Apparently Nokia is coming out with a device to compete with the plethora of touch screen super smartphones on the market. Nokia execs have been bragging that the Internet is completely in the dark about this upcoming device and it’s going to blow our socks off. Although I will be dead asleep when the device is announced, 3:15AM EST, I’ll be sure to report first thing tomorrow morning. You can also go to Nokia’s page where they have a clock counting down until the news breaks. What do you think it will be? Personally, I think it’s going to be the new touch screen Communicator (pictured above).
It turns out Nokia is abandoning ship and leaving Japan. The company is having problems keeping up with the turnaround and custom nature of devices in Japan and will therefore stop selling them entirely. The Nokia model of taking your time to perfect a device and slowly releasing devices just doesn’t cut it over there. In Japan, it seems you need to be constantly releasing new devices with new features and catering to each little trend that emerges. I suspect the time to market for a device in Japan is a matter of a month. Although the above video has nothing to do with the story, it’s a good video from a Japanese blogger I really like. He explains how to populate your RSS feeds with Japanese blogs. Something that, if you did, you’d already know about this story.
I am a definition gadget whore. I will sell out king and country for the latest in gizmos; I guess that makes me more of a gadget traitor.
Last summer around the iPhone craze I upgraded my high-end Sony Ericsson camera phone to the glorious Nokia N95 8GB. I wanted a device that was a real powerhouse feature-wise without making me look like an obvious iPhone turbo-nerd. Things have been going well for the device but I was starting to long for something with better text entry than the hardly-predictive T9. Who has ever used “shiv” in a text message, I don’t think I’ll ever know. Continue reading this simple guide to getting your BlackBerry Bold carrier subsidized
The E63 is Nokia’s latest slim smartphone. It’s been getting a lot of attention online and peaked back a few weeks ago when spy shots were released on the Internet. This week, the E63 was officially unveiled and can now be seen on Nokia’s official site.
The E63 is Nokia’s enterprise device. It packs 3G, quad-band, GPRS, EDGE, Wi-Fi, A2DP Bluetooth, Infrared, QWERTY keyboard, Navi-wheel, 2MP camera with flash and video and a MicroSD card slot with a capacity of 8GB maximum, plus 110MB of internal memory.
The E63 will be a great alternative to those wishing to use a Symbian OS and don’t have the budget for the E71.
Nokia Friend View has been made available on Nokia Beta Labs today. The app is a combined location and micro-blogging application. The application automatically launches your GPS and allows you to share it with your friends. You can also post updates, change your status and blog about your feelers. To set it up, you’ll need to get a Nokia Account and get your hands on a S60 3rd Edition phone.
Remember, if this is the sort of thing you enjoy and have a BlackBerry, I recommend Vayoo.
Scott Foe is the producer of Nokia’s Reset Generation, a mobile game with the biggest budget in mobile gaming history. He’s been in the business a long time and has some great insight into what works in mobile gaming. At the Nokia Games Summit 2008, he talked about the future of mobile games and it’s difficult to disagree with him.
Foe believes the future of mobile gaming lies in connectivity and bringing together platforms. “What if one player was playing a match the colours puzzler in which he’s able to power up a friend playing a shooting game – the gameplay is connected but they’re not doing the same thing.” Cool idea huh? It has a social aspect as well as a gaming which is truly the future of the industry. It’s a good business model because it promotes data and new dowloads as well as it provides a social framework to perpetuate gameplay. I’m looking forward to Foe’s next project if this is what he has in mind.
Originally called “ONE: Who’s Next?”, ONE is a slick looking 3D vs fighting game for the N-Gage platform. Although the graphics look great, the first thing that comes to mind is how are the controls? Fighting games require a ton of user input and this kind of interface just doesn’t work for mobile.
According to an AANG review, “you are always conscious of where your thumbs are and what you want to press.” Apparently the reviewer hit the menu button a few times. That’s probably the most frustrating thing to experience in a mobile game. Not sure if we’re ready for this type of button mashing but the game still looks awesome.
The N85 sits somewhere between the N79 and the N96. The N96 is obviously the current flagship phone for Nokia right now, but if you want something with great media capabilities but don’t want to drop the money for the higher N Series phones, the N85 is just right for you. The N85 even has a couple features that the N96 could learn from.
Here are some quick specs and facts:
OLED screen which gives better color and contrast as well as reduces power consumption
FM transmitter
The latest v9.3 Symbian operating system is fast and capable.
MicroSD card slot ready for a card up to 8GB in size
Assisted GPS for faster location times and geo-tagging of your pictures.
3G and supports 3.6Mbps HSDPA, but it also has EDGE and GPRS to back it up.
The guys who make mobiPad have come out with a cool product demo video! I wrote about these guys a while back when I was judging for Mobile Content 2008. I can’t remember if I heard about them through the awards, or just at the same time. Either way, they should have been at the awards. I would have voted them right to the top.
Using mobiPad, you can control your entire mobile phone with the game controller of the Nintendo Wii. Use it to play games or as a remote control for the media player on your Symbian S60 or UIQ device (N95, P1i, P990) - the wireless gamepad is always an ergonomic way to interact. You can finally play standard games on touchscreen devices and no longer have to worry about buttons that are close together - and all this without buying a dedicated mobile games controller that you could not use for anything else!
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