Check out this video sample captured on the upcoming Nokia N8, shot in 720p. Just raw from the phone with no enhancement or editing.
Nokia N8 sample video from Nokia Conversations on Vimeo.
The long wait of Nokia's first Symbian^3 OS platform is here, introducing Nokia N8.
The biggest features on the Nokia N8 is it's 12-megapixel camera of Carl Zeiss optics paired with Xenon flash. Nokia N8 is the successor of the Nokia N82/N86 8PM, features good & high quality camera. The optic of N8 substantially larger sensor than any ever used in any other Nokia device and even bigger than found in digital cameras.
High Definition 720p with 25 fps video recording were features as well built-in together editing suite on the device itself. HDMI connector is made are available for TV-out to any HD devices such as HD-TV/Monitor to share your photos & video with friends and family in superb quality accompany with Dolby Digital Plus surround for pleasure entertainment.
As for the screen, it has a large 3.5" HD (640 x 360 px) capacitive touchscreen that supports multitouch input as well as touch gesture of flick scrolling and pinch-to-zoom on photos. Up to 3 customisable home screens for widgets, themes, shortcuts, icons and menu that can be flicked through by a swish.
The new 2D and 3D graphics architecture in the platform has been improved for faster and more responsive UI by greater memory management and a visual task manager.
Social networks are visible in phone contacts such as Facebook, Twitter, Ovi Contacts and more enable communication between friends & family closer.
Not to be missed out, the Nokia N8 comes with free global Ovi Maps walk and drive navigation with support more than 70 countries worldwide.
Storage has never be a problem for N8 with 16GB internal memory and expandable up to 48GB with a 32GB microSD card.
Nokia N8 will be Nokia's first smartphone to be integrated with Qt that simplifies the development and makes it possible to build applications once and deploy across Symbian & other software platforms.
The Nokia N8 will be suited with anodized aluminium casing come available in 5 colours Silver White, Dark Grey, Orange, Blue & Green. N8 will be expected start shipping in the 3rd quarter of 2010 with cost of €370 before tax and subsidies.
Check out the promo video of the new Nokia N8;
Size
The existing of “netbook “in the market is to have a internet mobile computer as handy as possible.
Nokia N900 in a dimension of 110.9 x 59.8 x 18 mm with weight of 181g has almost all of the features and criteria of a netbook.
Voice Call
There is no voice call supported in any netbook in the market yet. It would only have HSPA in-built for mobile internet data.
Nokia N900 supported GSM 850/900/1800/1900 & HSDPA 900/1700/2100, allow it to make voice call as well as internet data service.
Customisable Hydraulic Desktop Screen
N900 can have up to 4 desktop views that customisable according to your like add-on live widgets like Weather Forecast, Twitter/Facebook Status Update, favourites contacts, to-do-list and more.
Touchscreen Input
Although the screen size of the Nokia N900 is small 3.2” but the touchscreen compensate it all. The kinetic scrolling by flick and gesture swirl of zooming made the interaction easier.
Powerful Web Browser
It used browser that powered by Mozilla technology that bring website look the way as in PC, thanks to it Adobe Flash (TM) 9.4 + AJAX supported made online video streaming and interactive run seamlessly.
GPS (Global Position Unit)
It has in-built A-GPS allows you to find locations easily.
Richness with Applications
Nokia N900 runs on Maemo 5 which is a powerful backbone OS, Linux. Maemo is based on open source code that allows developers to create applications easily. Thus a lot applications can be found easily for Nokia N900.
All-in-one Address Book
Social Networking has become a quite tool for us to stay connected with friends and even family. Nokia N900 has these features to merge the contacts’ IM status such as Twitter, Facebook MSN, Skype, GTalk, YM and more.
Battery
Nokia N900 has Li-Ion 1300 mAh battery that can last up to 278 hours (2G) / 250 hours (3G) and a normal netbook would only last you 12 to 24 hours of standby.
Camera
Mobility allows stay connected while you move around and sometime you may found something interesting that you wanted to share. Nokia N900 has a 5mp Carl Zeiss Optic for you to capture and share with your frens in photos or maybe videos.
Booting-up Time
In order to save battery you may have to turn off your netbook and turned it on when you need it. The boot-up time sometime is quite frustrated especially *cough* win *cough* dows *cough*
With Nokia N900 you just need to press the lock screen when you no use it and press unlock to use.
Nokia N900 has almost all the criteria of a netbook and does better that it. Could IMD such as Nokia N900 would kill the netbook's market?
Would you be consider to get a Nokia N900 instead of buying a netbook?
The all time favourite Nokia phone, Nokia 5800 has another new firmware after the previous release of V40 added in the Kinetic Scrolling. This time Nokia has come out with a new firmware that has been ironed up to fully utilise the phone.
Below are the changelog of the new firmware V 50.0.005;
Nokia N86 8MP has a new firmware update and this time consider a major update from V21.006 to V30.009.
Do check for the update via Nokia Software Updater or via FOTA.
These are the changelog applied on the new V30 firmware;
SW improvements and corrections
Today Nokia has announced 3 new phones which are Nokia E5, Nokia C3 & Nokia C6 that packed with full QWERTY keyboards and enable access to multiple email accounts, IMs and social networks.
As you can see here, Nokia has started the trend to have the model in an alphabet along with a number that has started earlier on Nokia X6. I believe from now onward, all the Nokia be will categories in four different classes as below;
C Series = Classic
E Series = Business
X Series = Entertainment & Music
N Series = Highend
Here are some specifications that will be see from the new devices;
Nokia E5
Nokia has released the latest Ovi Maps with free walk and drive navigation for Nokia E71 & Nokia E66.
The released version of Ovi Maps for it isn't getting the offer premium content such as Michelin and Lonely Planet guides that available on range of devices such as the Nokia E72, Nokia N97 mini and the Nokia X6.
Beside that, these two devices will also be the last of S60 3.1 and older devices to sport this version of Ovi Maps, so Nokia N82, N95 and etc won't be getting such free offer.
If you are using Nokia E66 or Nokia E71, get your Ovi Maps with free Navigation now!
Source [BlogOvi]
Recently Nokia Malaysia has just launched a new highend Nseries flagship phone series, the Nokia N900. A new OS platform (Maemo 5) was introduced that can deliver a PC-like experience on a mobile device.
A brief of hardware's specification of the Nokia N900
ARM TI OMAP 3430 Cortex-A8 600MHz ProcessorScreen
OpenGL ES 2.0 support
3.5" 800x480 pixel resolution, TFT Resistive Touchscreen
1GB RAM, 256MB RAM (Dedicated) & 768MB (Virtual)
32GB On-board Memory Storage with expansion microSD memory slot
Integrated A-GPS, WiFi & Bluetooth 2.1 (A2DP Support)
Integrated FM Transmitter & FM Radio
5MP Camera of Carl Zeiss optic with Dual LED Flash
Micro USB 2.0 (Data & Charging)
3.5mm Headset Jack with TV-out Support
BL-5J 1320 mAH battery
