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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Thursday 21 August 2008
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Author: Serge Novikov Source: unwiredview
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Nokia's luxury 8800 range has seen a new edition to the range today - the 8800 Carbon Arte edition. As the name would imply, the handset is made of carbon fibre, stainless steel, and titanium. To no-ones surprise, the handset, with its premium materials, much like its predecessors, will not come cheap. Before taxes, and operator subsidies, it'll set you back a wallet-busting €1,100/$1,600. Fingerprints have been an issue on previous editions of the8800, but, fear not, as, for the Carbon Arte, they have decked it out in anti-fingerprint casing. It's set to start shipping by the end of this quarter, that means the very end of September, at the very latest.
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Author: Irina Turina Source: intomobile
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Leaks are all too common these days, last week, the Palm Treo Pro was leaked on their own website. Not surprising then, that some days later, specs and more images leak out. Design-wise, Palm fans will be happy, as Palm haven't strayed from the Treo's traditional design. However, as far as the OS goes, the Pro will be running Windows Mobile, not Palm's own OS.
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Author: Klimov Oleg Source: intomobile
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Samsung has introduced an eco-friendly handset, the E200, which, essentially, is made from material extracted from corn, well, the handset’s case anyway. It’s set to launch across Europe from next month. Technical specifications are incredibly thin on the ground at the moment, all is know is that the E200 will have a 1.3 megapixel camera, MMS support, and music playback capabilities
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Author: Serge Novikov Source: intomobile
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Next Monday, the 18th, Nokia are set to announce two new N-Series devices. It’s speculated hat they could be the N79 and the N85. The launch will take place at 8am GMT. Remember, the devices to be announced are all speculated at this point.
The N79 will sport the candybar form factor, looks to come with a 2.4” display, 5MP camera, with dual LED flash, 3.5G HSDPA, and possibly GPS and Wi-Fi. It should be using Feature Pack 2.
The N85 employs the dual slide form factor of the Nokia N96. It should come with Quad-band GMS connectivity, 3.5G, 5MP camera with dual LED flash, Wi-Fi and a-GPS. Like the N79, the N85 should be using FP2.
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Author: Irina Turina Source: intomobile
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HTC has released another ROM update for its Diamond hand, most notably, the previous update offered quad-band GSM support, and a faster, more responsive TouchFLO 3D User Interface. This new update, 1.93, for those with a European Diamond, is said to improve the speed of the camera’s UI, has faster switching of tabs, and makes it easier to choose your location in the weather tab. It can be downloaded here
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Author: Irina Turina Source: Unwiredview
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Samsung has expanded its Soul range of handsets, with the S330, though a mid-end handset feature-wise, its price tag, at around $500, says otherwise. Judging by its looks, the S330 has taken a lot of design cues from its sibling, the U900 Soul, however it certainly looks a lot cheaper and doesn't seem even half as attractive. It should become generally available sometime next month.
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Author: Irina Turina
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Super-slim handsets seem all the rage these days, now, Sony Ericsson has added another extremely slim handset to their portfolio – the T700, measuring up at dead-on 10 mm. Think of it as an updated, slim and enormously popular T610. It will start shipping in the next quarter, pricing is not yet known.
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Author: Serge Novikov
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Apple’s 3G iPhone is set to launch in various countries on the 22nd of August. The countries that will launch the device on the 22nd are: India, Czech Republic, Estonia, Philippines, Romania, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru, Uruguay, Poland, and Hungary. Though, note that of these countries, India does not yet offer a 3G network, so EDGE will have to suffice for now. To add to that list, there are said to be five other countries launching the 3G iPhone on the 22nd – Singapore said to be one of them, but nothing is confirmed yet, in regards to that.
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Author: Irina Turina Source: GSMhelpdesk
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Whilst not as high-end as Samsung’s recently announced INNOV8 eight MP cameraphone, the leaked i7110 seems to be a pretty decent phone.
Though, it’s not currently known if it boasts either Wi-Fi or GPS, the relatively short known specs list is as follows:
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Author: Irina Turina Source: digitimes
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Asus, who are making the Nuvifone for Garmin, remain in a business relationship with the company, despite the Nuvifone being set back from the second half of this year, to the first half of next year. Garmin said this was due to on-going negotiations with network carriers, although it's speculated that another reason could be Asus's lack of knowledge, in the touchscreen-area. Again, as has been said before, the longer you delay something, the longer you allow the competition – Apple, with their 3G iPhone, and HTC with their Touch Diamond, in this case, to capitalise on the delay.
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Author: Irina Turina
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As promised, HTC will begin shipping handsets, based on Google's Android Operating System, by the fourth quarter this year, said the company's CFO Hui-ming Cheng. The first of their Android-based handsets is expected to be the HTC Dream. The touchscreen market continues to grow at a fast rate, and this will only help HTC further in gaining more of the mobile phone marketshare. Their Windows Mobile-based Touch Diamond handset has been shipped to a significant number of network operators in many countries, so there's no reason why the first Android-based handsets shouldn't catch a number of operators attention too.
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Author: Serge Novikov Source: The Nokia Blog
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Nokia's N-Gage service could be coming to Sony's Playstation 3, and Microsoft's Xbox 360, says Nokia's Aki Jarvilehto. That is, N-Gage games could be ported to Microsoft's and Sony's online gaming networks – Xbox Live, and the Playstation network. So, essentially,users of the N-Gage service could play against those playing on the aforementioned gaming networks – broadening the amount of users to play against. What also could come of this, is that, you could play a game on your N-Gage-compatible handset, say, on public transport, for a few minutes, quit the game, and continue it on the PSN or Live network, when you return home. Currently, nothing is set in stone, so take this announcement for what it's worth.
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Author: Irina Turina Source: Pocket-lint
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Seemingly, to try and out-do the competition (although such cuts have already become a routine duty for the Finnish manufacturer), Nokia has slashed some of its handset's prices, but up to 10%. Two of the biggest price cuts of Nokia's handsets are all music-focused handsets – the 5310, 5610, and, N81 (although, the N81 is partly multimedia-focused too). This seems to be a wise move, as, down the line, it will no doubt give Nokia a bigger percentage of the mobile phone market share, of which they own almost half – 41%, to be precise.
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Author: Irina Turina Source: Unwiredview
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Speakers in mobile phones are regarded as a novelty of sorts, obviously, due to their dimensions, they can't compete with Hi-Fi speakers, but, LG, along with Dolby Digital, look to come up with the second-best option. LG were the first manufacturer to release a handset to record videos at 120 FPS, in the DivX format, and, now, from the fourth quarter of this year onwards, LG's higher-end handsets will come equipped with sound systems from Dolby Digital. No models have been announced yet, but common sense says the first handset should be a pretty high-end touchscreen handset.
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Author: Serge Novikov Source: NYTimes
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Sony Ericsson have been in a slump of sorts recently, what with them issuing their second profit warning this year, attributed to less than stellar sales of mobile phones. On the Sony side of things, their quarterly profit fell by almost half – 47%, to be precise. Sony said it anticipated weak sales of its mobile phone handsets, as, recently, they have been facing stiff competition, from the likes of Nokia, and Samsung. Plus the global economic slowdown along with yen's appreciation and higher fuel and raw materials prices also have had a hand in Sony's latest downfall, although most other Japanese exporters have felt the severe effects of the abovementioned factors too. Another factor could be attributed to the fact that the company has struggled to get some handsets to market on time – and even cancelling some – such as their Paris handset, which, by all accounts, was simply lackluster all-round – that could potentially make loyal customers lose faith in the company, resulting in a potential loss of sales.
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Author: Irina Turina
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Garmin's upcoming Nuvifone, sporting a large touchscreen, and intergrated GPS, was originally slated for release in the second half of this year. However, that is no longer the case, as it has been revealed that it has once again been delayed, this time, it's been put back until the first half of next year. It seems that the reason isn't just related to hardware, or software, but rather agreements with network operators.
Also, the company announced that design changes to the Nuifone are taking place too. Of course, as logic dictates, the longer you postpone something, the more time you give the competition to announce, and release a better product, so Garmin had better hope that the Nuvifone isn't delayed any longer. Of course, it could even be that when a product is delayed, for a set amount of time, it becomes outdated upon eventual release.
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Author: Klimov Oleg Source: PC Mag
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Motorola's Network unit is changing – the company is changing the unit in to three separate businesses, in order to expand the company's growth potential. The three units, or businesses, are: Broadband home solutions, Broadband business solutions, and, finally, cellular networks. Motorola's Network unit had a revenue in the region of $2.4 billion, and with this new three-way divide, they look to capitalise on that even further. Before the merger, remember, back in March, Motorola announced that its ailing handset division would be split off from all other businesses as of next year.
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Author: Serge Novikov
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Apple are generally a rather secretive company as it were – but, now, they're being very open with the issues of its MobileMe application, which automatically pushes new e-mails, contacts, and calendar events to your Mac, PC, iPhone, and iPod Touch. Apple are discussing the issues it had with the launch of MobileMe, and how the company will remedy the issues. Note that unlike non-paid-for e-mail providors, such as Hotmail, Yahoo, and Gmail, Apple has lost some of its users e-mails – around 1% of MobileMe users have encountered this issue. Some users were not able to log in to their mail accounts, but were able to do so as of the 25th. It is hoped that all e-mail related issues will be resolved sometime in the next few days.
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News:
• [ 21-08 20:55 ]Palm Announces Treo Pro
• [ 19-08 20:18 ]RIM Blackberry 8210/8220 specs leaked
• [ 19-08 19:51 ]Nokia announces 8800 Carbon Arte edition
• [ 18-08 19:46 ]Palm Treo Pro image and specs leak
• [ 15-08 17:07 ]Samsung announces eco-friendly E200 handset
• [ 14-08 21:51 ]Nokia set to announce two more N-Series devices next Monday
• [ 13-08 21:38 ]HTC rolls out new ROM for its Touch Diamond handset
• [ 08-08 20:06 ]Mid-end Soul handset announced by Samsung
• [ 07-08 12:18 ]Sony Ericsson announces ultra-slim T700 handset
• [ 06-08 18:15 ]3G iPhone to launch in more countries come 22nd August
• [ 05-08 20:34 ]High-end Samsung i7110 leaked
• [ 02-08 02:02 ]Garmin and Asustek still together despite Nuvifone setback
• [ 01-08 21:45 ]HTC set to begin shipping Android-based handsets by Q4
• [ 01-08 20:21 ]N-Gage service may be coming to gaming consoles
• [ 01-08 16:11 ]Nokia slashes phone price, by up to 10%
• [ 01-08 16:07 ]LG to equip higher-end handsets with Dolby Digital sound from Q4 onward
• [ 01-08 15:53 ]Sony's profit slumps by 47%, due to poor sales of mobile phone handsets
• [ 31-07 12:37 ]Garmin's Nuvifone delayed yet again
• [ 30-07 23:56 ]Motorola splits network unit into three
• [ 30-07 22:53 ]Apple speaks about MobileMe issues
