The Motorola W230 was launched in the CES 2008 which was covered by Fonearena.
The company has now launched the handset in India.
Specifications:
• GSM 900/1800 and GSM 850/1900
• Up to approximately 550 minutes
• Weight – 80g
• 45 x 110.97 x 14.7 mm
• 1.6” 128 x 128 65k CSTN
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The 16gb version of the iPhone which was making rounds of rumors on the internet has finally proved to be true .
Apple has launched its 16GB version of the iPhone today.
It will set u back by 499$ . Its 100 more than the 8 GB version
“For some users, there’s never enough memory,” said Greg Joswiak, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide iPod and iPhone Product Marketing. “Now people can enjoy even more of their music, photos and videos on the most revolutionary mobile phone and best Wi-Fi mobile device in the world.”
The new 16GB iPhone is available immediately through the Apple Store, Apple’s retail stores and AT&T retail and online stores.
When you think of Blackberry, immediately an image of a corporate professional holding his blackberry and sending emails comes to your mind. 
Continue reading “Goldstriker’s Gold Blackberry”
Sony Ericsson is going the Nokia way when it comes to Music. Remember PlayNow Arena, the service started by Sony Ericsson where you can buy music tracks. Continue reading “Sony Ericsson PlayNow Arena Demo Video”
I have spent more than 3 weeks with a Nokia N82. This review is a summary of my personal experience with the device over this period of time. This smartphone is one of the fastest symbian phone i have ever used.Multi tasking is awesome and battery life seems good.
Here are the box contents
Form Factor and Display
This is one phone which is as solid as a brick. No rattling sounds from the body.Its so firmly packed and its feels great to use it though its slightly huge.The body is in plastic but it does not look cheap , its actually a good fit in the palm. The phone weighs about 114g and is pretty decent when you take into account the features of the phone. Display is a 240×320 screen with 16 million colors. Its usable in most places even in the Sun.
All the Enterprise Phone freaks out there are well aware of the big daddy of enterprise phone, the Nokia E90 Communicator. Nokia E90 is the best smart phone Nokia has ever come up with, leave apart the only drawbacks of being bulky and yeah, expensive. Nokia E90 users had a minor but major problem of the keyboard touching the inside of the LCD panel, which can be pretty damaging to the phone. Continue reading “Nokia E90 Keyboard gets a makeover”
If you have used Flickr a lot , you might have noticed that there’s a feature to place the photo taken on a Map.
Geotagging in simple words is relating the photo with the place at which it was taken.
The rise of the inbuilt GPS or Global Positioning System in the latest Nokia phones has forced Nokia BetaLabs to launch a free application for its GPS phones called Location Tagger – a tiny app which captures the current co-ordinates of your phone and appends it to the EXIF information of your photo. Continue reading “Now Geotag your photos for free using Nokia Location Tagger”
Nokia new phones have surfaced in the Nokia service software document v2007.44.3.30990 Phoenix, 19.12.2007. I found this on the site Nokiaport.de, it was in German so translated it for you. According to this site Nokia will be coming up with Nokia 6300i a 6650 6690 7070 and 7070b. I think 6300i will be higher version of Nokia’s popular slim phone 6300; 6690 will be of 6680; 7070 might be Nokia’s new version of 7710, the touch screen phone of Nokia which failed miserably. The images are not available yet but, the article was written by the administrator of Nokiaport.de, which I think, is a clear indication that this is not some kind of rumor.
Motorola’s mobile handset business is making big losses .. Moto’s sales went down almost 40% last quarter.
A Researcher from Nomura ,Richard Windsor has pointed out that Moto might shut shop its loss making cellphone and mobile handset business to concentrate on other products. Researchers are late .. we hinted at this after Nokia bought Trolltech yesterday We said Continue reading “Motorola might exit mobile handset business”
Nokia announced the closure of its German manufacturing facility at Bochum at the starting of the year 2008 and was very positive with respect to its manufacturing plans in Romania. The German council was not so happy about Nokia’s exit from Germany and the reasons the company had cited. The talks between the German Trade Union IG Metall and Nokia also failed. Now AFX News has reported that Nokia has eased up a little bit and is ready to accommodate its German facility workers in the new Romanian manufacturing facility. This has also been confirmed by sources within Nokia. Trade Union IG Metall is not aware of any such agreements but it seems that Nokia representatives will be again having a meeting with the Union guys and German politicians to sort out the details of this shifting. Nokia should understand that it is not easy to get away with comments like “less competitive” for a region like Germany.
After Nokia’s recent acquisition of Trolltech and seeing from the loads of in house Open source initiatives seems like Nokia wants to get out a Open Source handset Series . We call it OSeries
It might sound funny but when we learnt abcd its its O after N…
Jokes apart .. Nokia might be working on a Linux / OS handset lineup .. Symbian has still a low adoption rate and its got a huge learning curve. Theres a huge Java developer community out there. Android handsets are expected to hit the market by mid 2008. So the Finnish handset maker might want to get some part of the Open Source / Linux handset market for sure..
For now this whole OSeries things seems like a rumor but its closer to becoming a reality after their recent buy.
Continue reading “Coming soon , Nokia OSeries phones bbye NSeries”
The news is out Nokia buys yet another company. This time Nokia is buying a Norwegian Linux mobile developer firm Trolltech
Trolltech are the makers of the Greephone
The Finnish giant seems to be embracing the Qt or Qtopia mobile platform as Russ points out. Its seen as a move by the worlds largest handset maker to expand its software and internet based services.
Dr Kai Öistämö, the head of Nokia’s devices unit,said the acquisition would aid Nokia in its strategies of being “a leader of the converged world in internet mobility” and “growing consumer services and businesses solutions”.
So is this the rise of the mobile web 2.0 or is it just Nokia 2.0?
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Nokia N82 the 5 Mega Pixel SuperStar from Nokia seems to have gotten its first software update. The latest firmware update available is 11.0.117 up from the previous 10.0.046
The Coolest thing about this update is that Nokia seems to be hearing the woes of its users.
Its come up with a new feature called User Data Preservation (UDP) which is the first of its kind in NSeries line.
Continue reading “Nokia N82 gets first firmware update, respects User Data”
Samsung L320 A clamshell handset launched alongwith its near-namesake the L310, this handset has almost the same features and specs.
Specs at a glance:
• GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900
• GPRS/EDGE
• 93.4 x 44 x 17.9 mm
• Display – 176 x 220 pixels, 1.9 inches
Features:
• TFT, 65K colours
• Polyphonic, MP3
• 20 MB internal memory
• MicroSD expandable memory card slot Continue reading “Samsung L320”
It’s raining handsets this year. While we saw handsets being launched in India by Nokia, Sony Ericsson, LG and Asus, it is now the turn of Samsung.
Samsung launched two new handsets that it says, targets the female of the species; a go getter who likes to be seen with a cool gadget. The L310 and L320 are clamshell phones for the fashion conscious.
Samsung L310
Specs at a glance:
• GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900
• GPRS/EDGE
• 93.4 x 44 x 17.9 mm
• Display – 176 x 220 pixels, 1.8 inches
Features:
• TFT, 65K colours
• Polyphonic, MP3
• 20 MB internal memory
• MicroSD expandable memory card slot Continue reading “New L310 and L320 from Samsung”
