With the Ovi Maps (v3.04) exploring new places and getting to your destination is easier and faster than ever. This new Beta release is all about performance improvement.
Get easily to destinations with Drive & Walk, FREE voice guided car and pedestrian navigation for over 70 countries. Preload maps for entire countries on your Nokia GPS phone with Map Loader and enjoy using all these features and services also offline.
Online you can check Weather forecasts & Events around your location or any other in the world. Find thousands of listings for sights, restaurants, hotels, shops, nightlife and more with free travel content by Lonely Planet and Michelin, available for over 1000 destinations. You can even book a hotel room via HRS Hotels, currently available in Germany and Finland, coming to more countries soon.
Share your location with friends on Facebook and let them know what you are up to, right from Ovi Maps. Your status update, photo and location appear on your Facebook page. Your location can be viewed on the map within the Ovi Maps Facebook Application.
Although Symbian holds the lead at 47%, both RIM and Apple are making serious inroads in the worldwide smartphone market share. According the latest figures produced by Gartner, an information technology research firm, both Symbian and Nokia were still in a solid first place of the world’s smartphone market, both RIM and Apple are becoming a serious threat to each.
In a recently published study, Nokia has maintained an overall 36.4% of the worldwide smartphone market share, but saw a 2.2% loss last year. Symbian also dominated with a 52.4% market share, but those are worldwide figures and do not reflect the United States Market.
In the U.S.A., a recent Comscore survey shows both RIM and Apple are much larger than Symbian. With the increase of mobile web traffic, both Apple and Android are leading the pack. What all the other Operating Systems and Manufactures need to be concerned with is Google’s Android. According to recent reports, Android has been selling 60,000 handsets a month, and both Verizon and AT&T plan to release several devices this year.
Nokia 5530 Red is a sleek phone with a vibrant touch screen display. It offers you an array of web browsing features. This is a phone with excellent music capabilities.
The various specifications of Nokia 5530 Red are as follows:
Nokia 5530 Red
The Nokia 5530 Red comes with an impressive 2.9 inch TFT touch screen that gives a 16 million colour display. It weighs 107 grams and is just 13 mm thick.
The Nokia 5530 Red comes with a 70 MB storage and 128 MB of SDRAM. MicroSD memory cards are supported externally up to 4 GB.
The 1000 MaH LiIon battery gives you a stand by of 336 hours or 4.54 hrs talk time. If you are using a music player then the stand by time comes down by 27 hrs.
The Nokia 5530 comes with a 3.15 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens supporting auto focus and LED flash. Auto focus lets you have well focused images.
The videos can also be filmed at 15 frames per minute. The phone comes with a stereo FM radio that fully supports RDS. The media player offers and exceptional array of formats to playback your audio and video files.
You can also plug your phone to TV to view your videos.
The Nokia 5530 Pink is supported by voice commands and dials. And the document viewer lets you view MS word, excel, power point and Adobe PDF files. The built in browser supports web browsing through HTML & XHTML along with supporting RSS feeds.
It has a quick WiFi technology that enables you to connect to the internet from any hotspot or WLAN. You can also use Bluetooth and USB for data transfers.
Newsfactor: Apple, Inc.'s patent complaint against Nokia will be reviewed by the U.S. International Trade Commission, which is already reviewing Nokia's complaint against Apple. The mobile-phone makers are locked in an escalating battle for mobile-phone licensing. Beyond Apple and Nokia, Kodak has also filed complaints against Apple and Research In Motion.Apple is one step closer to potentially taking a bite out of Nokia's U.S. market share. The U.S. International Trade Commission on Thursday said it will review the iPhone maker's complaint against the Finland-based mobile-phone giant. The ITC is also reviewing a similar complaint from Nokia against Apple. Newsfactor
Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona will be the place where operators, vendors, and application developers converge to review key milestones achieved, and outline future RCS strategies. A range of different activities are planned across the four days of Mobile World Congress to demonstrate progress made in key initiatives:
App Garage
The App Garage, located on Stand 7APG in Hall 7, is the central point for the GSMA’s app-related programmes and initiatives. It’s a great place to mingle with industry peers to explore new business and service opportunities. App Garage features a number of RCS initiatives:
RCS Dev Challenge: Here we will be showcasing the winners and a selection of entries from the GSMA’s recent developer contest. The following developers have been shortlisted in each category:
Ecrio, Neusoft Mobile Solutions and Nokia have been shortlisted for Best RCS Client (Mobile Solution).
Devstrom, Ecrio and Movial Applications Oy have been shortlisted for Best RCS Client (PC Solution).
Colibria, Genaker and Hewlett-Packard have been shortlisted for Best RCS Innovation.
Comneon GmbH has been awarded a Judge’s Special Mention.
RCS Project Team: Meet with fellow operators to learn about the recent pre-commercial trials, and discuss how to set up interoperable trials in your country.
App Garage Seminar Theatre: Stop by each day for demonstrations and 30 minute master class presentations from RCS operators, infrastructure providers and DevChallenge entrants.
The Rich Communication Suite Seminar
Commencing at 13:30 on Wednesday 17th February in the main Seminar Theatre, Stand 7SEM, Hall 7
RCS lets operators leverage a key asset – a user’s presence-enabled address phone book – for business growth. C-Level operators and RCS industry representatives will share their reasons for investing in RCS, provide pre-commercial pilot updates, and outline future developments.
Seating is on a first come first served basis.
Explore the RCS Ecosystem
A range of mobile infrastructure and solutions providers will be showcasing RCS deployments on their own stands during Mobile World Congress. Please ensure you visit the following members of the RCS community:
Acme Packet , the leader in session border control, located in Suite AV80, will be providing live demonstrations of videoshare and mediacast with partner Aylus Networks. Further RCS solution details are available at http://www.acmepacket.com/sipo3g
Alcatel-Lucent will feature RCS content in two locations: Stand 7D61 in Hall 7 and stand 8A147 in Hall 8. Live demonstrations will be provided on all 4 days. Further details are available fromhttp://www.alcatel-lucent.com/features/rich_communication/comm_no_barriers.html
Aylus Networks™ ( http://www.aylus.com/), invites you to discover how our mobile broadband solutions can help manage your wireless network bandwidth explosion and offer new session-based multimedia services, including RCS content sharing , in meeting room, 4.6HS07
Ericsson will be showing the latest version of their RCS solution in Hall 6. This live demo delivers the core features of GSMA RCS, and shows how RCS can become a central element in enabling consumers to share experiences and interact with Social Networks. For more details please visithttp://www.ericsson.com/rcs
Gemalto, located on Stand 8A102, will demonstrate its new Mobile Broadband PC client that will gather all RCS functionality expected by the operators, including VoIP, send SMS, send MMS, IM, video call, and document sharing.
Nokia Siemens Networks will be presenting RCS products and services from Stand 8C01 in Hall 8. Come and see how to transform CSPs from service providers into experience providers with RCS. Additional information is available at http://www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/rcs
Solaiemes (Hall 7, pod IZ12) introduce their RCSGW and RCS TV widget. Attract developers since the early launch, with your choice of servers and clients. Minimum investment, low risk to test different business models. More info at http://tinyurl.com/sol-rcsgw
Nokia are planuri mari pentru 2010, dar a preferat să ia o poziţie mai ferită de văzul mass-mediei. La MWC nu a prezentat niciun telefon, însă oficialii Qualcomm (companie cu care finlandezii au un parteneriat) au rupt tăcerea şi au declarat că Nokia va lansa până la sfârşitul anului un smartphone cu Symbian, motorizat de un procesor Snapdragon dintr-o nouă generaţie. Acesta va avea o frecvenţă de 1.3 GHz sau 1.5 GHz.
Dacă zvonurile se adeveresc, smartphone-ul Nokia ar urma sa concureze cu HTC Scorpion, dispozitiv înzestrat cu un procesor Snapdragon tactat la 1.5 GHz şi sistem de operare Android
Cat o sa castige oare Nokia din chestia asta daca inca nu are un OS decent? Nu se stie…dar cert este că va fi un război interesant între cei trei muschetari: Apple, Google şi Microsoft. Să aibe Nokia asul in maneca în toată povestea asta? Vom vedea…
Nokia, the world’s biggest maker of mobile handsets, said on Monday it would merge its Linux Maemo software platform, used in its flagship N900 phone, with Intel’s Moblin, which is also based on Linux open-sourced software, to create a new platform, MeeGo.
“They have understood the only way to beat Microsoft, Google and Apple is to do it through scale — get the platform to more devices,” said John Strand, owner and head of Strand Consult after the announcements at the Mobile World Congress fair.
“However, they have not realized it’s not about getting to many platforms, it’s about making something the consumer likes. The bees don’t go for the biggest garden, they go for the most beautiful flowers,” Strand said.
The cellphone industry is increasingly focusing on smartphones, devices with computer-like capabilities that have fatter margins than ordinary phones, whose sales may overtake those of other phones as early as this year.
LUCKY SEVEN ?
Microsoft’s long-awaited revamp of its mobile software follows a lukewarm reception for Windows Mobile 6.5 in October, which most analysts viewed as a poor competitor.
It has been losing the battle for advanced phone users over the past few years, taking just 8.8 percent of the global smartphone systems market last year, according to technology analysis firm Canalys, down from 13.9 percent the year before.
“We hope seven’s our lucky number,” Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told a news conference.
In the launch of Windows Phone 7 Microsoft has put an emphasis on appealing to everyday users as well as its core business market.
Phone 7 handsets to be made by companies including HTC, Samsung and Sony Ericsson, will feature touch screens with quick access to social networking functions from Facebook, music and video through Microsoft’s Zune software and games linked to its Xbox system.
Microsoft said its main network carrier partners are AT&T and France Telecom’s Orange and the new phones will be in stores by the holiday season at the end of the year.
“We’re really trying to go after the life market. People work, they live, and I think on their phone they don’t make a big distinction, so we need to support all aspects of somebody’s life,” Ballmer told Reuters Television in an interview.
However handset makers such as HTC, Samsung and Motorola are also turning to Google’s Android operating software, which is not only free but attracting a fast-growing developer community and already has 4.7 percent of the market.
Microsoft is the only major phone software maker to charge a license fee to handset makers.
Ballmer told Reuters Television he had no plans to change the company’s charging policy.
“Windows Phone 7 is a massive bet by Microsoft to try and get themselves back in the game. They’re going to throw a lot of money at it to reassert themselves in the sector,” said Ben Wood, director of UK-based telecoms research firm CCS Insight.
NOKIA, INTEL
Meanwhile the news from Intel and Nokia came as more of a surprise to the industry.
Nokia only rolled out its first Maemo phone — the result of a five-year development project — three months ago, with analysts seeing Maemo boosting the firm’s chances of succeeding in the higher end of the market.
The market for software platforms on cellphones is led by Nokia’s Symbian, but it has lost much ground lately to Apple, BlackBerry maker Research in Motion and to Google.
Nokia said it was still committed to using Symbian in most of its smartphones, but would use the new MeeGo in the most advanced models.
The software deal announced on Monday is also set to boost Intel’s chances of getting its chips into the cellphones of the Finnish company, which controls around 40 percent of the global phone market.
“We believe the partnership … will result in significant sales volumes for Intel,” said CCS Insight analyst John Jackson.
Nokia’s shares closed up 0.3 percent at 9.49 euros. The DJ Stoxx European technology sector index fell 0.3 pct.
LINUX
Google said it was relaxed about the development.
“Google benefits when anyone produces a great phone that enables the Web experience,” Vic Gundotra, who leads Google’s mobile engineering, told reporters. “If Intel and Nokia can deliver innovation we think that’s very exciting.”
Network operators have wanted a smaller number of operating systems, as supporting them is timely and costly, but the number has in recent years only increased.
Samsung, the world’s second-biggest handset maker, joined the party on Sunday by unveiling its first phone to use its own new operating system, called ‘bada’.
But now the open-source computer operating system Linux is starting to win traction, with Google using Linux for its Android platform, and Nokia rolling out its top-of-the-range model N900 using Linux Maemo.
“There has been a step change for Linux in mobile,” Morgan Gillis, head of the wireless Linux system user foundation LiMo, said in an interview. “No other operating system now matches the vendor coverage of Linux.
Although Symbian holds the lead at 47%, both RIM and Apple are making serious inroads in the worldwide smartphone market share. According the latest figures produced by Gartner, an information technology research firm, both Symbian and Nokia were still in a solid first place of the world’s smartphone market, both RIM and Apple are becoming a serious threat to each.
In a recently published study, Nokia has maintained an overall 36.4% of the worldwide smartphone market share, but saw a 2.2% loss last year. Symbian also dominated with a 52.4% market share, but those are worldwide figures and do not reflect the United States Market.
In the U.S.A., a recent Comscore survey shows both RIM and Apple are much larger than Symbian. With the increase of mobile web traffic, both Apple and Android are leading the pack. What all the other Operating Systems and Manufactures need to be concerned with is Google’s Android. According to recent reports, Android has been selling 60,000 handsets a month, and both Verizon and AT&T plan to release several devices this year.
