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Nokia weighs in with 3 new CDMA devices – Nokia 6316s, Nokia 3806 and Nokia 1506

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:16:55 +0000

Nokia is today strengthening its CDMA portfolio with the announcement of three new CDMA mobile devices: Nokia 6316s, Nokia 3806 and Nokia 1506. Together this new line-up highlights Nokia’s continued commitment to CDMA as a major standard in key markets around the world.

The Nokia 1506 is expected to become available in China at the end of 2009, while the Nokia 6316s and the Nokia 3806 are expected to become available during the first quarter of 2010.

“Nokia is boosting its leadership in the CDMA market by updating an already strong line-up with products that appeal to a wide range of customer needs,” said David Tang, Vice President of Nokia China.

“Of these devices, the Nokia 6316s is bringing exciting 3G services to life for users in China,” added Mr Tang. “Building on previous collaboration over the Nokia 8208, this is yet another success story resulting from our close relationship with China Telecom.”

Nokia 6316s: A 3G device to stay both connected and entertained

A multimedia device with web browsing, music, imaging and GPS, the Nokia 6316s brings elegant design and powerful functionality together in a compact sliding device. The stainless-steel Nokia 6316s achieves both style and ease of use with a 2.2″ QVGA display, a 2-megapixel camera and Bluetooth 2.1.

The Nokia 6316s offers a full range of features in support of China Telecom services and preloaded applications such as QQ, Email, web browser, as well as try-and-buy applications mobile navigation and mobile stock. With fast 3G connectivity, the Nokia 6316s makes it easier than ever for people to stay in touch and share the things that matter the most to them.

There are three colour schemes available: Black, gold and red.

Nokia 3806: A compact companion

Inheriting the successful Nokia design ‘DNA’, the Nokia 3806 combines elegant design, all-in-one functionality, affordability and powerful information sharing features.

With a 2.2″ QVGA display, a 2-megapixel camera with video recorder, Bluetooth 2.1 and a card slot which can support an external memory card up to 4GB, the Nokia 3806 is an exciting mobile phone that allows users to easily capture and share every important moment.

The classic monoblock design of the Nokia 3806 is lined with silver trim and is available in three colour schemes: piano black, pure white and rose gold.

Offering more than sleek and stylish design, the Nokia 3806 offers Health Assistant, a companion that helps manage the stresses of daily life, allowing you to stay healthy, which ultimately, allows you to stay happy.

Nokia 1506: A simpler way to stay connected

Designed to simplify the lives of its users, the Nokia 1506 is Nokia’s most affordable CDMA device to date. The easy-to-use Nokia 1506 stands out from other entry-level mobiles with a slender monoblock design with high-gloss colors, a Navi key in metallic finish, a voice recorder, an integrated handsfree speaker and long battery performance.

There are two colour schemes available: Black and plum.

Nokia E72 in stores now

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:14:15 +0000

The highly-anticipated Nokia E72, a device tailor-made for business and personal messaging is now available in stores. To coincide with the arrival of the Nokia E72, Nokia has also released research* revealing that more people rely on email than on traditional phone calls or text messaging when sending and responding to critical information.

Speaking about the research results, Nokia vice president Ukko Lappalainen said, “The research shows that people are spending an average of five full days per year – equivalent to a full work week – responding to emails. Half of us (46 percent) choose email over voice or text to send and receive important information. The Nokia E72 was designed exactly with this kind of person in mind – it allows the owner to be more responsive and communicate how they want, whenever they want and wherever they are.”
The Nokia E72 builds on the formula from Nokia’s most successful full QWERTY keyboard device, the Nokia E71, and adds important new functionality such as desktop-like email and chat experiences. Morevoer, the latest version of Ovi Maps with A-GPS navigation and compass, an optical navi key and 5 megapixel camera are all packed into the sleek, beautifully-designed handset.

The Nokia E72 also comes with Nokia’s push consumer email service, Nokia Messaging, and now for the first time people can set up instant messaging (IM) directly from the homescreen, accessing communities such as Windows Live(TM) Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk and Ovi Chat. Just like chatting via the desktop, people can respond to friends and colleagues across multiple communities in real-time.

The Nokia E72 can also accommodate multiple work and personal email accounts and, with separate profiles for work and play, allows people to be flexible when it comes to choosing how, when, where and who to respond to. While work emails rank as the most important messages to receive, they are not necessarily the most urgent messages to respond to. According to Nokia’s research, half of respondents (49 percent) prioritise their partners ahead of their bosses or managers (29 percent), colleagues (23 percent) and even customers (31 percent).

The Nokia responsiveness research was commissioned to examine the various factors that influence how people respond to various issues and situations. In addition to the research, an online campaign at http://www.nokia.com/responsiveness invites people around the world to respond to various issues and comments from TED Fellows.

See the results of the Nokia responsiveness research in the Nokia E72 press kit http://www.nokia.com/A4664066?kit=112

Notes to editors:
A full list of Nokia E72 features is available at http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/devices/nokia-e72

Compatibility with the aforementioned services may be limited to certain countries.

* Research conducted by ICM among 7,826 people in seven countries in July 2009. Countries where research was conducted: UK, Russia, Spain, South Africa, UAE, Singapore and Italy.

Nokia and Rihanna release exclusive content

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:11:17 +0000

Free Rihanna App available on Ovi Store and offers unique content and latest news

Nokia launches the exclusive Rihanna App. Bringing fans closer to Rihanna, the new App will deliver news, music, photos and exclusive video content direct to Nokia’s entertainment-rich handsets including the Nokia N97, Nokia X6 and Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.

Video content available through the App will include live performance videos from Rihanna’s album launch event. Additionally, fans can access music samples, a Rihanna biography and photo library, and, when available, information on Rihanna’s forthcoming 2010 tour. The App content will be unavailable elsewhere and will be regularly updated for fans.

The App also provides a direct link to the Nokia Music Store where fans can download exclusive album content including a Nokia bonus track, Hole In My Head, written and produced by Justin Timberlake.

In addition, an exclusive Donni Hotwheels remix of Rihanna’s smash single, Russian Roulette, is also available to those who download her album, Rated R, exclusively via the Nokia Music Store.

On November 16, Rihanna performed tracks from her new album exclusively with Nokia. With a set list including former number ones Umbrella and Disturbia, Rihanna’s performance was streamed live and globally to her fans on every continent. The show included live Twitter commentary from music fans across the world. The Rihanna App and exclusive video content from the show is now live at www.nokia.com/rihanna.

To download the Nokia version of Rated R, complete with bonus track and exclusive remix, go to www.musicstore.nokia.com

Sony Ericsson XPERIA™ X10 introduces an open and integrated world of social media, communication and entertainment

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:06:42 +0000

XPERIA™ X10 is the flagship phone in a family of phones coming to market during the first half of 2010. The XPERIA™ X10 will be available in Q1 2010
New UX (user experience) platform lets consumers organise everything and discover more with the most open, human and intuitive user experience yet
London – November 3 2009 – Sony Ericsson today unveils the XPERIA™ X10, the first phone in a family of phones to deliver a consistent user experience where communication truly becomes entertainment. Building on Sony Ericsson’s entertainment heritage and combining rich graphics with intelligence capabilities, the XPERIA™ X10 introduces a new UX platform that will evolve across the product portfolio and expand over time continuously introducing new features and capabilities.

The UX platform builds on top of the Open OS and creates a unique Sony Ericsson user experience by combining best-in-class entertainment features with signature applications, unrivalled integration of social media services and a rich graphical user interface. The XPERIA™ X10 is the first mobile phone to truly humanise the way people interact with their phones.

Bert Nordberg, President, Sony Ericsson said, “The XPERIA™ X10 and the family of phones launching in the first half of 2010 underpin our commitment to an open and multi-platform strategy that maximises choice for the consumer and delivers the best possible consumer experience. The reaction from our global operator partners to the XPERIA X10 has been extremely positive and we will be rolling out across the world including Japan from the first half of 2010.”

Rikko Sakaguchi, EVP and Chief Creation Officer, Sony Ericsson said, “The XPERIA™ X10 is a fantastic example of our make.believe philosophy because we are pushing the boundaries of what is possible and demonstrating that anything consumers can imagine, we can make possible. With the X10, we are raising the bar we have set ourselves with entertainment-rich phones like Aino and Satio by making communication more fun and playful, multiplying and enriching opportunities to connect.”

Introducing signature applications like Mediascape and Timescape™, the XPERIA™ X10 lets consumers organise everything in their phone in an intuitive way:

Sony Ericsson Timescape™ manages all your communication with one person in one place. Browse through your conversations the bright way to check out your Facebook™, Twitter™, photos, emails, and texts all in one go
Sony Ericsson Mediascape is the smart way to get all the music, photos and videos you want from your favourite friends and artists. It accesses content from everywhere – your phone, YouTube™, PlayNow™ – and presents everything for you
Intelligence capabilities, integrated into Mediascape and Timescape™, can automatically recognise connections between contacts, content and media. By recommending alternative ways to communicate or guiding to new media experiences, consumers can discover more in a truly open way. For example:

Pressing the new “infinite button” guides you through the connected world, aggregating all your interactions with one person into one view
Intelligent face recognition features recognise up to five faces in any picture, automatically connecting them with your social phonebook and all other related communications with that person.
Sony Ericsson’s open approach gives consumers maximum choice and with the XPERIA™ X10, users can download any application that they want direct from a wide variety of stores including PlayNow™ and the Android Market™, co-creating an experience that is entirely unique to them.

Sony Ericsson is also introducing the new Hi-Fi Wireless Headset with FM radio MW600. Featuring advanced Bluetooth™ technology and a built-in FM radio, Hi-Fi Wireless Headset with FM radio MW600 lets you stream music to your headset in high fidelity through sound-enhancing ear-buds. With a crystal clear OLED display, easy access controls and RDS radio station information, you don’t even need to take your phone with you to tune in to your favourite radio station.

The XPERIA™ X10 supports GSM GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900, UMTS HSPA 900/1700/2100 and UMTS HSPA 800/850/1900/2100

The XPERIA™ X10 will be available in selected markets from Q1 in the colours Sensuous Black and Luster White.

Log on to The Sony Ericsson Product Blog for more information: http://blogs.sonyericsson.com/products

Sony Ericsson launches a Web SDK and widens mobile market access for web developers

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:05:19 +0000

Sony Ericsson showcases the beta version of WebSDK at the annual Web 2.0 conference in New York.

New York – November 18 2009 – The Sony Ericsson WebSDK is a suite of mobile development tools that allows both web and mobile developers to create applications for Sony Ericsson’s Google Android™ OS and Symbian Foundation phones.

Created in collaboration with the PhoneGap open source community, the launch of the Sony Ericsson WebSDK makes it possible to design applications for Sony Ericsson’s Google Android™ OS and Symbian Foundation devices starting with the newly announced XPERIA™ X10 and the recently launched Satio™.

“With the Sony Ericsson WebSDK our focus is on bringing all the capabilities of web technologies to mobile applications and giving web developers wide access to easy-to-use tools and mobile phone platforms.” says Christopher David, Head of Developer and Partner Engagement at Sony Ericsson. “We are driving this initiative together with the PhoneGap open source community and invite developers to join us as we offer advanced mobile devices and a clear monetization path.”

Nitobi’s CEO, Andre Charland added: “Sony Ericsson’s collaboration with the PhoneGap community is a huge win for mobile users, developers and the future of the open web on mobile devices. Having already adopted and benefited from open platforms like Google Android™ OS and Symbian, Sony Ericsson is now completing the puzzle for developers of cross-platform mobile applications.”

For more information on the new Sony Ericsson WebSDK please visit booth 917 at the Web 2.0 Conference in New York or visit http://developer.sonyericsson.com

Sony Ericsson is a 50/50 joint venture by Sony and Ericsson established in October 2001.
Our strategy is to become the industry leader in mobile Communication Entertainment and offer exciting consumer experiences through innovative and feature rich phones, accessories, content and applications, through collaboration with key partners and developer communities. Sony Ericsson Developer and Partner Engagement Program and Developer World represent a global support program and web portal dedicated to helping professional wireless developers and content partners achieve business success by providing ‘easy-to-find’ documentation, tools, technical advice and go-to-market support. Visit the website at www.SonyEricsson.com/developer and www.sonyericsson.com/press.

Sony Ericsson announces the Global Winners of Smile Hunter

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:03:47 +0000

London, United Kingdom, 7th January 2010 – Sony Ericsson today unveiled the global winners of a worldwide camera phone competition involving a panel of internationally renowned judges.

Ioana Proca, aged 20 from Bacau, Romania beat off tough competition from thousands of entrants in 32* participating countries across Europe, India, Africa, Latin America and Asia, to be crowned the winner of Sony Ericsson Smile Hunter 2009.

Ioana wowed the judging panel with her image entitled simply ‘Smile’ after spending the summer searching for the perfect smile to enter into the competition.

Visitors to the Smile Hunter website were also able to vote for their favourite smile photo to crown the People’s Smile Hunter 2009. Meglena Kolaksuzova, aged 41 from Petrich, Bulgaria was a clear winner after racking up a massive 2,115 votes for her smile image – ‘A Happy Smile’.

Being crowned the global winner of Sony Ericsson Smile Hunter 2009 means Ioana has won an adventure of a lifetime, as she will be jetting off to a selection of the world’s coolest destinations, while the lucky People’s Winner has won a bundle of Sony Ericsson goodies.

Following three successful years of World View with Sony Ericsson – a global imaging campaign which aimed to capture the best camera phone shots from around the world – Sony Ericsson Smile Hunter 2009 has taken the camera phone challenge to the next level. To celebrate Sony Ericsson’s Smile Shutter™ technology, the new photographic project tasked people to capture images of genuine, natural smilesusing a camera phone.

Sony Ericsson’s Smile Shutter™ technology automatically detects a person’s smile and immediately takes the photograph – capturing the perfect smiling-shot every time.

The expert judging panel comprising David Viggers, international photographer, Tony Briggs, celebrity portrait photographer, Martin Wezowski, Creative Producer for Sony Ericsson, Liu Heung Shing, Time magazine’s first photojournalist based in Beijing and Angela Boatwright, New York-based celebrity photographer, had the challenge of selecting the Judges Global Winner of the competition.

Commenting on the winning image, judge David Viggers said: “We have been amazed by the phenomenal standard of images submitted. There have been some really creative entries and it has been a challenge to select just one overall winner, but Ioana’s smile photo really stood out. We chose her image because it captured a lovely, warm spontaneous moment with a strong and lively abstract composition. The cropping adds real dynamics and movement to the whole picture. This shot is spontaneous, playful and youthful.”

Commenting on the winning image, judge Angela Boatwright said: “The subjects are piled up showing a lot of fun energy – both are smiling and one person is cropped out of the shot, which is a more creative way to approach the typical camera phone photo.”

To see the global winner’s images, visit the interactive gallery on the global website: www.sonyericsson.com/smilehunter.

Ioana Mikutza said of winning the competition: “I am delighted to be the Judges Winner of Sony Ericsson Smile Hunter 2009. It is quite a challenge to photograph a genuine, natural smile before it becomes forced and fake, so I am very proud to have captured the winning smile moment.”

Commenting on winning the People’s Vote, Meglena Kolaksuzova, said: “I’m really pleased that my image was so popular with people around the world; it’s incredible to think of the thousands of people that have seen it and voted for it as their favourite. I wanted to capture one of those every day smile moments that we shouldn’t take for granted and it’s spurred me on to keep shooting on my mobile phone.”

Merran Wrigley, VP, Head of External Communications at Sony Ericsson, said: “People smile for many different reasons but genuine smiles are elusive and can disappear as quickly as they appear, making it hard to catch them with a traditional camera. The Sony Ericsson Smile Shutter™ technology makes it even easier to capture the beauty and emotion of a true smile with a camera phone.”

Notes to Editors
*Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, India, Ireland, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malaysia, Morocco, North Africa, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, and United Kingdom.

Sony Ericsson is a top, global industry player with sales of around 97 million phones in 2008. Diversity is one of the core strengths of the company, with operations in over 80 countries including manufacturing in China and R&D sites in China, Europe, India, Japan and North America. Sony Ericsson was established as a 50:50 joint venture by Sony and Ericsson in October 2001, with global corporate functions located in London.