Nokia X6 on sale this week
GLOBAL – The Nokia X6 hits the shelves in Finland and the UK this week, with more countries to follow. The much anticipated Nokia X6, announced at Nokia World in September, is quite possibly the loveliest music device yet. With a whopping 35 hours of music playback, 32GB of onboard memory and Comes with Music, the X6 is a music lover’s dream.
The Nokia X6 also boasts a five megapixel camera and Carl Zeiss optics so you can capture cracking shots. The 3.2-inch widescreen display, with capacative touchscreen brings the front of this stunning-looking device to life.
Comes with Music now offers unlimited access to over 6 million tracks from the Nokia Music Store. Once you’re signed up you can download as much as you want, and benefit from bonus tracks and exclusive content.
The X6 will be available in the UK from this Friday and you can pick it up free from £35 per month or £25 per month if you trade in an N-Series handset. It’s available exclusively on the Orange network at Phones 4u. It’s also available to pre order now from the Nokia store for £449 SIM-free.
Read more about the X6 in the Nokia Conversations Almanac
Watch our Nokia X6 hands on video
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Nokia Image Exchange for S60 updated with Activity Notifications
Written by Janne Kaasalainen, Nokia Image Exchange Team
A new version of Nokia Image Exchange for S60 is now available for download. In addition to multiple bug fixes and accelerometer support for 3.2 devices, we've added notifications to inform you about activities relating to your images and contacts.
Notifications inform about new images from your friends present in the People menu as well as comments to your images and images that you have commented. There are also a few new settings to control the notifications. If you want to give us suggestion about the defaults, please let us know.
The new version also includes changes to the way connections are made. The new version includes new load balancing architecture that should provide better responsiveness for more users. We would also appreciate any feedback about possible issues this may cause.
The Nokia Image Exchange team has been studying the possibilities of a touch UI version of the application. Unfortunately, the version released now doesn't yet support touch devices, but stay tuned.
By the way, we also updated the version of Nokia Image Exchange available in Ovi Store. It is more stable than earlier (but doesn't have the features described above), and is downloadable there for supported phones.
On behalf of Nokia Image Exchange team,
Janne Kaasalainen
Nokia 6700 slide unveiled
GLOBAL – The Nokia 6700 slide doesn’t have to do much to get recognised, coming as it does in six stunning colours. It’s not short on features either and with social networking and 3G at its heart, this is one very connected device. The aluminium frame and 2.2-inch screen round off quite a tasty package.
Aluminium, pink, petrol-blue, red, lime and purple are the colour choices on offer for the Nokia 6700 slide, each more striking than the last. Pictures are well catered for with a five megapixel camera, Carl Zeiss optics, dual LED flash and a dedicated camera button.
HSDPA and HSUPA will keep users well connected whilst 29 hours of audio playback will be music to headphone fans’ ears (the 6700 also boasts over 12 days standby and four hours talktime). On board FM radio and music player will help to keep the beats alive. Based on S60, the 6700 slide also makes it easy to share pics and make the most of social networks whilst editing and uploading shots is a breeze.
Expected to land in the first quarter of 2010, the 6700 is estimated to retail for €160 before taxes and subsidies.
Enough from us, check out the 6700 in all its glory below.
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Nokia 7230 slides into view
GLOBAL – The Nokia 7230 is a compact slider with stunning looks. Rounded edges and a sleek finish make this Series 40 device easy on they eye at a price that’s even easier on the pocket. It doesn’t do badly on the feature front either whilst the 2.4-inch screen makes the most of the available space.
The Nokia 7230 is a connected little critter with Nokia Messaging on board, easy access to sharing snaps to Ovi, Flickr and Facebook and 3G for fast data transfer. Photos come courtesy of a 3.2-megapixel camera with dedicated camera button whilst a light alert will let you know when you get a new message or call.
The 7230 will keep going on standby for over 14 days and offers four hours talktime. MP3 and AAC ringtones are supported and the FM radio will keep the tunes rolling.
Memory is of the micro SD variety – the device comes with a 2GB card – and the phonebook is good for a little-miss-popular 2,000 entries.
The Nokia 7230 is expected to be available in the first quarter of 2010 for an anticipated retail price of €100 before taxes or subsidies.
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My Daily App highlights – NIE, Wisdom Quotes and HappyWakeUp
GLOBAL – It’s Ovi app highlights time, where we bring you the best new apps that have been surfaced by MyDailyApp.com over the past seven days. This week’s selection brings together three apps that couldn’t be more diverse if they tried. An alarm clock, an easy way to share images and some shards of wisdom? Read on for more.
We kick things off with Nokia Image Exchange (NIE) a free download available now for Nokia Symbian S60 3.1 or 3.2 phones. Whislt most of us use a computer as our primary device for editing and sharing our photos, NIE puts your phone in the frontline thanks to an impressive range of front- and back-end features.
Once it’s found all the images stored on your phone, it lists them in a browser and lets you edit their names and properties before backing them up online. Synchronisation happens in real time, and you can share images by making them publicly visible on the NIE site. The app first surfaced in Beta Labs a while back and has recently been given an update, though it’s still considered an “experimental” app by the Beta Labs folks.
Anyone who likes to come across all clever clogs should check out Wisdom Quotes. It’s a treasure trove of intelligent musings from famous people throughout history. Containing over 3000 quotes from 70 authors it’s a veritable mobile library packing everything from Confucius to Mother Theresa, all neatly tucked away into categories for easy searching.
A daily Quote of the Day is there to provide inspiration when you least expect it, and you can forward on quotes you like to any of your contacts via SMS.
Wisdom Quotes’ pleasant touchscreen interface is easy to use, the download is just half a megabyte in size and costs £1.50 from the Ovi Store.
We finish this week’s collection with HappyWakeUp, an app that helps you develop ‘intelligent sleeping’ patterns.
HappyWakeUp works on the principle that at the end of a night’s sleep, your body swings rapidly between deep sleep and near-waking in 20-minute cycles. If you wake up in one of the deep sleep moments, you’ll feel more tired than in one of the more awake points.
This little app helps you win that lottery every time by following your breathing patterns via your mobile phone’s microphone. When you enter the phase before waking, it waits until you’re in a light sleep state before it gives your alarm the OK to go off. It will never wake you up after your scheduled alarm, and if it can’t work out the ideal moment, it just lets the regular alarm clock do its job.
Want to see it in action? Then watch this video:
HappyWakeUp is available for Symbian S60 5th edition handsets for £12.99 from Ovi Store, and you can try for a week before committing.
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