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The Full Mobile Web Experience Is Up For Pre-Order Now!

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

No, no, it’s not the iPad, since it doesn’t even offer Flash.  And it doesn’t do multitasking.  It’s the Nokia N900.  Long after it went on sale in other parts of the world, we are now deemed worthy to own one.  Let’s hope the unit you get are not surplus unsold stocks from other parts of the world where it went on sale previously!

Pre-order an N900 now and get a DC11 Nokia Extra Power free.  That was a mouthful, so let me break it down for you – the DC11 is simply a battery pack of 1500mAh capacity, with two connectors – 2mm and microUSB to basically charge any new-ish Nokia phone (and any other phones which uses these standards).  And you get to charge two devices at once, how cool is that?

Be fast in making up your mind though – the pre-order special offer is only for the first 300 units.  Collection is on the 28th and 29th of March, at any one of the 4 collection points in the Klang Valley.  Outside the Klang Valley?  Sorry, your business is not wanted.

Ooops, nearly forgot the price – RM 2,280.  Not cheap, but not terribly expensive either.  Just remember what you’re buying, that’s all I can say.

And here’s the message one gets upon successful submission of the pre-order.  Can anyone spot the epic English FAIL in the message?  :P

Thanks to Hawke for alerting me to this in the shoutbox.

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Ooooo…Nokia N900 To Get MeeGo?

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

One of the things that was not made clear during the announcement of the partnership between Intel and Nokia which resulted in the merging of Intel’s Moblin and Nokia’s maemo platforms was what was going to happen to Nokia’s flagship maemo device, the N900.  There was no indication whether, and if, the N900 would qualify for an upgrade to MeeGo, the product born out of the union of Moblin and maemo.  Thank goodness we now have some sort of indication – and it’s positive.

In a blog posting on the MeeGo website, one of the two members of the Technical Steering Group of MeeGo, a representative from Nokia, mentioned that a target has been set for the end of this month to have MeeGo ready in a very “raw” form so that it can run on the N900.  At least that’s what I understand from this post.  My Engrish not da very good, so I may have misunderstood; if you think I have, please do correct me in the comments.  And much of the post is technical gibberish, at least to me.  There’s even mention of virgins somewhere in there; so you have the ingredients of an interesting story with sexual connotations (I think).  Again, feel free to correct me if I’m reading this whole thing wrong.

The timing certainly seems interesting and very aggressive.  Either work had been ongoing for some time to make MeeGo run on the N900, or that MeeGo is essentially maemo and very little Moblin, which can explain the quick transition from maemo 5 to MeeGo.  If this is true, Intel’s developer community who have invested in Moblin must be feeling a little p1ssed by now, because they will have to learn the intricacies of maemo since MeeGo is essentially maemo.  I’m speculating, of course; if you have evidence to the contrary, feel free to share in the comments with links.

So there you go.  This should make one feel better for buying a Nokia N900 knowing it will be upgradeable to MeeGo, and be able to run a lot more applications, assuming developers want to port their existing Moblin and maemo applications over to MeeGo.

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New Nokia Phone Model Naming Convention

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

To avoid confusion and streamline the naming of its products, Nokia recently revamped the way it names devices.  While this won’t apply retroactively to existing models, all new models going forward will conform to this new naming convention.  Going forward, there will be 4 classes of devices:

  1. N series = top end, luxury, high end, most advanced, priciest.
  2. X series = “social entertainment”, whatever this means.  The X6 and X3 are the most recent examples.
  3. E series = enterprise, for business use.
  4. C series = low end mass market consumer devices.  El-cheapos (mostly).  The C5-00 is a the first phone to use this series numbering.  That “c” could stand for cheap or consumer, I guess.  Let’s hope it doesn’t stand for *that other “c”* – you know – the word that most comes to mind when talking about Streamyx’s service!  :P

Some have called for Nokia to use product names instead of just product model numbers – I laughed – do these ignorant idiots know how many phones Nokia churns out annually?  Although Nokia has said that it will reduce the number of phones it puts out this year, it is still sizable, and one will run out of “meaningful”, globally acceptable model names very quickly.

So now you know.  Next, if only Nokia can start to fix the Symbian naming convention – S60v3, S60v3 FP1, S60v3 FP2, S60V5, yada yada yada.  Symbian^1, Symbian^2, Symbian^3, yada yada yada…

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Oooo…Should We Be Impressed?

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

This is certainly new – for me at least.  I’ve not seen a smartphone go on the Malaysian website of a multinational so soon after its global announcement.  I’m referring to the newly announced Nokia C5-00, of course.  It was announced at CeBIT 2010 in Germany yesterday, and today, it’s already up on the Nokia Malaysia website.

The C5-00 is a Symbian smartphone, running S60 FP2.  It will come with the latest and greatest in Nokia software – such as Nokia Messaging and Ovi Maps.  Apart from that, it’s nothing special really.  It comes in the candybar form factor and only has a miniscule sized 2.2 inch screen with QVGA resolution.  And at a price of “only” €135, approximately RM 620, this will be one heck of an affordable smartphone.  Let’s hope it’s priced at RM 799 or below when it arrives; if it does, it should sell like hotcakes!  Sorry, I don’t know expected availability nor pricing, but Nokia did say it was going to be available in the second quarter of 2010.  Let’s hope the C5 doesn’t sit in the “upcoming models” section of the website for more than 2 months!

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Don’t Tease Us La…

Monday, March 1st, 2010

It’s Monday, so this means it’s whacking day.  Whacking as in teasing companies that don’t seem to have much of a clue of what they’re trying to do.  Today’s case in point – Nokia Malaysia.  On their product page, it says that the Nokia N900 is part of their stable of latest products.  The funny thing is, when I called up the Nokia Concept Store (why the h3ll do they call it a “concept” store anyway?  Why not just a “store”?  Does putting the word “concept” means that one can charge customers a higher price because it sounds posh?) I was told that it was not in stores yet.  Pre-sales/pre-bookings will begin mid-March, with an exact delivery date unknown.  Price unknown, although for budgeting purposes, I was told around RM 2,500.

Alrighty then, if something is not yet available, I think it should go in the “upcoming models” section, and not “latest models”.  Otherwise, get rid of that “upcoming models” category on the webpage – having the N900 appear in the latest models category just makes a mockery of the entire categorisation scheme and insults my intelligence, not that I’m saying I’m very intelligent to start off with, but I’m not *that* stupid la.

You know what?  I was on my way out to maybe buy an “approved permit” aka smuggled/underwater set when my puppy stopped me at the door and asked me the following questions.  My puppy is quite smart, you see, and she was not happy that I was sacrificing her dog food allowance to buy this gadget.

  1. how many apps and games has it got?  Does it have any “serious” apps apart from those produced by Nokia?
  2. is it upgradeable to MeeGo, now that maemo is dead?
  3. does it support MMS out of the box?
  4. can it play games like GTA:CTW, Gangstar, Flight Control, Plants vs Zombies, etc without having to resort to “cartoon-like” graphics?
  5. is it a requirement to know arcane Linux terminal commands in order to make full use of the phone?
  6. why is there so many sellers of the N900 in the biggest local forum – lowyat.net – people who had the phone less than 2 weeks and wanting to sell them off?
  7. is it sleek and slim by design?
  8. is it light?

I didn’t have good answers to the above, so my puppy is back to enjoying her holistic food.  Like I said, I have one very smart puppy.

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