• VGA camera
• Video recording and playback
• Pictures can be shared easily via MMS or Bluetooth, or uploaded using the Web browser
• Choose from a selection of stylish photo frames and attach them to your favourite images
• See your pictures more clearly on the full screen viewfinder

Music

• Stereo FM radio
• Record your favourite tracks with this handy radio recorder (region dependent)

Applications and games

• Java™ MIDP 2.0 games and applications

Browsing

• GPRS Web browser
• WAP 2.0

Connectivity

• Bluetooth 2.0 interface
• GPRS: Multi-slot class 10
• EGPRS: Multi-slot class 6

Digital services

• Java and Symbian applications available from the Nokia Software Market

Display

• 128 x 160 resolution TFT colour display

Messaging and email

• Nokia Xpress Audio messaging
• Easy SMS T9 input
• MMS 1.2
• GPRS Web browser
• Instant messaging

Memory functions

• Combo 32 MB Flash, 4 MB SDRAM

Offline and demo modes

• Flight and demo mode

Operating frequency

• UPP8 v.6, Dual-band variants: EGSM 900/1800 (EU) and GSM 850/1900 (US) – EDGE only

Personal information management (PIM)

• Organiser with local calendar, Expense Manager, advanced calculator, Converter II, phone book with space for up to 1,000 contacts, date, time, stop watch and alarm clock.

Power management

• Battery – BL-4S
• Capacity – 860mAh
• Talk time – up to 3.43 hours (GSM)
• Standby time – 419 hours (GSM)

Operation times vary depending on the network and usage.

Ringtones and themes

• MP3 and AAC ringtones
• Themes including, for example, animated wallpapers, and screensavers

Size

Volume:

• 61.79cc

Weight:

• 94.5g
• 75.7g (without battery)

Dimensions:

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Operating frequency

• Dual band EGSM 900/1800

Size

• Volume: 63.5cc
• Weight: 73.2g with battery, 55.4g net
• Length: 109.6mm
• Width: 46.7mm
• Thickness: 12mm

Display

• 65K colour, 128*160, TFT

Imaging

• VGA camera
• TFT colour display
• MMS

Messaging and email

• Email supports POP3, IMP4 and SMTP protocols
• Nokia Xpress Audio Messaging (sends greetings with short voice clips)
• SMS text messages
• MMS messaging with pictures
• Personalise SMS message alerts with your favourite ringtones

Multimedia

• Digital VGA camera with video recorder for pictures and video
• FM radio

Applications

• xHTML over TCP/IP, WAP 2.0
• MMS 1.2 (supports 300KB size)
• Nokia Xpress Audio Messaging
• Java™ MIDP 2.0 applications
• OMA DRM 1.0 smart content download (forward lock)

Connectivity

• Photo and data sharing with Bluetooth 2.0

Browsing

• WAP 2.0 web browser (xHTML)

Personal information management (PIM)

• Powerful organiser with week and month review, and localised calendar
• Advanced calculator
• Converter II (metric/inches, temperature etc)
• Calculator with 10 digits, and square root support
• Analogue/digital clock which can be saved as a screensaver
• Expense manager

Power management

• Battery – BL-5BT
• Capacity – 870 mAh
• Talk time – Up to 6hrs
• Standby – Up to 580hrs

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Physical features, power and memory

Size

• Form: Two-way slider
• Dimensions: 103x50x16.0mm
• Weight: 128 g
• Volume: 76 cc
• Two-way slider with spring assistance mechanism

Display and 3D

• Size: 2.6″
• Resolution: 320 x 240 pixels (QVGA)
• Up to 16.7 million colours
• Active Matrix OLED technology

Additonal display information

• Brightness control
• Orientation sensor
• Ambient light detector

Keys and input method

• Numeric keypad Cover keys (S60 keys, Multimedia key, Send/end keys) Short slide keys (media control/zoom/gaming) Navi™wheel
• Dedicated media/zoom/game keys
• Dedicated camera and volume keysCover keys
• Multimedia key
• Navi™Wheel
• Voice commands
• Intelligent key illumination

Connectors

• Micro-USB connector with mass storage class support, High-Speed USB 2.0
• 3.5 mm AV connector

Power

• BL-5K 1200 mAh Li-Ion battery
• Talk time (maximum):
  - GSM 6.9 h
  - WCDMA 4.5 h
  -VoIP 6 h
• Standby time (maximum):
  - GSM 363 h
  - WCDMA 363 h
  - WLAN 172 h
• Browsing time with packet data (maximum): 5 h 42 min
• Video playback time (maximum): 7 h
• Video recording time (maximum): 2 h 54 min
• Video call time (maximum): 2 h 42 min
• Music playback time (maximum): 30 h
• Gaming time (maximum): 7 h

Memory

• microSD memory card slot, hot swappable, max. 8 GB
• 74 MB internal dynamic memory
• 78 MB internal NAND flash memory

Communication and navigation

Operating frequency

• Quad-band EGSM 850/900/1800/1900
• Automatic switching between GSM bands
• Flight mode

Data network

• CSD
• HSCSD, maximum speed 43.2 kbps
• GPRS class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 107/64.2 kbps (DL/UL)
• EDGE class B, multislot class 32, maximum speed 296/177.6 kbps (DL/UL)
• WCDMA 900/1900/2100, maximum speed PS 384/384 kbps (UL/DL)
• HSDPA, maximum speed 3.6 Mbps (DL)
• WLAN 802.11b, 802.11g
  - WLAN Security: WPA2-Enterprise, WPA2-Personal, WPA-Enterprise, WPA-Personal, WEP
  - WLAN Quality of Service: WMM, U-APSD
  - WLAN wizard
• TCP/IP support
• Capability to serve as data modem

Local connectivity and synchronisation

• Bluetooth version 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate.

Bluetooth profiles:

• Dial Up Networking Profile (Gateway)
• Object Push Profile (Server and Client)
• File Transfer Profile (Server)
• Hands Free Profile (Audio Gateway)
• Headset Profile (Audio Gateway)
• Basic Imaging Profile (Image Push Responder and Initiator)
• Remote SIM Access Profile (Server)
• Device Identification Profile
• Phone Book Access Profile (Server)0
• Stereo Audio Streaming:
  - Generic Audio/Video Distribution Profile
  - Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (A/V Remote Control Target)
  - Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (Audio Source)
• Add-on solutions enable integration into enterprise private branch exchange (PBX) infrastructure
• Digital Living Network Alliance certification
• UPnP support
• MTP (Mobile Transfer Protocol) support
• TV out (PAL) with Nokia Video Connectivity Cable (CA-75U, in box inclusion may vary based on sales package configuration)
• Nokia XpressPrint
• Support for local and remote SyncML synchronisation

Call features

• Integrated hands-free stereo speakers
• Automatic answer with headset or car kit
• Any key answer
• Call waiting, call hold, call divert
• Call timer
• Logging of dialed, received and missed calls
• Automatic redial
• Speed dialing
• Voice dialing
• Fixed dialing number support
• Virbrating alert (internal)
• Side volume keys
• Mute/unmute
• Contacts with images
• Talking ring tones
• Conference calling with up to 6 participants
• Video calling: up to 640 x 480 pixels (VGA), up to 30 fps
• Push to talk
• VoIP

Messaging

• SMS with support for concatenated SMS for long messages
• Multiple SMS deletion
• Text-to-speech message reader
• MMS version 1.2
• message size up to 600kb
• Automatic resizing of images for MMS
• Common inbox for SMS and MMS messages
• Distribution lists for messaging
• Windows Live support (requires download of Windows Live Messenger application)
• Cell broadcast

E-mail

• Supported protocols: IMAP, POP3, SMTP
• Support for e-mail attachments
• Support for e-mail with filtering
• IMAP IDLE support
• OMA e-mail notification support
• Support for Nokia Intellisync Wireless Email
• Support for Nokia Mobile VPN

Web browsing

• Supported markup languages:HTML, XHTML MP, WML, CSS
• Supported protocols: HTTP v1.1, WAP
• TCP/IP support
• Nokia Web Browser with Mini Map
• Nokia Mobile Search

GPS and navigation

• Integrated and separate GPS, A-GPS, and Cell based
• Nokia Maps 2.0 application

Image and sound

Photography

• 5 megapixel camera (2584 x 1938 pixels)
• Image formats: JPEG, Exif
• CMOS sensor, Carl Zeiss optics, Tessar™ lens
• 20x digital zoom
• Autofocus with assist light and two stage capture key
• Focal length: 5.45 mm
• Focus range: 10 cm to infinity
• Macro focus: 10-50 cm
• Dual LED flash
• Flash modes: On, Off, automatic, red-eye reduction
• Flash operating range: 3 m
• White balance modes: automatic, sunny, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent
• Centre weighted auto exposure; exposure compensation: +2 ~ -2EV at 0.33 step
• Capture modes: still, sequence, self-timer, video
• Scene modes: automatic, user defined, close-up, portrait, landscape, sport, night
• Colour tone modes: normal, sepia, black & white, negative, vivid
• Light sensitivity modes: high, medium, low, automatic
• Full-screen viewfinder
• Active toolbar
• Dedicated camera key
• Slide cover for protection and camera activation
• Landscape (horizontal) orientation
• Photo editor on device
• Direct printing to compatible picture printers
• TV out (PAL/NTSC) with Nokia Video Connectivity Cable (CA-75U, included in box) or WLAN/UPnP
• Nokia XpressShare
• Nokia XpressTransfer
• Rotating gallery with Navi wheel support
• Slideshow from gallery with Ken Burns effect (automatic zoom and pan) and 3D sound effect stereo speakers”

Video

• Main camera
• Video recording at up to 640 x 480 pixels (VGA) and up to 30fps
• Up to 8x digital video zoom
• Front camera – Video recording at up to 352 x 288 pixels (CIF) and up to 15 fps
• Up to 2x digital video zoom
• Video recording file formats: .mp4, .3gp; codecs: H.263, H.264
• Audio recording formats: AMR, AAC stereo
• Image stabilisation
• Video white balance modes: Automatic, Sunny, Cloudy, Incandescent, Fluorescent
• Scene modes: automatic, night
• Colour tone modes: Normal, Sepia, B&W, Negative, vivid
• Clip length (maximum): 1 h 30 min
• RealPlayer
• Video playback file formats: .mp4, .3gp; codecs: H.263, H.264
• Video streaming: .mp4, .flv, .vmw
• Landscape mode video playback
• Video calling: up to 640 x 480 pixels (VGA), up to 30 fps
• Video ring tones (3 built-in tones)
• TV out (PAL/NTSC) with Nokia Video Connectivity Cable (CA-75U, included in box)
• Video editor on device
• Online album/blog: photo/video uploading from gallery
• Rotating gallery with Navi™ wheel support
• Real time video sharing to another compatible mobile device
• Video sharing support (WCDMA network services)

Music and audio playback

• Nokia Nseries digital music player
  - Playlists
  - Equaliser
  - Selection by artist, album, composers and genre
  - Album graphics display
  - Skins
• Music playback file formats: .mp3, .wma, .aac, eAAC, eAAC+
• Audio streaming UPnP
• music streaming
• Dedicated music keys
• Dedicated volume keys
• FM radio 87.5-108 MHz with RDS support
• FM transmitter 88.1 – 108 MHz
• Visual Radio support
• 3.5 mm stereo headphone plug
• Nokia Music Player
• Nokia Music Manager
• Nokia Music Store support
• Nokia Podcasting support
• Ring tones: mp3, aac, AAC+ 64-tone polyphonic, AMR, WMA
• 3D sound effect stereo speakers
• Integrated stereo speakers
• Synchronise music with Windows Media Player
• Navi™ wheel support

Voice and audio recording

• Voice commands
• Voice dialing
• Voice recorder
• Audio recording formats: AMR, AAC stereo and WMP
• FR, EFR, WCDMA, and GSM AMR
• Digital stereo microphone
• Text-to-speech

Personalisation: profiles, themes, ring tones

• Customisable profiles
• Ring tones: mp3, aac, AAC+ 64-tone polyphonic, AMR, WMA
• Video ring tones
• Themes:
  - wallpapers
  - screensavers
  - ring tones
  - pre-installed themes
  - icons
  - changeable colour themes

Software

Software platform and user interface

• S60 3rd edition, feature pack 2
• Symbian OS version 9.3
• Active standby
• Voice commands
• FOTA (Firmware update Over The Air)
• Multimedia menu
• Navi™ wheel support
• Automatic UI rotation

Personal information management (PIM): contacts, clock, calendar etc.

• Dynamic memory
• Advanced contacts database: multiple number and e-mail details per contact, contacts with images
• Support for assigning images to contacts
• Support for contact groups
• Closed user group support
• Fixed Dialing Number support
• Clock: analogue and digital, world clock
• Alarm clock with radio as alarm sound
• Reminders
• Calculator
• Calendar with day, week and month view, up to 1500 entries
• Converter
• Written notes
• Voice notes
• Active notes
• To-do list
• Personal Information Management, Calendar, Contacts and To-do list
• PIM information viewable during call

Applications

• Java™ : CLDC 1.1, MIDP 2.1, PDA (JSR 75), Java APIs for Bluetooth (JSR 82), Mobile Media API 1.1 (JSR 135), Mobile 3D Graphics API for J2ME 1.1 (JSR 184), Wireless Messaging API 2.0 (JSR 205), Scalable 2D Vector Graphics API for J2ME (JSR 226), J2ME Web Services Specification (JSR 172), Security and Trust Services API for J2ME (JSR 177), Location API for J2ME (JSR 179), SIP API for J2ME (JSR 180), Advanced Multimedia Supplements (JSR 234), Nokia UI API
• Adobe Flash Lite 3.0
• Windows Live support (requires download of Windows Live Messenger application)
• Nokia Web Browser with Mini Map
• Quickoffice (Quickword, Quickpoint, Quicksheet)
• Adobe Reader
• Zip Manager
• Nokia applications:
  Nokia Maps
  Nokia N-gage
  Nokia Photos
  Nokia Download!
  Nokia Mobile search
• Adding more applications:
  - Use the Download! Client
  - Visit www.S60.com to download free applications to your S60 device
  - Visit Nokia Software Market
  - Visit www.mosh.nokia.com to download free applications to your S60 device
  - Download Mosh client from Download! and use it for downloading more applications

Gaming

• Included try and buy games, full licence for one of the list:
  -Asphalt 3
  -Hooked On: Creatures of the deep
  -Worlds series of poker
  -Block breaker deluxe
  -Tetris
  -Space impact
  -System Rush
  -Brain Challenge
  -Mile High Pinball
  -Snakes Subsonic
  -Sims 2: Pets
  -FIFA 08
  -Midnight pool
  -Reset generation
  -Bounce
• N-Gage application included
• Dedicated game keys
• Portrait and landscape view gaming

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The Cloud evolved from an indoor hotspot provider into the number one wireless broadband network in Europe. In addition to thousands of indoor locations, they also provide extensive outdoor coverage in cities across Europe like London, Amsterdam and Stuttgart.

Recent news from The Cloud is that leading food retailer Pret A Manger (Pret) has announced plans to deliver free WiFi access to 130 of its UK shops.

The Cloud has expanded to Germany, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands and Norway, and is actively looking for further expansion opportunities.

The company looks for partnerships with the world’s leading telecommunications operators, device manufacturers and broadcasters to deliver a world class wireless broadband experience for those on the move.

The Cloud is great for mobile phone users looking for Mobile WiFi Hotspots – and remember these are FREE WiFi hotspots.

There are two 24-month tariffs available depending upon the iPhone you want:

- For a Free 8GB iPhone 3G is £34.26 per month.
- For a Free 16GB iPhone 3G is £44.05 per month.

Both of these tariffs will be available from 3 April 2009 and customers will be able to enjoy access to over 9,500 public Wi-Fi hotspots, courtesy of The Cloud and BT Openzone. If you are not willing to sign up to these two year contracts O2 have kept their 18-month mobile phone contracts available for £44.05 for the 8GB iPhone and £73.41 for the 16GB version.

You will be able to get your hands on these deals on the iPhone 3G from O2, Apple and The Carphone Warehouse.

We are now in the “James Bond” era of mobile phone gadgets with this latest mobile phone watch. As it is a watch users will of course be able to tell the time, but in addition to this they will be able to make and receive calls via the phone that can be paired to a Bluetooth headset. Even better you can send and receive SMS and MMS messages from your wrist on its 1.5″ TFT screen.

The new sWap wrist watch mobile phone can do even more, as it is a music player too supporting a variety of formats including MP3, MIDI, WAV, AAC and MP4 files. And there is more! The sWap mobile phone also has a 1.3-megapixel camera that can be used to snap pictures and record videos.

A British company Astera3D has taken a step in the right direction by producing online 3D rotating images, as per the one below:

By clicking on the rotate buttons you can look at the phone from any angle so that you can see how the phone looks. by playing with the buttons at the bottom of the image you can even remove the back cover and see how the battery removal works – so instead of trying to work this out over the phone with customer support lines, you will be able to see it in action yourself.

The technology works by using a series of photographic images spliced together in a movie and it works great – so maybe the playing field between online mobile phone retailers and the high street has been levelled a bit more.

The company said 303 million phones were shipped worldwide in the quarter, up 5% on the same period in 2007.

Nokia remained by far the biggest manufacturer, producing 117.8 million mobile phones.

Apple overtook Blackberry-maker RIM for the first time to be the sixth biggest handset manufacturer.

BIGGEST SELLING HANDSET MAKERS
1, Nokia
2, Samsung
3, Sony Ericsson
4, Motorola
5, LG Electronics
6, Apple

Samsung took the number two spot, selling 51.8 million handsets.

Strategy Analytics blamed the slow growth on sluggish sales in developing markets such as China, India, Russia and South America.

It predicts the growth rate will remain at 5% in the final three months of the year with 345 million units sold.

The figures came on the day that Motorola posted a three-month loss of $397m (£242m), blaming continuing problems in its mobile phone division.

News reported by The BBC

Nokia said its market share was shrinking, ticking in at just 38 percent in the third quarter from 40 percent in the previous three-month period and from 39 percent in the third quarter of 2007.

Net profit in July through September plummeted to 1.09 billion euros ($2.7 billion), from 1.56 billion euros a year earlier. Net sales dropped 5 percent to 12.2 billion euros ($16.6 billion), from 12.9 billion euros.

Last month, Nokia had warned that its market share would drop because of price cuts by competitors, but said it would not change its strategy.

“We said we would not participate in the aggressive pricing competition in the third quarter and I believe that the decision was correct and will repay us in the long run,” Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said.

Despite the global financial meltdown, Nokia said it expects sales to increase in the final quarter, with a possible slight gain in market share. It repeated its estimate that the overall industry will grow 10 percent in 2008, reaching 1.26 billion cell phones sold by the end of the year.

Nokia said it would continue to focus on providing Internet services for its mobile customers, including music, navigation services and games on handsets. This month it launched Comes With Music, which provides millions of tracks for download onto Nokia handsets, and introduced its first touch-screen phone in years, the Nokia 5800, in a challenge to rivals such as Apple’s iPhone.

News reported by mobiledia.com, 17 October 2008

But first things first, the G1 is not really a Google-manufactured phone, like the iPhone is a genuine Apple product. The first G1 mobile handset is actually an HTC mobile phone powered by Google’s Android mobile platform and will be released through T-Mobile network. But since Google is the more popular market brand, it is but fitting that people call the phone the Google Phone. The HTC-Google phone is just the first mobile phone which will have the Android as its OS. Who knows which other mobile phone manufacturers are going to join the bandwagon as soon as they’ve found out how successful or not the first Google Phone would be. The G1 is up for release on October 22. Words on the streets say that there were already 1.5 million pre-orders for the unit. If that figure is true, well the G1 might be on the road to success then.

While those who have pre-ordered the G1 awaits the shipment on October 22, some lucky tech geeks have already had their first taste of the G1 as early as last week. And the whole week, we’ve seen several of them writing out their initial impression of the Google phone. We’ve rounded some of these reviews of the Google Phone to help you gauge whether the Google phone is worthy of your money, is worthy of the monicker iPhone killer and is worthy of the attention that it is getting right now.

Om Malik pointed out immediately that the G1 is certainly not an iPhone killer. The G1 lacks the sophistication of the iPhone touch screen features. But nonetheless he also pointed out that the G1 is certainly smartphone which fulfils what a mobile phone should do. Something which the iPhone failed to accomplis.

CrunchGear’s Peter Ha on the other hand was not very pleased with the Android as an OS and contends with the fact that the Android is still in beta stage. Hence, it is not yet a powerful and robust mobile phone OS. But he nonetheless pointed out that the G1’s hardware would have to be the one to pull off the success factor for the G1.

The Boy Genius Report wrote a very comprehensive review of the phone and pointed out that users will love the G1 for as long as they what it is. It is not a BlackBerry, nor a Sidekick but an adult Sidekick phone.

Lifehacker’s Gina Trapani also got her hands on the G1 and said that she will never trade her iPhone for the G1 for reasons such as; the device bulky form factor, T-Mobile’s 3G coverage in her area which renders the G1’s GPS utterly useless, the inability of the phone to handle multiple Google accounts. But she also praised the G1’s fast mobile web browser which is as robust as the iPhone’s Safari browser, the copy and paste functionality which we all missed on the iPhone and customizable keyboard shortcuts.

Gizmodo also has a comprehensive review of the G1 and declared that it is not a finished product yet. He pointed out that there are only three working Google Apps so far – Gmail, Maps and Calendar. Bottomline is, according to Gizmodo, still depends on users’ preferences. The phone is definitely better than other smartphones available in the market today. Hopefully more Google apps will be ported as well as more third-party apps will be developed.

Walt Mossberg of All Things Digital thinks that the G1 is a very good first effort and a godsent for people who prefer physical keyboard. He also pointed out the inferiority of the G1’s user interface as copared to the iPhone, particularly the lack of ability to flick between multiple pictures and web pages or to zoom in and zoom out of a photo or web page.

Suzanne Choney of MSNBC immediately noticed the striking resemblance of the G1 with that of the iPhone particulary the black-slab form factor. But she pointed out that Google has done a good job of making the phone one of the easier-to-maneuver touchscreen smartphones, thanks to the Google Android platform. She thinks that the G1 is not as fluid and simple to use as the iPhone but it will be a popular alternative for those who don’t like the iPhone or AT&T as their wireless carrier.

Reported by cellphonenews.com, October 18, 2008