting this time is Nokia.
The Nokia X6 poll results are in: its capacitive touchscreen wins the day
Dec 6th
Nokia Conversations recently had a poll asking readers for their favorite Nokia X6 feature. The winning feature by far was the 3.2” capacitive touchscreen – Nokia’s first. One in three voted “capacitive” but how the rest of the votes are spread out is pretty interesting too.
Nokia N900 UI portrait mode enabled, coming to you soon [Rumour]
Dec 5th
It is no secret that Nokia N900 UI is about to get a portrait mode-enabling update pretty soon. What might come as a surprise though, is that the handset has all the functionality needed already and it only needs to be unlocked, rather than be designed from scratch. Okay, there’s also some optimization needed but that shouldn’t take too long, right?
Nokia holds back S40 to make way for Maemo and Symbian
Dec 5th
Today, at its annual Capital Markets Day event, Nokia revealed some details about it OS distribution strategies that we find particularly interesting. Apparently the company has finally realized two important things concerning its products. First, that the Maemo OS has great potential and second that their S40 feature phone UI is long outdated (at least in the midrange).
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