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March 29, 2010
T-Mobile UK are having a one day sale on their range of PAYG (Pre-Pay) mobile phones. As a result, the Nokia 5230 is available for £79.99 . As part of the package you'll also get an 8GB microSD card and six months of Internet access.
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February 3, 2010
Cellphone giant Nokia is to make turn-by-turn GPS navigation available for free on ten of its top smartphones, a move that is bound to affect companies such as TomTom and Garmin. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
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December 23, 2009
Anyone who likes touchscreen phones should be excited; the most well known brand in the industry has brought out not one, but TWO mobile phones: the sexy Nokia 5800 and the terrifyingly jaw-dropping Nokia N97.
Phase 1 – Nokia's not-so-brilliant early attempts at a touchscreen phone
Many people seem to be under the incorrect assumption that the Nokia 5800 is the first touchscreen mobile phone Nokia have ever made. It isn't. The opposite's true, because there have been several touchy-feely phones released under the Nokia name. Starting with the 7700, we've seen a few Nokia mobile phones that are controlled by you pressing directly on the screen. They had a relatively big (for the time) touchscreen in common, but the other feature they had in common, unfortunately, was that they were irredeemably hideous. Just one of those devices, the 6708, displayed a modicum promise, but it was made only for the Chinese market, and so, we never got to play with them in Britain. Unfortunately, that meant that the phones we got were utter, utter garbage.
However, those bad mental images have now been removed by the launch of two new Nokia mobile phones, both of which have touch-sensitive displays, and both of which are much, much sexier...
Nokia 5800 - the magic touch
The first phone on the roster is a completely new member of Nokia's Xpress range of music mobile phones, the gorgeous Nokia 5800. This phone is very obviously built for music and video; you can tell by the separate XpressMedia touch-key that brings up a list of links to music, videos, the internet, and more. Oh, and the Nokia 5800 has a 3.2 inch touch-sensitive display, to let you use those different media files. Essentially, the Nokia 5800 was created to be a teeny handheld entertainment centre, and as music handsets go, this is just about the sweetest. The Nokia 5800 has also got a 3 megapixel camera, HSDPA internet connection and sat-nav, so that it's a superb all-round mobile phone, in addition to being a superb media box. Oh, and it's got a strap to clip on a fake guitar pick. Pointless, but brilliant.
Despite all those features, the Nokia 5800 is very definitely a mid-range device; it isn't, nor will it ever be, a full-on powerhouse. That role falls to another device...
Nokia N97 - touched by an angel
With the Nokia 5800 all set to deliver touchscreen mobile phones to the mid-range market, that opens up a very big gap at the absolute top-end of the product range; well, there IS a touch-based mobile phone on its way to take its place as the top-end powerhouse: the utterly jaw-dropping Nokia N97. This uses the same Symbian S60 Touch operating system and packages it into the frame of a proper, full-on smartphone. So it has an even more huge, 3.5 inch screen, a slide out QWERTY keypad, and the camera now weighs in at a meaty 5 megapixels. The Nokia N97 is, as should be glaringly obvious, destined to be the new flagship Nseries mobile phone, and it really is as hyper-powered as the rumours had us believe, with HSDPA, sat-nav, digital compass, and integrated Flash, so that you have an internet experience that tops any other mobile phones! Put it like this: the Nokia N97 is awesome. It gleefully relieves itself over other mobile phones and while the Nokia 5800 angles firmly for the mid-range, I reckon that the Nokia N97 will completely DESTROY the competition next year!
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Hands on with the Nokia N95 smartphone, with sat-nav and a 5MP camera ... Nokia N95 sat-nav GPS smartphone mobile phone 5MP camphone stuff stuff.tv review
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We've finally managed to get our hands on the Nokia N95, the most eagerly anticipated handset of the last 6 months!
And we have to say look pretty nice! As well as having some of the most
advanced features ever to be seen in a mobile phone, it literally has more computing power than my first PC (as this point I think I want to cry!)
Where do I start to describe it? Well the screen is slightly
bigger than my current handset, the trusty Nokia N91, so its got the thumbs up there. This is handy for use with the wi-fi that it has built in, making reading web sites that little bit easier. It also helps for the sat nav, yes I said SAT NAV! Forget Tom Tom with its UK only maps, the Nokia N95 has maps for 100 countries with over 15 million points of interest pre loaded into it, so no messing about there.
And how about this! A slider phone that slides both ways! Pretty neat. On the bottom you have all the usual keys for making a phone call or sending a text, but slide it the other way and you have the control keys for the built in music player.
The N95 comes with 160 meg of memory built in, and it also has a micro SD card slot so you can add up to another 2 gig, more than enough to keep even the most musically discerning of you happy.
A lot of mobile phones are packed with features, true, but its the sheer extent of the features that the N95 packs that is truely astonishing. And its not even that heavy either. At 120 grams, its lighter than the bulky old 6680, and considerably lighter than the oddly shaped music phone the N91 at 166 grams. Just how do they do it?
And its not exactly huge either. With dimensions of 99 x 53 x 21 is shorter and thinner than both of those two phones, and crucially its also shorter and less wide than another of its potential big rivals, the imminent Apple iPhone!
The Nokia N95 is available now from Dial-a-Phone on a monthly contract
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