Mobile Experience Enhancing Accessories Arrive At Nokia World
Published by Ewan Spence at 10:07 UTC, December 3rd 2008
While not directly S60 powered, the accessories announced at Nokia World yesterday certainly would sit happily alongside any smartphone. With a focus on 'enhancing the mobile experience,' the Finns presented a Home Music Station, the Internet Stick and the Nokia Extra Power DC-11.
Nokia Home Music Station
This actually looks like a very cool piece of consumer electronics, and one I'm interested in getting myself. It's an internet enabled radio, allowing traditional FM broadcasts to be picked up, but also streaming radio stations and podcasts. It is also a UPnP device which means libraries on your home computers (and your smartphone) can be played on the device.
Nokia Internet Stick
Potentially coming to the game a little bit too late, the Internet Stick is a USB dongle allowing computers to get online using a 3G mobile network. I think this is more a play to make sure carriers buy Nokia in as many areas as possible, and not necessarily something for the end consumer to pick up.
Nokia Extra Power DC-11
An external battery pack that can be used to recharge your mobile phone when out and about, as well as allowing you to charge two devices at once when at home.
Nokia Home Music (l), Internet Stick (c) and Extra Power (r)
There's more information on these via Nokia's Bulletin site.
Categories: Hardware, Miscellaneous
Platforms: General, S60 3rd Edition
News Discussion
PC's seem the best uPnP servers available but carry larger price and power consumption. I'd rather see a useful and practical powerefficient and cheap uPnP server that I could use to share and stream photo, video and music to my PC, Nokia mobile phone and PS3 to within my home. For now I have solved the issue with a ultracheap bluetooth A2DP capable netbook. yet it begs to be used for more instead of being the multipurpose musicplayer I wanted. Making my N800 feeling a bit depreciated nowadays.
I've only played with UPnP a little, with Orb on my Windows PC and Boxxee on OSX, Apple TV, and Canola 2 on the N810. I find SAMBA more reliable, but harder to set up.