March 16th, 2010
Nokia has launched the Design By Community project wherein Nokia is inviting anyone across the globe to give their input for the “smartphone concept device of the future”. The 8 week project would involve a new design widget every week and users can give their input for the design. The design widget also takes care of the feasibility of your design through a needle hovering in three zones – Red, Yellow and Green. Where Green obviously means ‘Perfect Mix’. Not exactly like the Sony Ericsson Dot, but seems like crowd-sourcing is the new mantra.
Week 1 of the project involves design aspects related to the phone’s display and UI, covering features like screen size, screen type, screen ratio and secondary buttons. The entire 8-week schedule is as follows – (more…)
Categories: Tech Industry News, nokia, smartphones |
Tags: ask the community, community, design by community, meego, nokia, nokia crowd sourcing | No Comments
March 2nd, 2010
After the impressive show put up by Ovi Maps Nokia is trying to rake in some numbers by implementing the success formula with their Nokia Music store. DRM free music stores was something that Apple was pitching for since a long time. And its not very long ago that Apple’s iTunes store also went DRM free (in Jan to be precise). After that it becomes an obligation really for others to follow suit.
Not only is the Nokia Music store is going DRM free but they are integrating it within the Ovi brand. Yes now Nokia Music will be called Ovi Music. Nokia might well want to add mac compatibility to the mix aswell, but for now we have good enough news. One thing is for sure, no matter who wins the battle, the music lovers will only hear the beats.
Categories: Apple, Tech Industry News, nokia |
Tags: DRM, drm free, DRM free music, Nokia Music, ovi maps, ovi music, Ovi Music store | No Comments
March 2nd, 2010
Nokia C series has finally gone official with Nokia showing the C5 officially. Leaked earlier, we already had a fair idea of what the C5 can offer and here is what Nokia says: We are introducing the new Nokia C5, an affordable smartphone optimized for social networking and sharing.
The image gives out the obvious details in the form of compact design, large comfortable keypad and the UI that flaunts favorite contacts, email and app shortcuts on homescreen. The features as we hear are the same as rumored before with Symbian S60v3, 3.2MP camera, AGPS, 2.2″ screen, etc. The price is rumored to be sub $200. More as it comes…
Via TechKnots / Nokia FaceBook
Categories: First look, Launch Pad, nokia, smartphones |
Tags: 2010, C series, c5 preview, cebit, cseries, nokia, nokia c5, smartphone | No Comments
February 21st, 2010
Nokia did disappoint a lot of techies by not releasing any new handset during the MWC 2010. Nokia did announce the new OS, dubbed MeeGo but that wasn’t enough. Was it? Well, for all those who are keen to see some new handsets from Nokia here is the leaked Nokia X10.
We did hear some news about the new naming scheme from Nokia which mentioned the X series that focuses on entertainment and music for young audience. The leaked X10 belongs to the same X series. The handset has been released by a video on YouTube that shows a few documentation of the Symbian^3 powered Nokia X10.
The specifications of the device mentioned in the video includes a (more…)
Categories: Leaked / Spyshots, nokia, smartphones |
Tags: AMOLED, capacitive, leaked, nokia, nokia x10, nokia x100, rumor, symbian 2010, symbian^3, x10, x100 | No Comments
February 18th, 2010
Nokia has finally done something that makes us feel that they aren’t really heading towards the platform confusion mode as we have constantly been thinking. After juggling 3 different OS (Symbian, Maemo and oFono with Intel), Nokia has announced MeeGO which merges the Maemo project with a solo Intel project called Moblin (remember the Linux based OS?). Though this still leaves us wondering what would be the fate of oFono project that Intel and Nokia kicked off some time back.
While Maemo brings a PC capable platform, Moblin was aimed as the fastest booting OS by Intel. What would be the result of combining the two? Hope better than what they are doing individually! At the same time we also have a official promo video of the UI for Symbian 3 by Nokia, (similar to what has been seen earlier) bringing on-board multiple homepages, pinch to zoom etc. While we ain’t a 100% impressed, it seems that Nokia would finally get capacitive love. (video downstairs)
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Categories: First look, Softwares, nokia, smartphones |
Tags: maemo + moblin = meego, meego os, mobile world congress nokia, Moblin, mwc, nokai ui, oFono, symbian 3, symbian 3 ui | 1 Comment
February 16th, 2010
GPS on phone is now something very common and just one of the things the smartphone boom has brought to us. As much as these mobiles threat the digital camera market, portable GPS navigation devices have now become one of the endangered species. Till recently software and hardware for GPS navigation systems was a separate business, but over the last few months the dynamics of this market has changed. Google made its big announcement by throwing in its free navigation software on the android, engadget pointed out the sharp fall TomTom and Garmin took.
The google app wasn’t really a killer though it had its own charm and goodness. But the requirement of a continuous Internet connection (atleast in the current beta form) sinks it. Add to that only US support for now. We know that Google maps come together from as many as 6 teams coming together and they would certainly do better things in time to come, but what has really acted as a catalyst to the entire situation is the entry of Ovi maps to the scene. (more…)
Categories: Apple, Google, Market Watch, iphone, nokia |
Tags: 3 million downloads, Apple iPhone 4th gen, google maps, gps navigation, ovi maps | No Comments
February 13th, 2010
The latest rumors in the technology world suggest a 12MP camera phone from Nokia. Rumor also has it that Nokia would be announcing this phone during the MWC 2010 at Barcelona. There are a few speculations about a new naming scheme too, with the introduction of new C, X and S series along with the existing N and E series.
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Categories: nokia, rumor |
Tags: 720p recording, nokia, nokia 12mp, nokia n8-00, nokia naming, nokia new naming, rumor, Symbiaqn^3 OS | 1 Comment
February 11th, 2010
If the ‘internal’ sources of BeGeek are to be believed, the phone in the picture above is Nokia’s N98. The rumored specifications include a 4″ touchscreen, 32GB of internal storage and a slide-out QWERTY. The picture also suggests an OS looking similar to Symbian S60. As the design and model number would suggest to you, this is a N97 successor and we just hope that Nokia has had its learning’s from the N97. The phone also has a leaked price tag – €450 ($619). The phone is expected to be released during the holiday season of 2010 and rumored to be announced during the Mobile World Congress. But seeing Nokia’s low interest in the MWC 2010, we hardly see this happening.
via [SlashGear]
Categories: Leaked / Spyshots, nokia, rumor, smartphones |
Tags: mwc, mwc 2010, nokia, nokia 98 review, nokia mwc, nokia n98, nokia n98 pic, nokia n980, rumor | 2 Comments
February 10th, 2010
For all the cheer that iPhone fans had all these years with all the geeky hacks on the Jesus phone, well here comes N900. Yes that’s an Nokia N900 running Windows 95! We know that the Maemo 5 that N900 runs is a desktop class OS and the video below would show you the same booting Windows 95 via Dosbox. The hack does little to add any utility but proves the horsepower withing the N900, here is the tutorial of how this black magic was really done. Its also revealed that the Windows 98 was tried on the N900 aswell, it runs aswell! (more…)
Categories: Weird or not?, nokia, smartphones |
Tags: n900 hacks, n900 running windows, nokia n900, os, smartphone hacks, windows 95, windows on mobile | No Comments
February 4th, 2010
Last June Nokia announced its plans to go open source with the Symbian platform. Already handed over to the Symbian Foundation, the smartphone OS that currently powers over 300million handsets has been battling it out with the Apple iPhone, Android OS and others in the race to be the smartest mobile OS. It announced today that the Symbian OS is now open sourced (and free), full 4 months before schedule. This opens the door for Symbian to be ported on other mobile devices like netbooks, tablets or perhaps even PMPs.
While we heard since years that mobile is the future, mobile is the future … the fact remains that true smartphone capabilities were tested only by the iPhone in 2007 and since then we have seen newer platforms like the Android and WebOS steal the show with nothing competitive being presented by Symbian / Nokia. Nokia is one of the most efficient mobile manufacturers in the world and still the largest globally, but the loss of mindshare to the competition is significant. Samsung has climbed up to the number 2 slot globally and might well be knocking on Nokia’s door. The enterprise market is ruled by Blackberry and powerusers are diehard Android / iPhone lovers. How long can Nokia survive on the common man? As a matter of fact most common users use a decade old WinXP on their desktop, but when it comes to mobile the industry is moving fast, unbelievable fast!
Nokia avoided the Google backed Android OS in favor of Maemo (not to forget that they are also working on oFono with Intel). This has made many to term the OS strategy by Nokia as “Confused”. However Samsung has been offering everything that one can expect, low end phones with its own non-smart OS (some on the other side aswell), Windows Mobile & Android smartphones and an upcoming BADA OS. So will Symbian manages to turn the tables with the ambitious move to go Open, we hope to see Nokia deliver some new wine 
Categories: Tech Industry News, nokia, smartphones |
Tags: free mobile os, free os, nokia os, open source, os, smartphone os, symbian | No Comments
February 4th, 2010
A close look at the Nokia’s product lineup would surely suggest a broken link between the low-end phones and the high-end N-series/E-series. If the speculations of a handset called C5 are to be true, then Nokia might just be filling this broken link with a new C-series. C5 is the first leaked handset of the new rumored C-series. C5 would be a mid-range Nokia smartphone which should fit perfect into the price sensitive pockets. The phone seems to be running Symbian S60 v3 & the shortcuts / widgets on the homescreen reminds us of the 5233 UI we saw earlier this week.
The rumored specs are -
- Symbian S60v3 OS
- 3.2MP camera
- HSDPA / HSUPA
- 2.2? QVGA screen
- 50MB internal memory
- MicroSD Slot
- GPS / A-GPS
- 3.5MM audio jack
- FM Radio
The C5 is expected to be announced later this month @ MWC 2010 at Barcelona. The pricing of the device is unknown.
via [Electronista]
Categories: Leaked / Spyshots, nokia, rumor |
Tags: c5, c5 review, mwc, mwc 2010, nokia, nokia c-series, nokia c5, nokia c5 preview, nokia leaked, rumor | 3 Comments
February 2nd, 2010
Nokia has said RIP to Gage for sure, but you never know whats really cooking in Finland. Nokia might well be planning some cool gaming phones that could match up with the challenge thrown by the iPhone / Android and lately Palm. What we have here is the Ovi Orion concept that is a gaming touchscreen and by the looks of it, it sure is sporty! Recombu Orion concept is loaded with a ‘killer’ CPU/GPU, 4.3″ touchscreen, a QWERTY with additional one line display on the back and gaming controls (along with the usual suspects like the WiFi, Sensors etc).
More pictures and the Orion Video after the break (more…)
Categories: Concept / Educative, Gaming, Tech Industry News, nokia |
Tags: Gaming, ngage, nokia, nokia gaming, nokia ngage, Nokia Ovi Orion, ovi, ovi orion, touchscreen | No Comments
January 31st, 2010
After failing to capture the touchscreen market in 2009. Nokia is back with a bang in 2010 with a slew of touchscreen handsets (or smartphones I must say) being released one after the other. With the 5800 doing well initially but failing to maintain the steady sales with time because of various shortcomings in terms of pricing and other issues like an unimpressive touchscreen and slow UI when used with various apps. Nokia seems to have got hold of the situation and their developers have come up with newer software versions for their S60 5th edition phones. Now with these problems taken care of, Nokia has started afresh and launched new phones like the Nokia 5230, 5233, 5530 and 5235 (this will be launched soon). Not to forget that the 5800 got a good price cut a few months back.
Unable to ignore the fact that the Nokia 5233 is the most basic;
lacking advanced features like 3G and Wi-Fi (also its the cheapest of the lot), we decided to do a quick review of their basic touchscreen phone and compare it with Nokia 5800. Now the 5233 costs only about Rs. 7500 approx. compared to the Rs 13000 for a 5800 (India). So what has Nokia really done with this phone that justifies this steep drop in price. Hmmm. Lets take a look.
On first look you can easily notice that this one does not have a secondary camera (for 3G) in the front, a scaled down 2.0 MP camera with no LED flash and only a single speaker (it has a very low output I must say). They have done away with the free 8GB micro-SD card. You get a WH-102 headset instead of the way better HS-45, AD-54 music headsets. A VGA camera for video recording. Most importantly, its got 3G & Wi-Fi missing. Being heavier by 4gms (weighing 113g), lack of mini qwerty input method are the other minor differences.
Side pose 5800 vs 5233 (Speakers)
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Categories: Reviews, Videos, nokia, smartphones |
Tags: nokia 5000 series touchscreen, nokia 5233, nokia 5233 vs samsung corby, nokia review, review, symbian touchscreen, touchscreen | 8 Comments
January 21st, 2010
When Google launched its turn-by-turn maps navigation for Android, it made the Droid a whole lot powerful with a superb GPS software. Having the Google search for GPS was amazing. And today Nokia has went free with navigation services via its own Ovi Maps. Coming to 10 S60 handsets to begin with the Ovi Maps navigation would also be brought to Maemo and S40 series models along with being preloaded on Nokia devices from March 2010.
This is certainly a bold move by Nokia and increases its competitiveness in the smartphone race. While the free Google navigation is available only in the US for now, the Nokia Ovi will give you worldwide access (detailed maps for more than 180 countries). Not just that, the Nokia Maps can be downloaded and loaded on to your handset for a Internet free navigation. This is unlike Google Navigation that requires an active data connection on your smartphone to do (more…)
Categories: Google, Softwares, nokia, smartphones |
Tags: free gps navigation, gps, gps maps, maps, navigation, ovi maps | 3 Comments
January 19th, 2010
For a long time the Samsung Corby / Star series went without any competition, however Nokia has finally got cheaper versions of the 5800 out in the market to compete in the low-cost touchscreen segment. The Nokia 5230 costs Rs 8000 approx and the 5530 goes for Rs 11750. But does this come on time to take on the Corby Pro and Corby S3653, or even the LG Cookie?? IMO the usability and use of internet on the Nokia Symbian platform is much better than what Corby offers and serious users would go for the 5230 / 5530 (though both of them lack a capacitive touchscreen). However in this segment of the market looks sell and that’s what Samsung has on its side! Anyways here are your options with Nokia… (more…)
Categories: nokia, smartphones |
Tags: 5230, 5530, 5530 Xpress Music, Comparison, nokia, nokia 5230 vs croby | 4 Comments
January 15th, 2010
The 2010 Nokia UI that we saw earlier is the S^4 UI Concept Proposal submitted by Nokia. Symbian OS 4 is expected to be launched by NOKIA along with some sleeky models most probably sometime in 2010 itself. The inspiration of this OS is taken from Android but we know where the actual push comes from, its the “iPhone”. Latest version of Symbian OSes are built and tested out on QT which have the capability to support hybrid, touch screen and other model phones.
Nokia is working on building clean and interactive (more…)
Categories: Softwares, nokia, smartphones |
Tags: Android, iphone, nokia, nokia touch phone, symbian 4, Symbian OS, touchscreen | No Comments
January 10th, 2010
Nokia has clubbed its Ovi Maps application with a racing game to be released in 2010. The Ovi Maps Racing is a combination of Ovi Maps and racing, allowing its user to race through the tracks on the Ovi Map.
The application detects the users location through GPS and then allows the user to race in the neighbourhood tracks using the racing game application. The user can also customise the tracks to race along the famous roads of major cities. The user can customise the tracks of his current location or can choose any location around the world for racing.
The game would soon be available on the Ovi Store. Nokia did not declare if the game would be a free or paid application. Do check the demo video to see how it works.
via [NokiaConversations] (more…)
Categories: Gaming, nokia |
Tags: gps racing, nokia, nokia games, nokia ovi maps racing, nokia racing game, video | No Comments
December 26th, 2009
After being knocked off from the no. 1 position by Samsung in the UK market, Nokia now seems to be realizing that competition has heated up. Rumors are now rife that Nokia may soon be coming out with dual-SIM cell phones, as early as second quarter of 2010. After Samsung, LG and Motorola made similar moves, Nokia, too, seems to be following the same lines.
Nokia is expected to target emerging markets, having lost some of its market share there. One point that must be noted here is that many carriers do not prefer such cell phones, for obvious competitive reasons. So, it’s highly likely that such phones will come out as individual manufactured units and not paired with services (more…)
Categories: nokia, rumor |
Tags: nokia, nokia 2010, nokia dual sim, nokia vs samsung | 14 Comments
December 18th, 2009
The chief editor of Russian website Mobile-Review, Eldar Murtazin, has tweeted about Nokia’s plan to launch dual-sim handsets by the second quarter of 2010. The number of devices and the type of handsets has not been mentioned. Murtazin did mention that the handsets would be mid-end phones. Murtazin also stated that the news has been confirmed by (more…)
Categories: Tech Industry News, nokia, rumor |
Tags: dual sim, nokia, nokia dual sim, nokia rumor, rumor | 2 Comments
December 3rd, 2009
Nokia is promising that they are re-engineering the UI of their offerings in 2010, working closely with Symbian. The new interface would sport multitouch, lesser clutter, easy email, significantly improved browser etc. It sounded to me as they are making the iPhone after Apple released it 2.5 yrs back. Though over 3 times faster OS sounds good, lets see how they deliver. Pics below, video on Engadget. (more…)
Categories: First look, Tech Industry News, nokia |
Tags: nokia 2010, nokia full touchscreen 2010, nokia smartphone in 2010, nokia symbian 3, nokia symbian 4, symbian, symbian version in 2010 | 1 Comment
