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 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
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.
Qik, Stream Videos from Your Cell Phone to the Internet!
Nowadays you can stream your videos LIVE and directly to your friends to the internet anytime and anywhere with Qik, only from your cell-phone. Be the first eyewitness, capture these first steps, and whip your own streaming video blog or maybe make it as your camcorder to capture entertaining and special moments.
Qik supports video streaming on many Nokia S60 phones or several phones running Windows Mobile. You will need Data Plan from your service provider as video streaming to consume a considerable amount of bandwidth
Nokia to Provide Internet-Based Services in Indian rural area
The myth about the lateness of mobile phones usage in rural area had been proven to be wrong. In fact, mobile phones are a big hit there. To answer this trend, Nokia has revealed that they will launch a campaign to target this market.
Nokia President and CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo say that the company is working on internet-based services for the rural market soon. It is reported that they are working on micro-finance, distribution, and even agricultural services for the rural market as well.
Nokia Morph in Live Pictures
Nokia Morph! What a decent name… By the way, thanks to our buddies at the 3gweek, we can now see the live pics of the morph. As you can see, it is quite something, huh?
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.
New Nokia Patent
This new Nokia patent must be one of the weirdest cellphone patents recently. How this crazy phone exactly works? As you can see in the picture above, this concept employs something called a Jacobs Ladder flipping hinge arrangement. The interesting thing is that piece of movable material (called the ribbon in the patent) that you see in between the screen and the keypad. According to the patent, the phone will have two User Interfaces, depending on the position of the ribbon. In the first position, the device acts like a phone while in the secod position, it reveals a camera module (placed on the back) and the UI changes to one suited for operating a camera.
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