Orange HD Voice service and handsets go live in the UK, we go ears-on (video)
Good news for UK mobile addicts: Orange's long-anticipated HD Voice service has officially made it to the Land of Hope and Glory. Starting today, British customers can pick up a HD Voice-enabled handset -- including the Nokia 5230 , X6 , E5 and Samsung Omnia Pro at launch -- from Orange, and start buttering their ears with "crystal clear" phone calls while within the carrier's 3G coverage. Prior to the launch, we were fortunate enough to try out the new service on a couple of Nokia E5 prototypes, and boy, that was some pretty impressive stuff there -- the wider speech bandwidth really added a lot of clarity to the caller's voice, and additionally, the noisy traffic from the caller's end was well suppressed at where it'd otherwise crackle over a normal call.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: british, Carrier, customers, disappointing, engadget, glory-starting, hd-voice, Mobile Phone, nokia, nokia e5, orange, voice
Nokia C6-01 is a Symbian^3 touchscreen candybar with 8 megapixel camera?
The nerds over at Mobile Geek Inc did a nifty investigative piece revealing more details about Nokia's mid-level C6-01 candybar. After making an awkward early appearance on Nokia's Dutch online storefront, more pics along with the user agent profile have been located thus confirming its lack of QWERTY, 8 megapixel camera, and Symbian^3 OS. A nice alternative to the 5 megapixel C6-00 slider shackled to S60 5th.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 8megapixel, agent, Appearance, c6-01, entry, level, megapixel, nokia, pic, piece-revealing, user, user agent profile, xml
Vodafone teases with exclusive green Nokia N8, still mum on prices and availability
With September just a few days away, things are really about to get real for Nokia's flagship N8 , especially in Europe .
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: black, Carrier, europe, exclusive, mobile, nokia, result, smartphone, symbian3, vodafone
Fennec (a.k.a. Firefox Mobile) goes alpha for Android and Nokia N900
Well, it looks like you can finally get rid of that less-than-stable pre-alpha release of Fennec (a.k.a. Firefox Mobile) for Android -- Mozillla has just released the full alpha release for not only Android (2.0 and later), but the Nokia N900 as well. The big news with this release is an increase in "performance and responsiveness to user actions" (always a good thing), as well as two new features dubbed "Electrolysis" and "Layers," the former of which lets the browser interface run in a separate process from the one rendering web content, while the latter promises to "greatly improve performance in graphic intensive actions like scrolling, zooming, animations and video." You'll also get full support for add-ons, and Firefox Sync built into the browser to let you have a continuous experience as you move between devices
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: browser, content, download, fennec, firefox, firefox-mobile, greatly-improve, latter-promises, nokia, nokia-n900, result, webbrowser
Fully-functional Android port for N900 threatens to beat N9 to market
The NITDroid project has been slogging along this year in an effort to get Android fully ported to Nokia's N900 , and the progress has been promising so far -- but wouldn't it be nice if you could, you know, make calls ? Looks like these guys are making some solid progress there with a new video showing both incoming and outgoing calls doing... well, something or another on the N900 side
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: after-the-break, data, entry, fri, nitdroid, nokia, outgoing, prime, solid-progress
Nokia C7 gets an early look: ‘hardly a market leader’
The upcoming C7's been well-leaked at this point, but one thing it hasn't undergone is the famously exhaustive Mobile-review once-over that takes weeks to read and even longer to digest.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: entry, famously, in-depth-glance, market-leader, more-aggressive, nokia, price, thing-it-hasn
HTC EVO 4G suffering occasional micro-USB port issues?
A quick glance of forums about the interwebs suggests that the EVO 4G has another potential defect that seems to be affecting a notable (though probably still very, very small) number of devices: problems with the micro-USB port, an issue that bit Nokia not long ago on the N900 . The main symptom here seems to be that the phone will no longer charge or charges intermittently -- and considering that your phone amounts to little more than a paperweight if it's not properly juiced, we'd say it's a big issue for affected folks. People returning their devices to Sprint have apparently have mixed luck getting reps to agree that the phone should be replaced, but for what it's worth, we've just heard back from an HTC spokesperson who -- in addition to emphasizing that the number of affected units seems to be small -- says that the problem will be covered under the one-year warranty as long as "it is determined that the issue was not caused by customer misuse." Anyone out there seeing this
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other, htc Tags: charging port, evo 4g, evo4g, interwebs, n900, nokia, port, spokesperson, sprint, Warranty
Nokia’s QWERTY-slidin’ N9 shows up in the wilds of China (update: running MeeGo!)
Remember this scandalous little leak from back in June? It looks to have been validated today, as imagery of Nokia's MeeGo (or is it Symbian^4?)-powered N9 QWERTY slider has emerged over in China. As usual with these things, we can't be certain that this device is in fact part of Nokia's roadmap and not just another creative hardware emulation, but it sure seems to have our old buddy Eldar Murtazin convinced
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: breakingnews, Buttons, classification, compartment, creative, eldar, few-decorative, meego, nokia, number, qwerty, rm-680
Nokia C7 given a full video preview — still not announced
And now the cycle is complete. What started as a single mention on a leaked slide has slowly evolved into a full-blown video preview of Nokia's unannounced C7 handset. The cats at the Chinese site zol.com.cn took the time to fuss over the Symbian^3 candybar's stereo speakers, 3.5-inch multitouch display, support for Flash banner ads (presumably via Flash Lite 4.0 like the flagship N8 ), and the ability to charge off Micro USB or Nokia 2-mm connectors (also like the N8)
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: 720p, chinese, entry, file, nokia, preview, stereo-speakers, symbian3, unofficial
Nokia N9: the MacBook Pro Phone
Look, if there's one thing Nokia knows it's how to build hardware.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: anssi vanjoki, friend-via, image, latch, macbookpro, mechanical, nokia, pride, resist-sharing, result, the-presumed, user-experience, vanjoki