N73 more than just a cameraphone

SAN FRANCISCO, USA - NewScientist.com reports that bio engineers working in the University of California in San Francisco have come up with a system to aid disease detection in developing countries using a Nokia N73. The device is one part of an apparatus the team developed which enables medical staff to photograph blood samples before sending them over the Internet for analysis. The team believe that images of malaria-infected blood captured by the device are good enough to detect the disease.

GLOBAL – Uncharacteristically, we have another “administrative” announcement. The last one was pretty recent and mentioned things like Blogbite, @nokconv on Twitter, and blogs.nokia.com. This time around we want to introduce something a bit larger.

One thing that we’ve been wishing for is a central place that has all the information on a particular product or service. No, we don’t mean some static page with fancy graphics and long lists of technical specs. What we wanted was a page that had some info on the product, some photos, some dynamic ever-changing info about the product, and something fun. A jumping-off place for all you would want to know about a particular product.

What we came up with is The Almanac. And we think it’ll be a hit. Read on for more details.

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Nokia has still more to say about cameras

ESPOO, Finland – Nokia launched its first camera phone, the Nokia 7650, back in November 2001 and helped changed the face of digital photography, the Web, and mobile phones. The latest leap in camera phones for Nokia is the Nokia N86 8MP. It has shown that Nokia still as something to say about mobile phones and photography. I have been an avid user of camera phones since the launch of the Nokia 7650. And I am currently using the Nokia N86 8MP. Continue reading for a bit of a journey past the milestones in camera phones at Nokia, and maybe get a glimpse of the future.