Being a Nokia fan, it was hard for me to keep my hands away from the most anticipated device from Nokia this year, and hence I ended up buying the Nokia N97. So does the Nseries Flagship model live up to its expectations , or does it actually justify all the hype that surround it ? Etc Etc Etc …..

Stay tuned as I will be posting my experiences ( as I have been playing with it for nearly last 3 days ) with this phone. N97 is now available in UAE, and retail for around 2750 AED ( around USD 750 ) .

For those who already bought this phone, wait for two days , a new Nokia N97 firmware release is on cards.

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Update : Its live worldwide

Nokia today has reached another landmark in providing rich mobile experience to its customers. Nokia’s highly anticipated and much awaited Ovi Store has gone live today.

Ovi (which in Finnish language means door ) , the door to Nokia’s internet services was first announced in aug 29,2007 . However, it was expanded to include an online store for  mobile applications, wallpapers, widgets, games etc and hence dubbed as Ovi store.

Download Ovi Store on your Nokia phone

You can download the Ovi Store mobile app by simply selecting the Ovi Store icon in the Download folder on your device. Or you can get to the Ovi Store by simply visiting store.ovi.com on your phone.

Here’s what Tero Ojanperä, Executive Vice President, Nokia Services, had to say about Ovi Store going live today:

“Ovi Store is open for business and we’ve stocked the shelves with both local and global content for a broad range of Nokia devices. Ovi Store makes shopping for content and applications easy and fun for feature phone and smartphone owners alike.”

Mountain of content

As stated earlier by Nokia,  that OVI store might launch with around 25k+ items which may comprise of widgets, wallpapers, ringtones, games, applications etc. The initial launch itself seems overloaded with content.

I was surprised after visiting OVI online store, as under “Recommendations for your phone” ( Nokia N95 8GB) , there were nearly 900 items.

So guys, what are you waiting for ?? Checkout the OVI store and get your Nokia handset loaded with loads of content.

via : nokia conversations

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Wow, and here the news , which every Nokia fan in UAE must be waiting for . The highly anticipated device , the flagship model from Nokia, the Nokia n97 would be available in UAE soon. UAE will be among the first in the world to be offered the Nokia N97, the Finnish company’s new top-of-the-line handset.

We have seen the latest videos of Nokia N97, which has gone through a huge software makeover from time it was released in December 2008. Nokia N97 is the second official S60 5th ed Touch device from Nokia. Nokia 5800 has seen huge success, by selling more than 3 Million devices , the the countries, where it was launched.

Nokia UAE front page is now features Nokia N97, and sooner , “Availabe Now” button will appear.

Price

Price play an important role, but N97’s price range was already declared and would be around Euro 599 which may turn out to be around 3000 AED .

The release of the N97 comes as mobile handset sales are falling at the fastest rate ever recorded. Sales of devices in the first quarter of this year were down 15.8 per cent from the same quarter last year, according to the research firm Strategy Analytics. The slowdown is being felt most strongly in the middle of the market, where consumers are delaying the purchase of new phones, and choosing instead to keep their older handsets for longer.

UAE’s National Newspaper has posted a video walkthrough of the phone, in which it look a little sluggish, might be due to slow processor.

My advice with the awaiting Nokia fan’s would be, to wait for some time after the phone is released, as I am sure, that the price of this phone will drop really fast and also we may get some review with real production unit. S60 5th edition platform is still not bug free and considering the problems I faced with my Nokia 5800, I will prefer to play safe with this device.

The advantage with this device is that , its made for both the segment which like to have a touchscreen mobile , and also the people for whom touchscreen doesn’t matter. The full QWERTY keypad add this advantage to this mobile phone.

Anyways, if I am buying this phone, I will consider the white one .. What about you ??

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via:  the national , Video

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Samsung’s mobile phones portfolio is increasing day by day , and every new addition is touch enabled. These new additions are certainly going to strengthen Samsung’s hold in the most lucrative mobile phone market i.e. India. Samsung has launched Star (S5233) , Star 3G (S5603) and BEAT DJ in India, and all these are very competitively priced under 20k INR. So, after launching high end touch enabled mobile phone like Omnia HD , Samsung is now eyeing the mid range  segment with these mobile phone. All these mobile phones are equipped with Samsung’s TOUCHWIZ UI , which provide a widget enabled touchscreen, providing high level of user customization.

Samsung Star (S5233)

• 3.0-inch WQVGA full-touch screen and Samsung’s TouchWiz User Interface with Mobile Widgets and an accelerometer sensor
• “Photo Contact,” to call a contact by touching an appointed image.
• 3.2 mega-pixel camera with smile recognition
• multi-format playback and Samsung’s DNSe sound engine
• recognition using Shazam’s “Find Music” service
• 50MB Internal memory, expandable up to 8GB via microSD cards
• Google applications like Google Search, Gmail, Google maps; online widgets and photo blogging
• Gesture Control is a new feature added that allows the user to unlock the touch screen or run an application by just giving a gesture command. User can assign alphabets from A to Z to these applications or commands, and just by drawing these alphabets on the idle Homescreen, the program is launched.

Samsung Star 3G (S5603)

• Same features as the S5233 including Gesture Control
• 3G enabled phone,  with full Internet browsing support
• accelerometer sensor for auto-rotation
• 3.2 mega-pixel camera with Power LED Flash and 80MB Internal memory expandable up to 8GB.

BEAT DJ

Samsung’s intuitive DISC User Interface, the BEAT DJ comes fully loaded with Bang & Olufsen audio technology. It was announced in Mobile World Congress 2009 . With the Beat DJ UI , users will be able to add preloaded voice samples and sound effects to their favorite songs and record it. Users can also ‘scratch’ the records by swiping their fingers across the display.

• 2.8-inch AMOLED touchscreen display (240 x 400 pixels with 16 million colors), accelerometer
• 50MB internal microSD card slot (up to 16GB)
• 3MP AF camera, Geo-tagging, Smile Shot, Face Detection
• HSDPA, EDGE
• Bluetooth v 2.1, USB 2.0 (micro)
• GPS with A-GPS
• DivX, XviD, WMV, MP4 playback support
• 3.5mm AV socket, DNSe, SRS Virtual Surround
• FM radio with recording
• 50MB internal memory,  expandable to 8GB with the micro SD card
• built-in real stereo speakers – powered by B&O’s ICEpower amplifier

Beat DJ video

Pricing

Here comes the most important part as we know, behind the success of any handset, price also play a very important role, atleast in India,and, Samsung has taken care of this aspect as well.

STAR (S5233) : INR 11,100

Star 3G (S5603) : INR 14,499

BEAT DJ : INR 18,990

As the price of these full touchscreen phone are very competitive, I think other mobile handsets, which also planned to launch cheap touchscreen mobile phones, are really going to have a tough time in future. Samsung, has already taken a lead in this segment and time is not far, when Samsung will become No.1 mobile manufacturer around the globe.

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Much of you might be knowing , and many might be unaware, Google Chrome is the web browser by Google, which is made possible by Chromium Open Source Project. Even though its long time, that Google Chrome is launched, you can still feel how young it is, once you start using it.

Even with its shortcomings, Google Chrome became my favorite, mainly due to following two reasons :

• Fast Initial Startup , with thumbnail snapshots of most frequently visited websites .
• No space wastage in terms of Menu, BookMark links , titlebar etc , which provide high display area for website content and less scrolling. This also prevent the browser from getting cluttered.

Google has kept the second point in mind while creating the advertisement to display how Clean and Simple Google Chrome is. But the major problem with Chrome is that , its still very far from browsers like Internet Explorer and Mozilla, in terms of perfection . Still, there are many websites, which find it very hard to re-organize themselves on Google Chrome, and you will end up switching to IE or Mozilla . Moreover, in this advert, Google, nowhere states that Chrome is a browser.

Have a look at the video

I wish Google should have started promoting Chrome once its as competent as other browsers .

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How many times have you tried using the SMS shortcuts, to try and limit it to 160 characters. Did that ever made you wonder, that why SMS are only limited to 160 characters? I had the urge to find out many times, but was too lazy to search it on Google, but I always knew it has something to do with Bits and Bytes Math . This really become a must know information as of now , as we have already celebrated SMS’s 15th Birthday couple of years back.

Now, after Giz revealed the real reason why the sms are of 160 character , I found it real hard to digest as according to them

Apparently, it’s because some German dude thought 160 was "perfectly sufficient."

Friedham Hillebrand was a communications researcher who was working with a group on developing a standard for cellphones to send and receive text messages. So he sat down on his typewriter and banged out a bunch of random sentences and questions, counted up the number of characters it took, and decided 160 was the magic number.

I am not sure , whether this is the real reason , but it made me Google a bit, and I found the answer at Mattcopp’s blog. He explained it quite clearly

The issue is that it is a limitation of the GSM system. GSM is the name for the way in which almost all mobile phones communicate. The actual length of a text message is 256 characters or letters (the term characters are more exact because numbers are not letters and neither is % or #).
Now an SMS needs to have contained within itself who sent the message, when it was sent and who it is going too, these are called overheads and take up exactly 96 characters, which is why you end up with 160 characters left. (256-96=160).

On a side note, each character is sent as an 8bit binary number — you know those 1s and 0s everyone is talking about — meaning you have a maximum of 256 types of characters. This gives you just enough room for all upper and lower case letters (2 * 26), numbers (0-9), a range of symbols ({}[]-+£$%) and some control characters (space, return, null). This is an internationally recognized standard specified as the ASCII standard.

Check out his post for more info on why SMS are actually 160 characters , and also some info on MMS size also.

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Ahhh .. so was our wait was worthwhile ?? Yesterday we had 4 new phones leak from Samsung, and Today we have latest shots of a , could be Nokia 5530 Xpress Music phone , or , Nokia 5900 Xpress Music , or , a Chinese fake. However, chances of a Chinese fake are more prevalent due to the highly cheap front panel design. Actually guys over nokia are also not so good in designing ( as they keep cloning models from their own portfolio , Nokia N86 for Example ). The backpanel of the phone looks quite good, and the thin colored strip running on the side of the phone, do give it a Nokia XpressMusic feel.

Here are the pics ,

Nokia really need to expand its touchscreen lineup as fast as possible, to regain its losing market share. After Nokia 5800 saw amazing success in the countries in which it was launched by Nokia and passed 3 million mark.

If at all this is Nokia 5530 XpressMusic, I really hope they change the front panel design. Rest everything looks fine. What are your opinion about this phone ??

Via : itbbs.pconline and it168.com  (both are Chinese site , but you can use google translator i.e translate.google.com)

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After a  long time some photos of upcoming phones have been leaked. And this time its not Nokia, its Samsung, and that too , 4 of them. So , 4 new Samsung phones have been leaked, one QWERTY , one Touchscreen and one Dual Screen.

Samsung Gravity 2 And Blast Replacement

Samsung Touchscreen phone ( Name Unknown )

Samsung Dual Screen + QWERTY

So here we saw , the new addition to Samsung’s portfolio. As we have seen in recent times, samsung has actually gone really aggressive in terms of new phone releases. They have expanded or rather flooded their touchscreen lineup with TouchWiz UI. The touchscreen lineup come in all ranges i.e from mid range to high end mobile.

So lets watch, when these phones get officially released.

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Nimbuzz is one of the best mobile voip application. If you know about Fring , or Talkonaut and if you are unaware of Nimbuzz, you must be living under a rock. However, the good news is that , This amazing Application with shiny bright Menu’s and Icons, has now extended its support for Symbian S60 V5 , and hence, its got full finger friendly with our (not so ) loved Nokia 5800.

Nimbuzz, if one of the best alternative of Fring . Initially, it had text input problem with Nokia 5800, even though , the S60 3rd ed File will install successfully. However, with the full support of S60v5, no need to worry anymore.

Download

So what are you waiting for ?? Go ahead and point your Nokia 5800 browser to http://m.nimbuzz.com , or directly go to www.nimbuzz.com and download it, and enjoy the full fledged voip on your Mobile phone.

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