Fido Solutions, a Canadian cellular telephone service provider, is releasing the Nokia 5200 under its banner. Nokia 5200, the budget music phone with a bright color scheme, is offered by Fido for three years at $25 Canadian (about $23 USD). Pretty good deal if you ask me.

The Nokia 5200 is sure to appeal to the fun-loving youth market as it sports a VGA cam, Class 10 EDGE, Bluetooth, and microSD expansion with Nokia’s ubiquitous but solid Series 40 backing up the whole package. Fido even goes further as to throw in a 1GB card.

Great deal! Wouldn’t you say so?

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Tags: Cell Phones, fido, Mobile News, Nokia, Nokia, Phone

Nokia announced today the launch of their new 3G mobile phone, the Nokia 6555. This phone pairs original design and quality workmanship with outstanding features. It has aesthetic appeal with an external analog clock echoing the timeless elegance of high-end luxury. The Nokia 6555 is the first WCDMA phone with a smooth-back fold design with recessed hinge creating a seamless line when open. The phone’s gentle curve ensures a smooth and ergonomic user experience. The Nokia 6555 is an accessible option for discerning consumers.

Nokia 6555 features a QVGA 16 million color internal display - twice as many colors as the human eye can see - for a brilliant, crisp resolution on a large 240×320 screen, making it perfect for viewing photos and videos. The camera featuring a 6x zoom gives even greater versatility and full screen portrait viewfinder so you can be sure you get the right picture every time. The self-portrait function on the camera and video sharing ability ensures that special moments are easily shared with family and friends.

From the thin, narrow form factor with smooth lines to the 30MB user memory (with capacity for microSD expandable memory) and Bluetooth wireless connectivity, the Nokia 6555 sets the standard in its class.

The Nokia 6555 will be available within the next month at an estimated retail price of approximately €200 before subsidies or taxes.

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A Nokia mobile phone, identified only as RM-310, has just got the nod from the FCC. The phone features Java MIDP support and has a microSD memory card slot for expanding the available memory. There’s a USB data cable connectivity for syncing with your PC/laptop. As with most other Nokia phones, there’s Bluetooth support as well. The RM-310 also features a 2 megapixel camera, and you can tilt the camera in landscape mode to conveniently take photographs or videos. It features an LED flash as well.

With Visual Radio support, you can view information about radio programs that you are listening to on the included FM radio receiver (which, of course, is dependent on the station). If you have an external Bluetooth GPS receiver, you can use the Positioning feature on the phone to view your current location, track distances or create routes.

The phone also features Nokia’s mini-map full-fledged web browser. Productivity applications on the phone include Quickoffice, featuring Quickword, Quicksheet and Quickpoint.

No word on the pricing or availability yet, but thanks to the FCC approval, the phone should hit the markets soon.

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Tags: 2 megapixel, camera phone, Cell Phones, microsd, Nokia, Nokia, office, productivity phone, series 60

The Nokia N95 multimedia computer has just been voted as the European Media Phone for the year 2007-2008. Tough luck for the iPhone. European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA), Europe’s leading association for consumer electronics, praised the Nokia N95 as containing “practically every feature one could imagine in a mobile device.” Additionally, the award citation of the EISA jury goes on to say: “It’s no mere mobile phone and no mere status symbol. Pick up a Nokia N95 and you hold in your hands a state-of-the-art communication tool - the ideal way to remain permanently in touch and on track with the world that surrounds you.”

Nokia N95 with features such as GPS, 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and MPEG4 video capture of up to 30 fps has won the approval of these critics. EISA even highlighted the device’s data access of up to 3.5 Mb/s, advanced web browser, Wi-Fi, microSD slot, and audio reproduction of multiple audio formats.

EISA is a consumer technology awards association, and comprises of nearly 50 prominent Photo, Video, Audio, Home Theater and Mobile Electronics magazines from 18 European countries.

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Nokia issued a product advisory for the Nokia-branded BL-5C battery - one of the most standard batteries for its cell phones - manufactured by Matsushita Battery of Japan between December 2005 and November 2006. It seems that in rare cases, the battery may experience overheating initiated by a short circuit while charging, causing the battery to dislodge.

The advisory applies to about 46 million batteries (of the more than 300 million BL-5C batteries, including those produced by other manufacturers) manufactured by Matsushita. At this time, there have been about 100 incidents of the overheating reported globally. Thankfully for Nokia, no serious injuries or proerty damage so far. Also, the issue does not affect any other use of the mobile phone.

If you are a concerned customer that doesn’t want an overheated, dislodging battery (who isn’t?) check the battery for a 26-character ID number printed on the battery and determine if it is one among those manufactured by Matsushita between December 2005 and November 2006, and you will get a free replacement battery.

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A new Nokia cell phone was approved recently by the almighty FCC. While no details were made available (Nokia had requested short term confidentiality), it appears to be a Nokia 661X series device - at least from the FCC label anyway.

The only information available as of this writing is that it is a GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz quad-band phone that also supports WCDMA, and is compatible with EGPRS and GPRS. Bluetooth is also available on the phone. The phone also supports a micro-USB data cable for data sync.

As usual, no word on the pricing or availability of this phone, but thanks to the FCC seal, it should be on its way soon.

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Today Broadcom Corp. announced that Nokia Corp. has choosen Broadcom’s single-chip cellular baseband processor and companion power management unit (PMU) for selected future EDGE mobile phones.

The new chip, BCM21331, aka “Venus”, is a single-chip EDGE multimedia processor that was first revealed at the 3GSM conference in February 2007. It’s designed in 65 nanometer CMOS process technology, and integrates an EDGE RF transceiver and corresponding analog and digital baseband functions, as well as high-performance multimedia and connectivity support. The BCM21331 processor combined with the BCM59035 PMU creates a new solution that is not only extremely power efficient, but one that also accomodates a small board space and slim design and a not so costly price.

The integration of the new chipset will certainly help transform Nokia’s future EDGE phones into sleek, powerful, and long-lasting phones coveted by many.

Related Nokia Phones:
- Nokia N97 Mobile Phone
- Nokia 6500 Slider Phone

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Nokia unveiled the new Prism collection aimed at style-conscious consumers. The collection includes the new Nokia 7900 Prism and the Nokia 7500 Prism handsets. Available in new colors, the handsets are highlighted by the material used to manufacture them as well as the graphics. The diamond-cut design and angled lines set them apart from run-of-the-mill handsets.

Nokia 7900 Prism
The 7900 Prism (on the left) features a licorice-black front and anodized aluminium backcover and is laser-etched in Nokia Prism’s signature diamond-cut design. A battery-saving Organic LED main display offering 16 million colors is the highlight, and it handles a living wallpaper that changes throughout the day according to the time and battery and signal strength. A choice of 49 illumination colors is possible on the Nokia 7900 Prism. The selected color radiates from under the key-mat. It comes with a 2 megapixel camera, 1GB of internal memory and is a quad-band 3G cell phone. There doesn’t appear to be any support for microSD memory cards. Priced at €400, it will be available in Q3 2007.

Nokia 7500 Prism
The 7500 Prism also features a black exterior, and offers interchangeable color accents. A 2 megapixel camera is available on-board and it can also record videos. This differs from the 7900 in that a microSD memory card slot is provided, and it can take in up to 2GB cards. The Nokia 7500 Prism is priced at €210.

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Nokia and the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) announced a joint venture to create mobile services for the association, as well as some of the most important basketball championship events in 2007.

The new service is targeted at basketball fans giving them a convenient way to access the latest news, scores and interviews on the go. The service will be accessible on any internet-enabled phone. The FIBA mobile content will also be available through the Nokia Video Center available on the Nokia N95.

Nokia will also be providing reporters with the Nokia N93i multimedia computer for recording high quality video and photo, which will then be made available on the FIBA mobile websites.

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Remember the Long Way Down with Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman? Yes, the same journey from Scotland to South Africa guided by the Nokia 6110 Navigator cell phone. Well, after three months and 24,000 kilometers across two continents, the journey is now over.

With the Nokia 6110 Navigator routing the path along the way, Ewan and Charley completed the ride on their custom BMW motorcycles, finishing today in Cape Town, South Africa. The 6110 Navigator combines GPS and Assisted GPS in a compact form factor. It features a 2 megapixel camera and a 2.2″ QVGA display at 16 million colors. The phone has microSD card support, along with 3G/HSDPA compliance.

It is available for €450.

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News has just been released that the N95, Nokia’s flagship phone, is now available through the 3 store. However, the downside is that it is not available on a 12-month contract. The prices of the handset will vary ranging from £15 Price Plan up to £35 Price Plans. The higher price plans mean zero charge for the handset.

The Nokia N95 is part of the company’s Nseries line of smartphones. The N95’s features include standard features of s60 3rd edition platform with feature pack 1. The phone utilizes a two-way slider allowing access to media playback buttons or a keypad, but not both simultaneously.

The N95 is also compatible with the whole Three X-Series software suite. For some who don’t know about it, X-Series from 3 is a mobile broadband offering. It is priced like fixed line broadband. X-Series customers are charged a fixed monthly subscription, which in addition to ordinary calling minutes and texts, includes X-Series mobile broadband services, including normal internet access when mobile.

So for all of you out there, it’s finally out, so you can probably start lining up and try to get one right now.

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There has been several advertisement coming out of Google concerning a new Nokia N81. From the pictures we see, we can quickly conclude that it is both a mobile phone and media player rolled into one. Of course a lot of mobile devices have already incorporated this functionality but this is quite intriguing as no details have been released about it yet.

Everyone has to see for himself though as this is one of those viral campaigns wherein users are given clues about an upcoming product, but never really given the complete set of information.

As seen on the site, there is a sort of countdown timer. Thus, we will all have to wait and expect some sort of details or press release about this product in a few weeks (or months) from now. The domain has been registered to a company in the U.K. known as Lightmaker, they appear to be a web design company, so no info can be gleaned from this info.

Anyway, you can see the site for yourself here.

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Ever wondered how many units Nokia has sold? Well, today, Nokia confirmed that it has sold over 100 million cellphones this spring, solidifying its dominance of the global cellphone business. The results for this year is significantly higher than the result of last year by 29 percent. This growth was attributed to its dominance in smartphone sales. Over 9 million N-series and 2 million E-series were sold. Their front line phone is the Nokia N95 smartphone.

This result placed Nokia ahead of Samsung, Motorola, Sony-Ericsson and LG. Apple on the other hand, with its iPhone, needs to catch up with this mobile phone giants. Apple chief Steve Jobs projected that the company will sell about 10 million iPhones by the end of 2008, or about 1 percent of the market as it was in 2006.

But experts predict that Apple will play a major role in the market with their iPhone. “The iPhone is likely to have a disproportionately large impact on the industry,” IDC mobile director Shiv Bakhshi said. “It could forever alter the structural relationship between device vendors and mobile operators who have traditionally controlled the mobile environment, especially in the US.”

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Nokia announced the establishment of its first design studio in India (and the first in a series of satellite design studios). The studio, which is part of a two-year partnership with Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore, will lend to new design ideas not only for India but global markets.

The studio will explore a range of design trends and themes, and will also conduct detailed research into color and material trends in India, mobile use of the net and how it affects cell phone design. The Global headquarters of Nokia at Espoo, Finland, already houses its first ever design studio.

Similar studios are planned in other parts of the world, with one opening in London later this year. Nokia designers comprise of researchers, anthropologists, engineers, technology specialists and more. Expect to see some innovative designs from Espoo soon.

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The Nokia 3500 classic cell phone which we recently saw on the Whack has got the approval from the Federal Communications Commission, paving its way to enter the US and other markets. A neat little phone that is both affordable and functional, the Nokia 3500 features a 2 megapixel camera and the ability to update phone software over the air.

There is also a microSD memory card slot on this entry-level phone. As with other entry-level phones from Nokia, this one featuers a Navi-key interface. It also offers a mini-USB connector for syncing data with your computer. There is also a POP3/IMAP4 email client on the phone. It comes with Bluetooth support as well.

The USB data cable allows the phone for data transfer or image printing, with the following modes available to the user:

• Nokia mode - to use the cable for PC Suite
• Printing and media - to use the phone with a PictBridge compatible printer or PC
• Data storage - to connect to a PC that does not have Nokia software and use the phone as a data storage device

Priced at €135 before taxes and subsidies.

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Writing a book is not an easy thing to do, which many authors can attest to, which is what makes this man’s particular feat even more impressive. Italian author Robert Bernocco has just published the world’s first book written entirely using a mobile phone. That had to be painful. He published the book on Lulu.com, a site where anyone can publish their own book for print.

Bernocco’s book was no small one either - in the end, it was an impressive 384 page science fiction novel. He wrote it taking advantage of down time, such as while commuting to and from work by train. He wrote the entire book using a Nokia 6630, utilizing the phones T9 typing system. The title of the finished book was Compagni di Viaggo, which translates to Fellow Travelers in English.

Bernocco wrote the entire novel in perfect Italian, not any kind of typical mobile slang that we’re all used to. He divided the work up into short paragraphs, and saved them on his phone. He would then download them on to his home computer for editing and proofreading. Writing the book took him just 17 weeks to complete.

Of the feat, Bernocco said: “Only a few years ago I would have struggled to find both the time and the publisher to enable me to create this book. Thanks to my Nokia and Lulu, I am now proud to be a published author.”

Tags: Cell Phones, Crazy Mobile, Nokia

Ah, here’s something that’s going to be really useful for those of you with a Nokia N95 cell phone: Nokia announced an Assisted GPS (A-GPS) service that helps Nokia Maps users to find their location faster.

The service reduces the Time To First Fix or TTFF (ah, I love this industry and its acronyms) for most geographical locations worldwide, which basically enhances the usability of your N95 or Nokia 6110 Navigator.

Download it from http://www.nokia.com/softwareupdate, to update the firmware on the device to the latest version. Of course, it’s interesting to note that the A-GPS service uses your data network, so although the framework is free from Nokia, your provider may still decide that you need special privileges (i.e., paid) to use it.

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Whoa, this is sweet: WorldMate announced that the WorldMate product free for Nokia S60 smartphone users. A very useful mobile tool for the frequent flier, the WorldMate application provides information at your fingertips.

Basic travel services like world clocks, weather forecasts and currency conversion are available for free. If you throw in a paid Pro level subscription, you get tons more including comprehensive flight schedules and real-time flight status.

Heck, I use Track-a-flight for flight info within the US and it’s a pretty useful service. Anyway, the free WorldMate apps are also pretty useful, and available for S60 3rd edition phones. Download your copy from here

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Skype, the popular service to make internet calls, is finally available for the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet. The announcement was made today and both companies seem to be pretty happy as it was expected.

The good news for Nokia N800 users is as long as there is Wi-Fi, they will be able to use Skype and make the lovely cheap calls to anywhere in the world. To get the Skype advantage on the Nokia Internet Tablet, there is the need to upgrade the OS to the latest 2007 edition which includes Adobe Flash 9 plug-in for the browser, and the Skype software.

The new Nokia N800 devices will have Skype download links to ensure that the good feature is available for everyone. In the meanwhile head over to Nokia N800 for the upgrade.

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Challenger Mobile has launched some useful features for specific Nokia models, including the Nokia Eseries, n80ie and N95. The new stuff is related to making worldwide calls at local costs and also comes with a call forwarding service, more specifically:

- Challenger out ? made for the mobile account users that want to make worldwide calls (landline or mobile) at local rates

- Challenger in ? it is a local phone number to call the Challenger Mobile subscribers at local rates, worldwide too.

- Challenger forwarding ? as the name suggest this is a forwarding feature that directs all the internet calls to the Challenger’s mobile phone number.

For a monthly fee of $9.90 the Challenger Mobile customers can have access to the 3 new features.

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