There’s not much to say here. Nokia released the video, took it down when people started seeing and talking about it, and someone copied it, so here it is for all to see. The Nokia Lumia 800 looked fine and all, but the Lumia 900 looks like a proper flagship. Via: SlashGear
This is Nokia’s Lumia 800. It will be their current flagship Windows Phone 7.5 Mango device, and runs on a single-core 1.4GHz Snapdragon processor at 800x480 resolution, 14.4MBps HSPA+ speeds at quad-band 16GB storage, 3.7-inch ClearBlack AMOLED with either black, magenta, or blue casing, 25GB of free SkyDrive storage, Nokia Drive, a turn-by-turn navigation program, is 12.1mm thick and has 512MB of RAM. The camera captures video in 8-megapixel camera in 720p HD 30fps video, and finally a 1450mAh battery good for 9.5 hours of 3G talk time. It’s not the best package, but it is quite worthy of carrying Windows Phone into the horizon. Now for availability: nothing mentioned for the United States (yet?), but it can be pre-ordered if you live in the UK, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, or the Netherlands.Via: Nokia
Nokia’s first intentional leak on the Nokia Sea Ray was rather small, but this newer leaks comes in the form of a rather clear video, along with quick look of Windows Phone 7 Mango. There’s a plastic flap covering the microUSB port (located at the top), along with a placeholder boot screen for WP7. Check out the video, embedded after the break. Via: WPCentral
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When Nokia CEO Stephen Elop instructed all employees present to put away their phones and cameras because he was going to show off something and didn’t want it leaked on the “blogosphere”, but that’s exactly what happened. Introducing the Nokia Sea Ray (codename), their first Windows Phone 7 device. It has a Gorilla Glass display, 8 or 12 megapixel camera as according to most reports, Windows Phone 7 Mango and more (meaning the rest that we don’t know about). Check out the video of Elop and the “Sea Ray” after the break. Read More…
This is first class design from Nokia and a helpful step-up to survive in the taiga that is the smartphone market. Following this sentence is a detailed description of the Nokia N9, bit by bit according to press images and the press release. Each Nokia N9 includes a 3.9-inch multitouch AMOLED screen (854 x 480), 16GB or 64GB of onboard memory, 1GB of RAM, a polycarbonate shell (scratches won’t appear unless deep), no mentioning of what processor it uses, quad-band GSM with penta-band WCDMA radios, Bluetooth 2.1, NFC, 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi, and GPS. Next up is the glorious 8 megapixel wide-angle camera with AF, which is capable of aperture F2.2 for low light picture taking and true 16:9 720p HD video recording.
But the spec sheet gets better: dimensions of 116.45- x 61.2- x 7.6-12.1mm, weight of 135 grams, battery life capable of lasting up to 50 hours (music), 4.5 hours (720p video), or finally between 7and 11 hours (GSM voice calls). There’s more though! Turn-by-turn drive and walk navigation with voice guidance in Maps, a dedicated Drive app, proximity sensor and the different colors choices of black, cyan, and magenta. The Nokia N9 also has an ambient light sensor, compass, orientation sensor, a micro SIM slot, tethering support and a 3.5mm “AV connector.”
Finally, in terms of MeeGo itself, it runs MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan, has apps compliant with Qt 4.7 and HTML5 support, bundled games like Angry Birds Magic, Galaxy on Fire 2, Real Golf 2011 and OpenGL ES 2.0, a Webkit2-based browser, pinch-to-zoom support, unified notifications for Facebook, Twitter and RSS feeds in the Events section, along with a multitouch gesture that gets- you back to the homescreen. There’s much more to know and learn about the Nokia N9 in the press release after the break, but for now, let’s just say we’re in love with it (or at least I am). Good going so far, Nokia, however MeeGo is an operating system that is and will not go anywhere. Till Windows Phone 7 Mango then?
A launch is expected sometimes “later this year”. Via: Nokia
So, this was expected, as reported earlier when the first details came to light of Nokia’s deal with Microsoft to save themselves, by using Windows Phone 7 to power their devices. Development and further finalizations of the business deal are going on now, and preferably, Nokia’s Stephen Selop would like to see a WP7 device with Nokia branding on sale in late-2011, but surely such a device would be sold in 2012. Looks like a nice and long wait. Via: Reuters
In a quick effort to get the derailing company on track (and have a face to deal with Apple and Google), Nokia has partnered with Microsoft to bring Windows Phone 7 to its handsets. Enhanced versions of Xbox Live, Ovi Maps combined with Bing Maps, and an enhanced Windows Phone 7 Marketplace will also be introduced. While all of this is going on, Nokia will have to move its developers to the WP7 platform and SDK (read: something extremely difficult with no Qt supports for devs), therefore we don’t know how long it will take to have Nokia Windows Phone 7 hardware. Also, Nokia has full customization of the platform, but according to themselves, they won’t likely make any massive changes.
As Nokia CEO Stephen Elop put it: “Today, developers, operators and consumers want compelling mobile products, which include not only the device, but the software, services, applications and customer support that make a great experience,” and that “Nokia and Microsoft will combine our strengths to deliver an ecosystem with unrivalled global reach and scale. It’s now a three-horse race.” We’ll see about that, Finnish dude. Via: Nokia
Christmas is over. It’s back to business in the tech world. That business may or may not include: ranting, reviews, leaks, and news. Worry not, because I have one of said types of content available right after the break for you to read. Essentially, I think Nokia is behind, some of their hardware is almost on par (I said, almost, more like a little far) with most Android and Windows Phone offerings, but their software sucks more than not finding the movie you want on Netflix.
Read on, readers.
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