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Visa offer Mobile Payment System on Nokia mobile phones


Posted on: April 26th, 2012 by admin
 

Now no need to carry your credit card while traveling. Now mobile phone user can use their mobile phone as credit card. The world’s biggest credit card payment system, Visa has launched a universal system, which turns mobile phone into wallet. Visa has signed a deal with mobile giant, Nokia to launch this service in Nokia handsets. This platform will allow mobile users for contactless payments, remote payments person-to-person payments, and mobile coupons. Customer would be able to manage their payment accounts and funds from their mobile phones. Even IBM has also helped to create the mobile payment system. According to company sources, Visa card system is currently generating US$4 trillion revenue. Initially, the mobile payment system will offer contactless mobile payment over mobile telephony networks, coupons and direct marketing. . Later on, the service will also include remote payment through mobile telephony networks and person-to-person payment.


 
 
 

Nokia offers Vox service for bloggers


Posted on: April 26th, 2012 by admin
 

The mobile giant, Nokia is making Blogging easy for bloggers. Nokia has introduced two new services, for bloggers to do hassle free blogging while traveling. Nokia has introduced following services in Nokia Multimedia handsets: Nokia Blooging service: Nokia has partnered with blog company, Six Apart as well as with Singapore-based GIS maker, Agis. Nokia has partnered with Six Apart to integrate Vox, a free personal blogging service in Nokia N series multimedia mobile phones, while with Agis to introduce a location based service through the Asia Maps application. Nokia has also introduced new N series handset named Nokia N93i with Vox blogging service. User would be able to upload videos and photos as well as update their blogs directly from their devices to the Vox blogging service. User would be able to post the content on popular blog and Web 2.0 sites like Google’s bloggers service and MySpace by copying the URL of media content and inserting it into the blog entry. User would be able to use Asia Maps in a range of countries like Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam. Nokia N95 mobile user would be able to view detailed maps of major cities and activate the GPS for the turn-by-turn voice navigation feature. User would also be able to plan routes and bookmark their favorite destination for their easy reference. Nokia N 95 user would be able to use turn-by-turn voice navigation feature without any charges for up to 60 days. Nokia N-series duo: Nokia has launched the latest of its N series family. The dubbed N93i and Nokia N76 both handsets are 3G enabled and run on Symbian and Nokia’s third edition Series 60 software platform. Both handsets are equipped with 2.4-inch display and Micro SD memory card. The phone supports Bluetooth and USB 2.0 connectivity and features dual-displays to access musical functions of device. Nokia N93i has Wi-Fi connectivity with capturing feature of DVD quality MPEG-4 movies at 30 frames per second via its 3.2-megapixel Carl Zeiss lens. The N93i has also featured on-device media editing functions, TV-out connectivity and comes bundled with Adobe’s Premier Element’s 3.0 video editing applications.


 
 
 

The world’s largest mobile phone company, Nokia has launched new service for Sony devices. Nokia announced that the company is bringing Nokia Intellisync Wireless Email for Sony Ericsson devices. The mobile giant, Nokia is extending its relationship with Sony and offering Nokia Intellisync Wireless Email for Sony devices, including the M600 and P990. The Nokia Intellisync Wireless Email allows mobile users to enjoy a fully synchronized, real-time email, calendar and contacts experience on their mobile phones. The company will also enable operators and enterprise to deliver advanced wireless communications services, including wireless email, synchronization for calendars, contacts, files, data and applications, and highly secure device management software for Sony Ericsson users. The Sony P990 smartphone is a Wi-Fi enabled UMTS device, which has 2.0 megapixel camera and full QWERTY keyboard and alpha numeric keypad for fast text input. While the M600 is 3G phone, which is based on the Symbian operating system and it is optimized for wireless e-mail with dual function keyboard and large 2.6′ color touch screen.


 
 
 

Top 5 mobile phones for gamers in 2006


Posted on: April 24th, 2012 by admin
 

Recently, the MobileRated has presented the 25 most popular mobile phones for gamers for the year 2006. MobileRated is supporting for mobile games globally. In the year, 14 percent mobile users played mobile phone game, while more than 1 billion mobile phones were sold. The company has presented a list of mobile phone manufacturing company, model number of mobile phone and market share percent. The top 5 most popular mobile phones with their market share percent are listed below: Sony Ericsson W810i:- 3.35% RIM BlackBerry 8100 Pearl:- 2.72% Sony Ericsson K750i:- 2.60% Nokia 6600:- 2.59% Motorola RAZR V3:- 2.49%


 
 
 

Cheap phones impacting chip makers


Posted on: April 21st, 2012 by admin
 

With the boost in Mobile phone sales worldwide, many suppliers of component chips do not seem to be pleased enough with it as their sales and profits began to be hurt as a result of strong demand for affordable cellphones in the emerging markets of Mobile phone. As low-cost phones are built-in with fewer chips than costly smartphones, they have started tempting plenty of consumers in money-spinning western markets. And could be, by the second half of this year a new, feature-packed phones, come to market, bringing about lots of problems for the chip manufacturers. US-based Texas Instruments and Franco-Italian STMicroelectronics, both leading purveyors of chips for cellphones, reporting their earnings this week, revealed that sales came down to 8% and 1.2% correspondingly in the conventionally robust Q4, while sales skip from the Q3 as a result of end-of-year holidays purchases. The abrupt hurting amongst chip manufacturers is noteworthy since the world’s leading cellphones producer Nokia has been experiencing the bang of the shift to low-cost phones over years, but for it in fact impacting its top chip providers. Analysts indicate that well-off consumers in developed countries are not making purchase of costly phones the way they used to, but now they are switching on to the cheap and best Mobile phones, which have lots of features and functionality at the minimum prizes.


 
 
 

Mobile giant, Nokia has selected Infineon to supply baseband and radio frequency (RF) chips named E-GOLD voice for GSM mobile handsets. Nokia has decided to implement the highly integrated single-chip E-GOLD voice in Nokia mobile handsets. The Infineon E-GOLD voice system-on-chip solution combines a baseband processor, RF transceiver, power management unit and RAM. The E-GOLD voice solution is basically designed voice enabled mobile phones with fatured like color display, text messages, MP3 capability, ring tones and applications like integrated handsfree and speaking watch. According to Senior Vice President of Entry Business Unit, Soren Petersen, Infineon’s single chip solution will improve the power performance of Nokia’s entry level phones and reduce their size.


 
 
 

Nokia releases Smart2Go navigation software for free


Posted on: April 12th, 2012 by admin
 

Nokia recently announced to put forward its smart2go mapping and navigation platform, for free download, which will allow millions of people to make use of complete map coverage provided on a mobile device. Smart2Go was at first brought about by Gate5 that was obtained by Nokia last Summer. The platform is available for mapping and routing in more than 150 nations with back up for complete turn-by-turn satellite navigation in more than 30 nations. With the introduction of the latest application, the users can view where they are on a map, look for points-of interests (POI) around them and generate routes to get them there free of charge. Initially, Nokia will start availing the smart2go application for free, on Saturday, February 10th, for chosen Nokia S60 and Windows Mobile 5.0 devices and plans to give back up for most of the leading mobile OS platforms comprising Nokia S60, Series 40, PocketPC, Linux and further Windows Mobile devices. Besides, Nokia has also decided to pre-install the smart2go mapping and navigation application on all upcoming Nokia Nseries multimedia PCs under the name "Nokia Maps". Existing holders of Nokia devices could also download Nokia Maps to their supported devices. And now, by paring your non-GPS-based mobile device with a Nokia Wireless GPS Module LD-3W or other attuned GPS unit, Nokia Maps can make available the similar incredible navigation experience for a wide variety of Nokia devices.


 
 
 

Nokia stands tall in global Smartphone market


Posted on: March 29th, 2012 by admin
 

When we think about the converged device, say Smartphone, undoubtedly the name ‘Nokia’ comes first. Nokia has now emerged as the global leader in the smartphone market, sharing nearly half of the market share last year. In its latest report, the research firm IDC has recognized Nokia as leading seller of Smartphones in 2006 sharing 48 percent of the total 80 million Smartphones shipment. The Finland-based mobile giant sold nearly 38 million Smartphones last year despite lukewarm marketing in North America, which is said to be most conducive market for converged devices. The report also proves that there is an overwhelming sale of converged devices in the global market during 2006. The shipment of converged devices has increased by 42 percent due to sharp decline in prices. As of now, some Smartphones are marketed for less than $200. RIM occupied second place in the IDC report sharing 7.5 percent of the market. It has sold more than six million Smartphones last year, while Motorola is in the third position selling 4.9 million Smartphones.


 
 
 

Nokia brings ads service in mobile phones


Posted on: March 26th, 2012 by admin
 

World’s largest mobile phone maker, Nokia is bringing advertisement service in mobile phones. The Finnish mobile maker, Nokia is launching two new services, named Nokia Ad Service and Nokia Advertising Connector. A group of mobile publishers has formed a network for the Nokia Ad service, which helps them to develop platform to deploy, manage and optimize mobile advertising campaigns. It simplifies the mobile advertising process and also manages a full ad campaign lifecycle. It uses the Nokia’s technology to deploy, manage and optimize mobile ad campaigns. The company has also Nokia Advertising Gateway, Nokia Advertising Connector for content publishers and aggregators. This service allows them to deliver targeted advertisements to mobile phones. This service joins the ads to specific multimedia applications like reading digital newspaper content, watching TV, listening to music or looking at directions on maps. The service makes easy-to-use for reporting and analytics tools for publishers to manage their advertisers’ return on investment. According to Matthew Snyder, head of business development, Nokia Multimedia, Advertising Business Program, the company is partnering with newspaper publishers, platform companies, operators and Internet companies to help them for this service


 
 
 

Nokia offers widget aid for Symbian S60


Posted on: February 12th, 2012 by admin
 

Understanding its dream of changing mobility and the Internet with feature-packed Web 2.0 experiences, Nokia has stepped ahead with the deliverance of widget support for S60, Which is claimed to be the 1st mobile software platform that make possible the formation of widgets via recognizable standards-enabled Web technologies. Widget, available to all S60 licensees, boasts of enhancing the Internet experience on a mobile by getting an individual Web experience to an individual device. Widgets let people make Internet content private into unimportant Web apps and be in touch with the things that concern them. As widgets remain available on computers for a while, they get picky benefits to cell phones, because cell phones are considered very private. Tero Ojanpera, Chief Technology Officer, Nokia, was quoted as saying, Mobility will change the Internet as people are able to access and create information specific to place, time and context. Widgets are an important milestone in this development. Introducing widget support for S60, much of the innovation seen on the Internet today is being brought to the mobile space for the benefit of the millions of S60 mobile device users Cool Media. S60 on Symbian OS, the leading smartphone software of the world, will be integrated with Web Run-Time, a Web app development environment, making possible the growth of widgets and built-in Web apps for cell phone units with recognizable standards-based Web technologies, like JavaScript, Ajax, HTML and CSS Cool Apps.