Nokia Cellular Phones, Most Wanted Cellular Phones

Nokia is a surprise ending to the market penetration of 20% of mobile telephony in the United States to win. This success is based on two major business concentration of the company. The two companies concentrations Nokia mobile phones and cellular network infrastructure. The two account for 90% of sales, Nokia. The company gains this success through their commitment to quality and their efforts to provide consumers with innovative design Nokia cellular phones.

Nokia is narrowly focusing on Nokia mobile phone and mobile phone infrastructure because the company sees great growth potential in wireless. Nokia is facing major challenges set in the years to come. Began and will become a threat. It is true that among the three largest suppliers of U.S. mobile phone industry, Nokia, with Nokia handsets and mobile infrastructure, can achieve this objective through its strong commitment to revolutionize the industry of bile . Large can with other players but Nokia’s focus on high technology to assist developing countries, communication without the base of the country and the increase in early reporting of the use of mobile phones is possible. However, Nokia’s mobile phones and its exceptional technological design are still a major challenge given the rapid evolution of the mobile phone industry. Nokia is also before the competition in price, more precisely, the world due to low economic status.

These challenges, however, focuses the company on its superior technology for Nokia phones and cellular infrastructure. These companies have their company is committed to the pocket cards and Nokia continues to provide innovative technology for as long as possible. Even if they believe that economic evaluations can not expect economic conditions to help the advanced technology of the Nokia cell phone to save their businesses profitable in the years ahead to continue to refine the technological advantages of its products because it is an obligation to. This warranty is safe for consumers, the functionality of your Nokia mobile phone love.

The efforts of this company to ensure technological progress for the Nokia mobile phones and mobile phone infrastructure ensures the consumers that even with the proliferation of mobile phones on the market, you can always find the products functional and technologically advanced Nokia. You can really all the benefits of fast and efficient communication with Nokia phones and cellular infrastructure.

Choose the best and most effective when you need when Nokia mobile phones promise of technological breakthroughs, you get all the services and more. This is because, apart from the functional aspect, beautiful designs out of Nokia plants to suit all tastes needs for Nokia mobile phones.

Finally, Nokia cellular phones recommend users to remove the label. This will ensure the phone, even though the use of telephones, taking into account cell phone etiquette keeps you respectable. Believers will not turn your phone into a place of worship. Avoid talking loudly in public, to avoid creating nuisance and annoying around. It is a good recommendation for mobile phone users. You do not need to flaunt your phone, as Nokia mobile phones with their own personality, high-tech and functional, do not need to boast.

Visual Radio on Nokia Phones

Visual Radio is just one of those things that I find myself sputtering out from time to time with each new Nokia cell phone released. The problem is, I (and you too probably) don’t know a single thing about Visual Radio. What the heck is it?

Find out more in the full entry.

To put it simply, Visual Radio is just another tactic by the radio/music industry to get customers to spend more money. And as a side benefit it can also generate a lot of money for the phone carriers (Tmobile, Cingular, etc).

Visual Radio works with the integrated FM (AM has not been implemented in any phones yet) radio in your Nokia cell phone to display related information (say about the artist currently playing, or an ad, or something else) while the radio is in use. So you could be listening to The Killers and have, say, a picture of the album cover on the screen with information on the group and a link to buy the album. Sounds cool, right?

The downside is the information being transmitted to your Nokia cell phone goes through your wireless internet and therefore uses your monthly data allotment. And we all know how quickly wireless internet fees add up..

Another caveat is Visual Radio isn’t available everywhere. So far it’s good to go in the USA, Finland, Germany, Singapore, Sweden, Thailand, and the UK. However, other than KISS FM in the USA, I’m not sure what other radio stations support the application (Visual Radio requires a special server set up by the radio station). Not to mention that Visual Radio is only available for select cell phones. (however, almost every new Nokia phone has it integrated)

On the flip side, Visual Radio also allows for more of a “interactive experience.” Sure, you’ll be hit with a lot more ads, but you’ll also be able to vote for what songs to play, rate artists and new music, and chat with other listeners. It’s definitely more interesting than the car radio.

Nokia N90 Firmware v3.0535.4.3

After a 2 week hiatus, I received my “repaired” N90 phone in the mail yesterday. Sadly enough, the firmware was NOT upgraded to the latest (which is 5.05), but instead they left me with “3.0543.4.1.” And Nokia managed to crack a small piece on the top of the phone too. Damn it!!!

I’ve been fooling around with my new, cracked, N90 and I’m not noticing any fixes. The camera still takes awhile to open, that annoying bug that locks the camera in closed mode is still there, and the phone is still heavier than most bricks. I’m so ready to swap my N90 for an N92.

Here’s an updated list of changes for version 3.0543.4.1. (source: symbianfreak, with a lot of grammar mistakes fixed by me)

v 2.0530.3.5 (the worst version ever) to v 3.0535.4.3

Camera:

• Improved performance when closing camera in camera mode.
• Improved performance when opening Media Gallery application
• Phone does not reset any more when twisted from imaging mode to fold open mode during information note is shown.
• Flickering in media gallery is reduced.
• Blank black screen in viewfinder mode (flip closed) keyguard-related defect is corrected.
• Media gallery does not crash any more when moving the joystick too fast while gallery generates thumbnails of videos for the first time
• Video camera does not go to standby any more after one minute when video recording is paused and resumed
• Video recording track speed with night scene settings corrected
• Number of remaining photos corrected when resolution is changed
• Inconsistent use of flash symbols in imaging mode camera and camera mode is corrected
• With headset connected Video and Still capture tones are now played through both speaker and headset
• Corrected the very first sequence capture after boot if taken with flash
• Image quality settings functionality in camera mode
• Video recording can now be started after new MMC inserted
• Improved camera parameters, e.g. white balance improvements
• In some cases video clips taken with N90 MP4 were displayed as corrupted items in previous sw. With some imported video clips the file is shown as a corrupted item even though Media Gallery can pley the video.
• ‘Application already in use note’ and phone crash when image was edited, new picture was taken and edited
• Solved: Opening CD protected jpg image with expired rights: information note was missing, thumbnail view opened
• System error (-1) is not shown any more when trying to send animated gif via email
• Movie Director application usage is now allowed in landscape
• Corrected: Video editor in landscape, use Browser functionality to download new sound, functionality will be cancelled
• Video Editor – Option Wipe bottom and Wipe top are switched
• Manual video editor functionality improved.
• Still image editor: Flickering reduced when cropping an image
• Still Image Editor is not closed without saving the edited image when ending a call
• Image print application was closed when pressing selection key when no images in gallery
• Help texts remain now in landscape when the device goes to idle in imaging mode

Bluetooth

• When BT was turned off, HSP and HFP were not unregistered in previous sw
• Bluetooth audio improvements:
• Ringtone was not played correctly when using CK-1W carkit
• Jabra BT200 BT Handsfree cannot activate voice dialing
• Automatic answer does not work with BHF-3
• Multipoint connection created from/to phone fails with Audi carkit

Call and network management:

• Improved Log application startup time
• When voice command activation is canceled the phone does not freeze any more.
• Intermittent landscape mode activations and audio routing to loudspeaker should not occur any more. Access to voice mail is now faster
• Calling from Speed dialing to undefined Voice Mailbox does not crash the application any more
• Pressing the ‘options’ when Any-Key Answer is activated does not answer the call any more
• Video Sharing support now more than 1 PDP context, previously context was killed if reserved
• DTMF is now enabled during video telephony also in imaging mode
• UI problems when calling emergency call with rejected SIM cards and during PIN code query are solved in this software release.
• Empty choices are no more displayed with ‘New voice message’ on Cover UI.
• Outgoing data call is not shown as video call in Cover UI any more
• Automatic redialing functionality corrected
• Phone icon changes now according to call state, while using Snapshot Camera during an active call.
• IHF logic correction: IHF not active anymore after creating second call, loudspeaker activated during first call
• S60 API DLL included for Ctelephony. This has been requested especially by application developers.
• Received video calls were not shown in received call list
• Phonebook – Wrong icon was used in ‘Address-work’ detail
• Database for voice dialling ate flash memory too much
• Voice dialing UI jamming corrected if synthesizer was disabled in voice command settings
• Delay between SIND activation tone and ‘Speak Now’ Dialog is reduced
• Phonebook uses now SVG image instead of bitmap icon in a tab
• Memory management improved, no more ‘Log: Memory full. Close some applications and try again.’ Messages when calling from Logs many times.

SMS:

• Text input speed in long text messages improved (wonder how this works?)
• Messaging center is not locked up any more when new mailbox was created and Back-key was pressed multiple times
• SMS was stored in Inbox after received Class 0 SMS is closed with red ‘End’ button
• Error Message when sending images over maximum size corrected
• Icon is now shown when inserting SD protected image file with expired rights to SMIL Editor
• Missing attachments in MMS with text slides corrected
• Flickering in USSD editor is reduced.
• Image is now visible in SMIL presentation preview
• MMS can now be received during WCDMA call ongoing and SWIS settings have been set
• MMS can now be received during streaming, problem in 3G when no multiple pdp contexts are not supported

Email:

• Mailbox speed improved with lots of POP mails
• POP3 mail messages that are not downloaded do not disappear from phone mailbox any more.
• Chat: Smiley icons are now shown correctly when inserting them into message

Browser:

• Browser does not attempt to contact default homepage anymore when it is started.
• Cache functionality corrected when clock’s date format changed from day-month-year
• Overlapping issue in en.wikipedia.org is corrected.
• Options menu problem after reject ‘Closing a secure connection?’ dialog is corrected
• Broken layout problems when viewing images in browser are corrected.
• Browser bookmark and auto bookmark highlights flickering reduced after changing to application shell and back.
• XHTML-handling corrected: < div>< /div> is not treated as block element when it is empty
• Edit options menu can now pop up in input field after short press Edit key.
• ‘Globe’ animated image is now shown correctly in ‘bookmarks’
• Certain types of wireless BMP images can now be displayed wbmp.
• Unnecessary ‘Web: Connection time-out’ removed.
• Animated GIFs playing improved in Tile view
• Browser does not attempt automatic connection anymore, works as 6680

Video editor corrections:

• Video Editor activation from Landscape Media Gallery
• Playback functionality improved in cut video clip
• Inserted image date corrected
• Video Editor crash when Cancel is pressed during MP4 processing for MMS is corrected
• Reboot/Media gallery crash corrected.
• Gallery visibility improvement, now it is possible to distinguish between the Video and Picture download because URLs naming changed.
• Music Player is now using the colors defined in active skin
• N90 will not play AAC files that were not encrypted by OMA DRM Separate Delivery and the Video content with audio, when using the file as a ring tone
• Listening to MP3 via headset and incoming SMS -> MP3 is not played via IHF during message receiving tone is played.
• Twist to landscape while streaming crashed ROP and Browser
• Streaming is replayed if resumed when all data in buffer
• RTSP Teardown not sent from the handset if Pause/Resume is issued too close to the end of a Vidiator stream clip

Other applications:

• Ringing tone was lost when MMC with active ringing tone was removed
• Cover display brightness settings improved.
• Cover UI crash with screen saver running is corrected.
• SIM ATK: Set up idle mode text with icon did not work correctly
• SIM ATK: Maximum length string is now supported in SIM ATK command Get Input
• Application manager problem corrected: Wrong icon is shown if DRM protected application doesn’t have DRM rights
• CBSServer and phone crash on CB reception is corrected.
• Flicker problem in to-do application is corrected.
• Pressing end key while opening Personalisation don’t cause KERNEXEC- 3 any more
• Default settings for MMS in Vanilla SW corrected for EMEA region.
• Autolock icon position in the screen corrected.
• Power menu ok/cancel selection does not hang the phone any more
• Clock – skin handling improvement
• Themes – Preview of a theme showed large white space instead of the actual background
• Converter uses now text colors defined in active skin
• Display is now updated correctly in Converter application
• Vcard over BT view in the inbox is not skinned and white bars visible
• Dial-up functionality with always-on PDP context improved
• Operator names on display corrected.
• The phone does not read SPDI field in Telstra USIM card
• Wrong Operator name shown
• Cell info is not displayed on cover display.
• USSD timer implementation to solve following problem: Error handling MAP Unstructered SSNotify message.

JAVA

• Text color of ticker was not correct
• DRM – JAVA files were not supported
• Opening of PopUpChoiceGroup crashed the midlet
• Java installationdid not work correctly in all circumstances
• Any java app that access the browser gets stuck
• Compatibility problems concerning some PsiNT applications are corrected.
• Corrected the icon shown if DRM protected application did not have DRM rights
• Application Installer don’t jam any more if purchase of SD SIS file’s rights is cancelled

Personal information management:

• Data Transfer functionality is improved: Only Contacts and Calendar data were copied at first attempt.
• Bluescreens when using Data transfer application
• Many improvements in localization has been implemented
• Imaging and office folder icons corrected to Hebrew language package
• ‘Phone locked’ icon available
• Icons have been improved when applications are selected in active standby.
• A lot of SVG icon optimizations have been implemented
• ‘No charging’ tone and charging notification corrected when calling MO call
• Application logo disappearing from application shell has been corrected
• Back light is now working when opening fold after screen saver preview
• Operator info changes
• Autolock icon position in display corrected
• Intermittent landscape mode activations and audio routing to loudspeaker should not occur any more.
• Phone does not stuck any more when unformatted MMC Card has been put to N90
• Clock keeps on running when battery removed
• Cover display backlight adjustment corrected

Phone Preview: Nokia N73 Phone

It’s Thursday, and I’m currently sitting here bored at work. So let’s do the final Nseries phone preview: the Nokia N73 phone. Call it the first candybar phone with Carl Zeiss optics.

The Nokia N73 is a long-looking candy bar shaped cell phone rounding out the new Nseries line of cell phones. Like the N93 phone, the N73 has a 3.2 megapixel camera, Carl Zeiss optics, and another VGA camera. However, unlike the N93, the N73 does not have optical zoom – but it does have a nice lens cap. I should note that the N73 has dedicated camera buttons for camera mode, zoom, and picture review.

Nokia has tossed away tri-band for the N73 in favor of (gasp!) quad-band + 3G. So we may yet see this phone headed to the States.

Like the other new Nseries phones, the N73 has an enormous screen – 2.4 inches. The screen looks ridiculously big compared to the size of that keypad.

Nokia is really pushing this phone as an easy-to-use camera (phone) with a lot of flashy, simplified features such as easy integration with Flickr (online photo galleries) and photo slideshows with sound. (the N73 has onboard stereo speakers)

Available in July 2006 in a variety of colors (“silver grey/deep plum”, “frost white/metallic red”, “frost white/mocha brown”), with no indication of retail cost as of yet.

Phone Preview: Nokia N72 Phone

Here’s the second of the newest batch of Nokia cell phones: the Nokia N72 Phone. Also known as the latest incarnation of the Nokia N70 – a phone that’s barely been out for a couple of months. (nice of Nokia to announce these phones now eh?)

It’s a pretty stylish candy bar phone with a similar camera style to the N70 or 6680/6682 series of phones. There’s an “Active Lens Cover” which slides up and down to expose the camera lens. Personally, I would love to see this on every camera phone.

It seems as if the N72 is headed for everywhere BUT the good ‘ol US of A – it’s going to Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Russia, and Eastern Europe. Er…huh? So we’re stuck with the N70, and everyone else gets the new N72. The good news is the Nokia N70 is almost exactly like the Nokia N72. Both sport a 2 megapixel camera, Symbian, Bluetooth, and pretty much everything else that makes a Symbian phone, a Symbian phone.

The N72 does have one feature the N70 does not: “Digital Textures.” I believe that is Nokia-speak for “rounded rectangles” which the back does make good use of:

Hot damn: the Nokia N72 phone is expected to be in stores June 2006. Scary thought.

And finally, here’s a picture of the camera is action:

Phone Preview: The Nokia N93 Phone is No Longer a Rumor

Wow. Barely a year since the Nokia N90 debuted and achieved fame for being the biggest, heaviest flip phone to date, Nokia has (officially) announced the N93. A weird sort of hybrid between the N90 and the European N92 phone, the N93 takes the best of both worlds with more Carl Zeiss optics powering a 3.2 megapixel camera and hinge mechanism mirroring the N92′s.

Read more in the extended entry.


The Nokia N93 Phone

The Nokia N93 phone is one of the three newest Nseries phones announced today (the others being the N72 and N73 multimedia phones). It’s a Series 60 triband (900/1800/1900) phone with 3G and WLAN/wi-fi support.
Nokia really pulled out all the stops on this phone. The camera’s what I would term “godly,” with the ability to take 3.2 megapixel (2048×1536 resolution) photos and record video at an impressive 30 frames per second. The N93 also sports 3x optical zoom, one of the first instances that we’ve seen on a Nokia phone, and image stabilization. It’s definitely nice to see that camera phones these days are starting to be comparable to digital cameras. Even built-in cameras on today’s cheap mobile phones can give low-end digicams a run for their money.

Here’s the biggest draw to the N93. A hinge that allows the screen to turn sideways, letting you watch videos in landscape mode without having to do some odd rotating a la the Nokia 6260. I should add that the internal screen supports 262k colors at a resolution of 320×240 (2.4 inches diagonal). For the external display, Nokia opted for a small, elegant color screen which I think is a huge plus.
Meanwhile, another “huh?” feature on the Nokia N93 is the ability to connect the phone directly to any tv. Apparently you can play games (huh?), use office applications, and etc on compatible televisions. No word on how this works.
As for expandable memory, the N93 phone uses miniSD up to 2 gigabytes. Nokia claims that this will hold 90 minutes of DVD-quality/30 fps video.
While Nokia has not released any kind of size information on the N93, from the pictures it looks similar in size to the N90 – with a couple more curves.
The Nokia N93 phone will retail for 550 euros, or $680 USD. Not as pricey as the N90, but still pretty far out of reach. Note that this is the retail price before phone “subsidies” or rebates.

Nokia 5800 Tips, Review, FAQ?s and How-to tutorials

Hi, guys. Here I worked out comprehensive Nokia tutorial with my lovely Nokia 5800. You will find all the most commonly asked questions for Nokia 5800.

Review of My Nokia 5800
I got one 5800 last month and then I was deeply fascinated by this smart phone. It is the first Nokia touch screen phone and you may use your finger or stylus to operate it. Also Nokia 5800 XpressMusic provides wonderful devices for users to enjoy music. Taking advantage of touch screen technology, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic introduces the ‘Media Bar’, a handy drop down menu that provides direct access to music and entertainment, including favourite tracks, videos and photos. The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic offers all the music essentials, including a graphic equalizer, 8GB memory for up to 6000 tracks, a 3.5mm jack, support for main digital video formats 3GP?H.264/AVC?MPEG4, RM.and audio formats MP3, AAC, WMA, WMV. Built-in surround sound stereo speakers offer the industry’s most powerful sound. So it is really wonderful experience of enjoy music and movies with Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.

How to update the firmware of Nokia 5800 to v21
It is good news that firmware update for Nokia 5800 was released already. New firmware v.21 is available. If you also own a 5800, just follow the simple instruction to update your v20 or v10 to the newest v21.
Make sure that your battery is full (VERY IMPORTANT)
1. Go to Dial screen and press *#0000#
2. Press Options -> Check for updates
3. Connect to the Internet with any APN (WiFi is recommended, however EDGE is fast enough for this). 4. Wait until the download finished. Phone will launch the dialog asking for update, just press Now. 5. Press Accept and Accept and the phone will be switched to Updating mode.
6. It takes around 10 minutes to update, so be patient. After that, the phone will be rebooted automatically.
7. Check by *#0000# again. Congrats! Your 5800 is now v21!
As I can see, there are so many improvements and worth to update for example, better camera functionality and the phone operates faster than previous version.

Best Settings for Video Playback on Nokia 5800 Xpress Music
Nokia 5800 as the multimedia phones makes you able to enjoy watching the video and music with it. The question is, how’s to do to convert that videos and what are the best setting used for. I have convert many videos into my phone, I found that most video files can play with this phone such as mp4, 3gp, rmvb and flv files. But of them plays well but some are not. After many tries, I finally got the best results for Nokia video files. My video in 5800 was full screen, high quality and sounds very well. Here are my settings:
Video Resolution: 480*320
Video Bitrate: 768 kbps
Audio Bitrate: 128 kbps
Video Format: MPEG-4 (be sure not to use H264, as it’s not supported in the current firmware)

Audio Format: MP3
Audio Channels: 2 Channels
You can apply these settings above in whatever application you used when converting videos into 5800. Then I am sure you will get full screen, high quality and flawless video in your phone.

Settings for video playback on Nokia N97, N95, N85 and other Nokia phones.
Nokia N97: Video playback formats are 3GP formats, Flash Video, H.264/AVC, MPEG-4; the video resolution is 360*640. Audio formats are AAC, M4A, MP3, WAV, WMA etc.
Nokia N96: video playback formats are 3GP, Flash video, H.264/AVC, MPEG-4, RealVideo, WMV 9; the video resolution is 240*320. Audio formats are AAC, MP3, WAV, WMA etc.
Nokia N95: video playback formats are MP4, 3GP. Video resolution is up to 640*480, audio format is AAC stereo.
Nokia N85: video playback formats are 3GP formats, Flash video, H.264/AVC, MPEG-4, and WMV. The resolution is 240*320. The audio formats are AAC, M4A, MP3, WAV and WMA etc.
OK, I will not list all settings of Nokia phones. If you are interested you may get more relative information on Nokia official website.

How to transfer video files into Nokia 5800
I have download some videos from video website such as Youtube, Google video. But I can’t watch these videos in my phone. As these videos were flv files, Nokia 5800 can’t play such videos. I use Internet Tablet Video Converter to convert it, but it shows “Unsupported Video File Type”. Then I got to know Daniusoft Video file Converter that seems professional for Nokia phone, I free download its trial version and tried it, and it works very well. Below are what I do:
Click Add button to add video files from your computer, set your videos according to the above settings and select Nokia 5800 Video MPEG-4 format for your video. Then just click convert button to start the conversion. After the conversion complete, you may watch these videos with Nokia 5800.
Also you may get music from video in this way. But pay attention to the format. As Nokia 5800 support mp3 audio format, you should select “MP3 – MPEG Layer-3 Audio (*.mp3)”.

How to convert DVD files into Nokia 5800
Obviously phones don’t have DVD drives, so to watch DVD on a phone you have to convert it into a video file on your PC then drag it into your phone. I also follow the above settings and convert DVD files into MPEG-4 video with Daniusoft DVD Ripper software. the results are excellent.

After insert your DVD into the DVD Drive click the Open DVD button to upload DVD files on to this program. Click Settings button to set your videos according to the above settings I listed. Click Profile drop list to select “Nokia 5800 Video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)” format for your Nokia video. Then click Convert button to start the conversion. In few minutes the whole process will completed.

If you select audio format “MP3 – MPEG Layer-3 Audio (*.mp3)” you may also get music from DVD.

To transfer files into Nokia 5800
In the above tutorial I have explain you how to convert Nokia videos from DVD and other video files. Then you need to transfer these videos into your phone.
1. Make sure your computer and phone are both switched on. Also make sure your 5800 have a memory card in its slot.
2. Plug the small end of the microUSB cable into the phone’s USB socket, which s under a plastic flap in the top left corner.
3. Plug the larger end of the microUSB cable into a USB port on your computer.
4. On your 5800 it should ask which mode you wish to use. Choose “Mass Storage”.
5. Open the memory card window (probably called “Removable Disk E:”), drag your video files into the video folder.
6. After finished transfer files, do not disconnect the cable yet. You should make it safe to disconnect the cable. You may do this by click a small icon in the bottom right corner of the screen that appears when the phone is connected.
7. After you have made the device safe to remove, you can unplug the cable at both ends.

Some useful tips to make the Nokia 5800’s battery last as long as possible
Sometimes you may have to stop talking with your friend or watching videos with your phone as low power of your battery. It is more inconvenient if you are in travel and have no alternative battery. Here are some tips to make your phone battery last as long as possible when using telephone.
Do not switch the phone off. As switching a phone on uses far more battery power than simply leaving the phone on.
Shut down unnecessary applications.
Turn down the 5800’s screen brightness to the lowest acceptable level.
Switch off your 5800’s screen when not in use.
Use headphones instead of speakers when listening to music or watching movies.
Avoid using the camera flash unnecessarily.
Use 2G instead of 3G.
Switch off Bluetooth and/or Wi-Fi.’

Ok, I have typed out all my thoughts about Nokia 5800 here. Hope my tutorial is helpful to you. And all the other Nokia 5800 tutorials and useful how-to information should come here! It is welcome