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Nokia E61, Nokia E60 and Nokia E70 3G October 14, 2005Nokia announced today the addition of three new models to its portfolio of business-optimized devices. The Nokia E60, Nokia E61 and Nokia E70 - the first of the new Nokia Eseries - are distinctively different in design and allow businesses of all sizes to mobilize their workforce. Nokia Eseries models combine attractive and easy-to-use designs that appeal to individual business users with new underlying technologies that allow IT departments to effectively manage security settings, corporate applications and data. The Nokia E60, Nokia E61 and the Nokia E70 will be available in the first quarter of 2006 worldwide. The Nokia E60, Nokia E61 and Nokia E70 support today's most popular and newly announced corporate mobile email solutions like BlackBerry Connect, GoodLink from Good Technology, Inc., Nokia Business Center, Seven Mobile Mail, Seven Always-On Mail and Visto Mobile. The new Nokia Eseries devices are built on the latest edition of the Series 60 Platform, the world's leading smartphone software platform. Series 60 3rd Edition together with Symbian OS v. 9.1 provid....
Posted by Lohrasp at 11:14 PM | Comments (1) Sony Ericsson Unveils UMTS P990 Smartphone October 13, 2005Sony Ericsson emphasised its continued commitment to Symbian OS today with the announcement of its next generation smartphone to the global development community. The P990 will be the first commercially available smartphone to adopt the enhanced Symbian OS version 9.1 and UIQ 3 software platform. This flagship UMTS smartphone is Wi-Fi enabled, has a 2 megapixel camera with autofocus and features a new hardware keyboard beneath the flip-down keypad. The phone will start shipping during Q1 of 2006. 
To ensure a large proportion of applications are available on the new Symbian and UIQ software platform when the P990 goes on sale, Sony Ericsson has decided to announce the smartphone well in advance of availability so that developers have time to create and certify as many applications as possible. As with its predecessors, the P990 is designed to be first and foremost a great mobile phone. It also offers all the benefits of UMTS including video calling, high-bandwidth multi-media downloads and the ability to browse the Internet with full HTML pages. These are viewed in landscape on the new Opera 8 browser. In addition, the P990 is prepared for all major push e-mail clients enabling full e-mail access with attachments, anywhere, anytime. The P990 ....
Posted by Lohrasp at 12:32 AM | Comments (2) Samsung chooses TI technology for Symbian OS Series 60 smartphones October 08, 2005Texas Instruments Incorporated today announced that Samsung Electronics has selected technology from TI's OMAP(TM) platform and Bluetooth solutions for its first Symbian OS(TM) and Series 60-based smartphones, the SGH-D720 and SGH- D730. Available in either clamshell (D730) or slider (D720) designs, the GSM/GPRS smartphones from Samsung are leveraging TI wireless technology to offer a variety of feature-rich entertainment and productivity applications, including RealOne Player and Bluetooth multi-game and music maker. The Symbian OS-based Series 60 platform is the world's leading platform for smartphones. "Samsung is committed to combining multimedia functionality and efficient features into small, stylish, and lightweight handsets that mobile consumers will find very attractive," said Dohwan Choi, senior vice president of Samsung's Product Planning Team. "Adopting TI's OMAP processor and Bluetooth technologies will help Samsung in meeting this commitment." TI's OMAP1610 application processor runs Symbian OS for the new Samsung smartphones and powers a full range of features and applications, including a 1.3 megapixel camera with zoom, built-in flash, and camcorder functionality; MP3 Player; and Series 60 applications such as e-mail and synchronization via Bluetooth or SyncML. As part of the comprehensive OMAP platform offering, TI's robust Symbian....
Posted by Lohrasp at 05:20 PM | Comments (1) Why BlackBerry? September 21, 2005The BlackBerry 7100 and 7300 (approximately $300)
Like death and taxes, converting from your regular cell phone to a BlackBerry may just be inevitable. And for good reason. For business, no other cell phone even comes close to the BlackBerry’s capabilities and ease-of-use. There are two major drawbacks, in addition to the carpal tunnel risk: 1) you’re never “out of pocket” and 2) it’s addicting as all get out. Here’s why your current phone may end up in the office’s “circular file” in the next year: A caveat: the additional functionality does make these phones a bit more fragile. So if you are known for being rough on your phone, you may need to wait to see if a more bullet-proof version becomes available. Your carrier choice may influence model availability and costs. Check the BlackBerry Site to find ....
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Each of the devices is designed to accommodate must-have mobile applications needed in today's business world like mobile email and advanced voice calling functions.