Nokia N8 12 MP Camera Phone: Price, Features & Reviews

Nokia the leading mobile phone manufacturer has launched a brand new Nokia N8 Smartphone in India. The Nokia N8 Smartphone is loaded with enticing features for an unmatched user experience. The Nokia N8 Smartphone is one of the best mobile phones as it has all things that a user will wish included in the handset.

The Nokia N8 is embedded with a new 3.5-inch Touchscreen. The Nokia N8 Smartphone is the first 12.0 megapixel camera mobile phone released from Nokia. The phone features Xenon, flash carl-ziess optics and a mini HDMI port.

The Nokia N8 Key Features Include:
* Beautiful Aluminium Design
* Connect to Favorite Social Networks
* 12 MP Camera with Carl Zeiss Optics and Xenon Flash
* Access to Ovi Store Apps
* Ability to Plug Nokia N8 with your home theatre system via HDMI Cable
* Access to live feeds from facebook and twitter on the home screen
* Free Global Ovi Maps walk and drive navigation
* 16GB of in-built storage space, expandable up to 48GB with a Micro SD card
* HD Quality Video Recording
* Film Editing Software
* Dolby Surround Sound
* Introduction of the new Symbian 3 Software
* Enjoy Latest on Demand Web TV programs
* Access to channels like CNN, National Geographic, Entertainment, Paramount directly from home screen
* The Nokia N8 is integrated with Qt, a software development environment which simplifies the development and makes it possible to build applications once and deploy across Symbian and other software platforms.

The Nokia N8 Technical Specifications of Include:
* Dimensions of 113.5 x 59.12 x 12.9 mm (L x W x H)
* Weight: 135g
* 3.5 inch widescreen display with a screen resolution of 640 x 360 pixels.
* 1200mAh BL-4D
* WCDMA 850/900/1700/1900/2100 and GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
* Symbian 3 Operating System
* 16GB mass memory + micro SD card slot. Inherent memory of 135MB with support for up to 32GB memory cards.
* Video Playback features include video recording, performance: encoding 25fps, decoding 30fps, with file formats: H.264, MPEG-4, VC-1, H.263 while the real video is in 10, ON2 VP6 and Flash video
* The music playback options include FM radio, FM transmitter, MP3 player, Supported codecs: MP3,AAC,eAAC, eAAC+,WMA,AMR-WB, DRM support, DRM: OMA DRM 2.0
* Connectivity features include HDMI adapter CA-157, WLAN IEEE802.11 b/g/n, BT2.1 with support for stereo headsets
* The positioning options have GPS, A-GPS, WLAN and Cell-ID
* There is a micro-USB 2.0 high speed for file transfers and charging
* USB On-the-Go for instant uploading etc.
* Nokia AV connector 3.5 mm for audio input/output and TV out

In addition to the above features the all new Nokia N8 Smartphone incorporates a high end camera with Carl Zeiss optics, HD 720p video with Xenon flash. Priced at Rs. 22,000 /-, the Nokia N8 is the ideal choice for photography enthusiasts and technically adept users. The list of connectivity features makes Nokia N8 a great phone for professionals on the move.

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Do More with Google Latitude and Your Location Using the New Latitude API

Location, location, location. In case you haven’t noticed, we’re really excited about all the ways location can make mobile apps and websites more useful. With Google Latitude, we created a simple way for you to own your location and let you easily share it with whomever you like, display it wherever you like, and even keep a history of it if you want. We wanted to give you even more ways to use your location, so today we’re announcing the Google Latitude API — an easy and safe way for you to use and reuse your Latitude location with any apps or services that you can imagine!

Since launching Latitude, our team has been talking about all the cool things you could do with your continuously updated Latitude location. While we’ve built some of our ideas, there are simply too many exciting ones for us to do alone. Instead, we wanted to let you safely share your Latitude location with third parties who could create apps that do more with your location. Developers could, for example, build apps or services for:

• Thermostats that turn on and off automatically when you’re driving towards or away from home.
• Traffic that send alerts if there’s heavy traffic ahead of you or on a route you usually take based on your location history
• Your credit card accounts to alert you of potential fraud when a purchase is made far from where you actually are.
• Photo albums so your vacation photos appear on a map at all the places you visited based on your location history.

We want to help developers build all these applications and more, but our first priority is keeping you, the user, in control over your location. That way, you only use it when, where, and how you choose. Before any application, website, or feature you’ve chosen to use can access your Latitude data, you must specifically grant access to the developer and will see exactly what access or data they’re requesting. This includes whether you share your current best available vs. city-level location or your location history if you’ve opted in to using Google Location History. If you change your mind, you’ll be able to both see which developers have access to your Latitude data and revoke access from any developer at any time from your Google Account’s personal settings. Just like with Latitude, you always choose who can see your location.

We’ve also learned that making your phone’s continuous location available in the background is tricky to do accurately and efficiently — just imagine your phone’s battery life if several apps were continuously getting your location in different ways? With this in mind, we built a free and open Latitude API that lets the third-party developers you choose start using your updated location in new ways without reinventing the wheel.

If you’re a developer, go to code.google.com/apis/latitude to get started and read our documentation. Join the Latitude API Google Group to ask questions, discuss the API with the community, and give us feedback. The Latitude API is being launched in Labs so we can listen to developer and user feedback before it graduates. We’re excited to see what you can do with Latitude and location so please do let us know what you think!

If you’re a Latitude user, check out our existing Latitude apps and keep an eye out for future apps and services that you can choose to use and do even more with your Latitude location. If you haven’t started using Latitude yet, get started so you too can start using your location in new ways.

Posted by Ana Ulin, Software Engineer, Google Mobile Team

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Orkut for Android — live folders, photo upload and more!

Orkut friends live folders
Simply add the list of your orkut friends as a live folder on your home screen, and you’ll be able to browse through your friends list even when not under data network coverage. The live folder also lets you communicate (via call, scrap or SMS) with your friends in a single click. To install a live folder, click “Menu > Add > Folders > Orkut” on your Android device’s homescreen after installing the orkut for Android application.

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Google Maps for Android: Search ‘n Swipe, Latitude Widget, and More

Making sense of a fast paced and changing world is difficult under the best of circumstances, but when you’re on the go, it’s even harder. With the new Google Maps for mobile 4.1, we’re introducing a few features that make sorting through search results or quickly seeing Maps info a bit easier.

Updated search results page
With the newly reimagined Google Maps for mobile search results page, we’ve done away with the tabs to give you all the info you want on one page. Tap the new buttons to see the place on the map, get directions, call it, or see it with Street View. The extra space let us bring details and reviews right up front.

Swipe for more results
Take a look at the new page, and you can quickly see that Milk Pail Market specializes in cheese, has mostly 4 and 5 star ratings, and also sells fresh vegetables. You can select any section to see more reviews, buzz, etc. If you want to get to more search results without going back to the list, simply grab the page with your finger and swipe it away to the left or right to see the next or last result.

Latitude widget and Maps live wallpaper
Once you’ve updated to Maps 4.1, you’ll also have a couple different ways to put Maps up close and personal on your phone. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could quickly find your nearest friends or glance at the traffic conditions around you without opening Maps? Add the Latitude widget to a home screen panel to see your nearest Latitude friends by pressing the “Menu” button from the home screen and selecting Add > Widgets > Latitude. On Android 2.1+ phones, you can also turn your home screen into one big, updating map using the Maps live wallpaper. Press the “Menu” button from your home screen and select Wallpaper > Live wallpapers > Maps. Now you can see nearby friends or a map each time you open your home screen.

Switch Google Accounts
We’ve been adding more and more features that sync with your Google Account whether you’re on your phone or your computer. If you’re managing multiple identities, Maps now lets you switch the Google Account it uses between the accounts you’ve synced to your Android-powered phone. From the Maps menu, select More > Switch Account to sign out of your current account and sign in to a different one. Features like Google Buzz, Latitude, Starred items, My Maps, and more can then begin using whichever account you’ve chosen.

Get these new features at your fingertips by searching for “Google Maps” in Android Market from Android 1.6+ phones. Update Maps to version 4.1, available in all the countries and languages where Maps is currently available. Visit our Help Center to learn more, ask questions in our Help Forum, or give us suggestions and vote on other people’s on the Mobile Product Ideas page.

Posted by Chiu-Ki Chan and Andrew Oplinger, Software Engineers, Google Mobile

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New version of Google Mobile App for iPhone in the App Store

Hello, iPhone users! We have just received the good news that our new version of Google Mobile App for iPhone was approved and is now available on in the App Store everywhere.

In this version, we have a redesigned search results display that shows more results at once and, more importantly, opens web pages from the results within the app. This will get you to what you need faster, which is always our goal at Google.

For those less utilitarian and more flamboyant, we’ve exposed our visual tweaks settings called “Bells and Whistles” - some of our users had discovered this already in previous versions. You can style your Google Mobile App in any shade: red, taupe, or even heliotrope. If you’re on a faster iPhone, like the iPhone 3GS, you may want to try the live waveform setting which turns on, as the name suggests, a moving waveform when you search by voice.

On the subject of searching by voice, you can now choose your spoken language or accent. For example, if you’re Australian but live in London, you can improve the recognition accuracy by selecting Australian in the Voice Search settings. And now both Mandarin and Japanese are supported languages as well.

If you don’t have Google Mobile App yet, download it from the App Store or read more about it. If you have any suggestions or comments, feel free to join in on our support forums or suggest ideas in our Mobile Products Ideas page. You can also follow us on Twitter @googlemobileapp.

Posted by Alastair Tse, Software Engineer

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Happy Thanksgiving Travels: Google Maps Navigation now available for Android 1.6

A few weeks ago we launched Google Maps Navigation (Beta) as a free feature of Google Maps on Android 2.0 devices. Today we’re expanding availability of Google Maps Navigation to devices running Android 1.6 (Donut) and higher, such as the T-Mobile myTouch 3G and the G1.

Google Maps Navigation is an internet-connected GPS system with voice guidance and automatic rerouting, all running on your mobile phone. Using Google services over your phone’s data connection brings important benefits to GPS navigation users, like using Google search (typed or spoken) to enter your destination; fresh map, business, and traffic data; and satellite and Street View imagery along your route.

This release also includes the new Layers feature, which lets you overlay geographical information on the map. View My Maps, transit lines, Wikipedia articles about places, and more.

So if you’re traveling this Thanksgiving, you’ll be able to enjoy the benefits of an internet connection, whether it’s free Wi-Fi at the airport or Google Maps Navigation in your car.

If you have a phone running Android 1.6, you can download an updated version of Google Maps from Android Market to use Navigation today. Google Maps Navigation is in beta and is currently available in the United States. Some features of Android 2.0 are not available on Android 1.6, for example, the ability to use the “navigate to” voice command as shown in our demo video. However, you can still create a shortcut that will allow you to launch Navigation and start getting directions to a specific place from your current location with just a single touch from your home screen. For example, you can create a “Home” shortcut to quickly navigate home, no matter where you are. Just use the “Add” menu item from the home screen, then choose “Shortcuts”, then “Directions.” Please visit our forum to give us feedback, or our Help Center to get help using Google Maps Navigation.

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LG India Launched GD900: World’s First Crystal Transparent Mobile

LG brings in the World’s first transparent design handset with new Gesture Command touch navigation feature. Riding high on its classy designs, innovative aesthetics and excellent user interface, LG Electronics India Limited launched a completely new design concept of transparency with its LG GD900 Crystal. Rich on its arty appeal, the world’s first transparent phone, LG GD900 with its drop-down touchpad is extremely beautiful, stylish and remarkably usable.

Ready to make a fashion statement, this new chic handset will make a perfect arm-candy and make you stand out from the crowd. Along with its appealing look, the LG-GD 900 has a heart of a winner. It is the first phone to feature LG’s next generation touch technology and Gesture Command, which complements the much-praised 3D S-Class User Interface.

The handset features an 8 megapixel autofocus camera that displays photos on a high resolution 3-inch WVGA LCD touchscreen and with the auto-rotating display, photos look great every time. The handset also has a MP3 player and can hold up to 32GB of music, photos or data using the expandable memory card slot. The phone is Wi-Fi enabled, allowing user to connect to the internet via wireless hotspots and it also supports Bluetooth 2.1 for secure, high-speed connectivity to other devices.

The LG-GD900 Crystal’s slide-down Crystal Touchpad first appears to just be an alphanumeric keypad, but it actually doubles as a touchpad for controlling the phone. It can be used like the trackpad on a laptop computer but also recognizes handwriting, responds to multi-touch commands and enables a new way of navigation called Gesture Command.

The crystal touchpad is completely transparent and illuminated with a soft glow. This scratch resistant design made from tempered glass and reinforced by a band of Liquid metal ensuring extended use.

“We wanted to give our consumers a super luxury experience and therefore, developed a handset that touts a gorgeous sliding keypad - the LG GD900 Crystal. The phone’s transparent touchpad feature adds to the personality of our consumers and gives gizmo geeks a wonderful reason to possess it. Not only this, we have made a creative use of hardware through Gesture Command that provides control via simple, on-screen finger movements. We are positive that our new handset will become a winning model of the year,” says Mr. Anil Arora, Business Group Marketing Head, Mobile Communications, LGEIL.

The LG GD900 Crystal Priced at Rs. 26,000 /- , the mobile phone is available in Chrome and Titen color choices at all retail outlets across the country.

Courtesy: LG Mobile India

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Captain’s Log

This week marks the anniversary of Star Trek’s original pilot episode “The Cage”, and with it, the first appearance of the iconic Communicator. As one of the inspirations for today’s mobile devices, the Communicator did more than just long-range voice calls; in fact, many of its locator and universal translation services still outpace today’s state of the art. What’s more, the Communicator was so critical to the daily workings of Starfleet that cadets’ 4-year curriculum included mandatory courses in communications engineering.

Today’s brand of mobile user doesn’t need four years to figure out their phone. But this week, and with a tip of the hat to the USS Enterprise for the Communicator’s anniversary, we did want to celebrate all things mobile by sharing some of Google’s favorite mobile tips and tricks. All week long, we’re going to be tweeting and blogging our top tips for using Google Search, Gmail, Google Maps, YouTube, and more on your phone. We want to help every cadet go mobile, and get more out of their existing phone. Cadets with questions can ask them here until 11:59 PM Pacific Time, Tuesday night. Keep an eye on the Google Mobile Blog for answers to some of your questions on Wednesday, and tips for advertisers and developers later in the week. Everyone can boldly go… mobile!

Posted by Marc Vanlerberghe, Director of Mobile Marketing

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Nokia 5230 India: New Touch Screen Color Mobile to Be Launched Soon

New Delhi, India and Espoo, Finland - The latest addition in the Nokia touch phone portfolio, the Nokia 5230, is designed for those who lead an active life and use their mobile phone as their primary instrument for music, photos and videos, as well as sharing their lives online. With the Nokia 5230, consumers can get new content, be it songs from the Nokia Music Store or apps, games, videos and other services from the Ovi Store, directly from their phones. The solutions offering is complemented by A-GPS navigation and the latest version of Ovi Maps with aerial images, 3D landmarks for over 200 cities and terrain map views for pedestrian and drive navigation.

“Competitively priced at 149 EUR (INR. 10,430 Approx.), we believe the Nokia 5230 is an unbeatable offer for many new customers who aspire a device that stars in music, mingles with social networks from Facebook to MySpace, navigates you to where it happens, when it happens, and comes in an array of dazzling colors, ” said Jo Harlow, Vice President, Nokia.

Visiting the Ovi Store from the Nokia 5230 is a breeze. Ovi Store is conveniently accessible from the home screen of the phone and customers can immediately begin downloading and personalizing their phones with popular apps and games to make their phone more fun. New apps, games, videos, and more are added regularly and Ovi Store can be enjoyed on more than 75 Nokia devices and has active users from more than 180 countries.

The Nokia 5230 features an easy to use music player with 33 hours of playback time. In select markets the Nokia 5230 will include Comes With Music service offering truly unbeatable value with all you can eat music. The recommended price of the Nokia 5230 with the Comes With Music service will be 259 EUR before subsidies and taxes. For a mighty music experience, any headphones with a 3.5mm AV connector can be used. In addition, the Nokia 5230 features a Media Bar with quick access to your favorite media and applications, such as music, photos, YouTube or Ovi Share.

The innovative Contacts bar features thumbnail images for up to 20 close friends and provides easy access to them and their communications history including emails, phone calls, photos or other social media updates.

The Nokia 5230 is expected to begin shipping in the fourth quarter of 2009.

Courtsey: Nokia

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YouTube Mobile App Expands to Five New Languages

We’re happy to announce that the YouTube Mobile Application for Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 devices is now available in five new languages. We now support users with localized content in Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Swedish, and Czech. This brings the total number of languages the app supports to 12.

YouTube’s Mobile Application makes it easy to quickly load and watch high-quality YouTube videos on your mobile phone, even in weak coverage areas. To get the update or to try the app for the first time, simply visit m.youtube.com/app in your phone’s browser.

We’d love to get your feedback, so visit our forum if you have questions or want to chat about YouTube mobile.

Posted by Robin Norvell, Mobile Consumer Operations

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