Nokia Launches New S60 Email Client
First, acquiring Intellisync in 2005. Then, ended Blackberry collaborations for Nokia E series handset. And now, finally Nokia unleashed their prototype for Email client. The Nokia Email (beta) currently available for the latest S60 3rd edition. For now it is only can be setup for one account, yet probably in the future we can use it to login to multiple accounts.
Nokia Email is currently a free mobile e-mail solution that works with any e-mail account you throw at it (as long as it’s not Hotmail and corporate e-mail - support for those will come at a later date). However, when it comes out of beta testing phase, it will become a subscription-based service, for which you have to pay certain fees depending on which package you choose and what network you’re using it on. Unfortunately, Nokia e-mail only supports the following handsets at this time’s writing: Nokia E51, E61, E61i, E65, E66, E71, N73, N80, N81, N81 8GB, and N95
Is Nokia Collaborating With Zune?
The answer is, yes it is from reliable source. According the source, Nokia as the largest mobile manufacturer is working with Zune team on integration of Zune Marketplace contents.
Nokia thought that instead of creating their own from zero, the company decided to collaborate with Microsoft’s Zune to beat iPhone and iTunes as their common enemies. It is easier and can save Zune (and its Marketplace) from more failure. We knewthat Nokia ahs already have Ovi, but the content, especially in music, is not closer to Nokia’s requirement.
Via: 3Gweek
Nokia Slashed Price up to 10%
Being successful in mobile phone industries, all you have to do is taking an action. This is what happens to Nokia, cutting prices for many of its handsets in July. As said by a European telecom industry source, Nokia which controls 40 percent of the mobile phone market has made the steepest price cutting of up to 10 percent for selected music and media phones, while it made smaller cuts across the portfolio.
The sharpest cutting was in the average retail price of the 5310 and 5610 music phones and the multimedia N81 8GB as it is showed by Nokia’s market data in Finland. On the news, Nokia’s shares have fell and were 2.2 percent lower at 17.39 euros by 1321 GMT, underperforming the 1.8 percent weaker DJ Stoxx European technology index (SX8P). It will put pressure for Nokia’s rivals (as said by David Hallden, an analyst at Cheuvreux) such as Sony Ericsson which almost made no money in the April-June quarter and for the reason of that they have to cut their 2000 employees.
Nokia Looking To Port Ngage Games to Xbox Live Arcade and Playstation Network?
Nokia seems looking to expand their N-Gage games into other platforms. Aki Jarvilehto from Nokia said a panel at Develop Mobile 2008 conference that they are looking into “concepts where we use the same assets for Xbox Live Arcade or PlayStation Online.” Interesting! It is possibly that you can play a game on your phones, save your stats, and then continue laying on the Xbox at your home.
This is cool because it could mean that you can play a game on your phone, save your stats, then continue playing on the Xbox when you get home.
Nokia Closes Its Manufacturing Plant, €1.3 Million Paid
It happens all over the world that people might have experienced losing their job because their company has problems. Nokia plans to close its manufacturing plant which is located in Bochum, the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, . It causes crisis because 2300 employees will be jobless. Before, as said by other source, Germany wants Nokia to pay $6.2 million regarding to its closing. But Nokia agrees to pay just €1.3 million or about $2.04 million to the government of North Rhine-Westphalia, German which is angry because the 2300 employees will be moved to Romania which has lower labor cost.
Via: Engadget
No More BlackBerry Connect Updates for Eseries
Blackberry and Nokia have ended their two collaborations for Nokia E series handset. It must be a bad news for the Business man. New E series such as the E71, E66, etc will not be receiving a working Blackberry Connect application. There are still some options for receiving push (or rather, near-push) email on your S60-powered smartphone, though.
A lovely sentence from Nokia’s Simon Ainslie “RIM are a competitor and have done a reasonable job in a space that is traditionally ours, so it’s no great surprise that we see this as an opportunity to give consumers a proper choice on what email solution they want.”
Nokia Pilot to Launch in September
Feeling Curios? Nokia will hit you around this September and ask for your help. Nokia Pilots will intend to let ordinary people as the customer to test their upcoming devices and services for feedback. No money involved, clean, real-life user generated feedback fun. You better be ready for this!!!!
Nokia is bringing the Nokia Pilot project with motivation and interest to get a broad range of the most relevant feed back in each country to develop the best solution of Nokia products. This program helps users to get involved and share their ideas and suggestions to be developed by the Nokia to make a best products and services possible.
Nokia Aeon Concept is Alive in China
Well, the true Nokia Aeon with all of its technology is still unreachable for us and the company at the present. But what about the Nokia Aeon’s concept? It seems that some people in China have made another phone that duplicate of the Aeon’s concept.
People are already known that in China phones from various brands’ imitation are around. Who’s going to make all the knock-offs of the world if they don’t, right? And don’t worry about them getting in trouble for ripping off Nokia in various ways. Because out there in China, piracy “just works”.
Nokia N78 is now available
American mobile market has a newcomer from Nokia. Finally the latest mobile phone from N-series line up called the Nokia N78 is available. This phone has an attractive look and also attractive features. The Nokia N78 features a 3.2 megapixel camera, Carl Zeiss optics and an integrated A-GPS. The Nokia N78 works on high-speed HSDPA connectivity on the North American 850/1900 MHz networks. With the new Nokia N78 you can enjoy the various services like Nokia Maps and Share on Ovi.
The Nokia N78 has the inclusion of a free three-month trial navigation license for the Nokia Maps services that offers various different points of interest. The Nokia N78 equips a digital music player as well as an integrated FM transmitter. It allows you to store up to 8GB of music and comes with a microSD memory card. It lets you easily share your music collection.
Nokia Buy Symbian!
This is HUGE! Nokia, number one phone maker has been using Symbian for many, many of their phones. They make Symbian as the world’s most populous smartphone platform. Recently, they have about 47, 9 percent of Symbian share. But that’s not enough, so Nokia announcing that they’ll be acquiring the remaining shares of Symbian that they don’t already own to fully control the Symbian operating system.
Other Symbian Foundation members include Texas Instruments, Vodafone, Samsung, LG, and AT&T (yep, the same AT&T that currently sells precisely one Symbian-based phone), so things could get interesting. The move clearly seems to be a preemptive strike against Google’s Open Handset Alliance, LiMo, and other collaborative efforts forming around the globe with the goal of standardizing smartphone operating systems; the writing was on the wall, and Symbian didn’t want to miss the train. Total cash outlay for the move will run Nokia roughly €264 million — about $410 million in yankee currency.
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