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2009 has been quite a landmark year for me in terms of technology. I do like gadgets in many shapes and sizes while also abhorring the state of dependence they place the user in plus the quite worrying health risks vaguely but almost certainly associated with them. expect to see more posts centered around technology in 2010

anyway this year following my considerable leap from Dumbphone (a Sony Ericsson K608i) to Smartphone (Nokia N97) has been quite educational in many ways.  it might be worth typing a post up about it but instead follow me on Twitter (if you can or care too) and you’ll see. ever since purchasing a Nokia phone I have attempted to ‘live’ within its Ovi ecosystem and services against good warning I might add lol. one more or less successful branch I’ve experienced has been Ovi Share or Share on Ovi. I guess it’s a type of  Flickr etc rival where you can upload plus download pictures and videos while following other users and commenting on their media. after a few hiccups with permissions and stuff like that I’ve found it quite useful and will be using it for all major image hosting for the meantime seeing that I am migrating some existing pictures from Slide.com

you do not have to own a Nokia product to use it plus it offers unlimited storage

my unique URL is http://share.ovi.com/users/nii-teiko so if you decide to join or just want easy access to my page…there you go

well that’s it for now

The Almighty’s Blessings

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Completed Schematics Nokia (All In One)

Super Completed Schematics Nokia 2010 in One pack (700 mb + 350 tipe ponsel)

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

Part 8

Part 9

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Semoga bermanfaat

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Songbird Takes On iTunes With Improved Device Syncing

Music fans looking looking for an alternative to the iTunes/iPod ecosystem are getting a new option this week with the release of Songbird 1.4, which introduces support for CD ripping and syncing Mass Storage Class (MSC) Devices. The first feature is fairly self explanatory (and frankly I can’t believe it took this long to include), but it’s the latter that’s the most compelling: Songbird now features improved sync for a number of popular MSC devices, including the HTC Hero, Motorola Droid, Nokia N900, and the Palm Pre. The new features are available on Windows only for now, with Mac support planned for release early next year.

To be clear, Songbird has actually offered some MSC support before now, but CEO Jerrell Jimerson says that oftentimes devices don’t work as well as they should using generic support. Songbird has been working with manufacturers to try to make the syncing process as seamless as possible. They’ve inked a deal with Nokia, and are also engaged in less formal partnerships with a number of other manufacturers. [...]

Jimerson says that Songbird’s core functionality, which serves as a media player for both content saved locally to your computer and music that’s streamed from the web, remains fully intact. But the company is also looking to make the product more appealing to a broader userbase. And that includes forming more partnerships.

We’ve previously heard that Songbird has a deal with Phillips to install the software in 5 million music players, which would be a big win for the company. Jimerson wouldn’t comment on that, but it seems like it would fit with Songbird’s new strategy.

Songbird’s increasing support for media sync makes it a more direct competitor to DoubleTwist, another powerful iTunes alternative that supports many devices and that also has a brilliant marketing team.

via Songbird Still Airborne, Takes On iTunes With Improved Device Syncing.

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NOKIA 2505

nokia 2505 adalah handphone gsm yang sampai sekarang masih di cari banyak orang, hp ini ringan, kecil dan juga bagus. dari pantauan saya harganya masih tinggi, karena peminatnya masih banyak.

Handphone ini punya banyak warna, ada merah, hitam, pink, biru. atau kalian bisa mengubah dengan warna lain ( secara banyak pilihan dan harganya murah). selain itu sekarang sudah ada silikonnya, jadi benar2 bisa melindungi handphone dari goresan apapun.

karena kecil nya handphone ini, akan memudahkan anda membawanya. ga makan banyak tempat deh pokoknya….

harganya juga worted dengan barangnya.

by: indah

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Nokia Image Space: Crowdsourcing Photos for a Cool App!

Nokia combines a bit of crowdsourcing,its GPS/compass capabilities and its smartphones to create an interesting and cool application called the Nokia Image Space.On a higher level, the Nokia Image Space a service for organizing and presenting community generated content, e.g. storytelling, without it becoming too computationally intensive.Put simply Nokia Image Space lets the user create his own 3D pictorial presentations of the places visited. It requires a Nokia smartphone with GPS and compass and a Flickr account.

As illustrated in this screenshot representing a harbor in Honfleur, France, the service displays links to neighboring photos overlaid on the foreground photo. User can navigate through the location by browsing the interlinked photos.

The service prototype consists of three elements:
1.Servers – content and data storage. The servers also provide necessary APIs for creating the spatial presentation of the content.
2.Camera client – the mobile client for S60 delivers rich sensor data when the photo is taken and uploaded to the server.
3.Web browser – a flash-based browser allows the user intuitively navigate the space, comment the media and communicate with other users. The system needs an Adobe Flash 10 plugin for browser and Firefox, IE or Safari.
4.Nokia Image Space uses digital maps, location-based content and MapTP technology from NAVTEQ.

The user has to take a few shots of the place he is visiting while the GPS records the coordinates of the place where the image was taken and the digital compass records the orientation. The GPS coordinates, the compass orientaton and the metadata-heavy image are then uploaded with the mobile Nokia Share Online client.

Image space then crowdsources other photographs of the same location (measured by the GPS coordinates) from Flickr and generates a 3D presentation using all the photos.The full pic can then be viewed on the Nokia Image space browser (which needs to be downloaded on a laptop).

The Nokia Image space is available on the Nokia N97 mini, Nokia 6210 Navigator, Nokia 6710 Navigator, Nokia 6720 Classic and is also expected to work on many more phones powered by S60 (3.2 or 5.0), which also have an built-in compass.

Below are two YouTube videos that detail the Nokia Image Space.

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Nokia 5235 Comes with Music and starting price of Rs.10,000 - 12,000

The Nokia 5235 is a repeat of the 5230 but with the added option to download unlimited music for a period of 18 months from Nokia’s Ovi music store. The Nokia 5230 itself was a successful model that was light on the pockets. But the 5235 promises to be even cheaper and with the added advantage of free tunes, the music couldn’t have sounded sweeter.

Design and Looks

Design-wise, the Nokia 5235 is exactly the same as the 5230 but with a glossy metallic ring around the front frame instead of the plastic one on the 5230. The form factor is chubby and there are other phones with a bigger feature set that weigh much lesser than the Nokia 5235. Nevertheless the dimensions are not so big that single-handed operation is not possible.

Nokia 5235 Comes With Music and starting price of Rs.10,000-12,000

The phone’s display is an adequately sized 3.2-inch resistive touch screen. It’s definitely not the biggest display around but it’s the best you can get in this price range. This haptic-feedback enabled screen is fairly sensitive but the screen’s legibility under direct sunlight is poor. Below the display are the call and menu hardware keys. They feature good tactility and adequate press-feedback. Other important buttons are the touch sensitive media key just above the screen and the screen lock to the side. The flat volume rocker at the side is not very easy to work because it is hard to press and generally uncomfortable. Other than this the design and construction of the phone is both ergonomic and appealing to the eye.

The Symbian OS onboard is quick and responsive thanks to the 434MHz processor running it. As a music phone, the 5235 performs amazingly well offering users with an audio output that shows good frequency response, low noise and distortion levels and a good dynamic range.

Nokia 5235 Comes With Music and starting price of Rs.10,000-12,000

The phone’s 2MP camera performs decently for 2MP standards but in regard to other better cameras the photos have high noise levels, poor contrast and less resolved detail. The company claims the camera is capable of recording VGA resolution videos at 30 frames-per-second but this is not really the case and the frame rate drops much lower than 30fps to produce highly pixilated and overly compressed videos. There is also the presence of many artifacts and the colour balance of the video is bad.

A good thing about this phone is that it has adequate connectivity options with the exception of Wi-Fi. Among the more important connectivity options, you have 3G and GPS. The phone’s inbuilt GPS receiver features A-GPS functionality which is fairly responsive and accurate.

Nokia 5235 Comes With Music and starting price of Rs.10,000-12,000

This phone is an excellent music player. It performs most other functions just as well and given the price it is selling at, users could not ask for more. To top it off, the access to free music downloads for a period of 18 months makes this phone a steal.

The phone may sell at a starting price of 10,000-12,000 Rupees.

Features

• 3.2” 16-million colour TFT touch screen
• ARM 11 434MHz CPU, 128MB RAM
• GPS with A-GPS functionality
• Symbian OS
• Standard 3.5mm audiojack
• FM radio with RDS
• Excellent audio quality
• Ovi integration

Color Options:

Black, White

Nokia 5235 Comes With Music and starting price of Rs.10,000-12,000

Technical Specifications of Nokia 5235 Comes With Music

Overview

Body Type: Bar

Battery Life/Talk time: 7.0 Hours

Standby Talktime: 458 Hours

Dimensions

Width: 52 mm

Depth: 16 mm

Length: 111 mm

Weight: 115 g

Camera

Camera: Yes

Secondary Camera: NO

Camera Resolution: 2 MP

Camera Flash: No

Auto Focus: NO

Display

Display Size: 3.2 inches

Display Resolution: 360 x 640 pixels

Display Type: TFT Touch screen

Colours: 16 million

Memory

Internal Memory: 70MB

Card Slot: Yes

Complimentary Card: N/A

Expandable Memory: 16 GB

Multimedia Features

FM Radio: Yes

MMS: Yes

MP3 Player: Yes

Connectivity Options

Wi-Fi: NO

Bluetooth: Yes

Infrared: NO

USB Connector: Yes

GPRS: Yes

EDGE: Yes

HSCSD:Yes

Technology

Cellular Network: GSM

3G: Yes

SIM Type: Single SIM

Operating System

Operating System: Symbian Series S60

Features

Input Type: TFT Resistive Touchscreen

Handsfree Speaker: Yes

Flight Mode: Yes

Inbulit Dictaphone: Yes

GPS: Yes

Flashlight: NO

Source: http://www.india-server.com/mobiles/features/nokia-5235-comes-with-music-91.html

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ICT: Transmitter of crisis and catalyst of global economic restructuring

ICT: Transmitter of crisis and catalyst of global economic restructuring; (Dec. 19, 2009)

Astronomical sums are invested in the technologies of information and communication (ICT). In 2008 alone, over 1,800 billion were spent by private and public institutions. Since 1980, half the total investments by banks and financial institutions have been oriented toward the ICT sectors so that exchange of information and transactions be as fluid and instantaneous as desired on global scale. It followed that banks and financial institutions were drawn to diversification into acquiring factories, lands, real estates, and mines. Multinational ICT companies were frequently reconfigured to adjust with evolving strategies and global market access.

Before the financial crash, Citigroup hired 25,000 computer programmers and invested 5 billion on ICT technologies and related infrastructure in 2008.  Lehman Brothers was using 3,000 programs on 25,000 servers around the world.  This run for ICT technologies was viewed as the main tool for “space-time bailout” by channeling capitals to emerging sectors susceptible to inevitable expansion. The age in the 70’s was coined “society of information”.  Thus, in 2007, US multinationals profit from outside investment amounted to 25% compared to only 5% in 1960.

So far, Information and Communication technologies are the two main factors for capitalist global economy expansion and have displaced many traditional economies. For example, Skype (voice on internet) has over 400 million users and is the most important provider of international communication; Skype was the catalyst for the explosion of high debit mobile phone infrastructures and for the demand of internet services to enterprises. Facebook has 300 million subscribers.

Mobile phone is displacing computers and TV markets: there are over 4.5 billion users of mobile phones and the latest generations function as multimedia screens. Apple’s mobile has swept China and South Korea markets; over 100,000 programs were developed for its applications.

Amazon, Apple, and Google (via YouTube) have broken serious barriers into cartels in music, books, video games, and movies. Low priced connections are provoking the centralization of programs, data, images, and emails are frequently stored in “farm servers” belonging to giant operators.

In 2005, 19 out of the 25 first ICT enterprises were from the US and over half the satellites are US. Heavy weight consumers of ICT such as Wal-Mart and General Electric impose standards on information and communication systems that are applied globally. By 2009, Samsung, Nokia, Nintendo, Huawei, Tate, SAP, Telefonica, DoCoMo, Americal Movil, Vodafone, and especially China Mobile are displacing minor US players among the 250 greatest enterprises. Newer investments are primarily flowing from China, India, and Mexico in ICT.

Although Cisco (the prime provider in web routers) has accumulated financial reserve of $20 billion, Microsoft (the emperor of systems of exploitation) around $19 billion, Google (dominating search engines and on-line video) around $16 billion, Intel (world leader in semi-conductors) around $10 billion, and Apple (programs most prized by elite users) around $26 billion, only China Mobile generated profit of $18 billion in 2009.

Publicity expenditures in 2009 amounted to $500 billion (though they declined by 10% after the financial crash) but multimedia expenditures in the US in 2008 reached $900 billion and are increasing by 2.3%.  The giant ICT companies are trumpeting acquisition of competitors and setting the stage for an unknown educational, cultural, and economic world.  The capitalist global economy is going ahead and strong because of IC technologies; we have the impression that the world is reduced to a town square.

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Nokia E75

The Nokia E75 is a sleek looking handset with multiple functions. What is most impressive about this handset is that, it supports excellent network connectivity. This is because, it supports both 2G as well as 3G network connections. With such strong network connectivity, this handset guarantees full support, no matter, where you are. Other than this, the Nokia E75 has excellent display options with full QWERTY keyboard facility. What has made this widget an absolute masterpiece, is its excellent Internet connectivity with WAP browsers and symbian operating system. Further, it has a phonebook that supports practically unlimited entries and fields. It has multiple messaging options like SMS, MMS and Email. Apart from this, the widget has appealed to the mass because of its multiple data transferring facility in the form of GPRS, Bluetooth, EDGE etc. It also provides battery back-up of upto 280 hours and a talk time back up of upto 5 hours 20 minutes.

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TechnoBuffalo's Nokia N900 Review: Simple but versatile UI - 8/10

In this two part review, LP now from TechnoBuffalo has reviewed the Nokia N900 – and it’s quite a positive one. They show how well the browser handles webpages, the ease of such wide video coded support that it plays AVI files out of the box and the power behind the N900’s multitasking.

Although the aesthetics of the icons left something to be desired, LP was pleased with the simplicity yet versatility of the Maemo 5 OS (aka panoramic desktop); much improved over what was achieved so far with S60V5.

Size was the N900’s main downfall, being a tad chubby. Do you think the next generation of MaemoPhone should do without the keyboard? Anyway, more details from LP on thoughts about the N900; check out the full review from TechnoBuffalo below.

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Nokia Headset under water for 2 days but still works!!

This is what happened – I forgot my Nokia n80 headphones which I use with Nokia N73, in my pocket. I gave the trouser to the maid for washing. She soaked it with detergent and water that day and left it for 2days since the maid who was suppose to wash it didn’t come. The 3rd day she brought it to me and told me what happened. I didn’t know what to do. I left it for half a day in the sun and later I tried it out when it dried. It worked!! The sound was clear and I didn’t find a simple defect. The only noticeable change was that the tag which said “Made in China” was washed away.

This is the Headphone

I never bought a mobile set which wasn’t Nokia and I also got 2 tickets to Malaysia as a prize in Nokia Contest but this makes me love Nokia even more!!

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Nokia E72

The Nokia E72 features a 2.3 inch display screen offering a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels. There is a QWERTY keyboard for fast data input. It also comes with a five way scroll key and an optical track pad for easy navigation. There is an Mp3, M4A, AAC, RA, WAV, WMA file format compatible music player and a 3GP, WMV, RV and MP4 video player. The handset comes with Organizer, Flash Lite, Document viewer, Printing and Push to talk. There is a 5MP camera which offers a resolution of 2592 x 1944 pixels and comes with autofocus and LED flash. The camera captures video files of VGA format .There is another VGA video call camera. The Nokia E72 comes with excellent data connectivity with high speed HSDPA and HSUPA . It is also enabled with wireless technologies like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth . It allows fast speed Internet connectivity with the EDGE and GPRS technologies available on it. The device allows polyphonic, monophonic and MP3 ringtones. It is provided with a 3.5mm audio jack for enjoying handsfree music. It allows international roaming and a GPS navigator for accessing Nokia Maps. The there is Stereo Fm radio with visual radio .The battery provided in the phone allows it to work fr 12hrs and 30 minutes.

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Video: Nokia N900 Camera Interface - why it's better than what's on the N97

Like much of Nokia’s line up, the Nokia N900 has a 5MP camera with dual LED flash. What sets it slightly apart from all the rest is the revamped camera controls, minimising the need for necessary button presses that Nokia’s put us through before.

I’ve talked about what I love in the N900’s camera, shown some samples and screenshots but now, let me demonstrate in video

• Simple selection of modes
• New icon indicator appears after adjusting a setting (e.g. ISO 100), from which you can press that new icon and adjust that setting from there
• Remembering your last saved settings. – If you’re taking photos in a particular area and just took a short break in between shots, you don’t want to have to set those settings again should you decide to close the lens cover
• Start up is fast, time between next shot is about 1-2 seconds.
• Autofocus is fast and accurate
• Nice to have the option of 16:9 photos to maximise view finder when taking photos.

With a touch screen, you’ve got a blank canvas of controls, with limitless possibilities of how many buttons and where to position them. On the N97 it doesn’t take advantage of this. It’s not necessarily an S60V5 issue as the same OS on the Samsung i8910 and Sony Ericsson Satio don’t have the camera interface.

This is somewhat addressed on the N900.

It’s not completely perfect (there could be an additional “button” to switch from camera/video, making it just a one click switch), but these slightly revamped controls make the N900’s camera a joy to use. In future though, I would like to see some of the N97’s imaging options available on the N900:

• Colour Tones – Black and white/Sepia/Vivid
• Contrast
• Camera Grid – helps compose photo
• Sequence mode – Bust shot (I’d also like the old sequence mode where you can set phone to take photos in longer intervals, 1s, 5s, 10, 30s, 1m, 5m – a niche feature but great for time lapse photography)
• Self Timer – don’t leave people out in group photos
• User defined settings – I like to save high contrast/high exposure/black and wide in the N97, and it’s nice that I can select this mode and not have to tinker about with these settings (not that the N900 has these options anyway)

That’s about it for now. I won’trant on new physical features I’d like to see in the next MaemoPhone today. Though, this post more or less sums it up:

making-a-real-nokia-flagship-from-existing-nokia-devices/

Oh ok. One thing. The camera shutter-release button – great to have one, but now I’m preferring the more obvious 2 step press in the N97’s button. [that and of course Xenon – sorry, sorry, I couldn’t help myself!)

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Eiffel Tower Symbian 3rd ed. Theme

Was browsing ’bout France themes for symbian, luckily, i found this awesome theme. There’s no author name on the themes. Whoever you are, credit goes to you!

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Whatever it is Apple is doing right Nokia is doing it wrong

Today we have a guest post (of sorts). Last week, a good friend of mine, David Lee wrote some comments for a couple of posts I wrote last month on Apple and Nokia. (See While Nokia loses market share Apple chases profit share and What’s on Apple’s Radar?)

Now I know that a lot of you are following this blog on RSS and so I asked David if he would allow me to re-post his comments so you could all see them and he agreed. But before we start I would just like to point out an article in the New York Times today: Can Nokia Recapture Its Glory Days?.

[according to Gartner] Nokia’s problems are especially acute in North America, where its hold on smartphones equals a barely visible 3.9 percent, compared with 51 percent for Research in Motion and 29.5 percent for Apple.

OK. Here is David’s take on the Nokia vs Apple smart phone play…

Interesting reading can be found at Michael Gartenberg’s Entelligence blog on the future of Nokia

The real worry for Nokia is that they just cannot seem to get traction in any market outside of the bread and butter handset business.

Looking at their offerings – Symbian is way long in the tooth, especially when compared with iPhone OS and Android. The Ovi Store and ‘Comes with Music’ ventures seem to be heading the way of N-Gage. Also they’re closing the flagship Regent Street store.

When they try to open up new channels they don’t seem to have much success either. Their latest non-handset offering seems to be an overpriced netbook (the new Nokia Booklet). Hardly innovative.

Have you ever seen an N800 Internet tablet in the wild. Though not.

The contrasts with Apple couldn’t be greater – whose soon to be announced Tablet MID will likely corner the market in the way the iPod already has with numbers and the iPhone has with mindshare.

Apple certainly is no Microsoft but this graph makes interesting viewing.

Also the PSP was the wake up call that [Sony] the Japanese giant had truly lost its way. [ See What's on Apple's Radar?]

Clearly Apple are in a unique position. They have the brand, following, leadership, talent, kudos and capital to move in any direction they want.

The key to this article and the heart of the question you ask [in What's on Apple's Radar?] is what does Apple want to be? Furthermore, which competitors will it face along the way? Microsoft, Google, Sony, Nokia, Palm, Dell, Amazon.

My belief is that Apple will remain at its core the world’s leading industrial design shop and a very, very good software house. So yes, a maker of ultra cool gadgets if you like. All the rest (iTunes, AppStore, whatever next) remains the icing on the cake – the killer apps – if you like for their core business – devices.

Many make the mistake of thinking that Apple is an innovator. In truth they haven’t innovated anything since the Newton PDA, a device five years ahead of its time which cleared the way for the Palm Pilot to clean up later on. History shows us when Apple innovates it largely fails to leverage those advantages. Today’s Apple is has learned to become an exploiter of weak or poorly served markets.

For example, Apple didn’t invent the MP3 player it just made entered a poorly defined market the best device, the best UI and the best end to end experience with iTunes. Apple didn’t invent the mobile phone. In this case it entered a mature market with the best mobile convergence device, best UI and best end to end experience with the App Store. In other areas Apple has had less success. The jury is still out on Apple TV. Whether this product line will be improved if Apple enter the mainstream TV market beyond the current set top box into an Apple branded television next year is to be seen.

What really excites me about Apple’s short term push will be their push into the Tablet Computer/MID space next year. I believe the product line has the potential to be as big, if not bigger than the iPod and iPhone. It could also mark the return of Apple into the business space it gave up to Microsoft fifteen years ago.

The Tablet Computer is ideally placed to clean up in new markets as yet untapped. Think of the opportunities:

- Medical – Staff could easily carry 7″ to 10″ slim, lightweight tablets. IBM predict that by 2012 70% of the worlds disk storage will be used for medical imaging.

- Media – Recent reports indicate that Apple has been rattling around the content providers trying to tie up deals for media content. Imaging paying a small subscription to your favourite newspapers/magazines to get them online. We’re not at thet Minority Report stage yet but surely this argument is more convincing than Amazon’s Kindle.

- Education – The Australian Govt has embarked on a Digital Equipment Revolution which has the stated aim of providing all Year 11 -14 students with a netbook. All very clever, Mr Rudd, but its the wrong device and the wrong OS. The school Technical Support Officers will be very busy.

- In the home – How many people buy PC’s when all they really need is a browser, email, media player and maybe some video conferencing.

- The workplace – How many people actually need a full blown PC on their desks anymore. What are the apps that most in the business need. For many it’s Email, a Phone, a Browser, a word processor, spreadsheet, some dashboarding or report viweing capability. Many of these apps are browser delivered now anyway. This argument was just as valid when Larry Ellison backed the Network Computer and is similar to the one Larry and Sergei are pushing with Chrome.

I think that Bill Gates was correct when he prophesised that everybody would be using Tablet PC’s. His timing was just a bit out.

You can read more of David’s posts on Apple TV, Tablets and other things right here.

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N97 mini

Tampil Lebih Menawan……. Dengan Fitur LUAR BIASA….

Bingung punya budget lebih buat beli Hp???

Siapa tau gua bisa ngebantu kalian yang mau beli Hp,, kali ini gw akan ngebahas tentang Nokia N97 mini. Kenapa sih bisa dibilang mini? Yaaa,, jawabannya karena hp ini diluncurkan sama dengan pendahulunya namun dengan fitur yang wooowwww luar biasa cangihnyaaa..

Layar N97 berukuran 3,2″ dengan resolusi warna 640×320 piksel ketajaman 16,7 juta warna. Ponsel ini dapat digunakan dengan sentuhan jari kita/stylus dan menggunakan keryboard. Untuk tombol keyboard, tinggal digeser ke samping ajaa. Musti kalian tau kalo eksternal memori ponsel ini bisa mencapai 24 GB.. kalian bisa memasukkan data apapun yang kalian mau karena kapasitas memori eksternalnya besar banget.. Selain kapasitas memori yang besar, ponsel ini menggunakan kamera 5 megapiksel dengan optik carl zeiss serta autofokus dan lampu kilat LED ganda.. Untuk berselancar didunia maya kalian tidak perlu cemas, karena ponsel ini didukung dengan HSDPA dengan kecepatan 3,6 mbps dan ada juga WLAN IEEE dengan kecepatan maksimal 11 mbps/54 MBps.. Ponsel ini juga dibekali GPS yang bakal ngebantu kalian jika ingin mencari lokasi…

Kalo kalian punya Hp ini bakal ngebantu aktivitas kalian sehari-harinya..

Tunggu apalagi, ga ada salahnya kalo kalian punya budget lebih buat miliki N97 mini..

posted by : Vien Febrina

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Nokia Consumer Meetup

 Nokia is doing an interesting consumer initiative in Bangalore wherein they are inviting consumers to their store. They will have some of the app developers giving a demo on apps like Newshunt , Touch games and they will also host a few fun quizzes/games. Anyone attending will win a Nokia Music voucher and there will be exciting prizes announced through a lucky dip at the store. We just need a bit of help in getting the word out through your network. Here’s the link to Twitvite and Facebook event. Do join and help us get consumers to the store.

http://twtvite.com/jdwdfy
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?invites&eid=196879729307

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Economics of the Future of Mobile

Recently I was asked to write an opinion piece for the magazine Marketing, capturing my thoughts on the future of mobile marketing which has always been touted as a large and emerging opportunity, but has yet failed to gain critical mass and more importantly material advertiser support.  Below is an extract of the article.

THE FUTURE OF MOBILE ISN’T MOBILE

Mobile Marketing has been the long-held, future of advertising. A promise that everyone has got excited about, but few delivered on. I’ve seen numerous reports from industry experts and market analysts, who’ve produced endless business cases and revenue models that never seem to gain any traction anywhere but in a spreadsheet.

Many mobile-based businesses start and fail even before they’ve worked out who they are, where they fit and more importantly what the consumer need and engagement point is. The promise of mobile has been built on a nascent industry that hasn’t really found its feet so far. It begs the question, why have so many people been so wrong for so long? In my humble opinion we’ve all been considering the problem, or opportunity in the wrong context.

The future of mobile isn’t “mobile”. Building yet another disconnected platform, which operates singularly, is the problem. The real question isn’t about what is mobile, it is more about what connectivity and ubiquitous consumer centric computing experiences hold.

The Black Swan of the mobile industry came from an outlier that radically changed the face of what we understood the market to be, Apple. Like it or not Steve Jobs and the Apple crew decided to rewrite the rulebook, grounded in a consumer truth & desire for simplicity when they launched the iPhone.

iPhone

The iPhone was one simple device that allowed consumers to do almost everything they could on a desktop or laptop, with the benefits of a compact device that had GPS functionality that could fit perfectly into your pocket at the cost of a normal mobile contract. The iPhone ran basically the same operating system as a Mac, it synced seamlessly with all your business and personal applications wirelessly and it was just easy. Combine this with creating a relatively open software platform that developers could deploy a range of consumer centric applications on, with an open software market place where developers could reach a global audience and monetize their ideas rapidly. Hey presto the face and future of mobile changed irreversibly.

The biggest change Apple brought to the mobile industry was they established and built sustainable consumer behaviour, where for the first time consumers could use mobile devices in an entertaining and meaningful way.  Almost everyone I know now uses the SAME applications and services on their desktop as they do on their mobile. Tweeting, Facebooking, Googleing, blogging, emailing, taking and sharing photos, reading PDF’s, listening to and downloading music have all become a ubiquitous experience, regardless of the device or location. The iPhone really enabled the “Social Web”, combine this with location-based mobile applications, and the face of the mobile game has changed forever, why? Because Apple rewrote the rulebook.

Apple changed the clunky face of mobile marketing and e-commerce. They did what Microsoft, Symbian, Blackberry, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, HTC et al couldn’t do. All of the previous industry incumbents were all operating based on a set of rules designed by engineers and analysts that had a vested interest in developing a disparate market, not a connected market. Apple innovated that last 10% of the mobile market and that innovation has had a 200% impact on the mobile industry as we know it.

Before you start to think this is a plug for Apple, have a look at the ripple effect across the entire mobile industry. Nokia has launched “me too” devices with their own music store, HTC have launched devices with similar interfaces and capabilities, Blackberry has started to support their developer community with a “me too” application store. The rate of change in mobile is increasing exponentially, all because an outlier rewrote the rules.

Apple's App Store

So where is the advertising world in all of this though? The advertising community both creative and media is still way behind. Ad Networks are still trying to sell on a silly impression based model (CPM) through serving non-targeted, dumb ad’s that have little relevance to a consumers experience that are at best annoying. Creative agencies and their digital heads have not yet woken up to the fact that it would be a better use of clients funds to build a simple mobile site, designed for a handheld device that delivers consumer utility rather than fight for a full flash and video site that can’t be viewed on a mobile device or indexed in a search engine. It is time to catch up people, understand the consumer and find the right intersection point.

The future isn’t mobile; it is ubiquity of experience across any device that delivers consumer utility and meaningful brand engagement.

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Twisted Sister Christmas on Broadway

Twisted Sister is one of the most famous 80’s Glam Rock Bands out there.  How could one possibly pass up, a Twisted Sister Christmas? A show that promised Christmas tunes, laughs, and classic Twisted Sister tunes.  TS’s performance fell nothing short of AWESOME, however getting to it was an adventure in itself.

The show was held on Sunday Dec. 6th in New York City’s Times Square in Nokia Theater.  It was a General Admission show with standing room in the front and stadium seating in the back.  The capacity for this place is 2100 and it seemed to be packed to the rim. The crowd ranged from excited tweens to aging rockers.

Doors opened at 6, and the show was supposed to start at 7,  but NOTHING happened for sometime. A little bit after 8pm, Jim Florentine and Don Jamieson, from “That Metal Show” on VH1 came out to perform “comedy.” By comedy I mean, racist, homophobic, “jokes” about how Asians can’t drive, you shouldn’t wear your seatbelt, how drunk driving is cool, and that they like to bang minors. Class act guys. Not only was it painfully unfunny, they were each on for about 15 minutes and once disapearing from stage it took another 30-45 minutes MORE before Twisted Sister came on, just after 9pm.

For a show that starts at 7, most the audience was a bit livid, shouting things like “we have to work tomorrow!”

Finally when the show started the curtains pulled back and we saw some elves in this rad Santa workshop stage.  Eddie “Fingers” Ojeda, Jay Jay French,  Mark “The Animal” Mendoza,  & A. J. Pero then got on stage followed by three slutty reindeer’s pulling out Santa’s sleigh which had Dee Snider on top in a Santa outfit as they broke into ” Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.” The audience squealed in delight.  After the first song Snider lost the Santa costume and donned his normal spandex pants apparel, and of course full makeup.

They alternated their play list between Christmas songs and classic Twisted Sister. There were plenty of over enthusiastic drunks bopping around who got entirely too excited when songs like “Burn in Hell” came on. When  piece of equipment fell or needed repair an elf would run out stage to fix it.

During “I’ll be Home for Christmas,” rocker Constantine Maroulis, made a guest appearance and really nailed it. It was highly enjoyable to see him singing with Snider.

At one point an elf came out with a snow machine and was humping the snow out of it. I believe it was during  ”I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.” The ejaculating elf ran across the stage like mad, dowsing the band and audience members with his special white stuff.

Throughout the show Snider kept disappearing behind the set, presumably for water. It was a tad distracting.  ”The Animal”  had some bass issues for a few songs but later returned on stage.

The perhaps most amazing thing about the show was that guitarist Eddie Ojeda, was on stage rocking it out just 4 days after having emergency back surgery. He didn’t appear to be in pain, and played like a champ.

At one point Santa came on stage with no pants on. He asked everyone in the band what they wanted for Christmas, and when he asked Snider he replied that he already had so much to ask for anything else would be selfish…but…. and Santa insisted, which he finally replied ” I WANNA ROCK!” and then broke into that song.

The show was excellent, they were defiantly spry for a band thats been around since the 70’s, still showing the same enthusiasm I imagine they did on tour in the 80’s (when I was still in diapers), engaged the audience in song with them at several points, making it all that much more enjoyable. The only thing I would suggest is ditching the openers and starting on time.

For the encore they sang  their own rendition of the “Twelve Days of Christmas”, called “Heavy Metal Christmas” and then brought out approx. 30 of the FDNY on stage while they sang “We’re not Gonna Take It.” These guys were LOADED, dancing around, like morons, singing into the mics, I was just waiting for one to fall off the stage. It was harmless fun though.

I suggest checking out their album, “A Twisted Christmas” to an alternative to the crap thats out there now.  Available on their site http://twistedsister.com/ you can download “Come All Ye Faithful” to the tune of  ”We’re Not Gonna Take It” for free.

I’d love to have coffee with Dee Snider some day.

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Opera Mini 5 - The Best Looking Browser

If only it were a bit more stable. Opera Mini 5 Beta is a brilliant looking browser. It still has a lot of rough edges but once the glitches are sorted out, this hopefully will give Java developers an idea for developing software in the future.

The thing simply looks brilliant.
However, before it is ready for mainstream there are a lot of things that need fixing

1. Bookmark Sync from Opera Mini 4
2. Better Bookmarking options as it is hard to bookmark from history. The dials should have options to fix them from the bookmarks as well
3. And finally, please fix the keys to interpret long presses to mean the symbols on Nokia e series keypads. They just don’t work very well

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Arya 2 Songs Mp3 download

Arya 2 is an upcoming  Telugu movie directed by Sukumar, its a sequel of his previous hit film Arya.

Stylish star Allu Arjun plays the lead role, with Kajal Aggarwal and Shraddha Das as the female leads.

Sony BMG has bagged the music rights of  the film

The movie is tentatively scheduled to be released on November 18th or 25th.

After the release the movie is also going to be relased in Malayalam Language

.:: SONGS LIST ::. Click to download

1. Mr.Perfect : | Download
2. Uppenantha:  | Download
3. Baby He Loves You:  | Download
4. Ringa Ringa: | Download
5. Karige Loga: | Download
6. My Love Is Gone:  | Download
7. Karige Loga (D-Plugged)  Download
8. Mr.Perfect (DSP Mix): | Download

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Proporta [Nokia N900] Accessories - Teaser unboxing of TurboChargers, Cable Tidies and Beach Buoy

I made a comment in a post about N900 photo samples on Friday how my Proporta charger wasn’t working*. I would have loved to have used it last weekend when I was testing the N900 in London, instead I was plug-socket hunting and siphoning electricity whenever I could.

The Proporta owners saw that post, informed me that Proporta do offer 2 year warrantly of electrical accesories and long story short they’ve sent over a replacement as well as some extras for reviewing (arrived yesterday).

I’m snowed down with some deadlines at the moment but here’s a “preliminary unboxing” just to show what accessories I’ll be covering soon.

• Turbo Charger 3400mAh – Absolutely essential accessory for mobile users (especially power hungry models like N900 and N97) who travel, holidays, road warriors, site seeing, just long day out and about away from sockets…
• Turbo Charger 1200mAh – business card sized to be even more pocketable
• Cable Tidies – keeps my headphones from being tangles
• Beach Buoy – waterproof pouch for when going to the beach or swimming. Waterproof for up to 5 metres.
• A few extras  didn’t anticipate – car USB and world USB chargers.

* It turns out the white charger was working and I just happened to have tested it with 2 defective cables. Initially the cable had worked when charging via pc, then didn’t via charger. Now the cable doesn’t work at all. Conclusion – the fault lies in the cable.

The main charger is absolutely fine (though none of the chargers can charge up N900/N97 using Nokia micro USB cables)

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Apple iPhone Profitability Surpasses Nokia

It seems that my hunch on Nokia losing in the Mobile Handsets business is now validated based on the article published in www.telecomtv.com  titled ” Nokia “not prepared” for smartphone onslaught; could sell its handset business“.

Highlights from the Article:

1. Apple’s iPhone division’s operating profits for Q3 2009 is estimated at $1.6B (based on quarterly earnings release data)

2. Nokia’s handset division’s operating profits for Q3 2009 is $1.1B based on the quarterly earnings release

Quoted from the article:

” Nokia’s director of strategy, Anssi Vanjoki, admits that the Finnish company was ill-prepared for the sustained and undeniably successful attack on its commanding position by the likes of Apple, Google and RIM and “does not rule out” the sale of its handset business at some time in the future. Martyn Warwick reports.

In an interview published this morning in the German magazine Wirtschaftwoche, Mr. Vanjoki, who is also Nokia’s head of marketing, admits too that his company needs to work harder to improve its mobile Internet products if it is to to stay in contention with the likes of Apple, Google and Research in Motion – the manufacturer of the increasingly popular Blackberry PDAs.”

Takeaways from the article:

1.  Nokia’s march to the deadpool just seems to be accelerating over time as it remains uncompetitive with the onslaught of Apple and Google who are using their Silicon valley style Product Innovation capability to cut the oxygen supply to Nokia.

2. Apple’s profitability is based on the sale of only 5.2M handsets while Nokia sold 113.5M handsets out of the total market of 308.9M handsets sold in Q3 2009.  The argument that I always made that selling large volumes of low end mass market feature phones and losing sight of the highly profitable high end market may be the sole reason why Nokia will fail as a company.   Moore’s law applies to the mobile devices market as well and what is high end today will become low end in 1-2 years and when that happens the already uncompetitive Nokia will not have a market to play in.

3. Product companies need to focus on innovation and providing product delight to customers so that they don’t face the same fate of Nokia.   If a large Goliath like Nokia can fail  simply because they took their eye off the ball and started dabbling in fashion, gaming and areas that were not important to customers and started delivering poor user experience (btw, user experience is what made Nokia a great company a decade ago) then small companies with poor product offerings have a much shorter lifespan.

Indian product companies do not focus on delighting customers and keep offering sub-standard products to the market (Internet and Media companies included).    The only reason they continue to do business is because our market is very large and due to the socio-economic background customers are not exposed to great products YET.   Our markets have opened up nicely and we can now get the same products available internationally.  It is only a matter of time until our people will start getting spoiled by great products and start demanding great products and services.

A nice example of this phenomenon can be observed in the Home Appliance business.   LG and Samsung now dominate the home appliance business in India.  Almost all the Indian companies in this space have been systemically eliminated and the few left standing like Videocon are struggling to remain competitive in this business and are diversifying into other businesses (DTH etc) where they can compete more effectively.

All Indian technology startups should focus on building great products that delight customers and can be benchmarked against the best in the world.  If not, it is a matter of time until some silicon valley company will look at India as a part of their global expansion strategy and obliterate Indian companies that deliver poor quality.

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Nokia NRC's Focusing on "Mixed Reality" And Other Concepts

Source: Nokia

I had a chance to join a call with Henry Tirri, SVP of Nokia’s Research Center (NRC) to get an overview of the NRC’s strategy and focus.

Nokia operates 10 research centers worldwide, and Henry oversees them centrally from the center in Palo Alto, California. Previously, the research centers were islands to research being done in Finland. Over the past year, the research centers have been coordinated into an 11 island confederation with its capital in Palo Alto, working together on common themes while reporting eventually back to Helsinki. As I’ve pointed out in previous posts, Nokia has been moving a lot of its multimedia research and development staff to the West Coast this past year, closer to Silicon Valley and Hollywood, where there’s a much larger of technology and content talent pool from which to draw upon.

NRCs 1o locations are:

• Palo Alto, CA
• Berkeley, CA
• Cambridge, UK
• Hollywood, CA
• Lausanne, Switzerland
• Helsinki, Finland
• Tampere, Finland
• Beijing, China
• Nairobi, Kenya
• Bangalore, India

The NRC does not represent the whole of R&D at Nokia, and it reports into Mary McDowell who heads up Nokia’s Corporate Development Group that is integrated across many of the firms’ business units.

Source: Nokia

The NRC’s mission statement for 2010 is—

“To explore technology frontiers, to solve scientific challenges today, for Nokia to deliver irresistible personal experiences tomorrow.”

Localized across the separate NRC islands are global research lab capabilities, advanced systems engineering efforts, business development and innovation operations, and strategy and operational excellence teams focused on fueling other strategy and open innovation teams around Nokia, as well as local marketing, financial, and legal support.

The NRC is currently working with 12o colleges and universities across the globe on future research efforts, leveraging them for recruiting, collaborative projects, facility sharing, and as think tanks and experimental labs to define new opportunities that may eventually reach the consumer market. Some of the more notable institutions include UC Berkeley, the University of Cambridge, UCLA, USC, and Tsinghua University. NRC focuses on future developments for all of the major continents around the world, as well as some specific vertical areas such as healthcare, grassroots business, education, navigation (landmark identification) and emergency response (black swan research).

The NRC’s main focus over the next year is on four distinct research areas:

• Rich Content Modeling
• High Performance Mobile Platforms
• New User Interfaces
• Cognitive Radio

Source: Nokia

One concept that Nokia is exploring is “Supersensing” or “Mixed Reality.” The later is a term coined by the research community at large. Mixed reality will offer at some point the capability to dramatically enhance a consumer’s interaction with his or her environment. This may be done through the use of sensors, geographic tagging, as well as community and social network tagging of locations and context-specific data tied to those locations.

This vision would allow a consumer to access a variety of interactive services surrounding them depending upon where they happen to be physically located in time. This could range from basic information services such as news and weather data to more location-specific services— such as having a list of services from a variety of retailer and hospitality establishments at their disposal, without even entering the premises. Today we have much of this information back on our PCs or Macs via an internet connection, or on our mobile device delivered via a web browser or widget. But Nokia’s working on conceptual visualization of all of these services on a mobile device, which is more than just grabbing an individual app off your smartphone to launch a hotel widget and make reservations.

Source: Nokia

Along with mixed reality work, Nokia and NRC has worked through an invitation from the Museum of Modern Art in New York on Morph, a highly personalized device packed with sensors, services, and customizable features. Morph is a product of nanoscience collaboration with the University of Cambridge.  The concept video has received millions of hits on YouTube and can be viewed here…

Nokia’s choice to string its global lab footprint into a collective of 11 separate but collaborating operating units focusing on one mission statement with four strategic goals shows the company’s commitment to developing research-based breakthroughs going forward. The company is also shifting more of its OS development efforts towards Maemo and open sourced platforms for future mobile devices, and also commented that it’s looking at WebOS as well. However, much of the NRC’s focus is on the areas previously discussed is only randomly looking at OS research.

Still, NRC is responsible for up to a third of Nokia’s IPR, specifically that focused on high-end user interface work, imaging and some elements of the company’s Ovi data and OS work as well as traffic research. NRC remains a key research and development advantage, especially with its ties to academia, to understanding the consumer, while developing future interactivity and mixed reality capabilities into multiple mobile environments around the world. While much of the media is focusing on the smartphone OS wars between Apple, Google, and RIM and discounting Microsoft, Palm, and even Nokia long-term, it is clear that Nokia’s approach to the market is very different than the other vendors, which makes its game plan going forward, very unique, and focused long term.

[Via http://newdigitalcafe.com]

Nokia N900 Plays NES Emulators? You Never Heard That.

The first rule of classic console emulation is that you don’t talk about classic console emulation, but that’s exactly what Nokia did to promote its new N900 smartphone, and now the interest of Nintendo’s legal team is piqued.

According to The Independent, Nokia posted a video clip of the N900 running Super Mario World and Super Mario Bros. 3, among other classics, using emulators. The official video and accompanying Nokia Conversations blog post have since been removed, but I’ve found what appears to be the same video here, for now. It mentions how some emulators let you tweak the N900’s controls for the best set-up, while others even take advantage of the phone’s touch and tilt capabilities.

Nintendo wasn’t aware of the video until The Independent reached out for comment. “We take rigorous steps to protect our IP and our legal team will examine this to determine if any infringement has taken place,” Nintendo UK PR manager Robert Saunders told The Independent.

I doubt Nintendo could jeopardize the ability to play emulated games on the N900, just as the company can’t dictate whether emulators may run on your computer. And although Nintendo’s legal page clearly states that it believes playing emulated games is illegal, there’s no shortage of places to find emulators and the ROMs that contain game software. At best, some sites refrain from distributing ROMs of popular franchises, such as Mario.

If there’s any legal trouble, I think it’d be related to using Nintendo games to promote Nokia products, presumably without Nintendo’s permission. In that regard, Nokia messed up. After all, you don’t hear Google talking up emulation in Android phones. But now that the truth’s out there, I think it’s pretty sweet that the N900 can run classic Nintendo and Super Nintendo games with emulators. Not that I’d play them, of course.

[Via http://technologizer.com]

Fitur Deteksi Senyum & Wajah Pada Kamera Digital

[Techno & Mobile, Jakarta] Sudah bukan menjadi barang baru mengenai fasilitas Smile Detection dan Face Detection yang ada di kamera digital. Smile Detection membantu seseorang untuk mengambil gambar pada saat orang yang akan difoto tersenyum. Adapun Face Detection akan secara otomatis mencari objek wajah dan mengambilnya secara focus.

Untuk pertama kalinya, teknologi face detection memungkinkan untuk memilih antara anak-anak atau orang dewasa sebagai pilihan utama dalam foto. Exposure, fokus dan warna kulit pada subyek foto secara otomatis akan disesuaikan untuk mendapatkan gambar-gambar dengan exposure yang lebih rata dan natural.

Sebagai pemimpin pasaran kamera digital, Sony terus berusaha dengan menggabungkan gaya dan fungsi-fungsi tercanggih saat ini. Dengan fitur-fitur inovatif seperti teknologi face detection yang dapat mengenali wajah anak-anak dan orang dewasa, jajaran kamera Cyber-shot terbaru telah menjadi standard baru di pasaran kamera digital saat ini.

Yang menarik, teknologi ini oleh Sony juga diterapkan kamera video (video camera). Sony HDR-CX12 merupakan kamera video pertama yang mempunyai fungsi Smile Detection. Fasilitas yang sama dengan yang ada di kamera digital, namun kali ini dalam bentuk format video. Fasilitas yang seperti ini tentu sangat berguna untuk mengambil video anak kecil atau bayi yang ingin diabadikan senyumannya tersebut.

Selain Sony, produsen ponsel kenamaan Nokia juga termasuk pelopor dalam mengaplikasikan teknologi face Detection dalm ponsel kamera. Penguasa pasar ponsel dunia itu merilis update terbaru untuk meningkatkan kemampuan menangkap gambar dalam kamera di Nokia N86 8MP. Fitur tambahan yang dimaksud adalah, face detection atau mendeteksi wajah. Melalui fitur tersebut, pengguna N86 dapat memaksimalkan kamera di ponsel mereka yang telah mencapai resolusi 8MP, dengan mendeteksi senyuman pada setiap gambar yang akan diambil.

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Nokia E72 Review-GSMArena

Nokia E72 is one of those handsets everybody is talking about long before their release. There may be nothing much to talk about – after all everyone knows what to expect of the Eseries and they have never let us down. But still, savoring the next batch of Eseries steel is always a pleasure.

The Finns keep feeding business ammo to the market and there’s nothing out of the usual at first sight. We already tasted the new Eseries generation and the E52 and E55 were the usual good healthy meals. The E72 though needs to be nothing short of delicious.

Here’s the link

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