Nokia has just unveiled its 2nd Windows Phone device. The Nokia 710 which comes in black and white varieties will offer a choice of black, white, cyan, fuchsia and yellow back covers. The 3.7-inch screen offers an 800 x 480-pixel resolution with a ClearBlack TFT for great colors and readability even in bright sunlight. At the rear, there?s a five-megapixel auto-focus camera with an LED flash. The camera can also shoot HD video at 30 frames-per-second. The phone offers full social sharing with integration of Facebook, Twitter and Linked-In, and photo-sharing.� Added to the Windows Phone software package is Nokia Drive, offering free turn-by-turn navigation and the latest version of Nokia Music featuring MixRadio which offers hundreds of locally-relevant music channels. Packing the same 1.4GHz processor, hardware acceleration and graphics processor as the Nokia Lumia 800, the Nokia Lumia 710 offers exceptional performance at this price point. Inside there?s 8GB of user storage memory and 512MB of RAM. It has quadband radio reception, 3G up to HSDPA, WiFi and Bluetooth, so the communications options are covered. The phone measures 119 x 62.4 x 12.5mm and weighs 125.5g.
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Samsung Italy has reportedly mentioned which of their devices will be getting an upgrade to the latest version of Google's Android OS - Ice Cream Sandwich. The models confirmed to receive an update are: Galaxy S II Galaxy Note Galaxy Tab 10.1 Galaxy Tab 8.9 Galaxy Tab 7.7 Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus They also mentioned that we shouldn't expect an upgrade anytime soon. The earliest possible date for the upgrade would be Q2 2012. However we haven't received confirmation as to whether these dates are only for the Italian region or for all the regions. via | source
The Nokia Asha 300 is one of four new Nokia Asha series featurephones announced today at Nokia World 2011 in London. The Asha 300 is almost identical in featureset to the Asha 303, except apart for a QWERTY keyboard, the Asha 300 comes with a traditional 12-key numerical pad and a portrait touchscreen. The Asha 300 will feature a 1GHz processor of unknown type and a 240x320 resistive touchscreen. It's design is that of a classic monoblock device. It is stylish and yet powerful enough for a none-smartphone class device. The built quality is solid, but feels a tad cheap - which is exactly what it is. A 5 Megapixel camera can be found on the back. Nokia Browser and a host of other social networking, including Orkut and Flickr,�and messaging apps can be found installed, as is Angry Birds. I was sceptical on how Angry Birds would work on a 2.4" screen device but it works surprisingly well. The resistive touchscreen technology used meant that pressure has to be applied at all times. Multi touch isn't supported, but that is due to disadvantages of using a cheaper resistive touchscreen. The Asha 300 is a 3G device, but it lacks the WLAN radio ...
In a new report published by Strategy Analytics, Samsung have snatched the top spot in the global smartphone market, shipping 27.8 million smartphones in the last quarter. That's nearly 20 million more than they shipped just one year ago, with the company showing dramatic growth at the expense of its two biggest competitors, Apple and Nokia.�The figure is good for a 23.8% share in the global market for the past quarter, compared with 14.6% for Apple and 14.4% for Nokia. Apple may yet retake the top spot however, as these figures don't include the launch weekend of the iPhone 4S, which saw sales of over 4 million units in just three days. The new phone has revitalised Apple, even in the face of growing Android competition. Nokia will also looking to fight back in the last quarter of the year, with its stable of Windows phones to soon be available. The Lumia 800 and Lumia 710, Nokia's first Windows phones, have been critically well received and should sell well. The company is also expected to boost its fortunes with the launch of its feature phone line Asha. Samsung won't be resting on its laurels either, though. The company is expected to keep up the ...
