Yes, Nokia’s latest N8 and E7 does use the Symbian^3 OS, but Nokia has said that they’re going to leave it for their low-end lineup budget phones, and their N-series phones will later ditch Symbian for MeeGo. Samsung has also ‘unofficially’ declared their departure from Symbian platform as they had emailed developers that they will close down their Symbian forum and stop support for Symbian phones. Sony Ericsson did not mention it officially too, but we all know what Aldo Liguori, their spokesperson means when he said “we have no plans for the time being to develop any new products to the Symbian Foundation standard or operating system.” Time to say “nananana, hey heyhey, good bye” to Symbian?
How do you show off to the whole world when you are about to launch a new smart phone? Apple does it by making fun of other phones. Well for Nokia, they do it by playing ‘Prince of Persia’ movie on the world’s biggest cinema screen, from their Nokia N8. The screen is at 1,428 square meters, which is barely bigger than the previous record holder of 1,338 square meters. Of course, the N8 wasn’t able to project the Prince of Persia movie all by itself, so Nokia took advantage of the phone’s HDMI output to connect four 140-kilogram XLM HD30 projectors — no doubt another first for a cellphone. Yes, Nokia N8 is great, but I don’t want to show my MP4 on the world’s biggest screen. I only want to watch it at home. Now, why Price of Persia?
Nokia’s N8 is now shipping to those of you who pre-ordered. It may not be the device that’ll make you smash your beloved BlackBerry, iPhone, or Android phone but hopefully the gorgeous specs on paper should be enough to make some decent upsets, and that the significantly enhanced Symbian^3 OS should do some decent tricks to your ‘oh-so-dinosaur-age’ S60. Yes, don’t forget that amazing 12-Megapixel sensor with Carls Zeiss, and the HDMI out. Finally, a ‘somewhat decent’ touchscreen (cross fingers) smartphone from Nokia that you can fool around with your fingers. And not feel ashamed when the lady next to you takes out her iPhone 4. Read more…
Feeling the urge to get that oh-so-tempting iPhone 4 that you still feel sceptical these few months? Well, hold on to that urge for a moment boys and girls. HTC got a video that might convince you to not sign that 2 years contract for the iPhone 4. Here’s a video that compiled all the wonders and whistles of the new Desire HD to a background of soothing music and cutesy visuals, just to convince you that it’s the new smart phone for you. Hit pass the jump, and watch it in 720p for its awesome introduction, and then decide which phone you would want.
HTC Mozart is your Windows Phone 7 from the Taiwanese. This time, there’s a video showing it off how ‘cool’ Windows Phone 7 can be. Specs? 1GHz Qualcomm QSD 8250, 576MB of RAM, 1,300mAh Li-Pol battery, 3.7-inch WVGA Super LCD screen, and an 8 megapixel camera with Xenon flash around the back. Fairly decent for smartphones these days. I’m actually happy that they don’t shove in a huge ass 4-inch screen panel. That’s overkill guys. But I’ve got to admit that the handsome Mozart looks awesomely like the ‘gone-but-not-forgotten’ Nexus One. Have a look at the video below, and I’m very sure you’ll be pretty much convinced that the Windows Phone 7 is going to be very awesome.
It seemed that if you’re eager to get your hands on this much-anticipated touchscreen Nokia these coming weeks, your dreams will be purged. The much-hyped about Symbian^3 phone has been pushed back a few weeks back to October while Nokia makes “some final amends.” Well the good news is that some rumours have been flocking around that the delay will peg till November, so be glad that you don’t really have to wait till THAT long. Read more…
Nokia has shown to the rest of the world their latest software called Espoo, which integrates NFC payments with instant digital receipt uploaded to your phone, instead of a printed copy. Sound very ‘green’ indeed. They also ‘promised’ that their entire smartphone line starting next year will embrace this technology.
Perhaps even cooler, though, the system reads the receipt once it’s back on your phone and makes a note of the product’s return period so that it can remind you when time’s running out, perfect for getting maximum usage out of that N8 before flipping it back from whence it came. If we had to guess, this might be unveiled in full at Nokia World, which just happens to kick off tomorrow. Excited? Well, digital wallet is somewhat very 2008 thought. Hope Nokia can include a Bluetooth-enabled compact receipt printer as an optional accessory.
Acer’s iPad rival has yet to be launched, and they’re already so excited in telling the world that they’re gonna release a new handset with both Windows Phone 7 version and Android version. Known as the Liquid Metal handset (surely not designed and developed by Apple’s liquid metal arm), it might hit stores in the end of October. That’s purely speculations thought. Read more…
We already knew about Samsung’s grand campaigns for escalating its display manufacturing arm in 2011, but now we also have a number to give us a sense of solid numbers: 30 million. That’s how many screens the new Mobile Display fab (set to go live in July) will be able to churn out in a month, which is a vastly superior rate in contrast to the current 3 million maximum. 10 times baby, 10 times. Read more…
Sony Ericsson is now the official mobile handset of the UEFA Champions League, after signing a sponsorship to partner with UEFA last week. Besides leveraging on Sony Corporation’s existing global marketing partnership with UEFA, Sony Ericsson will be integrating a new application which is jointly developed with UEFA.com. Through this partnership, Sony Ericsson will have exclusive rights to distribute news and info of the league, giving fans around the globe greater access to the ‘best football’ league in the world through this specialized mobile application. What’s no mentioned thought is the platform that is based upon, which we assume to be on Android exclusively for Sony Ericsson handsets.
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