Nokia is taking a beam of that spot light. Today, they have announced a couple of new N-series phones; The N85 Slider, looks like an N81 upgrade, and the N79 candy bar, appears to be the N78 new generation. The N85 (on top) slider phone is a 5 megapixels camera phone, equipped with GPS for directions, mapping and geotagging photos. The screen has been upgraded from a 2.4″ LCD (color TFT) to a 2.6″ AMOLED (Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode). N85 Will also sport a built in 8GB storage with a possible upgrade to 16GB. The N85 is also N-Gage friendly, with controls situated for gameplay in landscape view. Internet connectivity is through either Wi-Fi or HSDPA based 3G. As for the bar-style N79 (bottom), it is a 5 megapixel camera phone w/ dual-LED based flash, 3G and Wi-Fi capable, and has GPS.   

Nokia the makers of some of our most favorite handsets have started to tantalize us a little bit with the ad above.

They’re throwing an invitation only party to celebrate the release of two brand new handsets. The meeting will be held to inform people of “Design, Services & Software.” The ad is pretty cheeky and is doing a good job of getting this writer to salivate.

Rumour have it that the models to be announced will be the N79 and N85. The N78 is a nice simple candy bar phone with a 2.4 inch display and a lovely 5 megapixel camera. People are also speculating that his model is going to be equipped with aGPS and WiFi support.

The N85, the other rumored handset, is sporting that beautiful dual-sliding system which can be seen in the N95 and N96. Previous spec release have also indicated that it has Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE radio and also HSPA support. It is also equipped with a 5 megapixel camera is coupled with dual LED flash, and there’s also WiFi and aGPS.
Symbian with S60 Feature Pack 2 will be on with both models.
Don’t touch that dial! August 18th is the big day. Check back here for more details.

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, which can be seen being used by none other than Batman(!) in the blockbuster monster “The Dark Knight,” has slowly been revealing itself to the internet.

 

Nokia hasn’t made any official announcements but there recently have been leaks of new photos and specs for the Nokia 5800. It highlights it’s Quad-band and Edge capabilities along with its beautiful touch screen interface.

So far the only surprise is that this phone won’t be a part of a XpressMedia series but will be in the XpressMedia series.

I just can’t wait to use my Nokia 5800 to foil The Joker’s schemes. I wonder if it comes with the bat utility belt?

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.

Enjoy the video…

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.