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here's nothing like having your (smart)phone work for you: Nokia is coming up with the Home Control Center, an application that could help in many areas like home security, energy usage monitoring or device/lighting activation. The cool thing is that Nokia isn't trying to do the heavy lifting by themselves. They will let third-party companies create applications and plug-ins, thanks to an extensible architecture.

Nokia 6260 Slide More Photos - View Specs The 6260 Slide provides fast access to search engines right on the home screen.

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Nokia 6260 Slide Phone

"When it comes to music phones, people all over the world want a device that is a great music experience and still works really well as a mobile phone, without sacrificing features," said Jo Harlow, Vice President, Nokia. "The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic delivers on this and allows consumers to quickly and easily access and share the content that is most important to them with the people that are most important to them."

Mobile-review have posted their review of the Nokia N79. Here is their final impression.

Call quality was never an issue with the N79, as it easily lived up to our expectations of a Nokia-branded phone. Ring tones sounded quite loud thanks to the handset's dual speakers. The vibrating alert was on the stronger side all thanks to the N79's balanced casing.

Today I’m writing you about my E71 crashing experience. This hasn’t happened actually today, but I need to inform you about it, nonetheless.

I managed to crash the E71 two times:

Kodak, one of the biggest names in the digital imaging game, has just inked a deal with Nokia to cross-license each other’s patent portfolios. The deal wasn’t exactly explained in the kind of detail that we’d prefer to see, but the patent cross-licensing deal apparently “provides significant benefits to both companies, [and] is royalty bearing to Kodak.”

Qik, Inc., the live mobile video streaming platform, has announced that it is the first live mobile video product to launch on mass market mobile phones.

A recent Symbian S60 webcast by Nokia had people buzzing whether Nokia’s coming up with a new phone anytime soon. According to those who attended the webcast, Nokia showed what it seems like a new concept device.

It’s a good news for all Indonesia who never stop waiting the official Apple iPhone landing to the Archipelago. Not because it’s coming this year, but the good news coming from Nokia. As reported by Reuters, its first Touch-screen music phone will hit Indonesia by year-end among other top-priority countries including India, the United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Russia and Spain. For all Indonesian (including me), just forget the iPhone or G1 if you need to replace your old phone this year, I’ve been waiting such moment for long times, thanks Nokia. As a direct answer to iPhone, I will love the $387 of price-tag, sure..

Come see the music store in action on the Nokia 5130.

It was learned that the next model of Nokia Communicator will be equipped with touch screen. Indeed, yesterday held a preview smartphone Nokia 5800 XpressMusic with touch screen (for the first time in several years) and the company obviously will pursue this direction. Ie, the new Nokia Communicator will be based on the platform S60 5th Edition operating system Symbian. Smartphones Nokia Communicator series are typical (and rather rare) design - it is horizontal raskladushki with two displays and two keyboards - digital and QWERTY. The new model, with a touch screen (as shown in the photo), a digital keyboard, it decided not to use it.

Here are some more Nokia 5800 XpressMusic videos.

Mobile-review have posted a preview of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. Here are their final words.

Gsmarena have posted their review of the Nokia N96. Here are the key features, main disadvantages and final impression.

Key features:
•2.8" 16M-color TFT LCD display of QVGA resolution
•5 megapixel autofocus camera with dual-LED flash and AF assist light
•Built-in DVB-H TV tuner
•Symbian OS 9.3 with S60 3.2 UI

At the Nokia Remix event held today in London and Singapore, Nokia announced the debut of its pioneering Comes with Music digital entertainment service which offers consumers a new way to discover and enjoy music.