It’s not a secret that many companies are betting heavily on the mobile TV. Of course, the Finish giants wants the “piece of the action” and they’ve announced their Nokia N77 “multimedia computer”. The new device looks very much like the N73, but is designed for primarily for mobile TV (in comparison N73 is designed…
Nokia 6110 Navigator
With the announcement of its new Nokia 6110 Navigator, Nokia is set to mainstream the navigation. The mass-market navigation-enabled S60-based mobile phone is Nokia’s answer to the growing popularity of the location based services. Using integrated GPS, the phone enables consumers to quickly and easily view their current location on map, search for destinations, find…
Nokia E90 Communicator
It’s been some time since the last Nokia Communiactor was announced. The market is ready, the platform (S60 on top of Symbian 9) is set, and the new Communicator arrived. The features – well, it has everything! There’s a GPS, 3.2 MP camera, two screens (external 240×320, and internal 800×352), WLAN connectivity, full QWERTY keyboard…
Nokia E65
Unveiling of the stylish Nokia E65 slider phone was everything but a surprise. Leaked photos of the device were distributed all around the Web for almost a month. Plus, the device got approved by the FCC. And… finally – it’s here. As expected – the E65 sports 2 MP camera and wide array of connectivity…
Nokia E61i
As expected, Nokia has announced its new business device – Nokia E61i, successor to the popular E61. Unlike the E61, the E61i comes with a 2 MP camera, 5-way button navigation instead of a joystick, and is just a little bit thinner. The S60 3rd edition (no Feature packs) is still the main UI/software platform…
MOTORIZR Z8 announced
We thought Motorola dropped Symbian. After all, we haven’t seen any Moto Symbian-powered device for couple of years. But… we were wrong. At the 3GSM they presented their new Symbian UIQ 3.1-based MOTORIZR Z8. It’s kind a sporty, and has all the multimedia features of a solid Symbian-powered device. The Z8 supports HSDPA (and UMTS…
S60 4th edition will have touch screen support
Eugenia and her wonderful rants as usual. One of my favorite RSS feeds. Thanks for the bread recipes but care to share the Greek secret to Baklava? I can never get the syrup right! Anyways: In this piece she tackles the Nokia E90. That isn’t what interests me, the little snippet on the bottom does:…
Nokia N77 to be unveiled at 3GSM!?
Apart from presenting more business-oriented ESeries devices, it seems that Nokia will also present additions to its NSeries “multimedia computer” range. According to Reuters’ article, Nokia is set to release an affordable mobile TV enabled device – Nokia N77. Mobile TV is still not widely (if at all) adopted because of the high prices of…
C|Net asia compares Windows Mobile 6, BlackBerry, and S60
Not a lot of text, but click on the pictures at the end of the article. Something tells me this isn’t a fair feature comparison but I just have to shut my mouth since I haven’t played with Windows Mobile 6 yet: You have to admit that this looks like a screen grab from Microsoft…
Steve Litchfield has some thoughts about how S60 can improve
The unveiling of the iPhone has, as we predicted, got everyone talking about ways to make smartphone interfaces more instantly approachable. And, I might add, not before time. The original one-handed S60 interface, first introduced with the Nokia 7650, was something of a revolution, making fairly PIM applications and multimedia operable within a standard phone…