Nokia E70 Smartphone Review
MobileBurn has a review on the Nokia E70, a foldable QWERTY smartphone.
The Nokia E70 is the ‘other’ QWERTY keyboard equipped phone in Nokia’s latest E-series range, sharing the feature with the E61. Designed in a similar way as the old Nokia 6800 and 6820, the E70 has a full QWERTY keyboard hidden in a fold open design. For the uninitiated, this means that the E70 will look just like a normal phone with numerical keys when the flip is closed, but opens up to provide a full QWERTY keypad when needed.
Armed with a 2-megapixel camera and WiFi capabilities, the E70 seems like a very good alternative for those who prefer a smaller form factor than the E61. The Nokia E70 is a dual mode phone, featuring WCDMA/GSM operation (GSM 900/1800/1900MHz and WCDMA 2100MHz).
I don’t really like the way this one folds open to reveal the keyboard, but MobileBurn did not seem to mind it, though the reviewer, like myself had a hard time getting used to the split keyboard design, as it can be faster when thumb typing to move your “free” thumb to the next key, and if the two letters are on one side of the split, it can slow down typing.
In the end they give the Nokia E70 a highly recommended rating due to its QWERTY keyboard, high resolution display and capable camera.
Digital Advisor Nokia Listings
Nokia 7390
Nokia is releasing the 7390, an update the L’Amour 7380. The new 7390 can play mp3 and mp4 formats, has a 3 megapixel camera and, a second VGA camera for video calling and self portraits.
The 7390 is a clamshell phone, and the companies first 3G fashion phone.
This GSM triband phone also offers broadband-speed video calling and audio/video streaming.
Expect to pay a pretty penny for this phone though as its powder pink and bronze black units have a list price of $576 USD and they will be available sometime this fall.
Nokia N91 Smartphone Review
MobileTechReview has a review up on the Nokia N91, a smartphone that includes a four gigabyte hard drive, thus allowing it to be more than just a phone.
Nokia is taking aim at the iPod and while that might seem like risky business, it’s not when that device also converges a mobile phone and PDA features into a very sexy package. Though large and heavy by phone standards, the N91 feels good in hand and oozes quality thanks to its beautiful stainless steel casing. This triband GSM smartphone has a 4 gig hard drive which holds approximately 1,000 songs, similar to the higher capacity iPod nano. It supports MP3, WMA and AAC formats among others and can sync to iTunes on the Mac and Windows Media Player 10 on Windows.
In the end they say that if you are looking for a device that mixes a portable music player, a cell phone and a PDA, the Nokia N91 is worth a look. I think the style of the handset is also very interesting though I don’t like the way the number pad keys look. They list the drawbacks to the phone being the size, weight and price tag, but say that if you compare it against three devices it could replace it is lighter, smaller and a deal.
Nokia to Enter the Music Business
Realizing that mobile and music are a good match–at least in the present–Nokia has announced plans to acquire music distributor Loudeye.
Nokia said on Tuesday it had agreed to buy U.S.-based digital music distributor Loudeye for $60 million as the world’s largest handset maker aims for a bigger slice of a potentially lucrative market.
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Handset makers see digital music as one of the key drivers for selling more expensive new phones.“Music is now the number one service for selling advanced mobile phones–it has been cameras, and in the future it might be television–but in 2006 music has become the service phone makers have been concentrating on,” said FIM Securities analyst Erik Sucksdorff.
Music and mobile phones are hitting the sweet spot in today’s consumer market. while other technologies are on the horizon–such as mobile television and perhaps even videoconferencing–Nokia is apparently learning from today’s iPod generation. It even has the right to claim the “largest manufacturer of digital music players” title.
Loudeye aggregates rights and content from major labels and hundreds of independent labels and currently offers licensed catalog and complete media for over 1.6 million tracks.
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Nokia said it had sold more than 15 million music-enabled phones in April to June, making it the world’s largest manufacturer of digital music players, and it aims to sell more than 80 million music devices this year.
Does this pose a challenge to the iPod+iTunes dominance? Perhaps not today, but having a convenient way to purchase music for use on mobile phones sure is a good marketing move for the number one mobile manufacturer.
Here’s the press release from loudeye.com.
Nokia 3250 Review
Pocket-lint reviews the twist and use Nokia 3250, an interesting little phone. Honestly, while I don’t know too much about the phone, I am impressed with a few of its features, especially for an MP3 player based phone.
The 3250 lets you combine the MP3 player and smartphone in one neat, if not entirely compact package.
It’s quite an unusual design, with that odd twisting mechanism causing a bit of a stir. It makes good practical sense though: rotating the block at the bottom either activates the phone mode, music mode or boots up the two megapixel camera depending on the angle of twist.
In the end Pocket-lint gives it a seven out of ten. They liked the amount of memory, coming in at a gigabyte of space, but they did not like the music software that it comes with, nor the bulky feeling design.
Nokia-Siemens Merger
Nokia and Siemens have announced their intention to merge their respective mobile network equipment businesses into a new joint venture which will form the entity Nokia Siemens Networks. The two companies intend to be the global leader in providing fixed and mobile network infrastructure.
The combined company is positioned to lead the development and implementation of revenue-generating and cost-saving products and services via its scale and global reach. Nokia Siemens Networks will have one of the world’s best research and development teams with the ability to invest in next generation fixed and mobile product platforms and services. The new company will have a world-class fixed-mobile convergence capability, a complementary global base of customers, a deep presence in both developed and emerging markets, and one of the industry’s largest and most experienced service organizations.
We recall that Siemens has recently sold its mobile handset division to Taiwanese BenQ (formerly Acer). With the Nokia-Siemens joint venture looming in the horizon, I think Siemens is up for sharing pole position in the fierce competition among network equipment suppliers, of which Ericsson, Alcatel, Lucent, and other providers are part of.
As usual, joint ventures and mergers are great at streamlining product and process flows, and allowing for economies of scale for both parties. I would tend to think, though, that Nokia and Siemens should allow for a couple of years into the merger to reap the full efficiency benefits. As for us consumers, I don’t think we’ll see any changes anytime soon, especially since this doesn’t involve the usual merger for mass-market produts, but that for high-end network equipment. That is unless Siemens and Nokia get to develop and introduce uber-cool technology that will surpass current 3G standards soon.
Nokia enhances Nseries with Adobe and Flickr partnerships
Nokia has announced two new software partnerships to offer its users something over other manufacturers. The partners include Adobe, and Flickr. The first to be announced is that the standard sales pack of the new Nokia N93 mobile device will incorporate Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 software for Windows XP.
“The video capture quality of our new Nokia N93 is so good, we felt that providing users with great, easy-to-use editing and DVD burning software was an absolute must”, said Mike Butler, vice president of solution creation and delivery for Multimedia, Nokia. “Thanks to the collaboration with Adobe, we are able to offer people a comprehensive digital imaging and video experience. With Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0, you can easily turn those high-quality video clips captured with Nokia N93 into great home movies. And even better, you can burn them on a DVD to share with friends and family.”
Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.0 software is also included in the standard Nokia N93 sales pack and allows consumers to fix their high-quality digital photos utilising the large screen of a compatible PC.
“The rapid proliferation of mobile devices like the Nokia N93 have altered the way consumers capture life events”, said Deborah Whitman, vice president of product management for Digital Imaging at Adobe.
In addition to the bundled software agreement with Adobe, Nokia and Yahoo! Have added Flickr support in Nokia Nseries. Consumers will be able to connect to their online Flickr accounts without the need to download or install any additional applications. The Nokia N93, Nokia N73 and Nokia N72, also announced today, are the first Nokia Nseries devices to support Flickr.
“More and more people are using mobile products to access Internet services and applications, which is why we are adding support for services like Flickr to our Nokia Nseries devices,” said Mikko Pilkama, director, Multimedia, Nokia. “Powerful multimedia computers like the Nokia Nseries are the best
Nokia’s 8800 back in black
I love this short article by Engadget Mobile where they talk about the fact that the Nokia 8800 is finally being sold in black.
You know, we have to hand it to Nokia for keeping their luxury 8800 handset worthy since its launch over a year ago. Already available in original stainless steel, a limited Aston Martin Edition, with over-the-top gold plating, and even as a candybar-style knockoff — she’s now resurrected herself in Black stainless steel.
And that £799/$1429 price tag makes this the most expensive version yet. You go old girl, you go.
I can’t help but laugh as most new phone buyers want all the latest bells and whistles for features, and being that this is not a cheap phone, you’d think it would have all the bells and whistles plus more, but it doesn’t… Oh boy…Nokia.
I guess we can’t blame them for trying.
Nokia 7360 Review
Slashphone reviews the Nokia 7360, and being a designer phone, it is interesting to say the least.
7360 is not the best phone around, but many fashionistas would still rush out to buy it anyway. After all, whatever the phone lacks is well compensated for by its Chinese embroidery strap, its perfectly tailored to match leather-and-velvet pouch, its overall charming specialness that makes us tingle each time we pick the phone up.
So it is very stylish, but not all that great…Sounds like it will be perfect for the type of women that love things that are blue or pink…now if only Nokia had made it in blue or pink.
Nokia N80 3G Phone Review
3G.co.uk have reviewed the Nokia N80, a 3G slider phone.
But things don’t start well for the N80 – the slider action is far from impressive. After the 6280’s fluid action, which rivalled Samsung’s best, the N80 feels too stiff and sticky, as if running on rusty rails. You will need to give it a fair nudge but it’s worth noting that our review sample was a prototype so any indiscretions might be temporary. Let’s hope the slider mechanism improves.
The N80 runs off Symbian Series 60 (S60) third edition OS, which proved incredibly temperamental, with slow transition between commands and pages. It’s best to test the N80 yourself, though, as in our experience, the S60 OS has never been this erratic and inconsistent, and the fact that our trial copy was a vanilla sample might explain its dodgy performance.
The N80 managed to get a rating of 90% at the end of the article thanks to its feature set, though they were not very impressed with the sliding of the phone.
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