New Nokia to be launched on the 26th of January?

[Grayburn]

Interesting!!!!!!!

New Nokia phone to be launched on 26 January - Pocket-lint

Thanks to Psychomania @ Nokia Discussions.

[Bartmanekul]

Right, we have to start this....

1. Maemo

2. S60 (V3/V5)

3. Symbian foundation

I'm going for.....V5

[Tommie]

I wish it have Free Turn-by-Turn Navigation :-)

[Bartmanekul]

C'mon Tommie, which do you think it will be?

[carlsilvers]

Right, we have to start this....

1. Maemo

2. S60 (V3/V5)

3. Symbian foundation

I'm going for.....V5

Given Nokias recent .....unusual......behaviour, I'm betting on S40

[Sp00k]

It would be good to see a top-of-the-range music phone, with a faster cpu, gfx chip and FM tx, at least that would stand a chance of it incorporating half-way decent speakers, unlike the 2 N97's & the N900! Preferably NOT linked to that infernal CWM either!

BUT, my five-bob is on another N97-format type with some much-needed improvements within! I can't see Nokia easily abandoning that type of casing-format, given the right internals, it could still be a winner... A candy-bar AND a hard keypad combined, to all intents & purposes.

That, or yet another cut-down, low-price touch-screen device...

[carlsilvers]

That, or yet another cut-down, low-price touch-screen device...

That might make sense......something for the PAYG masses?

[Bartmanekul]

Nah. I'm sure theres enough out already, unless of course they are being quick with the first symbian foundation phone. In which case we could well see another 5800 alike.

[Kruisler]

I just bought an N97, that new phone better not be something "better"!! LOL!!

[93tid]

Given Nokias recent .....unusual......behaviour, I'm betting on S40

Or Maemo 6 ? Just to make all current N900 users happy.

[Grayburn]

Eldar from Mobile Review just tweeted 'January 26 Nokia will unveil some new phones - nothing revolutinary, but pretty good devices'

Carlsilvers might be right.

[Bartmanekul]

I think my guess was right then, some V5 devices. Probably some more N series ones, assuming they are carrying on with that type.

Given the free release of Ovi Maps, I'd probably get one if it's got a decent spec over the 5800. Not happy about using V5 over the new OS's out, but with no more satnav worries and the possibility of a decent camera coming up I'd be happy.

This is of course, if the price is right.

[Tommie]

C'mon Tommie, which do you think it will be?

Ok , I put my money on the new Symbian^3

because Symbian^3 is nearing Functionally Complete in Q1 2010, likely to be February

[CoffinDodger]

Or Maemo 6 ? Just to make all current N900 users happy.

Wishful Thinking But we can dream

[Bartmanekul]

Ok , I put my money on the new Symbian^3

because Symbian^3 is nearing Functionally Complete in Q1 2010, likely to be February

I really hope so, but from what that mobile site said, i.e. good handsets but nothing amazing, I am guessing not.

Tell you what would be a killer for me. A decent specced handset with symbian foundation on.

With Ovi maps already done for it. Not likely given that it's not on Maemo yet, but still, there were echos of it being backwards compatible, so perhaps it's not much of a change for them to make.

Can you imagine that though?

A well specced Nokia handset with an OS akin to Android (which is what the design plans looked like that Micky posted links too), which has free satnav software preinstalled.

Now that would well and truely put Nokia right back in the game.

[Micky]

My money is on an N97i, or N87.

[Bartmanekul]

N87 symbian foundation. Yes please.

I really hope it's not a V5 N97i, because that would just be insult to injury for any N97 owners, and probably N97 mini owners too.

Micky, do you have any insider knowlage (that you can't share :P ) or is it all guesswork?

[cambo]

maybe n87..but if it was something really amazing then something would have been leaked by now

[Tommie]

maybe n87..but if it was something really amazing then something would have been leaked by now

If it be any true of the leaked for a year phone the N87
Nokia N87 Release Document Video
in my eyes it's really amazing maybee be the new C-serie they talk about in the last Nokia world ,
if it also run on the new 3^ OS .

I raise my bet and say it be 2-3 phones , maybee one E97
and ofcorse there always need be one S-40 too but with the new symbian.

[dynomot]

A successor to the 5800 maybe ?

[Bartmanekul]

If it be any true of the leaked for a year phone the N87
Nokia N87 Release Document Video
in my eyes it's really amazing maybee be the new C-serie they talk about in the last Nokia world ,
if it also run on the new 3^ OS .

I raise my bet and say it be 2-3 phones , maybee one E97
and ofcorse there always need be one S-40 too but with the new symbian.

Arrghh, Tommie we established that's fake.

While it could be a 12mp toting Nokia, that document is nothing but a wishlist by someone, it bears no resemblence to anything in production.

In reality it could be a nice S40 phone, or a 2mp Symbian 3 phone.

We won't know till announcment, unless some real leaks come through.

[Tommie]

Arrghh, Tommie we established that's fake.

While it could be a 12mp toting Nokia, that document is nothing but a wishlist by someone, it bears no resemblence to anything in production.

In reality it could be a nice S40 phone, or a 2mp Symbian 3 phone.

We won't know till announcment, unless some real leaks come through.

Ahh damm , just as I put my house on the Nokia stock you tell me this

lol, you right we will see what It be and I can only dream on and

[buxz777]

as much as i would like a n87 type device i cant see it popping up just yet , after eldar has said it was ok but nothing amazing i cant see it being the 12mp we would like to see

iam staying open minded but i expect a mid range phone

i wouldnt be suprised to see another budget hybrid phone running s60 5th

i wouldnt get too excited though unless eldar was playing it down a bit or he was just dissapointed with it

only time will tell , will be intresting though

[Bartmanekul]

If it was another 5800 for symbian 3, I'd probably buy it. It might not fullfill my hardware requirements, but I was extremely happy with the 5800, and that was just to try it out. I never intended it to be my main phone.

Thing was, what wasn't Elder impressed about? Hardware? OS? Both?

Only 4 more days.

[buxz777]

good point bart mate

i hope iam wrong but if it was symbian3 id think he would have been a bit excited , if it was a 12mp nokia he would of been excited ,

i think with the qwerty craze at the minute maybe a budget n97 type device running s60 5th with even more cut down spe then the mini

i have no idear really :-)

i hope it is a 12mp nokia :-) specially being released and not announced on the 26th :-)

[clonmult]

A successor to the 5800 maybe ?

I hope not. They've already got too many variations on that theme with mildly varying specs - 5230, 5530, 5800, X6, N97 Mini, N97 - all very, very similar phones with minor spec differences.

One thing is for sure - the free Ovi Maps is going to make a massive difference. Assuming that Nokia can actually market it. Problem is that Nokias marketing department couldn't even give food to a starving man, whereas Apples marketing dept can sell sand to arabs .....

I'm not expecting anything major, or particularly interesting, but one things for sure - I'm now definitely staying with Nokia for the forseeable future.

[Bartmanekul]

I'm not expecting anything major, or particularly interesting, but one things for sure - I'm now definitely staying with Nokia for the forseeable future.

Assuming your talking about Maps, I find that very interesting. The fact that you are sticking with Nokia now due to the free satnav makes me wonder just how many people will do the same.

[Sp00k]

One small ray of hope, as this announcement is timed for the day before the 'Big Apple Announcement', hopefully it's intended to steal some of the thunder from Apple, who are expected by some to include details about the forthcoming 4G iPhone... To do this successfully it needs to be something pretty impressive... We can only wait & see!

[clonmult]

Assuming your talking about Maps, I find that very interesting. The fact that you are sticking with Nokia now due to the free satnav makes me wonder just how many people will do the same.

Me too - I was starting to consider an Android device, never had any interest in the iPhone, but knowing that the Nokia products will have a usable, fairly well featured free satnav application changes things completely. At least for me.

Whilst this decision for free Ovi Maps makes some sense, I wonder if their timings have been pushed forwarad somewhat with the rumours of Apple announcements and the various legal battles that are around.

[Bartmanekul]

No, I'm pretty sure it's more to do with Google and their free satnav. If you look at the comments made by the Nokia guy on the Beeb, he mentions that the google satnav is data only, Ovi Maps allows you install maps on the device. Deliberatly comparing Ovi Maps to Googles recent accouncement of free satnav.

Ovi Maps is better than google ones in many ways, and they have been trumping that.

And it's a big thing for me too. While I have various satnav packages available to me, I want to use ones compatible with family, so if need be we can send location to one another.

[Tommie]

i hope iam wrong but if it was symbian3 id think he would have been a bit excited , if it was a 12mp nokia he would of been excited ,

i think with the qwerty craze at the minute maybe a budget n97 type device running s60 5th with even more cut down spe then the mini

i have no idear really :-)

i hope it is a 12mp nokia :-) specially being released and not announced on the 26th :-)

Nothing revolutinary, but pretty good devices as Eldar says, what that mean?

To much Russian vodka or ofcorse nothing new if it be a 12 MP !

We will see but it would not suprise me if there be some sex talk of the new
sex object Maemo six.

[nirave]

I'm interested to know what's coming out... This "could" be something special.

However, as much as I hardly read Mobile-Review due to not be able to read russian and lack of updates in English until a week later, I do think that if it was something that was a not-yet released Nokia thing, i.e. Symbian ^3 or 12mp camera etc he would have been more excited.

Then again.. Who knows? Roll on the 26th I say!

[skinnyflip]

I hope it's the N87 with specs from here or better....

Just another leak: is this what Nokia N87 12MP will look like? - GSMArena.com news

[Bartmanekul]

I suspect that was the fake one which has already been explained here many times. Though I notice the video has been taken down due to an apperent 'copyright claim by Nokia corperation'.

If it really was a Nokia document, it's had more spelling and grammar mistakes than I have seen in badly converted Chinese - English documents.

How I'd love to be wrong though. Assuming it doesn't have any issues (memory, build quality), I'd snap it up.

[buxz777]

to be honest bart mate

i still think it could be real

the paperwork is not important its for beta testers/prototype users , its not meant to bee seen by the public just the users of the prototype which would have been sworn to secrecy

maybe it is a chines knock off but i happend to think that alot of nokia phones are designed in finland and made in asia , if the prototype has been built in asia and the little booklet written there before being sent out to secret prototype users , then maybe it wasnt written by someone with the best english

maybe the n87 or whatever wont be released on the 26th but i still think that there has been too much pop out for the n87 and it is a real nokia device , i pretty much expect too see it soon to be honest

i know you think different mate and iam not saying your wrong but these are obvously just our opinions :-) be intresting to see what happends

[Bartmanekul]

I still doubt very much it's real Buxz, Nokia simply don't make mistakes like that spelling be in on documents not for the public or not. Nor would they use such language like they did. theres also a few other things in the document I won't say here which lead me to believe it's fake.

And of course, I can't see them adding an infra red function. That's almost impossible (I don't mean technically), unless of course Nokia are deciding to suprise us again and get innovative!

But then *if* it's actually Nokia that has requested it be taken down, perhaps it was close to something they are developing? I suppose it's possible they don't like people making up documents and saying it's from them either though.

Normally they might not have seen it, but I have reason to believe that they have been looking at the forum recently, and of course they would have seen that link (it was a main news article too, on the front page).

I have little doubt a N87 or whatever 12mp designation is underway. But it's these documents I don't trust.

I really don't think it's true, and although we know theres something appearing on the 26th, the ones that seemingly know about it do not seem excited.

The one time I have been majorly wrong was about the 5800 - I said there was no way they could do that spec for that price, I was dead nuts wrong.

Lets hope I'm wrong again eh

I'd love a touchscreen 8mp device with xenon and infrared. That really would make me happy, and also the HD recording. Tbh, give it a better OS, and that's almost my dream handset. I kid you not. I might not believe it's real, but I hope it is.

[Micky]

Have you not heard of "Controlled Leaks"?

[Bartmanekul]

Have you not heard of "Controlled Leaks"?

Oh yes, in fact I have said before (yet again, sorry) that I long suspected not everything was actually leaked.

But generally that's not had such errors seen on whatever pops up. And of course, some things are not meant to be released...err, leaked.

Remember the roadmap? That obviously wasn't, and they went round chasing places that put it up, however futile that is once something is on the net.

That's not to say Nokia haven't gotten extremely devious though.

Perhaps it was meant to look as it did in order to get us all debating it. or maybe it's just to take attention off elsewhere?

[Guest37]

What I don't get is why a Tuesday!?

[Sp00k]

What I don't get is why a Tuesday!?

In order to pre-empt Apples' Wednesday announcements maybe?

A crude form of 'night-vision' needn't be particularly complex, all that's needed is to make the IR filter removable from the camera light-path.

Eldars' comment is not very inspiring though...

[Tommie]

In order to pre-empt Apples' Wednesday announcements maybe?

A crude form of 'night-vision' needn't be particularly complex, all that's needed is to make the IR filter removable from the camera light-path.

Eldars' comment is not very inspiring though...

Yes sounds not so inspiring but we can hope Nokia have send him one
Beta test device , I'm not sure but I belive I have hear they do so before

Yes they want to show the day ahead of apples new bookreader or
maybee the number 4 iphone , about that all this people who tied up
with 2 years contract, can they change or do they need to wait untill the end of 2012 before they can upgrade?

[Bartmanekul]

Just had a thought.

I got an email a few days back, about the X6 availability from play.com.

What I didn't realise is, this is a 16GB version without CWM.

Play.com (UK) - Mobile - Free Delivery

Is this what's going to be announced? It would explain Elder being unimpressed.

[Tommie]

Just had a thought.

I got an email a few days back, about the X6 availability from play.com.

What I didn't realise is, this is a 16GB version without CWM.

Play.com (UK) - Mobile - Free Delivery

Is this what's going to be announced? It would explain Elder being unimpressed.

Yes that would be suprising and dissipointing , I mean the X6 without the CWM have be on some headlines seens September 2009.

Nokia confirms X6 to Come without Music | News | TechRadar UK

[Bartmanekul]

So...it's only a day away, anyone have any new information?

Someone must have something!

[dynomot]

Nokia have either plugged their leaks well or the announcement is so uninspiring it's not worth the effort or risk for the 'mole'.

[Bartmanekul]

Well, bar any announcement before 29/03 this year, I'm getting this: http://www.play.com/Mobiles/Mobile/4...%7Ccat:Mobile+

While it's running Symbian V5, it's a pocketable nice looking handset that records in HD. I am hoping that you can run Ovi Maps on it though. It's very annoying not even having dual LED, but the videos on the Omnia HD I had were so nice, I'd like to have that again. Plus I have a £30 play voucher

My reasons for this:

It's very pocketable - the screen isn't massive and it's not very skinny, which will fit well into the hand. I quite value the way it feels.

It looks understated.

It can (hopefully) get Ovi maps on there for free.

The HD recording is a really nice thing to have.

It's got an 8MP camera (which is hopefully good, and hopefully not as bad as the 5800 in poor light).

It's reasonably cheap, at least compared to the Nexus.

[Guest37]

The Vivaz certainly looks the part, its a nice looking phone with some nice looking features.

I'm not holding my breath for a blow you away announcement from Nokia. Been pretty dissapointed with most of last years announcements. But hey, lets hope I'm proved wrong and it is something actually WORTH announcing.

[Bartmanekul]

It's not going to happen tomorrow anyway, like some said on here, there surely would have been more fuss about it if so.

[Tommie]

So...it's only a day away, anyone have any new information?

Someone must have something!

Well I had love the X6 with Comes with music ....for free

[Bartmanekul]

I suspect that's what it is, but I can't think it's worth it really. It's still £300, and your not getting anything the 5800 hasn't got, bar 16GB of memory and a slightly better camera. No magnometer, no better processor...meh. You don't get the CWM with this edition.

I don't think it's got a card slot either, so your stuck to 16GB and no interchangable card. Boo hiss.

If it is the cut down X6, then it's a really bad time to announce it, with Apples one the next day. In fact they would be better off not bothering, because people will be saying 'Is that all they got to offer against Apple?'

Hopefully they have stashed away something big. But if I were a betting man...