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Samsung agrees to sell-out stake in Symbian to Nokia

David Gonzales — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:57:56 +0000

Recalling Nokia’s sudden move to acquire the software firm Symbian and make it open-source with the Symbian Foundation, I was just thinking what other manufacturers like Samsung will do since they also have a stake in the existing software firm.

Well, my question got answered to day, when Nokia announced that Samsung has agreed to sell out their stake in Symbian.

Samsung, which has been launching several handsets running on the latest version of the Symbian OS recently, has agreed to sell-out with the rest of the other Symbian shareholders to Nokia for $410 million. It’s still not clear what type of OS new Samsung phones are going to run on then, or whether it will also take part in the new open-source Symbian Foundation, but it’s likely that it will take part in the open-source Symbian Foundation movement as well.

Via Reuters

Nokia 7310 Classic first live pics!

David Gonzales — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:03:51 +0000

After the first official photo of something gets unleashed upon the interwebs, it shouldn’t surprise you if suddenly its first live shots appear as well. And that’s what we have right here, the first live pictures of the Nokia 7310 Classic. In the plastic, in the flesh.

The Nokia 7310 Classic is a stylishly slim S40 candybar phone, measuring in at only 106.5×45.4×11.95mm. However, it’s not one to be considered lightly with regards to features, because this baby packs some great tech inside it in spite.

The screen of the Nokia 7310 Classic will be a 2-inch QVGA one, where you’ll be able to view its 2 megapixel photos nicely (that’s right, no 3.2 meg snappers in here), in 262k vibrant colors. Connectivity is taken care of via a 3.5 mm headphone port, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, and USB connectivity.

The Nokia 7310 Classic looks like, and probably feels like, the Nokia 6300 Classic and the form factor looks like it just added a thick border to the former’s body. We haven’t confirmed when it will officially be released, but we’re told it should be available for about $260 USD once that day comes. Have at a few more live shots courtesy of PCOnline Channel Mobile.

More pics at PCOnline Channel Mobile

Nokia 1650 and Nokia 2360 – more candybar handsets for emerging markets

Staska — Fri, 04 May 2007 12:33:04 +0000

If we consider Nokia 1200 and Nokia 1208 to be the lowest end of the phones in emerging markets, other two candybar handsets introduced by Nokia are aiming to fill mid to upper tier of this class.

Nokia 1650 (above, left) is also a pretty cheap (55 EUR) phone that comes with a features that are closer to those found in most of todays cellphones. While keeping many basic specs and sharing features from Nokia 1208, this candybar sports bigger 128×160 px, 65 K color screen, FM radio, MP3 grade ringtones, built-in flashlight and comparatively large storage (500 phone entries and 250 SMS messages).

Nokia 2630 (above, right) phone can actually be considered to be the high end handset of this cheap emerging markets phone class. For a price of 85 Euro this dual band GSM candybar sports VGA camera with video recording capability, MP3 ringtones, FM radio, phonebook with up to 1000 contacts, supports GPRS, e-mail , MMS and comes with a 128×160, 65K color TFT display.