Well, it might be a leak or it might be a cunning attempt to tred on Apple’s big 3G iPhone reveal.
Either way, some new photos of the 5800 XpressMedia (aka the ‘Tube’) have emerged. The Tube is reportedly Nokia’s answer to Apple’s finest with a revolutionary new touchscreen UI.
Assuming these are real it.. looks just like an iPhone, really. The major external differences seem to be the 3.2 Megapixel camera (with the now ubiquitous Carl Zeiss optics) and Dual LED flash (that’s two more flash LEDs than the iPhone folks!) the Nokia branding and the way the screen doesn’t look as nice.
Still, its early days yet and the proof of this pudding will be in the, er, using. If the new UI is up to snuff then we can forgive a few unsightly design decisions. Something that seems to have drawn the ire of the blogosphere is the pictured stylus. This is seen as somehow ‘impure’ and harkening back to the bad old days of Palm Pilots and WinMo atrocities.
Personally, I don’t mind a stylus and it’s interesting that in the demo video this is shown as being optional - switching to a stylus for fine grained control seems fair enough, espeiclaly if you have chunky fingers.
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This week Nokia held its annual Nokia World Conference in Amsterdam, outlining its 2008 plans. The key themes in CEO and President Olli-Pekka Kallsvuo’s keynote address were; the ‘convergence of mobility and the internet’; and the need for environmental sustainability.
Ovi
Central to Nokia’s ‘vision’ of ‘convergence of mobility’, is the merging of individual services such as mobile applications and mobile internet services, into a kind of joined-up suite of integrated services.
The aim of Ovi is to link different services across mobile, online and PC platforms – for instance linking Nokia Maps to Nokia Photos, to enable people to take pictures of/at a location, share them with friends on their mobiles and online.
Ovi launched this year with Nokia Maps, Nokia Music Store and this month, N-Gage games service. Nokia Intellisyc Email was also launched as well as web communities (such as Widsets and MOSH), and app downloads via the new Nokia Download! service available on new NSeries devices.
A web portal to Ovi is being launched next year, while an on-device version is already available on the 8GB versions of the Nokia N81 and N95, with new NSeries devices getting Ovi in 2008.
Read on for more of the highlights of the 2007 Nokia World Conference….
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Nokia’s NSeries PC Suite 2.0 has finally been released after its initial delays, with a fresh new design, improvements in installation and syncing, and now integration with Nokia Photos.
Nokia’s NSeries PC Suite 2.0 was supposed to have been released in September, had was delayed due to installation and stability issues.
Now Nokia’s Beta Labs has finally released version 2.0 with a raft of improvements. As well as a new look and feel, Nokia Photos is now integrated, alongside drag and drop file copying from your PC to your NSeries handset.
It’s also based on a web installer, meaning you don’t need to download the whole thing, just the bits you want or need to update your existing NSeries PC Suite.
Finally, you NSeries owners out there can now can download it here. You can also check out if your Symbian S60 phone is also compatible.
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