Nokia 3720 classic: Ready to get rough?

The Nokia 3720 classic is putting on its boots, pulling on its anorak, slinging its rucksack over its shoulder and striding out into the unfriendliest of environments: water, dust, tough ground…you name it, this device promises to shrug it off and keep on going.

After countless Nseries, Eseries, XpressMusic, classic, Prism, Supernova releases , Nokia look keen to revisit an almost forgotten niche of users - those who need a tough phone.

As a part of the classic series, the 3720 has a stylish oval design, nice handling, S40 user interface, decent display, FM radio and a 2 megapixel camera. But that's not all. As a ruggedized device, the Nokia 3720 classic has been designed to resist water, dust and to survive some pretty extreme situations.

Ness :
    * Tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
    * 2.2" 16M-color QVGA display of better quality under sunlight
    * 2 megapixel camera, autofocus and LED flash
    * VGA video recording at 15fps
    * S40 user interface, 6th edition
    * Stereo FM radio with RDS
    * Bluetooth (with A2DP) and microUSB port
    * microSD card slot (4 GB supported, 1GB included)
    * Rich preinstalled application package
    * Ovi Maps and Ovi Share
    * IP54 certified - dust and water jets resistant
    * Metal screw lock mechanism on the battery cover
    * Respectable BL-5CT battery (Li-Ion 1050 mAh)
    * A dedicated key to use the camera flash as a flashlight

Less :
    * No 3G support
    * No dedicated camera shutter key
    * No smart dialing
    * No multi-tasking
    * No office document viewer
    * No camera lens protection
    * Memory card slot under the battery
    * No USB cable in the retail box

Nokia 3720 classic is a phone you can easily miss in the crowd of basic S40 handsets. But we guess that somehow works in its favor. The combination of classic looks and excellent durability make it a great choice for a larger sample of users. The 3720 classic makes sense as both an urban and an outdoor device.

I guess we'll say it again. The Nokia 3720 classic is extremely durable without looking it. That's a major point in its favor - it will win users for both its style and toughness. It's not an all-inclusive package but durability is almost uncompromised. Sounds like a lot of users will be keen to give this survivor a try.

Source : GSM arena

Nokia officially announce N97 mini and the X series

After long rumored and pictured as a prototype, N97 mini has been officially announced today with no surprises. Besides, Nokia presented the first two X series devices - the touch-based X6 and the cheaper slider X3.

The Nokia N97 mini leaked a long time ago and it was about time to be officially announced. The official announcement brought no surprises - the N97 mini sports a smaller 3.2-inch resistive (again...) touchscreen with 640x360 resolution, 3-row full QWERTY tilting keyboard (this time without the D-pad), a 5 megapixel camera (Carl Zeiss optics) with VGA@30fps recording and dual LED flash, 8 GB internal storage, FM radio and microSD card slot. The connectivity package is as full as usual - 3G, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, 3.5mm audio jack and TV-out.
The Nokia N97 mini is only 14.2 mm thin and weighs 12 g less than its big brother. It will ship in October about 450 euro price.

Nokia X6 and Nokia X3

The first members of a new Nokia X-series also got revealed. The Nokia X6 is a spiritual successor of the popular 5800 XpressMusic packing 3.2-inch (640x360) capacitive (now better) touchscreen, 32 GB internal storage, a 5 megapixel camera (Carl Zeiss optics) with VGA@30fps video recording and dual LED flash and FM radio. Be sure - there is no card slot here, but the 13.8 mm thickness and the 32 gigs memory should compensate that.

The connectivity options are as full as the N97 mini and there is nothing missed. Even more, the Nokia X6 comes with the Nokia WH-500 - a headband-style stereo headset with all kind of control options and integrated handsfree. The X6 will launch in the end of this year on 459 euro price before taxes and subsidies and will be a Comes-With-Music device only, allowing you to download as many music track you want for free.
Both Nokia N97 mini and X6 are powered by the latest Symbian S60 5th edition with all kind of social networks integration.

Finally, the Nokia X3 is an S40 6th edition slider with smallish 2.2-inch QVGA screen and dedicated music keys. X3 has a 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera, quad-band GSM support with GPRS and EDGE, Bluetooth, FM radio, 3.5mm audio jack, microSD slot and integrated stereo speakers.

Running on the latest S40 software, the Nokia X3 will have Flash Lite 3.0 support and a WebKit web browser. It will be also available in the end of the year priced at 115 euro before taxes and subsidies.
 

Source : GSM arena

LG will join to fight in smartphone due 2010

LG just announced for launch three smartphones running with the brand new Windows Mobile 6.5 OS. A full touchscreen bar, a touch-enabled one with sliding QWERTY and a regular bar with full QWERTY, all powered by the new mobile Microsoft OS, will hit the stores in the upcoming months.

As we all know the MWC 2009 in February LG used to use S-Class UI with total touchscreen interface. Then now they have a new partnership with Microsoft and they plan to doing some efforts in developing Windows Mobile smartphones. Now LG revealed their agenda to release three Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphones until the end of this year and ten more in 2010. Until Christmas we will see one full touchscreen UI, one touchscreen bar with sliding QWERTY keyboard and a normal bar with QWERTY keyboard.

The insiders issue said that the full touchscreen phone is LG GM730, while the QWERTY bar is most definitely the LG GW550 - both upgraded to the latest Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional and Standard respectively. Both smartphones have been released just a few weeks ago with Windows Mobile 6.1. But the third one is still mistery.

With this more ”smarter” phones, we can wait and see the three of LG’s to fight and join to be Apple iPhone killer, or just willing to be killed?

Source : GSM arena

Nokia Mural for AT&T US coming soon

Another Nokia announcement was made today - the AT&T exclusive Nokia Mural. It's a music oriented clamshell with dedicated media keys, 3G connectivity, illuminated colorful front cover and an imminent release.
 

This Nokia Mural will be AT&T exclusive clamshell and features a 2.2-inch QVGA internal screen, an 1.36-inch external one, a 2 megapixel camera, 3G support, Bluetooth, 70 MB storage, standard 2.5mm audio jack and a microSD card slot. The dedicated music keys are just below the small external screen.
Powered by the latest S40 6th edition and comes with A-GPS option, which uses cell-ID triangulation instead of real satellite positioning.
 

The Mural will come in gunmetal color with customizable cover illumination - blue, red, green, orange, pink and purple. It will be available on 6 September about 50 US dollars with a 2-year contract with AT&T.

Source : GSMarena

Beware with your facebook !!

Be careful with your facebook account, because of your own carelessness can lead to things that are fatal.

It's not a secret anymore that the trend is grounded facebook and touched all walks of life throughout the world. Starting from young executives, officials, artists, students, housewives, and even small children joined facebook affected by the epidemic.

Then what is the danger with facebook? Is such a concern of the scholars in the eastern Java finally prohibited facebook?
Unfortunately, that's not a threat to their facebook users. Not adversely affect the work ethic, social relationships in the real world, as well as intimate relationship to God.
What exactly was the threat is narcissism of ourselves and the desire to find old friends all the time not connected.

If I ask, what you fill in your profile? What is so complete and detailed so that each word can be translated easily by everyone?
Maybe your good intentions to the people who knew you could add or contact you easily with your profile data is complete.

But you realize that the openness of your profile that others can use to do a negative? At times there used to be excited term Friendster "phishing", where someone hacked somebody else account with different objectives, which of course they do not have the benefit of the account owner, even detrimental.

So from now on be careful with your facebook account profile. Not have to open up describing everything in detail. At least the smallest risk is if you put a phone number / mobile phone, you will more often get miss calls.

As is often the advice we had told by our parents : "Do not talk to strangers!" in the sense of here we do not open up first on the people who we know well yet. Although sometimes people we know well can betray you.

Socialize with good and safe, to facebook with fun.