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28 Apr
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The FCC has recently approved a new Nokia phone that’s almost surely going to be released by AT&T in the US.
We’re talking about the Nokia 6750 Mural, which comes as a clamshell that works on the 850/1900 UMTS bands.
Somewhat similar to the Nokia 6650 that AT&T launched in November 2008, the new 6750 comes with two displays, a glossy finish and external music-dedicated keys. It also has a 2MP camera with flash, Bluetooth and MicroSD card support, up to 8GB.
The phone’s Users Manual confirms that AT&T will carry the Nokia 6650, since it includes stuff like MEdia Net and Video Share.
It’s not clear yet if the 6650 runs on Symbian S40, or on Symbian S60. I guess we’ll have to wait for its official release in order to find out.
Via PhoneScoop
Tags: Amp, Bluetooth, Clamshell, Fcc, Music, New Nokia, Nokia, Nokia 6650, Nokia 6750, Nokia Phone28 Apr
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Are you dreaming? Nope. We’ll pinch you if you still don’t believe us; that’s right folks, the Nokia E71x is no longer a fantasy, as it is now officially on AT&T’s website for sale now.
It’s been a long time coming, so we’re happy to hear the news. And the specs of this particular phone were worth the wait, considering it has GPS, WiFi and 3.2 MP camera on a smartphone that costs only $99.99 after mail-in rebate.
The only thing that will take some getting used to is Symbian S60, but it’s hard to turn down such a rich feature package.

Now that the wait is over, are you going to get the E71x? After playing with it on a couple different occasions I have come out quite impressed by the phone. Great features and small phone with an easy-to-use QWERTY.
Let us know what you think in our comments section.
via Engadget
Tags: Amp, Comments Section, Fantasy, Feature Package, Long Time, Mail, Mp, Nokia, Occasions, Rich Feature, Smartphone, Wifi28 Apr
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Without much fanfare, Nokia has just announced its newest Eseries smartphone, the Nokia E52.
If you expect a revolutionary design from the E52, don’t. The new phone is just an E55 without a QWERTY keypad. So, yeah, it’s a slim candybar with a 2.4 inch QVGA display.
Like the E55, Nokia E52 is said to have an “impressive battery life” which should provide a talk-time of up to 8 hours with a single full-charge. It also comes with GPS, a 3.2MP camera, Ovi Services, noise cancellation and “the new email UI from the Nokia E75”.
Moreover, Nokia E52 supports HSDPA for up to 10.2Mbps and HSUPA for up to 2Mbps.
The handset has two color versions, silver and brown (like the 5MP E71i, perhaps):


Nokia said the E52 would be available starting the second half of the year, for a retail price of around €245 ($325).
Here’s a hands-on video with the Nokia E52, from Nokia Conversations:
Source: Nokia
Tags: Battery Life, Candybar, Color Versions, Conversations, E55, Fanfare, Handset, Hsupa, Noise Cancellation, Nokia, Nokia E52, Nokia E75, Qvga Display, Qwerty, Retail Price, Revolutionary Design, Second Half, Smartphone, Talk Time, Ui28 Apr
Without much fanfare, Nokia has just announced its newest Eseries smartphone, the Nokia E52.
If you expect a revolutionary design from the E52, don’t. The new phone is just an E55 without a QWERTY keypad. So, yeah, it’s a slim candybar with a 2.4 inch QVGA display.
Like the E55, Nokia E52 is said to have an “impressive battery life” which should provide a talk-time of up to 8 hours with a single full-charge. It also comes with GPS, a 3.2MP camera, Ovi Services, noise cancellation and “the new email UI from the Nokia E75”.
Moreover, Nokia E52 supports HSDPA for up to 10.2Mbps and HSUPA for up to 2Mbps.
The handset has two color versions, silver and brown (like the 5MP E71i, perhaps):


Nokia said the E52 would be available starting the second half of the year, for a retail price of around €245 ($325).
Here’s a hands-on video with the Nokia E52, from Nokia Conversations:
Source: Nokia
Tags: Battery Life, Candybar, Color Versions, Conversations, E55, Fanfare, Handset, Hsupa, Noise Cancellation, Nokia, Nokia E52, Nokia E75, Qvga Display, Qwerty, Retail Price, Revolutionary Design, Second Half, Smartphone, Talk Time, Ui27 Apr

Folks who have played with Twitter and Friend View from Nokia labs might be looking for something new, akin to Twitter, and we already know that the app can run into the background in “Normal” or “Active “ modes. A notification from Friend View will be enough to notify you that your friend is nearby.
Tags: Modes, Nearby Source, Nokia, Twitter27 Apr

If you’re the type of person who’s fond of widgets, you’ll certainly have fiddled with Nokia’s WidSets before, which offers a wide variety of apps, games and feeds for phones. Nokia has just announced that it will be rolling WidSets into its Ovi Store, which is quite a logical move, if you sit down and think about it for a moment anyways. The problem is, after it’s integrated into Ovi, will WidSets be tied to Nokia devices only? That is certain caused for concern.
Tags: Games, Logical Move, Nokia, Nokia Devices, Nokia Store, Rsquo, Widgets, Widsets27 Apr

2.6GHz is probably becoming everybody’s preferred spectrum for LTE in Europe, but it looks like Finland is deciding to take another direction and use the 1800MHz band instead, a spectrum which carriers TeliaSonera, Elisa and DNA have already snapped up. The frequency is said to be better for range and penetration, so there will be less base stations needed. The problem remains that spectrum diversity will make hardware availability more of an issue, though since Nokia is in Finland anyways, we’re fairly sure getting Nokia to come up with 1800MHz devices shouldn’t be too much of a problem.
Tags: Base Stations, Direction, Diversity, Dna, Elisa, Europe, Hardware Availability, Nokia, Nokia Finland, Penetration, Spectrum22 Apr

You may or may not be familiar with groupware, but you’ve almost certainly worked in a group before, whether it’s for a project, or just for arranging an outing. It would certainly be great if everybody could collaborate on projects and plans via their mobile phones, and that looks exactly what Easy Meet by the folks from Nokia Beta Labs have come up with. According to the site, users will be able to:
File Sharing, supporting PPT, JPEG and PNG
Chat
Meeting Minutes
Whiteboard
Gesturing
File Downloads
Participant Awareness
Remote Content Access (OVI Files).
One click to join a conference, including voice conference
Now doesn’t that sound like something you could use in the workplace or in day to day work?
Tags: Beta, Chat Meeting, Collaboration, Groupware, Meeting Minutes, Mobile Phones, Nokia, Nokia Mobile, Participant, Png, Voice Conference, Work Source22 Apr

At the beginning, Nokia’s Photo Browser, which is a real cool beta application, was only offered for Nokia’s touchscreen phones, which meant supporting Symbian S60 5th Edition. The good news for folks who don’t own touchscreen Nokia’s is that owners for S60 3rd Edition FP1 and FP2 will be able to check it out. If you’re looking to try this app out, you can always head over to the Nokia Beta Labs website and download it.
Tags: Beta Application, Fp1, Nokia, Nokia Website, Photo Browser, Rsquo, Touchscreen Phones22 Apr

It’s certainly not the end of the world, but we thought we’d just point out that after the Rogers Samsung J706 coming soon to Speak Out, the Nokia 6061 has gone missing from the site. As we mentioned, it’s not serious enough to start crying over, but maybe Speak Out just ran out of stock. What do you think?
Tags: Nokia, Nokia 6061, Rogers, Samsung, Stock