Nokia has decided to adopt Synaptics’ touchscreen IC solution for its upcoming high-end handset and smartphone to be launched in the third quarter, and it does not rule out the possibility of offering multi-touch functions, according to sources at Taiwan IC designers. Read more at Digitimes
Nokia launching capacitive touchscreen phones in Q3?
Nokia N97 available for pre-order, costs only 524 US dollars
Yeah, you heard that right. The pre-order campaign started by Nokia USA offers the customers the upcoming N97 top-device at a far lower price than the announced one. Expected to cost about 700 US dollars, the N97 can currently be pre-ordered for only 524 bucks.
Paying a visit to the Nokia USA web place and preordering a Nokia N97 (black or white) guarantees you a very pleasant surprise.
To begin with, in the shopping cart you’ll find a free Bluetooth headset Nokia BH-703 which alone costs about 85 US dollars.
The next surprise comes with the total price. Upon adding a Nokia N97 to your shopping cart, you automatically receive a 175 US dollars discount from the previously pointed 699 dollars.
Finally if you type the promotional code CARTP409N the price drops to the exciting 454 US dollars which compared to the old 700 dollars is nothing but the deal of the season.
Update: It seems that Nokia have taken notice and have fixed the promotion so that the bonus codes do not accumulate. Well, it was fun while it lasted, but hey, 524 US dollars still sounds nice, right?
So if you live in the USA and dream of the Nokia N97 it might just be the right moment to pre-order it. There is no such evidence for the moment, but it might be safer to act before someone at Nokia changes their mind and withdraws the promotion.
Nokia E52 Announced – Hands-on
Today Nokia announced the latest addition to their business mobile phone lineup. True to its Eseries nature, the Nokia E52 sports a decent feature set, extensive connectivity and a classic metallic design.
Nokia E52 is basically a copy of the Nokia E55, save for the QW-ER-TY keyboard. It brings 3G with HSDPA 10.2 Mbps and HSUPA 2Mbps support. The other major features of the Nokia E52 include a 2.4” display, GPS and Wi-Fi. An accelerometer sensor for automatic screen rotation, a digital compass and a 3 megapixel full focus camera are also on board.
Nokia cuts 450 jobs
Nokia is cutting 450 more jobs by reducing investment in creating new services, in a bid to further reduce costs. The manufacturer plans to streamline its mobile services platforms and migrate its existing games services over to its Ovi applications portal as part of the move.
All Nokia’s mobile games will now become available through the Ovi Store, as well as its existing channels. Nokia is hoping this will spur opportunities for game developers.
The manufacturer, which has so far slashed 3,000 jobs across the business, said the 450 job cuts would also involve the internal IT unit and industry collaboration activities.
HTC Touch Pro2 gets thoroughly handled overseas
While we still don’t have an official release date for HTC’s Touch Pro2 here in the states, the folks at Russian site Mobile-Review have managed to get some extensive hands-on time with the unit. Props go to the quality of the voice calls and especially the QWERTY keyboard, noted via the machine translation as one of the most user-friendly in modern mobile devices. The same is not said here, however, for the plastic casing and steep pricing. They also don’t really touch on TouchFlo 3D 2.0.XX — that’s apparently coming later in another article — but hit up the read link for a plethora of pictures and a video of the updated UI in action.
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