“We are very pleased to have Apple join the growing number of Nokia licensees,” said Stephen Elop, president and chief executive officer of Nokia. “This settlement demonstrates Nokia’s industry leading patent portfolio and enables us to focus on further licensing opportunities in the mobile communications market.”

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There is a story on Reuters that Google topples Nokia from smartphones top spot, its has 222 Diggs, and probably same amount of comments like people have no idea that Android is going to be the no.1 in the world… That hype behind the story is totally weird…

I’m not surprised about that because I knew that Android is going to top the world in a short time because it’s a smartphone operating system not entirely a phone which means that any company can take Android and release an endless number of phones with Android and no one can stop them since they ship a good device…

It’s totally different when talk about a single phone shipped from only one company with the same design and features and absolutely the same price… I mean here the legendary Apple’s iPhone… You cannot say that Android is better than the iPhone or the iPhone is better because the experience with Android is with the operating system not the device but with the iPhone you are talking about an experience with software and hardware…

I take car manufacturers as an example, do you see a lot of Ferrari cars in your country??? If yes then which car is better a Ferrari or Suzuki??? my answer is, both are great but the Ferrari is way better, powerful, fast and surely fancy but Suzuki is good too and there is a lot of Suzuki cars with different prices and equipment it’s more affordable than Ferrari… I see the same here with smartphones…

I think that Android is going to be the no.1 platform in the world (If it’s not already) and iPhone, Nokia and BlackBerry will not catch up with Android and they are stupid if they are fighting to gain the lead…

Much of Nokia’s strong growth came in an era during which hardware innovation on its own could secure high margins, and more importantly, when hardware and software were considered independent… The premium-handheld-device business now is about which device can run software applications most smoothly — a matter of hardware-software integration… Nokia has not been able to make the transition….

While Nokia continues to say that N-97 has been a success, it has seen very low sales compared with the millions of devices that Apple and RIM are selling… Even Nokia E-series devices are not getting the volume of sales that the iPhone and BlackBerry phones are getting…

Nokia appears to still dominate the low end of the cell phone market… Its strength over the past several years has been in selling high volumes of low-cost devices to developing markets… While volumes are still high, there are indications that trouble is on the horizon…

Nokia needs to stop trying to spend itself into something it’s not… It’s time to push the high-end software and applications innovation work into partners’ hands… That does not mean giving up on innovation altogether: it means focusing its engineering and design expertise on getting partners’ consumer innovations into a device that gets to market quickly, efficiently, at cost and at scale…

Natural partners are large and small software firms that want their best apps on lots of mobile phones as fast as possible — from gaming companies like Activision to enterprise software companies like SAP…

If Nokia could become the partner of choice for mobile software innovators, its high-end business could become a profitable way to deploy the capacities that make Nokia undisputed leader in the mass market…

Posted from BlackBerry.

This amazing new technology has limitless possibilities, not just within mobil ephones but technology in general especially when it comes to price and convenience.

Morph is a nano technologies based phone. Thanks to these technologies, it will have specific capacities that you can watch in the video upper in the article. It could then expend itself to become a keyboard, or shrink to use as a cell phone. You can even wear it like a watch around your wrist.

When will it be available? I have no idea, but I can say that it looks for sure as what the next generation of cell phone will look like.

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Meego is an open source platform which apparently will ‘accelerate industry innovation and time to market for a wealth of new internet-based applications and services.’ The software is expected to be released in the second quarter of this year and products are slated to emerge in the second half, according to both companies…

Can’t wait for its launch…

We’re a community, not a company, owned by members not any one entity. — Symbian

I think the move comes seeing the increase in the popularity of likes of Android OS from Google and the iPhone OS from Apple who had slowly started stealing the limelight from Symbian…

But I seriously think Symbian is way late to gain back its popularity here… Should have released its code long time ago..

Nokia E63 is the next QWERTY messenger by Nokia, set on the glorious path of the E71. Only this time it slips off the high heels to walk it in plain straight and simple boots instead… Would like to share my opinion of the phone…

There is no 3G on vodafone network in India currently so wasn’t able to try it out.. But the e63 comes with built in WiFi so all my emails and web surfing is done at no extra cost where ever I find WiFi. Some of the features of the e63 include a 3.5mm headphone jack, full qwerty keyboard, 3g (no HSPDA), a 2mp camera with a LED flash which doubles as a torch, expandable memory and runs Symbian s60 v3 on a 366mhz processor. The only flaw from my side would be the lack of dedicated rocker keys…

Keyboard

The small buttons on the keyboard might look hard to hit with your fingers but they are curved and typing is a breeze… I have fairly large hands but still I faced no problem what so ever in hitting the right keys.. I have typed out some fairly large emails on it and most of this post was written from my phone using WPhone, a plugin for wordpress that adds an option at the login screen that makes the dashboard easy to work with from a mobile browser. The keys have a nice rubbery feel and the shift, and control keys make you feel like your working on a normal keyboard. Copy and past is done through the standard ‘ctrl+c’, ‘ctrl+v’ commands or through the phones menus. Holding down the shift key also allows you to select text as on a computer.

Applications

The thing I really like about the phone is the amount of applications available… In just a few days I found a multitude of applications.. One of the best apps i like is the search app..its set up on the home screen by default and searches messages, emails, calender, events, contacts, to-do’s, notes, other files and the internet, it uses a live search so the results are instant…

Camera

The camera on the e63 is 2mp and as you can expect it doesn’t do great shots. Compared to every other 2mp camera it is fairly standard and has an LED flash that doubles as a torch. It is a downgrade from the previously released nokia e71 which had a 3.2mp camera. Realistically if your going to be taking serious photos that need to be good quality get a real camera, for every day snapping the camera on the e63 is fine. The camera application has all the standard features of a basic camera phone. Nothing special here…

Overall it is a great phone, the only thing that annoys me is the lack of dedicated rocker keys, but its something which i’l get over…  I would definitely recommend it to anyone whose looking for a cheap QWERTY cellphone..

I have a Nokia 7310 supernova, it uses the Nokia Series 40 user interface. The problem with this is that many applications that try and access the net get a error “java.io.IOException: Error in HTTP operation”. The problem is not with our code nor the Nokia handset problem. The problem is with the GPRS.

Proxy settings for NOP for S40v3, S40v5 phones as we all know, Nokia doesn’t allow one to specify a proxy for an Access Point in Series 40 v2 and v3 and v5 phones (6131, 6133, 3110c, 5300, 5200, 5310, 6500, 6070, 6020, 7310) etc.

Nokia has removed the ability to specify a proxy server associated with an access point. Therefore, those who use JAVA programs that require internet access (such as Opera Mini, Google Maps,GTalk, Orkut, Twitter…) can not get it to work and they get “java.io.IOException: Error in HTTP operation” when trying to access the web via application.

The solution to this is :
Download Nokia S40 proxy settings for JAVA applications ZIP file.
link is : http://www.box.net/shared/s1cd0vp329
Description of included files:NokiaJAVAProxy.wml: The wml file that you can edit if you need/want different proxy settings.
NokiaJAVAProxy.prov: The actual binary wbxml provisioning file that should be sent to your phone (via bluetooth or usb). This can NOT be manually edited.

Process To Follow…
1: Push the “NokiaJAVAProxy.prov” file to your mobile using Bluetooth or infrared(Only for 40S series but u can send through any mobile which is having Bluetooth or infrared). Option only do not copy paste to your phone (”object push”, not file transfer). If your are unable to do it, just transfer it to any bluetooth or infrared supported mobile and send that file via bluetooth or infrared to your mobile.

2: The phone will recognize the configuration settings, and will prompt you to save them. Don’t worry if it says “no supported applications” We have to Click ok. The setting is saved in your configuration..

3: Go to Settings->Configuration->Default Config. Settings, and change the default config to [the name of the configuration we just loaded].That’s it! JAVA midlets like Opera Mini, Google Maps, MGMaps, etc… should work now.

Please leave a comment if you face problems..
The post was made with the help of http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1160526