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Vimeo: Live Demo Of Oakley x Nokia N97mini Video

Posted on the March 6th, 2010 under Gadgets by Administrator

Oakley x Nokia N97mini: Limited Edition

Posted on the March 6th, 2010 under Gadgets by Administrator

P1000378 You definitely didn’t see this during your Olympic experience. Oakley and Nokia collaborated in Vancouver to produce 200 limited edition phones for Oakley sponsored Olympians. The standard N97 mini was given an Oakley once over and had the Oakley Thunderbird (specially designed logo for … — full article at wrgmag.com

BlackBerry Pearl 9100 to come in SureType and QWERTY flavors?

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Remember Nokia’s E52 and E55? Espoo took an interesting tactic with these two: start with the same basic phone and operating system, but offer it with two different keypad layouts (in fact, HTC did the same with its Touch Dual). It’s not a bad idea — different strokes for different folks, right? Indeed, not everyone can really get into RIM’s SureType layout, but the Pearls that usually underpin it have a distinct opportunity to appeal to a wider audience. To that end, an OEM full QWERTY module for the unannounced Pearl 9100 has made an appearance on Chinese accessory reseller TrueSupplier’s site that suggests RIM’s learned this lesson and might be prepping to offer the newest model in two different versions. What’d be tragic here is if only one flavor was offered on each carrier that picked it up — and given RIM’s history, that wouldn’t surprise us — but for now, we sticking with the “choice is a good thing” line.

BlackBerry Pearl 9100 to come in SureType and QWERTY flavors? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nokia’s limited edition Oakley N97 mini is a match made in Dog heaven

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Nothing says, “I don’t play sports but I want you to think that I do” quite like wearing a pair of Oakley shades. And no smartphone has had a tougher time earning respect than the mini version of Nokia’s N97 debacle. To its credit, the N97 mini has become a very successful device for Nokia despite its namesake with not one, but two special edition runs already under its belt. Now we’ve got three with this limited edition model handed out to Oakley-sponsored Winter Olympians. Other than a laser-etched back, the Noakleyia mashup also comes packed with exclusive Oakley team content. Just 200 were produced so if you see it on eBay, you’d better be fast with the snipe. Gratuitous N97 mini video of Shaun White after the break because over-saturated is not in your vocabulary.

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Nokia’s limited edition Oakley N97 mini is a match made in Dog heaven originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nokia C5 Candybar Smartphone runs S60 3rd edition

Posted on the March 5th, 2010 under Gadgets by Administrator

Nokia C5 Candybar Smartphone runs S60 3rd edition 1

Nokia presents its new C5, a candybar style smartphone from its newly introduced Cseries. The C5 features a 2.2-inch LCD display, a 3.2 Megapixel camera with LED flash, video recording and Full Focus EDOF (extended depth of field) technology, a secondary camera for video calls, Bluetooth and microSD card slot.

The Nokia C5 sports integrated A-GPS receiver and comes with Ovi Map 3.0 pre-installed for turn-by-turn navigation. This new smartphone runs S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2 and comes with applications for messaging and social networking, such as Nokia Messaging for email and IM, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube. C5 has built-in music and video player and offers 3.5mm jack.
Nokia C5 Candybar Smartphone runs S60 3rd edition
Nokia C5 supports dual band WCDMA 900/2100 and quad-band GSM/EDGE networks. It is available in White and Warm Grey and will be released in Q2 2010 globally in Europe, Eurasia, SEAP, China and MEA.

Nokia also announced its new naming scheme:

Nokia naming conventions

C5GLOBAL – This morning’s announcement of the Nokia C5 completes what some of you may have picked up on over the last few months – a shift in Nokia’s device naming convention. There are now four series of devices – Nokia Cseries, Xseries, Eseries and Nseries. Whilst the latter two have been around for a while, and Xseries has been around since last year’s Nokia World, the latest addition of Cseries rounds off the complete set. What’s more, within each series of devices, we’re seeing a new range of numbers, from 1 to 9, each signifying the range of functionality on offer, and the approximate prices of the devices – 1 being the lowest and 9 being the highest.

Today’s announcement of the Nokia C5 joins its similarly named cousins of the Nokia X3 and Nokia X6, both of which were announced at Nokia World last year. As yet, we haven’t seen a similarly named E or N series device and of course, we won’t be commenting on when either of those might be happening.

This new naming convention is designed to make things easier for users, so they can quickly and easily work out where a device sits within the series and beyond that have a clearer idea of what each series does. Nseries remains the flagship and most advanced range of products. Xseries comes next and focuses on social entertainment. Eseries remains focussed on productivity and business whilst Cseries represents the core range of products.

Work on the new naming convention started way back in 2008, when extensive consumer research was done around the subject. The results of this research culminated in a new naming convention being created and first introduced late last year. Let us know what you think in the comments below.