Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Nokia to launch N8 in India in mid Sept
Nokia said that it is planning to bring its latest high end smartphone N8 to India in September. This is the first Nokia device that uses the Symbian 3 platform.
Speaking at a press conference, Mary McDowell, executive vice president, mobile phones, Nokia Corp, said, "We will be launching the N8 in India in mid September." Nokia claims that it controls 72 per cent share in the smartphone segment in India, and about 42 per cent globally.
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McDowell also said that Nokia will be rolling out its second Linux Maemo operating system device later this year. It had launched its first Maemo phone N900 in India at Rs 31,000 in June this year.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Friday, August 27, 2010
Nokia N8 releasing in a few weeks says Dolby
The long wait for the Nokia N8 looks like coming to an end in just a few weeks. That’s when Dolby, the guys behind the N8’s surround sound skills told one site that the Symbian^3 device will be arriving – just in time for Nokia World 2010.
Nokia fans have been waiting very patiently for what looks like being one of Nokia’s best, most feature-packed smartphones to date. While we don’t yet have a fixed date for the N8, the guys at Dolby, who developed the Dolby Digital Plus Surround Sound feature of the N8 told gadget site Electricpig here in London that the N8 will be arriving mid-September.
That puts the N8 squarely in line with this year’s Nokia World 2010 event, which takes place between September 14-15, in, you’ve guessed it – London! Was it obvious all along?
The Nokia N8 is Nokia’s first to run the overhauled Symbian^3 operating system. It has a 12-megapixel camera, 16GB internal memory, HDMI output, can shoot 720p high definition video, and Dolby Digital Plus Surround Sound when connected to a television with a compatible 5.1 surround sound speaker set-up. Not long to wait now.
Thanx to Nok Nok Dot Tv
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Nokia N8 Offers 180% Performance Boost Over N97 Read: Nokia N8 Offers 180% Performance Boost Over N97
The Nokia N8 may be the most anticipated Nokia smartphone in years. A website has gotten their hands on an advance unit and ran some benchmarking tests on the Symbian^3 smartphone. Big surprise – it’s a lot faster than it’s predecessors.
FinestFones.com has gotten their hands on a Nokia N8 and used the Symbian app “Speedy Go!” on the device, measuring the device’s speed. Unsurprisingly, it blew the older Nokia N97 out of the water. Speedy Go! found that the Nokia N8 had a 54% improvement over the Samsung Omnia HD Symbian device, and a 180% increase on the Nokia N97. (I’d like to see the Nokia N8 go head to head with the N900. I have a feeling that would be a much fairer fight – but the N900 runs Maemo.)
According to Mr. X, who writes at FinestFones, Symbian^3 can take better advantage of a phone’s graphics processing power than Symbain S60, which explains the drastic performance increases. Then, Mr. X used a Symbian app called “FPC Bench 3D” which put the Nokia N8 through a series of rendering tests. On all eight tests, the Nokia N8 achieved the maximum score, 60 fps.
It’s worth noting that the N8 could actually do better than these benchmarks. Like that Russian blogger who got his hands on a Nokia N8 earlier this year, Mr. X warned that his Nokia N8 was running an unfinished version of the Symbian^3. It’s also worth saying that Mr. X is breaking somebody’s embargo by publishing this content to the internet – those who were given advance N8′s still aren’t supposed to publish info about it publicly. Ooops.
Are you anticipating the Nokia N8? Do you think it can compete with the likes of Android phones, the iPhone, and BlackBerries?
Now we got a short video demonstrating Nokia N8 smartphone browser. The video shows that the browser of the gadget supports kinetic scrolling and zooming with two fingers. However, when using the last item we have some visible serious brakes, which is not good.
The main advantage Nokia N8 of browser is the fact that it includes the ability to play Flash-videos, which used to be something missing in the previous models. Recall, that the device will go on sale in some regions this fall.
Satio versus N8
Over the years I can recollect Sony Ericssonand Nokia have been fierce competitors with their outstanding Phones and over the last two years with their Smart Phones.
Firstly Nokia produced the Nokia 5800 and a little while later Sony Ericsson came up with an outstanding Smart Phone Satio to rival theNokia 5800. This then led Nokia to come back with the N900 running on the Maemo OS, Sony Ericsson then released two Smart Phones the Aino and Elm.
Enough of that lets get down to the nitty gritty of comparing our beloved Sony Ericsson Satio against theNokia N8.
With the Satio been out now about 8 months,Nokia have had a quite a bit of time to find out what are the bad points of Symbian s60v5, obviously they have taken a close look because the Nokia N8 has the newSymbian^3 OS.
Camera
The Satio compares very well to the Nokia N8 with the Camera, both Phones have a 12 megapixel camera, both have Xenon Flash, however the N8 as HD video recording facilities.
Nokia have paid particular attention to Facebook in the Phone integrating it in to the N8, seeing that the majority of users are using Facebook on their Smart Phones. When Sony Ericsson Updated the Firmware about 6 weeks they ago integrated Facebook on to the Satio.
Multitouch
Whilst the N8 has multi touch the Satio does not, Nokiahave integrated the pinch movement(which looks very similar to Apples iPhone) into the new OS.
Conclusion
Overall the N8 dare I say it is a better Phone in most departments then the Satio, but Nokia have had a lot to learn from, with the Nokia 5800 and the Sony Ericsson Satio.
In my opinion if you are Sony Ericsson Lover or a Nokia Lover you will stay with whichever you like
Thanx to Satio Sony ericssion Dot Com
Ovi Store On Nokia N8
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
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Initial Impressions Of The Nokia N8:
Nokia has a lot riding on the N8, not only is its market share in jeopardy but perhaps more importantly its down in the mindshare and brand perception department. The idea that Nokia can no longer make a decent high-end smartphone, fuelled by the media is causing serious damage to its reputation. While this is not the case in countries like India, the fact that they were late to the dual SIM party has not helped things. Nokia hopes that the N8 will mark the start of that turn around, and in this post I examine if that is a relevant possibility.
First things first, my initial impressions are based on a proto N8 running the pre PR 1.0 v11.004 firmware so things might change (hopefully for the better) by the time it hits stores. As soon as you pickup the N8, you get a feel of premium. The build quality is nothing short of excellent and the whole metal finish really stands out. All the different N8 colours pop out and each has the power to attract a hoard of fans. As I saw for myself, the anodized aluminum construction is also highly scratch resistant, you can take a pen and scratch it without there being even a simple mark caused and if you like taking care of your phone, this is very heartening to see.
Source
Silverlight for Bing App N8
Download here"Silverlight, a cross-browser, cross-platform implementation of the .NET Framework for building media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web on desktop computers, is now available for Nokia S60 5th Edition devices such as Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia N97 and Nokia N97 Mini."
Well, finally Microsoft released Silverlight for Nokia S60 5th edition smarpthones, and with the release of Silverlight comes the Bing Application based on Silverlight as you might guess. What exactly Silverlight means for the Nokia S60 5th edition smartphone owners, I am not sure, but I personally do not have some craving for Silverlight just for the fact that Silverlight is not used on many websites and the one's that use it, are orbiting very closely to Microsoft.
The upside of this is that now you will be able to view Silverlight content right from your Nokia S60 browser, which is a big plus. Other than that and the new Bing application, currently I don't see other uses for Silverlight on my Nokia N97, but this might be just for now. Who knows, maybe in time as more and more people start developing apps and content using Silverlight, I might be not as skeptical as I am now.
