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Nokia Announces X2 Mobile Handset For India
Nokia’s X2 is the latest device to join the Xseries line-up and is due out before the end of June for India. It’s an all new multimedia device that weighs in at just 81g and is just 13mm in depth. For the social networking fan users can have the preloaded Facebook app provide live updates right from the desktop. IM and Nokia Messaging as well as email support are also available.
This candy bar handset that appears to be running on a new S40 UI also features -
•2.2-inch QVGA screen
•Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, USB 2.0
•FM radio
•5 megapixel camera
•Micro SD card support (up to 16GB)
•3.5mm handsfree socket
Although the X2 has been announced for India with no specific date though. The local price is not available either but it’s estimated to retail at €85 which works out to about Rs. 5014 before taxes and subsidies. We’ll have to wait for Nokia to send out an official release for the X2 that will reveal it’s official pricing so stay tuned.
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Nokia Launches 3 Qwerty Mobile Phones in India
Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has launched its range of Qwerty devices, whose keypad is like that of a computer keyboard, starting at Rs 5,300.
It has also launched an improved version of Nokia Messaging with free push mail service.
Nokia Messaging aggregates multiple email accounts through one client. It can support and mobilise up to 10 email accounts such as Gmail, Yahoo, Rediffmail, Sify and Indiatimes among others.
Nokia today launched three devices — C3, priced at Rs 5,317.89 (Euro 90), C6 — a touch and full keyboard phone — at Rs 13,000 (Euro 220), while E5 is priced at Rs 10,634 (Euro 180), a business-cum-entertainment device.
Nokia, which is the market leader in India has been facing competition from home grown mobile manufacturers in the low-end mobile segment.
Players like Micromax and Olive have already launched Qwerty keypad phones with a price tag of Rs 2,000.
However, when asked whether Nokia is responding to the competition with the new launch, the company’s Executive Vice President Anssi Vanjoki said, “It is a strategic option for Nokia. With the new devices we are bringing mobile messaging and social networking into the hands of more people.”
With the free push mail service, Nokia is also trying to tap the mobile email users in India.
“People are looking at messaging services as an enhanced business tool. There are six million mail users on mobile in India. The number is expected to touch 130 million in 2014,” Nokia India Managing Director and Vice President D Shivakumar said.
India is among the top five countries for the service and we are confident that with our decision to offer it free of cost, we will see a significant surge in adoption of email and messaging services in the country, he added.
The service will be available through all leading operators in the country and consumers will only have to pay the basic data download charges.
It has over three million active users in more than 100 countries today.
Nokia Plans Launch of Music Service
Nokia Corp said on Friday it is planning a launch soon for its music downloading service in India following a China launch, as it looks to emerging markets to breathe new life into the struggling service.
Nokia said earlier this week it would bring its Comes with Music downloading service to India after China, but declined to give a timetable. The India launch would come “very soon”, David Tang, vice-chairman of Nokia China, told Reuters on the sidelines of the Boao Forum in on the tropical Hainan island in southern China. “This is a priority market for us in the future,” he said, adding that Nokia planned to continue expanding geographic coverage for the service, currently available in 30 markets, The world’s top cell phone maker said on Thursday it would roll out Comes with Music in China, offering free music with its mobile phones as it seeks to compete with Apple Inc’s popular iTunes.
With more than 700 million subscribers, China is the world’s biggest mobile market by users. But rampant piracy in the country has kept most major music labels and movie makers from realising significant revenue there despite huge potential. Nokia unveiled Comes with Music in late 2008, but it has lacked operator support and has gained little traction in developed markets since then. Earlier this year Niklas Savander, head of Nokia services, told Reuters the offering would focus increasingly on emerging markets. Separately, Tang said Nokia currently offered a lone product in China that worked on the country’s homegrown third-generation (3G) mobile standard TD-SCDMA, but was working to expand. The technology’s teething problems, along with a lack of product offerings, have been major factors inhibiting the development of a national TD-SCDMA network by China’s top mobile carrier China Mobile. But Tang said more TD-SCDMA handset models were on the way from Nokia. Nokia sold 72 million handsets in China last year, making it the company’s biggest market by unit sales.
Nokia Siemens, India’s First to Manufacture 3G Products Locally
The 3G race started off with a bang, and it’s about time. It seems like the first one to start manufacturing 3G mobile communications infrastructure is Nokia Siemens Networks, at their Chennai facility. They’re the first in the country to manufacture 3G products locally.
“India is not just a high-growth market but also an innovation hub for us. Our manufacturing operations in India reflect our unwavering focus on the country and enhance our proximity to our customers,” said Urs Pennanen, head of the India region at Nokia Siemens Networks. “With 3G licenses underway and the country taking huge strides in telecommunications, operators require a local manufacturing partner. This is definitely the right time and place to begin 3G manufacturing for India.”
The first batch of LTE-ready 3G base stations rolled out of the Chennai facility last week. Nokia Siemens Networks will initially manufacture radio frequency modules and system modules, ramping up production for both these products by almost three-fold towards the latter half of the year. In addition, the company plans to commence production of transport modules and next-generation microwave radios from the second half of 2010, as well as increase its 3G manufacturing headcount from 75 to 210 by the third quarter 2010. The company has set up 3G test labs in the country and has trained 3200 Indian field engineers to support 3G roll-outs.
“While the products manufactured here are intended for both local and global markets, the demands of the Indian market will be given priority in the manufacturing decisions,” said Herbert Merz, head of operations for Nokia Siemens Networks. “With 3G manufacturing capabilities in the country, we will be able to facilitate a faster time to market of 3G services for our customers since all key elements, including production, distribution, logistics and remote delivery, will be taken care of locally.”
Furthermore, the company’s Global Network Solutions Centers (GNSC’s) in Noida and Chennai are fully equipped to manage 3G networks remotely. These GNSCs already serve 27 3G operators globally, maintaining, operating and optimizing their networks, which support millions of subscribers across the globe.
Let the speed come forth and let 3G reign… BSNL, MTNL, Nokia Siemens we thank you, better late then never.
Nokia N900 Mobile Phone Fails to Impress
According to Gartner, Nokia’s flagship N900 handset has failed to get much in the way of mainstream traction, with less than 100,000 sold during it’s first five months of availability.
While the N900, with it’s chunky look-and-feel, slide-out keyboard and touch-screen might have won the hearts of small number of hardcore hardware geeks, the handset has failed to ignite much interest amongst mainstream users.
Compare the fewer then 100,000 N900’s sold over five months with the 8.75 or so million iPhones sold between January and March alone.
Alberto Torres, head of Nokia’s solutions business, remains upbeat, claiming that “Sales have substantially exceeded expectation.”
The N900 is no slouch either. It’s powered by a 600MHz Cortex-A8 processor, offers 1GB of application memory and 32GB of storage, which you can augment with a microSD card. It also features a camera, GPS and other features you’d expect of a smartphone. It’s based on the Maemo 5 Linux platform, which offers plenty of tweak-appeal but it’s not Android, and it’s not iPhone, and that’s an automatic black mark against the device. Shame, because the N900 is a pretty good handset.