While still waiting for my own Nokia N8 to arrive, my friend Stefanos from the greek Pestaola Blog took Things to the Extreme. What did he do? PROPERLY testing the Gorilla Glass screen on his dark grey Nokia N8. He starts off with ordinary things like having coins and keys in a pocket and finishes off with.. well, watch for yourself!
Warning: this is not for the weak-hearted!
We reported that Ari Jaaksi, Vice President Nokia, Meego (formerly Maemo) Devices has resigned from Nokia . Now he has joined Palm. He quit Nokia citing personal reasons but the real reason seems to be a more interesting role at Palm (part of HP). Continue reading “Ari Jaaksi Former Nokia VP of Meego Joins Palm WebOS Team”
After the Beta versions of Android Froyo 2.2 for the Samsung Galaxy S was leaked, we heard news that the update will be brought out officially by Samsung in October. Now Samsung seems to have kept their word as tweets, discussion and pictures show users having the new update on their phones.
Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S Updated to Android Froyo 2.2”
Opera announced that they are developing the new Opera Mobile Browser for Android and they told that a beta will be out within a month. The Opera Mobile for aAdroid will be featuring two exclusive features such as
Continue reading “Opera Mobile For Android Coming this Month”
Here are some TV Ads which Nokia has been airing in UK for the newly launched N8. There are 4 such ads embedded below. Let us know your favorite one .
The N8 (or Nate as I’m growing used to call it) is here. It’s been released, it’s shipping, and people all around the world are receiving their units. Finally, after too long a wait, I have an N8 in my hands, for a proper test and review. Following my “The N8 is Perfect, There, I said it” assertion, there really is very little I can say to top it up. Or can I?
The N8 landed in my hands 2 days ago, and while I still maintain that it IS the perfect handset for the photography and multimedia buffs, I had mentioned that it doesn’t target me, and I’m not particularly thrown towards buying one. So, over the last 48 hours, I’ve gone from awe to oh to ouch and back to awe several times with the N8 in my hands. Here is the compiled initial list of N8 wins and fails, in my book.
Continue reading “Nokia N8, The Initial List Of Fourteen Wins And Fails”
We had the chance of speaking with Mr. Arun Khanna , Chairman of Olive Telecom regarding the company’s plan to sell products through it’s online store. He told FoneArena that the Olive Pad has generated a lot of interest and that the company is in the process of upgrading the software to Android 2.2 Froyo and the device will be available in 10-15 days
Continue reading “Olive Pad is on Track and getting Android 2.2 Froyo says Chairman of Olive Telecom”
Videocon Mobile Phones made their entry into the Android world by announcing the Zeus smartphone powered by Android. Continue reading “Videocon Zeus-Android Powered Smartphone”
Nokia N8 costs around $560 in India and it takes Nokia about $187 to make. The Nokia N8 hardware were supplied by Samsung Electronics Co., Toshiba Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. California-based iSuppli have torn down the Nokia N8 and he revealed the specs of N8 hardware. Continue reading “Nokia N8 costs $187 to make might be using Samsung AMOLED Display”
Bharti Airtel announced Airtel mGolu Contest 2010 as part of the Dussehra festive season where every participant would get an assured gift . To particiapte in the contest the subscribers are asked to click and send photographs of unique Golus via MMS (Multimedia messaging service) to 55563. Airtel said that,“Every participating customer will get an assured gift of 10 free local SMSes and the 5 best entries will be awarded 1gm gold coin each” . Continue reading “Airtel launches mGolu contest”
Today October 13th 2010 Reliance the global partner of ICC Cricket World Cup organized a preview of the trophy at Mumbai today.Reliance Mobile also introduced a series of promotional activities for ICC CWC 2011 which is scheduled to begin in February 2011. Continue reading “Reliance Communications to offer Live Streaming of the Cricket World Cup 2011”
Today, Nokia announced the latest addition to the CSeries lineup of phones-the C5-03. The C5-03 is a low priced touchscreen aimed at the masses.
We just shared a Preview of BlackBerry Torch few hours ago and India too has some Torch goodness now. RIM launched the BlackBerry Torch 9800 along with BB OS 6.0 in an event in Mumbai today.FoneArena was present at the event and we have tons of hands on pics of the device coming up. Continue reading “BlackBerry Torch Launched in India at a Price of Rs.35000”
A few days back, we brought to you the exclusive leaked picture of the Vertu Constellation Quest. The same phone has just been officially announced by Vertu. Continue reading “Vertu Constellation Quest Announced”
FoneArena USA got hold of the BlackBerry Torch 9800 for AT&T and here are some photos of this latest Blackberry Smartphone which comes with both a QWERTY keypad and a Touchscreen. The device runs on BlackBerry OS 6. Here is a short preview of the device in the form of a photo gallery and slide show while we work on the review.
