“Smartphone” Articles

During an Intel press event held in Moscow yesterday, an Intel Atom powered phone was spotted by Anton Spiridonovan of Mail.ru, who managed to take a few pictures of the Meego based handset. Check out the pictures after the break.

Nokia’s environmental team has rolled out its second video of the ‘Easy To Be Green’ campaign. This time the focus is on using a single converged Nokia device to do multiple tasks. Lugging around MP3 players, digital cameras, laptops and navigators is hard work to say the least, and powering all these devices is a huge task in itself. Switching to an all-in-one Nokia smartphone can remove all this hassle, and also stay kind to the environment. To put it into perspective, if only ten percent of the one billion plus Nokia users used their mobile phone as a do-it-all device, we could avoid over 25 million tons on CO2 emissions per year. Check out the video after the jump to see what carrying a single all-in-one device does for the environment.

At the 2010 Geneva Motor Show, Nokia has announced its partnership with the automotive industry to introduce ‘Terminal Mode’. Terminal Mode is being proposed as an industry standard to connect all smartphones that adopt it, not just Nokia smartphones, to support in-car infotainment systems. Nokia believes it should be easy to share information and content between your smartphone and other devices you use everyday such as your PC and the web. This way it is easy to keep everything synchronized and ensure you always have access to the things you love, such as your music, and the services you use, such as navigation, whenever and wherever you need them.

As the release of Symbian^3 draws inevitably close, the anticipation for what Nokia has in store is becoming pretty exciting. Today we managed to get our hands on a couple of very cool videos demonstrating some of the features of the upcoming Symbian^4 OS. The first video takes a quick look at the multiple homescreens, implemented with versatile widget support, similar to that of the Nokia N900. The second video showcases the Photo Gallery application, which is pretty cool and has a sort of thumbnail mini map when viewing photos in full screen. All I can say is that the delay in releasing a new device can only mean that there is something big about to hit us soon, and the excitement is definitely building up here. Check out the video demos at the break, and let us know what you think.

Check out this AAVA Reference Design, running on a QT based UI, which is the frame work for the upcoming MeeGo OS. The demo is showcased on AAVA’s Moblin 2.1 smartphone, and is just a glimpse at what’s yet to come from Nokia. Hopefully it won’t be too long before we get to see some real Nokia demos of it’s new Mobile Computing OS. Video after the break.