The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia 5320 XpressMusic, Nokia 5220 XpressMusic, Nokia N96, Nokia N85 and Nokia N79 with Comes With Music service will first appear in Singapore. Comes With Music is a revolutionary service of discovering and downloading music. You can buy the Nokia Comes With Music-enabled phone and download a great number of tracks from the Nokia Music Store over the course of a year. Comes With Music is already live in the UK on the Nokia N96, Nokia N95 8GB, Nokia 5310 XpressMusic, and will be available on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic later this year.  

  The Nokia Music Store in Austria can be found at http://music.nokia.at and in Switzerland at http://music.nokia.ch respectively. The stores have such a big variety of songs and tracks that it seems to be impossible not to find something you are looking for among five million tracks. You can make a purchase via your PC or from optimized Nokia devices such as the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music. You will pay 1.00 EUR per track and 10.00 EUR per album at the Australian store. Speaking about the store in Switzerland, a track costs here 1.50 CHF and an album – 15.00 CHF. There are several payment options, including credit cards and pre-paid vouchers.  

  The company has confirmed its plans to close R&D site in Jyväskylä, Finland. The change concerns 320 employees. Other R&D sites in Finland will continue working. Nokia has also said that it plans to scale down production at Salo plant by means of temporary lay-offs. Lately the company told that all these measures would help it to save 700 million euros in annual costs.    

  In mid February, the jury will announce its verdict, on which is the World’s “Best Mobile Handset or Device”. These are the models that have been shortlisted for this prestigious award: • Nokia E 71 • T-Mobile G1 • INQ1 • RIM Blackberry Storm 9500 • LG KS360 There’s some pretty good reasons why each and every one of these has been shortlisted. If you are a fan of one or can’t stand another, you’re going to have to be patient till they announce the winner at the GSM Association’s annual exhibition and conference in Barcelona from February 16th to 19th.   

  Generator Research carried out an analysis showing that Nokia could give the palm to Apple in smartphone manufacturing and delivery of mobile services. Apple is engaged in mobile business for a short time but it is already possible to look into the future of the company. Generator Research explains excellent prospects by the fact that Apple is holding all the aces presented by a fully integrated platform with rich application programming interface (API) open to third party developers on favourable commercial terms. The fact of the matter is that these platforms have become crucial in development of mobile industry. Generator Research has come to a conclusion that iPhone and App Store are very promising and will be developed like Apple’s digital music platform that includes iPod and iTunes Music Store. Andrew Sheehy, head of research, states that with cash reserves exceeding $25 billion, 33% gross margins and iPhone about to enter the phase of the fastest growth, the company has everything to invest in the mobile sector. Moreover, Apple is granted this opportunity when the economic climate is forcing many mobile manufacturers to reduce the pace of development. Apple competitors may suffer a very strong blow. For instance, Nokia’s share

  Skype launches a lite version of Skype™ client that can be downloaded to Android-powered and Java-enabled cell phones. The lite version of Skype is now available for the T-Mobile G1™ and is expected to work on other future Android-powered devices. The ‘thin’ client also works on more than 100 Java-enabled phones from Nokia, LG, Samsung, Motorola, and Sony Ericsson.  

  A tiny radio transmitter is built in a small tag working in the range of 100 meters from a cell phone. This simple device and your cell phone will help you to find lost keys, purses and so on. The Nokia Locate Sensor works in the following way. Special software should be installed on your cell phone enabling it to “see” the tag and show its location by an arrow on the display. It should be mentioned that a single phone supports 100 tags at once. However, it is not clear yet how to find what you really want to, and not a purse instead of keys for instance. The location tag can also keep an eye on your cell phone so that you’ll never leave it somewhere. To use the Nokia Locate Sensor in this way you should place it in your pocket and set the acceptable distance between the tag and your phone. Once you go too far from your cell phone, you hear an alarm, and the application disables the handset until it reenters your close vicinity. So far, there is no information of whether the Nokia Locate Sensor is just a prototype or a device ready for shipping.

  Nokia.mobi, the popular mobile Internet site, has launched a new section called Here and Now that provides the latest world news, celebrity buzz, music, downloads and information on Nokia products and services. Nokia.mobi is bookmarked in every new Nokia device and is accessed by millions of people across the globe. The director of Nokia.mobi says that by providing quality content from Reuters and Rollingstone.com, the new section allows people to get more out of mobile services in general. Nokia.mobi is also a great launchpad for mobile advertising campaigns and is already popular with brand advertisers including Universal Pictures, BMW, and American Express.  

  Today we are going to make a brief review of several cell phones announced at CES 2009. They are Palm Pre, Sony Ericsson C510, Sony Ericsson W508, Motorola Tundra Va76r, MOTO W233 Renew, Motosurf A3100, HTC S743, Nokia 7510 and Nokia E63. Palm Pre   The Palm Pre smartphone presentation seemed to be the most interesting one. Finally is has become clear why Palm company was so silent during recent several months – they were busy with a new mobile device and platform for it called Palm® webOS™. Thinking about all those cell phone announcements in the second half of 2008 you may come to a conclusion that Palm postponed the announcement deliberately, i.e. the company wanted everybody to completely satisfy curiosity regarding such new mobile devices, as iPhone 3G, Google Phone, Sony Ericsson Xperia and BlackBerry Bold. The Palm Pre smartphone features EVDO Rev. A/UMTS HSDPA, a 3.1” touchscreen (320×480), slide-out full QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, 3MP camera with LED flash and Gesture area control.             Sony Ericsson C510 and Sony Ericsson W508   Sony Ericsson announced two cell phones at CES 2009 – Cybershot 510 and Sony Ericsson W509

  In an event held today in Nanjing Nokia unveiled the new Nokia 6208c aimed at the Chinese market. The touch screen of the 6208c is optimized to write Chinese characters with a pen, and the stylus attached to the back of the phone resembles bamboo slips and works with the large color display perfectly. Added to the Chinese language support, the Nokia 6208c features a number of different languages and characters. The new device has a stainless steel back cover, 3.2 MP camera with 4x digital zoom, dual LED flash, and supports microSD cards up to 8GB. The Nokia 6208c is expected to start shipping in select markets in the first half of 2009.  

  Launched alongside The Museum of Modern Art “Design and The Elastic Mind” exhibition, the Morph concept device is a bridge between highly advanced technologies and their potential benefits to end-users. This device concept showcases some revolutionary leaps being explored by Nokia Research Center (NRC) in collaboration with the Cambridge Nanoscience Centre (United Kingdom) – nanoscale technologies that will potentially create a world of radically different devices that open up an entirely new spectrum of possibilities. Morph concept technologies might create fantastic opportunities for mobile devices: * Newly-enabled flexible and transparent materials blend more seamlessly with the way we live * Devices become self-cleaning and self-preserving * Transparent electronics offering an entirely new aesthetic dimension * Built-in solar absorption might charge a device, whilst batteries become smaller, longer lasting and faster to charge * Integrated sensors might allow us to learn more about the environment around us, empowering us to make better choices In addition to the advances above, the integrated electronics shown in the Morph concept could cost less and include more functionality in a much smaller space, even as interfaces are

  Actually, Nokia N97 is a true mobile computer. It has a large 3.5" 16:9 widescreen tilting touch display and QWERTY keyboard. The size of on-board memory is 32 GB and can be extended by 16 GB with a microSD card. Designed for active Internet users, the Nokia N97 makes it easy to update social networks automatically with real-time information, giving approved friends the ability to update their 'status'. The Nokia N97 also has a 5-Megapixel camera with high-quality Carl Zeiss optics. The smartphone is expected to begin shipping in the first half of 2009 at an estimated retail price of EUR 550 before taxes or subsidies.    

  Today Nokia introduces the Nokia 6260 slide that comes with the latest 3G technology, high speed uploads (HSUPA) and downloads (HSDPA), a great 5Mpix Carl Zeiss camera with flash. In addition to this, Nokia Maps and the assisted GPS provide a great navigation experience. The Nokia 6260 slide brings GPS into the Series 40 software platform for the first time. The Nokia 6260 slide is expected to begin shipping at the beginning of 2009 for an estimated retail price of EUR 299, before taxes and subsidies.  

  Today's release of the Series 40 6th Edition SDK coincides with Nokia's announcement of the new Nokia 6260 slide, the latest device based on the Series 40 6th Edition platform. New SDK release provides support for Java-based location API (JSR-179), WebKit Open Source Browser and Adobe Flash Lite 3.0. Releasing the new software development kit (SDK) for its Series 40 6th Edition mass-market mobile devices, Nokia provides application developers and network operators with new tools to create unique applications and services for the high-volume feature phone market worldwide.  

  In its ongoing effort to bridge the digital divide, Nokia today introduced a range of affordable mobile devices and innovative new services specifically for people in emerging markets. In addition to Nokia's lowest cost handset to date, as well as its first handset for emerging markets with an integrated digital music player, Nokia unveiled a range of services that leverage the power of the Internet. Estimated retail prices of the new devices range from 25 to 90 EUR, with several models expected to begin shipping in 2008. Nokia's suite of Internet services for emerging markets will be available beginning in 2009. The first services Nokia will offer in emerging markets will focus on email, agriculture and education, which based on consumer feedback, present the strongest demand in emerging markets. Mail on Ovi, which is enabled on Nokia Series 40 devices, offers the possibility to create an email account directly on the mobile phone without having to use a personal computer, giving millions of users the possibility to create their first internet identity and communicate in new ways. Mail on Ovi is easy to find, set-up and use, for immediate email access from your mobile phone. A trial of Mail on Ovi will launch in a few select markets by the end of