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Nokia officially announces Nokia N9

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 06:16:24 +0000

Nokia finally announces Nokia N9.

Read the official press release Singapore - Nokia today announced the Nokia N9, built for people who appreciate a stunning blend of design and the latest smartphone technology. One swipe and you're home The Nokia N9 introduces an innovative new design where the home key is replaced by a simple gesture: a swipe. Whenever you're in an application, swiping from the edge of the display takes you home. The three home views of the user interface are designed to give fast access to the most important things people do with a phone: using apps, staying up to date with notifications and social networks, and switching between activities. The industrial design of the Nokia N9 is an example of extreme product making and craft. The body is precision-machined from a single piece of polycarbonate and flows seamlessly into beautiful curved glass. The laminated deep black display means that the user interface just floats on the surface of the product. The Nokia N9 also packs the latest in camera, navigation and audio technology for a great all-round experience. "With the Nokia N9, we wanted to design a better way to use a phone. To do this we innovated in the design of the hardware and software together. We reinvented the home key with a simple gesture: a swipe from the edge of the screen. The experience sets a new bar for how natural technology can feel," said Marko Ahtisaari, Nokia's head of Design. "And this is just the beginning. The details that make the Nokia N9 unique - the industrial design, the all-screen user experience, and the expressive Qt framework for developers - will evolve in future Nokia products." Innovative all-screen design With no need for a home key, the all-screen Nokia N9 makes more room for apps to shine. The 3.9-inch AMOLED screen is made from scratch-resistant curved glass. The polycarbonate body enables superior antenna performance. This means better reception, better voice quality and fewer dropped calls. Camera, maps and multimedia The 8-megapixel Carl Zeiss autofocus sensor, wide-angle lens, HD-quality video capture and large lens aperture enable great camera performance even in lowlighting conditions. This makes the Nokia N9 one of the best camera-phones ever produced. The Nokia N9 features free turn-by-turn drive and walk navigation with voice guidance in Maps. With the new dedicated Drive app, you can get in your car and start navigating to your destination right away. You can watch videos in true 16:9 widescreen format. And because the Nokia N9 is also the world's first smartphone with Dolby® Digital Plus decoding and Dolby Headphone post-processing technology, you get a surround sound experience with any set of headphones. Touch just got better Fitted with the latest in wireless technology, Near Field Communication (NFC), the Nokia N9 allows you to easily share images and videos between devices by touching them together. Pair it with Bluetooth accessories like the new NFC-enabled Nokia Play 360° wireless music speaker only once, and you get a great surround sound music experience with just a tap. Colors and Memory The Nokia N9 will be available in three colors - black, cyan, and magenta with storage options to accommodate plenty of content: 16GB and 64GB. The Nokia N9 is scheduled to be in stores later this year, with availability and local pricing to be announced closer to the sales start. To learn more about the design of the Nokia N9 visit: http://swipe.nokia.com

Nokia N9 is real. Here is the teaser video

Tue, 17 May 2011 20:56:12 +0000

Well after sellout of Nokia to Microsoft I didn't believe I would ever see the see video. But Nokia Nokia N9 seems to be real. But the screens on the don't look like MeeGo. It looks like the newest version of Symbian. The is the first picture of Nokia N9, which leaked last year.

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Nokia teams up with SINA and Tencent for location based services in China

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:18:17 +0000

Nokia is very popular in China, not only Nokia phones, but also the OVI Store is very popular. The gain further polarity in one of the largest markets for mobile products, Nokia teams up with China's two leading Internet service providers, for location based services (LBS). SINA and Tencent. SINA and Tencent services would integrated into Chines version of OVI Maps. Tencent's online community (QQ) has one of the largest IM and social networking community in China and SINA operates one most popular microblogging community. Read the the press release for more details. Nokia announced today that it has signed agreements with China's two leading Internet service providers, SINA and Tencent. Both SINA and Tencent services will be seamlessly integrated with Nokia's Ovi Maps in China, inviting millions of people to share their location with friends and communities through Ovi Maps on their favorite social network. Users of SINA microblog and Tencent's online community (QQ) will be able to share their location through Nokia mobile devices, check-in to locations and be able to upload location based content such as recommendations and comments of restaurants, shops and movie theatres. The first location based services for SINA and Tencent customers through Ovi Maps are planned to be available during the first quarter of 2011. "This collaboration with SINA and Tencent marks a significant milestone, as we bring together mobile internet and location based services in China. More than 250 million people are using a Nokia device in China and with this partnership, we can help people share their location with their friends and communities through Ovi Maps on their favorite social network," said Phil Kemp, Vice President, Services, Nokia. "With Nokia's Ovi Maps and Sina's location based services we will be able to offer SINA netizens new dimensions to their social networking. The mobile internet in China is growing rapidly and location based services will increase user generated content, making services more interactive and fun to use," said Wang Gaofei, Vice President of SINA. "Location and context are becoming the core elements of mobile social networking services and we are proud to partner in this area with Nokia, the leading player in the mobile industry. We believe that with Nokia's Ovi Maps, we will offer more added value to the users of QQ Mobile Online Services, "said Liu Chengmin, President of Mobile Business, Tencent. SINA Corporation is a leading online media company and mobile value-added service provider for China and for the global Chinese communities. With a branded network of localized websites targeting Greater China and overseas Chinese, SINA provides an array of services, including region-focused online portals, MVAS, social networking service (SNS), blog, audio and video streaming, album, online games, email, search, classified listings, fee-based services, e-commerce and enterprise e-solutions Tencent, founded in 1998, is one of China's largest and most used Internet services portal offering Internet value-added services, mobile and telecommunications value-added services and online advertising. Tencent's leading Internet platforms in China - QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai and Tenpay - have brought together China's largest Internet community, to meet the various needs of Internet users including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce and others. As of September 30, 2010, the active QQ user accounts for QQ IM amounted to 636.6 million while its peak simultaneous online user accounts reached 118.7 million.

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Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:00:52 +0000

Hands on with Sony Ericsson Xperia Play (PlayStation Phone)

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:03:06 +0000

Not officially announced yet, the PlayStation Phone is real and would be branded as Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. The phone would announced at the Mobile World Congress 2011 next month.

MeeGo on netbook looks great, boots from USB flash drive

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:32:27 +0000

MobileTechReview.com has reviewed MeeGo for Netbooks, and as you can watch on the video below it looks very nice. If you want try MeeGo on your laptop it is very easy. You don't have install it, just burn an image of MeeGo on a USB flash drive and stick into your netbook. MeeGo can boot from any flash drive. Watch and enjoy.

Nokia N9 Rumors: 4G and Intel Atom Processor - coming in February

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:10:48 +0000

Prosessori, a respected Finnish technology magazine has some hard facts about the Nokia N9. Prosessori reports on its website, that the match expected Nokia N9 would be powered with a 1.2GHz Intel Atom processor and it would be the first MeeGo smartphone by Nokia. The phone would be launched during the mobile would congress next month and it would be also the first 4G Nokia phone powered by MeeGo. With a device like N9, which could be the fist smartphone powered by Intel and MeeGo, Nokia could some traction in the huge and profitable US market. Let's hope these rumors are true.

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HTC to launch HTC Flyer Tablet, a larger version of HTC Desire

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:40:51 +0000

HTC seems too be wokring very hard to launch its tablet product line ahead the planned launch of RIM's PlayBook in March and Motorola's Xoom in April. HTC is planning to launch three tablet PCs this year and the first of them would be the HTC Flyer and it could possibly be announced at the Mobile Word Congress next month. HTC Flyer is just a larger version of HTC Desire thats why it would be released sooner than tablets. HTC will not wait until the release of Android Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) and launch the Flyer with Android 2.3 and would update it, when Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) is officially released. Other countries would get the HTC Flyer in the second quarter of the year. HTC Flyer would look like this, only a little larger

Montroller turns Nokia N8 into a 3D controller device

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:26:33 +0000

Montroller is one of the winners of Garage48 Helsinki, which took place last weekend. Garage48 is boot-camp style community event to build ideas into working services in just 48 hours. There were 31 different ideas pitched on Friday night and 16 of those ideas were able to form a working team. One of these teams was Montroller an they were the winner of PUBLIC VOTE and the winner of Nokia special prize. Montroller, a team of six guys, want to turn your mobile device into a 3D controller (like wii) of various devices. At Garage48 the guys showed how to control and drive a Lego Mindstorm robot with a Nokia N8 . The needed just 6 hours to build this despite the fact, that they didn't have much experience with Nokia's QT before. Montroller is also available for other platforms like MeeGo, Android and iOS.

Montroller behind the scenes
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Jobs' email to Apple employees about his absence. Tim Cook will take control

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:15:25 +0000

Apple CEO, CEO Steve Jobs would take an from the company's daily business because of a medical condition. Tim Cook, Apple's chief operating officer, will take control of the company's daily business. This es the email Jobs sent to all employees Apple. "Team, At my request, the board of directors has granted me a medical leave of absence so I can focus on my health. I will continue as CEO and be involved in major strategic decisions for the company. I have asked Tim Cook to be responsible for all of Apple’s day to day operations. I have great confidence that Tim and the rest of the executive management team will do a terrific job executing the exciting plans we have in place for 2011. I love Apple so much and hope to be back as soon as I can. In the meantime, my family and I would deeply appreciate respect for our privacy. Steve " Let’s hope this is nothing serious and Steve Jobs can resume his position at Apple soon.