GLOBAL – Battery life and phone charging remains one of those intriguing and forever passionate topics of chatter here on Conversations – over the past year we’ve set our brains buzzing with the big phone charger debate and been impressed by environment and sustainability announcements, security shake-ups, and explored how important long-lasting mobile power is for many groups with different unique requirements.
This week’s comment of the week winner responds to the results of our recent business phone reader poll, which saw long-haul battery life come out on top as the most important feature in an enterprise device. Read on to find out who has won a copy of Gravity for Twitter, and to join the discussion and share your thoughts.
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NEW DELHI, India & ESPOO, Finland – Nokia has just popped open its paint pot and pulled out the new Nokia 5230 in a range of custom colours. The latest handset to join the touchscreen fold, the Nokia 5230 has been designed to serve up slick on-the-go entertainment, location-based services and act as an easy pocket portal for social networking at low cost. Read on for more details and get a close-up look at the 5230 in our photo gallery.
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GLOBAL – This month the Nokia Research Center (NRC) released its first newsletter, entitled Open Threads.
Tucked away on the NRC site, you might’ve missed it (it nearly ducked our radar), but thankfully it didn’t dodge our keen eye for must-read Nokia tales, as it gives a great insight into some of the smart stories of Open Innovation at NRC and the developments and people involved in fascinating projects going on behind the scenes in Nokia’s research division. Topics such as professors striving to bend batteries, the evolution of a slick new Chinese messaging tool dubbed Stroke++, a concept called face sketching and loads more.
Read on for more on these highlights and click through download the entire Open Threads newsletter from NRC – it’s definitely worth a read.
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ESPOO, Finland – It’s come to my attention that there are some folks grumbling about the size of the battery on the Nokia N96, which is smaller than the battery on the Nokia N95-8GB.
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GLOBAL – The emergence of this intriguing pair of Nseries handsets has triggered a stack of interesting stories (and unusual ideas). Get the full lowdown on the N85 and the N79, with insights into each device, the people behind them, and the services emerging in their wake.
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GLOBAL – I know I’m guilty of playing it safe when it comes to exploiting the full talents of any Nseries I’ve had over the past few years. Sure, l embrace speedy Wi-Fi web browsing (for a few minutes here and there), take GPS-assisted walks through town (short ones), and soak up videos on the move (ten minutes max), however my mobile behavior is soaked in paranoia that if I don’t conservatively cap my usage of these power-hungry features they’ll suck the lifeblood from my device before I know it. I’m sure I’m not alone. Still, I’m keen to break the habit regardless of what handset I’m using, and the new N85 is openly pushing the envelope on the power-friendly front to ensure we feel more relaxed and uninhibited about using those favoured battery-intensive features to the fullest.
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INTERNATIONAL – Whether consciously or unconsciously most of us place blind confidence in the hardware and services we choose, and security is one of those unconscious lynchpins in the equation of trust. Nokia takes this responsibility of delivering secure products seriously, and recently revamped and improved the security of its batteries to help ensure behind the scenes that all confidence is warranted.
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