Nokia Phones

After the data about the cooperation of the companies of Nokia and Intel and their fruitful result in the form of Meego and also the fact that Intel itself designated a new platform Atom Z6xx also known as Moorestown, most of the analysts were making guesses that most likely Nokia will manufacture a device based on both products by the end of the year.

But during his interview with The Inquirer Alberto Torres, VP of Nokia, announced that the first Nokian device based on Meego will fuction with the support  of ARM-based processor instead of Intel chip. This surprising announcement leaves a lot of space to make some guesses. Where Intel is planning to use its chip? Maybe on some other Nokian device?

As we all know in the third quarter of 2010 first Nokia phone will appear in the market  with a 12 megapixel camera, working on the new platform Symbian ^ 3. The smartphone will surely be popular, which means that Chinese companies could not miss the opportunity to release their own variation of the device.

The first “clone” is already on sale with the same name  of N8-00 and costs only $ 99. The underlying platform is quite common with the actual one, while the rest of the features are standard for the Chinese devices.

In the case of fake N8 the main specs are the 3, 3-inch resistive screen (instead of the 3.5-inch capacitive one on the original N8), 0, 3-megapixel camera (instead of 12-Mp with HD-video recording), Quadband GSM / GPRS module / EDGE (while the actual phone works in the networks of WCDMA / HSDPA).

While the important features such as GPS, Wi-Fi, TV-Out, HDMI-connector, fast processor and large amount of flash memory are simply missing. Chinese N8-00 comes in a box which includes user manual, USB-cable, headset, charger and two battery capacity of 1150 mAh each.

According to the source unwiredview.com, in early June Nokia X6 – smartphone-based on Symbian operating system- will be available for the South Korean market. We already posted about the main specs of the device, but that was quite a long ago.

Thus let’s recall the main ones. As  Nokia X5800, the novelty will be equipped with a 3.2-inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 360 x 640 pixels. The main features of the gadget  include 3G network standard support, Wi-Fi, 3,5 mm headset jack, 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and Carl Zeiss optical lenses, as well as  a powerful battery, which can provide up to 35 hours of music playback. The cost of the phone in South Korea will be around $ 498. And this is interesting as in other regions the price of the device goes up to $600.

American mobile operator T-Mobile officially announcedthat  its first Nokia device which will function with the support of Ovi Maps 3.0. The new gadget is going to be called Nokia 5230 Nuron.  With the idea of the Ovi map support, it will include pre-installed maps of the U.S., Canada and Mexico which are being most frequently used by the U.S. citizens. As an option it will also allow access up to 180 maps of the other countries.

Like the European version of Nokia 5230, Nuron supports 3G standard communications , has a 3.2-inch touch screen with a resolution of 360 x 640 pixels, full-featured HTML browser, personal and work e-mail, 3.5-mm headphone jack, a  3.2 megapixel camera and a slot for MicroSD memory cards.

Nokia has not yet announced the price of 5230 Nuron, but T-Mobile will sell the phone for around $69.99. Naturally, with a contract for its own services.

According to the Gartner- one of the major analyst firms, during the first five months of the sales, Nokia could sell only about 100 thousand N900 smartphones. According to the experts, the device failed to attract the attention of a wide range of customers and did not affect the positioning of the potential competitors.

The company Nokia itself declined to comment on the data announced by Gartner. The representative of the Finnish corporation only said that the company is quite satisfied with the sales of N900. “Its sales significantly exceeded our expectations” – was said at Nokia.

For comparison, 2, 5 months after the release of Nexus One, there were sold around 135 thousand copies of the smartphone from Google. The experts call this the result simply a disaster. During the same time Motorola has realized 1.05 million models of the smartphone Droid.

Nokia did not remain aloof from the unfolded battles between Apple and Adobe and thus commented on the Flash technology. According to Reuters, the representative of the Finnish company Alberto Torres said that Nokia supports and will support Flash technology.

The  same opinion was also voiced by the head of the Opera Software- Jon von Tetzchner. At the London Open Mobile Summit Forum, he noted that Flash technology is required for the Internet and the mobile browser Opera will always support it.

It is curious that in early May, spokesman Phillip Gronewold from Opera Software announced that the Norwegian company believes that Flash technology has outdated standards, and thus needs to be replaced by something new.

I bet some of your have been wondering for a long time whether the new flagship of Nokia, N8 will have a multi-tasking support. Well, this used to be a secret till now. But only recently the popular video website YouTube presented as a video confirmation of the fact that the smartphone Nokia N8 truly supports multitasking.

The video shows that the smartphone works well with 15 simultaneously running applications. And it handles them carefully without even any hints of any brakes.

However, if you do not believe us, you can check it out for yourself:

It feels like the new flagship of Nokia is causing too much of interest from not only the potential buyers but also the analysts. And what is the most amazing thing about it? The fact that all of the impressions are exclusively positive.

The most recent info together with a list of photos comes from the journalist of my  My Nokia Blog. According to him, the new smartphone is very fast, and the display of the gadget is  simply “fantastic.” The journalist also noted the high quality of the sound of Nokia N8.

Interestingly, until  now Nokia N8  virtually got  no negative feedback. Is this smartphone that good? Let’s wait and we’ll see.

The fact that most of the car users are having a hard time to use mobile device in their car has been bothering both the mobile manufacturers and the automakers. That’s the main reason why Nokia and 5 Top German automakers jointed their forces to create an apps standard for all of the cars.

The working group of the 5 automobile manufacturers consists of Audi, BMW,Daimler, Porsche and Volkswagen, which are creating the so-called CE4A group. The main purpose of the overall work is to create an application which will fit for all the devices and also to make it possible to install it on every single model of cars.

The main advantage for the Nokia is going to be the fact, that it can install its Ovi navigation software into the cars and also get a chance to provide some support to the users with Ovi app store. Thus, the beneficial moments for the company are expected to influence  the sales and  popularity increase among the drivers.

Once more the organization Greenpeace is presenting its ranking, which estimates ecological production process of the world IT-companies. The Finnish company Nokia for the seventh time was recognized as the most environmentally friendly manufacturer. Greenpeace also notes the company Sony Ericsson, located on the second position.

As noted by the Greenpeace, while the rankings, they take into  the account the following parameters: usage of the hazardous substances in the production, the possibility of recycling and processing devices, as well as the impact on the environment.

Among the 18 global electronics manufacturers the worst case with environmentally friendliness was detected in Nintendo. During the six months from the third row to the 14th moved Toshiba, which has not fulfilled the obligations to the exclusion of their products compounding brominated flame retardants and polyvinyl chloride.

In the middle of the list are  the companies such as Philips, Motorola, Apple, Panasonic, Sony and HP.