Apple iPhone 3G and MacWorld coming in 2008

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The entire world has witnessed the recent hype and craze Apple products like iPod, iPhone have generated and why not, they both are one of the most innovative and happening gadgets of the last decade. Apple iPhone became so popular that Apple had to put limit on the number of iPhones a person is buying.

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Nokia teams up with Tommy Hilfiger

Remember LG teaming up with PRADA guys to come up with a high-end designer phone and Sony Ericsson following that trend and teaming up with the Italian fashion house Diesel; Motorola and Samsung also went ahead and launched fashion/designer phones by teaming up with big fashion houses of the world like Armani, Dolce & Gabbana and Levis Strauss. Continue reading “Nokia teams up with Tommy Hilfiger”

Vertu launches new range of Constellation Phones

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Vertu is a brand only for the chosen ones. By chosen ones, I don’t mean you have to be the extraordinary Neo of the famous sci-fi flick, The Matrix. For owning a Vertu, you should be super rich and spending money should be like breathing, a daily activity for you. Vertu had launched the Constellation range sometime back for the elite consumers.
Now, Vertu has released the Constellation Mixed Metal Edition of the Vertu Constellation range. These phones are made of stainless steel with gold accents and 18 carat gold is used to make the navigation button, side buttons, speaker vents, screws and the quarter turn locking device. The keypad is made up of ceramic and the back is wrapped with leather, black and violet.
For the uninformed, Vertu is a brand of premium phones by Nokia and are exclusively designed at the company’s UK design center under the able guidance of Principal Designer Mr. Frank Nuovo, who is Nokia’s Ex-Head of global Design.
I think Vertu is also manufactured in UK..but not very sure about this information.
Even if there are so many premium phones available in the market, Vertu makes sure that their phones stand apart….no wonder they are a Nokia company.

Nokia launches N82 in India.

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Finally the N Series superstar, the Nokia N82 is launched in India. This loaded gadget was launched almost a month back by Nokia with lot of hype and rumors surrounding it.

The N82 is Nokia’s way of saying, “This is what camera phones have become.” N82 will certainly sell like hot cakes in India, keeping in mind the hype surrounding its.
This gadget flaunts a 5 mega-pixel auto-focus camera with Xenon flash, first of its kind in a Nokia mobile phone. Nokia N82 is made for photography, Internet and navigation. The phone has 100 MB internal memory and can support a 2GB micro-SD card and has connectivity features like Wi-Fi, EDGE 3G with HSDPA, Bluetooth with A2DP and microUSB for PC connectivity. The highlight of this phone is motion sensing rotating screen, just like the iPhone.

This is what Vineet Taneja, Business Director, Multimedia, Nokia India, had to say about the “Next Episode in Entertainment” i.e. N82, “In addition to the high-end camera, the Nokia N82 also enables users to navigate and discover new places, enjoy their music, browse the web, play games, chat online and be part of the global web 2.0 community wherever they go. Thanks to the wireless broadband connectivity, convergence and its increased performance, the Nokia N82 is all people need in their pocket!”
N82 is priced at Rs. 28,379 in the Indian Market.

Efforts behind Nokia’s Designs.

We all are aware of the fact that Nokia is very serious when it comes to the designing of mobile phones. Nokia has design centers all over the world, where designers from different geographies come together, brainstorm and design phones that get a WOW from Nokia’s customer.

Nokia is well aware of the fact that any electronic gadget, no matter how superior it is w.r.t functionality, has to have a equally beautiful design, if it wants to grab attention of the end customer. Continue reading “Efforts behind Nokia’s Designs.”

Try Phones with TryPhone

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Everyday new phones are launched and they fascinate all of us , Don’t they?

Whenever I see a phone being launched my mind gets cramped up with thoughts like how will it feel in my hands?,

what kind of functions will it have? how good is the image quality? what about sound quality and compatibility for different sound formats?…..unless and until I buy that phone or go to a shop (which has a working model) or any of my friend buy it, these questions will remain unanswered…but now don’t worry dude, TryPhone helps you in trying out a mobile handset as if you are trying them out at a shop. Some devices are not available at stores so in future you can try them out at TryPhone….this is a really cool website and innovative too!!

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Nokia does it again with the Eco Sensor concept!

It has become a crucial modern day requirement to innovate gadgets that help protect our environment, either directly, by using friendly products in their production, or indirectly, by reducing wastage, emissions etc.

The Nokia Research Center supported by Nokia designers have come up with an innovative new concept, the Nokia Eco Sensor Concept.

The Nokia Eco Sensor concept is a mobile phone and a sensing device. With the device you can be connected to your friends, and to your health and environment as well.

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The handset will also enable you to share environmental data with other similar handsets. This sharing of information enables you to gain awareness about the global environment. Continue reading “Nokia does it again with the Eco Sensor concept!”

HTC touch Dual up for grabs in India

The HTC Touch Dual which was announced in october should be finally up for grabs this week at various stores across the country in India

The HTC Touch Dual is priced at Rs.29,990 and would be available for purchase at all HTC retailers across the country

The HTC Touch Dual is a great improvement to the HTC Touch which had only a touch screen and the physical keypad was missing . 

The new touch phone adds a real Touchable physical keypad in addition to the TouchFlow Display

Will you be willing to pay almost 30k for this phone ?

Environment Friendly Nokia 3110 Evolve

Environment friendly, are you? Then the Nokia 3110 Evolve is the handset you would look forward to.

The handset is touted as environment friendly as it has bio-covers made from more than 50% renewable material. The handset comes with a battery that is high on efficiency and consumes no load or energy even if you forget to plug it off the socket. The handset is packaged in a minimalistic manner and uses 60% recycled material.

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Specifications:

• Four hours talk time
• 370 Hours standby
• 64 polyphonic MIDI Continue reading “Environment Friendly Nokia 3110 Evolve”

New Samsung clamshell phone SGH–P180

Samsung has launched a new handset SGH–P180 with UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access) Technology that enables seamless switch between Wi-Fi and GSM networks.

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Specifications:

• Triband GSM (900/1800/1900)
• EDGE/GPRS
• UMA connectivity
• 2″ 65K Color, 128×16 px TFT display
• 1″ 96×96. monocrome STN external display
• Weight 93 grams
• 880 mAh Li-ion battery

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Nokia plans expansion of Sriperumbudur plant

Nokia, world leader in Mobile phone technology, announced its plan to expand its manufacturing facility located in Sriperumbudur, Chennai for the year 2008.

Nokia plans to invest approximately 75 million USD in the plant to cater to the requirement and growing demand of its handsets across Asia, Middle East and Africa.

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Nokia N95 Updated or Upgraded

A new firmware upgrade is available for the Nokia N95

First we’ll have a taste of the Changes in the new firmware :

  • New Welcome application.
  • New camera software and tweaks from the 8GB model – FAR faster shot to shot time, with ‘Processing image message’ during any delays. I suspect the image processing algorithms have changed too, to remove some of the remaining artificial edge enhancement in the v12 firmware.
  • Long press on camera button launches camera if shutter is open.
  • New My Nokia SMS tips and mobile web portal system.
  • Demand paging (for ROM applications) with 30 plus MB free RAM after booting.
  • Search 4.0 integration on standby screen.
  • Old multimedia menu still there, i.e. it’s not the new style.
  • N-Gage game previews (FIFA, Asphalt) and portal/shortcut to upcoming N-Gage client, as in N81 and N95 8GB.
  • Nokia Music Store client, although the store server hasn’t been updated to handle the N95 yet – maybe this’ll happen later today.
  • Keypress bug gone.
  • Music player has a new visualisation and also remembers where you got to in a podcast, so you can pick it up again later on.
  • No auto-screen rotation, looks like I was wrong predicting this, so we need Samir’s RotateMe after all – someone please help him get this signed ASAP!
  • Assorted other minor tweaks, along the same lines as the N95 8GB, with video ringtones and theme animations.

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LG launches Shine Titanium

Although LG Shine in Titanium was launched worldwide way back in July 2007, the handset was formally introduced in India on November 4, 2007.

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The LG Shine Titanium is claimed to be the only mobile phone in the market with a Titanium finish metal body.

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The model has been launched in both the bar and slider models.

Features:

• 2 megapixel camera
• Expandable Memory up to 1 GB
• 2.2-inches LCD screen
• GPRS and EDGE compatible
• Bluetooth (with A2DP)
• USB connectivity Continue reading “LG launches Shine Titanium”