Nokia 5800 sends subliminal message in Britney Spears' " Womanizer" video

A picture is worth a thousand words, in this case "420" comes to mind in Britney Spears' "Womanizer" video...

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  ¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 10/17/2008 09:16:00 AM 0 comments links to this post

  Nokia introduces its first touchscreen smartphone

Nokia announced their first touchscreen smartphone, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.

* Three versions: Quad-band GSM with 850/1900 WCDMA, Quad-band GSM with 900/2100 WCDMA and Quad-band GSM with no 3G

* WiFi and GPS

* 3.2-inch touchscreen display, 640 x 360 pixels, 16 million colors, tactile feedback

* 1320 mAh battery (!)

* 3.2 megapixel camera with Zeiss optics, dual LED flash, 30 fps video capture

* Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, USB 2.0 (microUSB port)

* Stereo speakers

* Finger and stylus UI control

* New media bar interface, always accessible via a touch-sensitive button above the display

* Proximity sensor to save battery life and avoid inadvertent touches

* 111 x 51.7 x 15.5 mm, 109 g

* Available in black, red and blue

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic will ship this quarter and cost about $392.00. Very nice price for an unlocked touchscreen smartphone.

Labels: nokia, symbian

  ¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 10/03/2008 07:15:00 AM 0 comments links to this post

  Video release of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

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  ¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 10/03/2008 07:00:00 AM 0 comments links to this post

  Nokia to buy out rest of Symbian for $410 million, offer it royalty-free "Nokia on Tuesday said it will buy the 52.1% of Symbian it doesn't already own for approximately 264 million euros (US$410 million) in cash and will make the software royalty-free in response to the rising threat of companies like Apple and Google.

Aude Lagorce reports for MarketWatch, "Nokia, which currently owns a 47.9% stake in the company, is buying out the shareholdings of Panasonic, Siemens AG and Ericsson. Nokia also expects Samsung to accept the offer."

"In recent years Symbian has faced rising competition from Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile, Research in Motion and Apple, Inc., who are all making operating systems for complex phones that also work as organizers, e-mail devices and music players," Lagorce reports."

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  ¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 6/24/2008 02:44:00 PM 0 comments links to this post

  Nokia vows touch phone in late 2008, no Windows "Nokia at its press conference for the Mobile World Congress expo set a timeframe for unveiling the company's first-ever touchscreen phone as well as clarified its operating system plans. Although few details have been released for the device itself, Nokia now intends to release a touchscreen phone in the second half of 2008. The handset will use an enhanced version of the Symbian Series 60 OS dubbed S60 Touch and is likely to sport many of the iPhone-like features showcased a year ago, including a natural-gesture photo browser and music playback controls.

However, reports of Nokia using Windows Mobile are currently false, company chief Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said during the event. While not willing to rule out the prospect entirely, the executive had no announcements of the sort for Mobile World Congress and stated that the company "[doesn't] have plans to do Windows in mobile at the moment." Kallasvuo did not acknowledge Microsoft claims that the two firms were in talks for a partial switch in the future to the pocket Windows OS." Via Electronista .

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  ¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 2/11/2008 10:23:00 AM 0 comments links to this post

  First look video walk through of Garnet VM Beta on Nokia N800

TabletBlog has posted a video walk through of the Garnet VM Beta running on a Nokia N800 Internet Tablet.

Labels: nokia, palm os

  ¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 11/13/2007 11:05:00 AM 0 comments links to this post

  Nokia Internet Tablets can run Palm OS applications

It looks like the Nokia Internet Tablets will become more useful with the addition of being able to run the thousands of Palm OS applications available. ACCESS has released the Garnet VM Beta .

"Garnet VM enables Nokia Nseries users to run thousands of Garnet OS (formerly Palm OS®) applications. Garnet VM supports some of the most popular applications in the mobile market including, Google Maps™, Snappermail®, DateBk5 and perennially popular games like Bejeweled®, PacMan and Sudoku. Choose from a wide variety of application types including, document processors, database managers, messaging, enhanced PIMs, life management tools, and more."

This is a very cool development!

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  ¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 11/13/2007 10:56:00 AM 0 comments links to this post

  Nokia CEO 'paranoid' about iPhone competition "Nokia CEO Olli Pekka Kallasvuo said he is “paranoid” about Apple’s entry into the cell phone market. Kallasvuo made the comments on Thursday during Nokia’s earnings conference call.

Even though Apple’s goal is to sell 10 million iPhone’s by the end of 2008, Nokia said the significance of the iPhone should not be underestimated.

Kallasvuo went on to say that Nokia will spend more on research to combat the threat from Apple and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry product line." Via Macworld .

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  ¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 10/18/2007 02:09:00 PM 0 comments links to this post

  I'm a Nokia

Nokia is going full force with their "Open to Anything" campaign and it's clear who the message is aimed at. I wonder if we'll see "I'm a Nokia" ad similar to Apple's "I'm a Mac" touting Nokia's openness compared to Apple's iPhone;)

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  ¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 10/01/2007 10:58:00 AM 0 comments links to this post

  Nokia's latest ad takes on iPhone

Nokia's "Open to anything" ad is a clear rip on Apple's closed iPhone. You can't blame Nokia for trying to capitalize on the iPhone's biggest shortcoming. Maybe this ad coupled with the slack Apple is taking for blocking 3rd party apps from the iPhone will make the Cupertino crew "open" up a little more. We can only hope...

Labels: apple, iphone, nokia

  ¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 9/30/2007 08:17:00 PM 0 comments links to this post

  Nokia starts selling $25,000 Ferrari phone Nokia has started selling the Ascent Ferrari 60 phone to celebrate Ferrari's 60th anniversary. Nokia is selling the phone in its London, Paris, Hong Kong and Singapore stores. The phone will cost you $25,400.00, or $99 if you sign a 60 year contract in honor of Ferrari's anniversary (just kidding on the latter).

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  ¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 9/27/2007 10:47:00 AM 0 comments links to this post

  Sprint to offer WiMAXed out Nokia N800 According to Just Another Mobile Phone Blog , Sprint will offer a Nokia N800 with a WiMAX radio in it in 2008.

"Sprint will offer a Mobile WiMAX-enabled version of Nokia's N800 Internet Tablet to North American customers next year, LinuxDevices has learned. The new device will support Sprint's grand scheme of making WiMAX-based 4G wireless services available to over 100 million people during 2008."

"At the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco this week, LinuxDevices spoke with Dr. Ari Jaaksi (photo at right), Nokia's director of open source. Asked if the combination of VoIP and Mobile WiMAX might cannibalize Nokia's mobile phone business, Jaaksi replied, "WiMAX could change the cellular landscape; however, it's a question of the maturity of the technology, and how it will be priced."

He added that he thought it important for Nokia to investigate new technologies, noting that "Linux is ideal for that."

Jaaksi said the WiMAX-enabled N800 would "most probably" include WiFi and Bluetooth as well. He felt that interference problems could be minimized, noting, "We had the same interference with Bluetooth and WiFi initially, but we solved that."

Labels: nokia, sprint

  ¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 8/09/2007 05:37:00 PM 0 comments links to this post

  Nokia 8600 Luna unboxing

The Boy Genius has posted an unboxing of the Nokia 8600.

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  ¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 7/23/2007 01:39:00 PM 0 comments links to this post

  Nokia N73 Godfather Edition

I saw this over @ The Boy Genius . It looks like Nokia will be releasing a special Godfather Edition N73 cell phone in honor of the 35th anniversary of the film. The phone will come with a 256 MB memory card that will have the original full-length movie on it. Do you really want to watch the Godfather on a phone?? If you're answer is yes, thank Nokia for making it happen:)

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  ¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 4/12/2007 10:09:00 AM 0 comments links to this post

  Another day, another Palm buyout rumor I read this article on Brighthand about the latest rumor of Palm being purchased. This time the buyer is none other than Nokia.

"Citing unnamed sources, Unstrung is reporting that the bidding process of Palm has already begun, with Nokia up against at least one private equity firm."

This story is nothing new. It seems that Palm is being bought out on a weekly basis and nothing ever transpires. I doubt there's any truth to this, but stranger things have happened. Treos running Windows?? Stay tuned:)

Labels: nokia, palm, rumors

  ¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 3/01/2007 03:41:00 PM 0 comments links to this post

  Unboxing: Nokia E65 The Boy Genius has some unboxing pictures of the Nokia E65 . It looks like a very cool Nokia phone.

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  ¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 2/25/2007 12:46:00 AM 0 comments links to this post