Category: Nokia

The Nokia N8 Is Perfect, There, I Said It

If you’re a BMW car fan and you go ahead and buy a Mercedes Benz car because of one cool feature, then expect it to act like a BMW and get mad because it doesn’t, you’re an idiot. Stick to BMW, or accept the different approach. The same can be said about phones. You don’t buy a Blackberry and expect it to be 100% like an E71, you don’t get a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and blame it for not having the iPhone’s multitouch. Every brand has their strengths, their weaknesses, their approaches, their concepts, their target audience.

That’s why, my friends, the Nokia N8 is perfect. I know well enough to accept that it’s not perfect for me because I like physical keyboards and I want medical applications. It’s not perfect for the iPhone/iOS hundreds of thousands of apps afficionados. It’s not perfect for many. But that doesn’t mean “it’s not perfect period”. It is. For its target audience, for those who adhere to the Nokia approach, to the touchscreen-only build form factor, to the slowly growing Ovi Store, those who need top-notch multimedia playback and recording features, those who take a picture of everything and anything in their life. The N8 IS perfect.

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Smartphone Championship Grand Finale: Nokia N900 vs Samsung Galaxy S

It’s here folks, it’s finally here. I was waiting for the final match from a long time, and now we are heading to our final match. But lets talk about the previous match first. First round of Semi-final was between the Nokia N900 and Palm Pre, where Nokia N900 won by a very close margin, Continue reading “Smartphone Championship Grand Finale: Nokia N900 vs Samsung Galaxy S”

Dubai At Night Through The Eyes Of The Nokia N8

I was recently invited to the pre-launch of the Nokia N8 in the Middle East, which took place in Dubai, and while it was my first time handling the N8 and I came away pretty impressed, one thing I wanted to do was be able to test the camera. We were in Dubai, Nokia was launching a 12MP cameraphone, and they didn’t think it’d be smart to give us each an N8 to take photos, you know, to convince us of how cool their phone is! They only had 4 or 5 N8s for us to test, hooked to an alarm-triggered table, inside the conference walls, with awkward lights around them. Not cool. Especially when you think that with Xenon flash and the largest sensor for a cameraphone, the N8 is basically made for night photography.

Lucky for me though, I was able to snatch one prototype from a Nokian (insert evil laugh) and get loose around Dubai for a few minutes before having to hand it back reluctantly, not forgetting, obviously, to bluetooth the images I took over to my N97 Mini. Continue reading “Dubai At Night Through The Eyes Of The Nokia N8”

Nokia E63 Firmware Updated To Version 411.21.001

Nokia released a new firmware update for its popular QWERTY phone, the Nokia E63. The new version 411.21.001 can be easily downloaded from Nokia Software Update or via. Over-The-Air.

Nokia released a new firmware update for its popular QWERTY phone, the Nokia E63. Even though Nokia E63 has support for User Data Preservation (UDP), you should backup all your data before updating this device. The new version 411.21.001 can be easily downloaded from Nokia Software Update (NSU) Continue reading “Nokia E63 Firmware Updated To Version 411.21.001”

Nokia launching Windows Phone 7 powered phone?

Recently, we saw Nokia dumped Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, and picked Stephen Elop as a new President and CEO of Nokia, who was on a senior rank in Microsoft before joining Nokia. And now Venturebeat is reporting that Nokia is going to launch a Windows Phone 7 powered phone Continue reading “Nokia launching Windows Phone 7 powered phone?”

Nokia and AT&T announce $10 million Developer Contest

Nokia seems to be increasing it’s efforts to improve it’s poor market share in the US Market. The latest move is a new developer contest in partnership with AT&T. Is this an indication that the Symbian^3 handsets including the N8 are hitting AT&T this holiday season ? Continue reading “Nokia and AT&T announce $10 million Developer Contest”

Nokia World 2010 – Video: Damian Dinning and the N8 photobook

And here’s another Video from Nokia World 2010. This Time i met with Damian Dinning (or @phonedaz on Twitter), one of the People who were heavily involved in the AWESOME camera work on the Nokia N8!

What the Guys did, was printing a big photobook, with pictures taken with the Nokia N8. All the Pictures in the Book were absolutely unedited, just as they came out of the Camera. Unfortunately the Video isnt as sharp as i hoped it to be, but you can get the Idea. Nokia has really stepped up the Game here, not only beating all other smartphone camera, but also consumer cams, like pocket point and shoots etc.  Being a hobby photographer like i am, the Nokia N8 is exactly what i want. period.

Damian was a very kind Guy, taking his Time to talk me through the whole book, as well as having a drink with us the day before Nokia World. Enjoy!

SMS blocker By Optinno Review

SMS Blocker is a little application by Optinno which manages your incoming sms efficiently. The Sms blocker apps scans every incoming messages and screens spams sms. The SMS blocker app takes little memory and it got every option you need to manage sms.

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Nokia C7-00 Pre-Order Price Revealed in Germany

Nokia C7-00 which was recently announced during the Nokia World 2010 in London is now up for pre-order in some European countries including Germany and Spain.

Nokia C7-00 which was recently announced during the Nokia World 2010 in London is now up for pre-order in some European countries including Germany and Spain. Nokia C7-00 runs on the Symbian^3 OS and 680 MHz processor. It comes with an 8 megapixel camera with dual LED flash, 8 GB internal memory, 3G Connectivity and so on.

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Nokia N8 release date delayed for a few weeks

Nokia is good in two things, making good devices and delaying them. I have a bad news for folks who are currently looking forward to the Nokia N8. Engadget is reporting that Nokia is delaying the device for a few weeks, and they will launch it in early October instead of Continue reading “Nokia N8 release date delayed for a few weeks”

Smartphone Championship Semi Final: Nokia N900 vs Palm Pre

Okay folks, the FoneArena Smartphone Championship is going on very well, and now we are finally in Semi-Finals. The qualifiers for Semi-finals are the SE Xperia X10/ Samsung Galaxy S and Palm Pre/ Nokia N900. Continue reading “Smartphone Championship Semi Final: Nokia N900 vs Palm Pre”

Nokia World 2010 – Video: Nokia Plug and Touch

Hi Guys, i’m back home from Nokia World and got immediately struck down by a heavy cold. as is half of Nokia World. To whoever did this to us, step forward to receive your deserved punishment! 😀

Anyways, i’m trying to slowly bring in all the Content from Nokia World, and i wanna start off with the coolest Thing by a long shot. Have you Guys seen Iron Man 2 and Tony Starks awesome Computer? Well, Nokia is currently working on something just as nice. What they did is plug in the Nokia N8 to a flat screen, with the camera pointing to the picture on the TV. The N8 Camera basically then reacts on everything thats happening on the big Screen with Gestures. For now this is only scroll and click, but possibilities are endless. As you can hear in the Video, this could be used on any TV, with any Type of Nokia Phone.

There is no word yet when we can expect this here in real life, but I WANT!! 🙂 Enjoy this little Video guys

What do you think?

Nokia C3 hitting Indian stores in a few days

The Nokia C3 the much expected entry level QWERTY phone from finnish phone maker and its all set to hit Indian stores in a few days. We walked into a Nokia Store nearby and were surprised to find dummy models of the C3 in the store. This is surely an indicator that real models which breathe life are coming soon ! chk out the FoneArena C3 Review.

While we expect the price of the handset to be in the Rs.5000-6000 range, we don’t have any official info yet ! anyone looking forward to the C3 ?

T-Mobile getting HTC Desire HD, Nokia C7, and LG Optimus One

T-Mobile UK is one of the largest and strongest carriers in UK, and the reason is that they always pick good and new phone. T-Mobile UK has picked up three phones, the new, just announced HTC Desire HD, Nokia C7, and the LG Optimus One. All of them are announced this week.

HTC Desire HD is one of the hottest handset at the moment, and lot of carriers are looking forward to it specially in UK. The first carrier to officially announce the HTC Desire HD is T-Mobile UK. Desire HD comes with Android 2.2 with HTC Sense UI, 4.3 inch WVGA touchscreen display, 1GHz processor, 768MB RAM, 8MP autofocus camera, HD video recording, and lot of other stuff. The phone is due in October.

T-Mobile will get the “Navigation Edition” of LG Optimus One, which means it will come with a free satellite navigation with Google Maps, car cradle, and in-car charger. Other specs include Android 2.2, 3.2 inch HVGA touchscreen display, Wi-Fi, 3.2MP camera, and MicroSD card support. The phone is due in October.

Now the C7, which is launched by Nokia during the Nokia world event, is a Symbian^3 powered phone and it comes with 3.5 inch AMOLED touchscreen, 8 MP camera, HD Video recording and playback, and 8GB internal memory. The C7 is due in November. As a reminder, the Nokia N8 is also coming to T-Mobile UK in October.

Head over to T-Mobile for more!