Recession hits Nokia too

Well the last fiscal quarter was really brutal and in a sense really thrashed almost every company man kind knew left right. Nokia too suffered a slight loss in its marginal sales and its percentage hold in the world market share. Even then it managed to sell a million plus Nokia 5800 and also launch a hugely innovative sales campaign for it. But then it is closing its (Jyvaskyla) Jyväskylä site and scaling back at its Salo production facility (pictured).

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2 More Nokia TouchScreen phones expected to be lauched soon

Nokia is well known for its impeccable fashion of announcing new handsets in typical panache, like how no body would guess or expect. But in a recent video two new Touchscreen phones called as the Ivalo and Madeleine were leaked [Courtesy : Nokia Roadmap Leak].

The video features Nokia N97 Designer Axel Meyer

Ivalo

The picture that you see above based on the way it looks or atleast how they want it to look is supposed to be the Ivalo. It packs a 3.5″ wide touchscreen, 32GB ROM, AGPS, FM transmitter and receiver, 5MP camera, WiFi, TV-out and Bluetooth. Wow thats quite some specs. Cool just waiting for it to land in the stores. Continue reading “2 More Nokia TouchScreen phones expected to be lauched soon”

Nokia in talks with Facebook Yet Again

We Reported more than a year ago about Nokia connecting with Facebook

Nokia is trying to build a Social Network and has expressed its intentions to become an Internet Company.

Facebook has a ever growing User base and Nokia has so many devices being used in the market.

How do you connect those users using those devices ? A popular Social Network is that Answer. Continue reading “Nokia in talks with Facebook Yet Again”

Nokia Contacts on Ovi Database Fails User Data Lost

Well when a Service is in Beta , anything can happen be it a big company’s product or small company.

Incase you are using Nokia’s Contacts on Ovi (Nokia Chat) Service , bad news is that the Contacts Database has failed and Data after Jan 23rd 2009 is Lost .

Nokia posted a brief explanation on its blog about the database crash

via Nokia Beta Labs

FoneArena Valentines Day Contest

UPDATE : Contest is now closed . We will be announcing the winners shortly

Guyz and Gals ! Valentines Day is on Saturday

FoneArena is going to give away 2 free mobile accessories to the FoneArena Valentine Dude and the FoneArena Valentine Babe

How do you participate ?

Reply to this post in the comments section

Write your Proposal (imagine you’re proposing to your Valentine) in under 160 Characters ! (jus like a sms)

The best proposal by a Guy will win a free mobile accessory and the title of FoneArena Valentine Dude 2009

The best proposal by a Gal will win a free mobile accessory and the title of FoneArena Valentine Babe 2009

( we are not telling whats the prize  .. keep guessing )

Rules

No Spamming

No Vulgarity

Multiple Comments dont increase your chances ..

Nokia 5630 XpressMusic Introduced

nokia 5630 xpressmusic

Nokia 5630 XpressMusic : Nokia  has announced the 5630 XpressMusic as its the latest entrant to its XpressMusic family , which is really slim at a thickness of a mere 11 mm and weighs just 83g and its the most sleek N-Gage phone

It shares a lot of features of the Nokia 5800 [specs] [unboxing]

Its unusually loaded with a lot of features which you would not expect in a music phone.

To sum it up its a great entertainment device . Lets get into more details Continue reading “Nokia 5630 XpressMusic Introduced”

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Firmware Update – v20.0.012

Just hot on the heals after announcing the first firmware update version 11 for the Nokia 5800 Nokia have taken the logs directly to Firmware version v20.0.012. This is the latest firmware version that is available for Nokia 5800 users via the NSU.

The firmware update brings about native geotagging of your photos. This new firmware re-enables the feature that allows the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic to save location information from the phone’s GPS receiver to your photos, so that you can browse them by location on Flickr or Share on Ovi.

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Nokia App Store to be launched at MWC2009

Its was first Apple to bring the App Store , then came Google with Android Market , then Blackberry.

Now Nokia is all set to launch its own version of App Store in MWC 2009 in Barcelona this week.

Nokia App Store will be mainly be a market place for S60 apps.

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LG Arena KM900 going to be announced at MWC 2009

LG Arena aka the KM 900 is officially out

The phone has a unique 3D touchscreen interface some what similar to the Panels interface in Xperia

“The direct, intuitive and dynamic S-Class UI will be unlike anything that has appeared on a mobile phone before,” Skott Ahn, president and CEO of LG Mobile, said in a statement. and LG is expected to show this phone at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week.

The Arena phone will have a 3 inch touchscreen display (800×480 pixels) and a 5-megapixel camera will support DVD quality video recording.

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New Mobile game from BMW for iPhone users

Its raining games at the iPhone Application Store.

BMW Mini’s financial arm has launched “Mini Liquid Assets,” a mobile game available for download at no charge from the iTunes App store.

“Mini Liquid Assets” is an interactive game modelled after the traditional encased water jet games, infused with the Mini brand and intuitive controls that take advantage of the iPhone and iPod touch user interface. BMW’s Mini hopes to increase brand awareness among Apple’s coveted demographic using the application.

The car
The car

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What does the Firmware v11.0.08 have in store for your Nokia XpressMusic 5800

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is indeed a good phone and owing to its brand new OS it does have some glitches. Anyways who does get things right in the first move. So Nokia have decided to get things right and have released the First Firmware update for their mass market touch phone Nokia 5800. We in India dont have to bother to actually download the firmware as all phones bought after Jan 10th have the firmware pre installed. Continue reading “What does the Firmware v11.0.08 have in store for your Nokia XpressMusic 5800”

Toshiba TG01 Another iPhone killer

Known so far for their incredible and reliable gadgets, Toshiba entered the mobile phone market with a bang yesterday with the Toshiba TG01.

The largest screen possible 4.1-inches with a WVGA (800 x 480 pixels) resolution and a slim 9.9mm body makes this one of the better picks amongst mobiles of this category, G1, iPhone or BlackBerry Storm.

This doll runs on Qualcomm Snapdragon platform using a Windows Mobile 6.1 OS and has a customized 3D UI. Continue reading “Toshiba TG01 Another iPhone killer”

FREE National and Local SMS on Virgin Mobile

Virgin Mobile recently introduced a revolutionary youth focused proposition by making SMS the new voice of the youth by ushering in genuine freedom of sending SMSs by making it FREE without any extra pack or upfront commitment.

Virgin Mobile customers will now be able to send 100 National as well as 100 Local; a total of 200 SMSs free daily after just paying for the first 3 SMSs on each leg (National and Local respectively) to any network.

HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Offers revolutionary free SMS proposition without any pack
  • Customers just need to pay for first 3 SMSs daily and thereafter 100 SMSs are free
  • First 3 Local SMSs charged at Re. 1/- each
  • First 3 National SMSs charged at Rs. 1.50/- each
  • Post which 200 SMSs are free; 100 Local and 100 National SMSs free daily
  • SMSs can be sent to any number across all networks in the country

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