The Nokia 6630 Music Edition has been designed with enhanced music functionality to make it convenient for you to take your music collection with you while on the move. Shipping later this month, the Nokia 6630 Music Edition is available for European, Middle Eastern and African markets.
"The Nokia 6630 Music Edition is a fantastic combination of music, smartphone and 3G," said Tuula Rytilä-Uotila, Director, Imaging EMEA, Nokia. "You can carry a good portion of your music collection with you where ever you go and with the Nokia Audio Adapter, you can quicky connect your favorite set of music headphones."
Posted on Friday, September 23rd, 2005 at 12:31 am by admin
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Posted on Friday, September 23rd, 2005 at 12:23 am by Mike Evans
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Told you you were going to be hearing a lot more about Mobile TV. According to Nokia:
In a UK first, EastEnders, Coronation Street, CSI and Lost are just some of the TV programmes up to 400 O2 customers, living and working in Oxford, will be able to watch live on an advanced mobile phone from next week.
O2 and Arqiva (previously known as NTL Broadcast) have teamed up with Nokia as well as the leading terrestrial and satellite broadcasters to kick-off the UK's first trial of full multi-channel mobile TV. 16 channels are being offered to O2 customers, including BBC ONE, BBC TWO, BBC News 24, ITV 1, ITV 2, Channel 4 and Five, which will provide a core of mainstream channels coupled with programmes from British Eurosport, Cartoon Network, CNN, Discovery Channel, MTV, ShortsTV, Sky News, Sky Sports News and Sky Travel.
Customers will be able to select their favourite programme from an on-screen service guide, search for specific items as well as set their handset to alert them when a show starts. The trial will run for up to six months and is designed to test and showcase the televisual capabilities of the next generation mobile services. It will look at how people choose to catch up on their favourite TV shows, how they watch the latest music videos and keep up to date with the news and sport when on the move, and provide an understanding of how much customers are willing to pay for the service.
Posted on Thursday, September 22nd, 2005 at 11:37 pm by Mike Evans
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Sony Ericsson
Sony Ericsson have announced a new addition to its Walkman™ phone family - the W550 - an affordable phone that offers great quality stereo music and integrates a 1.3 megapixel camera, full Internet browsing capability and a credible games console, all in a compact and stylish swivel phone design. This new Walkman phone will appeal principally to expressive fun seekers who enjoy life to the full and want to take their music with them everywhere they go. If you're an "expressive fun seeker" (love those PR people and their fancy words :), check out the full details.
Posted on Wednesday, September 21st, 2005 at 8:27 pm by Mike Evans
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Many new mobile phones enable you to connect to other devices (such as computers) using a variety of technologies, such as Bluetooth, USB, WiFi and even the mobile phone network (no, really!). One of the latest technologies that seems to be becoming a standard feature is email. Given that a mobile phone is (was?) principally designed to speak into or send 160 characters of text, you might wonder why you’d need email. Well, with all the features of the newer camera phones, email makes much more sense than it used to:
- Not everyone has a mobile phone that can receive a picture message
- Emailing your picture enables you to send it to virtually anyone across the world, regardless of the device being used to receive it
- Uploading and downloading email is generally cheaper on newer packet-based networks such as GPRS that charge per byte, not per second
- It’s always useful being able to access your email no matter where you are in the world
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However, to set your phone up for email access requires a few steps that aren’t immediately obvious. This HowTo will guide you through the process, helping you to configure your phone to access an existing email account.
Mobile phone technology's moving on again :) Sharp have just released the new THREE MEGAPIXEL Sharp 903 3G phone. According to Sharp, it boasts improved functionality, superb ease-of-use and a smart design. With features like a 3.2-Megapixel CCD camera, built-in music player and the ability to stream and download video clips, it offers advanced entertainment functions that can replace your digital camera or multimediaplayer. The Sharp 903 makes the most of the rich entertainment and advanced usability that's only possible with 3G (UMTS).
Looks great, too - although I am a sucker for odd twisting designs. Three megapixel camera, though - now that's worth having! Should be out now on Vodafone. Full specs provided after the link...
Posted on Wednesday, September 21st, 2005 at 4:21 pm by Mike Evans
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September 5th was the day in which the world saw its
two billionth mobile phone subscriber. Now Nokia claims it has just sold its one billionth phone to the market, meaning one in every two phones out there are Nokias. This is quite an accomplishment, but some of the figures underlying that success are even more amazing...
Posted on Wednesday, September 21st, 2005 at 12:53 pm by Mike Evans
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The BBC has announced that it's releasing some of its content for full-length full-screen play on mobile phones. Select episodes of Doctor Who and Red Dwarf are the first to be provided with more to come in the near future.
The content is being provided in conjunction with ROK Player, who sell content on MMC (MultiMediaCard) cards that are, according to the company, "DVDs for the mobile". In actuality, they're small, easily-losable cards that are only compatible with a limited number of phones (currently mostly Nokia). On sale shortly and priced at around £17.00, the co-branded Digital Video Chips (DVC™) will be available from Nokia stores and Choices Video, with direct sales and retail via
www.rokplayer.com.
It's an interesting alternative to the Mobile TV concept I talked about yesterday, but £17 strikes me as too expensive, and I think they're a company focusing on a niche that's got maybe 6 months' worth of life left. Once Mobile TV is introduced, who'd pay £17 for an MMC card? It'll be interesting to see the company's plans this time next year.
Posted on Tuesday, September 20th, 2005 at 4:56 pm by Mike Evans
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There are now 2 billion mobile phones in use around the world! According to a report by
Wirless Intelligence, "the middle of September 05 saw a significant milestone reached in the cellular world as the total number of connections worldwide passed through 2 billion. According to our calculations this happened on Sunday 18th September. The growth rate is impressive - after clocking up 1 billion in 2002, 20 years after cellular was first launched, the 2nd billion came up in just 3 years."
The Register adds that "most of the growth now is obviously in large developing markets, such as China, India and Africa along with Eastern Europe and Latin America. Western Europe is pretty much mined out, and penetration is expected to exceed 100 per cent in the region by 2007. According to Nokia, which Gartner says sold nearly 32 per cent of all phones in Q2 this year, getting to three billion will take another five years. "
Damn, five whole years to reach another billion people. Seems the mobile phone industry's in decline!
Here's something we'll all be hearing a lot more about real soon - mobile TV. I've always thought TV on your mobile made perfect sense. I mean, interactivity's all very well and good, and cramming gadget-fest features like cameras and MP3 players into your phone is great, but what you really want to do when you've a few minutes to kill is to sit down and watch the telly! And I don't mean poor video-clips of Big Brother or a 10 second clip of a goal being scored, either. I mean proper telly. And, thanks to the mobile phone operators, handset device manufacturers, network operators, broadcast engineers and content providers (phew!), it looks like our wishes are about to be granted - very very soon.
This must be the night of the Samsung posts. Samsung have announced that they're partnering with none other than Bang and Olufsen, legendary makers of hi fi that looked astounding (well, it did in the '70s!), but never actually sounded all that great. Well, that's what the hifi reviews said - it was always way too expensive for me to hear for myself!
And similarly, don't expect this phone to weigh you down too much in the features department. According to
Reuters, "the phones will have basic communications features and little in the way of high-tech extras", but will, no doubt, come with a fancy B and O price tag. So, posh phone, no features, huge price tag...why?! Call me a man
sans class, but who'd buy such a thing?!
