Keeping user’s interest in mind for touch screen models, Nokia has come up with it’s full touch screen phone having features 3.2 inch resistive touch screen with resolution 640×360 pixels, High speed 3G (HSDPA), in-built assisted-GPS with Ovi Maps, 2 megapixel camera, stereo FM radio,3.5mm audio jack and micro SD card slot. The biggest drawback is lacking Wi-Fi. Review

Its price in India is approximately Rs 8500

It runs on latest Symbian S60 5th edition operating system and 1320mAh battery with up to 7hour talk-time and 33hours non-stop music.

It supports MP3, MP4.AAC, eAAC+ and WMA formats. Handset made compatible to access web, Music and social networks. It has 70MB memory and micro SD support up to 16 GB.

The good thing about user interface is kinetic scrolling. One can press and slide on the screen, and the lists will continue to scroll down, eventually slowing down and coming to a halt.

5230 is one for the people who are particular about touch interface and at quite affordable price.

Source: Panasianbiz.com

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The world’s largest mobile phone maker uses the gathering of analysts and investors — held yearly in early December — to update its market view and issue forecasts for the coming year.

Twelve months ago Nokia forecast its handset unit operating profit margins for 2009 in the teens — 13-19 percent — but the company has just failed to hit that range due to the steep economic downturn.

Nokia and the rest of the cellphone industry have suffered in 2009 as consumers cut spending on new gadgets, with the more expensive end of the market seeing increasingly stiff competition.

Nokia’s shares have missed the stock market recovery, dropping 19 percent since the start of the year — mostly due to the company’s deteriorating smartphone offering — against a rise of 17 percent in DJ Stoxx European technology index .SX8P, in which it is the biggest constituent.

However, demand has started to recover and analysts say Nokia should benefit.

“I don’t expect much negative — the question is how positive it will be, and whether that is enough,” said Hannu Rauhala, analyst with Pohjola Bank.

On average analysts expect the cellphone market to grow 8.6 percent next year — rebounding from a contraction of seven percent in 2009 — with Nokia’s handset unit operating profit margin seen rising to 13.5 percent.

‘DUMBING DOWN’ SMARTPHONES

The smartphone market boom is expected to continue next year, helped by falling prices for the more advanced phones.

“Next year Nokia will make smartphones a mass market product,” said John Strand, chief executive of Strand Consult.

Underlining the rising importance of smartphones, Apple (AAPL.O) bypassed Nokia in the September quarter as the handset maker generating the largest profit, according to research firm Strategy Analytics, even though Nokia sells 15 phones for each iPhone sold.

Analysts also expect Nokia to comment on its court case in Delaware, United States, where it sued Apple for infringing 10 of its patents after the companies failed to reach a royalty deal.

Apple has until December 14 to respond to Nokia’s allegations.

For the first time the company’s outlook will be given by Timo Ihamuotila, who was named chief financial officer last month in a management revamp one day after the firm reported its weakest quarterly result ever.

Ihamuotila, relatively unknown to investors, has had a long career in Nokia, and in his last position as the global sales chief he worked closely with the firm’s largest customers, the big handset operators.

Richard Windsor, technology specialist at Nomura, said this could affect the nature of the forecasts.

“If he gives his view then there is a strong incentive to be conservative, as beating expectations in his first year would boost his standing in the market,” Windsor wrote in a note.

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As the N900 begins to appear on shelves around the globe it will be price-gunned at around 500 Euros SIM-free, with plenty of contract deals making it available at a reduced cost and in some cases gratis.

José-Luis Martinez is Vice President for Nseries and had this to say about the N900 as it finally departs on its worldwide travels:

“The Nokia N900 has generated a lot of interest since its public launch in August, which has been reflected in the device preorders. What’s exciting is the Maemo software, which takes its cues from the desktop computer and offers a full browsing experience like no other handset. We believe the Nokia N900 will be a very compelling device for people who are passionate about technology.”

The N900’s Maemo 5 backbone is indeed one of the key ingredients that makes this such an milestone mobile, and is the main contributing factor as to why the N900 gets better the more you use it.

When the N900 launches it’ll be compatible with most networks, although it won’t initially be available on new 3G SIM cards from 3 in the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark and Austria – a software update is in the pipeline and is slated to become available before the end of the year.

We’ve been lucky enough to have early hands-on access with the N900 for a couple weeks (find all our N900 coverage here), and we’ve got some cool stuff planned for it shortly, so stay tuned. Until then, soak up more details on the N900 in our Almanac entry, join the debate on the N900, and leave your comments on the global launch directly below.

Source: Nokia Blog

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The Nokia 6788 runs the Symbian operating system and has a 2.8-inch display, a 5-megapixel camera with a dual-LED flash, and support for A-GPS (Assisted GPS).

Content can be stored in the phone’s 4GB memory or on a microSD card up to 8GB in capacity. The phone also supports instant messaging and e-mail, according to a spec sheet from Nokia.

Nokia expects to begin selling the 6788 at the end of December, but has not announced a price.

China Mobile’s 3G network uses TD-SCDMA (Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access), a radio technology developed in China. Nokia said it plans to introduce more TD-SCDMA phones in the near future.

At the end of September China Mobile had about 508 million [m] mobile subscribers, making it the world’s largest operator. Around 1.6 million [m] of those subscribers use the company’s 3G service, according to its Web site.

China Mobile hopes support from Nokia will help boost the development of TD-SCDMA in China, it said in a statement.

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Features of the Nokia N95

It is special because it has all the facilities that latest electronics technology can provide. Like? It has digital camera with high resolution, an inbuilt internet browser with high speed and music player with stereo sound. So what most of the phones have this facility? That’s true but you will be surprised to see that all these facilities have been provided in a slim and sleek phone which you can fit in the palm of your hand. Is there any other specialty?

Special Features

Other special features are it has eight gigabyte memory space and is equipped with GPS. As you know this is a very helpful navigation system which is backed by high speed internet service so that you can quickly and easily transfer your data to any place you want. The digital camera is fitted with a powerful lens and auto focus system due to which you can take photos even when you are traveling and the best thing is you don’t have to bother about the light and the weather. Just go on clicking even if the light is dim you will get good pictures. It has the facility of Bluetooth and video calling. The messaging system is most advanced as it has MMS and email system along with SMS. So isn’t it Exclusive?

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For its potential target audience, Nokia E90 is a very balanced and reasonably priced solution. It has no counterparts that have made it to the market, therefrom follows its low price flexibility and most improbable price shifts (if only the enterprise audience really doesn’t like it).

Quadband Phone

Networks: SM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800, GSM 1900, EGSM

Connectivity options: G, GPRS, GPS, HSDPA, Bluetooth, A2DP, Infrared, USB, WLAN

Calling Features:
Video calls, Speakerphone
Physical design
Form factor
Clamshell

Dimensions (W x D x H): 32 x 57 x 20 mm

Weight w/battery: 210 g

Available colours: Mocha and red
LCD display size: 800 x 352
Operating system: Symbian OS

Max. talktime (in hours): 5 hours

Max. standby time (in hours): 336 hours

Internal memory: 128 MB

Expansion slot(s): TransFlash / microSD

Included accessories:
Charger AC-4, Headset HS-47
Other Features
Additional functions
Built-in GPS navigation

Maximum camera resolution: 3.2 megapixels

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The first cam is VGA, 30 fps video recording and a 5MP shooter with Carl Zeiss lens and auto-focus, similar to the N95. However, the N82 packs an awesome XENON flash for ultra-brightness.

Full Specs:

• Dimensions: 112 x 50.2 x 17.3 mm
• Weight: 120 g [Target]
• Memory: Up to 100 MB in-build, support for hot swappable MicroSD card (1GB in-box)
• Talk time: GSM: 280min, WCDMA: 180min (Target)
• Standby time: GSM: 270hrs WCDMA: 250hrs (Target)

Display Specification

• Main Display: 2.4″QVGA 240×320, 16M colors

Camera Specifications

• 5MPix, Autofocus, up to 20 x digital zoom. Real Xenon flash. Integrated camera protection
• Secondary camera: CIF

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The Nokia N810 is powered by Maemo Linux based OS2008, featuring a highly customizable user interface and contains various novelties such as a Mozilla based browser with Ajax and Adobe Flash 9, Bluetooth headset support as well as enhanced video and audio features. The Mozilla browser provides access to all web sites a standard web browser would provide access to, including sites like Facebook and Youtube.

A built-in media player supports 3GP, AVI, WMV, MP4, H263, H.264, MPEG-1, MPEG-4 and RV (RealVideo) video formats, as well as MP3, WMA, AAC, AMR, AWB, M4A, MP2, RA (RealAudio) and WAV audio formats. The media player provides direct access to shared media over Universal Plug and Play (UPnP). Nokia claims a music playback time of 10 hours; continuous usage (display on, wireless LAN active) of up to 4 hours; always online time of up to 5 days; and standby time of up to 14 days.

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The Nokia N82 will apparently sport a 5 megapixel camera (whether it’s the same as the N95 camera remains to be seen), WiFi and Bluetooth with A2DP connectivity, 3G support, and a respectable 320 x 240 resolution TFT display. Sounds like a fun phone for the well heeled more than anything else. It will be missing a GPS navigation system though, but expect other multimedia functions to remain intact. The Nokia N82 is slated for a Q4 release later this year at a yet undisclosed price.

It may come to the US at some point, but again, all those details are sketchy at this point. Just sit back and stare at how small a phone with a 5-megapixel camera can be.

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Nokia is the leader on the world cellular phone market. However after iPhone release, Nokia marketologs instantly has decided to start developing of similar to iPhone cellphone. Nokia N98 has been sighted on the net and will be released really soon according to Nokia France specification sheet. Despite it’s earlier claims that iPhone is no threat to lucrative NSeries smartphone multimedia computer business, Nokia was really frightened by it and started scrambling for an answer literary the next day.

Here are the specifications of the soon-to-be-released phone:

• 7.2 mega pixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens
• 5x optical zoom (20x with digital)
• 3.5″ inch touch screen
• integrated GPS receiver
• integrated TNT receiver (Télévision Numérique Terrestre – this is what French call digitally broadcast TV channels)
• Symbian S70 3rd edition
• 3D graphics accelerator
• bluetooth
• Wi-Fi (b,g,n)
• HSDPA
• video recording at 720×576 and 30fps
• Multimedia support

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