In a superbly long and detailed review, Krisse reports on a few weeks spent with the very latest Nokia S60 clamshell, the 6290. Marketed as a feature phone, the 6290 shares many of the specs of its Nseries cousins. Are there any gotchas? Krisse also reports on the integration with Nokia Video Manager and on the new features in S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1.
UIQ Technology will shortly be holding two Fast Track Developer events in the USA. There will a mix of commercial and technical sessions, round table discussions and workshops. Additionally we can reveal in AAS podcast 22 that attendees will receive a free phone from one of the two UIQ 3 licensees (likely a M600 or Z8). Read on...
Here is a small gallery of hands on photos of the recently announced Nokia 6120 smartphone. Included are some comparison shots with the Nokia E65 and Nokia N70 (Music Edition) that demonstrate the small proportions of this most recent S60 phone.
NTT DoCoMo today unveiled its FOMA 904i Series and three out of five of these phones run MOAP on Symbian OS. The D904i (Mitsubishi) features an accelerometer, the F904i (Fujitsu) has a tilting screen for Mobile TV and the the SH904i (Sharp) has a 6 colour filter screen for improved outdoors viewing. Each also supports a comprehensive range of services.
The Motorola Z8 has appeared as available for pre-order in the Motorola UK Shop. Although noted as being subject to change the price is listed as £334.95 SIM Free. Also of Z8 interest is a planned £5 million advertising campaign and details of the contents of the UK retail box.
9 months in the making, the Sony Ericsson P990 has finally reached a stage where its firmware can start to be taken seriously. Or so Asri al-Baker writes in his illustrated report, looking below at firmware R5A17. Major improvements are in RAM handling and transitions that can be switched off, though low media volume seems to be something of a drawback. Read on...
Michael Mace, over at his Mobile Opportunity blog, posts the latest Carnival of The Mobilists- a look round some of the more interesting discussion about the mobile space on the internet in the last week. His main thought while looking at all the news? That the mobile space is so diverse there isn't one main thought.
Podcast 21 is now live, by the way, with the Q&A that followed David Wood's talk at the Future Technologies conference last week. The question about whether smartphones were for the mass market fascinated me though - read on for some relevant photos of the current Nokia N95 marketing in the High Street and some thoughts...
Those S60 guys love giving away free games each month. This time round it's JumpShot, a basketball game for S60 2nd Edition devices. Go to S60.com, log in and go to 'My Exclusives'. All previous free games for S60 2nd and 3rd Edition devices are also still available, by the way.
Mobile phones are generally between 50 and 80% recyclable. IntoMobile reports that Nokia plans to extends its phone recycling program as part of the Earth Day celebrations. Read on for the details of the Nokia program and information on more generic recycling programs.
Just to note that Smartphones Show 30 is now live, with a hands-on preview of the Nokia N77 (thanks Rafe), interview snippets with a couple of Forum Oxford speakers (more from these in AAS video podcasts next week), a demo of the Proporta USB Mobile Device Charger and a rant on the subject of touchscreens on smartphones.
Nokia today released their full (and highly detailed) sales figures and financials for Q1 2007. Highlights were almost 8 million Nseries devices sold (a number which should go up for Q2, with the N95 entering the equation) and over one million Eseries communicators. There are lots more stats in the full press release.
The Register reports that VOIP company Truphone is to lodge an official complaint with the UK telecoms regulator OFCOM against phone network operators Orange and Vodafone, over the networks' crippling of the Nokia N95 to remove VOIP functionality. Truphone has a video of the N95's crippling here.
In a superbly long and detailed review, Krisse reports on a few weeks spent with the very latest Nokia S60 clamshell, the 6290. Marketed as a feature phone, the 6290 shares many of the specs of its Nseries cousins. Are there any gotchas? Krisse also reports on the integration with Nokia Video Manager and on the new features in S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1.
9 months in the making, the Sony Ericsson P990 has finally reached a stage where its firmware can start to be taken seriously. Or so Asri al-Baker writes in his illustrated report, looking below at firmware R5A17. Major improvements are in RAM handling and transitions that can be switched off, though low media volume seems to be something of a drawback. Read on...
Podcast 21 is now live, by the way, with the Q&A that followed David Wood's talk at the Future Technologies conference last week. The question about whether smartphones were for the mass market fascinated me though - read on for some relevant photos of the current Nokia N95 marketing in the High Street and some thoughts...
