Archive for 'General'

This week welcomes a new member to the writing team at
NokiaUsers. Gizmoratty has been a big part of N95users.com for the past couple of
months, proving to be a wealth of knowledge on the subject of topic over
there. When we asked him if he’d like to share his views on more than just our
beloved N95s, he was quite eager to get started. This was evident when I woke
up this morning surprised and delighted to see that Gizmoratty- just as
he’s been doing non-stop at N95users- has already posted his first bit,
bringing us news of yet another item in the never ending stream of S60 apps for
Nokia users.

Gizmoratty is the first member of the NokiaUsers writing team
from the UK- and we hope that his geographical position will help to balance
out our view of Nokia here for everyone as we begin to report from both sides of the
Atlantic today.

An incredibly warm welcome from Brandon and myself to
Gizmoratty as he joins the crew.

Cheers, mate!

Rafe Blandford has provided us with his very insightful and
generally quite accurate predictions for the coming year. A good deal of his
thoughts on what is likely to happen in 2008 focuses on S60 and Nokia of
course. It’s quite an interesting read as he tells us to be on the lookout for
S60 touch (though not likely until the end of the year) and plenty of Nseries
releases with FP2 and quite possibly a resolution bump.  Ovi will no doubt become more defined and will
begin to start marching forward to its full potential. He reminds us that Nokia
Maps will continue to develop and that we’ll see more products associated with
the mapping information systems. He expects that along with touch, Nokia will
present us with several new form factors, at least to Nokia design- and more
devices with full keyboards.

He touches more on N-Gage, Nokia Music and the new ‘Comes
with Music’ deal as well as Eseries and more emphasis on developers tools to
take advantage of FlashLite and WRT.

It’s a very good read and he also explores thoughts and
predictions on other areas of S60 unrelated to Nokia as Samsung tries to give
Nokia a run for the money this year and Motorola tries to keep its head above
water. Pop on over to All About Symbian to read the full article. 2008 is most definitely shaping up to be one killer year for Nokia.

Tong Ren from Symbian Blog has beaten accelerometer app coding maven Samir to the punch with "FlipSilent". A similar program to the much anticipated latest efforts of Samir, ShutUp, that silences a ringing phone with a flip of the device. FlipSilent gives us the ability to not only decline an incoming call, but also put the device in silent mode.

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There’s a good discussion in the Convergence Zone over at the S60 blogs that deals with the fact that today’s mobile phones are becoming serious competitors to dedicated cameras and the fact that people are unwilling to accept this. True- camera phones will in all likelihood never completely replace the stand alone digital camera but it certainly offers some features not found in such devices, and rivals the existing features for casual, yet high quality photography. With the added bonus of other converged features such as GPS, direct and fast access to photo sharing resources such as seamless flickr uploading combined with the fact that you don’t have to carry a second device with you, and aren’t likely to do so all day long, every day.

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 Just saw on Intomobile.com that Stefan has 7 images of a device on flickr very similar in design to the N81 but with a much larger screen, a 5mpix camera and dual slider function labeled N96.

Couple things to note- super glossy like the N81. Fingerprint and grease magnet. It’s followed in design from the new N95 variants, lacking proper lens protection. There’s a set LED lamps, no xenon flash like we see on the N82.

What do you think? Is this the N96? Should we be expecting more than this?

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I know you've all been reading about Nokia World for the last week, and so many bloggers that attended the massive event have been covering it so brilliantly that there has been little left to say. I do want to at least mention one of the latest reports that comes from one an all time favorite blog of mine, Symbian-Guru.com. Dotsisx has joined the team over there and has already proven to be a brilliant addition to this reader with her thoughts on Ovi and its part in the much needed integration of our lives as digital natives. New details of Ovi that were announced at Nokia World 2007 has shed some light on the relevance and concept that are really starting to excite me. She notes that there are certainly still things to be sorted out and that we still really don't know what Ovi is going to offer us. Pop over there to have a read of the post, and maybe get a little pumped about Ovi yourself.

Stay tuned here for the ultimate Nokia Quiz Showdown between Symbian Freak, All About Symbian, and Mobile Burn!

From WomWorld-
“At 19:00 GMT on Wednesday 5th December, members from the three communitees are going to go head-to-head in a Nokia themed quiz. The winning community will guarantee 5 of their members (selected by the team captain) an N82 trial.”

Nokia has just released the beta version of the Internet Radio application. The plan is to embed the new application into upcoming Nokia S60 version 3 devices, but it is available now for free on the N82, N91 and N95 today by visiting http://www.nokia.com/internetradio .

"Most new music discovery occurs while you're listening to the radio," said Tommi Mustonen, head of the Nokia music business. "By offering the Nokia Internet Radio service on mobile devices, the radio experience becomes more accessible, giving people new ways to find music."

Hundreds of stations are reportedly available. To make navigation of the hundreds of stations available, the station directory enables you to search based on station name, genre, country or language. Updates to the top ten most popular Internet radio stations are made hourly and are also available in the station directory. Adding a station to the list of 'Favorites' makes it easy to fire up your regulars.

In an apparent attempt to strengthen it's partnership with Nokia, Foxconn has taken over Nokia's CDMA team in San Diego, California. Foxconn produces Nokia handsets in Hungary at the industrial park in Komarom beside Nokia's central European factory. They also produce devices for Apple, Motorola, they are the OEM for the Xbox 360, Sony's PS2 and PS3 as well as many other products.  Competition seems fierce for Foxconn with reports that rivals such as Compal Communication and BYD are expected to begin shipping low-end CDMA handsets to Nokia in the first half of next year. TechFaith is expected to ship GSM/CDMA dual-mode devices to Nokia as well.  So it only makes sense that they would be fighting to strengthen the relationship with Nokia, and hopefully this new significant collaboration will make some ground in the CDMA market. Like North America, the Asian CDMA market has been showing Nokia trouble for some time now.

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