Microsoft's new Nokia 215 is an internet ready phone available for $29

Please click on image to expand. The Nokia 215 is an internet ready phone with a battery that can last up to 29 days. The phone has been produced by Microsoft and is a Nokia enabled internet ready feature phone. The target market for the phone will be parts of Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East, places that don't have regular electricity. The Phone's apps would include built-in Facebook messenger, Twitter and a host of other Apps. These apps will not really need a 3G connection to be able to work. The phone's price is set at $29 and will be something affordable in their target market. The phone is also robust and stead and built to withstand a great deal of physical torture that comes with difficult terrains. The phone is good for first-time phone buyers as well as a secondary phone as the need might arise. It will be made available during the first quarter of 2015 and will come in single SIM and dual SIM versions. 

Twitter for Nokia now available

Nokia is the most used mobile platform in the world and is now offering a native Twitter experience for all Nokia Series 40 phones. Series 40 is a software and UI platform used in all Nokia mid-level and some luxury phones. It is the most widely used mobile platform in the world with hundreds of millions of devices running on series 40. With the company announcing in 2012 that 1.5 billion S40 devices have been sold worldwide. So if you own a Nokia phone and till now did not have a Twitter native app for your Twitter enjoyment, well here it comes you can head over to the OVI store of Nokia and get the Official Twitter App for your Nokia phone. 


The Official Twitter App for Nokia allows you to read all of your Tweets connect with others and do all the things on Twitter that you normally do on your PC. The Twitter phone experience is something that Nokia phone users were denied till now. Once you land on the App page you can use the Nokia phone selector to see if your device is compatible. So use the link provided below to get Twitter for your Nokia phone now.
Official Twitter app for Nokia Phones

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Siri: "What is the best smartphone ever?"

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Apple has fixed an issue with Siri, when Siri was asked which is the best SmartPhone ever. The reply was Nokia Lumia 900 - seems that Apple was not happy with the answer.The problem stemmed from Siri's heavy reliance on Wolfram Alpha, 25 percent of all queries returned by Siri are based on Wolfram Alpha. Apple has since fixed the issue and now Siri has a different answer. If you did search Wolfram Alpha independently you will find that Nokia Lumia 900 is recommended as the best. Apple has rushed to fix the issue as the Nokia Lumia is a decent handset but definitely not the best Smartphone ever. There is also a video doing the rounds showing Siri's answer to the best smartphone ever. After the fix by Apple is you ask Siri the same question, You'll now be told that the answer is the iPhone 4S, with responses like "the one you're holding" and "you're kidding, right?"
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Nokia Launches Cheapest Dual-SIM Phone Ever

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It seems all mobile phone manufactures are heading the way of offering cheap phones. We covered Apple' s plan to launch a whole new cheaper iPhone 4 in emerging markets and now Nokia is taking the competition to a whole new level. Inspired by the local markets in Africa and Asia where the need of the hour is not high end Apps but the ability to use dual-sim phones. The reason for this is because alot of people in these countries prefer using prepaid sin cards rather that the postpaid which is costlier and can run into heavy bills. On the other hand a prepaid SIM can be used for as long as you need it and when you find another phone company offering lower tariff plans the old SIM can be ditched for a new one and with number portability you still retain your old number.  


Nokia will be launching the 101 and the 100 in Q3 and Q4 of 2012 respectively. The Nokia 101 will cost approx $35 and the 100 will cost approx $29. 


Check out the features of the phones below, information provided by ibtimes.com
The 101 features include

 Dual SIM possibility
• Extremely affordable
• 65K 1.8” color screen
• Grid-based menu with easily readable icons
• Supporting FM radio and MP3 player
• Memory card up to 16 GB capacity
• Possibility to have 500 entries in the phone book


In addition, it features an incorporated flashlight, 3.5 mm AV connector, pre-loaded games and also a time tracker. It will have a talk time of 8.5 hours.


It will be available in phantom black and coral red colors. It weighs only 69.6 g including battery.


Nokia 100 features will include

• 65K 1.8” color screen
• Grid-based menu with easily readable icons
• Supporting FM radio
• Possibility to have 500 entries in the phone book
• Memory card up to 16 GB capacity
• Extremely affordable


Unlike 101 it does not offer MP3 support. It will have a talk time of 7.2 hours.


In addition, like the 101, it offers an incorporated flashlight, 3.5 mm AV connector, pre-loaded games and also the time tracker. It weighs the same as the 101 model.


It will be available in more color options of blue, pink, red and black.

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Nokia N8 Social Features

The announcment of the Nokia N8 comes with a bevy of features. One of which had to be social networking. The N8 scoail application lets you pull updates from Twitter and facebook into a single application. You would also be able to update your status right from your phone. Add Facebook events to your calendar with a single click. You can also share photos and videos the moment they are captured.

Live updates are also shown on your home screen making it easier to stay in touch. The N8 comes with complete social features for Facebook and Twitter it is unclear at the mmoment if any other social sites are going to be added. will update this post if we find out about other social sites.

For now we see that the N8 comes with complete social features for Facebook and Twiiter thereby making it esay for N8 users to stay in touch with their contacts live on Facebook and Twitter.

 

Nokia N8 http://www.nokia.com/n8 first official hands-on demo. Available late summer 2010, the Nokia N8 has a 12 megapixel camera, HD video and on-device editing suite.

Download more apps from Nokia's Ovi Store and enjoy integrated social networking right from your home screen.

The new Nokia N8: what will you do with it?

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Apple's complaint against Nokia in the ongoing Apple Nokia War

Nokia had files a complaint against Apple claiming it infringed on it's copyrights. Apple not to be outdone hit back at them saying that Nokia also infringed on Apple's copyrights. Thus ensuring a way between the cell phone giants. 


Found on cnet


Apple made its request in a complaint filed with the International Trade Commission, an independent federal agency that examines issues including unfair trade practices involving patent, trademark, and copyright infringement.

In December, Nokia filed its own complaint with the USITC in Washington. In it, the Finnish company alleged that Apple infringes seven Nokia patents "in virtually all of its mobile phones, portable music players, and computers" and sought to ban imports of Apple's iPhone, iPod, and MacBook products.

Responding to Apple's latest move, Nokia spokesman Mark Durrant told Bloomberg that "Nokia will study the complaint when it is received and continue to defend itself vigorously. However this does not alter the fact that Apple has failed to agree appropriate terms for using Nokia technology and has been seeking a free ride on Nokia's innovation since it shipped the first iPhone in 2007."

Apple filed the new ITC complaint on Friday.

"Nokia will study the complaint when it is received and continue to defend itself vigorously," said a company spokesman.

"However, this does not alter the fact that Apple has failed to agree appropriate terms for using Nokia technology and has been seeking a free ride on Nokia's innovation since it shipped the first iPhone in 2007," he said.

In late December Nokia also filed a claim with the ITC, alleging Apple infringed seven of its patents in "virtually all of its mobile phones, portable music players, and computers" sold.

"The fact that two such prominent companies have now filed complaints will likely mean the ITC will seek to deal with this as a matter of urgency," said Ben Wood, head of research at British consultancy CCS Insight.

"That said, a lengthy legal battle is almost inevitable irrespective of a decision from the trade commission," he said.

The ITC can ban selling products in the United States -- a market crucial for Apple, but Nokia makes only a fraction of its sales there.

Analysts say it could take years to solve the legal battle.

NOKIA OCTOBER ATTACK

Nokia filed a suit in the United States in October, saying Apple iPhone had infringed 10 patents in technologies including wireless data transfer, a key factor in the success of iPhone. The suit accused Apple of trying to hitch a "free ride" on Nokia's technology investment. [ID:nLM664007]

APPLE COUNTERATTACK

Apple filed a countersuit on Dec. 11 claiming that Nokia is infringing 13 Apple patents. [ID:nN11260646]

"Other companies must compete with us by inventing their own technologies, not just by stealing ours," Bruce Sewell, Apple's General Counsel, said in a statement.

Nokia has until Feb. 8 to reply to the countersuit.

NOKIA GOES TO ITC

On Dec. 29 Nokia said it had filed a complaint with the ITC alleging that Apple infringes seven Nokia patents in "virtually all of its mobile phones, portable music players, and computers" sold. [ID:nLDE5BS173]

At the same time Nokia also filed a case at a Delaware court seeking damages for infringement of these patents. [ID:nLDE6040E9]

APPLE GOES TO ITC

Apple filed on Jan. 15 a complaint against Nokia with the ITC. Nokia said it would defend itself vigorously.

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Nokia claims Apple are copiers

The Spat between Nokia and Apple has just moved to a new level the International Trade Commission (ITC) in the US.

Nokia has said that Apple infringes virtually in all its patents with respect to Mobile phones, Portable music players and computer sold. Nokia is now asking the ITC to do something about it. Nokia has sued Apple in October over 10 patents the said the company had infringed upon. Apple in reply counter sued them over 13 patent infringements and also anti-competitive charges.

If Nokia prevails it could be a real dampener for Apple as the US ITC could ask them to stop importing their toys from China. Where all Apple products these days are made.

Normally what happens in cases like these is that both companies would come to a compromise and allow each other to use the other's patents to a large extent.

Nokia is going ahead with it's complaint even after bing counter sued by Apple saying that the counter suit did not change anything fundamental in it's own course.

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