Since the news about the new upcoming Nokia phones was announced late last month, we haven’t had much focus on two of the most speculated phones unveiled, the Nokia N95 8Gb edition and the Nokia N81.
Nokia N95 (8Gb)
If you are currently using the old Nokia N95 already, it may appeal to you that though this looks like the previous version of Nokia N95, this new 8Gb edition has had some slight alterations to its design to give it a more trendy look.
As you can see in the pics below, the new 8Gb N95 has a larger screen, 2.8 inch to be precise, as a result you may feel that the keys at the bottom of the screen have become squashed abit, however this hasn’t yet raised any major issues. Being a slider phone just like its previous, the multimedia keys which stand out when the sliding screen is pushed downwards have been redesigned to be more prominent and more accessible, increasing your ease of handling video and music play.
Here’s a reminder of how they compare, the original N95:
Steve Jobs has commented that he will not tolerate emerging sites like iphoneSimFree and HamGo.com …etc… from continuing to breach the Apple iPhone’s sim lock. With increasing number of service providers, companies and carriers in different countries now offering the iPhone for sale, Apple obviously has the duty to protect the right of those companies involved while at the same time not let Apple’s fame drift further away and become overwhelmed by more emerging iPhone hackers across the globe…
With the UK and countries from the EU like France and Germany beginning to prepare for iPhone launch, is unlocking your iPhone really a smart choice? While this may be for those who have no intention of using iPhone’s bundled services and strictly just want the phone. For future users like those in the UK may not want to choose to unlock their iPhones because these hacks may possibly disable specific functions that only serve to work on that specific carrier. In other words, unlocked iPhones may loose access to many of the pre-existing services that have been built into existing tariffs in the first place.
Some have also commented that wasting money on unlocking your iPhone may not be very clever, as Steve Jobs has already realised his plans to crack unlocking hacks, Apple could easily package clever ‘cracks’ which would ‘reverse’ sim unlocking hacks and incorporate them into future iPhone updates and service packs. After all, purchasing a crack to unlock the sim lock on your iPhone is in a way like using an illegal version Microsoft Windows. Without a valid Windows CD-key, you won’t be able to run Windows Update successfully, so do you then not run it and just leave it? Or do you find further hacks for your system to hide the fact that your Windows is illegal?
At the end of the day, its just like the situation of unlocking your iPhone, everything just keeps on repeating itself, I don’t see anyone winning this battle. But maybe not getting your iPhone unlocked will save you all the hassle that was entirely unnecessary in the first place!
November the 9th is most certainly a day to mark into your schedule! That’s right, it’s finally confirmed, you may have been reading some of this news recently from our previous blog posts or off the news, but O2 has finally confirmed today on its site that they will be the sole carrier for bringing iPhone to the UK.
As well as this, Apple has also announced the same news on their site:
If you would like to know more about the version of iPhone that will be coming to the UK, I would recommend seeing the information provided by the Apple link above. Based on the quick look I had, it seems that the UK will not be the same as that which will be available in Germany by T-Mobile.
From previously leaked German adverts, their iPhone will be 16 Gb with HSDPA, what about ours? Ours will be a quad-band, running on 8 Gb but only with WiFi, EDGE and bluetooth 2.0 (see Apple iPhone specs). If the German rumours are true, then it seems our extra 8 Gb and 3G s’ been pitched…
More on UK pricing and tariffs after the jump…
Back in August, we wrote a post about using BitLet.org’s bittorrent applet, it was pointed out that a few obvious functions were missing and should really have been added to maximise user’s convenience in taking advantage of its great work and idea. Well, BitLet probably didn’t see our post, but it was probably so obvious, that the changes have actually been made recently!
As pictured in the screenshot above, BitLet.org now offers a customisable setting (link to this can be found in the top right corner of its homepage) in which users may choose an incoming connection port of their own. “If you are behind an UPnP enabled gateway and you are natted, bitlet tries automatically to forward the incoming connection port of your router to your local machine.” Another new update is that now all downloads share the same incoming connection port, whereas before it was unique for each download window that popped up. Secondly, the option to change your default maximum upload rate is now available, this was also another thing that was noticed to be of importance earlier on.
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If you’re a Firefox user who’s into reading your feeds of Google reader, then you’ll love this little add-on. Google Reader Notifier 0.35 automatically shows you how many unread subscribed posts you have directly from your Google account into the corner of your browser.
Like the Samsung F200, the F210 is another music phone that was announced during the Communic Asia 2007 tradeshow. The F210 also uses the narrow rotating slider design which had been a great success with the Samsung x830 / x830. However the F210 comes in a greater variety of shiny colours, such as purple, silver, pink.
With its light weight and many attractive colours, the F210 will certainly soon become a popular choice for users who wish to seek convenient music play and simple calling.
Here are some additional specifications:
- GSM/GPRS 900/1800/1900MHz
- 87.7 x 30.9 x 20.4 mm
- 1.46″ 260k TFT LCD display
- 2 MP camera
- 1 GB internal memory
- MicroSD (Transflas) slot
- Bluetooth 2.0
- USB 2.0
Update (10/10/2007):
Here’s a video preview of the F210, I found uploaded onto Youtube recently:
NO$GBA Gameboy Advance Emulator at http://nocash.emubase.de/gba.htm who describes “Germany is where people cannot afford to smoke filter cigarretes”. Has upgraded their version of game boy emulators to support the latest NDS devices, no$gba has always been the leader in creating emulators for gameboy, check out the latest version 2.4c which has some finalised updates relating to e-readers.
