Edunology - Saumya Aggarwal

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Nokia will have very little indeed to do with its formerly beloved Symbian OS. Oh sure, the company promises to keep it going with such standout devices as the Oro, but responsibility for developing and supporting Symbian is being wholly handed over to Accenture, along with 2,800 employees. When announced back in April, the deal called for 3,000 Nokia worker bees to make the jump over, so we suspect a few more (hopefully voluntary) redundancies are making up the difference with the new number. Now that everything's been finalized, you can expect the switchover to take place in "the early part of October." Accenture promises to care for its ailing patient through 2016, after which point even the most die-hard of fans will have to make the switch to a mobile OS from the 21st century.

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After partially getting RIM to allow them monitoring access to the BlackBerry Mail service, the Government of India has turned its attention to Nokia's Push Mail services. The government wants Nokia to set up a method that will allow government and security agencies to access telephone numbers, device ids, email IDs, IP addresses and keywords, on a real time basis. This is much in line with what RIM had to do, recently.

RIM integrated a satisfactory solution to intercept the enterprise mail services, which has been already expired. After a comfortable run for such activated services for the consumers, DoT has decided to clamp down on communication via channels like the Blackberry Enterprise push mail services, calling it a security risk. The security agencies want access to all incoming or outgoing content, both to monitor communication and to help track certain communication, in the interest of national security.

Now with Nokia, the government demands the implementation of a necessary framework suggested by the telecom and the IT department, a framework that will soon finds its way into the Indian Telegraphy Act of 1885 and the Information Technology (Amendment) Act of 2007. It will also be ensuring operator compliance with demands of security agencies.

Nokia has not responded until this time, and must be busy weighing the available options on how to implement the necessary framework. In the past however, Nokia had said it would cooperate with the Indian goverment, and that its push mail servers would comply with the demands.

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Nokia has launched two new entry-level phones, C1-01 (left) and C1-02, in the Indian market. Priced at Rs. 2,789 and Rs. 2,394 respectively, the C1-01 and C1-02 offer Ovi Life Tools capability with one month free access, aiming to bring education, entertainment, and news to consumers from both rural and urban regions. The service is available in 11 languages.

Interestingly, the phones do not offer dual-SIM capabilities, unlike some of their recent brethren, however, they do provide up to 32GB of storage expandability with microSD cards - something rare at the price range.

The Nokia C1-01 is being specially launched with an exclusive offer from Bharti Airtel, where users can get local and STD call rates of 40p/min, 250 night minutes of Airtel-to-Airtel talktime, as well as 50 MB data usage and 500 SMSes (local & national), all of which are valid for 30 days.

The two new phones are meant to appeal to variety of users, featuring a variety of colours, built-in music players, as well as FM radio with recording. The Nokia C1-01 in addition as has VGA camera. Common offerings of the Nokia C1-01 and the C1-02 feature phones include GPRS/EDGE connectivity for mobile internet, MMS support, as well as microUSB and Bluetooth connectivity.

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Nokia has revealed that the deal with Microsoft enables them to heavily customize the Windows Phone 7 platform on their devices.

However, they are not going to take this route. Instead, they are going to try to make updates that can be sent back to Microsoft for inclusion in the standard WP7 editions so that every operator can benefit from it.

The basic idea is to prevent the fragmentation that is happening in the Android ecosystem. Heavy customization would result in delayed releases of updates.

This means that Nokia would have to differentiate themselves on the basis of hardware quality and features when it comes to WP7 based smartphones.

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Nokia today announced that it was launching the C5, an inexpensive touchscreen phone that runs the Symbian^1 OS found on phones like the 5800 XpressMusic and the N97. Nokia made the launch announcement through its blog, Nokia Conversations.

The blog clarifies that today's launch is the C5-03 variation of the Nokia C5 model and will have a 3.2-inch touchscreen with Wi-Fi, 3G and assisted GPS along with free Ovi Maps support. The C5-03 also has a 5MP camera with no flash, has 40MB of internal memory and supports upto 16GB of microSD cards. Although, there is no mention of when it will be hitting stores in India, Nokia mentions that the expected price will be €170 (Rs. 10,700 approx.)
Here are a couple of pictures of the C5, helpfully provided by the Nokia Blog:






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Last month, Nokia India tweeted that Nokia C3 will hit the market mid september, and today, it has announced via Twitter again that the Nokia C3 has hit the stores. The affordable messaging phone, the Nokia C3 comes with a full QWERTY keypad and optimized social networking feature. The Nokia C3 with its different color options and its Home screen featuring social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter will surely attract those who want to always get connected with their Facebook and Twitter account.

As a phone, the Nokia C3 is a series40 device which sports a 2.4-inch QVGA (240 x 320) TFT non-touchscreen. It has Wi-Fi apart from EDGE and Bluetooth v2.1 connectivity but there is no 3G and GPS which may be a deal-breaker for some. The Nokia C3 phone also comes with a 2MP camera with fixed focus lens and no LED flash. Video is recorded at QVGA resolution. The phone has a 3.5mm stereo headphones jack and it play most standard audio and video files. There is also a Stereo FM radio.

The Nokia C3 weighs 114g including the Li-Ion 1320 mAh battery which has a rated talk time of up to 7 hours. The Nokia C3 is available at all Nokia Priority Dealers and it is priced at Rs. 7,200.

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We’ve seen what Nokia-Intel’s MeeGo OS for handsets looks like, a while back. Now, we’ve got a glimpse of how Nokia plans to use it on their handsets, in the below video. With its large and crisp fonts, we’re somehow reminded of the Metro UI of the Windows Phone 7 OS, though of course, that’s just the beginning. The one and half minute long video is very informative, showing us MeeGo’s multitasking prowess, going online, visiting the Ovi Store, and displaying the music player. Let us know what you think in the comments section...Will Nokia finally get a break in the smartphone market with MeeGo?

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Nokia has announced that it is acquiring mobile-browser and service-platform provider Novarra. The financial terms were not disclosed.
Based in Chicago Novarra has 100 employees, has already deployed its technology with leading mobile operators around the world. With this Nokia is trying to enhance user experience on its handsets. The Nokia will get client base of telecom gaints including vodafone,Qualcomm.

"Delivering an optimized Internet experience on our devices is core to our mission," said Nokia Executive Vice President Niklas Savander. "Novarra's Internet services technology delivered on the world's most widely used mobile platform, Nokia's Series 40, will help us achieve this."

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Nokia is expected to integrate this new service with its offering in later part of this year. The goal is to help the handset maker connect the next billion consumers to the Internet, primarily on mobile devices based on Nokia's Series 40 platform.

"By driving innovation in all segments of our portfolio, we are building one of the largest consumer audiences for web services and content," Savander said.

Series 40 is running on low-end and mid-tier mobile devices around the globe. It is widely used platfrom and Nokia currently integrates a web browser with communication applications. Nokia offers email client with POP3 and IMAP4 alongwith multimedia, personal information management (PIM) applications.


"If you look at Nokia's results, most of the mobile phones are S40, while mobile computers are" based more on the S60, noted Gartner Research Director Carolina Milanesi. The Novarra deal, she said, "will allow Nokia to have a more competitive offering in the low end, where consumers value better Internet browsing as well."