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Nokia today unveiled the Nokia N97.  Designed for the needs of Internet-savvy consumers, the Nokia N97 combines a large 3.5″ touch display with a full QWERTY keyboard, providing an ‘always open’ window to favorite social networking sites and Internet destinations. Nokia’s flagship Nseries device introduces leading technology - including multiple sensors, memory, processing power and connection speeds - for people to create a personal Internet and share their ’social location.’

“From the desktop to the laptop and now to your pocket, the Nokia N97 is the most powerful, multi-sensory mobile computer in existence,” said Jonas Geust, Vice President, heading Nokia Nseries. “Together with the Ovi services announced today, the Nokia N97 mobile computer adjusts to the world around us, helping stay connected to the people and things that matter most. With the Nokia N97, Nseries leads the charge in helping to transform the Internet into your Internet”.

N97 Video Demo

The Nokia N97 introduces the concept of ’social location’. With integrated A-GPS sensors and an electronic compass, the Nokia N97 mobile computer intuitively understands where it is. The Nokia N97 makes it easy to update social networks automatically with real-time information, giving approved friends the ability to update their ’status’ and share their ’social location’ as well as related pictures or videos.

The home screen of the Nokia N97 mobile computer features the people, content and media that matter the most. Friends, social networks and news are available by simply touching the home screen. The 16:9 widescreen display can be fully personalized with frequently updated widgets of favorite web services and social networking sites. The Nokia N97 is also perfectly suited for browsing the web, streaming Flash videos or playing games. Both the physical QWERTY and virtual touch input ensure efficiency in blogging, chatting, posting, sending texts or emailing.

The Nokia N97 supports up to 48 GB of storage, including 32 GB of on-board memory, expandable with a 16 GB microSD card for music, media and more. This is complemented by excellent music capabilities, full support for the Nokia Music Store and continuous playback time of up to 1.5 days. The Nokia N97 also has a 5-Megapixel camera with high-quality Carl Zeiss optics, 16:9 and DVD quality video capture, and support for services like Share on Ovi for immediate sharing over HSDPA and WLAN.

The Nokia N97 is expected to begin shipping in the first half of 2009 at an estimated retail price of EUR 550 before taxes or subsidies.

Nokia’s App Store , Ovi Store, has now officially launched everywhere. Nokia’s mobile application store offers a 70/30 revenue split to developers and a lot of useful apps for owners of over 50 different Nokia (Symbian) devices.

Ovi Store isthe company’s response to Apple’s App Store.

TweetGenius is a Twitter application for Blackberry platform

A special version for MySpace designed for BlackBerry smartphones has been launched. Now the Mypace features can travel with you, so you can share events and experiences as they happen.

This Blackberry application provides mobile messaging, lets you view & upload photos and stay connected with you Myspace Community. Myspace app for Blackberry is free.
You can download the app directly from your Smartphone by visiting www.blackberry.com/myspace from your BlackBerry smartphone or enter an email address that’s integrated with your BlackBerry smartphone below and click submit to have a download link sent to you.

The new Blackberry application store for BlackBerry now has a name: BlackBerry App World.

BlackBerry users will be able to sign up to be notified when BlackBerry App World goes live. The signup sheet will be at www.blackberry.com/appworld .

In addition, RIM will be relaunching its BlackBerry developers site.

BlackBerry App World will attempt to emulate iPhone’s success with the iPhone apps store on iTunes.

CallingAmerica.com is the first completely ad-supported VoIP calling network. Anyone across the U.S. can visit CallingAmerica.com to make free calls to any landline or mobile phone in the United States and Canada at no cost.

Unregistered users can make calls of up to two minutes; registration , which is also free, gives you unlimited calls of up to 15 minutes. The program works online without software download . A very interesting VoIP option.

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The new Palm Pre incorporates the Palm ® webOS platform, created with the fundamental elements to be constantly connected to the Web.

Palm Pre has a hardware interface that makes the phone more integrated and user-friendly for mobile users.

It will also be compatible with the Sprint TV ®, which offers an extensive selection of live and on-demand programming, Sprint Navigation, which provides step by step instructions for navigating through sound and images by GPS, and Sprint Radio with more than 150 channels .

When closed, the Palm Pre is ideal for making phone calls, surf the Internet, listen to music, take pictures and shoot videos. Meanwhile, when it is best to talk openly and send mails.

Pre slider has a curved and webOS software, which allows quick access to anything on the device or the Web.

Will be available first in the United States exclusively through Sprint in the first half of 2009, followed later by a UMTS version ready for other regions. The price of the phone has not yet been determined.

Popular VoIP software Skype can already be used on many different wireless devices such as cell phones ,PSP , WiFi phones and Nokia Internet Table .Skype is a peer-to-peer software application that allows people to make free phone calls to other Skype users over the Internet. Now you can make free calls to other Skype users without PC.

To get Skype on your mobile you can either download the Skype mobile beta version onto your cell phone or download Skype onto your Windows mobile phone.

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