Nokia XL, Nokia’s 2nd dual-sim android mobile phone was launched in Lahore by Nokia Pakistan today. Checkout this tweet.
Nokia XL launch event in #Lahore right now. http://t.co/0Ns5psPoky
— harisn (@harisn) May 29, 2014
Nokia has just announced their ground breaking 41 Megapixel camera with a phone built in. The device can take amazing 41 (effective 38) Megapixel still shots and a 1080p video recording capability. If you think your 12 Megapixel N8 is amazing, now is the time to stop thinking on those lines because this beast has a xenon flash as well.
Some of the amazing new features of Nokia 808 are listed below: Continue reading “Nokia 808 – 41 Megapixel coming in May 2012”
If you have recently stepped into the world of BlackBerry devices, you should definitely spend some time going through these beginners tutorials. If you have upgraded recently to OS 6, it is worth it exploring the new features with these tutorials. Tips and tricks for your BlackBerry phone will help you save time and will improve your BlackBerry experience.
How many times you use “space” key to type “@” in email addresses or “.” in the URL fields? Simple questions like how to turn on the num-lock or caps lock are answered in these simple tutorials.
These interactive demos are life savers for anyone who is looking for beginners help.
Select your device from the list below to open BlackBerry 101 page for your device:
BlackBerry Beginner’s Tutorials
PSP gamers can now rejoice as they do not have to carry a cellphone as well as a PSP. SonyEricssson’s android based gaming console mobile phone has been spotted as posted by this Mobile Crunch post.
The device clearly runs on Android OS and has a slide out controller. I really like the idea as I always hated the slide out keyboard on droid, while the on-screen keyboard is a breeze. PSP phone is expected to download the games that run on this device off an independent game-store, which possibly means that this device will have two different app-stores. PSP (whatever) store for games and android market for normal android apps and games.
I’m sure these early shots are showing just an early version and the keypad etc will get better with time and the actual release will have a better game-pad section. No release dates, model numbers or other information is available except the fact that it will have a 1Ghz Qualcomm processor, 512 MB ram, 1GB Rom and a Micro SD slot.
Read the original post here.
I’ve been dieing to get my hands on to OS 6 on my Bold 9700 and here’s a video by boygenius that shows OS 6 running on a BlackBerry Bold 9700. The OS is much more snappier and quicker on 9700 than on a torch according to this video. The video shows how the new BB browser works and how the new camera interface is different from the OS 5.x.
Enjoy:
Canada based Research In Motion announces the launch of BlackBerry curve 9300 and this 3G phone worth $399 is available on Rogers contract for as low as $79.99. RIM’s site still says “Coming Soon” in USA.
The phone looks pretty similar to Bold 9700. A quick look at the phone comparison shows that it is pretty much a BlackBerry bold 9700 with only a lower resolution screen (320×240), lower resolution camera (2 megapixel), a lower battery capacity and it doesn’t come with a holster in standard packaging.
You can see the detailed comparison of the two devices here.
We’ve seen several variants of touchscreen typing mechanisms but BlindType is too good to be true. Watch this video how they use this virtual keyboard, once mastered will not require any keys shown on screen, saving valuable screen space for you. See BlindType in action in this video:
Soldiers will be using smartphones in the battlefied. Here’s what this latest Reuters article says:
Raytheon, which makes the Patriot missile defense system, is developing software which could enable a soldier to find enemies in his or her surrounding terrain using a mobile phone running Google’s Android operating system.
The software could potentially be powerful enough to pick up aerial images from an unmanned aircraft or satellite and then focus in on details such as license plates on cars or a person’s facial features.
A typical soldier’s use case:
- Searching for a UAV nearby
- UAV found, Connected!
- Requesting enemy unit locations nearby
- Enemy units and buildings found at these coordinates, touch to view photos
- Incoming orders, move north, keep moving, wait for further orders
- Incoming missile, take shelter
- Your primary weapon is running low on ammo, reload!
🙂
And then there can be problems with the software or the handsets:
- Cannot retrieve orders, network not found
- UAV connection lost
- Battery low
- Uh.. the phone software stuck … urgh!
- Waiting for GPS ………………….
- … why dare you touch the phone, it’s an iPhone, remember? 🙂
Here’s the whole post.
What do you use your computer for? Surfing Internet, chat, gaming, social networking, downloading, desktop computing including documents, spreadsheets or presentation making or just watching your photos and videos? Today’s mobile phones are capable of doing it all, rather sometimes more than the traditional phones. They have faster processors, more ram, faster wireless Internet connectivity and larger memories.
Today I will start another series of posts that will tell you how to use your phones to do things that you usually do with your computers including desktops, laptops and netbooks. This series of posts will include tips, tricks and software that you can use to avoid the use of computers and just use your phone 🙂
Why are mobile phones better?
If you have not done so, you can read my earlier articles that prove that laptops are better than desktops, because they take around 60 watts of power as compared to a few hundred watts. Then we also discussed that netbooks are even better than laptops taking half the power as compared to a full sized notebook. Today we will move one step ahead.
To prove my point I used this app called Nokia Energy Profiler. The app is a free download available on Nokia OVI store for almost all Nokia devices. The application gives you exact numbers in terms of power consumption, network bandwidth utilization and a few more important things that you never come to know when using a mobile phone. Just like any other computing device, Nokia phones consume low power when idle and take more power when performing more computation.
Here are a few screen-shots. As you can see, when the phone is idle, it takes 0.18 watts on average. When navigating the menu and viewing simple content like photos on the phone screen, its consuming 0.23 watts on average. In the third screenshot, the phone is being used for a voice+video call over a wifi network and the battery usage is at it’s top, that is around 2 watts.
In the last screen shot you can see the sudden rise in battery consumption when there’s an incoming call ringing and picked up.
In any case, this particular cellphone is using less than 2 watts of power which is way less than the other computing devices we listed above.
Conclusion
Use mobile phones for your computing needs whenever and wherever possible. You’ll save power and will contribute your efforts in keeping this planet green. Happy Green Computing!
This has been a long awaited post and a few of my readers have been requesting for it repeatedly. I’ve finally decided to write on this topic. Some of my readers will call it a redundant post as so many has been said about these two phones and then some of them will call it biased due to Nokia being my all time favorite but I will still not be reluctant writing the post as it is totally based on facts and figures and I have not been unjust.
iPhone 4 by Apple and Nokia N8 have been put into a side by side table below. Thanks to GSM Arena, I did not have to type in all this data. What I’ve done is, I’ve colored this table green wherever I found a superior feature in one of the two phones. Quite interestingly iPhone is a winner in launching the phone first, it is smaller in volume, it’s got a gyro sensor, higher resolution screen, greater internal memory, better CPU clock and a larger battery capacity.
That makes around 8 features better than Nokia’s N8. Am I praising Apple’s marvel too much? Well, let’s look at Nokia’s features where Nokia is a winner against iPhone. The list is endlessly long and Nokia has around 19 features that are significantly better than that of iPhone including a 12 megapixel stunning still camera with a Carl Zeiss lens, Micro SD Slot which will let you plug in upto 32 GB of a memory card, USB on the go that will allow you to plug in your USB flash drives and hard disks as an additional storage space to your phone, 720p HDMI TV out, Flash support in browser, faster class 33 edge and much more. See the table below yourself, I’m not biased 😉
Hence the winner is … Nokia N8 without any doubt.
While my favorite of all the features will be the Nokia logo on the device that looks much better to me as compared to that of a metallic apple 🙂 . Where Nokia has lost it is; the delayed release that is causing additional curiosity and unrest among the fans who cannot take it anymore. Just release it Nokia!
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Apple iPhone 4 |
Nokia N8 |
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General |
2G Network |
GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 |
GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 |
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3G Network |
HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 |
HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 2100 /1900 |
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Announced |
2010, June |
2010, April |
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Status |
Available. Released 2010, June |
Coming soon. Exp. release 2010, October |
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Size |
Dimensions |
115.2 x 58.6 x 9.3 mm |
113.5 x 59.1 x 12.9 mm, 86 cc |
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Weight |
137 g |
135 g |
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Display |
Type |
TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors |
AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M |
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Size |
640 x 960 pixels, 3.5 inches |
360 x 640 pixels, 3.5 inches |
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– Scratch-resistant surface |
– Scratch-resistant surface |
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– Multi-touch input method |
– Multi-touch input method |
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– Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate |
– Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate |
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– Three-axis gyro sensor |
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– Proximity sensor for auto turn-off |
– Proximity sensor for auto turn-off |
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Sound |
Alert types |
Vibration, MP3 ringtones |
Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones |
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Speakerphone |
Yes |
Yes |
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– 3.5 mm headset jack |
– 3.5 mm audio jack |
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Memory |
Phonebook |
Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall |
Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall |
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Call records |
100 received, dialed and missed calls |
Detailed, max 30 days |
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Internal |
16/32 GB storage, 512 MB RAM |
16 GB storage, 256MB RAM, 512 MB ROM |
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Card slot |
No |
microSD, up to 32GB |
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Data |
GPRS |
Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps |
Class 33 |
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EDGE |
Class 10, 236.8 kbps |
Class 33 |
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3G |
HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps |
HSDPA, 10.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 2.0 Mbps |
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WLAN |
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n |
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, UPnP technology |
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Bluetooth |
Yes, v2.1 with A2DP |
Yes, v3.0 with A2DP |
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Infrared port |
No |
No |
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USB |
Yes, v2.0 |
Yes, microUSB v2.0, USB On-the-go |
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Camera |
Primary |
5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash |
12 MP, 4000×3000 pixels, Carl Zeiss |
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Features |
Touch focus, geo-tagging |
1/1.83” sensor size, ND filter, geo-tagging, face and smile |
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Video |
Yes, 720p@30fps, LED video light, geo-tagging |
Yes, 720p@25fps |
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Secondary |
Yes, videocalling over Wi-Fi only |
VGA videocall camera |
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Features |
OS |
iOS 4 |
Symbian ^3 OS |
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CPU |
1 GHz Apple A4 processor |
ARM 11 680 MHz processor, 3D Graphics HW accelerator |
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Messaging |
SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email |
SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email, IM |
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Browser |
HTML (Safari) |
WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds |
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Radio |
No |
Stereo FM radio with RDS; FM transmitter |
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Games |
Downloadable, incl. motion-based |
Yes + downloadable |
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Colors |
Black, White |
Dark Grey, Silver White, Green, Blue, Orange |
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GPS |
Yes, with A-GPS support |
Yes, with A-GPS support; Ovi Maps 3.0 |
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Java |
No |
Yes, MIDP 2.1 |
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– MicroSIM card support only |
– Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF) |
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– Scratch-resistant glass back panel |
– Dolby Digital Plus via HDMI |
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– Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic. |
– Anodized aluminum casing |
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– Digital compass |
– Digital compass |
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– Google Maps |
– Video/photo editor |
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– iBooks application |
– DivX/XviD/MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV |
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– Audio/video player and editor |
– MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ player |
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– Voice command/dial |
– Voice command/dial |
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– TV-out |
– TV-out (720p video) via HDMI and composite |
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– Flash Lite v4.0 |
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Battery |
Standard battery, Li-Po 1420mAh |
Standard battery, Li-Ion 1200 mAh |
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Stand-by |
Up to 300 h (2G) / Up to 300 h (3G) |
Up to 390 h (2G) / Up to 400 h (3G) |
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Talk time |
Up to 14 h (2G) / Up to 7 h (3G) |
Up to 12 h 30 min (2G) / Up to 5 h 30 min (3G) |
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Music play |
Up to 40 h |
Up to 50 h
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*** Update
While iPhone 4 is not available unlocked without a voice/data contract in US, we can compare UK prices of iPhone 4 and Nokia N8.Right now, the approximate price of unlocked 16GB iPhone 4 in UK is GBP 499 that is around USD 760. Same 16 GB iPhone 4 is available for Eur 629 in France for example.
On the other hand, Nokia N8 is expected to be available for around Eur 450 on launch. Even if it sells for Eur 500, its pretty economical, isn’t it? 🙂