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Nokia N97 2.0 Firmwire 20.0.0.5

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This is a video review of Nokia N97 Firmware 20.0.0.5 from The Nokia Blog. This update will let you have kinetic scrolling and a lot of new apps in your existing N97. It also consumes less memory and freeing up and incresing the Built-in Phone Memory by 20%.

The newly introduced Applications contains some useful apps like Facebook Widget which lets you access your Facebook account easily from N97 and connect with your friends and social contacts.

It also have an app with which you can sync your contacts and calenders with Google (GMail) Contacts and Google Calender.

All the other pre-existing apps like Youtube, Flickr, Nokia Maps, OVI Store is also present. The scheduled worldwide release of this firmware upgrade is October, 2009.

This Video is about 3 Minutes and 30 Seconds long and a must watch video if you are planning to buy a new N97 or upgrade to the latest Firmware.

Below is another video from SymbianWorld,Its a long video of about 7 Minutes and 53 Seconds.

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HTC Touch Diamond

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The Diamonds looks like an HTC Touch pro on a sever diet. It misses out on the hardware QWERTY & has a smaller battery which is why it is slimmer & a lot lighter. The rear seems to be more solid & is finished in glossy black but a look at the front face & you cannot tell the Diamond & the pro apart.

The name Diamond comes from the sculpted rear that has been cut at various angles to give the appearance of many sides-like its namesake. Built quality is good & the touch Diamond looks clean. It has 4GB of internal storage but no expansion. The screen is a little devoid of colors but bright & crisp enough.

HTC Touch Diamond

HTC Touch Diamond

Fonts are clearer than on the touch viva, although not the best around. Once again the lack of a dedicated keyboard cannot made up for by the onscreen one, simply because of the prohibitively small screen size. The call buttons are touch activated & very well laid out & amply backlit, while the home & back button also aid navigation. In fact most other non-HTC devices do not have a back button & we feel this is a nifty & very utilitarian feature that is simple to implement & should be standardized on all WM devices.

The camera on this phone is decent, actually a lot better than we expected; it out performs some of the other 3.2 megapixel units in this test. The antenna is of mediocre quality & we had slight issues with clarity in zone 2.

The earpiece volume itself is quite good. The hands free is good enough for casual music listening & to make calls but music lovers obsessed with quality will find nothing of interest here. The lack of Expansion beyond the 4 GB of inbuilt memory may also turn some people off.There,s nothing special about this handset to make it stand out.

At a price tag of $350 users would surely expect more & we would expect a QWERTY keypad to make usability better.

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Nokia 6600i : The Old Favorite is Back

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Nokia 6600i

Nokia 6600i

Just the name 6600 brings back memories of days gone by, when the egg like phone was the hottest new device in town. Even since its launch,the phone had quickly gained immense popularity. It was perhaps the first precursor of a Smartphone that anyone had seen.

So, naturally when Nokia recently announced the return of the good old dependable handset in a new avatar 6600i, we were quite excited. It better match up to its old cousin was our first thought. In the looks department,  it passes muster. On first look, the phone looks quite stunning-thanks to the brushed steel body it sports. The black version does not looks that good through. The phones got nice contours & a slide out keypad. The design has that simplistic, yet elegant appeal that makes it most stylish than other flashy models.

With a 5 MP camera with 8x zoom & dual LED flash, the phone is design for imaging & sharing. It is supposed to be the manufacturers smallest 5 MP sliding offering.  But the phone might disappoint when it comes to what it is. Or rather what it is not.  It is not a Smartphone – it is just another series 40 phone with a good camera. For it to hold a candle to the old 6600  & the place it has in out heart. It should have had at least one thing revolutionary. It does feature touch technology, but most likely it is limited to tasks such as answering or silencing calls.

Other than an impressive camera,it is got a microSD slot expandable to 16GB, 3G support & a bright 2.2-inch 240×320 TFT 16 million  colors display. It can record video at in VGA at 15 fps & QVGA at 30 fps. The phone is supposed to be specially built to make better use of Nokia’s Ovi products. You won’t have to wait too long to get a feel of it since its slated to be available in the third quarter of 2009 for 200 Euros.

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