PHONE CREDITS

Phone Nokia N79

noreply@blogger.com (IT.boy) — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:22:00 +0700

Nokia N79 multimedia phone : Nokia unveiled the Nokia N79 cell phone, the latest addition to the Nokia Nseries range that combines intelligent and customizable design with a fully-loaded multimedia computer. Behind its sleek exterior, the Nokia N79 mobile phone is a technology powerhouse. It offers a full range of multimedia experiences including integrated navigation, music with FM transmitter, high-speed connectivity, superior web browsing, at least 10 pre-loaded NGage games and an advanced 5 megapixel digital camera with Carl Zeiss optics.

Nokia N79 camera phone
The 5 megapixel digital camera with Carl Zeiss optics, dual LED flash and video light captures sharp, clear photos and video that can be edited immediately, without the need for a Personal computer. Photos can also be geotagged to specific locations. What's more, the Nokia N79 cell phone comes packaged with a 4 GB microSD flash memory card that makes it possible to store around 3,000 songs, approximately 2,500 photos and up to four hours of DVD-quality video clips that can be organized by user albums or tags and uploaded directly to Share on Nokia Ovi or third party services. The addition of a sliding lens cover helps protect
the top-quality Carl Zeiss camera lens when not in use.

Wi-Fi & 3.5G HSDPA connectivity
Perfect for the style conscious, the Nokia N79 mobile phone comes with Nokia Xpress-on smart covers that are available in five cool colors: Light Sea Blue, Espresso Brown, Olive Green, White and Coral Red. A combination of three of these comes with each Nokia N79 cell phone. The convergence of photos, video, music and navigation in the Nokia N79 combines with high-speed 3.5G HSDPA and Wi-Fi to make it quick and easy to share experiences on websites, blogs or online communities.

Nokia N79 GPS navigation
Nokia Maps mobile application makes it easy to explore and navigate new surroundings by accessing more than 15 million points of interest. In-built A-GPS providing turn-by-turn navigation - for walking or driving - comes with a three month integrated license on the Nokia N79 navigation phone. A Friendster widget will also be made available for the Nokia N79 cellular phone via the WidSets service. This will allow people to browse Friendster friends' profiles, view and post shoutouts, upload photos taken with their handset, and browse their own and friends' photo albums. All this enables more effective communication with friends while away from a computer using the Nokia N79 mobile phone.

Nokia N79 price & availability
To ensure each device is as distinctive as its user, customizable features are available at the Nokia Download! store, a one stop personalization shop, already embedded in Nokia Nseries devices. It lets consumers create a unique experience for themselves by offering easy access to a multitude of popular ringtones, branded entertainment content, the latest in mobile gaming and dynamic applications for personalizing mobile devices to the user's own preferences. The Nokia N79 mobile phone is expected to begin shipping in October 2008, with anestimated retail price of EUR 350, before taxes and subsidies.

Phone Nokia N85

noreply@blogger.com (IT.boy) — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:19:00 +0700

rom the model number, you'd think the N85 is a lesser version of the famous N95, but it's actually an upgrade. Is this a case of Nokia running out of ideas, or is it merely honing a deservedly popular phone? We took a good look at the N85 to see whether Nokia has cracked it again.

Design
The N85 is a solid-feeling slider phone that's smooth around the edges, giving it a more up-to-date feel than the blocky N95. Considering how many features it packs in, it doesn't feel chunky or too heavy.

Aside from the keypad, we found all the keys on the N85 well-designed and easy to press. There's even a handy toggle switch for locking and unlocking the N85 quickly. As for the keypad, we found it too flat for our liking, but not unusable.

The double sliding mechanism — which moves around too much on the N95 — feels more solid in the N85, and doesn't slide when it's in your pocket. Equally secure is the N85's camera cover — again, it won't open by mistake in your trousers and take photos of your keys.

We really appreciate that Nokia has placed a 3.5mm headphone jack at the top of the phone instead of on the side, making it much less fiddly to use. You'll also be glad to hear that charging and connecting to a PC can all be done via a micro-USB cable.

Worth noting is the N85's OLED display, which consumes less power than a standard LCD. The screen is bright and large enough to view text messages or watch YouTube videos on. We also found that the Opera Mini browser looked superb on it.

Features
The N85 offers up some truly useful features, starting with HSDPA and Wi-Fi — you can access the web almost everywhere you go. The on-board browser works well enough, but we prefer using Opera Mini, which you can download for free and offers a neat way of viewing full web pages.

GPS means you can find your location and plan trips, using Nokia Maps, which comes pre-installed, or you can download Google Maps. We didn't have any problems picking up satellites, but as expected, the GPS doesn't work indoors.

On the back of the N85 lies a 5-megapixel camera with auto-focus and dual LEDs. It's very easy to use, with a simple interface, and we found the picture quality to be very good, even in low light — the LEDs providing more illumination than expected.

Equally unexpected is the built-in FM transmitter, which allows you to play music wirelessly through a car radio. It's something that's been made available in the past using third-party technology, but having it built-in is really useful.

As we mentioned before, there's a 3.5mm headphone jack and the Nokia N85's dedicated media keys mean using it as a music player is really easy. The music player interface is straightforward and gives you the option to shuffle tracks, adjust the equaliser and create playlists.

Performance
Audio quality during calls was loud and clear, as was the loudspeaker, but we recommend using a Bluetooth headset (the N85 supports A2DP stereo) for hands-free calls. Battery life is quoted at 6.9 hours talk time using GSM and 4.5 hours using 3G. Standby time is 363 hours using GSM or 3G. In real life, we found that with moderate use it lasted over a day before needing to be recharged.

Conclusion
After spending some quality time with the Nokia N85, we're not sure why Nokia didn't just launch this as the N95's successor instead of the N96. The N85 is a refined phone that packs in a whole bunch of features into an attractive casing. Our only disappointment is that the keypad is a little flatter than we would like, but the rest of it left us very happy.

Wi-Fi, HSDPA and a music player you can listen to by simply plugging a pair of standard headphones straight in — great stuff. OK, it's not a revolutionary product, but it is a very good one nevertheless, and if you're an N95 fan looking for something a little smaller and better-looking, you could do a lot worse than this.

Phone Nokia N86

noreply@blogger.com (IT.boy) — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:09:00 +0700

Device Description:

The Nokia N86 8MP is a 2-way slide dual-mode mobile computer supporting WCDMA/HSDPA, EGSM, and WLAN. Enjoy videos, music, and graphics on the 2.6” Active Matrix OLED display and orientation sensor. Find directions and locations with the integrated A-GPS and included maps. Take photos with a 8-megapixel autofocus camera with Carl Zeiss optics, Tessar lens and dual LED flash. Additional features include Flash lite 3.1, USB charging with simultaneous data transfer, UPnP and TV out. Supported WCDMA frequencies depend on the region where the device is available.

Tools

The main Tools & SDKs page www.forum.nokia.com/tools provides all the tools & SDKs in an easy to access form. The page also includes Getting Started -articles giving an overview of the tools and SDKs.

Carbide.ui Theme Edition
Carbide.ui Theme Edition enables the creation and editing of themes for S60 and Series 40 devices. Carbide.ui provides professionals and hobbyists alike with access to more than 1,000 customizable elements in the S60 UI, which makes the S60 UI the most customizable UI available.

Carbide.c++
Carbide.c++ is a family of powerful mobile-application development tools built on the Eclipse framework, which are available free of charge to all Symbian C++, Open C/C++ and Qt developers.
Recommended SDK(s)

OpenGL ES 1.1 Plug-in
This early technology plug-in for S60 3rd edition SDK for Symbian OS, for C, enables the development of OpenGL ES 1.1 applications with N93. N93 is the first Nokia multimedia computer with HW accelerated 3D graphics/OpenGL ES 1.1 support. This plug-in enables the full usage of the native 3D graphics features supported in N93. The content of this plug-in will be a part of S60 R3.1 SDK.

S60 Platform SDKs for Symbian OS, for C++
The S60 SDKs for Symbian OS enable application development for devices based on the S60 platform using C++. The SDK includes all key resources needed for application development, such as documentation, API reference, and an emulator. An IDE is not included; Carbide.c++ is recommended.

S60 Platform SDKs for Symbian OS, for Java™
S60 Platform SDK for Symbian OS, for Java™ MIDP allows developers to quickly and efficiently run and test Java applications for devices built on the S60 platform. Using a Java™ IDE, development with the SDK is hosted on a PC.

Since cell phones first came out ages ago, the Nokia company has been on the leading edge of the newest technology innovations. Their first phones were constantly getting smaller and more reliable, and as cell phones turned into mini-computers, they too were striving to offer their users some of the most high-tech gadgets available.

Well, the cell phone industry has already conquered making their phones act like small personal computers. We’ve had full web browsing for years now, integrated email, etc.. The newest race is to make a phone that functions like a full-sized digital camera. According to Nokia, they’ve done it. Does the new Nokia N86 act like a modern digital camera? Or does it not live up to its manufacturer’s hefty claims? We’ve got our hands on it, and are going to give you an unbiased third-party review. We’ll cover just the facts, so we can let you make your own mind up.

The Nokia N86 is quite the new innovation, no matter what side of the fence you’re on. It is an 8 megapixel camera phone–a resolution that rivals some lower-end digital SLR cameras. The phone goes back to a style that was made popular several years ago: The slider. Nokia manages to build this design in a aesthetically pleasing design that doesn’t look out-of-date or low-tech, which is hard enough to do.

The operating system is Nokia’s Symbian system that has been used on several of their phones. We were happy to see that, since it has already proven to be a solid, reliable and bug-free option for those who have used Nokia phones in the past. The phone doesn’t come in a ton of colors (or any colors at all really), since the only current offerings are white and gray. While that’s not the widest pallet of color options, it ensures every variation of the phone stays looking sleek and high-tech and not like something a pre-teen would carry.

Holding the phone in your hand is somewhat confusing. The construction quality seems higher in some areas more than others. Most of the phone is plastic, feeling somewhat flimsy and not so secure. However, other features are made from solid metal, which feels strong and sleek in the hand. Some of the previous versions of the N serious of phones by Nokia did feel somewhat better made as far as the basic construction materials goes. If you were to drop one of those on concrete, chances are much better they would survive unharmed.

The screen is one of our most favorite features about this phone. It uses OLED technology to produce brilliant, crisp pictures that look much better than other phones on the market. And get this: It’s a widescreen. We tested it out by watching part of a movie on the phone, and were simply blown away. This might be the single best feature of the entire phone (though we’ve yet to take a look at the camera, of course). For a phone boasting to take great pictures, this is a good start–it helps to see what you just snapped a pic of.

The phone itself has a ton of features. We were happy to see that it had integrated GPS. Far too many “advanced” phones are coming out that leave the user lacking in the GPS area. This makes the phone fantastic for road-trips. It’s the ultimate phone for that purpose. Where else can you see where you’re going, how far you’ve got to go, snap high-resolution pictures along the way, and call home all from the same mobile device?

Alright, time to take a look at the flagship feature of this phone: The camera. This phone outputs pictures at 8MP resolution, which is an actual resolution of 3264×2468 pixels. This gives you enough play room to load the pictures into Photoshop for some editing, or print directly to paper. The phone’s pictures are high enough quality to print them directly to 8×10 photos.

However, the quality of the photos themselves were simply “okay”. Given the fact that they are coming from a phone that is quite smaller than most of the competition, and can fit in your pocket all day with you barely noticing it, the pictures are great. Just don’t entirely think you can throw away your digital camera complete. For day-to-day snapshots, it works just fine, but we felt that some of the other camera phones on the market offer better products.

When the phone is officially launched, Nokia is saying that the camera will have some improvements over the test subject we had to review. Nobody is quite sure what that means, it may just mean they are tweaking the software a little bit before the phones go out the door. It doesn’t seem logical that they would replace the entire camera system in the production version. The official product may have a somewhat better quality camera system than the one we used, but it is still likely that other products on the market will offer better quality pictures.

The integrated flash system consists of two LED lights, which don’t do much to light things up. Some higher end phones have actual fully-functioning flashes built into them, which we felt the N86 really could have used. Most of the time you’re better off just leaving the flash turned off.

Other features of the phone were similar to other phones by Nokia. The web browsing experience was fine, but not exceptional, as was the messaging tool and other included programs. The keypad is easy to use, with the buttons being very easy to hit.

Overall, the Nokia N86 really is a great camera phone. It takes crisp pictures, and its screen shows them off nicely. The other features, such as web browsing and integrated GPS are nice to have. The phone is easy to use, and while it might not feel very solid, we’re sure you won’t want to be dropping it off of a roof-top anyway. While there might be better camera phones on the market, this phone has a lot to offer.