New Nokia X3 and X6 Mobile Phones

Nokia X3

It is a quad-band GSM terminal without 3G, with keypad in slider format. As for connection, it has Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP stereo audio, with an input of microSD cards

But the point of this terminal, like all X Series is its compatibility with music. This Nokia X3 has a compatible player com MP3, AAC and WMA, besides having RDS FM radio. With a3.2 megapixel camera can take photos and videos, the latter at a resolution of QVGA (320 × 240 pixels), this puts us sad, the resolution is too low.

Obviously with integrated Ovi services and use the Symbian operating system. Available later this year for only 170$. Let’s see how these figure changes when it launches in Indian market.

Nokia X6

The new X6 is the new Nokia Music terminal range low to medium term, it has a large 3.2-inch touchscreen in 16:9 format, perfect for watching videos. It includes a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and dual flash, video recording, HSDPA network compatible memory and a 32GB in box thanks to a microSD card.

Is compatible with Bluetooth 2.0, includes an A-GPS and WiFi, even supports China’s WAPI WLAN networks.

This Nokia X6 is actually an update to the acclaimed Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. It will be available later this year, for 650$.

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Google launches Nexus One Handset

Google is launching its new Android handset Nexus One. This 11.5mm thin handset built by HTC runs on Android 2.1.
Some of its features are:

• a 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor
• a 3.7 inch AMOLED touchscreen display
• a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash
• a multi coloured trackball that changes colors depending on the application running
• noise cancellation technology for eliminating background noise
• new news & weather widget
• voice commands to all applications on the phone that have text input fields

Nexus One  will be sold directly to consumers through a newly launched web site at Google.com/phone.The phone is available unlocked online for $529 and for $179 through T-Mobile USA with a T-Mobile Even More individual 500 Plan, which costs $79.99 per month. Unlocked, the phone will be able to access AT&T Mobility’s EDGE data network.

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Nokia to launch Mixed Reality application’Nokia Point & Find’ in India in 2011

Nokia is planning to launch a new  application  ” Nokia Point & Find” in India by 2011. It is one of the “Mixed Reality” applications being developed at Tampere, Finland. Mixed Reality means the merger of real and virtual worlds to produce new environments and visualisations where physical and digital objects co-exist and interact in real time.  In short it is about combining digital information with physical location. This will enable the development of the next generation devices and services and hence is one key focus areas for Nokia.
This application will enable a user to get all the relevant information about any product that he/she intends to buy in any location. For this the user has to point the smartphone camera towards the product and start clicking. within seconds every product detail — its price, the nearest retail outlet, its location and distance will be available to the user.
Nokia intends to use the various sensors in the handsets, like its microphone, camera, GPS, accelerometer, light sensors, etc, to bring more targeted and personalised services and information to the user.Some other projects under development includes an application which enables real time flow of traffic data collected from all handsets using GPS. This will provide a user the latest traffic data.
With such applications under development, Nokia plans to totally transform itself into a services company. Nokia is looking at services and internet from the perspective of a telecom player. If connecting people was all about making phone calls till now, going forward it will be all about providing all that a consumer needs.


Source: Economic Times

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Indian GSM subscriber base reaches 355.2 million, addition of over 10 million subscribers in October

The Indian GSM subscriber base has now increased to 355.2 million, with an addition of over 10 million subscribers in the month of October. The subscriber addition data for the month of October is:
Vodafone Essar – 2.98 million
Bharti Airtel -  2.7 million
Aircel -  2 million
Idea Cellular – 1.9 million
BSNL and MTNL ( together) – 0.6 million
However, this data released by the Cellular Operators Association of India does not include the additions made by Tata Teleservices and Reliance Communications.
Source: Economic Times

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