Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and growth of the converging Internet and communications industries.
It is the world’s largest manufacturer of mobile telephones: its global device market share was about 38% in Q3 2009, at the same level as in Q3 2008 and in Q2 2009. Nokia produces mobile devices for every major market segment and protocol, including GSM, CDMA, and W-CDMA (UMTS). Nokia offers Internet services that enable people to experience music, maps, media, messaging and games.
This article will describe the Nokia phones to be launched by the end of 2009.
We will start with the phones that will be released on 2009 November, and these are: Nokia N97 mini, Nokia X3, Nokia N9000, Nokia 3710 Fold and Nokia 7020; and we will continue with the phones that will be released in 2009 December, and these are: Nokia 6788, Nokia X6, Nokia 5230 and Nokia 3208c.
Nokia N97 mini
The Nokia N97 mini was first presented on the 1st of September 2009 in Stuttgart. When the designers for Nokia has thinking to create this phone,they take the original N97 and create a different design, with sliding opening and improved features.
This is a Quadband GSM and UMTS equipped with HSDPA touchscreen display 3.2 megapixel resolution with 640×360 pixels and 16 million colors, 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, 8 GB of internal memory, Symbian OS v 9.4 S60 fifth edition, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi connectivity, integrated GPS receiver, Nokia Maps, media player and FM radio, video calling, proximity sensor, accelerometer and qwerty keyboard that pops up.
Between Nokia N97 and Nokia N97 mini we can observed three primary differences, and first of these is that Nokia N97 mini has a memory of 8GB and Nokia N97 has a 32 GB memory size, the second difference is that N97 Mini has a smaller battery and hence less talk time and standby by 20%, and the last difference is that N97 Mini has lost few mm in width and thickness.
The display of Nokia N97 mini is 0.3-inches smaller than the original, scrapped the D-pad in favour of arrow keys, and overhauled the keyboard to be more tactile.
About the features of Nokia N97 mini, you can personalize your homepage with widgets that give you the live feed of social networks, press agencies and weather information, other features is that you can add bookmarks and links to contacts on your main page and you have your websites and your friends just a touch away.
With Nokia N97 mini you can manage your email, calendar and music with dedicated widget for your page, and other feature is that you can move the contents on the main page and place it where you want by dragging your finger on the display multisensory.
With Nokia N97 mini you can view web sites, videos, photos and maps with a natural angle of 35 º on the innovative tilting screen 3.2 “, and get instant notification from your favorite online social network dedicated to widgets thanks for your main page.
Camera with Carl Zeiss optics makes pictures with a high resolution and record video in DVD quality, and also you can capture pictures very successful, day or night, with the dual LED flash
Nokia X3
Nokia planning to releasing devices under two new sub-brands, the Xseries and Cseries. One of the Xseries phone is Nokia X3.
The Nokia X3 is designed first and foremost for music lovers and is also the first Series 40 Ovi Store-enabled device. The phone shows a large 2.2 inch TFT display, supporting up to 256,000 colours, with a QVGA resolution. The X3 also comes with a built in 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera, quad-band GSM support with GPRS and EDGE, Bluetooth, FM radio, 3.5mm audio jack, microSD slot and integrated stereo speakers.
Supports a range of formats like AAC, AAC+, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, eAAC+, M4A, MIDI Tones, MP3, MP4, SP-MIDI, True tones, WAV, WMA.
There´s a 3.2 megapixel camera that takes decent still snaps and impressive video clips. Shoot, edit and share video clips to Facebook thanks to the pre-installed software, or geo-tag and upload to Flickr directly.
The X3 does have a really nice web browser, and with auto screen rotation, you can get the best web browsing experience by browsing using the device in landscape mode.
Email is also as easy as can be to set-up, and you can combine all your inboxes into one, including support for Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Hotmail and most other POP3/IMAP email clients.
One of the features of Nokia X3 is active home screen, this lets you see your contacts, friends or the track you are playing. There are also animated wallpapers to show signal and battery strength. Other interesting application is Ovi Store, that makes it easy to download games, videos, podcasts, applications and much more for your mobile.
Nokia N900
We write a short review about Nokia N900 into other article about phones with resistive touchscreens, and we say that Nokia N900 is a smartphone from Nokia, and is Nokia’s first Maemo 5-powered handset. Maemo 5 is an open-source platform developed within Nokia and based on Linux.
Large 111 x 59.7 x 18.2 mm and weighing 180 grams, has a large touchscreen display 3.5 “with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels. The camera, however, shoot photos up to 5 Megapixel camera with autofocus and dual LED flash. It uses a microUSB port for charging, weirdly has the lock button at the top of the device.
The technical specification includes an ARM Cortex-A8 600 MHz processor with 256MB of RAM (and 768MB of virtual memory) which makes the phone to move very well.
Items that can be placed on the device’s homescreen(s) as click-able thumbnails are the likes of app shortcuts, contacts, web bookmarks – the last of which actually update realtime with the teeny thumbnails animated where applicable. This is thanks to the full Flash support the phone offers.
The browser on the N900 is based on Mozilla open source browser technology, which is the basis of the highly rated Firefox PC browser. Once a website has been loaded, you can press on the screen and ‘drag’ the screen up and down for easy navigation. To zoom in on a particular area of a web page, you can either double tap the screen, or alternatively draw a circle on the screen with your finger, drawing clockwise to zoom in and anti clockwise to zoom out.
Nokia 3710 fold
The compact Nokia 3710 fold handset adds a personal touch with an artistic pattern on the cover. Along with a variety of able features, the phone includes a hidden display on the cover of the device that displays information behind an artistic pattern. The Nokia 3710 fold supports GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 on 2G network and UMTS 850 / 1900 / 2100 on 3G network. The 3710 fold is based on Series 40 backbone and comes with support for Ovi Store.
This screen is a TFT QVGA type screen which displays up to sixteen million colours on this high resolution screen. The Nokia 3710 Fold is an environmentally friendly focused handset which is made from PCV and nickel free material, eighty percent of the handset is recyclable materials, the packaging is made from sixty percent recycled materials and the Nokia 3710 Fold comes with a high efficiency battery charger.
This cell phone is equipped with a 3.2 mega pixel camera with auto focus and LED flash and has a microSD card slot option which can be extended up to 8 GB.
Having a dimension of only 89 x 47 x 15 mm and weighting only 94 g, this item´s size will please its users. This cell phone comes with a 1020 mAh Li-Ion battery, enough to talk for about 4.00 hours and provides in standby mode 457 hours.
If you spend a lot of time browsing, shopping or using social networking sites on the internet then the Nokia 3710 is a great phone to have, it supports HTML, WML, and XHTML mark-up languages and supports HTTP, HTTPS and WAP protocols giving you fast and easy internet access.
Nokia 7020
The Nokia 7020 is due to be released by the end of 2009, and will be available in a number of colors. Reminiscent of the Supernova series from Nokia, the 7020 clamshell is a fashion phone that makes use of light, metal, and color to enhance your style points. This is a simple and economical phone that offers various user enabled features making it more desirable to the customer base.
Nokia emphasizes that the front face of the phone acts as a mirror, though we’re not sure how that helps a user “stay organized with easy access to e-mail, calendar, Internet connectivity, and file sharing applications.”
Features include a 2-megapixel camera, a speakerphone, a music player, voice commands, GPS with Nokia Maps, Bluetooth, a personal organizer, messaging and e-mail, and a wireless Web browser. The 7020 is a quad-band world phone with support for EDGE networks.
Nokia 6788
Nokia has now unveiled their first mobile phone for China Mobile. The handset is for the Chinese 3G TD-SCDMA standard. China has the most mobile phone users of any country in the world making it a large market for mobile providers. This phone can be the largest source of mobile subscribers can help Nokia relieve their pain for their low grasp on the smartphone territory.
The Nokia 6788 is equipped with 2.8-inch display with QVGA resolution, 5-megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash, as well as slot for MicroSD. The Nokia 6788 is running software platform, Symbian S60.
Featuring a 5-megapixel (2592 x1944) camera with a dual-LED flash, a 2.8″ QVGA display, and the hugely-successful Symbian S60 platform, the Nokia 6788 allows people to instantly share the things that matter to them most.
Nokia X6
Nokia X6 is a touchscreen smartphone within a compact and square for music lovers, since it provides up to 35 hours of uninterrupted music. The Nokia X6 is a spiritual successor of the popular 5800 XpressMusic packing 3.2-inch (640×360) capacitive touchscreen, 32 GB internal storage, a 5 megapixel camera (Carl Zeiss optics) with VGA@30fps video recording and dual LED flash and FM radio.
With such a huge memory option, the music lovers can store wide variety of music in huge numbers. The built in music player plays diverse sort of music files such as MP3, WMA, WAV, RA, AAC and M4A. FM radio also adds up to the option of music for the users.
Like most Nokia smartphones, the Nokia X6 will get the full range of Ovi services, including the new Ovi Store, Ovi Maps 3.0 and Nokia Music Store.
The large 3.2-inch display enables you to fit 20 shortcuts onto a personalized home screen – offering one-touch access to the web, your photos, videos and music library – and favorite social networks such as Facebook, Flickr, MySpace and more.
The Nokia X6 comes with A-GPS with compass and integrated Maps so you can find your way to friends and venues quickly and easily with turn-by-turn, voice-guided navigation. Geo-tag your photos with Ovi to remember and share those great moments.
Nokia 5230
The Nokia 5230 cell phone, is designed for those who lead an active life and use their mobile phone as their primary instrument for music, photos and videos, as well as sharing their lives online.
The display on the 5230 is a resistive TFT touchscreen, supporting up to 16 million colours and measuring an impressive 3.2 inches across, with a screen resolution of 360 x 640 pixels. Being a resistive touchscreen, the Nokia 5230 is optimized for input either by finger, or using a stylus. And with stylus support, we also get handwriting recognition.
Nokia 5230 runs the latest Symbian S60 5th edition and is powered by the same battery as 5800 – a 1320 mAh one, which is good 320 mAh larger that that of the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic. According to the manufacturer the 5230 will be capable of 33 hours of non-stop music playback.
As well as having 70MB of internal storage space, the 5230 supports MicroSD memory cards, allowing the memory to be expanded up to 16GB. The 5230 also includes a Stereo FM radio with RDS support, for those moments you want to tune in or catch up with the latest news on your local FM station.
Ovi Store is conveniently accessible from the home screen of the Nokia phone and customers can immediately begin downloading and personalizing their phones with popular apps and games to make their phone more fun. New apps, games, videos, and more are added regularly and Ovi Store can be enjoyed on more than 75 Nokia mobile phones and other portable devices and has active users from more than 180 countries.
Nokia 3208 c
Nokia 3208 c is the second phone announced from Nokia that is destined for China country. It has a touchscreen in order to assist handwriting, like its predecessor the Nokia 6208c, but it doesn’t run on Symbian as we would have expected.
With the Size of Dimensions 108.5 x 48.6 x 13.2mm this Cell Phone weighs around 90grams only. Nokia 3208c also has the Vibration, Polyphonic ringtone and Photo call facility. The audio jack of 3.5 mm also adds to the service which this Nokia phone 3208c provides. The internal memory comprises of 13 MB while the messaging comprises of SMS, MMS, and Email and IM facility. The standby of up to 350 hr and the talk time of 7 hr just brings out its identity among all the phones within this range. This piece also has the image quality with the camera of 2 megapixel.
now they started to name their express music phones to “x”
Features are only good for a very low price… I don’t like the design either