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We are still not sure if we can call this a phone or a full fledged entertainment device along with a camera best in its class. The Nokia N95 is a Quad band world phone and weighs 120 grams. It has a 16 million color TFT screen with a display resolution of 240 x 320 pixels.
The N95 comes with 160mb of internal memory along with a microSD card slot which can take cards up to 2GB in size. The phone comes with Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g along with uPnP technology, so basically its almost a mini computer. There is ofcourse all the usual stuff like GPRS, 3G, EDGE, Bluetooth and an Infrared port.
It has a 5 megapixel camera which can take awesome still photos at 2592 x 1944 pixel resolutions. The camera comes with auto focus and Carl Zeiss optics. The camera also has flash and can take videos at VGA resolution at 30 frames per second. The N95 comes with an Audio player, TV out, GPS receiver, T9 dictionary, FM Radio, and Office softwares. There is also a AD2P Bluetooth port for stereo Bluetooth output.
Tags: 5 megapixel camera, carl zeiss, nokia n95
Yesterday Nokia announced two new cdma phones aimed at the “talk and text” users of china.
“With the new features of the Nokia 1265 and Nokia 1325, consumers are getting functionality along with ease of use,” said Larry Paulson, Vice President, CDMA, Nokia. “The features most of us take for granted on our phones are front-and-center on these new products for first-time mobile phone users. These two new products expand the range of Nokia models consumers can choose from at an entry level.”
There are no images currently available for these new handsets, will post some as soon as they are released.
Read the full press release here.
Announced recently at Nokias Capital Market days in Amsterdam is the 6290 smartphone, Nokia’s first mid-range 3G smartphone based on S60 3rd Edition.
The 6290 is a smart-looking clam shell design with the following features :
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2 megapixel camera with 4X digital zoom
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2.2″ QVGA 16M colour internal screen
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Rich email functionality which supports attachments such as PPT, PDF, Word and Excel.
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MP3 music player with excellent stereo surround sound
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Two way video calling
The Nokia 6290 phone has a talk-time of up to 3.5 hours and a standby battery time of up to 10 days and runs the symbian operating system.
Source : Nokia
Another budget phone offering from Nokia, is the 2626. It’s aimed at the emerging markets of India and China. Its a simplistic phone with a small feature set, although it does have an fm radio built-in. It is set for a $100 price tag (75 euros).
The emerging markets are currently helping to drive up Nokia’s profits;
The growth was driven by China and India where Nokia’s strategy of releasing cheaper models has helped it secure market share. Sales to China increased 58 per cent year-on-year to 11.7m units while other Asia-Pacific sales rose 79 per cent to 18.8m. Nokia’s competitor Motorola also revealed record quarterly sales, up 29 per cent compared with the same period last year. (Source: Financial Times)
A deal had been struck between the two giants last year over Yahoo! Offering their search and Instant messenger services on Nokia handsets. At that time it was only worked out for smart phones, so basically the ones with a Symbian Series 60 Operating system. It has been quite a while now and tons of new phones have been released after that.
Nokia recently announced their new phones like the Nokia 6300 and others at the Amsterdam press release. There have also been new handsets coming from Nokia like the Nokia 5300 and Nokia 5200 mainly aimed for the youth market. These phones come with the more ordinary Series 40 OS. This is where the new deal between Yahoo! and Nokia comes in play.
Yahoo will offer the Yahoo! messenger as well as a Yahoo! mail application on these new phones. This will soon be extended to other Nokia phones with the Series 40 OS. A new Yahoo Personal Management System ( Y! PIM ) is also being worked out by the two companies. The PIM will allow users to synchronize their scheduled and other tasks on their phones with this application.
Tags: nokia 6300, nokia handsets, pim, symbian series 60
The ‘Capital Market Days’ in Amsterdam gave Nokia the platform to announce 4 new handsets in order to compete with the latest range of Motorola and RIM phones. Motorola and RIM have announced that they will be launching over 5 new phones in the holiday season and that has got Nokia to come out with these new phones.
The release of new models does not always mean that they will go well with consumers. We are pretty skeptical about the latest ones they have announced in the press conference. One of them is the entry level Nokia 2626 and it comes with Xpress-on covers with various color combinations, FM Radio and a color display. The phone is going to be priced at around $100 and decent for the price.
The other 3 phones are all marked for the mid-range category and they have nothing ‘special’ in them. Just the usual run of the mill kind of features and design from Nokia. This is where is gets really dull. The phones look very similar to the old ones in the market and have just a few advancements in terms of technology and options. The Nokia 6086 is a Quad band GSM phone and an UMA enabled camera. This one will cost you around 200 euros. The Nokia 6290 comes with a Symbian OS and it is 3G enabled costing you just over 325 euros plus tax.
The Nokia 6300 is the only one which stands out from the pack. The phone has a monoblock design and is only 13mm thick adding new dimension since Nokia does not have any ‘thin’ handsets out in the market.
Tags: 3g, motorola, nokia 6290, nokia 6300, quad band, rim
There have been a number of ultra luxury cell phones (those made of rare and expensive materials, such as gold or platinum) released in recent weeks and today, we have just gotten word of the newest ultra luxury cell phone available, the new Nokia 8800: Sirocco Diamond Edition. The phone is plated in 24 carat gold and is diamond studded.
Only 1000 of these cell phones have been produced and like everything else that is rare, the best place to purchase one is on eBay where they are selling for as high as $3450
