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:

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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.

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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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