Games haven’t yet made it really big on mobile phone. Even though smart phones available today offer amazing features, the gaming experience still has a long way to go compared to what game consoles offer. Even though Nokia attempted at a gaming phone range N-Gage, Nokia couldn’t continue with the device.
Recombu has come up with the concept called Ovi Orion which is an extension of the N-Gage range. The concept of this phone is meant for serious gamers.
Our Ovi Orion concept is an evolution of N-Gage handsets, it is a phone/platform offering with a heavy slant on gaming. In other words, if the iPhone is Wii, then Ovi Orion would be Xbox and offer Xbox Live style features. A serious gaming phone for serious gamers. Watch our video below to see the Orion in action and click on the next page for close-up pictures and specs.
Soon you will hear smokers say “Do you have mobile?” instead of the usual “Do you have a light?” as the lighter has made its way into the cellular phone. A new mobile called Machismo from China has is a boon for all the smokers. The “world’s hottest cigarette lighter mobile phone” as they call themselves is a triband with dual-SIM slots and has a 2.5 inch touchscreen.
The problem with modern life is you have to carry around too many things in your pockets. Wallet, keys, iPod, cellphone, and if you’re a smoker – a cigarette lighter too. Well here’s the perfect solution - The Machismo. Instead of carrying a phone AND a lighter, just turn this amazing phone around, slide open the safety latch, and the underlying heating element heats up in under 2 seconds. Place your cigarette on the glowing element and puff. Your cigarette is lit and you can enjoy your smoke. Super huh? Yes, Machismo!
Apart from the lighter, the phone comes loaded all major features such as 2GB TF MicroSD Card, 1.3 MP digital camera, video camcorder, a mp3 music player, dual SIM slots, an mp4 video player, PDA tools.
That certainly a HOT phone which can put other phones on fire!
Samsung has confirmed that it will include the latest version of its TouchWiz customizable user interface in its forthcoming bada smartphone. Acc to the Samsung bada blog, Samsung will unveil its first smartphone to run its new Bada platform at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona later this month.
The first device that will be based on the bada OS would be the bada S8200, which features a 3.7 AMOLED screen, HSPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, and a 5MP autofocus camera and will also be powered by the popular Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. Also sources reveal that bada-based S8200 will be priced at around $575 (Rs. 27,000 approx).
TouchWiz boasts specially designed widgets that enable one-touch access to the users’ favorite applications. According to the company, the updated TouchWiz for bada will bring new touch interaction features and components which have been created to further simplify the user experience.
“People’s expectations of the user experience (UX) are higher than ever before,” says the post. “Simply being new doesn’t cut it anymore. Quick acclimation and enjoyment are increasingly important.”
Bada is a very new player in the smartphone market having being launched in December. With competitors like Android and Symbian and others, it will be interesting to see how Samsung succeeds to hold itself firmly on the mobile OS arena. Its features are noteworthy and the platform is already receiving a good response from the global operators.
If I am to mention about a mobile OS slowly taking onto the handsets of the major manufacturers, Android would be one word to echo in chorus. As the OS comes to blows with the others in the market, and as it may be seen assimilating a positive response on the web especially coz of its open nature, how much do we envy the owners of the expensive android handsets? Quite a much. But lets give our jealousy some rest as a killer android phone for the lower end has just made its way to the mobile sphere.
Alcatel has just made a cool combination of Android and Palm pre in a single handset for the customers. With not so amazing but notable specifications under its hood, the phone carries 600Mhz CPU, 802.11 b/g, EDGE, 3G, GPS, Magnetometer (Compass), 2 megapixel camera, and an accelerometer. What is rather interesting is that the phone may be expected to roll out in a price lesser than the HTC Tattoo making it affordable to fit in many pockets. While that is all we know about the slider as of now, but you may take a closer look at the phone in the video down here by Frandroid.
The smartphone market had been heating up with the latest high tech and most sophisticated technology and there were many players fighting to mark a niche with their innovation. But as Apple and RIM were seen taking a lead in the industry, Nokia was loosing onto its glorious market records. But the Finnish company is back in the race as it reports of 132 percent increase in operating profit year-on-year and a positive sign in its growth statistics.
Nokia’s revenues from smartphones increased 26% from the previous quarter to 3.9 billion euros and the major credit goes to the sales of high-end smartphones, the N-series and E-series, that grew from 8.9 million to 10.7 million between the third and fourth quarters of 2009.
“We grew our market share in smartphones in the fourth quarter, driven by the successful launch of new touch and Qwerty models,” said Nokia’s chief executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo.
“Our performance in smartphones, combined with continuing success in the emerging markets, helped us increase sales in our devices & services unit, both quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year.”
Nokia is well determined to win its shares back from its competitors and Apple takes the top spot in the list.
“Apple continues to be a great competitor, no doubt about that,” Mr. Kallasvuo said. “But we have our assets as well. Our strategy is in democratizing the smartphone in a massive way.”
Nokia reported a net profits of 882m euros for the last three months of 2009, a 53% increase on the 576m euros recorded a year earlier. However, Sony Ericsson and Motorola continued to struggle, selling 14.6 million and 12 million phones, respectively.
MagnumRIM”s Blackberry is just trying hard to bridge the gap between its popular Bold QWERTY handsets and its Storm touchscreen device with its new Blackberry Magnum.
A new Research in Motion BlackBerrydevice has been spotted in the mobile world as The Cellular Guru reviews a Magnum prototype in a video. The first ever combination of touch screen and QWERTY keyboard by the Canadian wireless device company, is sure to place it well in the arena of full touch screen handsets. Other mentions include the larger keyboard, optical trackpad and micro USB port. For a closer look, check out the video .
Motorola Zeppelin, isn’t a new name we have heard as few of its pictures had already been leaked on the web. But we thought looking at the market trends and existing super Smartphone Motorola will dust off its old style and bring something innovative for the consumers. But seems Moto is just not serious about getting back on its foot and making a mark in the smartphone industry as yet again it is just about to bring a rather not too great phone to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month.
Not bad but neither impressive features, it boast of a touch-sensitive buttons below the display, a 5 megapixel camera, 3.2-inch 320×480 HVGA display, a built-in GPS sensor company’s MOTOBLUR interface and a 550 MHz processor. It is not known which Android build it will ship with, but it 2.0 or 2.1 are only the ones as an option.
We may not call it the highest-end phone on the block. As we see the handset doesn’t blow our mind away with its design that has a metal casing along with HTC type form factor. After Razr, the company hasn’t been able to create a stir in the market and this phone may line up as the next disaster spilling water over Motorola’s hopes of getting back its lost glory.
Nokia Corp, the world’s largest mobile phone maker has announced alatest flavor of touchscreen Nokia handset, Nokia X6 16GB.
Nokia X6 was initially announced in September and finally landed in the market December and its 16 GB model is slimmed down and made cheaper. It longer carries Nokia’s Comes With Music service but its sizable on board storage still boasts enough space for 5,500 tracks.. Quite apparent it has half the memory than its predecessor. It will be rolled out in four new finishes: black, white, white with pink highlights and white with yellow highlights. The 16G variant will sell for £299 SIM-free with contract prices expected to be as low as £25 a month.
“Whether you just call and text or want a device that gives you music, movies and games at the touch of a button, the X6 is where it’s at this spring,” proclaims Nokia UK’s General Manager Mark Loughran. “Why carry around a music player or handheld game, when one phone can give you all the entertainment you need at a touch?”
Loaded with myriad multimedia features, the new sibling of Nokia X6 supports Ovi Store connectivity, a capacitive screen and runs Symbian S60 5th Edition as an OS. The phone boasts up to 18 days standby time, 11.5 hours talktime (GSM), 4.5 hours of video playback and a whopping 35 hours of music playback. Other specifications include a 5-megapixel photo snapper with Carl Zeiss optics and dual LED flash, which also sports video recording capabilities, as well as TV-out functions. It also features video editing capabilities.
Gamers will be happy to have the pre-loaded games including Spore by EA, Asphalt4 and DJ Mix Tour by Gameloft. It is available from today from www.nokia.co.uk/shop. So all Nokia fans needn’t wait too long to grab a piece of their own.
Japan’s largest mobile-phone company NTT DoCoMo Inc. had released its first ever Android powered mobile phone HT-03A model in May an year ago. Marching ahead the company is now ready to release a new smartphone model, Xperia, as it aims to make a difference in the Smartphone market.
Xperia, created by Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB will run Google Inc.’s Android operating system and is scheduled to reach the Japanese market by April. The basic features include a four-inch screen with a touch-panel display, 7.2Mbps down/2.0Mbps up, Wi-Fi connectivity, an 8.1-megapixel camera and will roll out in “Sensuous Black” and “Luster White” colors The model is said to be priced between 35,000 yen to 40,000 yen with some discount offers for a 2 year usage period by the customer.
The move is said to be Docomo’s attempt to attack its rival, SoftBank Mobile Corp., the company which sells Apple Inc.’s iPhone in Japan and is currently a major leader in the smartphone business in the country. DoCoMo already offers RIM Ltd.’s BlackBerry and mobile devices using Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Mobile software.
At an event that was held to promote the new model, company President Ryuji Yamada said, “This is a model that we can call the nouvelle entertainment machine. With this handset, you can handle such data as music, pictures and movies as you like…I’m confident that Xperia is superior to iPhone in terms of both hardware and software.”
The smartphone market is at present the fastest growing segment of the mobile industry and it will continue to outpace the overall handset market for the foreseeable future. Apple iPhone that now has overall market share leadership worldwide , overtook the former frontrunner Nokia, with Blackberry and Samsung also pacing on swiftly. But the Finnish company is trying to keep its customers happy and is working on strategies to boost the sales of its high-end devices.
Nokia has announced that the navigational services on its smartphones will now be offered free to the customers globally. The navigational services will be offered under its Ovi Maps offerings. Covering 74 countries and 46 languages, the company is making a direct attack on the Google and other similar service providers like Apple. The Google Maps Navigation is although free but is only limited to the Android handsets and only in U.S. while Apple’s iPhone users need to pay around $70 to download a similar application. Also Nokia’s navigation service is 10 times more efficient that Google Maps that counts for less network congestion, thus keeping it a level above the rest.
“This is a game changing move. By leveraging our NAVTEQ acquisition, and our context sensitive service offering, we can now put a complete navigation system in the palm of your hand, wherever in the world you are, whenever you need it – and at no extra cost,”said Anssi Vanjoki, Vice Executive President Nokia.
The Finnish telco’s share in the smart phone space has slipped to 38% now from 53% two years earlier. The company is trying to regain the lost grounds and that is quite evident as Nokia spent $8.1bn buying Navteq whose revenue will be cannibalized by the company’s free offering. So will Nokia succeed in its efforts and will its strategy work well against Google and others? And how will the navigation service be enough for Nokia to gain its lost share? Nokia needs more potential innovation to keep up with the changing market trends and customer expectations.
Samsung has confirmed that it will include the latest version of its TouchWiz customizable user interface in its forthcoming bada smartphone. Acc to the Samsung bada blog, Samsung will unveil its first smartphone to run its new Bada platform at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
later this month.
Nokia Corp, the world’s largest mobile phone maker has announced a latest flavor of touchscreen Nokia handset, Nokia X6 16GB.
