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Nokia n900, the new business / multimedia phone of the Finnish producer comes with a lot of issues worthy of appreciation and a brand new operating system, Maemo. Expectations are high from the Nokia N900. So were for the other ends of the range of the N in their day, the latest Nokia N96 and Nokia N97, but hopefully this time they will not be disappointing. Because I do not think Nokia allows too many failures. But the new toys, this phone's Booklet 3G and the netbooks seem promising.

But for starters let's take a quick look at the specifications:
Dimensions: 110.9 × 59.8 × 18 mm, 113 g
Operating System: Linux Maemo
Hardware: ARM Cortex-A8 processor 600 MHz, 256 MB RAM and 768 MB virtual memory (1 GB of total memory available for applications)
32 MB of storage + microSD card support up to 16 GB
Screen 3.5 inch touch panel, resistive, with resolution of 800 x 480 pixels
System slider QWERTY keyboard
Leading connectivity: Wi-Fi, 3G, Bluetooth, GPS
5 MPX camera
1320 mAh battery.

And I could go pretty much with the list of specifications for this phone that just seems to have it all. In addition, the picture seems to show damn good, with a matte black finish and stylish. It is not a tiny phone but anyway N900 is not a phone to be kept in the pocket. Perhaps more interesting than waiting for the phone is in this case waiting for the operating system Maemo based on Linux. It is expected to be reliable and fast, come with a simple interface but good looking, plus its own variant of media players and Web browser (based on the browser behind Mozilla Firefox). In addition, unlike older Symbian will support widgets and custom add-on’s.

So all seem to be aligned in the right direction for Nokia N900: Specifications, appearance, the software and even the price, because Nokia has announced that their new toy will not exceed the threshold of 500 euro. A decent price for such a device as it stands in the same range with 3GS iPhone or HTC's Touch HD.

Overall, the impression made by n 900 is positive, the market needs something new, different, and Nokia brings new things. Unfortunately Maemo platform is still in its infancy, and this is shown by the lack of dedicated software for N900. You have from the beginning the social gadgets for weather, RSS and about all that is important, but if you want to customize N900 in the smallest details you will hit poor settings and the lack of applications, but maybe the problem will be solved by Nokia in the months to come.

The biggest problem that nokia n900 has it is that despite the phone functions we deal in fact with a smaller MID, a micro-laptop, but not any phone, given the interface (which is now only in landscape mode) and the general size that is "generous". But I must admit that Nokia has done a great job in the construction of N900, which is a gadget with an impeccable and clean design without additional lines and visual shell buttons to burden it.

Nokia is a Finnish mobile telecommunications company and is the world's biggest maker of mobile phones. Headquarters are in Espoo, near Helsinki, Finland, having multiple locations for research and production on several continents. The main factories are located at Salo, Finland, Dongguan, China, Chennai, India, Komárom Hungary and Ruhr, Germany.

A fantastic cell phone is the nokia 7205 (Intrigue), a phone that was conceived to compete a very competitive market. Measuring only 90 x 47 x 14 mm while weighting only 90 g, this phone has a perfect design. This cell phone has a battery of 860 mAh Li-Ion which lets you talk for about 4.50 hours and 264 hours standby time. Its creators added a 150.0 MB memory, enough for your daily activities! An interesting feature of the Nokia 7205 (Intrigue) is the speaker phone, which can be useful in the car for example! The large screen is capable of setting wallpapers of 240 x 320 pixels.

Nokia has shaped 7205 (Intrigue) with 72 polyphonic tones, making an exceptional phone for you to add many ringtones. If you like phones that uses the profile you will appreciate to know that 7205 (Intrigue) has included personal profiles. The range of games included in the Nokia 7205 (Intrigue) is based on BREW, providing funny games to keep you entertained! Naturally, being a standard service in this industry, 7205 (Intrigue) enables sending of both SMS and the EMS.

Additionally, it supports sending MMS pictures and videos. The phone includes a calendar which is well designed and Nokia included a phone book having a capacity of 500. The technology exploits the T9 predefined writing, which is very easy to use. Phone 7205 (Intrigue) allows media streaming technology being based on VCAST Video. Connection to a PC is made via a cable to transfer ringtones, wallpapers, etc.

This phone is an eco-friendly terminal, its packaging is made from 100% recyclable materials, and the charger does not consume additional energy. Intrigue is a medium-level handsets equipped with clamshell, with a simple and elegant look. On the list of specifications of this device is support for EV-DO Rev. connectivity. A, a 2.2-inch internal TFT display with resolution of 240 x 320 pixels and a hidden external display, with a diagonal of 1.9 inches and resolution of 176 x 132 pixels. Besides, 7205 comes with a 2 megapixel camera, touch sensitive music keys, Bluetooth and microSD card slot up to 8GB. Also, Nokia 7205 comes with an alert that reminds the user to remove the charger after the battery is fully charged.

Related to the software, we have an interface Habitat Mode UI, mobile e-mail and Instant Messaging support. The exterior is completely black and silver or pink interior may be slightly discolored. On the outer case is one special LCD display, which remains hidden, but is illuminated when you get a call or a SMS. Or when the alarm sounds. nokia 7205 has a lot of interesting functions, such as Visual Voice Mail or access to VCAST Music from Rhapsody, which has 5 million songs in the database. Internal screen is 2.2 inches. The phone is CDMA.

It weighs 111 grams and is solid without giving the feeling of useless weight. Its dimensions are 107mm long, 60mm wide and 15.5 mm thick, so it fits pretty well in your pocket or purse. The BlackBerry Curve 8300 is a member of the BlackBerry smartphones family that is including devices specifically designed for business people, of them being also Blackberry 8800 & Blackberry 8100 Pearl. The blackberry 8300 has an internal memory of 64 MB flash which can be extended by insertion in the particular slot allocated to a microSD  card.

The phone looks great and has a wide color screen, with about 65,000 colors at high resolution. The screen is sensitive to light and automatically adjust light levels of display for the user to view the screen in all types of light. 8300 has a complete navigation system with navigation wheel, with different features dedicated keys and a QWERTY keyboard which is very easy to use. The user can use the keyboard to quickly write e-mails, text messages, or to pass key events in the agenda of organization. QWERTY keyboard has a built-in numeric keypad, which is defined to stand out from the black colored keys. The keyboard has a subtle backlight which gives user a clear indication of the spaces between keys.

The blackberry 8300 phone supports BlackBerry Maps and comes with a program for viewing documents, which help the user to see all files that have common formats on the smartphone. Curve 8300 smartphone has common features for a common smartphone, including alarm clock, phone book, calendar, organization, memo pad and task list. This smartphone has a built-in camera, well equipped and very useful, which gives to the user the opportunity to do photos with this camera even if this phone is focused on business. You can do photos, save, delete and send photos to other friends, through message service. The 2 megapixel camera is a very useful tool for entertainment, besides all other basic functions.

The built-in media player, improves its user listening to music and run video clips in popular formats that are known. 8300 is a smartphone that has a perimeter expanded, incorporating in it features for those who are business focused, but also for those who want to relax in their spare time. Users can select and change ring tones and alerts, as they wish, and the phone has support for MP3 ringtones, MIDI and polyphonic ringtones. You can easily communicate and initiate calls using voice activation function call.

Users can stay calm in terms of fear that someone might look through the phone, because this smartphone can be viewed by others as coming with a password protection to ensure security. You can lock the keyboard, if you want to make sure that you will not accidentally hit keys randomly when you move the phone in your pocket. Battery life is good, it offers 4 hours of talktime, since the full load, and almost 408 hours of standby, which is ideal for users who are traveling for longer periods of time.

From a producer that was known only among a limited number of users, HTC has become in the recent years a well known brand. Although have not yet the reputation of brands like Nokia, Samsung or Sony Vaio, in terms of hardware quality and software devices, HTC is no less important. Perhaps even the contrary.

Recently, HAC discovered the potential of the Google Android. That after years in which they were monogamous and didn't cheated in any way the Microsoft. They have even been the locomotive of Windows Mobile. All is missing now is that HTC would realize that they can make phones with Symbian S60 (which is open source, and that means that it would not cost them) to have an almost complete portfolio of operating systems.

HTC Touch Diamond 2 is chronological, logical and from all point of view, the successor of HTC Touch Diamond, a device that impressed us when it was released but suffered from several shortcomings that a careful eye could not easily forget. Fortunately, the htc diamond 2 is not just a reincarnation, it brings many improvements at both hardware and software. HTC Touch Diamond 2 no longer glows and doesn't has the design fantasies of his predecessor. It is more sober, more business. Blending metal with black plastic gives it a serious air, not an immature one. And weight. Even though is not very far from a brick, htc diamond 2 includes its weight. You actually feel that you keep a phone in your hand.

The 3.2 inch touch screen site occupies most of the device. Commands that are made by touch are taken easier then the first Diamond and resolution of 480 x 800 pixels gives a very high pixel density. Image quality is also excellent. It suffers just outside, in direct sunlight. The most interesting new element to the hardware level is definitely the zoom function. Placed immediately below the screen is a bar type touch sensitive that allows the increase and decrease in images, web pages, etc. Its use is very simple: if get you finger on it from left to right it increases, if you get it from right to left id decrease.



Under the zoom function there are the only four buttons from the front of the device. Two of them are dedicated to the call management and the other two are for the back function and the Start menu. Start menu button functions similar with the one from the Symbian S60 menu: when you press once you get into the menu, and if you press twice gets you in the main tab of the main 3D Touch Flo interface.

Edges are exempt from phone buttons, the only exceptions are made by the volume adjustment button and the Power / Stand by one. The volume is longer and it has to be pressed on the edges to increase or decrease the volume. Touch Flo 3D is rapidly and it's moving almost instantly and it comes with many innovations. In the background, software improvements are the greatest profit to the Diamond first device.



Touch Flo 3D has two defining characteristics. The first is that it runs fluently. The second characteristic is, metaphorically speaking, the burial of Windows Mobile. Touch Flo 3D covers now more menus and applications of the operating system. The old and boring interface of Windows Mobile has been replaced with the much more handsome Touch Flo 3D interface. What does that mean? That you are not going to use that much the Stylus because the Touch Flo 3D menus are optimized for touch screen use. Many more menus and applications can be used with your fingers, without using the stylus.

Touch Flo 3D brings many improvements over the first version of the Touch Flo. Here are the most important of them:

Menu notifications. If you press any icon from the top of the bar menu, is shown a generally menu with all notifications of missed calls, received messages, and unstopped alarms.

Contacts manager. Replace the agenda of Windows Mobile and is optimized for touch. It has three sections: all contacts, favorite people and history. Actually, one contacts agenda with all calls and messages historic. If you go to a specific person you can see not only the contact information but also the entire history of calls and messages made with that person.



Web browser. Opera remained the default browser. The internet tab from Touch Flo 3D comes with two innovations: the search box on Google's so called Push Pages. These are some bookmarks that can be refreshed automatically. Browser connects to the Internet called every time to download those pages. In this way, added sites can be quickly accessed. If you do not want to waste the traffic, you can always disable this feature.

Weather. The tab responsible for weather forecasts looks as good as before. In addition, it has the forecast for the coming days, with maximum and minimum temperatures.

Calendar. This is a new tab which does not exist in the first version of Touch Flo. It has two display modes: day and month. The display mode on the day with meetings and tasks is displayed also the weather.



Start Menu. The start button no longer results in the appropriate menu of Windows Mobile, but in a custom menu where the user puts favorite programs. Only when you pres the function menu in All Programs it comes with all the applications that are installed, It is also optimized to be use by the touch of your finger.

HTC phones have never excelled in terms of camera. Images taken with the HTC Touch Diamond 2 are not extraordinary, the colors are faded, the contrast is incorrect and the details suffer. However, compare with previous models, photographs taken with Diamond 2 are better. However, you should not claim too much for the camera, even if it has 5 MP.

There are not so many reproaches that can be made to HTC Touch Diamond 2. It is excellent from many points of view.

Nokia N81 is part of the mobile phones nokia. It is made in the slide format and is available in two color options: black, with the contour and the multi-faceted key grey or blue. Weight - that's what you feel when you first get your Nokia N81in your hand. The manufacturer says that the phone weights approximately 140 g, but it seems that it has more. Equipped with two stereo speakers, 2 megapixels camera with flash and having broad media possibilities, Nokia N81 could like primarily to the youth.

The sliding mechanism of the Nokia N81 is equipped with auto shut down, but on a free opening it produces a noise that is somewhat inappropriate. The same thing happens at closing, it has a lack of finesse. Since the mechanical  shocks are not recommended in electronics, instinctively it is forms a desire to support the sliding half to avoid causing any problems to the phone.

At the top of the Nokia N81 are located three elements. On the right side is the button for power on/off of the phone, which can be pressed with your little finger, the other fingers are too big for it. In the middle of this plan is the audio output of 3.5 mm for standard headphones and in the left side a slider key that blocks or unlocks the keypad. At the top of the side walls is one speaker covered with a dense mesh, forming the stereo system. In the center of the left side wall is the micro SD memory card slot, and at the corner it has a tiny hole for hanging accessories.

On the down side in the middle of the phone there is the place where you can put your charger o a USB cable. In the right side is the microphone hole. Below the speaker on the right side there is the dual volume control key and the button for the digital camera.



The control buttons from the Nokia N81 slider are mechanical but there still is a integrated sensory reception system. The control buttons for the music player at a first glance don't differ in any way then the others – they also need to be pushed until you hear a 'click' but it remains only a functional element for the user to get feedback , because when you are pushing, a sensor reacts. Speaking of player, it recognizes a number of files: MP3 (VBR), AAC, eAAC +, AAC +, WMA/M4A, and supports WAV OMA DRM 1.x, 2.0, Windows Media DRM (OTI / OTA from Nokia Music Store).

The alphanumeric keypad is made from a plate full of shiny black plastic on which there are applied white symbols. Keyboard illumination is also white. The gloss on the keyboard and on the phones surface gathers the user's fingerprints, but, even so, these doesn't eclipses the gloss of the phone and that's why the big number of fingerprints does not irritate in any way.



The rectangle located above the screen is not wearing a decorative character but a functional one. Under it there are hidden two keys for games that would have remained unnoticed unless there were illuminated. Nokia N81 mobile phone is equipped with a 2MP digital camera with 1600 x 1200 pixels with flash. The digital zoom of 20X can be used with the help of the double of the dual volume key. Above the display is located the secondary CIF camera. With Nokia Xpress Print technology photos or files can be printed directly via USB (Pict Bridge) or Bluetooth connectivity (BPP).

With the N81 you can film in a MPEG-4 format with a resolution of 640 x 480 at a speed of 15 frames per second. Regarding the formats that are recognized by the video player, these are: MPEG-4, H.264, H.263/3GPP and Real Video 8/ 9/ 10. Nokia N 81 battery is sufficient for 4.5 hours of QVGA video playback, 5 hours of photos visualization and 3.5 hours of QVGA video shooting scheme. The Nokia N81 works under Symbian OS with S60 interface release version III. I can mention the presence of WLAN IEEE802.11 b / g with UPnP support, Bluetooth 2.0 that supports profiles like DUN, OPP, FTP, HFP, GOEP, GAP, SPP, HSP, BIP, A2DP, and also supports the MTP, UPnP, TCP / IP, Java MIDP 2.0, CLDC 1.1 and Flash Light 2.0.



Nokia N81 mobile phone is equipped with a battery model BP - 6MT Li-Pol with a capacity of 1050 mAh. For the call procedure, the Nokia N81 has a range of 240 minutes and on stand by the device may have up to 17 days. Nokia N81 mobile phone set includes a micro SD memory card of 2 GB Nokia, the Nokia Stereo Headset HS - 45 with control on its wire AD - 54, the model CA - 101 USB cable and a micro SD-SD adaptor.

If you will try to examine this phone, you will see it is fun, being a phone N-Gage. N81 is worth to be in the N series, trough the usefulness of its Symbian system, all the technical capabilities that was provided and not least the 2.4 screen. But even so, the Nokia N81 is a phone dedicated to the games from the Nseries, occupying a niche place, that's why so many could be tempted by its technical possibilities, but they might change their mind due to the design that is suitable to youth.



If we take a look to the price of this phone, we can see that currently is cheaper with approximately 55 USD than the N95 - 1. But let us not forget what the N95-1 provides. Lets mention only some few advantages like the larger screen of 2.6 inches, a built-in GPS, and the compatibility with the N-Gage games. Each will have its request to the independent analysis of the Nokia N81 or other models in the Nseries.
If you are not attracted by high technology, it is better to stay away from this phone, but if the functions related to music and games make you smile, then you will love N81. From all mobile phones nokia this is an excellent alternative the N95.