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Continuing in the style of the Nokia BH-903 headphones and the LD-4W GPS Module comes the new BH-902 Bluetooth Headset. It's probably not much of a surprise to say that this headset, like previous accessories announced this week, includes a nice OLED screen.
Wow. Is all I can say after entering Nokia's hot new portal called Ovi, which I hereby dub World's Slowest Flash Site.
According to Nokia, Ovi will be the future of the mobile phone experience - combining N-Gage games, Nokia Maps, and the Nokia Music Store in one place. It even has built-in social networking as per the latest Web trends.
With Nokia introducing more A2DP enabled handsets in recent days, it's a virtual certainty that new Bluetooth headphones are sure to follow.
The latest are the Nokia BH-903, an ear-bud type of stereo headphones that also double as a headset if necessary.
Back in May I reported the N81/N82 rumor that originated from Symbian Guru. While I have no idea what happened to the N82 (unless it mysteriously transformed into the N77, which is understandable), the N81 is now officially out of the bag.
After Nokia's crushing ball of press releases was set in motion combined with a nicely timed market upswing, shares of Nokia stock (NYSE: NOK) rose 7.23% to a new 52-week high of 32.18. And a little cherry on top in after hours trading.
This of course follows a nice decline in the stock in the past weak, mainly due to a general weakness in the markets. You can probably work the terms "credit crunch" and "subprime mortgages" into that statement too.
Nokia wasn't the only receiver of good news - most handset manufacturers were up today (Motorola +1.86%, Research in Motion +5.98%). Even Palm, maker of the widely-hated device called the Foleo, was up about 2.5%.
Another day, another Nokia Bluetooth GPS Module. The LD-4W is the latest in Nokia's Nseries accessories line, sporting looks similar to the N93i.
Forget the small fry. Big Kahuna gaming publisher Capcom is joining Nokia's N-Gage platform and will produce games from what sounds like some of the more popular franchises.
When you needed a extra boost of battery power for your mobile phone, you had to resort to a third-party solution: disposable batteries, solar charges, or even a foot crank. No longer.
After geohot published his method on hardware unlocking the iPhone, a web site called iphonesimfree came out of nowhere to announce that their group had successfully managed to unlock the phone via a software method. Fact or fiction?
After releasing a product advisory for over 46 million Nokia BL-5C batteries, Nokia announced that Matsushita would cover all the costs associated with the recall.
According to Matsushita, the estimated cost would be somewhere between $85 million and $170 million dollars (USD).
About 100 of the BL-5C batteries were found to overheat while being charged, but there were no "serious" injuries due to the defective batteries.
BusinessWeek recently released its 2007 rankings for the top global brands. Companies are rated by how much its particular brand name is worth in millions of dollars.
A couple of weeks ago, Nokia and Microsoft announced a partnership to bring DRM to Series 60 devices. Now there's another agreement in the works - this time, Microsoft will release the Windows Live service suite that includes Hotmail, Messenger, Contacts, Search and Spaces on compatible Series 40 and 60 handsets. Looks like the start of a beautiful relationship.
Not quite referring to those colorful names for US National Security threat levels, the wireless AMBER alert project allows law enforcement to send out a text message whenever a child is kidnapped.
In what I suppose should be termed "semi-recent breaking news", a 17 year-old kid hailing from New Jersey (home of the Nokia Phone Blog!) managed to fully unlock the previously impregnable (or not?) Apple iPhone.
George Hotz, aka geohot, aka soon-to-be college student, has been working on the unlocking process for the better part of two months - a process that involves a hardware hack to work.
It's back!
The contest that I have entered numerous times to count, only to emerge a loser: the Cool Phone Sweepstakes. This time around, the prize is a Nokia E61i phone and 2 months of free service that equates to a $70 check. According to the contest rules, the retail value of the prize is somewhere in the vicinity of $526. Geez.
The Cool Phone Sweepstakes ends on September 14, so get your entries in before the deadline!
The Nokia E61i is the thinner successor to Nokia's first real Blackberry-ish phone, the E61. QWERTY-keypad, Symbian, and a rather large screen are some of the E61i's more obvious features. Personally, I found the keys a little too squishy.
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