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Speaking of business phone character, the Nokia seems quite expert pack. Japanese-Swedish collaboration vendors are always doing new innovations to things that are a mix of multimedia and office. So, wants to know what makes this phone special?

Design
Wrapped in a solid aluminum material, a top mobile smartphone looks elegant and feels solid when viewed at admission grip. Its dimensions are 123.7 x 62.4 x 13.6 mm, and weighs 176 grams is quite big signing in the bag.

Slightly different from previous designs, this time in addition to pinning the touch screen technology, nokia include a QWERTY keypad on E7 with back stand on display when we do a slide, much like the character design of the Nokia N97. Although the packaging comes with a full keypad, E7 was minimal access switches. On the left side we find the unlock switch to the concept of sliding, opposite switch zoom / volume enclosed by the SIM card slot (hotswap) and the camera button.

Access to the most optimal range is at the top of the phone, i.e. a micro USB port, HDMI port, power switch, and a slot 3.5 mm universal audio jack. The face of the phone is dominated glass scratch resistant glass gorilla who accompanied the menu access button. While the design is only displayed behind the 8-megapixel camera plus a dual LED flash as an advocate of light.

From the design brief was impressed though, E7 trying to deliver optimized access. What is interesting is not the discovery of micro SD slot. In addition to providing only the internal memory, E7 also do not provide access to open or replace the battery. So this phone is by default an embedded battery in it. As N8, Nokia E7 also resembles hotswap technology on SIM card slots. E7 also pinned an HDMI port as harmonizing high-resolution video.

Through an analyst called the Eldar Murtazin Russian origin, the first prototype handset WP 7 platform finally been revealed.

As quoted from Engadget, it is said that the Eldar Murtazin, also known as ‘mobile detectives’ claim that he had ‘tasted’ latest prototype of the Nokia smartphone WP 7 platform.

Not only just a taste, a character ‘antagonist Nokia genuine’ It also gives a little leakage associated naming and also the main weapons that will be embedded in the Nokia smartphone WP 7 platform.

Eldar mentioned two models of Nokia smartphones based WP 7, the W7 model, developed by Nokia X7 hardware base. While the W8 model said to be a variant of the Nokia N8 camera phone.

According to Eldar, W7 model currently being used for development purposes is likely to become the first Nokia smartphone-WP7 are present in the market. This smartphone will be equipped with an 8 MP camera autofocus and flash. W7 by Eldar again, claimed to resemble the HTC Mozart without customization in operating system.

In accordance with the requirements that Microsoft announced, second Nokia smartphone WP7 platform is pinned chipsets made by Qualcomm.

Furthermore, Eldar says that Nokia is preparing 12 smartphones WP 7 to be rolled out in 2012. We’ll wait.

Nokia proved still loyal to its Symbian platform. What no, even middle stired tills some smartphone to base on WP 7, recently the Finnish handset manufacturer is releasing two new Symbian smartphone, namely E6 and X7.

Judging from the model, both the Symbian smartphone platform presents a touch-screen capabilities. The difference, Nokia X7 comes with a treat-sized 4 inch touch screen, while E6 elegant enough to display a full QWERTY keyboard plus touch screen VGA 2:46 inches.

Nokia E6

Nokia E6 Smartphone is slim sizes with dimensions of 115.5 x 59 10.5 mm comes with a bandage combination of glass and stainless steel. This smartphone comes with quad-band 2G networks and five-band 3G. 3G features on your Nokia E6 has been enhanced with 10.2Mbps HSDPA and 2Mbps HSUPA.

Other connectivity features that served this smartphone include Wi-Fi b / g / n and Bluetooth 3.0 with JoikuSpot Premium (applications that can change your phone into a Wi-Fi hotspots).

Temporary for business the picture taken from Nokia E6 is supplied with camera with power of 8 MP fixed focus dually LED Flash and capable records video HD 720p. Nokia E6 have also pinned to memory is having capacities 8 GB, and card slot microSD capable to accomodate data until 32 GB.

Drew it is again, Nokia E6 also is supplied battery claimed solvent of energy power to 28 days in a state of stanby and 15 hours when applied to speak.

Nokia X7

Full touchscreen smartphone was originally going to attend with nHD AMOLED screen measuring 4 inches by Gorilla Glass and clad in stainless steel in its body.

Nokia X7 comes with quad-band 2G networks and tri-band 3G. Not only that, Nokia X7 is also equipped with connectivity features Wi-Fi b / g / n and Bluetooth 3.0.

Same As E6, camera at Nokia X7 has resolution 8 MP complete with dual-LED flash and can record video 720p.

Besides microSD card is having capacities 8 GB in its sale package, Nokia X7 also is equiped with headset Nokia WH-701.

Both these Nokia smartphones, has been running the new OS Symbian Anna, updated version of the Symbian platform ^ 3 which has been long awaited.

From the sources said that both this smartphone will be rolled out in the second quarter of this with the official in the range of $ 500 for Nokia E6 and $ 550 for Nokia X7.

Nokia E6 Specifications:

* Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900, HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100;
* Dimensions: 115.5 x 59 x 10.5 mm, 87 cc Weight: 133 g
* Screen: TFT touchscreen, 16M colors, 640 x 480 pixels, 2:46-inch, QWERTY keyboard;
* Camera: 8 MP, 3264×2448 pixels, fixed focus, dual-LED flash, geo-tagging, video 720p @ 25fps;
* Memory: 8 GB storage, 256 MB RAM, 1 GB of ROM, microSD up to 32GB;
* Connectivity: Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n, Bluetooth v3.0 with A2DP, microUSB v2.0, USB On-the-go support, 10.2Mbps HSDPA, HSUPA 2.0Mbps;
* Operating System: Symbian OS Anna;
* GPS: A-GPS support
* Messaging: SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
* Browser: WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
* Radio: Stereo FM radio with RDS
* Java: MIDP 2.1
* Other Features: MP4/H.264/H.263/RV player, player MP3/WMA/WAV/RA/eAAC +, QuickOffice document editor (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF), Organizer, Voice command / dial / commands, Predictive text input, 3.5mm audio jack;
* Battery: Li-Ion 1500 mAh (BP-4L).

Nokia X7 Specifications :

* Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900, HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100;
* Dimensions: 119.7 x 62.8 x 11.9 mm, 85 cc Weight: 146 g
* Screen: AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors, 360 x 640 pixels, 4.0 inches, Gorilla glass displays, Proximity sensor for auto turn-off, Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate the UI;
* Camera: 8 MP, 3264×2448 pixels, fixed focus, dual-LED flash, geo-tagging, face detection, 720p video @ 25fps;
* Memory: 256 MB RAM, 1 GB of ROM, microSD up to 32GB, 8GB included;
* Connectivity: Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n, Bluetooth v3.0 with A2DP, microUSB v2.0, USB On-the-go support, HSDPA, 10.2 Mbps, HSUPA, 2 Mbps;
* Operating System: Symbian OS Anna;
* CPU: 680 MHz ARM 11 processor, Broadcom BCM2727 GPU
* GPS: A-GPS support
* Messaging: SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email, IM
* Browser: WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds
* Radio: Stereo FM radio with RDS
* Java: MIDP 2.1
* Other Features: Digital compass, Active noise cancellation with a dedicated mic, MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC + Player, Player DivX/XviD/MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV, Quickoffice document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF), Adobe Reader, Flash Lite 4.0, Voice memo / dial / command, Predictive text input, 3.5mm audio jack;
* Battery: Li-Ion 1300 mAh (BL-5K)

Finland Nokia is betting the farm on the platform Microsoft Windows Mobile, but the company must support the Symbian ecosystem, until the conversion is complete. Although the argument in favor of developing countries largely with Nokia Symbian commitment Microsoft platform disappeared, another shoe dropped today: Symbian is available to see more developer’s license. Instead, the restriction Nokia Symbian development on a handful of employees has been authorized.

“We have questions about using the words” open “,” open source “and, therefore, registration before access have received the code,” Nokia said in his blog Symbian. “[We] are not the maintenance of Symbian as a project to develop open-source. In this context, the license Symbian Nokia is an alternative that a license to access the development of other Nokia Symbian for parties with Nokia on platform Symbian proposes to cooperate. ”

Nokia employees includes a handful of Japanese OEM treatment mainly Fujitsu, which are on Symbian mobile phones in Japan, with the construction of a “small community” of other partners continue, even though Nokia says it is currently a backlog of recordings developer.

The movement is probably the last nail in the coffin of the Symbian developer community. In February 2010, Symbian launched proud to be the platform with open-source Symbian Foundation, the idea was an ecosystem of developers and device manufacturers that the platform is becoming more and allow promote effective competition against the likes of Android and would Ios. (And do not forget that at the time of the announcement of Symbian for the world’s leading mobile platform, thanks to millions of Nokia mobile phones worldwide.) Movement was the result of nearly two years of work by Nokia: the company had carefully worked, not having to buy part of Symbian, and then put all for free. However, the effort would soon sour in October, with the unexpected resignation of CEO Lee Williams Symbian Foundation platform behind them (such as Samsung and Sony Ericsson) are increasingly leaving the ship for Android and Symbian to November 2010 Nokia’s in the hands again.

Nokia is still maintaining the development environment, Qt, and Qt both foundations and their tools of the platform MeeGo are still in the open licenses available. But as it transitions to Windows Mobile Nokia a deal that has not been finalized, the company appears to be considerable investment return back to its own platform and open source software.

In the recent years, mobile phone manufacturers are on the race to design and develop better mobile phones loaded with superb features for its generations. Just recently, Nokia released the new Nokia N8 to add to the existing N-series mobile phones. So far, it can be said that N8 is one of the best N-series phones released by the mobile phone manufacturer. Compared to other phones in its range, the N8 offers High Definition (HD) 12MP camera with Carl Zeiss optical lens along with HD video recorder and HDMI cable that you can use to preview recorded video files instantly to your HD TV. Orange, T-mobile, Vodafone and O2 have nokia n8 deals that you can search on the web.

Speaking of the camera, the phone is pre-loaded with xenon flash (which is great, as some of the previous series do not have one), autofocus, and face recognition, geo-tagging and pinch zoom. User can view photos by month, view snapshots as slide show, tag cloud and album. Video shooting capacity is relatively great, since user can shoot videos in HD at 720pixel resolution, 25 frames per second. You can modify/configure the scene, video light, colour tone and white balance the way you want it. Plug the HDMI cable to a HD television before you record video and view the result in an instant. Although you will only have 2x digital zoom for the camera and 3x digital zoom for the video, this phone is overall, doing great.

The 3.5-inch OLED touch screen display offers impressive viewing experience as it has HD 16.7 million colours, 640 x 360 pixel (16:9) resolution. No need to worry about power consumption as the ambient light detector / proximity sensor would work to ensure the screen looks at is best and saves power whenever possible. Furthermore, if you constantly look for new adventure off-the-beaten-path, the voice-guided satellite navigation would come in handy.

The satellite navigation, accessible via Ovi Maps comes at no cost (which is great, as with many other mobile phones you would spend GBP 70-80 a year for GPS service). Use the Nokia maps loader app to upload the maps to your phone, instead of using network provider to help you save more money. Other features like music player is relatively okay -with hours of music playback, the phone also allows for instant online photo sharing to social networking sites like Facebook, Wi-Fi positioning, compass and accelerometer, to name a few. If you are considering trying this N8, you can browse around for mobile phone review website and search best deal among the good mobile phone deals to ensure you get best value deal for money.