Nokia 8600 Luna announced

nokia-8600-luna-1.jpgThe successor to the Nokia 8800 has finally arrived. Aimed to target the luxury phone market, the 8600 Luna has been named so after the Roman god of Moonlight. The body is made of glass and stainless steel similar to the Nokia 880 and the 8800 Sirocco.

Features

  • 2 Megapixel Camera
  • 16 Million colors QVGA Display
  • FM Radio
  • Stereo Bluetooth
  • microUSB

What’s Missing

  • Memory Card Slot
  • Wi-fi

The expected price of this handset is about Rs.40000-45000 similar to the 8800 and Sirocco (700 EUR)

Samsung goes Symbian S60 with the SGH-i400

samsung_i400.jpgSamsung announced the Symbian S60 phone – SGH i400 at Madrid,Spain. The phone is Samsung’s 2nd Symbian phone after the i520.

Features 

  • 2 MegaPixel Camera
  • Large 2.3 inch 256K Colors QVGA Display
  • Slider Form factor
  • microSD Memory Expansion – upto 4 GB
  • Stereo Bluetooth
  • Weight of 92 grams
  • GSM/GPRS /EDGE Network Support
  • Dual Stereo Speaker

The i400 will be launched in Russia somewhere in July 2007 and then move on to European countries a bit later.

Blackberry Curve 8300 – After Pearl its the Curve

Blackberry just announced the Curve 8300

It looks like the 8800 got a facelift.

We often say Beauty and Brains don’t get along but the tagline for this phone seems like Brains and Beauty

Features

  • 2 Megapixel Camera
  • Stereo Bluetooth
  • 3.5mm Headset jack
  • Improved Media Manager
  • microSD expansion
  • 15.5 mm thickness

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Official Site

Press Release

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Forum Nokia Open C Roadshow comes to Chennai

Great news for Mobile Developers in and around chennai.

Nokia is starting of its Open C Events in the Country.

If you are wondering what Open C is about but are interested to find out, then head to the venue.
Venue

Le Royal Meridien
1 GST Road,
St. Thomas Mount,
Chennai – 600 016,
Tamil Nadu,
India.

Date 24th April 2007, Tuesday
Time 09:00 – 17:25

Register Now

Nokia at 3GSM 2007

Nokia unveiled the latest E series at 3GSM 2007. The much slimmer E series range is bundled with a lot of additional features. E65, E61i are the sleek mobiles in dark red and brown black colours. Both devices run on S60 3rd Edition on Symbian OS 9.1. and have WLAN, GPRS and EDGE connectivity. Navigation and usability have been made easy with the “D-ring.” The center is a large square select button, and around it that is a raised, beveled square ring that controls the direction

Nokia E65

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The E65 has a 240×320 screen (QVGA), camera, MicroSD slot, and WCDMA (3G), EDGE, GPRS and WiFi connectivity whereas the E61i appears to be a tweaked version of E61 and has a QWERTY layout. The other models at the 3GSM 2007 by Nokia were the E90 and 6110.

Nokia E90

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The E90 has a two stage hinge, one stage that opens fully to put the screen at 90 degrees to the keyboard and a second stage that is adjustable from 90 to 180 degrees. The screen is pretty large anmd website can be viewed without the scrolling and resolution troubles.

Nokia 6110 Navigator

The 6110 features Nokia Navigator, which includes many of the features that must be purchased as add ons to Maps like directions and city guides.05_n6110_navigator_lowres.jpg

Nokia N77 

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The other models were Nokia N77 and 3110. N77 has stereo Bluetooth support, microSD memory card slot, a 2 megapixel camera and 3G support with video calls. On the other hand 3110 is a perfect mid range phone with 1.3 megapixel camera, a stereo FM radio, Bluetooth, Infrared and tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support.

Nokia 3110 Classic – the successor to the 3100 ?

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Microsoft announces Windows Mobile 6.0

The new version of Windows Mobile – 6.0 is coming and devices using the new operating system are expected to be available in the second quarter of 2007.

Whats in

  • Vista Look
  • Improved Office and Outlook 2007 integration
  • Windows Live platform
  • File Transfer possibility in Live Messenger
  • Improved HTML Email support

The OS  will be unveiled at the 3GSM in Barcelona next week.

Sony Ericsson K810 Cyber-shot Cameraphone launched

The K810 is an upgraded version of the K790,K800 . Its  a true cyber-shot phone with a 3.2 Megapixel image stabilized Camera, Auto-focus,Xenon Flash. It also sports a secondary video-call camera in the front.Network is Tri-band with 3G.

Interestingly there’s no EDGE but there’s Bluetooth and USB .

No pricing information is out yet. But the phone must be available for purchase in by Q2 this year.

Memory Expansion is the form of Memory Stick Micro – it comes with a 128MB card in addition to the 64MB onboard.

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Highlights

  • Cam
  • Slim Form Factor
  • Looks
  • Lack of EDGE support
  • Pricing ( This phone might be expensive)

Zune phone is coming

Apple’s iPod was a winner. Microsoft Zune entered the market after iPod Nano and is still struggling hard for market share. Now after the official launch of Apple’s iPhone, who knows , Microsoft might be putting together the Zune Phone.

some info

  • might not run windows mobile
  • mostly sport zune/ xbox interface
  • might not be available until early next year

Folks !! iPhone is coming in June

via [crunchgear]

Sony Ericsson completes UIQ acquisition

uiqSony Ericsson completed the acquisition of the Swedish software company UIQ Technology AB from Symbian Ltd. UIQ Technology, which uses Symbian OS, licenses the UIQ user interface and application development platform to mobile phone vendors worldwide.

Sony Ericsson has already used UIQ 3.0 in the P990 smartphone, M600 messaging phone and W950 Walkman phone.

UIQ Technology will operate as a separate business subsidiary of Sony Ericsson.

via [UIQ]

iPhone GUI based Iphony for Palm forces Apple to threaten Blogger

The iPhone fever seems to have hit some Palm addicts.

There was a iPhone like launcher utility which was launched a certain while ago. Its called Iphony.

But Apple seems to have taken this seriously and forced a blogger to remove links to the App.
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Folks , you can head over here to see the video:PDA Mexico

via: [engadgetmobile]

Sony Ericsson W200 budget walkman phone

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Sony Ericsson today announced a budget walkman phone W200i.

The phone can store upto 37 Audio tracks in its 128MB default Memory Stick Micro. It supports upto 1GB memory expansion.

Theres also a VGA Cam and FM radio to add to the features.

No word on the pricing yet.

Nokia launches updated N93i

Nokia is not going to let the NSeries fever go. One more new launch today. The Nokia N93 got a facelift and the N93i is out.

Nokia has tied up with Vox and the phone might be preconfigured for direct media uploads. The N93i could be called the N93 on a diet. It looks

the same apart from the metallic touch and the slight weight reduction.
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Features

  • The features are mostly same as the N93
  • 3.2 Megapixel Camera with VGA recording
  • 16 Million Colors Primary Display
  • 1 GB microSD card part of the retail package

Price

The phone is expected to be priced at Rs.35000 (800 USD)

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