The latest transaction on the technology market, comes from the Finnish company Nokia. The mobile producer has announced officially that is going to buy Navteq, a company specialized in GPS systems, and a provider of mapping data. The transaction of 8.1 billion $ was confirmed by Nokia’s officials. The high price is reflecting Navteq’s growing as a company. The shares have double their value since May, showing the increasing interest in GPS devices.

It seems the Giant Nokia prepares for battle with Apple and Google, after last month it unveiled new online services like music downloads and playing online games. Acquiring Navteq Corp., a Chicago-based company, Nokia intends to strengthen its position on the market. The direct competitor is iPhone which provides a Map service, music downloads and internet surfing.

Despite the acquisition, Navteq will further continue to work for its clients, but will be reorganized like a Nokia Group. Nokia’s move will not affect the company’s share buybacks or future dividends. The transaction is expect to finalize in the first quarter of 2008.

via Yahoo News

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Two new mobile phones were unveiled today by Nokia, world leader in the mobile phone manufacturing market. Benefiting from a gorgeous original design, the two handsets are set to hit the market in the third quarter of 2007 at EUR 210 (N7500) and respectively EUR 400 (N7900).

N7900 Prism comes with 3G and quad band GSM support so you it can practically support networks from all over the world, making it ideal for those who travel a lot. For multimedia Nokia added a 2 MP digital camera, and photos, videos or any other documents can be stored on the built-in 1 GB of available storage.

N7500 Prism is the a cheaper version of the previous model, but it also packs a 2 MP camera for taking photos or recording videos. Nokia also claims the N7500 supports up to 9 hours of continuous music playback so the multimedia support is one of its advantages. Apparently the internal storage doesn’t match the N7900, but a microSD slot can be used to add up to 2 GB (enough to hold 1500 songs according to Nokia).

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All those Nokia N800 owners please gather around because we have news. Nokia released a software update for their Internet Table OS 2007 Edition that will keep your phone secure and will bring lots and lots of other goods.

Let me start with the Skype client support. It looks like Nokia N800 owners can now make free Internet Calls to other Skype users or low cost calls to landline or mobile phones all over the world. You will need to access a wireless connection to do that. Nokia didn’t mention anything regarding video on Skype, so we suspect it’s not there yet.

Other things that make this software update so great are : Adobe Flash 9 browser plugin which they say it “improves substantially the media performance when using video streaming services” (I guess YouTube is working fine now), up to 8GB memory card support and a much longer lasting battery. Touch screen sensitiveness has been improved - screen areas with most intensive use are much more efficient now.

A great update from Nokia with OS 2007 edition v. 4.2007.26-8 to include so many things. Kudos!

[Nokia website via Engadget]

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The guys at NokiaPort managed to get their hands on a Nokia 7900 picture with specs. It’s not something amazing, it’s not the best mobile phone we’ve ever seen so here it is. The dialpad is really weird with triangular buttons, it has a 1.3 megapixel camera that I can bet you cannot count very much on it, a QVGA display with 240×320 pixel resolution, 1GB internal memory and it’s quad-band GSM WCDMA.

Now comes the bad news: no WLAN and Infrared port, no FM radio and no options for external memory. At least it has Bluetooth, Handy TV (UMTS?) and MP3/Video playback.

[via Gizmodo]

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Nokia has recently announced three new models: Nokia 6500 Classic, Nokia 6500 Slide and Nokia 8600 Luna. The first model is a 3G mobile that is suitable for worldwide use because it is a quad-band phone. Nokia 6500 Classic will retail for 320 euros ($430) excluding the taxes and is expected in stores this summer.

The 6500 Slide is a sliding variant of the first model. It also works on 3G networks and features a 2 megapixel camera. Probably the Classic has a camera too, even it wasn’t announced in the Reuters news. Nokia 6500 Slide has a stainless steel body and will be priced at 370 euros (around $500).

About the Nokia 8600 Luna we have written about in a previous article. The price mentioned there wasn’t the official one, so you’ll find out right here - 700 euros ($940) without taxes.

[via Yahoo]

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