The Nokia 6700 is a 5 megapixel camera phone that is the latest Series 40 device by Nokia. The device has some nice specs with an autofocus camera, GPS navigation with Nokia Maps and the Nokia WebKit Open Source Browser which was previously only available for Series 60 handsets.
The device is fairly thin at only 11mm but there is a lot inside it. The device supports both quad-band GSM and tri-band UMTS networks (plus HSDPA up to 10 Mbps). Also built into the device is an accelerometer which for tap-for-clock and turn-to-mute features.
The Nokia 6700 will be shipping with a 1GB microSD card and will be available in the usual metallic colors: Silver metallic, Matte metallic, Black metallic, and Brown metallic.
Expect the phone to retail for 235 euro in Q3 2009.
The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is clearly designed for the music lover who isn’t interested in any other feature. You might say to this person, “would you like QWERTY?” and they’ll just be like “is that a band? Because music is where it’s at.” The 5800 is the world’s first Symbian S60 5th Edition touchscreen mobile phone and Nokia’s first proper attempt at a dedicated touchscreen handset. Although I wouldn’t consider it Nokia’s flagship touchscreen, that is obviously the N97. In any case, the 5800 is shaping up to be a really decent phone.
Are you on Rogers or Fido? Well you may want to save your upgrade because the device roadmap for Rogers and Fido has been leaked. HoFo’s clearskies08 posted the upcoming smartphones for 2009 as well as slides from a corporate presentation. The presentation is a complete snooze but here are the upcoming devices:
* Blackberry 82XX Pearl Flip (3G version of 8220 Pearl Flip but with GPS, WiFi, and video calling)
* Blackberry 9520 Storm (North American 3G GSM bands and 802.11 b/g WiFi)
* HTC Touch 3G
* HTC Touch Pro
* HTC Touch Viva
* Motorola MOTOZINE ZN5
* Motorola Q11
* Motorola VE66
* Nokia N79
* Nokia N85
* Nokia N96
* Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
* Samsung M8800 Pixon
* Sony Ericsson Xperia X1a
* Sony Ericsson C905
Nokia Image Exchange in now available in Nokia Beta Labs. The app is an always-on, always-connected, experimental image gallery that enables users to browse and share images with people they know. With all the camera phone pics going around, it makes sense for Nokia to develop this app. Also, their phones have the best cameras on them. It has been tested to work on the following devices: N95 (all versions), N85, N82, N81 (all models), E71, N76, N78 and Nokia 5320 XpressMusic (as well as many other 3.1 and 3.2 S60 devices). While it has been tested to either NOT work or have some issues on the following: N96, E90, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.
Ah booth girls. I wonder if being surrounded by professionals gives them any incentive to change their career from cute girl with a smile, to cute girl with a smile and a real PR job. I would love to do PR for a company that I actually believed in and loved their product. Actually, it would be even better to do PR for something that was totally intangible. Here are some things I would love to help with public relations, not that they need it:
The Nokia Morph concept phone has been circulating on the internet for quite some time now. The technology, a phone that is transparent and flexible, was seen as something of a very distant future. Well the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have developed a chip that is almost completely transparent.
The chip uses a technology called Transparent Resistive Random Access Memory, or TRRAM, which allows it to be almost completely transparent and therefore satisfying 1 of 2 technical conditions for the Nokia Morph. The company will be focusing its efforts on building said flexible materials meaning the Nokia Morph could arrive to market much faster than anticipated.
During Nokia’s Capital Markets Day, the above slide came up depicting this touchscreen-only device with a pretty fancy UI. The slide got people in a frenzy and everyone was shouting “fake.” Although it’s a mockup, it was designed by Nokia and it serves as insight into where the company is going with handset design and UI. Recently, I’ve been playing with the Nokia E71 and found the option menus to be the most confusing thing since pre-Rosetta Stone hieroglyphics. For example, here is how you delete an email account that you created but no longer use:
Go to MESSAGING, find the EMAIL you want to delete , press options, press SETTINGS, press on E-MAIL, find the EMAIL you want to delete, press option, and than press the DELETE option.
Have you ever seen more redundant button pressing?
Myspace Mobile now offers streaming video, bother user-gen and branded, to mobile. The service will be available for the BlackBerry Bold, Palm, Motorola Voyager, Nokia N95 and the Samsung Instinct. Notice no iPhone? That’s because the iPhone uses a different downloading method that MySpace opted out of in favor of a mobile ubiquitous downloading method.
Slashphone has video of the Nokia N97 getting a live demo at Nokia World 2008. The phone is a nice change from the standard Nokia smartphone. It seems like the HTC Touch Pro had sex with the Nokia E71. The above video is fairly short but it gives you a good idea of what it would be like to use the phone. Any takers?
The Nokia N97 was unveiled at around 3AM EST this morning. It’s got a 3.5-inch, 640 x 360 pixel resistive touchscreen display with tactile feedback. That means that you’re going to have a much better touch screen experience because you can really feel the clicks. The phone is also packing HSDPA, WiFi, and Bluetooth radios, A-GPS, a 3.5-mm headjack, 32GB of onboard memory with microSD expansion (for up to 48GB total capacity), and a battery capable of up to 1.5 days of continuous audio playback or 4.5-hours video. Like most N Series devices, you get a Carl Zeiss lens with 5 MP and 30 fps video capture. Pick one up for €550 ($693) excluding subsidies and taxes some time in H1 of 2009.
