That’s right. Nokia’s latest Pureview 808 handset has soared to such great heights never before reached by other mobile phones. Literally. The Pureview 808 was carried by a ballon up 34 km high. From there, it took really cool pictures of our planet Earth. Not the whole lot of it, like you would see from the moon, but certainly impressive enough and something you’d never get on any other smartphone. The Pureview 808′s camera boasts a pixel count of… 41…
The big news last week, apart from Mubarak stepping down, is Nokia jumping ship. There had already been some speculation, before their Feb 11 announcement, that Nokia would tie up with Microsoft. Yet, I still found their press release on Friday quite startling. Nokia had, after all, always been standing staunchly behind Symbian all these years. Symbian has very much been a sinking ship, and most people are describing Nokia’s efforts as “rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic”. Well……
I couldn’t wait any longer, so I did what I had to do, and now have my Nokia N97 upgraded to the latest v20 software. It’s quite amazing. It’s now as if the Nokia N97 is a new phone. The phone feels noticeably more snappy in response, the so-called C: drive has more space free (by about 8MB only), and there is kinetic scrolling just about everywhere. This is what the Nokia N97 should have been when it was launched…
Finally, the much awaited, possibly the most anticipated in all history of Nokia phone software update, v20 firmware for the Nokia N97 has started to roll out. First heard on the Nokia Discussion Forum posting by jauhis, a Nokia employee who started appearing on the forums recently with hints about the v20 release, the news and upgrading reports are now making its way around the Internet.
The Nokia N97 software v12.0.024 became available on 18 Aug 2009. While many lucky users elsewhere were able to install the update over the next few days or weeks, some others like myself were not so lucky. I eventually got my update on 29 Sep 2009, but it was for v12.0.026. It’s like there was an additional small little fix that Nokia needed to put in. I don’t know if this was the reason for the delayed availability of the…
There seems to be a lot going on with Nokia this year in terms of new and upcoming products. One of the highlights this year has to be the launch of their N97 flagship. There has also been a slew of follow-up models to their 5800 XpressMusic phone. But there are bigger things to come, and the time is ripe enough that Nokia has started sharing on their various official websites.
The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic I got last weekend enabled me to try out Nokia’s Comes with Music for the first time, and also to explore more of the Nokia Music Store than I did before. I’m also quite familiar with Apple’s iTunes Store, which does a lot more than selling music. The two stores are used primarily to support and push the sales of products from their respective companies. What do I think of the two stores?
The Wife got her Nokia 5800 XpressMusic handphone last weekend. It’s the much publicized phone that Comes with Music. Opening up the box and checking out its included accessories, I was left wondering what was Nokia thinking short-changing their N97 customers. You’d think that after paying a premium for a N97 phone, it should come with everything, but it didn’t. That’s fine if this is Nokia’s new strategy moving forward, but then why do we find the 5800 so well…
There’s a broad range of Nokia phones available here. Flagship N-series models like the N97, N95 8GB. Music phones like 5800 XpressMusic. E-series models like E66, E71, etc. Plenty of phones, all available free-of-charge. Although the target users are really for phone developers to test their applications, even casual users could preview the software and functions available on these phones.
More people than ever are carrying around smart phones these days. That includes our students here at NUS too. The IT service desk here is seeing a marked increase in the number of students, as well as some staff too of course, seeking help to get their Nokia phones or whatever other Windows Mobile smart phones/PDAs setup to connect to the NUS campus wireless network.
