During the WIMA conference in Monaco, Nokia announced the Nokia 6216 mobile phone. The phone is revolutionary by any standards. It comes loaded with a Near Field Communication device that is synced to you SIM card. You load your SIM card with your credit card information and then you can just swipe your phone next to a compatible pay station to pay your bill. With proper security the phone will make paying for gas, groceries and other bills with just your cell phone. Beyond the no touch pay the phone is a classic candy bar design and will have a 2 megapixel camera.
The 8208 was announced some time ago but it has now officially been green lighted by the CDMA network. The Nokia 8208 is a sleek and smooth slider phone that has a mp3 music player and a 3 megapixel camera. Whats sets this slider apart from others is that it slides out both ways. Slide it down to reveal the keypad for dialing or text messaging. Slide it up to show the music player controls. The 8208 has been available for a short time in some countries but with the CDMA network its only a matter of time before a big US carrier picks it up.
Nokia and Orange are going to keep working together thanks to a new mobile mail application. The new service dubbed Nokia Messaging by Orange will allow consumers across the globe to access their email on their Orange devices. The new service will start off by launching in the UK with France and Spain to follow shortly there after. All compatible phones will be able to use the push mail service and access multiple email accounts right from the Orange Homepage. Users will have access upto 10 personal email boxes and all emails and their attachments will be stored locally on your phone for easy viewing later.
Mobile phone giant Nokia has launched “Easy Meet” a new app that lets users meet virtually using their cell phone. One user sends a request for a meeting to another using the new Nokia web service and the other user is prompted to accept or deny. Once both users have accepted the virtual meeting is off to the races. Requests for meetings can be sent via email or SMS and is quite easy to do. Once both users have connected they can easily share documents, a whiteboard, images and of course voice and text messages. The Easy Meet app should be a big hit among the business crowd.
According to website Symbian Freak, Nokia is releasing a new updated firmware for the N78. The firmware version will be 21.002 and should fix most if not all of the glitches and bugs of the previous version 20.149. Last we checked with Nokia there was no official release of the new firmware so this should be treated as a rumour only for now. A new firmware version is to be expected though since the last release left a lot to be desired with many bugs and odd glitches in 20.149. There is also no word if this release will be a global release or one based on certain product SKUs.
All the waiting is finally over for those waiting for the new Nokia E75. Nokia reps have announced that the E75 has been shipped and should be available in stores starting today. The Finnish phone maker said the smart phone has numerous new features such as a revamped email user interface. The new email interface allows you to connect to just about any corporate mail server as well as popular online mail such as Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail. It has a 2.4 inch screen and a 3.2 megapixel camera. Make sure to head down to your local Nokia dealer and check one out today.
Just 2 months after Nokia announced the E75 is ready to hit the store shelves. Nokia has been busy shipping the new mobile phone to all of its carriers this past week. The E75 is said to be a business phone that offers a new email user interface which has pretty much all the email features you get on your desktop. To help you get through those emails is a 2.4″ display and a slide out QWERTY keyboard. It is a 3G phone so downloads will be quick and it has all the other features that you would expect from a Nokia business phone offering. Check with your local store to find out when you can test drive this mobile phone.
The much hyped Nokia E71x made its debut at the CTIA 2009 this week. All though it is pretty much the same phone as the E71 the extra X gives it high speed bandwidth using AT&T own 3G frequency. It also sports a big QWERTY keyboard and large screen that should help AT&T with the heavy text messager crowd and also the corporate email users that need their office on the go. It will also be the first Symbian powered phone to be carried by AT&T in the US. Here is a nice little demo of the E71x directly from the show.
The creator of TV’s smash hit Heroes has struck a deal with Nokia’s Ovi Store to bring them fresh and exclusive content. They begin work on their project called TEVA. It is said that TEVA will be a project that will allow the creator to bring new multi-platform entertainment that is engaging to the audience. This is thought to be the first deal of its kind and will start with a mobile phase sometime in the summer of 2009. There is little else known about TEVA but we are sure to find out more during the CTIA in Las Vegas.
The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic was pulled just one week after it hit the store shelves. There was no specific problem officially listed at the time but its seems that users complained about the performance of the mobile phone. Well a new update at http://www.nokia.com/softwareupdate available forit seems that sales will shortly resume. The software is meant to fix the old issues as well as add a few features like the ability to use both the front facing video calling cam and the digital still camera at the same time.
