Mobile phones are becoming the standard phone for many people. More and more people are turning to only having a mobile phone, even in their homes, because of how easy mobile phones are to take with them. This means they will never miss phone calls. There are many different companies that make mobile phones and each of them have their own features. Nokia is one of the companies that makes mobile phone.

The Nokia X3-02 is one of the Nokia’s new mobile phone on the market. This mobile phone has many great features that allow it to stand out against all the mobile phones available on the market. The Nokia X3-02 features touch and type functionality and a slim design with aluminum and fun colors. This mobile phone is available in five colors including White Silver, Dark Metal, Petrol Blue, Pink and Lilac. Some of the other features of this mobile phone are 3G WiFi, a dedicated music key, a dedicated messaging key for quick access to SMS/MMS, Email, Facebook and Twitter, and the ability to download thousands of apps and games. With the Nokia X3-02 you will get a 5 megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom and FM radio. With up to 5.3 hours of talk time the Nokia X3-02 is the perfect mobile phone for anyone who is on the go.

Nokia stole the show in the last month of 2009 with their huge announcement of N97 for the first half of 2009. Dubbed as ‘the most advanced mobile computer’, the N97 comes with a power-packed 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and dual LED flash, 32 GB internal memory, a 3.5-inch screen that tilts and slides and a QWERTY keypad underneath. With the N97 you also get Nokia Music Store services, OVI service and GPS integrated features as well. The € 550 N97 for now seems to be the best of all available mobile phones and when it does hit the market, it will be hard to beat. – via Mobileshop

Nokia’s E63 business phone has been finally made official and while it was long coming, the feeling among many is that it is nothing but the E71 retouched with a reduced price tag and added entertainment features.

Not that Nokia has done something bad by going that way with the E63 which offers quad-band 3G with GPRS, EDGE, Wi-Fi, A2DP Bluetooth and even Infrared as connectivity options. The QWERTY keyboard and the Symbian 9.2 S60 version 3.2 software that it runs on are the same as those with E71 earlier but it is the new touch sensitive Navi-Wheel which encircles the traditional d-pad, that makes the difference.

The 2 megapixel camera along with a 3.5mm jack plug, media player and an FM radio make Nokia E63 a bit of an entertainment option when you get bored with work. The 8GB memory card slot should be sufficient for your office needs. Battery life has been upped to 432 hours standby and 11 hours talktime, compared to the E71, while the metal exterior has been dropped for a plastic casing which reduces weight.

All in all, if you do not already own an E71, then wait for the E63 to come around.

The typical handheld mobile device is fast evolving into an all around entertainment console. Check out the latest from Nokia, the Nokia 5300 Express Music Edition.

Nokia 5300 was soon dubbed as the ‘Music Phone.’ With the influx of MP3 players and similar media gizmos around, the idea that you can play hours and hours of videos and music in one device is very much appealing to both young and techie consumers around the world. No wonder Nokia 5300 Express Music Edition cell phone is just a hit.

Nokia 5300 is exactly 92.4 mm in length and 48.2mm in width. It has a 1.3 megapixel digital camera with 8x digital zoom and a built-in video recorder and video player with landscape mode. The Nokia 5300 Xpress Music phone has a music player supporting MP3, Midi, AAC and WMA audio formats and also has FM stereo radio. This cool and funky device can actually store up to 1500 songs provided it has a 2GB memory card on. The free internal memory is up to 5MB. It utilizes a Nokia battery BL-5B which is capable of up to 3.2 hours of chatter time and a standby time of up to 223 hours. Nokia 5300 can play music for up to approximately 12 hours. This is the ultimate treat for music-lovers out there.

The best hand-held mobile device is now available in the market. Mobile phone enthusiasts, make way for the new Nokia E62 phone.

Nokia E62 Look
It has a fat slab look that resembles the exterior look of a Blackberry smartphone. The 2.8-inch screen is just perfect with a 320 x 240 resolution. Just below the screen are four soft keys, menu and email buttons that are very user-friendly plus a joystick for easy navigation.

The Symbian Difference
The new Nokia E62 runs the latest version of the Symbian operating system. It utilizes a powerful Series 60 version 3 interface. If you have used a Symbian hand-held device before, you’ll know its top of the line. The Symbian difference shows itself in E62′s excellent web browsing capabilities, fast emailing and flawless document reading ability. Nokia E62′s browser is very much desktop-like compared to any mobile device web browsers out there. If I were to grade it, I’d give Nokia E62 an ‘A.’

Be it cars or new technology, the Brits always seem to get their hands on these things among the first. That’s not the exact case with the new Nokia N85 that is going to hit UK stores tomorrow : October 31st, which is later than other European countries for example.

The Finnish dual slider is actually a multimedia powerhouse that is supposed to replace the N81 with a modern and compacter design. But it’s not only the design that gets the attention because it has quite some qualities inside. First of all, I’m impressed with the 2.6-inch OLED display (16M colors, 240 x 320 pixels), features an accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate, has a Touch-sensitive Navi wheel, HSDPA 3.6 Mbps, GPRS & EDGE, Wi-Fi b/g, Bluetooth, a microUSB 2.0 port, email client, a headset jack and FM radio, plus an interesting 1200 mAh Li-ion battery.

Early reviews make it look like a winner. We’ll see how things are exactly …

Though announced a while back, the new Nokia E71 is the first mobile phone that got a 10 out of 10 rating on TestFreaks. No it’s not perfect, but the features, the price and the design are some key elements to consider buying one. It’s a great cell from Nokia so we decided a review of one of their best mobile phones ever and the first with a QWERTY keyboard, was indeed needed.

First of all some specs about it. It’s a quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE mobile phone, that features 3G/3.6 HSDPA, has a 2.36-inch QVGA display (320 x 320), a 3.2 megapixel camera, up to 8GB Micro SD cards, BT, GPS, WiFi and of course a QWERTY keyboard.

PROs

• the design : is one of the most attractive smart phones or email phones to date, with a certain finesse the metal casing really attracts
• email : it’s a business oriented mobile phone that allows you to access your personal email on Gmail or Yahoo, and connects to the internet almost everywhere you go via HSDPA (3.5G) or Wi-Fi
• Wi-Fi scanner : very useful when trying to find a hotspot to log on
• browser : all pages are displayed in full, supports Flash and YouTube videos and streams audio
• it runs on the S60 operating system that allows you to download and install all sorts of applications including Google Maps
• GPS : used with the sat-nav feature from G Maps you can accurately track your location and get directions
• battery : it last long enough with only one charge, an ideal candidate for those who stress test their mobile phones. also if you don’t use Wi-Fi or HSDPA you can turn these off, and that will also increase battery life

CONs

• a very disappointing camera

Though the camera is bad, I really think it deserves a 10, because it does what a mobile phone should do these days. Kudos for the Nokia E71. It’s a great phone.

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via TestFreaks

Mobile phones companies these days are trying harder and harder to please the consumer. Do you remember 10 years ago how mobile phones used to be like? You had a phonebook, the option to choose a ringing style and two buttons (or on some, just one). These days you can take pictures, record videos, run office programs, access the internet, play smart games and more more other things.

Nokia is one of those mobile phones manufacturers that’s taken production to a whole new level. They identify what people need in a mobile phone and then build it. That’s the case with the new Nokia N96, that was officially released in February. Famous for its multimedia capabilities, the Live TV with DVB-H technology and a 5 megapixel camera that packs Carl Zeiss Tessar lens, built-in GPS and Wi-Fi we can say that the dual slider is almost perfect.

Considering that many experts in the industry considered it .. kinda boring .. what would you say if we take it for a quick review that will shed some light if you should buy it or if you should wait for a new model to be announced.

PROs

• Smooth shiny surface and high end finishes
• really well implemented slider hinge,
• big clear screen – it’s a 2.8-inch QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) LCD TFT display
• fast responses and small details like touch pad navigation or built-in quick stand for watching video,
• great movie quality thanks to those built-in video accelerators
• built-in GPS receiver, with support for assisted GPS (A-GPS), Nokia Maps application and voice guided car navigation
• like most of the cellphones these days, it also features a 3.5mm stereo headset plug, but Nokia N96 also comes with TV-out support for PAL and NTSC
• smart email client with support for SMTP, IMAP4, POP3, MMS, SMS.

CONs

I know I said it’s close to perfection, but for a geeky/newsy guy like me … it’s not really that smart. That doesn’t mean it’s bad, it just means it could’ve been much better, so here’s what Nokia missed when coming up with the N96.

• Battery life. Nokia kept the same battery they used in N95 and the result is that it doesn’t last as much as we’d like to. At least not if you listen to music, browse Gmail and call lots of friends a day.
• The Symbian operating system is still not 100% reliable
• It’s quite a large phone for my taste, with a chunky, plasticky build
• Not impressed with the browser. How about Safari on that one guys ?
• Compare it to the iPhone? Not as easy to use I must say.

All in all, our advice is that it’s worth the investment.

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Everyone kept telling me that this little piece from Nokia, the N95 is such a great phone and that we should do a review on DevicePedia.com. So what we did? We got one, used it for 2 weeks and now we’re ready to tell you why Nokia N95 rocks and something about those nasty things that you only find out, using one.

So I got myself a Nokia N95 8GB and used it intensly. But here are the first things that we’ll start with. The GOOD part. The specs, which are great.

• Screen 240×320 px, 2.6 inch, TFT LCD – Exceptional video quality, vivid colors and high brightness controlled by ambient light detector
• Camera 5 Megapixels (Back): it’s a 2592×1944 resolution, autofocus camera with Carl Zeiss Tessar optics (f/2.8, 5.6 mm, 10 cm ~ infinity focusing range) and 1/1000th ~ 1/3rd s mechanical shutter provide the best quality you can get from a camera phone.
• Second camera CIF video call (Front)
• Operating system Symbian OS v9.2, S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1
• Input Keypad
• MicroSD memory card if 8GB is not enough
• Networks HSDPA (3.5G), Quad band GSM / GPRS / EDGE GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800, GSM 1900
• Connectivity: wireless LAN (802.11 b/g, up to 54 Mbit/s) and UPnP (Universal Plug and Play), Bluetooth 2.0 EDR (up to 3 Mbit/s) and USB 2.0 Full Speed (12 Mbit/s) via Mini USB with mass storage class support.
• Built-in GPS receiver and the Smart2Go software
• Exceptional video quality, vivid colors and high brightness controlled by ambient light detector
• Standard 3.5mm jack that’s great with your new pair of expensive headphones
• Runs on Symbian OS 9.2 S60 3.1 (3rd Edition Feature Pack 1)
• TV-quality video recording @ VGA resolution and 30 frames per second
• powerful ARM11-based TI OMAP2420 processor running at 330 MHz
• Form factor Slider. Slide up to reveal the keyboard, slide down to reveal the multimedia buttons.

Not all is great with our Nokia N95 8GB Review so there are things we didn’t like. The BAD.

• The battery. The specs Nokia comes gave us, are only true when you disable GPS, WiFi or if you don’t surf the Internet. Because if you do, you’ll have to recharge the battery daily. We won’t mention those that speak at least 2 hours on the phone daily (business people) which may see this as a big drawback.
• I would have enjoyed the Sirf Star III GPS chipset instead of the Sirf Star II (which is older and less precise).
• The sliding part is a tad too loose – moves and rattles. Also, I would enjoy a lock to prevent it from sliding out.
• The 22MB free RAM is just too little for this beast

All in all, that’s a great mobile phone that we’d have put a better battery inside to make it one of the best.

Nokia has found an interesting way of promoting their products, the 500 Auto Navigation this time. It’s actually a game where a guy named Christopher has to find all sorts of coordinates in order to get to a certain place. With the help of his 500 auto navigation he manages to get to the last challenge, but I let you solve the black box mystery yourself. Here is a trailer.

Play the “game” on BlackBoxMystery and get the chance to win some prizes.