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At Symbian Exchange 2009 FoneArena got a chance to interview Jon Tetzchner CEO of Opera Software. In this 20 minute interview , we talk about a lot of things ranging from Opera Mini, Opera Mobile and Opera Unite and also Google Chrome , Internet Explorer.
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Today, we come with great news for many of you. The Nokia N900 will start selling in the USA starting from today. The Nokia N900 has already begun shipping to customers who had pre-ordered it. The N900 is also expected to hit other countries in the coming weeks. Continue reading “Nokia N900 Enters USA at a price tag of 649 USD”
One of the main gripes of Motorola’s latest flagship beast is it’s problem with getting a proper auto focus with its 5 Mp shooter. This has been the case since it’s launch and it now seems, to have been magically(through a silent over-the-air update actually) to have been fixed, until the 11th of December that is. The strange thing is that according to Dan Morrill, from Google’s Android team, the bug is related to a time-stamp bug:
“According to Google Engineer Dan Morrill, there is an unfortunate bug in the Droid’s auto focus routine. It improperly rounds a timestamp used in the calculations, which somehow throws the entire focusing process off. Today it works, and tomorrow it will work…but 24.5 days from now, the bug will be back.” Continue reading “Droid Autofocus bug is the weirdest bug. Ever.”
The GSMA has announced the Winners of its 2009 Mobile Awards and a real good surprise for Nokia. The N97 Mini which has been launched in India recently has won the Award for the Best Mobile Handset Best Mobile Broadband Handset/Device . I played with the Mini at Nokia World and most recently at the Nokia N-Tourage Event in Blore and this handset is very impressive in terms of build quality , speed and kinetic scrolling and much better than the big brother. Continue reading “N97 Mini wins GSMA Award for Best Mobile Handset”
You might have seen the nominations for the Asia Mobile Awards for 2009 and now The GSM Association has announced the winners at the Mobile Asia Congress Networking Party and Awards Celebration at Hong Kong’s famed Happy Valley Racecourse.
“We are delighted with the number of high quality entries we received for this year’s Asian Mobile Awards and Mobile Innovation Grand Prix – Asia Tournament,” said Rob Conway, CEO and Member of the Board for the GSMA. “These awards reflect the strong growth of mobile communications in Asia – in the last year alone mobile connections in the region have risen by 370 million, and this growth is driven by innovative new services, applications and ever richer mobile content. These awards recognise the leaders, pioneers and innovators that are making this happen. Our congratulations to the winners, and our thanks to all those who participated.”
The winners of the Asia Mobile Awards 2009 are: Continue reading “GSM Association announces winners of Asia Mobile Awards 2009”
Opera Mobile 10 beta for Windows Mobile phones is now out for immediate download on a WinMo phone after the Oslo based Software Company announced the Symbian version of the browser earlier this month. This version for Windows Mobile aims to transform mobile browsing to a desktop-like experience
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Good news y’all ! Nokia E72 is finally in stores after some delays
Some users are also reporting that their pre-orders have been shipped in the UK and Europe
Press release
Espoo, Finland – The highly-anticipated Nokia E72, a device tailor-made for business and personal messaging is now available in stores. To coincide with the arrival of the Nokia E72, Nokia has also released research* revealing that more people rely on email than on traditional phone calls or text messaging when sending and responding to critical information. Continue reading “Nokia E72 is finally in stores”
Espoo, Finland – Nokia today announced the Nokia 5330 Mobile TV Edition, an entertainment hub that combines mobile broadcast TV (DVB-H), social networking, music and gaming in one compact 3G device. With mobile broadcast TV consumption on the rise – by 2012 there will be over 300 million people worldwide watching TV on their mobile phones – this handset offers easy access to anyone wanting to enjoy an exceptional live, on-the-move TV experience.Nokia vice president Mark Selby said, “The introduction of the Nokia 5330 Mobile TV Edition responds to the arrival of DVB-H broadcast mobile TV networks in new markets and offers an affordable device for new and existing customers alike. Customers are increasingly watching a variety of programmes on their mobiles, such as drama programs, news and sport, for a longer period of time. The Nokia 5330 Mobile TV Edition has the sound and image quality to hold audiences captive.”
Watch TV. Anywhere. Continue reading “Nokia 5330 Mobile TV Edition launched”My friend, Ranesh Kumar considered picking up a new Nokia handset before he heard about the new Motorola Droid. Just last week, he bought two Motorola Droids from Verizon, one for himself and one for his fiancée.
Ranesh was a Nokia fan for a long time and had owned few Nokia’s including an E70. But he made the transition to Verizon for a decent deal on a Voyager two years ago (because he likes qwerty keyboards and that was the only one he liked at the time). Ranesh couldn’t wait for a decent Nokia device to hit the market he liked, so he took the plunge. When he tested out the N97, he was terribly disappointed with the overall OS and decided to hold out for the Christmas season of this year to see what was around the corner and settled on the Motorola Droid running the Android 2.0 OS. Continue reading “Are new operating systems in the smart phone field hurting Nokia?”
Nokia Music, Nokia’s PC Client for transferring music to devices has been renamed to Nokia OVI Player.This change is quite anticipated after Nokia’s recent trend of transferring everything to OVI. Continue reading “Nokia Music becomes Nokia OVI Player”
The N97 mini is launching in India finally today after a delay. It was expected to be out in October. I know many of you might be disappointed with Nokia’s Diwali Lineup as both the N97mini and 5530 were missing. We really like the build quality of the mini as it has a metallic feel and the kinetic scrolling is pretty good in this device and getting a lot of attention since it launched at NokiaWorld
I know many of you are eagerly waiting for the launch of the E72 and while the handset is expected to be launched this month in India , TehkSeven has surprised us with a wonderful E72 Copper theme for Nokia S60 Phones. Continue reading “Download E72 Copper theme if you can’t wait for the launch”
It has been reported that an Australian programmer under the codename of lkee wrote a virus (worm) for the Apple iPhone specially the one that had been jailbroken.
The worm was programmed to scan the networks of Telus, Optus and Vodafone in Australia. Once infected, the worm would automatically change the wallpaper of the iPhone. Continue reading “2nd iPhone Virus Targetting Jailbroken Handsets”
There are so many mobile platforms out there – Symbian , Android, iPhone , Blackberry , Windows Mobile , Palm , Maemo and now Bada. The handset market which was once dominated by Symbian and WinMo now has fierce competition from iPhone and Blackberry. Android is growing fast too. Maemo was was never destined to be used in a phone until the Nokia N900. Palm was almost out of the radar until the Palm Pre which came with the WebOS platform. But which is the best ? As a user which platform do you love and why ? Let us know in the comments !
The E71 is a great phone from Nokia and its been around for more than a year now and doing really well in terms of sales worldwide. for the users who complained about the price of the E71 . Nokia launched the E63 which packs a 3.5 mm port which even the E71 lacks. Now the price of Nokia E71 has fallen sharply over the last few weeks indicating that its successor the E72 is round the corner. The price is hovering at around Rs.16000 in India
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