It has an accelerometer that detects physical orientation, a full-face, stylus-free touchscreen and can scroll through photos with the flick of a finger; but it isn't an iPhone. During today's "Go: Play" event, where the company made several sweeping announcements, Nokia showed a brief demonstration video depicting a concept phone (due to ship sometime next year) that bears striking resemblance in form and functionality to the iPhone. The video was demoed alongside the introduction of a new device-specific music store, and Nokia's immediate threat to the iPhone, an updated version of the N95 handset with 8GB of flash storage.



During today's event, Nokia also detailed its new Nokia Music Store, one of the first device-specific music stores available. The service provides a wider catalog of "millions" of songs and includes systems for recommending music based on past purchases. Users can also tag songs rather than buy them to create a wish list for a later purchase, Nokia says.



In addition, the company introduced a new release of the N95 phone, intended to present immediate compeition for the iPhone. It ships with with 8GB of flash storage and is due to ship in the fall for 560 Euros ($763). The new N95 is likely to show in North America as an unlocked device, similar to the original.




winbeta.org - 29.08.2007

Nokia app monitors juice

A new application from Forum Nokia allows developers, and anyone else, to see just how much power their phone is using, and compare consumption when running different applications.



The app is free to download from Forum Nokia, the Nokia developer's portal, and runs on S60 3rd-Edition handsets. Our N95 averages out at around half a watt, though we managed to get it up to around three by playing loud music through it. We wanted to see how much would be consumed when playing video, but the N95 didn't have the memory for both applications to be running at the same time.




winbeta.org - 02.12.2007

Nokia Touch-screen, Tactile Response Interface Coming to Symbian S60

At the Symbian Smartphone Show in London this morning, Nokia showed a video depicting a model with a screen larger than the one on its current N95, and without its pivoting thumb controls. This model was running applications on the Symbian S60 platform using a new touch-screen interface that was similar to Apple's iPhone in one respect, and dissimilar to it in another: It provides tactile feedback...
betanews.com - 17.10.2007

Nokia officially unveils leaked N96 handset, new services

Nokia is making a compelling presentation at the Mobile World Congress today in Barcelona, Spain, unveiling the progeny of its high-end N95, as well as the beta of its new mapping system, and launching Share on Ovi, an integrated media-sharing site...
betanews.com - 11.02.2008

Nokia Fights Notion It's Losing Ground

In its most concerted effort to date to recapture what some have perceived as waning brand interest, Nokia kicked off a four-city worldwide tour today with a gala event in New York City, where the N95 took center stage. With it go Nokia's hopes, and the prospects for HSDPA in North America...
betanews.com - 27.09.2006

Nokia sues Apple over the iPhone

News reported on the BBC news website states that Nokia, the world's giant in the manufacturing of mobile phone technology, is suing Apple for infringing patents on mobile phone technology used in the iPhone. Nokia added that this patent breach applies on all iPhones since its launch in 2007. Nokia have said that this is due to a lack of compensation from Apple, who they are accusing of "trying to get a free ride on the back of Nokia's innovation". These alleged infringements, of which there are ten- involve wireless data, speech coding, security and encryption.

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neowin.net - 23.10.2009

Visual search comes to Nokia phones

If you start seeing people pointing their Nokia camera phones at books, product packaging and other print materials, it's not that they have some weird cell phone-related tic. More than likely, they're using the Thrrum Visual Browser for Cameraphone Search.



The browser lets users point the camera in their phones at objects of interest and get relevant information, product prices and more, right on their handset. Mountain View, Calif.-based 23half, which makes the software, just announced that the app will be available for select Nokia Nseries phones, including the N73, N73ME, N95 and N95-3. It's also supported on a number of Sony Ericsson models.




winbeta.org - 24.10.2007

Funny N95 vs. iPhone videos

These 2 videos, from the lads at symbian-guru.com and intomobile.com, highlights, in a funny way, some of the reasons why the N95 might be considered superior to the iPhone.




winbeta.org - 27.06.2007

What Makes a Good Phone?

Microsoft is about ready to formerly launch its unified communications strategy. That may be tomorrow, but what about the comm that matters to most people, today? So we ask: What do you want from your cell phone? Two weeks ago I sold my iPhone, after Apple released an update that "bricked" devices that had been unlocked. Relocking the phones would have made sense. Disabling them crossed a line of ownership. Even Microsoft gives users 30 days to activate before throttling back Windows Vista.

I once described using the iPhone as "life changing." But the change didnt last long enough. On Friday, I replaced the iPhone with another Nokia N95, but now the US 3G version. I very much expected to miss the iPhone user interface, touch screen and Web experience. Absolutely "no" to the first two, and only "some" to the latter one. The N95-3 is hands-down the best cell I have ever used.


neowin.net - 15.10.2007

Nokia starts global positioning service

Nokia launched a service on Thursday which it said would cut the time a GPS-enabled cellphone takes to pinpoint its whereabouts, opening new opportunities for location-based online services.

Nokia hopes the service, available for users of its flagship N95 phones, will cut the startup time to one minute, from up to three minutes currently. The slowness has so far hampered takeup of cellphone navigation.

"It will be reliably under one minute in most countries," Ralph Eric Kunz, head of Nokia's navigation and mapping operations told Reuters in an interview.

Handset makers see GPS-based navigation as one of the next big value-adding offerings and even at this early stage...
winbeta.org - 19.07.2007

Nokia Recalls 46 Million Batteries

Nokia, the world's No. 1 mobile phone maker, warned today that over 46 million Nokia-branded BL-5C batteries manufactured by Matsushita could overheat and that it would replace them for customers at no cost. The company indicated there have already been over 100 incidents of the batteries overheating while being charged, and that no serious injuries or property damage had been reported. It also clarified that there were multiple manufacturers of this battery and only those by Japanese Matsushita Battery Company were affected. The cost to the company is expected to be around $100 million, and the supplier will likely bear some of the costs.

The following Nokia models use the battery in question:

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