Nokia’s 5800 XpressMusic Goes On Sale

Nokia has made its touch-screen 5800 XpressMusic phone available in several markets, including: Russia, Spain, India, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Finland, and others. Nokia didn’t mention when it will become available in other markets. Nokia also announced that it will cease selling handsets in Japan. It will keep its luxury Vertu brand, but Nokia will no longer develop phones for the Japanese market. Nokia didn’t explain how this will affect its plans to launch a premium MVNO service in Japan in 2009.

Nokia has announced their 6260 Slide handset, which looks to be their most feature-packed S40 phone, to date. Its design somewhat resembles the company’s 6220 Classic handset, only with a slider form factor. The 6260 also sports a new style of d-pad, which, says Nokia “great mobile Internet experience”.

It’s set to be available, in the choice of a beige or black colour scheme, from early next year, at a price of €299, before taxes, and subsidies. Technical specifications are as follows:

• Connectivity: Quad-band GSM, Tri-band UMTS
• OS: S40, Sixth Edition
• Display: 2.4″, HVGA (480 x 320 pixels) resolution, shows up to sixteen million colours
• Camera: 5 MP, Carl Zeiss lens, autofocus, flash
• Video Recording: 352 x 288 pixels, 30 FPS
• Memory: 256 MB internal, MicroSDHC expansion slot
• Extras: 2.5 mm jack, TV-out, Wi-Fi B/G, OTA Firmware updates, Nokia Maps, FM Radio with RDS, A-GPS, Open-source Webkit Browser, Bluetooth 2.1 and Micro USB connectivity
• Battery: 950 mAh
• Dimensions: 99.4 x 46.5 x 15.4 mm
• Weight: 114 grams

Nokia E63 announced

Nokia have announced a new addition to their E-Series line of handsets – the E63. Essentially, the E63 could be viewed as a slightly cut-down E71, what with a plastic, not metal construction, lower res camera, no built-in GPS, support for HSDPA data connectivity, no memory card in the box, though, on the flipside, it does come equipped with an LED flash (which can also be used as a flash), and a 3.5 mm jack (a first for an E-Series device.

Arguably, the most appealing aspet of the E63 is its price – at just €199, before taxes and subsidies, this makes it incredibly appealing. The E63 will be available in a choice of blue or red, and should be available, within the next few weeks.

Technical specifications go as follows:

• Display: 2.36″, QVGA resolution, shows up to sixteen million colours
• OS: Symbian S60, version 3.1
• Connectivity: Quad-band GSM, Dual-band UMTS
• Camera: 2 MP, with LED flash
• Memory: 110 MB internal, MicroSDHC expansion slot
• Extras: Wi-Fi, Nokia Maps, Bluetooth and USB 2.0, 3.5 mm jack, FM Radio with RDS
• Weight: 126 grams
• Dimensions: 113 x 59 x 13 mm

Nokia increases N-Gage application compatability

Nokia’s N-Gage application, has today seen support added for two more devices, those being the N78, and the 6210 Navigator. Up to now, this brings the total number of handsets supported to eleven, the other nine supported handsets being the N79, N81, N81 8GB, N82, N85, N95, N95 8GB, N96, and the 5320 XpressMusic. Gradually, support for more handsets will take place. You can download the N-Gage application here, or, alternatively, download, and install it directly to your supporteddevice, through Nokia’s PC Suite.

Nokia’s next line of Comes With handsets to focus on music or gaming?

Nokia’s Comes With Music service is certainly an interesting one. Really, on paper, it looks destined to be a success, but, as the saying goes, time will indeed tell. Regardless of ts level of success,it seems that Nokia is already looking into the next like of Comes With handsets. On the subject of a possible gaming, or movie-based line of Comes With handsets, company executive Tom Erskine said that the company is being “open minded” on the matter. And, it would seem that Nokia has EA’s support on thie gaming aspect, if it indeed were to come to fruition, with the company’s European Marketing Director saying that the company would be “supportive” on any creative ideas handset manufacturers come up with.

Nokia’s Comes With Music service to come with the N96?

In the UK, Nokia’s Comes With Music service, which allows users to download as many tracks, as they like, for free, to keep for up to a year, may soon be supporting the N96, in the UK. Currently, the service supports the 5310, and N95 8GB, on both a Pay As You Go, and contract price plans. It’s said that the service will add support for Nokia’s N96, before the Christmas period -so, that’ll be in the next few weeks. As of yet, it’s not know if the N96 will be available with the service, on Pay As You Go, or just on a contract plan.

Nokia Siemens Doubles EDGE Speeds

Nokia Siemens Networks has successfully field tested new EDGE technology that doubles downlink speeds compared to today’s EDGE networks. Nokia Siemens Networks’ Dual Carrier EDGE is a software-based solution that can double data speeds to 592Kbps on existing EDGE-capable GSM networks. Dual Carrier EDGE, based on the 3GPP release 7 standard, is the first step in the evolution of EDGE. Nokia Siemens Networks is already working on the next generation of EDGE, called EGPRS 2B, which will offer downlink speeds of up to 1.2Mbps and uplink speed to up to 473Kbps.