Nokia Nuron for T-Mobile review
When the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic was released a little more than a year ago, we thoroughly panned it in our review -- put simply, it felt undercooked and uncompetitive in a world where webOS, iPhone OS, and Android were all realities, regardless of Nokia's existing smartphone dominance through much of the world. More than a year later, we're now presented with the Nokia Nuron , a pretty close relative of that first S60 5th Edition device from back in the day; it's simply a carrier-branded version of the 5230 , which itself is a lower-end variant of the 5800.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: engadget, global-success, iphone, mobile, nokia, now-presented, s60, s60 5th edition, s605thedition, touchphone
Silverlight beta comes to S60 5th Edition
Microsoft naturally spent the overwhelming majority of its breath chatting up Windows Phone 7 Series at MIX10 earlier this week, but buried beneath the fanfare was a little morsel for a distinctly different platform. That's right, Symbian fans, you've now got a Silverlight runtime (for a few devices, anyway) some two years after Nokia announced that it'd be coming. Support right now is limited to S60 5th Edition -- that is, touch-enabled Symbian devices -- with both in-browser and standalone Silverlight apps available for the taking
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: majority, microsoft, nokia, overwhelming, s605thedition, silverlight, windows
Nokia Nuron for T-Mobile looking more official than ever in press shots
We've got enough rumor momentum going now so that we don't really doubt the existence of the Nokia Nuron for T-Mobile -- but if you're the particularly skeptical type, you might like to take a glance at Cell Phone Signal's new press shots of the handset. As you can clearly see, this is a dead ringer for the 5230 it's been wrought from, the only difference being that it'll undoubtedly swap out the Euro 3G for some AWS bands that T-Mobile USA knows how to use. We'll admit, we're concerned from the outset that T-Mobile's going to make the grave error of trying to price this thing at $99 or higher -- but if the marketing wizards go for broke and price it down between, say, $30 and $50, we could see this being a serious low-end blockbuster
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: 5230, blockbuster, Dead, engadget-mobile, existence, from-the-outset, glance, intel, mobile, momentum, nokia, nuron, plausible, s605thedition
Nokia’s Ovi Maps Racing now available, makes the world your course
Since it looks like GT5's still another decade or two away from release, racing gamers need everything they can to survive the wait, and this is just about the most creative way we've seen to do that. At a glance, Nokia's Ovi Maps Racing looks like a pretty simple, standard 2D racer with an overhead view, but its secret sauce lies in the map: it can turn pretty much any street in the world into a racecourse. The game lets you chart out your heated battle using nothing more than Ovi Maps data and your finger, meaning Manhattan, Prague, or your folks' quiet, peaceful neighborhood are all potential targets for your high-speed bedlam
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: bedlam, decade-or-two, entry, game, makes-the-world, overhead, ovimaps, plain, prague, racing, s60 5th edition, s605thedition
Samsung i8910 HD thumbs nose at Pre Plus, runs 50 processes of its own
PreCentral's 50-app demo on the Pre Plus was insanely (if not excessively) impressive, but is it the only phone out there with the kind of multitasking prowess that mere mortals could never possibly need? No, turns out
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: entry, iunlock, mobile, mortals, opera, s605thedition, starts-running, tomfoolery
Nokia X6 Comes with Music and capacitive touchscreen: shipping now
What are you thankful for today? If you live in Finland or the UK and pre-ordered a X6 then you might be obliged to Nokia for having just set your new handset free. That's right pilgrims, Nokia's new flagship Comes with Music handset is now shipping
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, nintendo, Other Tags: capacitive, capacitivetouchscreen, comes-with-music, comeswithmusic, mobile, neutral, nokia, replies, return-false, s60 5th, s605thedition, thomas-ricker, unverified
Nokia abandoning S60 for Maemo on future N-Series devices?
Confused by Nokia's dual-platform, Maemo 5 and S60 5th Edition smartphone choices? You're not alone. Fortunately, things are starting to become a bit more clear thanks to some loose-lipped members of Maemo's marketing team attending an official N900 meet-up in London last night.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: engadget, linux, maemo, mobile, n series, n900, nokia, nseries, s60 5th, s605thedition, Transition, unverified
Nokia 5900 XpressMusic spotted from the back?
Filed under: Handsets , Nokia , Symbian , GSM , EDGE , HSDPA , UMTS At a quick glance, you might think that you're looking at the back of a 5530 here, but look closer -- the camera's a little different, and we don't know what's up with that grille or the slits underneath. Indeed, we could very well be looking at the back of a rumored 5900 XpressMusic, a phone allegedly set to bow at Nokia World in Stuttgart next month with a 5 megapixel camera, S60 5th Edition FP1 (first we've heard of an S60 5th Edition feature pack), and -- get this -- support for SDXC , which would give the phone truly insane expandability options. It's also apparently a bit thinner than the 5800 it'd be replacing, though the SDXC rumor is truly off the wall -- we'll need to wait right up until Nokia World until we believe that particular tidbit.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone, nintendo, Other Tags: BlackBerry, handsets, joystiq, network, nokia, nokia5900xpressmusic, photo, s605thedition, symbian, xpressmusic