Nokia acquires Symbian Limited

Nokia today announced that it has completed its offer to acquire Symbian Limited. All conditions to Nokia’s offer to acquire Symbian Limited have been satisfied and it has received valid acceptance of greater than 99.9% of the total Symbian shares that Nokia did not already own. Symbian is the software company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market-leading open operating system for mobile devices.

All Symbian employees are planned to become Nokia employees on February 1, 2009.

Presenting Nokia N97

No no! This is not a HTC Tilt. Look carefully. It is the new Nokia N97. Nokia N97 is the new N-series phone from Nokia, which also sports a touch-screen!

It has 360 x 640 resolution (where do you get these numbers?) touchscreen. It also has haptic feedback along with the following:

  • 5 megapixel camera (with Carl Zeiss optics and dual LED flash),
  • A-GPS and compass sensors
  • comprehensive connectivity options (WiFi, tri-band HSDPA, Bluetooth and USB)
  • 32GB of internal flash memory.

My friend, who was there at the launch event, was able to get a hands-on the N97 and has said that they slide mechanism is very nicely designed. It keyboard flushes with the unit and the whole unit then feels like one part.

Hands-on photo
Hands-on photo (via atmasphere)

Here is the Press Release: Continue reading “Presenting Nokia N97”

Japan has a Kourziro KZRX1002 in Roul of a new Rival!

It looks like the Eee Box is going to face some tough competition in coming months. Other manufactures won’t sit behind. We knew that a lot of manufactures would emulate this kind of device. I’m not really sure that would be available in the market of US and other international countries. Currently, it is Japan only.

Here are some specifications of this nettop:

  • Atom CPU of 1.6GHz.
  • 1GB of RAM.
  • 250GB of HDD.
  • 19” LCD
  • size: 103 x 288 x 338 .
  • 90W power supply.

Official Webpage (japanese!)

Indamixx Music Netbook – Rock On!

The Indamixx netbook is built for who wants to create music on the go. It is all set to jump into netbook market with price $499 with preloaded music software. It’s may not versatile as the latest netbooks currently in the market, but it’s so cute and smaller. You can easily carry it and keep anywhere. It comes with a custom Linux distro too.

If you want to get it on pre-order before christmas, then you will have to $99 deposit before
the 15th December (2008)

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