Nokia recently unveiled its 6500 slider phone.
The Nokia 6500 slider phone features a 3.2-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and autofocus, a dual LED flash and 8x digital zoom. A TV-out jack allows pictures or video on the phone to instantly viewed on any television with standard RCA inputs.
The Nokia 6500 slide is expected to be available during the thrid quarter of 2007 at an estimated retail price of 370 euros before taxes and subsidies.
Nokia, not content with blitzing the world with new models like the E90, the lush Luna and the tasty 6500, has rung up a #1 spot in AMR Research’s Supply Chain Top 25.
As you know, this year the Finns showed up at #13 on BusinessWeek’s recently published list of the 50 most innovative companies, lengthened their lead over Motorola in the phone handset stakes and moved 200 million units of one phone model.
Let’s take a look how they got there:
The math
To sell large numbers of anything; it helps to have huge, growing markets with an insatiable desire for your stuff. Ok, so it may not sell for top dollar but you might get oh, say, orders of $2.5 billion at a time. No wonder Nokia increased its lead in the world’s biggest emerging markets again this year.
Design it right
Not as sexy as a huge megapixel count, but simple, innovative features for local needs, such as phones which lend themselves to phone sharing have consolidated Nokia’s appeal in emerging markets. The new Nokia design studio in Bangalore takes the global/local theme even further.
Show the people
Nokia’s interesting marketing efforts have included Nokia-branded vans and train carriages as concept stores. Both have assistants who show off the latest models to potential purchasers, even to passersby during long stops at stations.
True innovation is showing up all over the place at Nokia as they get back on top of their game and it seems to be delivering the results.
If you’re tempted by Three’s new flat-price X-Series mobile internet service you’ll almost certainly be in the market for a new mobile phone to go with it. That’s because only a handful of phones are compatible with the particular X-Series software and services.
Even so, none of those can deliver every feature on the X-Series menu. That should change as new handsets are released in the coming months, but right now the phone that ticks the most boxes is Nokia’s N73.
This gives you online chat through MSN and Yahoo Messenger, free phone calls over Skype and the ability to play music and videos from your home PC using the new Orb remote access software.
It can’t tap into the full speed of the three networks, which has just been upgraded from the average 300Kbps of 3G to high-speed HSDPA - which runs up to five times as fast. This will be noticeable only if you’re intent on using the N73 as a mobile broadband modem for your laptop.
First of all, it’s the hardware is much sturdier in this phone than any other Nokia I’ve seen in awhile. Credit goes to the steel chassis.
Even the lid stood up to a firm twist. Software and spec wise, the N76 very similar to the 2MP, Symbian 60, N75 clamshell I wrote about two months ago, so you can look for more info there. The software inside lacks the Singular additions the N75 has. If you missed it, the keypad is very RAZR like.
The N76 isn’t subsidized like the N75. And it doesn’t have 3G/UMTS. Other than that, I love it like I love all N Series Nokia phones. And this comes in red.
Because of the price, and the lack of 3g, I might consider the AT&T N75 to be a better deal, but you have to worry about that pesky contract. I’d go for the contract.
Nokia N 70 has captured the attention of everyone with its crisp looks but is it certainly an improvement over its predecessors? In Nokia N 70are fused all the outstanding qualities of Nokia N series with a compact easy to use design. It surely is making all the right moves when it comes to innovation in mobile.
N 70 at 109 x 53 x 24 mm and 126 g has a stainless steel keypad and surroundings that give it a compact and classy look. This look is a camouflage for its advanced smart phone and entertainment features. Nokia N 70’s excellent 262K colour screen stands clear with 176 x 208 pixels helps users to appreciate its 2 mega pixel camera. This phone has reinvented the arena of mobile photography by making it extremely simpler and easier. Integrated flash makes impressive quality images possible for scenery, portrait, sport and night.
The rear side of the Nokia N 70 opens into a camera which supports shooting videos and pictures. With 20x zoom capability you can capture a range of setting and environments. A shutter key at the side of the camera offers ability to capture images with more stability.
Nokia N 70 supports a range of connectivity options including tri-band, GPRS/GSM along with WCDMA connectivity. There is support for CSD, FAX, with profile selections for Bluetooth and USB port connection. Transferring and copying of images and video clips to your PC can be easily done with Nokia Express Transfer solutions. You can easily store, manage, and organize images and videos in your Nokia phone. Albums created on the phone can also be easily transferred to your personal computer.
Nokia N 70 is equally equipped in the area of functionality. It is smart phone with features that support email with attachment, internet browser, video streaming and 3G enabled featured that support video calling and video sharing.
For those looking for entertainment you have FM radio with support for visual radio. Digital music player with stereo audio makes Nokia N 70 a real music device for those on the move. Nokia N 70 supports Series 60 and Java 2D and 3D games. Some of these games have been pre installed to give you a dose of playful multimedia experience.
Nokia N 70 is a dedicated phone for those looking for a taste of multimedia experience. Nokia N 70 is surely emerging as a winner for an entrepreneur, a person on the move or a mobile phone enthusiast.
This mobile phone makes an individual’s style statement. The outer feel of the mobile case is inspired by leather and supplemented with etched metal and quicksilver surface. This mobile is more of a fashion icon than a communication device. One can show off its light effects due to the aesthetic surface it has inherited. All these features of Nokia 7380 leave an unforgettable impression of the user within his or her peer group.
The following are some of the salient features of Nokia 7380
A notable difference from other phone models of any make is the size of Nokia 7380. With the width 30mm this mobile phone is one of a kind. The sales package of Nokia 7380 mobile phone contains built in battery, standard charger, dual headset, user guide, pouch, strap and style packs. You can also extend the capabilities of your Nokia 7380 mobile with various other compatible accessories.
Users of this mobile phone can be assured of the quality of mobile phone as it is from Nokia. One can capture those priceless moments with 2.0 mega pixel camera integrated with Nokia 7380. One can hear crystal clear sound when listening to songs or FM in-built with this mobile.
Its stylish and trendy look would get you more admirers than you ever had. Its designer look is just awesome. It sends out light enhanced effects with its cool glass mirror display.
Nokia has released the Nokia 6288 3G, which is a slider phone mixed with a lot of features. The Nokia 6288 3G has amazing video playing capabilities.
The display of the Nokia 6288 slider phone offers 262,144 colors, on a 320 x 240 pixels screen. A 2 mega-pixel camera is also attached with the phone. For video conferencing facility, a separate VGA camera is also integrated into the phone.
Zoom buttons and the dedicated 2 MP camera provided with the Nokia 6288 3G phone, helps us in shooting videos and taking photos more easily. Video editing features are included in the phone; users can edit the videos and send them via e-mail.
Using the Bluetooth facility, documents can be printed to a compatible printer. The 6288 3G phone comes with a 512MB memory card. The phone is available in two models, black and white colours.
The world’s top mobile phone maker, Nokia announced its new short-range technology operating in the unlicensed 2.4 GHz band that will be a cost-effective “complementation” for the Bluetooth standard. The new technology is will less power and costs less. The company believes this technology might soon become an industry norm.
But, Wibree uses range (10 meters) and data rate (1 MB) are almost identical to that of Bluetooth. The main difference being, Wibree uses a fraction of the power used by Bluetooth. This helps enabling personal-area communications with watches, wireless keyboards, toys and so on which have limited battery capacity.
Bluetooth uses fixed packet lengths, whereas Wibree utilizes dynamic lengths and that is why consumes less power. It also does not incorporate frequency hopping as Bluetooth does. Wibree is perfect solution in situations where bursty data transfers are needed. Bluetooth is better equipped to handle larger data loads.
Bluetooth devices are able to communicate with each other to ask about capabilities and functions. This is known as the Service Discovery Protocol. It prevents the user from sending documents to your headset or routing a phone call to your printer. Wibree will have something very intelligent to replace this, but we don’t know that as yet.
Lots of companies are working closely with Nokia to define the Wibree specification. Companies such as Broadcom, Epson, and Nordic Semiconductor. Nokia is hoping to submit the technology to a worldwide standardization process, which could eventually help it to gain wider support.
Nokia’s Wibree is not the only one contender for use in wireless sensors. There are rivals like Zigbee and Zensys too. Zigbee is an ongoing standardization project and has similar characteristics to Wibree. As per the sound byte from these rivals they feel Wibree seems like a marketing spec and are not worried about it at all. They also think Wibree is simply a proprietary solution masked as some type of industry driven push.
Nokia introduces widget support for S60 and takes a significant step in realizing its vision of transforming mobility and the Internet with rich Web 2.0 experiences. S60 will be the first mobile software platform that enables the creation of widgets using familiar standards-based Web technologies. Available to all S60 licensees, widget support enhances the Internet experience on a mobile by bringing a personal Web experience to a personal device.
Widgets allow people to personalize Internet content into lightweight Web applications and stay current with the things that matter to them. While widgets have been available on PCs for some time, they bring particular advantages to mobile devices, as mobiles are highly personal and among the few items that we always carry with us.
The world’s leading smartphone software, S60 on Symbian OS, will be complemented with Web Run-Time, a Web application development environment, enabling the development of widgets and integrated Web applications for mobile devices with familiar standards-based Web technologies, such as Ajax, JavaScript, CSS and HTML.
Web Run-Time is powered by the same feature rich, open-source environment used by the Web Browser for S60, the world’s first full HTML browser bringing a desktop-like browsing experience to millions of S60 mobile devices.
Web Run-Time offers numerous possibilities for Web application development. As the Web Run-Time is built with standard Web technologies, developers can create new innovative widgets and also migrate existing widgets from the desktop to S60 with minimal effort. In the future, widgets will benefit from connecting both to Web 2.0 services, Web content and to the core applications and capabilities of S60, such as phonebook, calendar and GPS.
Web Run-Time and widget support will be available to S60 licensees as part of the S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2. Tools, documentation and a software developer kit for widget development will be made available via Forum Nokia during the third quarter 2007. Widgets will be distributed to users through several channels, one of which is WidSets, a popular consumer Internet service, which allows users to personalize their mobile Internet experience.
Nokia introduced the second wave of the Nokia Eseries portfolio with a trio of feature-packed, design-rich devices – the all-inclusive Nokia E90 Communicator, the stylish slider Nokia E65 device, and the slim email-optimized Nokia E61i device. Each new Nokia Eseries device features a combination of advanced technologies that will enhance the way people experience work in a mobile world, by allowing faster and better quality access to important information for greater collaboration and productivity.
The Nokia E90 Communicator, Nokia E65, and Nokia E61i support the most popular email and business voice and other productivity and leisure time solutions, operate across different continents using the quadband GSM and 3G network frequencies, provide fast broadband data connectivity with 3G WCDMA and WLAN. In addition, Nokia E90 Communicator is now High Speed Download Packet Access (HSDPA) enabled and can reach data transfer speeds comparable to those traditionally achieved only in the office. The speed, processing power, and superb screens of the devices coupled with the flexibility of the S60 software open up opportunities for completely new mobile experiences in and out of the office. With the introduction of the new Nokia Eseries devices, Nokia continues to knock down the barriers to widespread adoption and unleash the true potential of business mobility for business customers and operators.
Further, the new Nokia Eseries devices, combined with the Nokia Intellisync Mobile Suite 8.0 platform, also announced today, significantly enhance the potential for businesses to achieve new levels of productivity and competitive advantage. These Nokia solutions also provide operators and carriers opportunities to grow their businesses with competitive new solutions for their business customers, which comprise one-third of operators’ revenues today. By offering Nokia Eseries devices that can handle current and future services such as hosted email, security, device management and other productivity applications, operators and carriers can gain competitive advantage and increased customer loyalty.