As the world’s leading manufacturer of mobile phones Nokia is not one to sit back politely and miss out on the touchscreen wars being waged by Apple, but will their Haptikos technology revoluntionise touch?
Taking their tactile technology to the bounds of comprehension for the lay inventor the patent speaks of creating “… variable and controllable user perceived surface roughness or friction coefficient“ by placing a “…plurality of closely spaced voltage controllable protuberances” that alter on the surface of the touchscreen.
With a working prototype and hard at work on drag and scrolling functions, Nokia may be about to take it to the iPhone once and for all.
If your sick of all the hoopla about the first Android gPhone and you want in on Android now you can , with a Nokia N810 and a few downloads you can immerse yourself in Google’s open-source OS.
1. First download android.img.bz2 here or here
2. Install the the android-installer.deb from here or here
3. Reboot!
Now to enjoy your new OS just start Android from the extra’s menu and wait 60 seconds and voila you are Google-toting internet-tablet-waving god of thunder.
Once villagers wise to the fact that you are in fact a tech head and not the often claimed god of thunder and you wish to rid yourself of all remaining evidence simply uninstall by removing the deb and deleting the android.img sitting on MMC card to get back to your original jobs-fearing ways.
For Nokia N810 find your flash here for N800 find it here Once installed simply reboot. Now wasn’t that fun.
There’s huge excitement leading up to a release of the Nokia N96 and Nokia fans would be advised to take advantage of what appears to be an ‘accidental’ leak of the manual online.
Check out the ‘demo’ at the Nokia website and forget about the N81 and N95 - this baby has can do anything they can do, but better. Check it out here.
Smartphones may be the go-to category for every consumer and his dog these days but Nokia’s E-Series continues to deliver business focussed devices to match changing needs.
Essentially the Nokia E71 in a different form factor the E66 delivers business performance in a consumer handset. Blackberry Pearl may have a monopoly on this particular market with Apple taking the other end, but is there a place for the E66 - we think so.
Nokia are never shy about showing off the sort of clout that has made them the world’s leading phone manufacturer, first there was the morph, now enter the ShapeShift concept phone.
The futuristic design uses a combination of 2 plastic layers, one of these layers is a flexible one, while the second is a hard material and between the two is a liquid.
The liquid moves between the layers to create buttons - creating a fluid move between one mode and the next for user interaction.
Weighing in at 125 grams and a girth of only 110 x 55 x 12 millimeters, the Shape Shift concept is an interesting solution to an age old problem and hopefully a little sprinkle of this genius will enter into everyday phones soon.
In a major shakeup Nokia has announced its intention to purchase the remainder of Symbian Ltd to create a non-profit Symbian foundation aimed at turning the OS into a single open source mobile platform.
The acquisition requires Nokia to shell out 264 million Euros for the remaining 52.1% of the organization currently held by Ericsson (15.6%), the Sony Ericsson joint-venture (13.1%), the Japan-based Panasonic (10.5%), the German-based Siemens (8.4%) and Samsung (4.5%).
The new company will combine Symbian, S60, UIQ and NTT DoCoMo’s MOAP(S) into a a single open-source platform creating an environment to encourage rapid innovation in what is already the most popular mobile platform in the world.
The news could dampen excitement in Google’s own ‘open’ Android platform and will have Apple and Microsoft’s ‘closed’ platforms re-thinking strategies perhaps with select components of the Symbian Foundation available at launch and the entire platform available within 2 years.
If you weren’t already worried about cancer from overhead powerlines, aspartame and TV radiation at least be grateful that at any given time you are not surrounded by 4 Nokia phones and made entirely of corn kernel.
By now you have either realized yours is a life of happy hour luxuries and coupon-cutter holidays, for a lucky few however theirs is a world of opulence where a diamond encrusted handset is not only possible but somewhat inevitable.
Lucky for destiny’s child the Nokia 8800 Arte Diamond special edition is out and begging to for ubiquity among the chattering classes. Featuring 112 UN-approved diamonds, or 0.7 carats, the Thomas Heyerdahl designed traffic-stopper clocks in at whisker under $6000USD.
The triband GSM Nokia 7310 Supernova has been released in China and Taiwan and the good-lookind mid-ranger serves up features bound to be a hit.
With EDGE dishing out data at up to 2.5G speeds, 2 megapixel camera, optional TV-out cable, microSD slot, 2 inch QVGA display and FM radio, the Supernova is not going to set the world on fire but by the looks of these photos this is one affordable 11.95mm-thick mirror finish candybar you wont be embarassed to pull out of your pocket.
