It was time Nokia divulged some secrets regarding its future smartphone lineup. It might be a just an innocent mistake but it could also be a very intentional leak in order to make us dream again of future Nokia smartphones. After all Nokia has lost some market share in favor of Apple and RIM and it probably wants it back.

Among the specs we find 3-inch VGA displays, sliders, QWERTY keyboards, 5 megapixel camera and lots more. 2009 might just be a great Nokia year when it comes to smartphones! Check out the table below snatched by the guys from Engadget Mobile. (more…)

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Figure out what 8AM Monday morning UK time translates into your local time as that’s when Nokia will release two Nokia new smartphones. People are saying that the N79 and the N85 are the two N-series handsets to be launched on August 18th.

The N79 will get you a 2.4 inch display and a generous 5 megapixel camera. A-GPS and WiFi are included too. The N85 is bringing its dual slide thing to the table. Quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE is on and so is HSPA support. A generous 5 megapixel camera is also present accompanied by dual LED flash. Sure we have WiFi and A-GPS in here too.

Which Nokia will you choose? The cheapest one? Which one is that? We’ll get back to you on Monday.

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How did you like the video I just found? Besides being really funny and all I found it really sort-of-sad. Are we spending too much time playing with our phones? When is the last time you used a regular old fashioned cell phone? You know, a cell phone that only can store up to 200 contacts in its memory? You know a phone without a camera?
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Yes you heard me right. With all this commotion about the WWDC we tend to overlook iPods although millions have been sold all over the world.

Apparently now a company called MogoTXT has just released their free SMS service. All you need is an iPod Touch with Wi-Fi access and then you can simply send SMS messages for free. What’s the trick? Well all these SMS are free as they are supported by adds! You have to register and then you will be able not only to send messages but to also receive responses.
And in case the Touch isn’t your thing then you must know that MOGOTXT works with other cell phones as long as you aren’t a Verizon customer.

via Gigaom

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Some Nokia phones fans around the world are waiting for Nokia’s new N series smart baby, the N96 to finally come out and play just as some Apple fanatics are waiting for the 3G iPhone. While we know that the iPhone is coming June 9th, the Nokia N96 has been further delayed and will be released somewhere in July.
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Verizon has won a $678.5 million contract over 10 years for their services of data and voice security service and disaster communications system for the Homeland Security. Wow that was a long phrase. AT&T came in second for the same thing and will receive a second place consolation prize worth $292 million.
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For those of you following closely the development of the HTC Advantage 7510 and waiting for a release date in USA, we have a bad news. This baby contains a Qualcomm chipset which is not available for sale in the US at least for now.

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In an open letter, Steve Jobs finally said it: Apple will be delivering an SDK for the iPhone, allowing third party developers to write new applications on the phone. While they want to make it an open platform to developers, the phone will also need to be protected against viruses and malware “that silently spread from phone to phone over the cell network”. Wow, scary picture there. However, the developer community can get its hands on the SDK next year - sometime in February - as Apple is still working on an “advanced system which will offer developers broad access to natively program the iPhone”.

What’s more, using the SDK you will also be able to develop applications for the iPod touch. Hopefully the SDK will be available for Windows and not just the Mac.

In other mobile developer news, Nokia announced a touch user interface for the popular Nokia S60 smartphones. This UI comes with support for tactile feedback - something missing on the iPhone - sending back a physical pulse when the user taps on the screen. There’s also a new UI Accelerator toolkit that allows device manufacturers to develop graphical effects and new types of interactions rapidly. With integrated Flash Video the web browser on the S60 phone can access sites such as YouTube.

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The BlackBerry 8130 Pearl has just been announced today as the first BlackBerry Pearl smartphone to run on CDMA networks. The new phone is still built with BlackBerry’s highly acclaimed style and compact design and comes packed with new features including communications enhancements, a striking new software interface, rich multimedia capabilities, built-in GPS and support for high-speed EV-DO networks.

The 8130 still has all the standard features that have made BlackBerry popular among mobile users, including unrivaled email and messaging (SMS, IM, MMS), web browsing, organizer and more. The new smartphone also expands on its communications and multimedia features and presents the entire offering with a striking new software interface.

The BlackBerry Pearl 8130 smartphone is designed to help you do everything you want with your life. It comes complete with advanced phone features, multimedia, digital camera, video recording, built-in GPS* and expandable memory.

And it offers the full BlackBerry experience — email, browser, text messaging (SMS and MMS), instant messaging, organizer applications and more. Small, smart and stylish.

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Whether you’re on the road for business or pleasure, the HP iPAQ 300 Series Travel Companion provides a wonderfully immersive experience to help you find your way. This advanced, high-resolution 3D navigation system provides you the direction you need to be in your way.

You can confidently follow turn-by-turn directions to the places you need to go, with both spoken and on-screen guidance. Pan and zoom to the level of detail you desire. Quickly
zoom in from 10,000 feet to street level view. On the touch screen display, use your finger to simply slide the map in the direction you want to view. Let your iPAQ Travel Companion guide you to family, friends, and business associates using your Outlook contacts.

Put your travel experience in overdrive. View your route comfortably on the spectacular, high-resolution touch screen display. Find your location fast with the dual-core4 600MHz Titan processor with Autonomy acceleration. Keep your maps and points of interest at hand with 2GB of flash ROM storage. Transfer content quickly and easily from your PC with the high-speed mini-USB 2.0 connector.

While you travel, you can also use your iPAQ 300 Series as a hands-free answering system for your Bluetooth-enabled phone. Then when you arrive, enjoy your digital media library, business multimedia content, or even a challenging video game, on this premium high-resolution entertainment system.

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The HP iPAQ 200 Series Enterprise Handheld can help you solve specific business problems and meet today’s mobility needs.

The device sports a large 4-inch TFT touch screen display for improved visibility in a variety of environments, the robust SDIO expansion, and the convenient I/O of headphone, microphone, voice record, and USB. You’ll also enjoy the standard Microsoft Mobile Office suite and the ability to easily synchronize Mobile Office Outlook via mini-USB or Wi-Fi connectivity. With Bluetooth, connect to peripherals like headsets and keyboards.

When at work, charge and synchronize your iPAQ on the desktop cradle. When on the go, add an extended battery for additional hours of productivity. If work keeps you mobile during the day, there is also an auto adapter to power your iPAQ while in the car or working in the field.

HP offers SD cards in different capacities for extra storage to carry your important documents and software applications with you when on the field.

Use the iPAQ Bluetooth keyboard when you need to enter a large amount of data quickly. The standard QWERTY layout allows you to effortlessly take notes, compose email or write reports. When open it is the same size as a notebook computer keyboard! When not in use the keyboard folds up into an ultra-small package for easy portability.

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One of the reasons why Smartphones and PDAs haven’t replaced Personal Computers is because of the size of the memory. These portable mobile devices have limited memory so developers need to bust their heads to create memory optimized applications (although some PDAs and Smartphones today are not affected by this limitations anymore). But in the near future, maybe this won’t be a problem anymore, especially since eMobiStudio has announced the release of its MemoryUp Standard Edition v1.5, a powerful Java virtual machine (JVM) management and RAM boosting tool specially designed for high-end smartphones and BlackBerry.

This tool will analyze your running J2ME (Java) programs and automatically allocate - “and recover” - RAM. I put the focus on the recover part since this is what’s usually the problem, recovering used memory. This, in turn, will boost system to its best performance. In case of some applications are no longer active on a smartphone or BlackBerry, MemoryUp can reclaim lost resources and put them to better use. By reclaiming resources, the mobile system does not need to access the hard drive as frequently. This will greatly enhance mobile phone’s overall performance.

MemoryUp Standard Edition v1.5 is now available for purchase. The price is $13.99 for a Symbian edition and $14.99 for a BlackBerry edition.

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Now, BlackBerry users can look forward to a new service from Nuance, called the Nuance Voice Control, a one-click mobile search and messaging service. Driven entirely by voice commands, it is a subscription-based application that integrates with the built-in GPS of the BlackBerry 8800 series smartphones.

With this, the user’s input is simply a set of voice commands. You can dial a contact, search the web for business listings (411 service), get driving directions and even weather, news and more - all at the click of a button. The Nuance Voice Control service is deployed in North America with Sprint and Rogers Wireless networks. So, if you are a customer and want to try it out, the applicatino can be downloaded through Handango.

Here’s a sample of the service usage offered:
GPS-based 411 by voice
Press a key on your BlackBerry 8800 and say “Find Business Pizza near me” - and get a list of nearby pizza restaurants on the phone screen, including the address, phone number and map links.

GPS-based driving directions
Press a key on the handset and say “Get directions from here to 1500 Broadway New York, NY” and you receive door-to-door directions from your current location. Avoids keying in your source and destination addresses, it’s easy as that. We haven’t tried out the service yet, but hopefully we will and report you on our findings.

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