Nokia World 08 Live Report

Nokia World 08 Live Report

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Published on: 03 December, 2008 by PhoneArena Team

Nokia Messaging

Nokia Messaging, a new service to be launched by Nokia was announced during the event. In essence, it is a push email offering, which will allow users to have their messages retrieved from various email services such as Yahoo Mail, Gmail, AOL mail or ISP-based account and sent to their Series 40 or S60 phones. Currently in beta testing, the service allows 6 email accounts to be pushed/synchronized, but we learned that the next version expected in a few weeks will support up to 10. Once the application is installed on a client’s device, Nokia claims that in majority of cases, everything that is required will be username and password, without the need of knowing incoming/outgoing servers, ports or other settings. The client supports attachment viewing, IMAP folders, auto-fill of the address fields from the phone’s phonebook.

The commercial launch in Q1 2009 will include 8 countries, and should reach 30+ by the end of the year.

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Nokia Messaging

The second service part of Nokia Messaging is the IM client, which allows simultaneous presence on different IM services, such as Yahoo, ICQ, Windows Live, and AOL.

The push email and IM integration will be primarily marketed and offered through the operators (hello special messaging/data plans), but the push email will supposedly be available as open distribution as well.

For those not having an email account anywhere else, and does not know how to spell gmail.com, Nokia will generously offer you a free email account on their Ovi servers, with a full 1GB of space available (compared to about 7.5GB currently available from Gmail).


Nokia Maps 3.0

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Nokia Maps, a popular navigation software for Nokia devices just reached version 3 (or that version was announced) offering several substantial improvements. First in a nutshell, there is the free version, which doesn’t offer real turn-by-turn navigation. If you want that, currently with version 2.x you’ll have to shell out between $24.99 for walk license for the US only, up to $49.99 for all regions or if you want walk and drive, the total will be between $69.99 up to $129.99 (same prices but in Euros are valid for the EU). That is now and until 3.0 version is released. When this happens, the yearly price will go down to $59.99 for one year, walk and drive, all 80 countries currently supported.

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The new features in 3.0 are 3D imagery of buildings and placed of interest, terrain view and route planning and favorites synchronization between a PC and a Nokia device. The minor improvements include high-res satellite images, better pedestrian mode to name a few. If you want, the whole map of the World could be downloaded and installed on your phone which will require about 4.4 GB. Keep in mind that satellite and terrain views are not downloaded and only available via OTA download as their size according to Nokia is about 10-12 TB!

For an additional 10-15$, premium services will be offered which will include traffic, safety and speed traps information.

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Nokia Maps 3.0



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Looks like it will be a very impressive device. I can't wait to get one.
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WHAT CARRIER????? I WANT THIS!!
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Probably AT&t
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Well in my "opinion" I think that T-Mobile should be the carrier that gets this phone because they have always carried good Nokia phones in the other hand At&t is more big on LG and Apple phones so that is why I think this BUT ITS JUST AN OPINION everyone thinks differently
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Once again this is a european phone! It will be released in Europe and Asia and we will have to wait at least ayear for a similar phone
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It will be unlocked, (at least initially). Just like every N-Series Nokia phone released in the United States, it probably won't have a carrier. However, I'm interested if the phone will be 4G when an American model is made. Most US versions of Nokia phones usually only work well with AT&T's 3G network, but Verizon will have most of the future 4G networks bands in the future.
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i say unlocked
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that looks like an awsome phone but it is prolly verrry expensive
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once again nokia proves where they are number one when it comes to cell phones. this phone is unlocked so it can only be put on gsm carries and it is going for around 550 euros. this device is a powerhouse running on the best most popular OS i cant wait to get my hands on this phone. let see all the apple fanboys cry about this one, features wise the ijunk cant even compete with this monster and nokia reworked the touch from the tube on the homescreen so now it is even better. the screen is gorgeous and omg look at the memory that it can hold, amazing camera too bad its not their new 8mp i guess ill have to wait till later next year for that one. but definatley the phone that i am getting when it is available
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I was gonna get the omnia on Verizon but i might as wait to c how good this phone is. I can survive on a pre-paid service until this phone comes out. Looks amazing and finally a cell phone breaks 30 gigabytes of internal storage! If as good as it looks I'm definitely switching to at&t to buy this unlocked. And DVD quality camera?! I can ditch my point and shoot, zune, and gps device for this if it's that good.
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WOW!! I was literally just about to buy an unlocked Touch Pro or a Bold, maybe the X1 but this phone grabbed my attention. It has all the specs and the hardware looks solid as well. I'm going to wait until some one does a review on its performance. If it holds up like I think it will, I'm definitely getting one of these bad boys!!!!!
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It looks like a gr8 phone, something that I hope will finally take down the I-phone. I'm still waiting for their next "Camera-Centered" flagship phone. I don't mind if it's a 5mp or 8mp, just please let it have a Xenon flash. That's the one disappointing thing about the N97, where is the Xenon. It has been proven that Xenon is better than LED or even Dual LED flash, so why does Nokia contnue to make camera phones with LED.
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there are already a lot of phones better than the iPhone throughout the world. The main problem is that not many of them are sold in the united states. You can probably get this phone in AT&T or t-mobile, but it will have to be unlocked. I don't know of many high-end nokias sold directly through U.S. retailers
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the last high end nokia that was sold to a carrier here in the states was for att the n75, and the reason for the dual led flash is because it is much better for video recording than a xenon flash but i agree i would like to have one on there too. but they said that this camera is going to be very impressive so i wouldnt be surprised if it will be the best 5mp camera out there especially while looking at it on that gorgeous screen omg.
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another $800 phone
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totally agree
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If it had a Dual Flash, One Xenon and the second Led Flash for Video then it would be perfect.
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Will it support Blackberry services? It seems that for some time now, Nokia ceased to provide software which was enabling nokia phones to work with BB
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come on nokia bring somethings new of phone market. You are the #1 in phone market. Don't copy other and pretend they are differents.
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huh?
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serious wat????
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