A couple of weeks ago, Nokia had announced the plan to launch the N95 8GB mobile phone worldwide. However, we reported that the phone was released in India. In North America, Nokia has already launched N95 with 3G capabilities. Now, at CES, Nokia confirms on the N95 8GB North America Model (NAM).

Nokia’s N95 8GB NAM is compatible with 50/1900 MHz HSDPA wireless data network found on AT&T in the U.S. It features 8GB flash drive and a larger 2.8-inch QVGA display with 16 million colors, more RAM, a better battery and support for the N-Gage gaming service.

Other specs include an incorporated GPS receiver with some preloaded US maps, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 and 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics. The smartphone is based on the Symbian S60 3rd Edition software and supports Nokia Share Online 3.0 for consumers to upload photos and videos on Flickr or Vox.

The Nokia N95 8GB NAM is expected to hit the US market for $750 (approx. Rs. 30,000) as an unlocked device, instead of pairing it with AT&T or another service.

The sleek slider-style and powerful handset, Samsung SCH-r610, is now available to customers of Cricket, a subsidiary of unlimited wireless service company Leap Wireless International. This ultra-slim mobile phone is packed with a high-resolution, 262K TFT display, MP3 player with microSD memory slot, 1.3 megapixel camera, WAP 2.0, stereo Bluetooth and a loud, clear speaker phone.

Because Cricket customers have unlimited wireless access, it has a digital talk time of up to 3 hours and standby time of up to 350 hours. Cricket customers can get all these features inside a 4.06 x 1.96 x .5 inch handset weighing only 2.92 ounces.
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Just a week after we got the Nokia 6500 Slide in our hands, the Classic version arrived bearing an elegant twist. Materials and build feels the same, the only difference being the weight and the size. The first slim phone from Nokia, the 6300, was popular among the masses, giving Nokia the confidence to push out another from the same mould. Following the recent Nokia 2630 and the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic, this is the next promising mobile which manages to include the latest technologies like 3G within a slim profile.

Slim Outside

With a slim form factor of only 9.5 millimeters, the 6500 Classic could easily rival all others in the market. It is also a breakthrough for Nokia as the previous slim Nokia mobile, the 2630, comes in at 9.9 millimeters. We liked the material used on the Nokia 6500 Classic: anodized aluminum, which had a solid and durable feel. The unit that came into our labs for review is generally black all around, with a glossy finish for the lower frame that slides out to reveal the battery and SIM card. This is however, mainly made of cheaper plastic, which in turn attracted fingerprints. That point aside, the keypad is reasonably flat for text messaging and with a little help from the silver linings on each key, we could blind type quite well. Read more…

The Sony Ericsson W910 Walkman phone is designed for entertainment music, 3D games, video and high-speed web access and includes a new Shake control for game play or selecting music tracks and the new Walkman feature SensMe, a new way to browse music files using tempo and style. Sony Ericsson W910 includes a 320×240 pixel 262K TFT QVGA display, 2 megapixel camera, Memory Stick Micro removable storage, picture & video blogging, media browser and Media Manager PC software.

Sony-Ericsson-W910-1GB-Blackis an HSDPA Walkman phone with a new Media Manager PC Programme that lets you organize your music, photos and podcasts on your PC and transfer them via USB to your phone. It can store over 900 songs on the 1GB Memory Stick Micro. Sony Ericsson W910will be available in either Hearty Red or Noble Black from Q4 2007. It will ship in the following network versions W910i UMTS/HSDPA 2100 GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 Read more…

On Thursday, Nokia launched E 90 Communicator, one more phone from E series. The E90 Communicator is the first enterprise phone from Nokia offering email access, web browsing and maps application for location-based services. The E90 also offers business full function, multimedia as well as 3G ability.

The Nokia E90 Communicator is well equipped. It has a 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera with a flash. Also another QCIF camera that E 90 incorporates is useful for video-calling and conferencing.

The E90 has a foldable style that opens up to a large 800×320 pixel screen with 16m colors and has full QWERTY keypad with buttons on either side of the screen. The external screen features 320×240 pixel resolutions and it also has 16m colors.

Nokia’s new communicator phone sports connectivity options such as WI-FI, HSDPA, HSCSD, infrared, Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP. Not to forget, USB too. The phone has 128MB of internal memory and can support up to 4GB of external memory using microSD cards. Read more…

There’s nothing wrong with the retro look when it comes to cell phones. I’m particularly found of the two Nokia 6500 Classic phones, because they still boast current generation technology. And they look pretty hot doing it. Unfortunately, I can’t sing the same praise for this el cheapo wonder. The Nokia 2600 Classic is supposed to make us a little nostalgic with its old school appearance, but the sad fact of the matter is that it also has an old school spec sheet. Read more…

Features
The 6236’s phone book holds 1,000 contacts with room in each entry for five phone numbers, an e-mail address, a URL, a formal name, a company name and job title, a nickname, a street address, a birthday, and notes (the SIM card holds an additional 250 names). You can save callers to groups and pair them with any of eight, 64-chord polyphonic tones. That’s a rather small selection of tones, but oh well. You can assign your contacts a photo or video, either of which will show up on the external display. Read more…

T-Mobile on Tuesday began offering the Nokia 6263, a classic clamshell cell phone with enhancements, such as e-mail capability and a XHTML browser.

The Nokia 6263 is not a costly multimedia device like the ones recently launched by Nokia as part of its Nseries, but it does fulfill most basic functions required by mobile users.

For example, the phone is capable of receiving e-mail with attachments and it can be used for Internet browsing via a built-in XHTML browser. It also supports Java and Flash Lite, and can be synched to a desktop through Nokia’s PC Suite software, available as a free download.

“Many customers are looking to own a device that offers the latest conveniences, and want all of those features in a stylish — but classically-styled — phone. The Nokia 6263 is designed expressly for those people,” said Frank Vium, Nokia’s vice president of sales, in a statement.
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One of the little known secrets of cell phones is that many models can act as modems, and connect your computer to the Internet through a cell carrier. In some cases, you can use a USB cable; in others, a laptop with Bluetooth can be tethered wirelessly with the device. You don’t need a special data card.

Costs are another matter. Providers are more than happy to charge you a special rate to connect to their data networks, an additional $30 to $60 per month for unlimited use depending on the carrier and speed. Or you can get a data plan a la carte that charges by the amount of information you use, which works if your only usage is the occasionally download of a few e-mails.
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Sony Ericsson has expanded the company’s P-series smartphone range with the release of the P1i. Building on the feature set of earlier models, the Sony Ericsson P1i supports a range of push corporate and consumer email, is WLAN and VoIP enabled and supports connectivity via hi-speed 3G and WiFi. Designed as a complete mobile office solution with its compact size and multimedia capabilities, the P1i is powered by the Symbian operating system (v9.1) and UIQ 3.1, an open platform based on Symbian OS v9.2.

Offering support for a broad range of push email services including Exchange ActiveSync and Blackberry Connect the P1i allows for remote wiping of email and PIM data in case the phone is stolen or misplaced. Email and data downloads are via 3G and integrated WiFi with web surfing handled by the included Opera Web Browser that displays pages in horizontal or vertical, wide screen aspect.
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