After almost a week, Nokia has finally confirmed its anticipated Netbook at the Nokia World ’09. Nokia announced the specifications of the Netbook along with its price which is around $820. Now Nokia has been pretty clear that it doesn’t want it to be called a Netbook, which I guess is quite right especially given its price which is quite high. However it has almost all the aspects of a Netbook and many would continue to call it that. The device specs are:
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There is some sort of partnership underway, presently Nokia and Microsoft are all set to announce their partnership. This will largely be for the Web based version of Office which Microsoft has in works. The idea might be to bring the Office to the mobile devices that Nokia manufactures, I am just presuming that, which sounds quite justified as there is nothing else I think can happen. Whatever the reason be, it isn’t new to hear both Nokia and Microsoft teaming up.
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It appears that Qik is pretty serious about the idea to dominate the live mobile video blogging area globally and has quite succeeded as it will now come preloaded in all S60 based Nokia phones. Meaning that you will now have the application ready to run on your devices. This is definitely a big achievement for Qik as it will now be more readily usable by users.
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Looks like this month is going to be filled with news about new phones every other day. We have reported about the possibility of the next generation of iPhone, the much anticipated Palm Pre releasing just two days before Apple’s WWDC and today we came across news about Nokia pushing one out too. The manufacturer is set to release N97, its first touch screen device in the N-Series that runs on the 5th edition of the S60 OS. It will be interesting to see how each one performs in the markets, both in terms of usability and sales, though the iPhone 3, will most likely grab away all attention, there is little doubt that Nokia N97 might just perform better in terms of pieces sold in the International market. I just hope it gets a much better response and doesn’t experience a fail like its Ovi store did.
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Nokia officially launched its mobile content and application marketplace; the Ovi Store today. The store is another attempt by the Finnish handset makers to grab a solid share in the market as it continues to see a drop in revenues. The launch itself was hindered by a few bumps as users failed to access the store upon its launch, which was most probably due to the sudden surge in traffic. Now this might happen if the traffic makes a sudden jump, but it was quite careless of Nokia to not pay attention to this issue. Primarily because the store holds a lot of importance for the handset manufacturers and when you have a lot of stakes on a product or service you need to make sure it’s closest to perfection. There were also reports that stated issues with apps appearing and disappearing at will and an extended time taken by pages to load. Feel sorry for what happened and I hope it didn’t really put off all the people behind the Ovi Store and they make the experience at the store even better.
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