Nokia Phones

Vice-president of Nokia’s head of sales and marketing  Niklas Savander, responding via Twitter to users’ questions, explaining the reasons for the unwillingness to release Android smartphones. According to him, the mobile platform from Google does not support everything that may be done by Symbian and MeeGo.

It should be noted that on many topical issues concerning the situation of Finnish companies, Niklas Savander preferred to laugh it off, and some of his answers were similar to the slogans of good prospects for Nokia. Nevertheless, some useful information from the unique Twitter-interviews can be learned.

Thus, the representative of the Finnish company said that the first Nokia smartphone running MeeGo will be presented at the end of the year. In this case, Niklas Savander agreed with the statement that the time between the announcement of devices and their release should be reduced.

Senior Representative ofNokia also said that for now the company has no plans to work closely with the U.S. carriers Verizon, AT & T and T-Mobile.

Nokia has been working with GENIVI Alliance for already a long time and there were a few doubts what is going to be the final product of the cooperation. As for now we can witness the latest 1.0 version of IVI (In-vehicle infotainment) platform. Impressive thing.

Recall the Alliance members are a some of the most popular companies as BMW, General Motors,Mitsubishi, Hyudai  and much more. This is not going to be final version yet but rather close to the one.

The main features of the new Meego IVI 1.0 platform are the Fennec browser, Navit navigation and Bluetooth-enabled dialer.

MeeGo operating system became the primary platform for the products from GENIVI Alliance, which creates information and entertainment systems for automobiles. Joint development of Intel and Nokia will be used in cars such as BMW, Renault, Peugeot, Citroen and Hyundai.

” We selected MeeGo as the open source basis for our platform because it is technically innovative and can provide the cross architecture build support we require for out refernces. Working with MeeGo, we expect to establish a solution that effectively meges IVI needs with those of MeeGo target devices categories “, – said President of GENIVI Graham Smethurst.

The platform will be the basis for solving GENIVI Apollo, which will provide an opportunity to use navigation, play videos and music, connect wireless devices and surf the internet in the car.

Thanks to TechnoBuffalo we got another video showing the possibilities of not-yet- announced smartphone Nokia N9. It is interesting that during the testing the device shuts down and the process of restoring its capacities  fails. Journalists believe that the Finnish company managed to remotely lock the prototype of the device.

The first information about the Nokia N9 emerged last week. The prototype is made in the side slider form factor and is equipped with a QWERTY-keyboard. The device is running Symbian, although the commercial version of the device must receive MeeGo.

The last info is rather confusing. The thing is that Nokia N8 was announced to the last device of Nseries running Symbian OS, so what’s going on? The time will make everything clear.

Nokia from Techno Buffalo on Vimeo.

Most of us are familiar with the Symbian-Guru which is presenting lots of news and interesting facts about the latest updates and improvements about the Symbian OS- the main operating system for Nokia.

And now get this- the guy who used to update the blog now decided to quit it. He’s no longer going to make any posts about the Nokian devices! What the hell is going on? He even got a smartphone which is based on Android OS, more specifically Nexus One! Wow!

This news must be rather disappointing for the Nokia fans! Symbian-Guru himself used to be “this Nokia-guy” since 1999. And what now?

Maybe this is one of the reasons why Nokia is planning to shift to MeeGo which is more of a reliable OS?

Let’s say that MeeGo operating system, which is the ideological heir of Maemo is already a month available for installation on a limited number of netbooks. It is now up to the mobile devices. This became obvious with the first screenshots and video demonstration of the interface.

Strictly speaking, the video is not anything particularly interesting and even more exciting. It shows the work of photo album, web browser, address book and typing. Everything works perky, but do not try to guess a phone model – in this case the company generally does not show a specific phone, but just a demo unit with the interface.

Aside from the fact that the symbol is not ideal -man with a square head (clearly inferior to the charisma merry green robot), it is still not particularly say what – there are no miracles. We are waiting for other news and other videos.

Nokia has apparently serious aims to promote the new platform for mobile devices- MeeGo. At one of the conferences on prospects of development, Nokia was spotted on a portfolio wallpaper with a reference to MeeGo.

What could this imply? On the one hand, we may recall that earlier Finnish manufacturer ordered its staff to call up its N-series smartphones simply mobile computers. It is possible that in this case under the “computer” will be understood some new type of smartphone (N900 or some other following model).

On the other hand, “computers” are Tablet PCs, and therefore Nokia can be expected to release devices coming up in the new class of technological involvement.

It seems like Symbian will no longer be positioned by Nokia as the most technologically advanced mobile platform.

Nokia N8, the next flagship smartphone of the Finnish company might be the last device of N-series, based on the Symbian operating system. As it’s told by CNet resource the info became clear by the anonymous source in the Australian branch of Nokia.

In a broader sense, this news means that Nokia will stop producing headliners on Symbian; after all N-series has a specific structure – it is just a line of top gadgets equipped with the latest technological innovations.

The source also says that thinstead of Symbian the devices of N-series will be using MeeGo, the cooperate development of Nokia and Intel. The first smartphone on this operating system should be Nokia N9. Symbian will be used only in X and E series, i.e. models of the entertainment and business solutions. The old Series 40, in turn, will be preinstalled on all phones within these series.

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.

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?