Nokia news, reviews

Nokia has released a new mobile phone for the fashion oriented crowd, part of its L’amour collection: the Nokia 7373 Special Edition.

The phone is styled by fashion designer Giambattista Valli, and includes a behind-the-scenes video as well as some exclusive backgrounds and ringtones.

However, the actual phone is pretty much the same as the old 7373.

Description
The Nokia N93i is a multimedia computer possessing a range of advanced features. Shoot DVD like quality videos with the 3.2 mega pixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, auto focus, 3x optical zoom, and close-up mode of Nokia N93i. The broadband internet access and accessing mails in Nokia N93i allows you to stay connected on the go. Entertainment features of Nokia N93i include MP3 music, stereo FM radio, mobile TV video streaming and capability to instantly download video clips. Capture upto 45 minutes of DVD-like quality video with the 1GB mini SD card. The Nokia N93i is designed to work on 3G, WLAN, GSM and EDGE. The slim and compact design of Nokia N93i allows it to fit into your pocket.

Features and Specifications
The Nokia N93i mobile phone features a 3.2 mega pixel camera with a resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels. The lens has been made by Carl Zeiss optics with a 3x optical zoom, auto focus and close-up mode. Users can shoot DVD-like quality videos in MPEG-4 VGA at up to 30 frames per second, and they can also conduct stereo audio recording and digital stabilization as well. The Nokia N93i mobile phone has a 1GB miniSD card that can store around 45 minutes of DVD-like quality video or up to 1250 high-quality photos.

Basically, this device is based on the S60 3rd Edition software. The phone comes preloaded with Adobe Premium Elements 3.0 software. This allows users to shoot professional quality movies and then transfer them onto a compatible PC, after which these videos can be burned onto DVDs.

The Nokia N93i mobile phone has been designed to work on WLAN, 3G (WCDMA 2100 MHz), EDGE and GSM (900/1800/1900 MHz) networks, providing mobile broadband Internet access for browsing, uploading content, and for sending and receiving mails.

Besides, other features of the Nokia N93i mobile phones include MP3 music playback, pod casts, stereo FM radio and mobile TV video streaming. It has a metallic finish keypad and a mirror effect cover. It has a 2.4??? main display of up to 16 million colors and has a 160 degrees viewing angle. Besides, the user-friendly joystick provides smooth control, and the dedicated camera keys allow for quick capture of images. The joystick also makes it easier to switch to shooting mode and also operates the flash quickly.

Nokia N93i connected to PC to use Vox, the blogging service The N93i mobile phone from Nokia also integrates a new personal video and photo blogging service called Vox, which has privacy features that allow users to share articles, stories and thoughts almost instantly with friends or the entire world for that matter. Another feature of the Nokia N93i mobile phone is its Direct TV out functionality, which makes it possible to have a mass screening of your self-made video or latest photos. All the user has to do is connect the N93i to a compatible TV with the supplied video-out connectivity cable. In addition to this, one could also go the wireless way and use the integrated wireless LAN (WLAN) technology to connect to a compatible UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) enabled device.

Conclusion
N93i, is in fact a marginally shape-changed Nokia N93, functionality is not big news either, the differences are mostly minor, the design has been changed a bit (they made the shell a tad thinner, which you simply might miss), stereo-sound recording has been moved off the handset. N93i mobile phone combines a compact and stylish digital camcorder with a multimedia device. Consumers will be able to bring out the ???movie maker??™ in them, as they will have a multimedia device to capture their personal experiences, convert those into personalized short films and then share it with the rest of the world.

Description
This latest one, the Nokia 5300 comes with a sporty design that should appeal to the funky, style-conscious user on a budget. The Nokia 5300 XpressMusic is a GSM tri-band hand portable phone supporting GSM 900/1800/1900 or GSM 850/1800/1900 bands with a 240 x 320 pixel active TFT 262k color display, integrated 1.3 Mega pixel digital camera, 3GPP video player/recorder, MicroSD card support, Bluetooth 2.0 and IrDa. The Nokia 5300 XpressMusic is also a Java-enabled phone supporting MIDP Java 2.0 and additional Java APIs.

Features and Specifications
It?????s certainly very distinctive-looking, with a ???racing stripe????? around the middle, a silver keypad and button area, and a white frame. Measuring 92.4mm x 48.2mm x 20.7mm and weighing 106.2g, it?????s compact for a slider phone. The 5300 features a 2.5mm audio connector, but Nokia has thoughtfully included an adapter for connecting regular-sized 3.5mm headphones. The 5300 supports a range of music formats, including MP3, WMA, M4A, AAC and AAC+. The bundled Nokia PC Suite software includes Nokia Music Manager for ripping music from a CD and transferring tracks from a PC with the supplied mini-USB cable. On-board memory is scant at just over 8MB, so it comes with a 256MB microSD card that has just over 230MB free. The 5300 is more than capable. It runs Nokia?????s mid-range Series 40 platform, which has an easy-to-use menu system that includes an e-mail client, Web browser, video player, push-to-talk and PIM software. No 3G connectivity here????? just tri-band and EDGE, as well as Bluetooth 2.0. Complementing the 5300?????s music player feature is A2DP support for Bluetooth, letting you connect wireless stereo headphones. The built-in camera is capable of taking 1.3MP photos and videos up to 176 x 144 pixels in the 3GP format. Output from both is typical for a mobile phone: photos are grainy, with a bluish tint and fuzzy edges, while videos are pixilated due to the heavy compression. If you?????re looking for a good camera phone, look elsewhere. Screen size is a respectable two inches, with a bright backlight, good color reproduction (supporting up to 262 thousand colors) and 240 x 320 pixel resolution. Generously-sized keys comprise the keypad hidden behind the display, with excellent tactile feedback and key travel, and the phone?????s curved edges and compact frame make it pleasant to hold. Nokia quotes battery life for music at up to 12 hours, which is reasonable; talk time and standby time are on the low side at 3.2 and 216 hours respectively.

Conclusion
The 5300 delivers what it promises: it works well as a phone, as a messaging device, and a music player. It does not have the best sound quality, but A2DP and dedicated music buttons are all in place. It does not take the best pictures, but it gives you the excellent S40 interface. The design might not appeal to everyone, and there are definitely some build issues. The hidden memory slot is a mistake that Nokia could have avoided. The other huge slip-up is the inclusion of a 2.5mm earphone jack instead of a standard 3.5mm one, though it is nonetheless a lot more welcome than the old Pop-Port interface. At the end of the day, the 5300 is a give-and-take handset, and you will not be happy with everything it offers, though if you can work with its shortcomings, it is worth buying.

You’d look pretty weird with the humbug inspired design phone clamped to your ear in the boardroom. Instead the device is clearly targeted at the teenage market where multimedia and games combined with messaging are king. Multimedia and the express music phone is this models big selling point and support for MP3, Midi, AAC, AAC+, ACC+, and WMA formats make for a powerful media device that can play non DRM iTunes tracks along with MP3 and files from Windows Media player. This sadly is where Nokia get it a little wrong when compared to the Walkman branded mobiles from Sony Ericsson. the 5300 does not come with an internal hard drive and the internal storage that is free for users is a measly 5mb, barely enough to store 1 track encoded at 192kbps.

Instead Nokia rely entirely on the microSD card slot and the provided 256mb card for all the multimedia storage, this seems a bit daft given all the heavy promotion. You can specify a 2gb card although this will set you back between ??35 and ??40. Should you exhaust your MP3 collection there is always the standard Nokia FM radio.
Operation of the media player is simple through use of the dedicated buttons alongside the screen, these allow you to skip / play and pause easily as well as adjust the volume level. Used in conjunction with the excellent media player GUI it is almost as easy to use as the Sony Ericsson W850i but neither come close to being an iPod. You also get a 1.3 mega pixel camera mounted in the rear of the phone which can take both pictures and short videos, the latter of which can be used as ringtones.

A strange and highly annoying decision for a music phone is Nokia’s instance of providing a headset that requires its own plug system and not providing a standard 3.5m jack socket. So we were forced to perform all of our tests using the HS-47 headset supplied with the 5300 or to use the adaptor block to use standard earphones. Once again a compromise between either mediocre sounds or extra bulk and another “extra” that is easily lost.
In part this explains the average results from our review of the media player, the software is good as we have seen in previous models with an intuitive GUI and quick access in a logical layout to the stored tracks. The let down is the sound quality which sounds decidedly flat even when testing using Fatboy Slim tracks which are not normally “flat”. On the Nokia earphones it sounds pretty bad and nothing like a good MP3 player, using our Shure E2C’s and the adaptor things get a bit better but mp3 standard software provided by Nokia, 5300 fails to drive them properly not like Walkman phone by Sony Erricson headphone.
The last element we checked was the battery life, standby is quite good if you remain in a reasonable coverage area with more than 2 bars shown, we got close on 4 days with minimal calls and the music player will run for around 14 hours before killing the battery.
Overall the Nokia 5300 music phone is a mixed bag, as a phone it is a bit chunky and the styling will not be to all tastes. As a music player it works well but is let down by limited storage provided on microSD and the failure (yet again) to house a native 3.5mm stereo jack on the phone, instead relying on extra adaptors. A shame really as the crown of the “ultimate walkman phone” is still up for grabs.

Description
The Nokia N70 is the successor of the popular 6680. Similar to its predecessor, it is built for the WCMDA/GSM 900/1800/1900 networks. The N70 comes bundled with a 64 MB MMC card in the sales package which you can transfer files. It also has Bluetooth connectivity. The N70 is also based on the Symbian OS, making the phone an open platform for the most variety of applications written in Java or Symbian. The phone supports the following formats JPEG, MP3, PPT, DOC, XLS, and PDF. The major improvement over 6680 is its 2megapixel camera that can be used for video sharing and recording or camera using the smooth 20 x digital zoom, integrated LED-based flash, and high-quality lens provided, it also supports Nokia XpressPrint printing solution makes producing great prints of images. You can even hookup a Keyboard to the phone using Bluetooth. Measuring just 108.8 x 53 x 17.5 mm, the Nokia N70 is the smallest ever 2 mega pixel 3G smart phone based on the leading Series 60 Platform. It is also lighter than the 6680.

Features
From a technical perspective, it’s a GSM 900/1800/1900 phone. The N70 also comes with integrated Bluetooth and supports Pictbridge printing for ease of photo printing. On the software side, the N70 supports visual radio applications, comes with RealPlayer installed as well as a small suite of business-type applications. Of all the N series mobiles, this is the one that you’re most likely to convince your manager to buy you for the office, if only because the leisure applications are better hidden than with the clearly musical or photo aspirations of the other N series mobiles. Connectivity is once again provided by Nokia’s PC Suite Software. Like the N90, the N70 features a 2.0 Mega pixel camera with a surprising amount of clarity for a mobile phone camera. The N70 offers up to 22MB of internal memory for storage. With the quantity of downloadable 3G data out there, not to mention the phone’s inbuilt music and photo offerings, that’s likely to be gobbled up rather quickly. For additional storage the N70 uses RS-MMC (reduced size Multimedia Card). The slot for these is on the right hand side of the phone, and our test sample came with a 128MB RS-MMC card.

Specifications
The specifications of Nokia N70 include; Phone Type Symbian OS 8, Network Supporter WCDMA/TriBand GSM 900/1800/1900, Wireless Technology 3G, WAP, GPRS, Java, MMS, Bluetooth, Video streaming, Video calling/sharing, LCD Display 176 x 208 pixels, Colour Yes / 262K Colour TFT, Form Factor Candy Bar, Dimensions 108.8 x 53 x 17.5 mm, Weight inch Battery 126g, Battery Power Rating Nokia BL-5C 3.7v 900 mAh Li-Ion, Max Talk time 4 hrs, Max Standby Time 240 hrs, Digital Camera / Video 2 mpixel, Max resolution 1280×960, Video 3GP, Ringtone MIDI, MP3, AAC, AMR, Real player, PDF reader, Storage 64M RS-MMC external storage provided

Conclusion
Nokia’s N70 isn’t half bad. Unlike so many 3G phones - including N80 - it’s neither chunky nor gawky. It’s got the slick look of Nokia’s business phones coupled with a consumer-friendly feature set. The camera’s good and there’s a nice music player for your MP3s - it supports iTunes-friendly the AAC format too, though not songs downloaded from Apple’s online music store. Sure, it has its idiosyncrasies - size, the lack of flight mode - and the battery’s life could be (much) better, but the N70 won me over despite that. A great all-rounder.

TabletPCReview does a review of Nokia?????s new N800 model:

My first impressions are fairly positive. It has some nice new features not included in its predecessor, the Nokia 770, like a built-in web camera, dual memory card slots, stereo speakers and a stand.

Description
The 7650 comes fitted with the Symbian operating system and utilizes Nokia??™s own Series 60 platform, which is designed for single-handed usage. Compared to previous Nokia phones, the 7650 comes with an enhanced set of PIM applications and also providing support for third-party Series 60-based software and Java applications. All information on the 7650 shares the 3.6-megabyte (MB) dynamic memory area for such data. The large colour screen also acts as a viewfinder for the built-in digital camera.
A wide range of connectivity options are available on the 7650, including Bluetooth and infrared support on the physical level. Messaging options include POP/IMAP e-mail and MMS (multimedia messaging service) support on top of the standard SMS text messaging feature.

Features and Specifications
The Nokia 7650 operates on the frequencies of GSM 900 GSM 1800. This phone comes with built in polyphonic ring tones, which means you can download simple MIDI files from the Internet and upload them through your phone, or simply download them via GRPS (if GRPS is built in). The Nokia 7650 does have a camera. Messaging and Internet: The Nokia 7650 is capable of surfing the Internet with the built in browser of the phone. With this phone, you may also send MMS, or Multimedia Message Service. The phone is also able to use EMS, or Enhanced Message Service. On top of sending messages, the Nokia 7650 is equipped with intelligent t9 typing, which allows you to easily type text messages without pressing each key up to 4 times for the correct letter.

The Nokia 7650 comes fully equipped with a WAP browser, and additionally an HTML browser for normal web page surfing.. Including support for java. Connectivity and Interactivity: With the 7650, you can use Bluetooth, Infrared, or a USB cable to connect to and interact with other devices. The phone is equipped with, voice commands, sound recording, speaker phone, 4 MB of ram. The major specifications of the Nokia 7650 include: Weight 154 g, Dimensions 114 mm ?— 56 mm ?— 26 mm, Display resolution 176×208 (4096 colours), Battery charge duration Up to 200 hours, Operating system Symbian OS 6.1 with Series 60 platform, GPRS Class 10 (2 Tx / 4 Rx), Communication ports Bluetooth v1.0 (data transfer only), IrDA, Camera 24-bit VGA (640×480); User Interface: S60, Operating Frequency: Dual-band EGSM 900, GSM 1800, and GSM 900 / 1800 MHz; automatic switching between bands, Email Protocols: SMTP, POP3, and IMAP4, Display: Illuminated high-contrast, full-graphics color display, Number of Cameras: 1 Camera Pixels: Image capture at 640×480 resolution, Photo album 3.6 MB
Voice Features: Voice dialing; memory for 25 names and numbers, Voice recorder
Browsing: WAP 1.2.1 over GSM data, HSCSD, and GPRS, Connectivy: Infrared, Bluetooth?® technology, Wireless phone-to-phone or phone-to-PC connectivity, Memory: 72 Mb expandable memory

Conclusion
The phone has, once you draw the bottom line, a lot more good things speaking for it than it has bad ones against it. It’s useful, it gets the job done, and it can replace your digital camera for those pictures where quality isn’t paramount. The MMS feature is excellent, and as soon as more operators start to support it will be a very, VERY big hit. The GPRS data transfer functions very well, about 3 KB being the mean throughput rate, so you can use the 7650 with your notebook for light surfing and accessing your mail. All in all, the Nokia 7650’s a solid phone, but it had some shortcomings that would not have cost much to include

Nokia 6126 Review - The Nokia 6126 is a relatively slim quadband (850/900/1800/1900) flip phone backed by two high quality displays, Bluetooth support, as well as a 1.3 megapixel camera with video recording capabilities.Nokia has certainly been putting out plenty of new flip phones over the years - the Nokia 6126 is one of the latest and more attactive models available. I like the black and silver color scheme accented by smooth, comfortable edges. Nokia decided to leave out the external antenna on this one - thank goodness!

The first thing you??™ll notice about the Nokia 6126 is the vibrant 128 x 160 resolution external screen. This external screen is better than most. It packs 262k colors and shows graphics very well. The external display will also give you the time, signal reach, and current battery life.

The internal display is just as nice, if not better. The display boasts a 240 x 320 pixel resolution along with support for a vast 16 million colors. Everything from wallpapers to video can be viewed on this phone beautifully.

The Nokia 6126 operates on the Series 40 platform, which is pretty stable and has plenty of third party software to play with.

The Nokia 6126 supports both bluetooth and USB connectivity. You??™ll also find voice dialing and a fully functional speakerphone. Connecting to your e-mail is possible with POP3 as well as IMAP4 support.

source: nokia-review