Two New Sliders from Nokia

Nokia has recently unveiled two new slider phones that both support quad-band GSM/EDGE and North American tri-band WCDMA 850/1900/2100MHz radios. Other shared features are Bluetooth microSD card support, FM radio and integration with Ovi services. Both will be released in the Q1 2010.

The 6700 Slide is a S60 handset that features a 5Mpix camera with autofocus, flash, Carl Zeiss optics, on-board photo editing functions, and the ability to capture video at 15 fps. It will cost about $240.

The 7230 is a Series 40 handset with a 3.2Mpix camera, and includes Nokia Xpress Audio Messaging. It will be selling for about $150.

Nokia E52 Preview- Great battery life...

 
As a part of the E-Series family, the E52 is a bit of a black shee
It's a messaging phone, but it doesn't have a QWERTY or dual-QWERTY
keyboard. Perhaps its extraordinary battery life will come to its rescue.

Upside

At 9.9mm thick the E52 is the mobile phone equivalent of a size zero. But as with supermodels, is there such a thing as a phone being too skinny? We think not, in fact as long as the phone is sturdy enough not to snap in the middle we say the thinner the better.
The big drawcard for the E52 though is its reported 23 days standby battery life, and eight hours of talk-time. These are startling figures if you consider that the E52 will make use of HSDPA data, Wi-Fi, GPS and Nokia's new push email messaging client. Of course, the quoted figures are most likely excluding extra connectivity like push email, but if the battery can handle 23 days in standby then it probably does better than most at powering always-on features and data transfers during web browsing.
Interestingly the E52 will feature a new ARM processor, a 600MHz chip as opposed to the 369MHz processor found in the E75. This is another feature we'd have thought would significantly drain a phone's battery, and yet the E52 should still be one of the most power efficient mobiles in market if Nokia's claims prove true.

Downside

Nokia's family of E-Series messaging phones is growing faster than we think is necessary. Last year saw two E-Series devices, the full-QWERTY candybar E71, and the slider with a numeric keypad E66. Even with just a choice of two there is no doubting the popularity of the E71, which crushed the E66 into forgettable dust. This year we've seen the E75 in the flesh and heard about the announcements of the E55 and E52, and the differences between all three handsets are smaller still, especially between the latter two.

In line with this train of thought, what is the real purpose of a Nokia messaging phone with a standard numeric keypad? Take away the stainless steel trim and the E52 would look and work like a Nokia 6220 Classic. Nokia will tell us that the E-Series is differentiated by its software perhaps, but the recent Classic series updates used the same processor and version of the Series 60 operating platform, and will run the same software. Plus you'd probably get a better camera with a Classic series handset.

Overall

We don't want to be too unsympathetic before we see the E52, but if it's a messaging handset then we want something about the phone to say this; a QWERTY keyboard is always a good place to start. The extended battery life is not to be sneezed at, and here's hoping Nokia finds a way to incorporate these stellar battery cycles across all phones in its range. The E52 will be in Australia in the second half of 2009.

Nokia 6710 Navigator review

Nokia’s so keen to shovel Nokia Maps into any half decent phone it fires out these days, that it’s easy to forget that it makes handsets dedicated to mobile mapping too. The Nokia 6710 Navigator is the third in the series, but with so many smartphones now packing satnav as standard, can this focused phone beat down the competition? Read our full Nokia 6710 Navigator review now and we’ll let you know.
Unlike the iPhone, the Nokia 6710 Navigator doesn’t require any pricey extras to get you from A to B in your motor. Crack open the box and you’ll find a charger for the car, as well as a suction pad for slapping the cell on your windscreen. That immediately gives it the jump on Apple’s effort, especially since the TomTom Car Kit for iPhone costs a massive £100, even without the app thrown in.
And the good times certainly don’t end there. The Nokia 6710 Navigator has a button made just for starting up the Maps software. Tap it and you’ll find it loads up quick sharp, with very little lag. It locks onto your position in mere seconds, so you can get navigating without wafting your phone in the air for a signal. Oh how things have changed since the days of the original N95.

Nokia 2220 Slider Mobile Features and Specifications (Arriving soon)

Nokia is soon launching a new entry level slider phone in the market named as Nokia 2220 Slider Phone. It is reported to available in many Vibrant colors.

Features and Specifications of Nokia 2220:

• Slider Phone
• Nokia’s S40 User Interface
• Dual-band GSM connectivity (900/1800 MHz)
• 128 x 160 pixels display
• 3.5mm headset jack
• FM radio
• Opera Mini browser
• VGA camera
• 10MB of internal memory
• No External Memory Slot
  
• 8 hours in talk-time mode
• up to 400 hours in stand-by
• Available in black, pink, silver, blue, green and purple color.

According to Mobil.cz, Nokia 2220 slide will be priced at 2,200 CZK (about $126).

Nokia Test Labs Offers Text Braille Reader for Blind and Visually-Impaired

Nokia, Tampere University and the Finnish Federation of the Visually Impaired have created the Nokia Braille Reader. The Nokia Braille Reader offers the visually-impaired and blind a way to read SMS text messages via Braille.

The app captures received SMS messages and brings them to the foreground for reading using Braille and tactile feedback.
The app beeps when an SMS message is received. The software opens up. The message is displayed in Braille one letter a time.  The Braille is felt via haptic feedback. There is pause button if the reader needs to stop.
It works on Nokia touchscreen phones. Nokia would like feedback from users.
The comments are interesting, suggesting that mobile phone could also be used as a Braille writer. Others request voice reading. A video follows with a demonstration.

Nokia 6110 Navigator: Get Hold of the Navigator

Mobile phones these days come enhanced with such high-end technologies that they can easily serve the role of a pathfinder. This is really an interesting aspect which has stirred the mobile phone users right from the time this technology of GPS navigation feature has been introduced. Almost all the high-end handsets from all the top-notch brands these days come enhanced with this high-end feature. Therefore, what would be the position of Nokia in this race. To lead the race or just to follow the track of other ace players. The twist or the known fact is that Nokia is just the ultimate brand which has the potential to beat any brand and that too without any hassles. In this regard of high-tech GPS navigational feature quite interestingly almost all its high end handsets come enriched with this option. Of late Nokia came up with a model known as Nokia 6110 Navigator, which would offer the users more than one reasons to smile. This handset comes with coquettish body and has been enhanced with numerous high-end specifications. Most importantly this mobile phone comes boosted with enriched options to enhance flawless communication and total mobile entertainment.

Now, if you travel frequently, do you face some sort of problem somewhere sometimes. Perhaps yes would be the instant answer and that too without any hesitation. Problems such as finding the exact track, monitoring the speed and distance and time etc., require to be encountered. In most of the cases, we seek the refuge of external assistance i.e., guide or something else. But, now with the introduction of the Nokia 6110 Navigator handset these types of problems can be tackled at ease. This is particularly because this handset comes equipped with the GPS receiver. Moreover, the built-in maps in this handset would offer you the appropriate solution for each and every track tension or problem. This gadget has also been stamped as the stand-alone satnav system due to its high-end functionalities. Quite interestingly its enhanced navigation hardware and software would permit you to explore the new dimension of exploring unknown tracks. Furthermore, this high-end handset comes boosted with a reasonable price tag to ensure people from every class can avail them without any second thoughts.

Moreover, as the display of this Nokia 6110 Navigator handset comes boosted with 2.2 inches, you can easily view the images and displayed items without any hassles. Actually, to enhance the quality of your viewing, the spacious TFT screen comes with the potential of displaying images with the support of 16 million colours. In terms of storage capacity, this handset can beat any model at ease. This handset boasts of 40 MB user memory, which can be comfortably expanded up to 8 GB with the support of a microSD(TransFlash) card. However, the connectivity options of this gadget such as GPRS, HSCSD, EDGE, Bluetooth and USB.

These high-end connectivity options would agreeably allow you to send and receive contents to other compatible gadgets at ease. With these high-end options your mobile entertainment would also reach to the next level and that too without any hassles. With the 2 mega pixels camera, with which this Nokia 6110 Navigator comes boosted with, you can comfortably enhance your photography skills. Furthermore, this camera phone has been enhanced with options such as flash. This high-end option would further permit you to shoot images even in dark and murky surroundings and that too without any tension. Furthermore, with the support of an additional QVGA video call camera, you can comfortably become a part of live interaction. Apart from these high-end functions, you can even tune into the media player and FM radio options to get some dose of musical entertainment. The music player of this widget efficiently supports music file formats such as MP3, AAC and MPEG4. Quite interestingly the FM radio option would further groove your mundane hours and that too without any tension. Just tune into your favourite radio station and get the feeds from various arenas such as news, films and sports etc.

Nokia 5800 vs. Nokia 5530- Which One you Should Go for?

The Nokia 5530 is seen as the succeeding model to the 5800. In short, the 5530 is a slimmed down version of the 5800.  The key difference between both devices is that the 5530 does not come with the HSDPA / WCDMA 3.5G technologies which are found in the 5800. Almost all the other features are the same so it will come down to a decision of whether one wants a 3.5G phone or a non-3G phone. The difference is about 10% of the retail price.
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic (codenamed Tube) (RM 1050 - 1080)
3.5G HSDPA + WiFi 802.11 b/g, Touchscreen Candybar, 3.2 MP Camera, 81 MB Memory + microSD
The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is amongst the first devices to support Comes With Music, Nokia's groundbreaking service which offers one year of unlimited access to the entire Nokia Music Store catalogue.
The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is a S60 5th Edition device with a resistive touch screen and tactile feedback. The device has variety of input methods: stylus, plectrum and finger touch support for text input and UI control (alphanumeric keypad, full and mini qwerty keyboard, handwriting recognition). It supports WLAN or HSDPA (3.5G). Supported WCDMA frequencies depend on the region where the device is available. Find directions and locations with the integrated A-GPS and included maps.
According to Wikipedia, a prototype of this handset was seen in the 2008 Batman movie, The Dark Knight, Christina Aguilera's "Keeps Gettin' Better" as well as the #1 hit "Womanizer" by Britney Spears. The handset was also seen in Flo Rida's "Right Round", The Pussycat Dolls' "Jai Ho!" and Hush Hush and Katy Perry's "Waking Up In Vegas" music videos.
  Nokia 5530 XpressMusic (RM 940-970)
GSM Quadband + WiFi 802.11 b/g, Touchscreen Candybar, 3.2 MP Camera, 70 MB Memory + microSD (max 16GB)
Nokia 5530 XpressMusic uses a touch interface for accessing people and content on the brilliantly clear homescreen. The 'scrolling' Contacts Bar provides direct access to 20 people and their latest conversations and media updates.
The homescreen also features one touch shortcuts to content and popular social networks, like Facebook and MySpace. The Nokia 5530 XpressMusic is seen as the succeeding model to the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, expanding the touch XpressMusic phone range to a device that has a solid stainless steel frame finish and comes in five vivid colors.
The Nokia 5530 XpressMusic is a great music player with about 27 hours of playback time, excellent audio quality and a 4 GB memory card for storing music and other media. Videos, either self made or from social media sites such as Youtube and Facebook can be enjoyed on the brilliantly clear 2.9 inch widescreen display.
The innovative 'people carousel' features thumbnail images of up to 20 close friends and provides easy access to them and their communications history including emails, phone calls, photos or other social media updates.
 
Nokia 5800 vs Nokia 5530 : Specifications

Model Nokia 5530 XpressMusic Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Market Status New Model Current Model technology GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 HSDPA / WCDMA / Quad-band GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 Mhz / UMTS Dimension(mm) 104 x 49 x 13 111 x 51.7 x 15.5 mm Item Weight 107 109 SARRating - - Screen size 2.9 inch, 640 x 360, Touchscreen 3.2 inches, 360 x 640 pixels (16:9 ratio) , Touchscreen (geo-tagging capability) Screen Color TFT 16.7 million colors AFFS technology TFT 16 million colors Line of Text - - Menu Type - - Design Type Blok Candybar Navigation key Proximity sensor , Accelerometer sensor Automatic Orientation Sensor, Mediabar Touch key Soft Key - - Other keys Full screen QWERTY keyboard Virtual QWERTY Keyboard, Accelerometer Sensor Keypad Lighting - - Antenna Internal Internal Phonebook - - Internal Memory 70 81 MB (8GB memory card included) Memory Expansion Micro SD (up to 16GB) microSD (Trans Flash), up to 16GB Battery Type Li-Ion 1000 mAh(BL-4U) Li-Ion 1320 mAh Talk Time(minutes) 294 530 Standby Time(hours) 351 405

Entertainment polyphonic 64-chord polyphonics Yes Customization MP3 Yes Yes FMRadio Yes Yes Video Support MPEG4, WMV, 3GPP TV-Output H.263, Flash Video, H.264/AVC, MPEG-4, RealVideo 7,8,9/10, WMV 9 Voice Support Comand, Dialing, Speaker, Recording, Text-to-speech - Audio Support MP3, SpMidi, AAC AAC+, eAAC+, WMA 3.5 mm audio jack 3D surround sound stereo speakers AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, MP3, MP4, M4A, WMA, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, Mobile XMF, SP-MIDI, MIDI, RealAudio 7,8,10, True tones, WAV 3.5mm Audio Jack Games - Yes

Connectivity Bluetooth Yes , v 2.0 Yes, ver 2.0 Infrared (IrDA) No No USB port Yes Yes EDGE Class 32, 177/296 kbps (UL/DL) Yes Support 3G No Yes Data Types/GPRS Class 32 Yes WIFI 802.11 b/g Yes, 802.11b/g HSDPA Null Yes Data cable Micro USB Micro USB

Messaging SMS Yes Yes EMS No Yes MMS Yes Yes Email Yes Yes Instant Messaging Yes Yes PTT/POC No No

Software Java(J2ME) Yes Yes WAP Yes Ver 2.0 Yes Ver 2.0 Platform/OS Symbian v9.4 Symbian v9.4 Browser - Yes, WAP 2.0 / x HTML, HTML Predictive Text Handwriting recognition T9, Handwriting recognition Speech Coddecs - - PIM Application - Calculator, Calendar, Currency converter, Reminders, Document viewer OtherApplication Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF), Photo Editor Nokia Maps 2.0, GPS receiver, A-GPS, Document Viewer (Excel, PDF, Powerpoint, Word), Zip, Flash Lite 3.0

Personal Themes Yes Yes Caller ID Photo caller ID Photo ID Profile ID Yes yES

Camera Features

Lens Type	CMOS, Carl Zeiss Optics	CMOS with Carl Zeiss Lens
Mega pixel	3.2	3.2
Max. Resolution	2048 x 1536	2048 x 1536 pixels (Secondary: 320x240)
Digital Zoom	4x	3x
Flash	Yes	Yes
Night Mode	Yes	Yes
Frame	-	-
Extra Features	Auto focus, Macro mode	Auto Exposure, Auto Focus, Self-timer
video	Yes, 30 fps	Yes, video recording, 30fps
Photo Format	-	-
Video Format	640x480	640 x 360

Nokia Vertu Ferrari Phone Edit Ascent Ferrari 60

Vertu’s newest phone is the limited edition Ascent Ferrari 60. What’s great about Vertus isn’t that you can hear all your music or have a high resolution display—it’s the price and the prestige of ownership of this Nokia division that made it really take off. The Ferrari-themed handset feature a shift gate on its backside. The $26m000 phone also comes with an elaborately fashioned storage box, a Vertu Aerius headset, and an actual valve out of a Ferrari F1 car. If you want one, get in line at a Nokia store in London, Paris, Singapore or Hong Kong.

Nokia 7705 or Nokia Twist - - Twisting Mobile Beauty In Your hands

I don't know about you, but I have always wanted to twist a phone into different positions. Er, did I say phone? Verizon's new $100 Nokia 7705 Twist won't even cost too much to do it.

Besides having a swiveling screen that opens to a full QWERTY keypad and a handy mirror on the back for checking food in your teeth, the square sized phone is pretty much your standard messaging phone though it does have a 3 megapixel camera (that can also record video). You will want to pick up a MicroSD card to store anything since it only has 256 MB of internal memory. It will pack the standard Verizon services including VZ Navigator, V CAST Music and V CAST Video. With EV-DO Rev. 0 speeds should be decent, but not blazing.

The Nokia Twist will be available this Sunday for $100 after a $50 mail-in rebate and a two-year contract. I bet Nokla's knock off actually costs more. Apparently some of the first phones that ship will come with a "free picture frame lanyard" (thinking they meant an or in there) to raise awareness of HopeLine and domestic violence. Hit the press release for more details on that and on the phone.

Nokia X6 vs. Nokia X3

10 September 2009 The Nokia X Series of phones first appeared in an announcement on September 2, 2009. Although no explanation was given, it was clear that the X phones were music-centric and therefore would be seen as succeeding models in the XpressMusic line.
Of course, if no further 5xxx phones are announced in the XpressMusic line, then it would serve to reason that the X Series of phones will replace the 5xxx line of music phones. As of today, only two have been announced, the Nokia X3 and X6.




Nokia X3 (due 2009 Q4) (115 Euros)
2.5G EDGE, Slider, 3.2 MP Camera, 46 MB Memory + Micro SD (up to 16GB).

The Nokia X3 is the first Series 40 Ovi Store-enabled device. The Nokia X3 is a sleek and compact music device that comes with stereo speakers, built-in FM radio, and a 3.2 megapixel camera.

Nokia X6 (due 2009 Q4) (450 Euros)
3G HSDPA 3.6Mbps + 802.11 b/g, Candybar, 5.0 MP Camera, 32 GB Memory.

 

The Nokia X6 is a powerful entertainment device, combining 32GB of on-board memory with a slick 3.2" finger touch interface.

Nokia 6600i Slide Black

The Nokia 6600i is a compact slider that balances a compact and elegant design with powerful features. Smooth surfaces and premium materials come together in a simple, well-proportioned design with a 2.2 inch TFT display and high-quality slider. Find your way with Nokia Maps. Around the corner or around the world, Maps can help you reach your destination and show you points of interest along the way. Lighten your mood with streaming video, music from your own collection or the built-in FM radio. With a 1GB microSD memory card, expandible to 16GB, theres plenty of room for your music.

Nokia N900 for gaming: pros and cons

Facebook browser games good, lack of multi-touch not so good.

Games developers at Nokia World have been telling ME of their excitement about Nokia's new N900 device, but also warning of its downsides.
Developers love the power of the N900, with its 1GHz processor and ability to serve up native games. It certainly looks capable of going toe-to-toe with iPhone 3GS when it comes to rich 3D games.
However, Nokia's Mark Ollila pointed out to ME that the N900 has another advantage over Apple's device: full Flash support in its Web browser.
"You can login to Facebook and play Who Has The Biggest Brain?" he told ME. "Browser games could be a really exciting area for this device."
The question is whether this will be a better experience for gamers than a dedicated mobile version of social games like the Playfish title named above. Even so, it goes to show that N900 gaming is about more than downloads.

However, developers also told ME that they wished the N900 had multi-touch, and questioned how its touchscreen will perform, for example, for racing and football games.
This isn't a Nokia-specific issue, though. One developer told us that they tried to port their successful iPhone action game to a Samsung touchscreen phone, but the results were just too clunky.

Nokia 6085 Phone (AT&T)

Keep in touch wherever your roam around the world with the quad-band Nokia 6085 mobile phone from AT&T. Easily pocketable at 3 ounces light and 0.9 inches thin, it communicates over GSM/GPRS networks and offers global voice and data roaming in over 125 countries. Getting on the Internet is easy with support for the GPRS data protocol, as well as the high-speed EDGE wireless data service. Emphasizing ease-of-use and enduring design, this straightforward clamshell phone is packed with handy organizational and communication tools as well as multimedia features such as a VGA camera (with video capture), digital audio player, Bluetooth connectivity for stereo headphones, and an FM radio. Other features include a full duplex speakerphone, MicroSD memory card slot, and a long battery life with up to 5 hours of talk time.

The clamshell Nokia 6085 weighs just 3 ounces and is a great companion for fast-paced globetrotters with its quad-band connectivity and EDGE data service.

 

 

The external blue display makes it easy to see who's calling as well as check the time and the phone's battery.

 

 

 

The 6085 operates on GSM 850/900/1800/1900 networks and can handle high-speed data connectivity via AT&T's EDGE network (which stands for "Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution"), with availability in more than 13,000 US cities and along some 40,000 miles of major highways. This third-generation, high-speed, mobile data and Internet access technology is fast enough to support a wide range of advanced data services (with average data speeds between 75-135Kbps), including video and music clips, full picture and video messaging, high-speed color Internet access, and email on the go. Featuring subtle, organic design lines, a clear keypad and an uncluttered menu structure, the elegant Nokia 6085 is further complemented by sophisticated detailing such as black soft touch paint and chrome accents. The internal 1.8-inch passive LCD has a 128 x 160-pixel resolution and 262K colors, while the external FSTN window offers a monochrome display and measures 96 x 68 pixels. The blue light display on the cover makes it convenient to see who is calling, check the time and signal/battery strength without the need to open the phone.
The digital audio player is compatible with a wide variety of formats (MP3, MP4, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA) as well as protected WMA files purchased from AT&T Music and streaming 3GPP video. The 6085 also includes the Bluetooth A2DP profile, so you can listen to your favorite tunes and the built-in FM radio over a pair of Bluetooth-enabled wireless headphones. The built-in camera captures VGA (640 x 480-pixel) still photos as well as video clips up to 15 seconds in length. It has a 4x digital zoom, and the phone includes in-camera editing features.
Pictures, videos and music can be stored and shared using the optional hot-swappable microSD memory card, which offers up to 2 GB storage (the phone, itself, offers only 4 MB of memory). The 6085 offers wireless connectivity via Bluetooth technology, making communication--such as synchronization between phone and PC, transferring images or usage of wireless enhancements--with other devices quickly and easily.
To enable staying in touch with family and friends, the 6085 offers comprehensive functions for easy messaging and voice communication, including MMS, Nokia Xpress audio messaging, enhanced email and instant messaging via AIM, Yahoo!, and MSN. There's also a built-in web browser for MEdia Net downloads and mobile web browsing. AT&T's MEdia Net service lets you do more than just stream videos--it lets you receive and send emails, read news headlines, get weather updates, download games and ringtones, and more. The T9 predictive text entry technology is built into the unit, which makes it easier for people to enter words and text on handsets--a plus for mobile email and text messaging users. More features include:

• Enhanced voice dialing with SIND: Speaker-independent name dialing on long press volume down key
• Integrated handsfree speaker with new high quality speaker for better audio experience
• Personal Information Management (PIM) tools: calendar, to-do list, notes, expense manager, alarm clock, countdown timer
• Download polyphonic ringtones, games, and video clips
• Pre-loaded Java games: Sudoku, Galaxy Balls, 3D Golf
• Preinstalled themes including animated wallpapers and screensavers, color schemes, and picture frames
• Access your work and private email accounts; supports SMTP, POP3, and IMAP4 protocols
• Voice recorder
• USB connectivity (version 1.1); phone supports mass storage mode

Vital Statistics
The Nokia 6085 weighs 3.69 ounces and measures 3.6 x 1.81 x 0.91 inches. Its 970 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 5 hours of talk time, and up to 240 hours of digital standby time. It runs on the 850/900/1800/1900 GSM/GPRS/EDGE frequencies. The phone comes with a one year limited warranty.

• Quad-band clamshell-style phone great for world travelers; compatible with EDGE data service
• VGA camera also captures video up to 15 seconds; multi-format digital audio player
• Bluetooth connectivity for both communication headsets and music headphones; MicroSD expansion and USB connectivity
• Full duplex speakerphone, suite of PIM tools, pre-loaded Java games, voice recorder
• Up to 5 hours of talk time, up to 240 hours (10 days) of standby time.

 

 

Nokia 3D Technology demonstrated on Nokia N810

The word according to pocket-lint is that at Nokia World 2009 in Stuttgart, Nokia demonstrated a new Nokia mobile phone which delivers a 3D effect with the need for special 3D glasses.
This new Nokia 3D technology was demonstrated on a Nokia N810 but is not the planned launch platform for this technology which offers rudimentary 3D on a mobile handheld device.
Apparently Nokia has been working on 3D phones for “several years,” but Nokia Research can not predict when the public arena will see a launch window for the technology.

Nokia declines MWC stall

Nokia will not buy a stand at the Mobile World Congress in 2010, instead using the funds to support its product marketing

Nokia has said it will not have a stand at next year's GSMA Mobile World Congress.
Nokia will instead use the capital put aside for the Congress to inject finance into its marketing for the latest announcements.
Nokia will however still feature at the GSMA's event through seminars and customer and media activities.
A Nokia spokesperson said: "Nokia absolutely will be at Mobile World Congress in 2010 however we will not have a Nokia stand at the event.
"Instead, we'll be focusing on the congress programme of seminars and speaking opportunities, customer and media activities.
"In the last few years at Mobile World Congress, we get the biggest benefit for the infrastructure part of our business and therefore in 2010 Nokia Siemens Networks will continue to have a stand in the exhibition area."

"Nokia X6" New Addition to Xseries - - Latest Touch-screen Device: Sleek & Sexy For Music Lovers

We’d be tempted to use the word “featurephone” on the X6 (pictured) if it wasn’t Nokia behind the handset, pumping the relatively chubby 0.55-inch thick form factor with 32GB of storage, a 5 megapixel camera, a dual LED flash, TV-out, and a 3.2-inch touchscreen. The phone is also a Comes with Musiconly handset, so don’t expect to get all boring and old with this phone in your pocket — or to pay for a voice plan that doesn’t include the service. Otherwise, the phone seems to be a slightly slimmed down Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, sporting the same OS, A-GPS (with Ovi Maps), and we suppose a similar resistive touchscreen. Nokia was kind enough to include a free copy of Spore along with the Ovi Store, and plans to ship the handset in Q4 2009 for 459 Euros (about $652 US) before subsidy.

NOKIA 6300- Simple and Stylish

Nokia periodically releases new mobiles ranging from basic phones to highly sophisticated phones. It produces phones in Multimedia series, Enterprise series, Gaming series, Communicator and many more. To retain the market and to obtain new customers Nokia produces mobiles in all budgets and with varied features periodically.
Nokia 6300 is a stylish mobile with great looks, and advanced technologies. This phone has good multimedia capability, and connectivity options. This phone is handy for surfing, playing, communicating and lots more. This beautiful stylish mobile is available in four attractive colours like Silver, Black, Red-Silver and White - Silver.
The dimensions are 106.4 x 43.6 x 11.7 mm and weighs 91 grams. The stainless steel casing adds style to the phone. The main attraction of this phone is well proportionate keypad. The screen provides 16.7 million colours on TFT display. It has built in memory of 7.8 MB and you cannot expect much from it, but the memory can be expanded up to 2 GB with the help of a MicroSD card.
The 2 Mega pixel camera is good for capturing images and videos, the camera offers an amazing 8X digital zoom. The user can capture, save and share the images and videos. The camera offers a very high resolution of 1600 x 1200 pixels. The video recording is done in QCIF (Quarter Common Intermediate Format) which allows the user to record videos at a reasonably good resolution of 176 x 144 pixels. It provides the freedom to change the ringing tones and also allows us to create ring tones. The phone is capable of playing 64 voice polyphonic sound, MP3, MIDI and true tone ringing tones. Nokia 6300 also enables you to set the video ring tones. The users can store music in various popular formats such as MP3, MP4, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, H263 & H264. The FM radio and music player are ready for the music lovers. The phone also has flight mode which allows the user to use the mobile in areas such as hospital, flights, and other restricted areas where the usage of mobile phones are prohibited.
Nokia 6300 is backed with second generation technology. This tri band mobile is available in 2 flavors one is GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900 for European countries and another one is GSM 850 / 1800 / 1900 for US. The various connectivity options available for Nokia 6300 are class 10 GPRS which offers download speed in the range of 32 to 48 kbps, class 10 EDGE which offers download at the rate of236.8 kbps. This must be satisfactory for most of the applications like browsing. Nokia 6300 features the Bluetooth version 2.0 to transfer and share the files between the mobiles, PC or any other compatible device. If you need more bandwidth to transfer the files between your PC and Nokia 6300 you can use the mini USB port.
The powerful Li - Ion 860 mAH (BL - 4C) battery provides sufficient energy to keep the phone alive in standby mode for 264 hours and can support 3.5 hours of talk time. As a result, the users can enjoy the charm of sharing files at high speed. It is possible because of EDGE and GPRS. The built in Bluetooth technology provides data transfer with other devices. It includes other standard function of the normal phone like calendar, alarm clock, remainders, messaging service and internet browser.

Nokia comes with music service- launch delayed in US

Nokia continues to struggle with their products and services in the US market.
The company has now revealed that the launch of their Comes With Music service is now delayed for this market.
Nokia Comes With Music would only appear in USA sometime next year.
It has not been a smashing success in the markets where it is already available.
The service gives the owner of select new Nokia mobile phones to download and keep as many songs as they want to for a period of one year.
The cost of the subscription is included in the price of the handset.
User gets to keep the songs downloaded during the free period. He can decide to pay for an extended subscription to get access to newer songs. The songs are accessible till the lifetime of the product itself.

Nokia E52 and E55 Review

Nokia World is just around the corner, and the tech world is already gaping at some of the company’s more unusual devices. SlashGear, though, have already been living with some of the Finnish company’s more mainstream handsets, those which will probably sell far more than flagships like the N900, in the shape of the Eseries E52 and E55. Differentiated primarily by an unusual, half-QWERTY keyboard on the E55, they both promise lengthy battery life and smartphone strengths in a compact form-factor. Check out our full review after the cut.

Specifications of the two are roughly identical, bar their keypads. Each has a 2.4-inch 240 x 320 QVGA display, microUSB connector and 3.5mm headset jack, while wireless connectivity includes HSDPA/HSUPA, WiFi b/g, quadband GSM/EDGE and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR with A2DP stereo support. There’s also A-GPS, a 3.2-megapixel camera on the back and a VGA camera up front for video calls, together with an FM radio with RDS and a huge 1,500mAh battery that occupies a large portion of each phone’s volume. Also tucked inside the battery compartment is a microSDHC slot which will take up to 16GB cards; both phones have around 60MB of integrated storage.
In terms of design, both the E52 and E55 are relatively sober. With the exception of the oddly-textured battery cover and the control-key surround, the phone is pretty much all plastic. That adds up to a low weight of around 98g, plus slim dimensions of 116.5 x 49 x 9.9mm, but it does leave both phones feeling a little cheap. Hardware controls include a separate power button on the top of the phone, which is reasonably tough to press (as you’d probably hope), then a camera shortcut/shutter key, volume and voice-control keys on the top left-hand side.
Up front, aside from the eye-catching ‘board of the E55, there’s the usual Eseries control key layout. That means a large, square D-pad with central select key, nicely sized for thumbing, then two softkeys, send/end buttons, and two rocker keys in-between that offer Home, calendar, mail and back/delete shortcuts.

Since the E55 bears the more interesting keyboard of the two, that’s where we reached first. The concept is simple; the “half-QWERTY” ‘board pairs two letters to each key, and uses either predictive text or simply recognizing double-taps to manually pick between them. Being fans of full-QWERTY messaging phones, we were surprised to have so much trouble aclimatizing to the keys. Perhaps it’s the lack of differentiation between the buttons, the close spacing, or maybe just that our fingers are too trained to narrow numerical keypads, but we made constant mistakes. Changing between automatically-recognized words is also made tricky, as you have to reach up to the D-pad rather than bash at the + key in the lower-left corner as you would with a normal T9 phone.
In comparison we found it easier to type on the E52’s keys, simply because our fingers are already trained to use T9 and the buttons themselves are larger. It was also easier to type one-handed; with the E55, reaching across to the opposite row or squeezing in to the nearest row to the hand that’s holding the phone can be tricky, especially with the keys all the way down in the very bottom third of the candybar.
Still, with more use we imagine our speed on the E55 could have increased, and both phones have tactile, sturdy buttons with good feedback. That’s a relief, as Nokia are obviously intending them to be heavy on the messaging, preloading not only POP and IMAP clients but support for Exchange push email. We had no trouble using any of the three on the E52 and E55, which can be set to poll the email server at set intervals, when messages arrive (Exchange only) or when manually prompted. The 2.4-inch display is inescapably small, however, and with its QVGA resolution pales compared to other smartphones we’ve seen in recent months. S60 is obviously well placed to handle this, and menus and other dialogs are well-scaled, but it makes for frustration when trying to churn through an overloaded inbox. Very little of the body of an email shows on-screen without first scrolling down, and that can induce a pregnant pause while the phone either churns or grabs data from the server.

Web-browsing is also cramped, but it’s worth noting that both the E52 and E55 support accelerometer-led screen rotation, which does add a little more horizontal width (it also works to mute incoming calls or “sleep” alarms when you flip the phone over). The Webkit-based browser common to S60 devices has been updated to version 7.1, and is certainly faster than we’ve experienced on earlier handsets. Given the lack of a touchscreen and the small display, full webpages were less than pleasant to navigate (though, with patience, possible) but mobile-formatted sites whipped by. We also appreciated the fact that Nokia have used a transflective panel in both handsets, which means that outdoors and sunlight use is certainly possible.
In fact, both phones seem to prioritize everyday usability and reliability. Their cameras eschew complex flash assemblies and auto-focusing lenses in favor of a new “extended depth of field” (EDoF) fixed-focus lens. EDoF uses some nifty processing to eke better clarity out of a simpler lens assembly, and in decent conditions it works reasonably well. By “decent” we somewhat obviously mean bright lighting, since the LED flash is as mediocre as LED flashes in general always are, and lacking a macro mode they produce increasingly softer images when you get closer than a half-meter or so. Still, not having to wait for auto-focus to click into place does mean shots are taken very quickly, and even fast-moving subjects can be caught with little blurring.
The E52 and E55’s real strengths, though, is in their battery life. Nokia quote up to 8hrs GSM talktime or 6hrs WCDMA talktime, together with up to 23 days GSM standby or 29 days WCDMA standby. Alternatively the crisp-sounding music player – which is crying out for you to lose the included stereo headset and plug in a pair of your own headphones, at which point the quality is very good – should manage up to 18hrs playback. We found that with WiFi constantly turned on, together with push-email from an Exchange server, a few phone calls each day and some SMS messaging we managed close to five days of before needing to charge the battery, making the E52 and E55 excellent choices for those prone to forgetting to charge their cellphone. The freedom of being able to, say, go away for the weekend and not bother packing a charger takes some beating.  Not only that but voice call quality is excellent, both normally and when using the speakerphone.
Contrary to our original expectations, we preferred the Nokia E52 to its E55 sibling. The unusual keyboard on the E55 may find favor for those whose fingers aren’t already trained in T9 predictive text, but we struggled with the compact layout and frustrating symbol selection. Meanwhile the standard keys on the E52 made it perfect for the sort of one-handed use a slim, traditionally-designed handset is best for. S60 remains an uninspiring OS compared to much of what else is happening in the smartphone market, but it’s capable and, with Exchange support and a little patience, both the E52 and E55 could be both your business handset and your personal one, with the stellar battery life to span a whole working week without gasping for breath.

Nokia Aeon

The concept phone, dubbed Aeon, combines two touch-sensitive panels mounted on a fuel-cell power pack. The handset’s connectivity and electronics are built into the panels to allow them to be used independendently. When assembled, one panel would operate as the display, the other as the keypad. Since the buttons are entirely virtual, Aeon can flip instantly between a numeric pad for dialling, a text-entry pad for messaging, or a media-player controller.