Nokia 7705 Twist puts a new twist on messaging

Verizon Wireless and Nokia introduce the Nokia 7705 Twist, a fun phone with a unique square shape that swivels open to reveal a full QWERTY keypad. The phone’s shortcut buttons provide quick access to messaging, the 3.0 megapixel camera, Web browsing, V CAST Music with Rhapsody®, voice commands, and speakerphone options. The Contact Light Ring, located in the lower right corner, can be customized to identify a message or a call from those listed in the contact directory. Customers may purchase the Nokia Twist online at www.verizonwireless.com beginning Sept. 13 and in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores on Sept. 21.
Available colors: Black with Xpress-on Covers in black and purple packaged with the phone.
Features:
- Compatible with services including VZ NavigatorSM, V CAST Music with Rhapsody,
V CAST Video, Visual Voice Mail, Mobile Broadband Connect and Corporate Email
- Habitat mode activates a unique interface for visualizing your social circle and allows customers to easily organize their calls and messaging history
- 3.0 megapixel camera/camcorder with flash and autofocus
– Dedicated camera/video key
– Resolution adjustment: 2048 x 1536, 1280 x 960, 800 x 600, 640 x 480, 320 x 240
– Self-timer: Off, three, five, 10 seconds
– White balance: auto, sunny, cloudy, tungsten and fluorescent
– Shutter sound: Shutter, Silent, Say “Cheese,” and Ready! 1 2 3
– Color effects: normal, antique, black & white, negative
– Capture mode: landscape and portrait
– Photo editing: pan and zoom, rotate
– Customized slideshow
– Video capture and playback
- Media Center-capable for downloading games, ringtones and more
- Threaded messaging helps customers keep track of a variety of conversations
- “Post to Blogs” feature allows multimedia to be posted to a blog or social networking site
- HTML browser
- Support for Mobile Email, Mobile Web Mail, Chat and Blogs
- Built-in mirror
- Supported Bluetooth® profiles include headset, hands-free, dial-up networking, stereo, phonebook access, basic printing, object push (for vCard and vCal), file transfer, and basic imaging
- 2.4-inch, 262K TFT QVGA screen
- EV-DO Rev. 0
- 2.5 mm headset jack
- Dimensions: 2.71″ x 2.71″ x 0.59″
- Usage time: up to 270 minutes or
- Standby time: up to 312 hours
- Weight: 3.44 ounces
Price and availability
The Nokia Twist will be available for 99.99 USD after a 50.00 USD mail-in rebate with a new two-year customer agreement. Customers will receive the rebate in the form of a debit card; upon receipt, customers may use the card as cash anywhere debit cards are accepted. Additional information about the Nokia Twist will be available at www.verizonwireless.com/twist on Friday. For additional information on Verizon Wireless products and services, visit a Verizon Wireless Communications Store, call 1-800-2 JOIN IN or go to www.verizonwireless.com.( via )

Nokia X6 launched

 

Music just got a whole lot more interesting, with the introduction of the Nokia X6...
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• Size: 111 x 51 x 13.8 mm
• Display: 3.2 inch 16:widescreen nHD, 231 ppi
• Camera: 5 megapixels with Carl-Zeiss optics and dual LED flash
• Music player supports MP3, SpMidi, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, MTP formats
• Video: Recording and playback with TV-out support, video editing and online-share
• Full web browser (OSS) v7.0 with Macromedia Flash Lite 3.0
• Email support including Nokia Messaging
• Built-in GPS with Assisted GPS (A-GPS) support, compass and Nokia Maps
• 3D stereo ringing tones and video ringing tones
• Memory: 32GB internal memory
• 3.5mm AV connector for stereo headphone jack
• Data Connectivity: High speed MicroUSB connector, WLAN (China WAPI), Bluetooth 2.0, WCDMA, GPRS/EDGE, HSDPA
• Talk time: Up to 8 hours
• Standby time: Up to 406 hours
• Music playback: up to 35 hours
• Video playback: up to 4 hours

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Nokia 5230 Touchscreen phone

Here’s the notable specs and features of the Nokia 5230:

• 3.2 inch touchscreen display
• HSDPA
• A-GPS
• Ovi Maps
• Ovi Store
• 3.5mm headset jack
• Bluetooth 2.0
• 2MP camera
• MicroSD card support, up to 16GB

Well that is not so bad. In fact, it is quite nice. Anyway, the Nokia 5230 should be available around the world starting the fourth quarter of 2009.

Malfreemaps Garmin Map Of Malaysia And Singapore v1.73

Dated 31st August 2009, version 1.73. This is for the folks out there who can’t be bothered/don’t understand how to download the Mapsource version and generate the necessary .img file to be used with Garmin Mobile XT(GMXT)/Garmin Mobile PC (GMPC). Download it here, here or here.
Extract the .img file from the archive and place it in the “garmin” folder for GMXT or the “GarminMobilePC” folder for Garmin Mobile PC (GMPC).
No changelog was provided with this version. Since version 1.60, malfreemaps (MFM) has not provided detailed changelogs, I guess because the updates are considered minor, and a changelog will only be provided once there are major changes.
Credits as usual, go to malfreemaps. Please go to their site to contribute to make it a better map! ( via )

Nokia 5530 XpressMusic Unboxing

Nokia's brand new 5530 XpressMusic is kind of like the 5800's baby brother, except it kinda looks cooler than the 5800. No 3G or GPS here, but you do get a 16:9 touchscreen and lots of media features. And WiFi!

First Look Reviews: Nokia 5530

The Nokia 5530 gets reviewed by First look Review. enjoy!

Nokia 5800 Firmware Updates To v30.0.011

Changes/Improvements/New features/Bugs noticed from v21.002 to v30.0.011

Standby screen:

• *When Music Player is operating, and seeing the track name on the screen, and then when one song ends and goes to the next track, the speed at which this happens has improved yet again from 21.002, although the noticeable change is not as much as from 20.149 to 21.002.

Call log, Contacts and calling function:

• *Calling speed (from standby screen to Contacts or Call Log) and transition to call/disconnected screens even faster than 21.002, is more than the instantaneous that I stated for the 21.002, it has improved yet again.
• *New menu option in the in-call menu to Send MMS during phone call.
• *Loudspeaker maximum volume has seemed to decreased

Maps:

• *Maps startup is now almost instantaneous, speed through all the Maps menus very fast, even faster than Maps 2.0
• *Switching to different views is very smooth and fast now, i.e. to Map 3D etc.
• *Maps version 2.0 week 39 remains the same, although the Maps is able to be upgraded to Ovi Maps 3.01 flawlessly

Music Player:

• *The biggest change is the equaliser improvements. There is a huge improvement in sound quality, even background sounds and other channels are more noticeable. The default equaliser settings are quite good. And bass is less crunchy than before.
• *Split-second delays now do not exist when pressing the volume keys to change between volume levels. In the past, there was some degree of delay, even running multiple applications now, that behaviour has been improved remarkably.
• *Freezes in the music player have not been evident to me yet in my days of usage with the new firmware . Which is a marked improvement in the functioning and stability of the music player. Screen tearing and slow speed for album art to appear is still present though.

Camera and Photos:

• *Biggest change is the reappearance of use of the volume keys to zoom while taking photos/recording video
• *Going into Details is faster than 21.002, almost instantaneous now
• *Scrolling speed through thumbnails is only minimally jerky now, also scrolling through photos at 100% view has improved in speed so it is now very smooth and almost instantaneous
• *When going into menus in Camera, the speed is instantaneous

Video centre:

• *Logo has changed for the video centre in the menu
• *Appearance of video menu is different and seems to have inherited the newer N-series/E-series style simplified logos
• *Speed in the video centre is much improved and is almost instantaneous
• *Changing between volume levels in RealPlayer is instantaneous, fast-forward/rewind speed and resume of playback after these functions is improved and almost instantaneous. Sound quality appears to have been improved also.

Search:

• *Application has been upgraded from v4.08 to v4.10.0904
• *Logo has changed and is now reminiscent of the newer N-series/E-series simplified styling
• *Performance is faster and Yandex search service has been removed in favour of Live Search and Google (Note: this is for the APAC variant, will vary between different regions and specific countries)

Web:

• *Rendering of webpages has improved in speed since 21.002
• *Rotate Screen option speed is now almost instantaneous
• *Speed in Web options menu is now instantaneous
• *Loading of Minimap on side when scrolling down pages does not have pixelation anymore

Other:

• *Overall system speed has been improved so it is somewhat faster than 21.002
• *Scrolling in the Multimedia menu from one tab to another whilst multiple applications are running, has improved marginally in speed
• *Overall stability seems to also have been improved, have not had one crash or freeze where I have had to remove the phone battery. The slight freezes that have occurred, the phone has recovered from flawlessly. ( Via )
  

Nokia Launches Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition With Lifetime Guidance

Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition with lifetime guidance is the latest offering from Nokia. Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition is a tuned version of Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and it comes pre-loaded with a lifetime of voice-guided Drive and Walk navigation licenses.
Since Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition comes pre-loaded with the latest version of Ovi Maps, you are able to locate nearby points of your interest and relevant useful informations e.g. local weather reports.
The 5800 Navigation Edition will be available for sale on the third quarter of 2009

Human Snake

Do you guys still remember there was once a very famous game that available on Nokia 3310, Snakes?
Here is an awesome promote video made for N-Gage and tribute to the world's most played game "Snakes"
This is a real human made Snake video with 1000 peoples moving frame by frame and step by step.Have you played Snakes before?

List of all Nokia phones ever made since 1982

This picture / list of all Nokia phones ever made from 1982 - 2006. Double click at the picture and you can find the full sized photo after the break (2900×2200 resolution, 946k jpg file)

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