all the exciting stuff is in the entry man, 25 euro handset?! 30 euros handset with color screen and FM radio?! 90 euro handset with 3,5 mm headphone jack, 2 megapixel camera, quad band and 1 GB of storage in the box?! that's huge. get your head out of the high end clouds lol.
Dammit you beat me to it Ricky. This is looking good for nokia. Buy a phone and have email, chat, photo share, contact sync, etc... Straight out the box, near enough, and all for FREE (data charges not included)
just consider the potential in emerging markets where people will only have a mobile device to access information and connect with others digitally and it's very exciting stuff
I am with @constantine - all the really clever stuff is going on at the cheaper end of the market. For me the most exciting handset of 2007 was the little 3G Skypephone from '3' - exciting becase you can buy 14 of them for the cost of 1 N96!
Developing Markets = Test Markets? I'd love to buy a Nokia phone (£50 or £500) and add my 1 OVI Account details in and have instant email, chat, photo sharing and sync :)
Mail on Ovi, which is enabled on Nokia Series 40 devices, offers the possibility to create an email account directly on the mobile phone without having to use a personal computer, giving millions of users the possibility to create their first internet identity and communicate in new ways. Mail on Ovi is easy to find, set-up and use, for immediate email access from your mobile phone. A trial of Mail on Ovi will launch in a few select markets by the end of November 2008. The global rollout of Mail on Ovi will be available on all currently shipping Nokia Series 40 devices by the end of 2008.
having instant email, chat, photo sharing, sync would just about rival the G1 if Nokia get it right ;)
I've seen a lot of comment about Nokia being slower to develop things, but when they do release things, they get it right for a very large userbase; well, if they can get this right across their whole phone range, it could work out really well. Two concerns though; firstly, they alienate people by releasing all this stuff before it's actually ready or fully integrated together, and secondly, the single manufacturer tie in problem...
After all, although Nokia Chat is useful, it's always going to take 2nd place to things like GTalk. Thinking about it, if Google launched a S60 "Google Connector" which configured, poopulated and synced all the native S60 apps with Google (in the same way they do on the G1) I'm not sure Nokia would get a look in...
If you look at the market the Mail-on-Ovi seems to be targeting from the PDF (India/Asia), then as i understood it, Nokia is the trusted/bigger brand there rather than Google.
i read it as @mobiledan being ironic/sarcastic, the US is behind most of the rest of the world when it comes to mobile (not yet good coverage of all of the country, they like flip phones, carriers dominate etc)
i wouldn't call liking flip phones and operator centric economics to be a sign of being "behind." japan fills those two requirements quite well and they're considered living in year 2053. coverage in the states however ... shameful.
Thanks @ymb... Almost... Except the flip phones... ;) i was saying that once the US gets into function over form... And an included email and the whole Ovi platform... regretfully, the network can't handle it... I hope at 4g the frequencies will match up
But people still somehow enjoy being sheep... If some photobucket or flikr had a contract deal for cameras, and they subsidized them, and charged a sick amount to break your 2 year contract, i feel most people, sadly will go "baa"
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what r the 7 models?
1 year, 3 months ago by smashpOp
http://www.nokia.com/A4405104 it's actually 6 new models
1 year, 3 months ago by constantine
technically 7, but a few are just different versions of themselves.
Sucks worse that they're entry-level S40 models. I hate covering entry-level stuff.
1 year, 3 months ago by rcadden
all the exciting stuff is in the entry man, 25 euro handset?! 30 euros handset with color screen and FM radio?! 90 euro handset with 3,5 mm headphone jack, 2 megapixel camera, quad band and 1 GB of storage in the box?! that's huge. get your head out of the high end clouds lol.
1 year, 3 months ago by constantine
yea you're right the 1203 is different from the 1202 in terms of frequencies.
1 year, 3 months ago by constantine
Standby time: Up to 26 days WOW
1 year, 3 months ago by constantine
yeah but try writing a whole entry on each of these, one after the other, without repeating yourself.
1 year, 3 months ago by rcadden
actually, the Mail on Ovi thing is rather big stuff.
1 year, 3 months ago by rcadden
no one notice the mail on OVI?
1 year, 3 months ago by gerrymoth
no one wants to talk about Nokia Life Tools? http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1266168
1 year, 3 months ago by constantine
Dammit you beat me to it Ricky. This is looking good for nokia. Buy a phone and have email, chat, photo share, contact sync, etc... Straight out the box, near enough, and all for FREE (data charges not included)
1 year, 3 months ago by gerrymoth
yeah but Mail on Ovi looks like it's S40 only.
@Stefan - we're geeks. Life Tools is cool, but not interesting.
1 year, 3 months ago by rcadden
http://mail.ovi.com has a script running on it at the moment so I take it this is where we go when its launched?
1 year, 3 months ago by gerrymoth
possibly a nokia chat update to include mail for S60 users? Or is this targeted at asian markets?
1 year, 3 months ago by gerrymoth
just consider the potential in emerging markets where people will only have a mobile device to access information and connect with others digitally and it's very exciting stuff
1 year, 3 months ago by atmasphere
I am with @constantine - all the really clever stuff is going on at the cheaper end of the market. For me the most exciting handset of 2007 was the little 3G Skypephone from '3' - exciting becase you can buy 14 of them for the cost of 1 N96!
1 year, 3 months ago by jamesbody
@gerrymoth - read through it, it's targeted towards developing markets, as those users won't likely have their own computer for email.
1 year, 3 months ago by rcadden
Developing Markets = Test Markets? I'd love to buy a Nokia phone (£50 or £500) and add my 1 OVI Account details in and have instant email, chat, photo sharing and sync :)
1 year, 3 months ago by gerrymoth
Mail on Ovi, which is enabled on Nokia Series 40 devices, offers the possibility to create an email account directly on the mobile phone without having to use a personal computer, giving millions of users the possibility to create their first internet identity and communicate in new ways. Mail on Ovi is easy to find, set-up and use, for immediate email access from your mobile phone. A trial of Mail on Ovi will launch in a few select markets by the end of November 2008. The global rollout of Mail on Ovi will be available on all currently shipping Nokia Series 40 devices by the end of 2008.
1 year, 3 months ago by gerrymoth
having instant email, chat, photo sharing, sync would just about rival the G1 if Nokia get it right ;)
I've seen a lot of comment about Nokia being slower to develop things, but when they do release things, they get it right for a very large userbase; well, if they can get this right across their whole phone range, it could work out really well. Two concerns though; firstly, they alienate people by releasing all this stuff before it's actually ready or fully integrated together, and secondly, the single manufacturer tie in problem...
After all, although Nokia Chat is useful, it's always going to take 2nd place to things like GTalk. Thinking about it, if Google launched a S60 "Google Connector" which configured, poopulated and synced all the native S60 apps with Google (in the same way they do on the G1) I'm not sure Nokia would get a look in...
1 year, 3 months ago by swing
If you look at the market the Mail-on-Ovi seems to be targeting from the PDF (India/Asia), then as i understood it, Nokia is the trusted/bigger brand there rather than Google.
1 year, 3 months ago by ymb
Sadly they also announced this: http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/04/nokia-announces-layoffs-with-flowery-language/
1 year, 3 months ago by adewale
Agree with Atmasphere that Life Tools is very exciting for emerging markets. @atmasphere, thanks for the links.
1 year, 3 months ago by msjen
Since people in the US are so mobilly unaware, and buy whatever flashy phone it is this week
1 year, 3 months ago by mobiledan
Do we now count as an emerging market... Sorry, was supposed to be same post...
1 year, 3 months ago by mobiledan
US is no where near emerging market, how did Nokia imply that, I'm confused?
1 year, 3 months ago by constantine
i read it as @mobiledan being ironic/sarcastic, the US is behind most of the rest of the world when it comes to mobile (not yet good coverage of all of the country, they like flip phones, carriers dominate etc)
1 year, 3 months ago by ymb
i wouldn't call liking flip phones and operator centric economics to be a sign of being "behind." japan fills those two requirements quite well and they're considered living in year 2053. coverage in the states however ... shameful.
1 year, 3 months ago by constantine
Thanks @ymb... Almost... Except the flip phones... ;) i was saying that once the US gets into function over form... And an included email and the whole Ovi platform... regretfully, the network can't handle it... I hope at 4g the frequencies will match up
1 year, 3 months ago by mobiledan
the network is the issue... yep, sho is.
1 year, 3 months ago by arjw
America - operators pushing overpriced old ideas at consumers, Japan - operators offering new services that consumers choose to buy
Or at least that is how i understand the situation from an ousiders POV
1 year, 3 months ago by ymb
@ymb - yep, that's rather accurate. it's a 'big deal' in the U.S. to have a phone with more than 2 megapixels on the camera, annoyingly.
However, knowledge and experience among consumers with Bluetooth and memory cards is actually a pretty good level
1 year, 3 months ago by rcadden
But people still somehow enjoy being sheep... If some photobucket or flikr had a contract deal for cameras, and they subsidized them, and charged a sick amount to break your 2 year contract, i feel most people, sadly will go "baa"
1 year, 3 months ago by mobiledan
@mobiledan: lol, but so true.
@ymb: exactly; think I might write a post on my blog on exactly what you said
1 year, 3 months ago by arjw
@ymb: thanks again for the post inspirtation :) http://tinyurl.com/6ne62g
1 year, 3 months ago by arjw
@arjw your welcome, seems we might have killed your web-server though :)
1 year, 3 months ago by ymb
It should be up and fine, I was just doing some CSS edits on it
1 year, 3 months ago by arjw
The low end has volume, and there's a lot of money to be made in those kinds of volumes.
1 year, 3 months ago by phoneboy