Opera mobile 10 windows mobile

Opera is working hard to have a unified look across many of its platforms. Opera maintains its powerful arsenal of features in this beta, including Speed Dial, tabbed browsing, a password manager and its super, server-side compressor, Opera Turbo.

“We are unifying our products, so that users get the same experience, no matter the device or which particular Opera browser they are using,” said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software. “With Opera Mobile 10, we are raising the expectations of how a a mobile browser should perform. Today, users require a browser as powerful as the Web, one that can handle their daily tasks as well as their computers. That’s Opera.”

We have an exclusive interview with Jon coming on soon on FoneArena stay tuned. !

10 ways that Opera Mobile 10 works for you:
1. Intuitive new interface – Opera has thrown out the clutter and is keeping it simple in terms of aesthetics. Less is more when it comes to mobile browsing.
2. Speed Dial – Speed Dial serves as your personal table of contents for the Web. Your favorite sites welcome you upon launching Opera, and in one click, you are there.
3. Tabbed browsing – Open new links in multiple tabs to bounce between sites easily.
4. Password manager – Save those annoying passwords with Opera’s password manager, or if you are feeling vulnerable, simply and swiftly delete all.
5. Touchscreen or keypad navigation – Whether your Windows Mobile smartphone is touchscreen or keypad-based, Opera Mobile 10 beta is customized for your navigation style.
6. Save images – Select and save your friends’ Facebook pictures to your phone for offline viewing later.
7. Opera Turbo – Offload your page rendering to one of Opera’s servers, and reduce your data costs.
8. Advanced compatibility – Since Opera Mobile 10 beta is based on Opera’s browser for desktop computers, it maintains advanced Web-site compatibility and ensures that nearly any site is accessible from a mobile phone.
9. Smooth surfing – Pan, zoom and smoothly scroll your way through the Web.
10. It is free! – Opera Mobile 10 beta for Windows Mobile is available as a free download at

http://www.opera.com/mobile/ or m.opera.com/mobile/ (for phone download)

Opera Mobile 10 beta works on both Classic and Professional editions of Windows Mobile 6.5, Windows Mobile 6.1, Windows Mobile 6.0 and on Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC.

Devices tested:
Acer N311, HTC Touch 2, HTC Touch Pro 2 (Rhodium), HTC Touch Diamond 2, HTC Touch HD, HTC Pure, HTC Touch Diamond, HTC Touch Pro, HTC Touch Viva, HTC Touch 3G, HTC Touch, HTC Tilt 2, HTC Touch Cruise, HTC Touch Cruise 2 (Iolite), HTC TyTn II, HTC TyTn,   HTC Touch Pro (Raphael), Motorola Attila (A3100), Oki C4, Samsung Omnia i900, Samsung Omina II, Samsung SWD-M100, Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, Toshiba Portege, Toshiba TG01, Xda Zest.

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Ranesh was a Nokia fan for a long time and had owned few Nokia’s including an E70. But he made the transition to Verizon for a decent deal on a Voyager two years ago (because he likes qwerty keyboards and that was the only one he liked at the time). Ranesh couldn’t wait for a decent Nokia device to hit the market he liked, so he took the plunge. When he tested out the N97, he was terribly disappointed with the overall OS and decided to hold out for the Christmas season of this year to see what was around the corner and settled on the Motorola Droid running the Android 2.0 OS.

Nokia is readying the release of their flagship handset, the N900. Unfortunately, Nokia posted it’s first loss in 10 years.(We know Nokia Siemens Networks was to blame.) The problem wasn’t lack of phones worldwide but the Chinese “bandit” or known as “shanzhai” manufacturers eating away at Nokia’s bottom line. Several of these manufactures including Shenzhen Evien Co., Ltd., SZ Telstar Co Ltd., T-Link Industrial Development Company Limited, ZTE Corp., Lenovo and Huawei Tech have already infiltrated the Chinese market with a variety of cell phones. This doesn’t include big boys like HTC and Dell, among others that are making a splash into the worldwide market.

Nokia is the largest mobile phone manufacturer but is feeling the confined spaces of the Mobile market more than ever. RIM’s Blackberry (the business mainstay), Apple’s iPhone (of course) and Palm’s Pre (and soon to be Pixi line), have all cut into Nokia’s overall market share. Not to mention Google’s Android is having huge success with HTC building some great quality phones and across other manufacturers too. While still fighting off fierce competition in the high end cell phone range, Nokia has to contend with middle and low end all at the same time. A feat never before performed for his Helsinki, Finland company.

Step in Maemo: Nokia decided to strike back with the flagship N900 which runs its latest OS based off of Linux called Maemo. This new handset is set to change the direction for Nokia in the mid to higher end device range. Nokia began shipments on November 10^th and are expected to hit retailers shortly, for an estimated price of EUR 500 ($746.00 USD).

Will Nokia be able to break through the obstacles of intruders into its once dominant domain? The N900 comes packed with plenty of features WAY ahead of phones in its class: ARM Cortex-A8 processor, up to 1GB of total application memory. widgets, contacts and shortcuts all on the desktop,. Pictures and videos taken with the 5Mpx Carl Zeiss camera automatically are tagged where they were taken, SMS and IM, standard built-in 32 GB storage is big enough to store up to 7,000 songs or 40 hours of DVD-quality video, and it can be expanded up to 48GB with an external microSD card.

Image Courtesy of tnkgrl

The phone is amazing and packs an MMA like punch compared to other phones in the market place at this time, but Nokia will have to bring the beautiful Maemo OS down to the mid and perhaps even lower range handsets to regain what market share has already been lost. If anyone can do this, Nokia can and with the N900, where they proved that they are listening to the consumer.

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Nokia Music, Nokia’s PC Client for transferring music to devices has been renamed to Nokia OVI Player.This change is quite anticipated after Nokia’s recent trend of transferring everything to OVI.

Two examples are the changing of App Store to OVI Store and transfer of NGage to OVI Store.

Along with the name change, there is added support for Windows 7 Operating System. Other change includes the display of recent artists, albums, artists etc. The newer player looks visually improved too.

You can download the application at the link below.

Nokia Music Store

There are also rumours that the Nokia Music Store might be renamed to Nokia OVI Music Store.

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Here are some screenshots:

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Here are the unboxing pictures of the HTC HD2. These pictures are taken with an Apple iPhone 3GS by our good friend Centrinos. So credit goes to him.

The HTC HD2 is expected to hit Asia soon and from the hardware is damn impressive and looks like HTC has worked really hard on this phone. It runs Win mo 6.5 and its the best handset WinMo has to offer in the current market. We even saw a video comparing the HD2 to the iPhone 3GS and there have been numerous leaks before the handset was announced

Are you impressed by the unboxing photos of the HD2 ?  What do you think ?

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The ITG xpPhone is a phone set to become the world’s first Windows XP phone. The device looks similar to the Nokia N900 but runs on Windows XP.

The phone features:

• 158 x 75 x 16 mm, 400 grams
  
• A 4.8″ Touchscreen Display
• x86 (32bit) Architecture CPU allowing you to install other OSes
• 5 hours talktime and 5 days standby time
• 512MB or 1GB RAM
• 8gb SSD or 120GB HDD
• GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth

The device features a highly customisable UI. Here are some screen shots of the device:

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The HTC HD2 has finally shown up on the T-Mobile website and according to the website its due to arrive this month so that means that it should be available anytime within 28 days. Funny part is that Coolsmartphone seems to have found some mistakes from the post. Here are a few of them:

• the device is mistakenly called the HTC Touch HD2
• the picture is actually of the original HTC HD
• the device supposedly has ‘Android Market’
• screen specifications are incorrect

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Nokia have begun to start selling it’s first Notebook, the Booklet 3G. O2 Germany is the first to make the device’s global debut. Pre-orders have begun shipping and stocks should arrive in most shops by mid-November in USA.

In Germany, the Booklet 3G retails at 249 Euros and then 20 Euros monthly for a 24 month plan through O2.

In USA, AT&T is giving the Booklet 3G for 299$ with a two year plan.

So head out to your store and grab yourself one of these if it’s available.

Here is the Nokia Booklet 3G Advertisement:

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The much anticipated Nokia Booklet 3G will be available on AT & T from October 22, which is a few days from now. The device will be available at a introductory price of $299.99 with an AT&T Data Connect plan two-year activation at $60/month. Nokia Booklet 3G will be sold at all Best Buy locations in US and as well as at 50+ Best Buy Mobile standalone stores across USA.

The Intel Atom-powered Nokia Booklet 3G sports a premium design and runs on to-be soon launched Windows 7, It packs in 12 hours of battery life, which enables people to happily leave their power cord behind and still be connected and more productive, all thanks to the built in 16 cell battery inside.

Built of Aluminum chassis, Nokia Booklet 3G weighs around 1.25kg, has a 10.1 inch HD-ready display and is slightly more than 2 cm thin, It supports Embedded 3G/ HSPA  as well as Wi-Fi including Nokia’s broad suite of Ovi services.

The laptop also features a HDMI port for HD video out, a SD card reader, a front camera for video calling, integrated Bluetooth, integrated A-GPS with Ovi Maps, and the latest version of Ovi Suite.

So are you planning to buy one? Do tell us via comments.

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Ajay Sharma, Country Head, HTC India said, “The HTC Touch2 is a compact Windows Mobile device which delivers a familiar touch experience that our consumers relate to, have experienced in the past, and expect in the future from the house of HTC,” said . He further added, “The Touch2 expands HTC’s portfolio of touch-based phones and will deliver an advanced touch experience to a broader group of people whether it’s making a call, chatting with friends on Facebook or simply responding to an important email, the HTC Touch2 gives you an immense sense of control”.

Vrajesh Shelat, Head – Wireless Data Business said, “Through this cutting-edge device, our customers will be able to enjoy a host of Windows Mobile Applications on our 3G ready network. Our association with HTC and Windows Mobile is a crucial step towards achieving our goal of having a leading market share in the fast-growing smartphone segment.”

HTC Touch2 basic features include:

• 7.11cm touchscreen
• 3.2 megapixel camera
• dynamic messaging
• browsing and productivity capabilities
• download games
• Outlook
• Calendar
• Contacts
• Bluetooth
• Wi-Fi
• download applications available at the Windows Marketplace
• supports 3.5G and equips an internal GPS antenna that supports navigation solutions like Google Maps

Major Features:

• The HTC Touch2 ensures that everything is at your fingertips in an attractive design that fits comfortably in your hand. It integrates the upgraded TouchFlo user interface with several features. The interface includes 11 color icons and aweather clock to view local time and weather.

• In order to give the users a superior mobile internet experience, HTC touch2 Opera Mobile and IE Mobile allows users to experience desktop-style viewing of Web pages. Internet Explorer Mobile also supports Adobe Flash, enabling Flash video content, like YouTube, to be viewed easily. Offering a best in class e-mail experience complete with the ability to synchronize with Microsoft Exchange, you have the ability to check and manage multiple e-mail accounts.

• With the Zoom Bar, users can simply swipe their fingers over the Web page or a photo to get a clear enlarged view.

• The Microsoft’s new My Phone service ensures easy and automatic backup and synchronization of photos, music, contacts and text messages from the Touch2 to the Web for free.

HTC Touch2 Price  and Availability
HTC Touch2 comes with a special Free Data Usage of 200 MB per month for Reliance GSM Mobile customers as an introductory offer. The compact HTC Touch2 on RCOM’s GSM is available for Rs.24,490 for users in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh while the rest of the country can buy it for Rs.22,490 from all top authorized HTC resellers.

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So What are you waiting for? Download now by clicking here and make use of the cool opportunity to legally download 100 tracks absolutely free of cost!

Note: The link above works only in the Internet Explorer if you are planning to access it via PC.

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