The much rumored and even more hotly anticipated AT&T version ofSo they have an E71X model that would cause excitment. Well, lets see how it goes.
the Nokia E71 on Symbian OS, the E71x, has now been officially announced. The E71x features an
elegant black design and comes with an equally attractive price tag of
$99.99, with a two-year contract and after discounts and rebates.
Nokia E71x, the thinnest smartphone, helps you combine your personal and
business life. With a seamless user interface, mobile email, and personal
information management features, the powerful Nokia E71x lets you effortlessly
organize your life. Built-in aGPS with AT&T Navigator,2 instant messaging,
Video Share, Wi-Fi,3 and Internet access keep you connected to the things that
are important so you can do more while on the go. Combine your pocket devices
into one thanks to the music player, 3.2 MP camera, video, notes, calendar, and
office tools.
Just saw the Nokia Photo browser is in the Beta lasbs now.
The application behaves well enough on my Nokia N97 proto, however I feel the time - imaging time can be reduced to obtain far better level of usability. Imagine this application's functionality with the multiple core processors that are being proposed for the future mobile models.The Nokia Photo Browser is photo browsing application as name suggest. It’s
designed to be easy to use application, when ever you want quickly browse
through your images. User interface is designed to give fast access to all you
images. Photo browsing should be fun! That is why Photo Browser introduces new
ways to do photo viewing like; “Face browsing” which uses face detection
technology to find people faces from pictures and just by finger flick you can
browse people faces in image. Other cool feature is “MagGlass” magnifier, which
makes image zooming to feel and look more real and analog.
I enter the blogosphere recently since I started that I needed to pour out my thought somewhere (irrespective where someone can read it or not). Writing a diary is what came to my mind before starting blogging. But then I thought - one day the civilization is bounded to perish - giving the next one to live upon the researches. I bet if the next civilization can get internet in undestructed format - they wouldn't have to do as much research as Indians did for Harappa civilization.
Well, then I started blogging. Once I started blogging I came across the word statistics for blogs. Working with mobile phone giants in the past years, I have been well familiar with the word - statistics and the corresponding word that often goes with it - Google analytics - and most of you (if anyone reads this) might be aware of the word.
I just registered for the service needing to know who else, from which part of the world read my posts and who follows me. The bad thing about blogging is that one can follow others annonymously - I guess blogger does not support spell checks. It would be interesting to see who watches me - still unknowing my name but only thoughts.
Well, just to mention - many members of the open community - you know which - are tweeting as a part of thier job I guess - to indicate openness and the client comes in to fulfill their requirements.
Read more...They are taking things to seriously - like thinking about vocabulary using. I am impressed.
I am quoting few lines here -
Read more...To address these worries, let me briefly tell a tale of four different
words: community, ecosystem, economy, and movement.
“Community” is the word with the oldest heritage to describe the partners, developers and end-users who develop and use Symbian software. “Community” means people with something in common - such as a shared geographical location, a shared environment, or (as astutely described by Etienne Wenger) a shared set of practices. Symbian Software’s second CEO, David Levin, observed ahead of one of the annual Symbian gatherings that the words “community” and “ecosystem” were both used to describe the gathering. He asked the Symbian Leadership Team if one was more appropriate than the other: “Community” seemed to imply a feeling of being in a club - we are all in this together, and we will all look after each other; there are no real losers and no real winners; “Ecosystem” reflected a business reality that there are winners and losers; members of the ecosystem frequently compete with each other (and even sometimes eat each other) as well as often collaborating with each other. So the biological term won favour - we spoke more and more about “the Symbian ecosystem” and less and less about “the Symbian community”. (Moreover, there was a nice “pun”: Symbian consisted of Symbian OS plus Symbian ES - that is, operating system plus ecosystem.)
Over the years, I often wondered whether “economy” might have been a better choice. Symbian’s rival PalmSource had been talking about a “Palm Economy” since at least February 2001. Arguably, the difference between an ecosystem and an economy is that the former is entirely self-managed, whereas the latter can in principle benefit from a measure of intelligent central steering. With the formation of the Symbian Foundation and the adoption of open source, it is time to rethink vocabulary. Just because such-and-such terminology has been used in the past, is no reason for using that same terminology in the future. This brings us to the word “movement”. Movement seems to me to add some concepts that are missing from each of the words “community”, “ecosystem”, and “economy”: A clear sense of direction and purpose An expression of passion. Of course, there will be Symbian developers who take part in shared community activities, without having a sense of shared direction and purpose. That’s fine. But I envisage that, over time, more and more participants will want to: Not just use the software, but collaborate in creating and developing the software; Not just use the devices and applications, but seek to tell other people how good these devices and applications are; Develop software, not just because their boss pays them to do so, but because of the excitement and pleasure they derive from this software system; See the bigger picture of what can be accomplished as the platform and the associated services improve - and start to root for these improvements. That’s why I like the term “movement”, to describe what the Symbian Foundation is creating.
In case of notebooks, Microsoft has been looking on Apple's vurnerable spot - the cost factor - since quite a while now. And finally, I came across an advertisement that says it all!
Watch it for yourself.
Is the success of big Giants motivation for developers?
The recently announced OVI store is a motivation (or a strategy in disguise)? What do you think? Is the open source forthcoming a motivation for developers - or simply a smart move by the Giant - so that they can hire less people and get more out from the community (i.e. Buy what the want after they see - BWTWATS) ? Who would care to look into the code - except few companies - What is in for individual developers? Nothing - please be sure to comment of you feel that there is anything in for the individual developers?
Developers want motivation - jobs, money, fame - which should be given to them selflessly with the giants! Nothing yet, I feel has been achived by the giant in terms of tru motivation from the Giant - holding competetions has become a trend which never redefines motivation and ultimately thats not selfless motivation when considered.
So the bottom line - "Where is the motivation?"
Recently, the SDN - which has merely 20 to 30 days life now - announced the new EUserHL Core Idioms library. How useful are these?
The library delivers the following, as quoted
* LString, a string class that handles its own buffer management and cleanup
* LCleanedupX and LManagedX, a set of cleanup management helper templates
* CONSTRUCTORS_MAY_LEAVE, a helper macro that enables single-phase construction
* OR_LEAVE, a helper macro to cleanly convert error-returning code into leaving code
The use of templates in L Class makes it - more code than it was before! Is it a good start? Does this enable more options for the developers? If yes who are those developers?
As the title says - there is lots more to in the pipeline! Lets wait and watch - wondering how many days more....
Read more...Before 2 weeks Nokia fired 1,700 of its employees globally. 7,00 of them being from Finland.
Here is another big blow for businesses who are getting big bucks by partnering with Nokia. Nokia has reportedly decided that it would not use any more outside contract manufacturers for the fabrication process of its phones. According to the company, due to weak global demand on the phone market, it would stop outsourcing its production to Electronics Manufacturing Service (EMS) providers or to Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs).
Read more...Finally, a new middle end phone with cool features is out!
The Nokia 6710 Navigator is EGPRS and WCDMA device supporting also HSDPA/HSUPA (3.5G) and WLAN. Enjoy videos, music, and graphics on the 2.6” QVGA TFT display. Take photos with a 5-megapixel camera with a dual LED flash and Carl Zeiss optics. Additional features include GPS and Nokia Maps 3.0, Compass, UPnP, Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR, and USB 2.0 High-Speed.
Here is a video demonstrationg atleast the navigation features!
Read more...
ProfiMail , a LCG product, has recently released an updated version 3.10 (Mar 19 2009). The new version has improved work with touch-screen phones, system font options and better font size settings.
About ProfiMail
ProfiMail is an application for your everyday life. It is a communication solution for your mobile device. Wherever you go, you have your e-mail with you. With the program's user interface, you can see a great part of the message on the screen at a time, and easily navigate during reading.
You can use ProfiMail for your professional work - reading documents sent in messages, comfortably answer to sender, or send documents from the device.
A quote from the Wall Street Journal (Friday 20th March),
As reports suggests, AT&T (NYSE: T) is nearly ready to begin offering the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) E71 smartphone. But hey, Isn't that a late move?
Nokai E71, the handsome device that you see in the picture, has been in sale for around six months. After being crowned the best phone of the year for 2008, Nokia did work on its lines and came up with 2 similar business models viz. E55 and E75 out of which the E75 will be available this month globally. The two new devices announced have better features than Nokia E71 (I am not going into technical specs). How would the market react to E71 launch when other better options are coming soon?
No doubt, Nokia E71 (which was inspired from its successors, Nokia E61, E61i and E62) is a fantastic smartphone (David Wood - Catalyst and Futurist, Leadership Team at Symbian foundation, uses an E71 too) but it should have been financially better for Nokia to announce it earlier - perhaps before the Christmas shopping period last year. Why was the Nokia E71 flight to the US delayed?
Anyways, US folk - Handset strategy aside, if you're in the shop for a cheap(er) Nokia S60 smartphone, the E71 is a powerful device that is worth your attention. Looks like it should be available in the forthcoming week!
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