THE ‘TAI-KOR’ OF MOBILE PHONES

Do you know that Nokia sold only 500,000 units of their flagship phone the high-end N97 since Jun 09?  Compare that with iPhone 3GS which sold 1,000,000 units in the first weekend.  The Tai-kors (Chinese for Big Brothers) in the phone industry look like it belong to iPhone and Blackberry.  Forget about Motorola, Fujitsu, Sharp, [...]

MWC: NOKIA N86 – 8 MEGAPIXEL CAMERA

Nokia announced its newest N series handset at Mobile World Congress – the N86. This phone has an 8-megapixel camera using Carl Zeiss lens, a mechanical shutter, and can take pictures with shutter speeds up to 1/1000th of a second. This is indeed a camera phone.
The N86 is one of the first mobile phones to [...]

MWC 2009: WHAT TO EXPECT?

The Mobile World Congress, the cellphone industry’s version of the Consumer Electronics Show, kicks off in Barcelona on Monday.
Thousands of mobile industry professionals will converge on the Spanish city to show off their new range of products.  Though Research group Strategy Analytics predicted last month that the global mobile phone market would shrink 9% in [...]

WINDOWS MOBILE IS STILL #1

PocketNow reported :  “…it is estimated that Apple shipped 17.4 million iPhones between July 2007 and December 2008. Nokia’s business smartphone platform only includes the N Series and E Series, both of which runs the S60 platform based on Symbian. Total for that is about 11 million smartphones. Nokia may have other converged devices based [...]

NOKIA N97 – WORLD’S MOST ADVANCED MOBILE COMPUTER

 
With the NOKIA N97 announcement, 2008 is going to end with a big bang.  Nokia calls it the “world’s most advanced mobile computer.”   Watch out HTC TOUCH HD !  N97 costs only RM2,522.00 only against Touch HD RM3,399.00.

Nokia N97 Data Sheet:

System:

WCDMA 900/1900/2100 (HSDPA),EGSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz

User Interface: S60 5th Edition
Dimensions: 117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9 mm*mm [...]

7.000,000 iPHONES SOLD SINCE 11 JULY 2008

Apple has taken over Canadian giant Research in Motion and is second place only to Nokia.  The share breakdown is as follows:

FIRST      -      Nokia :    38.9%
SECOND   -      Apple :    17.3%
THIRD     -      RIM :       15.2%

 
Apple though a new comer into the smartphone business has already pushed Microsoft aging Windows Mobile platform into the 4th position [...]

NOKIA TUBE CHALLENGES iPHONE 3G & TOUCH DIAMOND

Nokia has been watching very closely on the development of the iPhone 3G and HTC Touch Diamond.  Eventhough Nokia is holding the world’s leading smartphone position they are not resting on their laurels.
The news are spreading like wild fire that Nokia will be releasing the Tube, a.k.a. The 5800 XpressMusic. 

Below are some specs to expect:

Measurements: [...]

NOKIA NOW OWNS 100% OF SYMBIAN

 
Nokia now owns 100% of Symbian. And what this means is that Nokia has total control of Symbian to allow them to offer Symbian for free to hardware manufacturers. On top of that Nokia has promised to release the Symbian source code too.
Microsoft has not been fair to Windows Mobile by treating it like a [...]

NOKIA: PLUG THE LEAK?

NOKIA: PLUG THE LEAK?
Nokia, the giant phone manufacturer is complaining about its own product leaks on their corporate website. Charlie of Nokia cited the Nokia E71 as the most leaked product in Nokia. According to him “The whole history of some product leaks in the past few months is a mixture of dumb moves, broken [...]

NOKIA N810 WIMAX EDITION

Nokia has just unveiled its newest Nseries device, the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet – WiMAX Edition, Nokia’s first device engineered to take advantage of new wide-area high-speed mobile WiMAX networks.  This pocket-sized device lets consumers enjoy an open Internet experience, allowing for access to the full Internet without barriers, while on the go. The Nokia [...]