Category: Brands

Mobilize and Share with Nokia’s new MOSH website

Social Networking is such a big business these days. And every other brands is wanting to get a share of it.

Nokia is launching mosh.nokia.com which is the first time a mobile handset maker is coming up with a social networking website.

The site is in a private beta and you need to password to get to the registration form. We managed to get the code and grab a username.

You can upload Images,Videos,Documents and all kinds of stuff . You can share all your uploads with others as well.

The Mobile version of the site is at http://www.mosh.nokia.mobi and its pretty clean and optimized for mobile browsing.

Its Nokia in action so this is nothing special.

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Visit : http://mosh.nokia .com

Nokia Prism Collection

The Nokia Prism Collection will be available globally after the Nokia 7500 Prism was announced earlier in China, Taiwan.

Nokia today announced the Prism collection which is aimed at the Fashion conscious users.The Prism collection comprises of the Nokia 7900 Prism and the Nokia 7500 Prism.

The highlight of this collection is the Color, Material used and Graphics. It boasts of a signature diamond-cut design, geometric patterns and graphic light-refracting colors. These phones are similar to the
Nokia 7380 and 7390 L’Amour collection

Nokia 7900

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Features

  • 16 Million Colors Organi LED Display
  • Living Wallpaper
  • 2 Megapixel Camera
  • 1 GB Internal Memory
  • Dual Band 3G and Quad Band GSM Connectivity
  • Expected Price : EUR 400 or Rs. 22000

Nokia 7500

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Features

  • 2 Megapixel Camera
  • Optional 2 GB microSD card
  • Expected Price : EUR 210 or Rs. 12000

These two mobile models will be available in the third quarter of 2007.

gPhone the iPhone killer

We had posted earlier last year about a Google Phone Under works

Some reports suggest that Google has shown a prototype device to phone manufacturers.

Eric Schmidt of Google has known to have spoken earlier about Ad supported Free phones for users

The Google phone or Gphone might reach markets within a year.

The search engine giant does believe in a Mobile Future and has big plans for the same.

Google works with Operators and Manufacturers to bundle its products like search and mail

It has not denied rumors about the G phone plans.

The gPhone might be a iPhone killer . The gPhone will have Gmail, Gmail and Search all preloaded.

Lets wait for some official confirmation.

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Sony Ericsson announces 8 new phones for India

Some great news for Sony Ericsson fans in India. Thanks to a market demands in India – product launch divides between rest of the world and India is getting shorter. Until a year back, new mobile handsets would atleast 2-3 months or even more to surface in India.

Last week Sony Ericsson announced 8 new phones for the Indian market

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P1i – the business smartphone

Walkman phones

W580i

W910i

W960i

Cybershot phones

K810i

k850i

and under the general category

S500i and the T650i

All the phones are expected to be available with all mobile retailers across the country immediately.

Sony Ericsson P1

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Sony Ericsson P1 is a revolutionary phone which tries to redefine the definition of a Business Class phone.

The P1 is a notworthy competitor for the Nokia E90 Communicator and Nokia N95 

Also the P1 will replace the P990 in the production line we suspect

Highlights

  • 25% reduction in size compared to P990i
  • Support for most mobile email protocols
  • 3G, Wi-fi, bluetooth(stereo) ,Infrared
  • 3.2 Megapixel Camera and a additional Video calling Camera
  • Dual function keyboard,Stylus,Touchscreen
  • Rich Media support
  • Memory Stick Micro Expansion upto 4gb with 512 in package

Price and Availability

Expected to be available in Q3 2007 which is the current quarter in selected markets.

The phone might hit Indian market soon.

Get more info about the specifications here Sony Ericsson P1

Nokia N81 looks likely

nokia_n81.jpgThe Device profile of yet another phone has been spotted on Nokia’s Developer forum. This time its the Nokia N81

Its a 8 GB slider phone  and is a sequel to the N91 8 Gb edition.

Specs

  • 8GB Internal Memory
  • Over 12 Hrs of Music Playback
  • 3G, Video Calling
  • Dual Camera
  • Slide form factor

The phone if not a rumor is expected to be launched in Q4 2007

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Samsung G600, 5 Megapixel phone comes to Europe

samsung_g600.jpgSamsung has debuted the G600 a 5 Megapixel , 3G slider phone in Europe

The Samsung G600 is a media centric phone and Slim and Sexy ! is the  name of the game.

Samsung  has stacked a lot of features into 15mm thickness phone. The phone sports a 5 Megapixel Camera , with flash and 5X digital Zoom.

There’s a secondary Video calling camera.

Other features include Bluetooth with A2DP(Stereo) , FM Radio, microSD expansion.

via [http://www.electronista.com/]

Hello Moto becomes Hello Samsung as Motorola looses global market share

Samsung has raced past Motorola for the the 2nd spot in the global market share for mobile phones by shipping about  37 Million mobile phones this quarter.The growing list of handsets the Korean company has in its offering might be the reason.

Things are not so good for Motorola and have not managed something as spectacular since the RAZR about a couple of years back. Motorola’s top management might under go a change .It managed only about 35 Million shipments in the quarter  and is seeing huge losses.

Sony Ericsson is till behind with about 25 million shipments.

Samsung’s success can been attributed  to hits Ultra Line of handsets and also a lot of Entry level handsets for the emerging markets.(Both Moto and SE are trying to find an answer for this one )

Nokia is the market leader and is expected to announce its results for the quarter in a months time.

Nokia’s new N-gage gaming platform

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You might have seen the Nokia N-gage and the Ngage-QD . It was not a big hit but it defintely made the mobile gaming experience a enjoyable one.Nokia is currently working on a new N-Gage gaming platform. Details are expected to be announced any time. Unlike the previous version the new n-gage is expected to be compatible with at least all N-Series phones.

The Graphics looks really good.Will the 3D accelerator in the N95 be powerful enough for 3D Gaming ?

Lets wait and watch, for now enjoy the video.

check the video for a preview of what’s in store

Sony Ericsson W960

Sony Ericsson W960

The Sony Ericsson W960 is the successor to the W950i

Its the latest addition to the Walkman phones range  .

Its Sony’s competitor for the Apple Iphone for sure

Specifications

  • 8 GB Memory  for all you iPod fans
  • Wireless Wlan for business users and also Stereo Bluetooh
  • 3.2 Megapixel Camera
  • 2.6 Inch Touch sensitive display
  • TV out
  • Radio
  • SymbianOS

Camera Lens

Price and Availability

Expected to be available before end of 2007

Pricing : no official word  on the price . Expected to cost 750- 800 USD which in the Indian context means that the phone will set you back by

Rs.33000 approximately

Apple iPhone might be available in India soon

Reliance Retail is trying hard to launch India’s first Apple store.

No official confirmation from both sides yet but looks like talks are on.

Recently HCL and Wipro have started in their quest to bring the Iphone to India.

HCL is already a nationwide distributor for Nokia.

So its time to start saving for the iPhone

via [Fin Exp] and [TOI]