Win a Nokia E7 Contest : Day 4

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Welcome to the last and final day of the Nokia E7 Smartlife Contest. Here is your last chance to win a Nokia E7. The Nokia E7 has a nice little feature which lets me access all my info such as emails , missed calls , messages, tweets in one place. I can even control my music player from here.Normally you would have to dive deep into menus to get all this info.And you have to keep going back and forth to access a single piece of information.

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Microsoft to Pay Nokia Over $1 Billion in Deal

Last month, Nokia and Microsoft announced their partnership to create a new global ecosystem. Nokia would adopt Windows Phone as its principal smartphone strategy, innovating on top of the platform in areas such as imaging, where Nokia is a market leader.

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Nokia X1-00 Announced for 35 euros !

Nokia has announced a brand new orange colored mobile phone, the Nokia X1-00. The phone is aimed at all those music lovers looking at an affordable phone.The phone boasts of a massive speaker on the back, which is rated at 106phon (phon – a measure of perceived loudness ), where the measure 106 is considered to be enough to rattle your window frames. Nokia also adds that the frequency response of the phone’s speaker has been tweaked in order to keep the sound undistorted at higher volumes, unlike other mobile phones. Continue reading “Nokia X1-00 Announced for 35 euros !”

Win a Nokia E7 Contest : Day 1

As mentioned in an earlier post, The Nokia E7 Unboxing, I am at a secret location sent by Nokia India. It is up to you to guess my whereabouts.Now then, Where am I ? This is where Britishers entered India few centuries back. Crucial port city of our country, known for its popular spices and food too. Have I already revealed much? Don’t think so? Here is a picture taken with the E7

Nimbuzz Releases Premium Version In The Ovi Store

I switch mobile phones quite often and whenever I get a new Symbian phone, I have a specific routine of 30 minutes, including removing the useless stuff away from the Main Menu, changing some settings and installing Whatsapp, Gravity and Nimbuzz. You can be certain that if any of these 3 applications aren’t there, I won’t be using the phone at all.

Nimbuzz has easily become the default Instant Messaging applications for Symbian, thanks to its one-login that imports all IM accounts instead of having to setup each one separately. Lately, it also added compression which made the app snappier for all tasks and decreased its data usage. But for the past few versions, Nimbuzz has been trying to get some revenue out of its free service by displaying ads in its chat window, which are non-intrusive but may annoy some people nonetheless. Enter the premium Ad-Free version of Nimbuzz, now available in the Ovi Store for about 2.29$. This new Ad-Free version of Nimbuzz currently offers 3 advantages over the free version.

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Gallery: Frosty Metal Nokia C7 vs Silver Nokia N8

The Nokia N8 and C7 have been available for quite a while in the market, and we’ve already brought you reviews of the N8, many photo galleries of it, and a separate gallery of the Frosty Metal Nokia C7. I happened to have both the silver N8 and the Frosty Metal C7 in my hands at the same time, so I thought I’d share a hardware tour comparison with you, explaining the key design differences between these otherwise slightly similar Symbian^3 devices. Continue reading “Gallery: Frosty Metal Nokia C7 vs Silver Nokia N8”

MWC 2011 : Intel Event Summary

Intel showcased its improved tablet user interface for MeeGo tablets today at MWC in Barcelona. Along with the version 1.2 UI special emphasis was paid to underlying hardware. The upcoming Oaktrail , Medfield platforms are poised to provide unparalleled computing performance in addition to great battery life.

Intel’s Anand Chandrashekhar showed off the Medfield processor which will support advanced LTE networks along with new and improved imaging technologies which will allow for much better low light photography. Intel claims to be working on improving active usage battery life. What this means is that not only will the smartphones have great standby times , they will also run longer on a single charge.

Preliminary Medfield benchmarks show that the OS has double the performance of competing platforms. The Medfield processor will ship in smartphone products later this year and will support both MeeGo and Android.

MWC 2011 : Nokia WP7 Concept Previewed

Like we had already posted , Nokia’s Windows Phone 7 based concept phone renders got leaked earlier this week. Today at the Nokia event we got confirmation from Jo Harlow that these concepts were a culmination of two months of combined work by Nokia’s hardware engineers and Microsoft’s software engineers.

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Nokia might launch Android phones in 2012

We earlier told you about Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop having talk with Steve Ballmer of Microsoft and Eric Schmidt of Google. Nokia went official on their partnership with Microsoft but the source mentioned that the Android deal fell through. But according to Eldar Murtazin, Nokia is considering becoming partners with Google.

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Nokia Windows Phone 7 concept phone looks bitter sweet !

Nokia yesterday announced their strategic partnership with Microsoft, where both the companies were aiming to save themselves. It was quit unexpected, that Nokia couldn’t see MeeGo as their winning smartphone platform but it certain that their attention has all turned towards the US market and hence this decision. Coming to the concept, just after hours of announcement this concept phone by these two companies has already been making rounds. Continue reading “Nokia Windows Phone 7 concept phone looks bitter sweet !”

Symbian PR2.0 Portrait QWERTY and Broswer Screenshots Leaked

We all had a sneak peek sometime back at the Portrait QWERTY keyboard and the new browser that was supposed to be launched along with the PR1.1. Since it wasn’t included, Nokia seems to have made a few tweaks and improvements to it.

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Nokia and Microsoft Announce Strategic Partnership

As we mentioned earlier, Nokia and Microsoft announced their plans to form a broad strategic partnership at the Nokia Capital Market’s Day in London today.

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Nokia C5-00 Firmware Updated To Version 062.001

Nokia recently released a new firmware update for its popular budget phone, the Nokia C5-00. The latest firmware version is numbered 062.001 and it comes with some improvements in performance and usage.

Nokia C5

Nokia recently released a new firmware update for its popular budget phone, the Nokia C5-00. The latest firmware version is numbered 062.001 and it comes with some minor improvements in performance and usage. Even though Nokia C5 has support for User Data Preservation (UDP), you should backup all your data before updating this device. Continue reading “Nokia C5-00 Firmware Updated To Version 062.001”

MWC 2011 : Expected Handset Launches

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MWC is the biggest mobile and telecom show organized by GSM Association annually, where  brands like Nokia, Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson, HTC showcase their top notch products, services and lot more. We were at the MWC 2010, and we thought it was the biggest event with having more than 50k+ attendees and media personalities. This year the figures might just get way bigger and we are expecting more handset launches than we cant count. This year we are expecting to see Tablets from Samsung , HTC and LG.

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