Physically the N72 is exactly the same size as the N70 at 109×53x22mm and it’s just 2 grams lighter at 124 grams. The screen is the same 176×220 pixel display found in the N70, but the N72 doesn’t have a video calling camera, although the keypad layout does seem much less cramped that the N70. On the back of the N72 is a 2 megapixel digital camera protected by a sliding mechanism, and the N72’s memory can be expanded using RS-MMC cards (a 128Mb card is included as standard, compared to just 64Mb on the N70). The Nokia N72 has an FM radio too, in addition to a multimedia player.

Talktime and standby time are virtually identical, which is odd because you’d expect a 2.5G handset such as this to drain less power than a 3G device, but Nokia quote the talktime as just 3.5 hours with 10 days standby time.

Rather than just being an EDGE version of the N70, the N72 has some enhanced multimedia software and it comes in two restyled packages – a pink “girlie” handset and a black one for the boys.

The N70 is a well regarded phone with only two major shortcomings – the cramped keyboard and the screen resolution. Although the N72 goes some way to resolving the keyboard issue, the display is still only 176×220 pixels when other Nseries phones seem to be standardising on 240×320 pixels. Nokia are on pretty safe ground here though – the N70 is a very popular phone and with good reason.

The N72 is expected to be available in some markets in June 2006. It’s not clear if the N72 will be sold alongside the N70 (to a limited extend the Nokia 6680 and 6682 3G and GSM handsets were sold in the same markets), but Nokia seem to be targetting Eastern Europe and Asia with the N72 rather than Western European markets or North America.

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]]> http://www.mobiletechblog.com/2006/05/12/nokia-n72a-quick-look/feed/ 2 http://www.mobiletechblog.com/2006/03/08/nokia-6638-the-first-series-60-cdma-phone/ http://www.mobiletechblog.com/2006/03/08/nokia-6638-the-first-series-60-cdma-phone/#comments Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:04:33 +0000 PRiTAM http://www.mobiletechblog.com/2006/03/08/nokia-6638-the-first-series-60-cdma-phone/ The Nokia 6638 is the CDMA version to the 6630. Well this isnt something new and Nokia has done this before – introducing CDMA counterparts of successful GSM phones. Funnily though, they usually announce the handsets at the most within a few months of each other. In this case thought the gap is unusally large. Another thing that strikes us is that the 6630 was never that popular; perhaps a CDMA version of the 6600 would have been nice.

Whatever the case, having a Series 60 phone for CDMA is a great idea. CDMA as such is a great technology but suffers greatly because of the apathy of manufacturers to debut new models for these users. Hopefully with the 6638 we should see some changes and newer models should be debuted as near as possible with the GSM launch if at all not together. The 6638 will certainly be state of the art and will carry a megapixel camera (1.3 Megapixel camera). Video recording will be permitted through 3 GPP format. The display (176 x 208 pixels – Series 60 compliant) will have 65,000 colors. The handset has one chief difference from the GSM phone, it has an antenna which can be extended for better reception (Most CDMA phones have this option). There is provision for extra memory as well by means of SD , MMC card slot.

The data was made available on the FCC website, which however does not make any mention of release dates, something that Nokia will announce when it publicly announces the 6638. Verizon and or print should probably be offering it to you before the end of the year.

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Ubiquitous Viewer can remotely switch on PCs that support the Wake-on-LAN function, a common feature that enables a PC to be switched on when traffic is sent to it across a network, said Nobuo Shimizu, senior specialist at Toshiba’s software engineering center.

The mobile phone’s keypad is automatically set by the software so that it becomes a virtual QWERTY keyboard. For example, the mobile phone’s cursor pad can mimic the functions of a mouse, and the 1-9 keys can become shortcut, enter, delete, tab and other types of keys found on QWERTY keyboards. Users can also create their own shortcuts and settings, Aoyama said.

Since PC and notebook PC screens typically have an XGA (1,024-by-768-pixel) resolution, the software captures a portion of the screen and displays this on the mobile phone screen. The virtual screen on the mobile phone can be moved in real time by the user across the virtual desktop, Shimizu said. An algorithm compresses by 97% the amount of screen data on the portion of the XGA screen to avoid overloading the wireless network as the information is passed to the mobile phone. The screen is recreated on the mobile phone in QVGA resolution (240 by 320 pixels), he said.

At the moment, the software can be used over a Bluetooth short-range wireless connection or with KDDI Corp.’s 3G Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) 2000 1xEvDO (Evolution Data Only) network with mobile phones that use Brew (Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless) software, Aoyama said. The 3G network offers a maximum speed of 2.4Mbit/sec.

KDDI Corp. is Japan’s second-biggest carrier. Both NTT DoCoMo Inc. and Vodafone K.K., the Japanese unit of Vodafone Group PLC, have 3G wideband CDMA (WCDMA) networks, and mobile phones for these networks use Java. Toshiba is working on a version of Ubiquitous Viewer that works on WCDMA networks and with Java-enabled phones, Aoyama said.

Toshiba is aiming the software at corporate users. It didn’t give a price or lay out plans to sell the software internationally.

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