Although Nokia’s 6500 classic isn’t quite as technically sassy as its ‘slide‘ sister, its anodized aluminium body is sure to win it more than a few lingering stares. Also based on the Series 40 platform, the quad-band 6500 classic ships with 1GB of on-board memory, which is nice, although there’s no sign of a slot for adding more storage via cards.
Still, there’s a two-megapixel shooter in that slinky 109.8 x 45 x 9.5mm shell, along with Bluetooth, dual-band 3G, and a 240 x 320 pixel QVGA 16.7 million colour screen. Talktime is claimed at 5.5 hours, with around 12 days of standby. Notably, both this and the 6500 slide use micro USB for data connection and charging, which is presumably going to become standard on all new Nokias.
Hot off the press release comes this, the new Nokia 6500 slide. The new 6500 series comes in two flavours, this stainless steel ’slide’ version and another called ‘classic’ (more on that in a moment). Intended to bring previously high-end (read Nseries) features into Nokia’s mid-range, the 6500 slide’s big feature is a 3.2MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, 8x zoom and a LED flash.
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Moon-walking pop pin-up Justin Timberlake isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but that hasn’t stopped Sony Ericsson and Vodafone banking on his popularity to help shift their respective products. Both companies have signed exclusive deals with the man to sponsor his European Future Sex/Love Show tour.
The deal will a give Vodafone users with Sony Ericsson handsets a chance to win tickets (and meet Justin himself), as well as access to a WAP site which will include streams of some specially recorded live tunes. There will also be exclusive mobile content available including wallpapers, ringtones, and screen savers (didn’t see that coming) plus a unique remix of Timberlake’s ‘Cry Me A River’.
Whatever happened to gigs being sponsored by booze? My, how times have changed.
(Vodafone website via Tech Digest)
If we were to tell you that the mobile content industry generates more annual revenue than internet content does, you would probably be more than a little surprised. According to recent findings however, the content on mobile networks is worth $31bn in comparison to the web’s $25bn. Once mobile music and TV services start to take off, this financial gap is only set to increase.
Of course, the reason the Crazy Frog ringtone outsold all of iTunes in 2005 is chiefly down to extortionate data prices rather than raw popularity (at least, for the sake of our faith in humanity, we hope so). Still, it is interesting to see that even in the absence of a wide range of reasonably priced unlimited data tariffs, there are mobile users who are still keen to use their handsets to download content wirelessly.
Oi, teachers! Leave those kids alone! And don’t get any clever ideas about monitoring them using your mobile phone either. Okay, so Teacher Pro isn’t quite as scary an application as that sounds.
It lets teachers keep info on their students, plan their lessons, and keep a note of whether they’re on course to beat the ‘most detentions handed out in a single week’ record at their school. With the bonus being, of course, less chance of their paperwork being nicked by those pesky kids.
(Teacher Pro)
Well, you can’t do it right now, but you will be able to in the future. Sofia Digital is touting a technology called Mobile Digitext, which is designed to sit alongside DVB-H digital TV services for mobiles. Which haven’t launch yet in the UK, sadly.
But anyway: the idea is you get traditional Teletext pages on your phone, either delivered alongside the digital TV broadcasts, or via your phone’s 3G connection. Why use Teletext when you’ll presumably have a full web browser in your phone? Presumably speed, in the broadcast model.
(Sofia Digital Mobile Digitext)
Cor, that N95 can do anything. GPS-based mapping, hi-res photographs, the washing up. Okay, not that last one (I hear it’s coming in a software update, mind). And now you can add Barablu’s mobile VoIP software too, which the company says is now fully compatible with the N95.
The app offers free voice calls to other Barablu users, and also the ability to receive video calls for free. Barablu claims to have millions of users already, and clearly sees N95 users as its next big area for growth (plus, that GPS will help them find their way to Wi-Fi hotspots to use it, hopefully).
(Barablu website)
A trio of new handsets, the Sony Ericsson W660i, Motorola’s Z8 and the Samsung U700 are due to land on UK shores in June, with Vodafone already listing them on its ‘Coming Soon‘ pages. With 2, 2 and 3.2-megapixel cameras respectively, none of them are going to be challenging the N95’s photographic supremacy right now, but they’re all fairly decent spec phones.
The 12mm-thin U700 slider has with a QVGA (240 x 320 pixel) screen and support for microSD cards. Moto’s Z8 (hyped by company boss Ed Zander as a ‘media monster‘) is interesting for being among the first handsets from the firm to feature its new Linux-based, much-improved interface design. Sony’s W660i is another in its Walkman range, so you should pretty much know what to expect (slightly too small 512MB Memory Stick Micro, music playback, headphone socket, etc.). No word on pricing as yet but expect something soon.
According to comments made by Apple CEO Steve Jobs during an interview with famous US technology writer Walt Mossberg, Apple wants to have non-Apple software on the iPhone. Jobs told Mossberg, “We would like to solve this problem, and if you could just be a little more patient with us, we’ll do it.”
Stories have been circulating about this possibility for a while now, and it’s good to hear Jobs finally set the record straight. Apple wants to ensure that the iPhone is secure and stable, and those concerns are behind its indecision over allowing other companies’ apps on-board. Anyway, now it’s possible, we’re officially requesting that someone start work on iPhone Guitar Hero, please!
Jobs also commented on the possibility of downloading video directly to your iPhone via the phone network, saying that he thinks it doesn’t make sense due to cost and other reasons. He also defended the lack of 3G network support in iPhone, saying that wi-fi was, “way faster”… But we still suspect that things may change for the handset’s European launch.
(Via AppleInsider)
Just a quick note to say that CrunchGear is reporting that while the new iTunes songs may be DRM (copy protection)-free, they’re still embedded with your iTunes account details. So if you’re faced with the temptation to share them (not that you would, of course)… Well, let’s just say that would be a Bad Idea.
(Via CrunchGear)
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