The Nokia Windows Phone Release - Lumia 800 & 710 - Windows 7 Mango - Specs - Price

This October ends with the  greatest release of much awaited Nokia Windows Phone, the Nokia Lumia 800 and Lumia 710. In the past couple of months rumors where spread all around the internet about the shift of Nokia towards windows OS, and the shedding of old Symbian OS.Everyone created their own prediction about the Nokia windows phone, "How it looks?", "What are the specs?" etc.Nokia being the best hardware manufacture and Windows the best in software(pc) there are place for hopes.

Letting an end to all rumors Nokia has just unveiled its First windows based Phone the Nokia Lumia 800.

1.Nokia Lumia 800
As stated the Nokia Lumia 800 is the first ever Nokia windows phone available.The Nokia Lumia 800 is high end smartphone featuring a big 3.7 inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen which is perfect for most hands.Not too big neither too small! The Lumia 800 runs on Windows Phone 7.5 Mango OS powered by 1.4Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and with a 512MB of RAM.The camera is gentle with an 8MP Autofocus Carl Zeiss optics unit with Dual LED Flash, capable of recording 720p video at 30fps.The design of Lumia 800 will remind us the N8 and the N9.

The first ever Nokia Windows Phone - Nokia Lumia 800

Capacitive buttons are present on the front alongside Volume and Camera keys located on the right side of the device.Another thing to notice is the presence of 3D Graphics HW Accelerator, which will make better gaming experience in windows platform.A bad to thing to remember is the absence of secondary camera, which will make the video calling a nightmare!
The Mango OS offers full network integration with Facebook, Twitter and Linked-In and Photo sharing.The "Nokia Drive" offers turn by turn voice guided navigation and hundreds of local music stations are available with the new MixRadio from Nokia Music.

Another important features of Nokia windows phone - Lumia 800 are:
Memory: Internal 16 GB storage (Not expandable), 512 MB RAM
Modem: 3G HSDPA 14.4 Mbps; HSUPA 5.76 Mbps
Video Player Supported Formats: MP4/H.264/H.263/WMVTalk Time: Up to 13 hours 0 min (2G) / Up to 9 hours 30 min (3G)

Nokia Lumia 800 - Hands on Preview:

The new Nokia Lumia 800 is expected to available from December 2011 in Europe and Asia.
The expeced price of Nokia 800 is:

Price US (Dollars) $ 590
Price(Euro) 440 EUR
Price India (Rupees) 29000

2.Nokia Lumia 710

The second Nokia windows phone the Lumia 710 comes in black and white bodies with a choice of white, black, cyan, fuchsia and yellow backcovers.The 5MP autofocus Carl zeiss unit is capable of recording 720p hd @30fps.The processor, RAM and graphical accelerator are same as Lumia 800, but unlike Lumia 800 710 have a 3.7 TFT capacitive touchscreen, instead of AMOLED.

The 8GB internal memory which can't be expanded, and the absence of secondary camera might be a black mark for this device.

The second Nokia Windows Phone - Nokia Lumia 710

Another important features of Nokia windows phone - Lumia 710 are:

Memory: Internal 8 GB storage (Not expandable), 512 MB RAM
Modem: 3G HSDPA 14.4 Mbps; HSUPA 5.76 Mbps
Video Player Supported Formats: MP4/H.264/H.263/WMVTalk Time: Up to 13 hours 0 min (2G) / Up to 9 hours 30 min (3G)

Nokia Lumia 710 - Hands on Preview:

Nokia 710 will also available from December onwards, with a price range:

Price US (Dollars) $ 367
Price(Euro) 270 EUR

Price India (Rupees) 18000/-

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Run Android Apps on PC - Android Emulator by BlueStacks

If you are an Android freak, you might have tired of  searching for Android Emulator which can Run Android apps on PC.You might have searched a lot to get a working Android emulator to run android apps on Windows, and i'm pretty sure, you end up with nothing!

But from Tuesday on wards  the total scenario is changed drastically! Yes you heard right, now you can run any Android apps on PC using the great Android emulator made by BlueStacks known as 

"BlueStacks App Player".The BlueStack Apps Player is a free piece of software which can run your favorite android applications on any Windows PC.The application features a new type of virtualization by which we can run any app full screen on desktop.The virtualization contains 10 pre-loaded android apps which can be run straight out of the box.This android emulator is developed by 10 engineers from BlueStacks, taking two years of time to complete.“We use a very complex proprietary virtualization technology that took two years to build to make this happen,” said John Gargiulo, BlueStacks’ VP of Marketing, in an email to WinRumors.

The BlueStacks app player is build in a way such that it can run any graphics intensive apps like Asphalt, Angry Birds etc.The BlueStacks Android Player can also be integrated with the BluesStcks cloud connect client for android.This client which work from your mobile will allow us to push our favorite android apps from our phone into Blustcks App Player via the cloud technology.The app player is nothing but a Gadget which can be placed on our windows 7 desktop, and will list all android apps in our account with an option to download additional apps from the internet, and can Run android apps on PC with just one click.

The pre-loaded apps includes Bloomberg, Drag Racing, Bubble Buster, LivingSocial, Huffington Post and Creative Mobile.Being an alpha release the company hopes to attract more developers in future.And also android developers will see this as an opportunity to get their android apps into a millions of windows devices.

The alpha version of this great android emulator, which made the dream "Run android apps on PC" a reality, is only available for windows for now.But as notified by the official site the company is likely to release a Mac version of BlueStacks android player in near future.That is users should wait a little long to run android apps on Mac.“The openness of Android is enabling innovation around the world. We are grateful to Google and others for their contributions. This is also a social equalizer in the US and countries like Brazil, India and China, where a large percentage of the population who can only afford smartphones can now enjoy and benefit from the ubiquity of apps on the Android platform,” said Rosen Sharma, President and CEO of BlueStacks.

You may download BlueStacks App Player from their official site: http://www.bluestacks.com/download.html

Demo video-BlueStack Apps Player-Run android apps on PC

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Symbian Belle Release - Confirmed to be on October 26-Good News for Anna users.

Finally we got an exact date of release of  the brand new Symbian Belle OS.Yes Symbian Belle Update is said to be rolled out starting October 26 2011.The news is 100% true since it comes from Nokia's official tweet. The update will be available through OTA(Over The Air) and through OVI suite, or if you are an advanced user you may do it with Navifirm and Phoenix.

The update will be available for the following devices: Nokia N8, Nokia E6, Nokia E7, Nokia C6-01, Nokia C7 and Nokia X7

It was just few months before Nokia released the first update for Symbian^3 the Anna.Unfortunately, it was not up-to the expectations, as it does not include major UI changes expect new icons set, home screen transition and the nfc integration.But in this new Symbian Belle, hopefully Nokia is introducing drastic changes to it's UI, Menus etc.A new graphical options bar at the bottom and a notifications bar allowing quick access to most needed options and Sizable widgets are the most attracting features of Symbian Belle.You can find more on this video:

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Nokia N9-00-Released-Specifications-Price-Review

The long awaited Nokia N9 is released now!The New Nokia N9 being the first MeeGo Smartphone released by Nokia features some great specifications.The Nokia n9 is the first pure touch screen mobile phone without any front facing physical buttons.The only three buttons included in Nokia n9 are the dedicated side buttons for Power,Camera and Volume.So you might have think about "How to unlock Nokia N9" , don't worry, a double tap in the screen will make it unlocked.The touch screen sizes 3.9 inch with a Multi-Touch capable AMOLED display.
Yet another remarkable feature of Nokia N9 is the "Swipe" as Nokia said: "All it takes is a swipe".
By simply swiping the edge of the screen we can go the Home screen while using any application.Nokia N9 has an amazing 1GHz processor with 1GB RAM and it has a 8MP Carl Zeiss optics, auto focus camera which is capable of recording 720p HD videos at 30fps.Nokia N9 is one among the few nfc enabled phones in the world.

Other Nokia N9 specifications are listed below:

Network : Quad-band GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900.

HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100

OS : MeeGo for Nokia N9 (MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan).
RAM : 1GB.
Display : 3.9-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen display.

16:9 FWVGA (854 x 480 pixels).
Curved glass.
Scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla glass.
Dedicated buttons : Power, camera and volume.
Sensors : Orientation sensor (Accelerometer).
Compass (Magnetometer).
Proximity sensor.
Ambient light detector.
Data Network : GPRS/EDGE class B, multislot class 33.
3G HSDPA 14.4 Mbps, HSUPA 5.7 Mbps.
Wireless LAN WiFi n.
Connectivity : NFC (Near Field Communication) for easy pairing and sharing
Bluetooth 2.1 +EDR with A2DP.
USB v2.0 with micro USB connector.
3.5 mm audio-jack.
Use as data modem.
Micro SIM card.
Office : MS Outlook synchronisation.
View documents in Word, Excel, Powerpoint, PDF and Open Document Formats.
Camera :  8 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics.
Dual LED flash.
Digital shutter.
Continuous autofocus.
Touch-to-focus and exposure lock.
Focal length: 3.77mm / 28mm.
HD Video recording @ 30fps – .mp4.
Audio & Video
Video codec support: H.263, MPEG4-SP & ASP, H.264 BP/MP, WMV9 / VC-1 and Mkv (Matroska).
Audio codecs: MPEG-4 AAC , eAAC/C+,MP3 , WMA , Dolby Digital Plus , FLAC.
Integrated GPS : A-GPS receivers 

Ovi Maps with free voice-guided car and walk navigation.
Dimensions : 116.45 x 61.2 x 7.6-12.1 mm.
Weight : 135 gm.
Internal memory: 16 GB or 64 GB
Talk-time : GSM – up to 11 hours.
WCDMA (3G)- up to7 hours.
Standby time : GSM- up to380 hours.
WCDMA (3G)- up to450 hours.
Video playback time : (720P) 4.5 hours.
Music playback time : 50 hours.

The Nokia N9 price is around $660 (30000 INR)

Demo Video:

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The New Nokia Store - (Improved OVI Store) - Symbian^3 - Anna - Belle - Ready for Download

New Nokia Store
As part of the tough competition from Android store and The Iphone app store, Nokia is trying their level best to improve their position by releasing this New Online App Store client called Nokia Store.They have totally changed the UI of existing OVI Store and added QT based elements to make this Nokia Store a fresh look and feel.New Nokia store is designed so that it suit well with the new Symbian Belle. And of course the name OVI Store itself is changed to Nokia Store , it might be another marketing strategy to survive.This new Nokia store contain some new categories in addition to the existing OVI Store categories.This new Nokia Store is not yet deployed in any software updates and this release is only a beta meant for testing for Nokia Beta Labs Community members.
This Beta Nokia store will replace the curent OVI store on your Symbian Anna or Symbian Belle device.

Some key features of Nokia Store are:

• Easier navigation
• Improved product details view, for a rich and fluid discovery experience.
• Quicker, smoother and more responsive than WRT client.

Nokia Store will work on the following devices:

• Nokia C6-01, Nokia C7-00, Nokia C7 Astound, Nokia E7-00, Nokia N8-00, Nokia X7-00

And you can download Nokia store from the official Nokia beta labs here: Nokia Store.sisx
Remember You may need to install the free opensource QT Mobility if Nokia store failed to start on your device: QT application For symbian^3

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