Nokia is coming up with new N-series handsets and it will not be using the Maemo/MeeGo operating systems. Surprisingly, Nokia will be using the older Symbian operating system –or rather, not so old, as they will be using the new Symbian^3 operating system (the open source version of the OS).

For anyone who wants a Symbian handset, this device is a great addition. It brings together good multimedia playback, has plenty of internal memory, a great camera for taking images and shooting videos and a decent mobile platform that has support from the Nokia Ovi Store. As expected, this handset comes with AGPS support so expect to receive free Nokia Ovi Maps voice guided satellite navigation services as well.

For a touch screen smart phone, the N8 can be a little bulky. While the hard edged form factor is sure to attract tech fans, the back side of the device suffers from an unsightly lump because of the digital camera (though it looks rather nice in images).

In terms of specs, the device is pretty much well rounded with the exception of the CPU. The device sports a powerful 12 mega pixel snapper, a 3.5 inch OLD touch screen display, the Symbian^3 OS, 16GB of internal memory, support for microSD cards up to 32GB and plenty of media playback capabilities. It is lacking a little in the speed department with the ARM 11 680MHz CPU, so expect a bit of slowdowns when running resource heavy functions.

For its specs, the device is a respectable 12mm thick, though they could have done better by eliminating the excess bulk near the camera. And it is quite light -135 grams for a smart phone with these many features is actually pretty good.

Overall, it is a great phone to look forward to if you want a Symbian handset, but for those looking for a full smart phone experience, better hold out for an Android instead.

To say that the Symbian is an old, dying mobile platform would be wrong.

The Symbian OS may be old, but it has been continuously evolving and updating throughout the years to adapt to new and better technology. Just a few weeks ago, it has been announced that the Symbian OS would be going open source in order to attract more developers to making apps for Symbian.

According to the developers, open source Symbian is far more open than other mobile phones –allowing devs access to more hardware and software features than other open source platforms such as the Google Android. The Symbian Os is currently being used by various mobile phone manufacturers but mainly by Nokia and Sony Ericsson.

A recent announcement by Symbian will certainly bring a lot of delight to the OS users as the phone will be getting VoIP through the Skype software. The app is currently uploaded on the Nokia Ovi store. It’s a big help having access to VoIP since this will make calls a lot cheaper and easier to make.

People are encouraged to talk more since the cost of the call is completely free –when accessing free internet that is. When used overseas, the roaming charges on the internet access are pretty steep so users are not advised to use Skype when outside the country.

At the same time, access to the VoIP app is also limited to mobile network operators. O2 has taken steps to enforce the rules in their contract with subscribers preventing the use of streaming online technology –which includes VoIP.

Aside from making voice calls, Skype can be used as a regular messaging application to send and receive calls, messages, files and other info. Contact lists are saved online as well.

Read more about Skype for Symbian at Know Your Mobile.

Nokia have a huge reputation for designing quality and reliable mobile phones. Many people will have owned a Nokia phone at one stage in their life, as they really helped develop the mobile phone market. The newest release from Nokia is not a mobile phone at all, but a laptop, designed to keep you in contact with friends and family, and even business partners.

The Nokia Booklet 3G is designed to help keep consumers in touch with the friends and family, and this is achieved by using up to date 3G technology, which allows surprisingly fast internet speed for something which doesn’t connect to the wall.

The Nokia Booklet 3G uses a built in web cam and microphone to allow you to have businesses meetings over the internet, saving you from having to fork out money for expensive ones. The Booklet features connectivity with the Ovi system, Nokia’s download system. You can download over 4 million songs, thousands of movies and many games and other accessories for your laptop. Nokia expect this laptop to be a great selling product, and high sales figures have already been released.

With the rise of Television phones and other gadgets to accompany them, Nokia have released their new phone, the Nokia 5330 Mobile TV Edition. This phone features some of the most recent technology available on the market today, and incorporates watching your favorite TV shows and movies on a portable device, with a great performing mobile phone to be used for making calls, taking photographs and other phone uses.

The phone comes with some basic free channels included on the contract plan, and these channels can be watched as much as you like, up to 6 hours on one battery charge. Additional channels can then be purchased as extras, and the list goes on, including dedicates sports channels, music channels, kids TV channels and much more. You do not need to connect the phone to anything as it is all built in, and usually loading times do not take long at all. This allows you complete freedom to stop, pause and re wind live TV as you please, giving you a fantastic all round experience.

The 5330 Mobile TV Edition comes with a 3.2 megapixel camera built into the back, allowing you to take photos whilst on the go and then email them back to friends wherever you are. The photos can be viewed on the large 2.4 inch screen with high resolution providing you with excellent quality picture, as well as space to actually see what you are doing unlike many other mobile phones.

Currently on release in various countries, the new Nokia phone is expected to reach the next 20 countries in the next 2 years. Details regarding contracts are very unclear at the moment, but it has been announced that the phone will retail itself at approximately £130, a pretty good price for what you are getting.

Nokia 6700 Slide and Nokia 7230 announced, and their introduction into the market confirmed for the early part of 2010 by Nokia. Both of these phones are 3G Sliders. They are reasonably prices (mid-range) and are scheduled to be available in retail stores around the globe and online, sometime during the first quarter of 2010.

The Nokia 6700 is the higher-priced of the two.  It has more features, many which are offered by much more expensive smartphone. The phone makes available to its users VGA video recording, 16.7 million color display, a 5 megapixel camera, 2.2 QVGA display screen, the ability to edit photos and upload them to the internet.  It also comes standard with a music player, FM radio and internal memory of 45 MG. Individuals who need to, can add up to 16 gigabytes of memory via the microSD card slot.  The 6700 is currently priced at €160.

The Nokia 7230 is about €60 cheaper.  It has fewer features, and thus is a cheaper mobile phone.  It does, however, have a larger display screen then the 6700 with its 2.4 inch display screen. The 7230 has a FM radio, gives a small alert when calls and messages come in. It also has messaging capabilities, 267K color display. The phone comes standard with a 3.2 megapixel camera which has a dedicated key.

As mentioned above, both of these phones should be available during the early part of 2010. Those who are fans of the Nokia brand and are in the market for a new phone may find either of these mobiles a good option. The 7230 is cheaper and has less features but it may be the perfect choice for people that are looking for a good, solid phone without all of the frills Those who want more features and are willing to spend more money for them, may prefer the Nokia 6700.

Telecommunications giants Nokia reveal that plans are underway to move into the energy sector. Nokia which offers infrastructural solutions in telecommunications, plan to use its present portfolio of solutions alongside its network of partners already created, to achieve this goal. The company plans to emphasize on environmental responsibility, smart meters, intelligent power grids and demand for renewable energy.

Nokia Siemens believe that the generation of sustainable energy brings about a lot of opportunities in the sector and segments are geared towards growth include renewable energy generation, managing of user demand and consumption and the transformation of power grids into smart grids. Nokia Siemens plan to use its existing mediation, charging, service management and network management solutions to profit from these opportunities. Furthermore, it plans to include the energy sector division into its Business solutions organization as from January 1, 2010.

According to Juhani Hintikka who is head of Operations and Business software, “when you look at what is required to manage power grids, or to make full use of unpredictable renewable energy sources such as solar and wind, as well as bringing greater transparency and flexibility to billing, the synergies with the core of our existing telecoms business is obvious”. She also went further to say “while our research and development remains focused on communication service providers, we will look to exploit opportunities where we can create clear value for our customers by entering new growing markets with our current product services.”

Nokia reveals that it was working in partnership with Servusnet, a software company to “help wind power operations optimize power generation and delivery.”  Servusnet uses the open element management system to (EMS) suit form Nokia Siemens Networks designed to for utility and telecommunications network management compatible with existing different technologies vendors.

Freshly released in the United States, Nokia N900 features Maemo 5, which is a Linux based operating system, developed by Nokia to support phones like N900 for delivering a quality user interface and internet browsing experience. The Maemo operating system further offers a number of applications for various functions to its users, which enables them to connect to the internet and to play multimedia files.

Nokia N900 uses the brand new Firefox mobile web browser, which offers a substantial level of control and detail to its users, completing the experience of using Nokia N900, which is simply more than just another internet tablet. The Maemo browser has the option to offer full-screen browsing to its user, which is always convenient, as the screen of a portable device can never be large enough, although that of Nokia N900 is a 3.5 inch WVGA touch screen display. Maemo also provides full flash support to enhance the browsing experience to its users. Maemo 5 also features support for various connectivity alternatives for its users.

Maemo 5 also offers a high quality multimedia experience with audio and video playback, with easily accessible and widely accepted file formats. With 32 GB of built-in space, the users of Nokia N900 should not worry about how they will listen to music or store other multimedia data in their phone. The phone also comes with a photo editor that can help process and edit the work created through its 5.0 mega pixel camera.

Another outstanding feature of the Maemo 5 software featured in the Nokia N900 is its pre-installed Ovi maps to support the integrated assisted GPS receiver in Nokia N900. This adds to yet another value added feature of Nokia N900, made possible through the ingenious Maemo 5 software. Make sure you look out for the Nokia N900 on contract when it is released in the UK.

The Nokia X3 is one of the more recent phones to have been unveiled by Nokia during the Nokia World 2009. The phone will be released in the 4th quarter of 2009, perhaps in time for Christmas. Nokia X3 Reviews have been good, so let’s check out whether the phone actually lives up to its hype.

The large variety of phones that Nokia have is testament to the fact that Nokia have a phone for all segments of the market. In the X3, they have a very sleek phone with all the capabilities you could possibly expect of a phone of this price – range. The phone is about 14 mm thick and weighs in at 103 grams, making it easy to carry around in your pocket.

The TFT screen of the phone is 2.2 inches long and has a resolution of 240×320 pixels and is capable of displaying a maximum of 256k colours. The phone supports polyphonic as well as MP3 ringtones. The X3 has a 3.2 megapixel camera which is capable of capturing pictures with a maximum resolution of 2048×1536 pixels. There is an LED flash as well, enabling you to take pictures even in low light. Video recording is possible in QVGA quality @ 15 fps.

The music player is capable of playing a multitude of formats, which include MP3, WMA and AAC. MP4 and 3GP videos are supported. A stereo radio is also provided in the phone for those of you who like to listen to your favourite radio stations on the go.

On first looks, the X3 seems to be a low – cost version of the X6 due to the similar looks. However, the differences between the phone couldn’t be more stark when looking at the feature set of both the phones. There is a large number of functions in the phone, which makes it really good value for money and a phone which will be highly sought out in the market which is why there will be so many great Nokia X3 contracts to choose from as all the phone dealers compete for your custom,.

Nokia have always been the type of company who likes to dominate whatever segment of the mobile phone market that it is in and looks like they are looking towards dominating the laptop market as well with the introduction of the Nokia Booklet 3G, which was unveiled via a press release at Nokia Conversations.

Rude people might want to call it a fancy netbook, considering the fact that it has a 10.1 inch screen and an Atom processor, but the resolution of the screen is much better than normal laptops or netbooks. Another difference between this netbook and other ones is that it supports integrated 3G wireless and you can even use your data SIM directly with the netbook.

The netbook will be using the new Microsoft Windows 7 as its operating system, which is not something you’d normally see in a netbook. It also comes with integrated A-GPS and has the Nokia Ovi Maps pre – installed with the netbook.

Video output is redefined with the HDMI output. The netbook has an estimated battery life of 12 hours, which is useful as it will be able to keep you company during long journeys. The netbook also has Wi-Fi connectivity as well as Bluetooth connectivity. It is just 2 cm thin (.78 inch) and the aluminium body weighs only 2.7 lb, which is posh, understated and should make Nokia fans bristle with delight – i.e. Nokia fans who want a miniature laptop.

Nokia have also released a nice promotional video to coincide with the announcement of the Nokia Booklet 3G. Nokia Booklet 3G Reviews have revealed the pricing, which is set to be about £520, but you may be able to get it cheaper on contract with broadband providers, which is good news for all you Nokia fans out there. Make sure you do check out the Nokia Booklet 3G contracts on offer when it is released.

The Nokia 5230 is the latest touchscreen phone to emerge from the labs of Nokia and clearly shows that Nokia wants to have a touchscreen phone to cater to every segment of the market. The unveiling of this phone comes hot on the heels of the release of the Nokia 5530, which is targeted more towards the mid – range segment of the market. The Nokia 5230 Reviews haven’t been too bad, so let’s have a look at this device.

The Nokia 5230’s looks and dimensions are nearly similar to that of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. However, as far as features are concerned, the Nokia 5230 doesn’t have Wi-Fi internet connectivity and has a mere 2 megapixel camera.

Similar to the Nokia 5800, the 5230 makes use of a 3.2 inch resistive touchscreen. The resolution of the screen is 640×260 pixels. A FM radio, a microSD memory card slot and a 3.5 mm headset jack are present in the phone. The camera, which is 2 megapixels, is capable of recording videos at a fairly high quality VGA @ 30 fps.

The 5230 makes use of the Symbian S60 5th edition OS, which has been designed exclusively for Nokia’s touchscreen phones. The battery present in the 5230 is the same as the one in the 5800 (1320 mAh) and is much better than the 1000 mAh battery which comes with the 5530. You can listen music on the 5230 for a straight 33 hours.

The Ovi Maps feature deserves a mention, as does the social network integration, which includes Facebook, MySpace and YouTube.

The phone hasn’t got a fixed release date but Nokia say it will be released during the 4th quarter of this year. The expected price is about 150 Euros (£140). If you want the Comes With Music service as well, you have to pay a totally of 256 Euros (£236). At that time there will be more information about Nokia 5230 contract deals.