Nokia working on indoor GPS system

Nokia has been working on a method of indoor GPS positioning that should make it easier to navigate a new office building or a sprawling shopping mall.

Nokia is already trialling the indoor GPS service in 40 buildings within its headquarters in Espoo, Finland. A commercial trial will launch later this year at a shopping mall in Helsinki.

The application could be available through Nokia’s public Beta Labs site later this year.

S60 5th Edition platform revealed

Nokia’s new S60 5th Edition user interface has been released at an event in London, it will be seen for the first time on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. S60 5th Edition features support for touchscreen handsets and high-resolution displays - well beyond the current QVGA resolution that we see on most S60-powered smartphones.

Second Life Now on Nokia N96

Nokia’s N96 Nseries smartphone now supports Second Life, the hugely popular 3D virtual world created by Linden Lab.

You can download Second Life directly on your mobile phone, from the Second Life Mobile official website for free.

Nokia ‘Comes With Music’ Service Launched

Nokia announced the launch of the “Comes with Music” digital entertainment service, along with the release of Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, at the Nokia Remix event.

Comes With Music will provide unlimited access to millions of tracks from international and local artists for an entire year. Furthermore, once the year is over, users will get to keep the tracks.

The service is going to be made available with many Nokia handsets, including Nokia N95 8GB, Nokia 5310 XpressMusic and the new Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.
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Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Launched

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia’s first touchscreen handset, has just been launched.

The 5800 is not the high-end phone you might expect. Instead it’s a music phone which comes with Comes with Music support and more. The features of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic include: a widescreen display with 16:9 aspect ratio, Symbian OS 9.5 S60 5th edition, WLAN and 3G, A-GPS, 8GB of memory, 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, 3.5 mm jack, 30 fps vide playback, an accelerometer and proximity sensor.
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Visa plans mobile banking application to Android and Nokia handset

Visa Inc is working on a mobile banking application for Google Android based smartphones (including the new T-Mobile G1) and Nokia phones.

The application will offer alerts, special offers, and ATM and merchant location servicesdirectly on cell phones.

Visa said that for the first few months, the application will be available just to Android phone users who also have Visa cards issued by JPMorgan Chase banks. It plans to open the application to other banks in 2009.

Eskimohunter Music Video Shot Entirely With Nokia Nseries Cell Phones

This video, for the Eskimohunter’s Surfing at 32ºF, was filmed only with Nokia N93, N93i and N95 by director Mike Hodgkinson and premiered at the Hollywood Hill BigBrain Summit on Friday, September 12.

“Each of the Nokia Nseries devices I used was perfectly suited to the kind of experimental, ‘out-there’ shots I wanted to capture for ‘Surfing at 32ºF’. For example, as a highly compact slider, the Nokia N95 slotted neatly into the customized pouch I attached to my fishing-line monorail, while the flip-out screens on the Nokia N93 and N93i allowed me to cover the lens with DIY color filters quickly and easily,” said Hodgkinson. “Everything I imagined, the Nokia Nseries devices let me create. I really wanted to push the Nokia equipment to its limits, and each responded brilliantly. I’ve taken Nseries devices underwater, attached them to helium balloons and dangled them 100 feet above the Los Angeles River . . . and I’ve never lost a shot.”

“Surfing at 32ºF,” the second video directed and shot by Hodgkinson using Nokia Nseries devices, continues to stretch the capabilities of Nokia’s high-end mobile devices. Hodgkinson chose to use only the Nokia N93, Nokia N93i and Nokia N95 as his arsenal to shoot the music video, as well as a “behind the scenes” video - all three of which feature top of class Carl Zeiss optics and a variety of on-device editing capabilities.

- From Nokia Press Release
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Nokia N79 Smartphone Approved by FCC

Nokia N79, the latest Nseries smartphone, has been approved by the FCC recently.

Coming in a candybar form factor, Nokia N79 brings the following features: quad-band GSM with GPRS and EDGE, dual-band HSDPA connectivity for data transfer speeds of up to 3.6 Mbps, a 2.4 inch TFT display with 240 x 320 pixels and 16 million colors, Symbian 9.3 S60 3rd Edition, a 5 Megapixel Carl Zeiss camera with auto focus, flash and video recording, accelerometer, a touch-sensitive navi heel, internal GPS, A-GPS, Wi-Fi, HTML browser, RSS feed reader, email and Instant Messaging, Music player (MP3, WMA, M4A, AAC and eAAC+ support) Video player, stereo FM radio with RDS and FM transmitter, a 3.5mm headset jack, TV out, document viewer and 50MB of built-in memory, microSD and microSDHC cards for up to 8GB (a 4GB card for free).
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Nokia E71 Smartphone to Release in Canada

Nokia E71, a new Eseries smartphone, will be soon available across Canada.

It seems that Fido will be the only operator to offer this smartphone.

Measuring 114 x 57 x 10 millimeters and weighing 127 grams, the E71 is one of the thinnest smartphones on the market as well as one of Nokia’s thinnest handsets.

Launched globally together with the E65 slider, the E71 brings the following features: quad-band GSM and dual-band HSDPA connectivity, a 2.36 inch TFT landscape display with 240 x 320 pixels and 16 million colors, a full QWERTY keyboard, Symbian S60 3rd Edition, a 3.15 Megapixel camera, Music and Video players, Wi-Fi, GPS/A-GPS and Nokia Maps, full HTML browser, push email, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, document viewer/editor, Push to talk, 110MB of internal memory and so on.

Nokia Comes With Music Released at Last

Nokia Comes With Music on the 5310 XpressMusic will soon be launched, first in the United Kingdom.

The Nokia 5310 XpressMusic music phone is expected to ship next month. First announced last December, this service is to compete with Apple’s wildly successfull iPhone store, and it packages mobile phones with a year of unlimited access to tracks in the Nokia Music store catalog (includes some major labels such as Sony BMG, Universal Music and Warner Music) and the ability to keep all downloaded tracks even after the year is over, according to Nokia.
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