Nokia and Clarion announced about their future cooperation over a project of Terminal Mode. This feature has a goal of making the mobile device and car infotainment system to collaborate in a best possible way. This is going to be the third cooperation with such a giant company for Nokia. The earlier deals include Alpine and Harman.

All of this is going back to the project CE4A when Nokia was cooperating with German Automakers. This means that the actual idea to make the new application into a reality is the toughest goal for Nokia now. The bad thing about this all that there’s no actual product to have a look out. Hopefully the Clarion cooperation will be more fruitful.

The camera of the device Nokia N8 leaves no doubt when having a look at the photos taken my the camera.  This makes it to be considered one of the best Nokia phones so far. But most of the photographs taken by the camera of Nokia N8 were made at a sufficiently bright light. So evaluation of the quality of the smartphone camera was pretty hard.

For that main purpose we offer to have a better look at all of it. This portion of images were made in the most extreme low light conditions. As we can judge from the images they have a pretty high quality. Although there’s a little bit of blur on them all, which was also present in case of the normal lighting and is typical for most of the Nokia phones.

Recall that in the Nokia N8 is a 12-megapixel camera with Autofocus, Xenon flash, Carl Zeiss optics and multiple shooting modes.

Well, the photos taken are quite impressive. Feels like Nokia finally got the best camera ever!

Great news for the European Nokia users! It became clear that Vodafone is going to turn into the mobile operator which will soon start shipping Nokia C3 to the UK. And this is only the first part of the surprise. The second fact is that buying the new device and signing a contract with the company the user can enjoy 250 MB of traffic free of charge to on the postpaid tariff plans.

The popularity of Nokia C3 has already been confirmed with the beginning of sales of this phone in Indonesia. Some of the analysts considered the success of the gadget in this country to be competitive with the sales of iPhone.

Vodafone will offer the phone in two color options – pink and bluish-gray. And the best thing is that this gadget will cost only 118 dollars.

The Senior Manager of the Symbian Foundation, responsible for the output, Mark Skrebels in his Twitter account announced the completion of the work for the Symbian ^ 3operating system.

He noted that the functional part of the new OS is fully completed. Now the company will begin work to address various bugs. In doing so, it will help testers of the cellular operators, manufacturers and developers.

It is likely that this step will not take too much time. Because, as we know, quite soon should see the first smartphones based on Symbian ^ 3 – Nokia N8 in the market.

With regard to the release of SDK, in the end of July we will have many new alpha versions of the SDK for Symbian ^ 3. The beta version of the SDK will appear in August, and the final version will be available in October.

What? As we all remember the top manager of Nokia Anssi Vanjoki announced only recently that next year all Nokia phones will support NFC. But the thing is that it turned out to be a wrong info!

Anssi Vanjoki didn’t mention that the NFC will appear on all phones of the Finnish company, as reported by many sources including ourselves. In fact, he had in mind that “next year NFC technology will be included in the portfolio of smartphones based on Symbian ^ 4″. This means that firstly we have to wait until the actual release of the new OS, then get some devices running it and then finally get the NFC? Huh. What a disappointment!

Anyways we cannot change anything.In other words, NFC will be used not in all Nokia phones, but only in smartphones based on Symbian ^ 4.

Information on the achievements of the MeeGo development team is being updated periodically, but the emphasis is mainly on the version of the platform for the smartphones. Recently, a video demonstrating the MeeGo interface appear which is designed for tablets. Information is divided into several parts capable of displaying Web and media content.

The platform supports multi-touch function. The implementation of the technology is being shown in the example of image scaling. By default MeeGo supports multitasking, implemented through visualized Task Manager.

In spite of the fact that the presented version of the OS is at the stage of alpha testing, its performance (menu navigation, play movies) raises no objections.

Feels like the rumors do  not stop around the idea whether the Nokia will actually release a tablet PC for the forth quarter of this year or not. The latest rumors have to do with the sizes  and the name of the tablet PC.

Firstly, some believe that the tablet will a 7 inch one, while the others argue in favor of 9 inch. Anyways both of the sides agree on the tablet PC to run on ARM based silicon and MeeGo OS.

The main competitor of the tablet PC for now is going to be Apple with its iPAD.

As for the name of the tablet PC , one of the curious users of the tweeter called it to be Z500 as announced in IntoMobile.

Despite the failure of Nokia to release 6216 classic, which was going to the first phone from the Finnish manufacturer supporting NFC (Near Field Communication), the company does not renounce the idea of using this technology on their mobile phones.

This support will allow smartphone owners to make payments using their mobile devices (such as fare on the subway), and share content with other NFC-devices.On the contrary, in 2011 Nokia smartphones will support NFC, however, as well as SWP (Single Wire Protocol), which will use the NFC through the SIM card.

Nokia is also releasing a set of tools for third-party developers so that they can integrate NFC-functions in their applications for smartphones which is also a cool idea to develop.