Hands-on with Nokia N96
We take the much-hyped Nokia N96 for a test drive in this Hands-On. This phone tops the NSeries line-up index-wise, but does it have the makings of a true flagship? We find out.
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Wednesday 07 May 2008
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Author: Irina Turina Source: intomobile
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Apple's iPhone is set to be available in the following ten markets, exclusively on the Vodafone network: Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey. Currently, it is unknown when the iPhone will be available in the aforementioned markets, but, it will certainly be by the year's end.
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Author: Serge Novikov Source: Softpedia
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Nokia has announced the five finalists for their 2008 filmmaking awards. It is to be screened on May 10th, with the five finalists being flown to Los Angeles, where they will attend one of Pangea Day's six live broadcast locations. Jehane Noujaim, an award winning director, created Pangea Day, in the hope that people will bond together – via seeing the world through another person's eyes. The five finalists - Pier Bardoni, Eduardo Cachucho, Rupert Howe, Bob Calabritto, and Kayoom Mistry, each uploaded a two minute film, and the winners were voted by buyers, who registered to the Share on Ovi service. Judges in LA will view all videos, and decide on a final winner. Learn more about the competition here.
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Author: Serge Novikov Source: EngadgetMobile
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Motorola's Z10 has been lingering for a while now, an UK network operator O2 are taking it up, with exclusive rights to it, but the length of which is unknown at this time. The Z10 will have a Borne Ultimate collection, which will ship with a 1GB Micro SD card. Remember, the Z10 supports up to 32GB cards, although that capacity is not available at this time. It is out now, priced at £free-£149.99, depending on your contract.
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Author: Serge Novikov Source: GSMArena
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We have reported on Motorola's 5 megapixel Kodak-branded camera phone, the ZN5. Now, we can show you new images of the device, and a few camera samples below.
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Remember, it's only a prototyppe at the moment, so the camera's quality may change.
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The ZN5 also features a LED flash for video recording purposes. It can also capture images in RAW modes, a feature that isn't even that common in a digital camera, let alone a camera phone.
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Author: Irina Turina Source: http://www.gsmhelpdesk.nl
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According to blogsphere, Nokia's eagerly anticipated business-minded E71 smartphone will be announced tomorrow. Nokia's E71 has the E61's formfactor, with a three megapixel camera, bilt-in GPS, more RAM, and all in a shell slightly smaller than the E61 at 112x57x10
Originally its release was expected to take place during this year's Mobile World Congress. We'll keep you posted, if all goes well, expect a full press release from Nokia tomorrow.
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Author: Serge Novikov Source: intomobile
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Nokia has almost half of the mobile phone marketshare, but the US has always been its soft spot, and, today, they announced that they will be bringing more mobile phone handsets to America. We don't currently know what handsets, but hopefully it means the number of people importing handsets will be reduced. To be exact, Alastair Curtis, Nokia chief designer said to a Finnish news paper - Helsingin Sanoma that "In the next few months (U.S.) operators will carry a lot of new products from us."
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Author: Irina Turina Source: Unwiredview
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Rumours of Blackberry's upcoming 9000 handset have been floating around for some time. So, today, we bring you what should pretty much be the final feature set. It will boast quad band GSM connectivity, coupled with HSDPA support. As always, it will have a trackball navigation pad. The 9000 will sport a two megapixel camera, which should be adequate for most. The display will sport the resolution of 480 x 320 pixels.
Of course, Wi-Fi is present – with a, b, and g support. GPS support in on-board too – in the form of Assisted GPS. Battery life is more than adequate, thanks to a meaty 1500 mAh battery. US network operator AT&T will launch the device first, followed shortly by Vodafone, and Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo.
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Author: Serge Novikov Source: intomobile
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BenQ are set to release a new, affordable music phone, which looks quite the part, later this month. Spec-wise,it's not going to win phone of the year, but, then, not everyone needs top-of-the-range handsets. The C36 will sport a 1.3 megapixel camera, which can double-up as a webcam, FM Radio, 2” screen, and Micro SD card slot. In terms of battery life, you should expect approximately 2.4 hours of talk time, and 180 hours on standby.
In terms of extra applications, the C36 has a voice notes app, and a health management app – to keep the user in shape. The C36 will hit Indonesia later this month, with other markets to follow thereafter.
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Author: Irina Turina Source: intomobile
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It's well known that Apple don't want Java on the platform, period, no matter how badly Sun want to implement it on the iPhone. Sun are still tryiing though, and don't look to be giving up anytime soon. They, along with Apple, want to build a Java Virtual Machine for Apple's iPhone, but Apple want none of it thus far. There is an application to convert Java apps to iPhone-native apps, but this isn't all that practical of an approach. Some people want Java on the iPhone, but apparently Apple don't.
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Author: Irina Turina Source: Newsmobile.it
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If rumours are correct, HTC will announce its much anticipated Diamond handset tomorrow.
Technical specifications should be as follows:
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Author: Irina Turina Source: Msmobiles
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New HTC devices have been popping up a lot recently, yesterday, we reported on their Diamond handset. Today, we bring you news of the HTC Touch Curve – essentially a HTC Touch Cruise, in a new case, with curved edges.
Technical specs are as follows:
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Author: Irina Turina Source: intomobile
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Skype has released a Java ME application of its popular client, enamelling low-cost calls to other handsets. It will be available for around fifty of the most popular Java-enabled handsets.
With the first beta, this release will only be available in the following markets: Brazil (Rio de Janeiro), Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Poland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Though, be advised this will change drastically with each new release. You can download it from here.
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Author: Serge Novikov Source: Pocket-lint
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Today, Nokia showed off a trio of concepts, set to change the way consumers think about mobile phones.
First up – the cleverly named Wears In, Not Out concept – which basically aims for a phone to last five to ten years, as opposed to eighteen months, akin to a television, or a laptop.
Next – the Peoples First concept, this scraps the usual way we navigate through phone menus, instead it will work with what's known as Human Universals, allowing anyone, regardless of their native language, to use the phone. This is achieved by the menu consisting of one big list, which shows the phones history, so the user can navigate up, and down to call people, or activate features. Keeping the trend with Nokia's Eco Green philosiphy, the phone will be able to switch from colour, to mono screen, to save battery life.
Lastly, Nokia showed off a new charger – called Zero Waste, which aims to save electricity in the home. The charger will sport an on/off button,and it may offer a one hour charging time, and, the user's phone may tell the charger that it's full, and turn itself off.
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Author: Irina Turina Source: Engadgetmobile
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Blackberry, famous for their candybar form-factor handsets, are trying something radically different – a clamshell phone. The device, known now as Kickstrt, has the same type of keyboard as regular Blackberry's, - it looks much like the one on Blackberry's pearl handset.
What's more, it's said to feature an external screen, and, the internal screen looks quite spacious. The device also sports Blackberry's trackball navigation pad. The only other concrete fact, is that, we will see the device sometime later in the year. More as we get it.
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Author: Irina Turina Source: intomobile
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In the end of March, we reported that the ban on mobile phones in Cuba has been lifted. Now, in the span of ten days that all Cubans have been allowed to sign up, there has been 7,400 new mobile phone connections, say Cuba's only mobile phone network. However, as we revealed back in March, it's not cheap – activating a handset will set you back $120, which equates to about half of a person's salary, on the average wage.
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Author: Irina Turina
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We revealed the announcement of Nokia's 5320 Xpress Music handset last week, and, we can now show you the full specs, thanks to Forum Nokia.
Technical specifications are as follows:
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Author: Klimov Oleg
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Though nothing is confirmed, the image below is believed to be of the 7310 Classic. The rumoured specs indicate it's a mid-end handset. It should include the following: Nokia's S40 OS – presumably 5th edition, candybar formfactor, 2.2” QVGA screen, Bluetooth, FM Radio, and an expansion slot (probably Micro SD).
Remember, the afore mentioned specs are tentative, they could change. More as we get it.
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Author: Irina Turina Source: Pocket-lint
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Rogers, a Canadian network operator has said they will picking up the iPhone later this year, after announcing they have reached an agreement with Apple. A brief statement from the carrier ensued: “[Rogers] Wireless announced it had reached an agreement with Apple to bring the iPhone to Canada later this year. Information regarding device availability and service plans will be announced at a later date." However, the question remains if Rogers will opt for the current 2G iPhone, or the inevitable 3G version, which should be announced soon.
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Author: Serge Novikov
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HTC's Diamond has been rumoured to be announced for some time now, and now, HTC more-or-less confirmed it, in a newspaper article, translated from Chinese. It should be announced next month – May 6th to be precise. Cheng Hui-ming, HTC's financial executive said in the article that the company's revenue would increase by 20% next month, thanks to the release of a new touchscreen handset. He went on to say that the Diamond is "the most important product for HTC this year." We know the Diamond will have a three megapixel camera, 3G, Windows Mobile 6.1, VGA touchscreen, and, of course, Wi-Fi.
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News:
• [ 07-05 20:38 ]All-touchscreen handset from Phillips in the works?
• [ 07-05 18:19 ]iPhone set for ten markets, thanks to Vodafone
• [ 07-05 17:51 ]Five finalists for the 2008 Nokia Mobile Filmmaking Awards revealed
• [ 07-05 17:31 ]O2 gets exclusive rights to Motorola Z10
• [ 07-05 17:24 ]New pics of 5MP Motorola ZN5
• [ 06-05 21:35 ]Nokia's E71 to be announced tomorrow?
• [ 05-05 17:40 ]More phones coming to America, thanks to Nokia
• [ 05-05 16:37 ]Blackberry's 9000 first details emerge
• [ 05-05 11:40 ]Stylish, affordable music phone from BenQ
• [ 05-05 09:57 ]Sun still want Java VM on the iPhone
• [ 04-05 20:06 ]HTC to announce Diamond handset tomorrow?
• [ 30-04 20:32 ]HTC Touch Find – HTC Touch Cruise in a new case, with a curve
• [ 30-04 20:26 ]Java ME version of Skype released in Beta
• [ 30-04 17:40 ]New built-to last concept from Nokia, plus more
• [ 30-04 16:18 ]New clamshell form-factor handset from Blackberry, to be launched by end of year
• [ 30-04 16:08 ]7,400 new mobile phone connections in Cuba since end of March
• [ 29-04 21:02 ]Full Nokia 5320 specs – courtesy of Forum Nokia
• [ 29-04 16:22 ]Canada to get iPhone on Rogers network
• [ 29-04 11:17 ]HTC confirms Diamond handset, to be announced next month?
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