Apple Sues Nokia For Stealing Technology
Apple is suing Nokia for wrongly use 13 of its patents. Bruce Sewell, Apple’s general counsel, said, Other companies must compete with us by inventing their own technologies, not just by stealing ours. Apple did not detail what patents Nokia allegedly violated.
Source: Apple Sues Nokia, Claims Infringement
Nokia Booklet 3G
Check out Nokia’s Booklet 3G. As you can see the design is very much like a mini MacBook with the black keyboard.
Nokia Touchscreen X6 Phones
Nokia releases a music touchscreen phone, X6, a follow up model to the 5800 model. The phone is powered by Symbian S60, and it comes with 5-megapixel with dual LED flash, 32 GB of built-in memory, Wi-Fi, 3G, Bluetooth, a 5-megapixel camera, and GPS. The X6 integrates with Facebook.
The X6 will retail at $640 and available in 2010.
Nokia Unveils N97 Mini
Nokia is playing catchup with Apple by releasing the N97 mini smartphone which features Symbian S60 OS, 3.2 inch resistive touchscreen, a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, GPS, Wi-Fi, and 8GB of internal memory that can be expanded by 16GB with a microSD card.
The Nokia N97 mini will retail at $640 this October.
Nokia Reveals Booklet 3G Netbook
Nokia has been falling behind in sales with mobile devices lately due to the popularity of Apple’s iPhone, Blackberry and Android mobiles. Nokia is venturing boldly into the PC market with its netbook offering called the Booklet 3G.
The Nokia netbook has an aluminium case, 1.25 kg, 10in screen, 12 hours of battery life, WiFi connectivity, an HDMI port, integrated 3G and GPS and running on Microsoft Windows.
Nokia’s Ovi Store Is No Competition to Apple App Store
Nokia has finally launched its answer to Apple’s App Store, Ovi Store holds third-party apps for Nokia devices. One of the main issue with the Ovi Store is that it will probably not work on US carrier branded Nokia phones.
The Ovi Store comes with several categories, Applications, Audio & Video, Game and Personal. Similar to the Apple App Store, users can give star ratings and reviews for each app. Currently the store will not appeal to the US market.
Source: Nokia Ovi Store
Nokia N97 Touchscreen Mobile Phone
Nokia has revealed their touchscreen with QWERTY sliding keyboard N97 mobile phone. It will cost around 550 euros and will ship in 2009. The phone will run using the enhanced Symbian OS, 5th Editition OS. Other features are 640 x 360 pixel touchscreen, 5 megapixel camera, 1.5 days battery life, 32GB of memory, 16Gb microSD expansion, no 3G, no WiFi, and more.
Read the full press release after the jump.
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic With Touch Screen
Nokia has released a touch screen music device in select markets globally, including Russia, Spain, India, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Finland, among others. The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic comes with a 16 by 9 aspect ratio widescreen, graphic equalizer, 8GB memory for up to 6000 tracks, support for all main digital music formats, and a 3.5mm jack, built-in surround sound stereo speakers and also support for Adobe Flash.
From press release, …the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic delivers easy and fast access to all music, video and photos through a one-touch ‘Mediabar’ drop down menu. The Media Bar also offers a direct link to the Web and to online sharing.
Read full press release after the jump.
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