NOKIA 1100: Tribute To The Legend

When I was creating this blog, I was thinking of names like SymbianS60 Blog, Symbian Era, etc. But then I thought about other phones, which are not Symbian. There are some other phones that stand out in crowd. And today, I'd be writing about the 'More' in the name 'Symbian And More'.

It is scratched, bruised, fallen many times, yet rises again like a true gladiator, like a Phoenix rises from the Ashes. This is no gadget with any advanced technology, talking about smartphones would be alien to this phone. It is like a stone age man in today's multimedia ruled world. Yet without color screen or even polyphonic ring tones, it still manages to be a Legend.

Legend is the only title that suits this Nokia, which is being used since the past 5 yrs, has clocked more than 284 hours on its life timer and is still going strong without any hesitation.

This is the epitome of reliability and user friendliness. The small size (106mm x 46mm x 20mm) and light weight (86gm) make it extremely handy and pocketable. And the silicon keypad and rubberised finish of the body make it usable in any climatic condition, without loosing grip.

No matter how advance phone you use, there is something sweet about this phone. It's simple and it means business. It just calls, answers, sends SMS, receives SMS, just goes on and on and still stands tall as if it was never meant to sleep, never meant to rest.

Drop it. Alas! Keypad out, battery out, back cover-front cover are separate. No issues, just put it all back together and it will again very willingly greet you with the Nokia start up jingle. Do that with an N95 and you will regret having butter fingers.

Such is the power of this phone. As if it was a very determined person, more than just plastic and internal circuits. Someone that would never say die.

N97 : The Future Is Here

This is the marriage of N-series and E-series. Nokia unveiled the new N97 at Barcelona on Tuesday. This is the most feature rich phone ever to be launched by Nokia. And with touch interface (Symbian OS v9.4 S60 5th edition) which was introduced in Nokia 5800.
For starters the phone has a 5 mega pixel eye, with Carl Zeiss optics and autofocus, which is all becoming industry standard slowly. You can try being Spielberg by shooting videos @30fps in VGA resolution.
Dimensions (117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9-18.3 mm) are close to that of iPhone (except for the thickness), which this phone plans to eat up for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The 3.5 inch screen with 360 x 640 resolution should be enough to satisfy your hunger for wide screen handheld video viewing. The screen slides and also tilts similar to HTC Ty TN II. Sliding the phone reveals a full QWERTY keyboard. So text input methods are plenty on the phone which include physical QWERTY, onscreen QWERTY, onscreen half QWERTY, onscreen alphanumeric keypad and also handwriting recognition.
Internal memory is doubled from the N96. It is now 32 GB and High Capacity SD cards are also supported.
Tri-band HSDPA and quad-band GSM will enable you to use the phone anywhere on our planet at least. Wi-Fi and GPS also come in the phone. An accelerometer for auto screen rotation and a proximity sensor for auto screen turn-off during calls. Theres also the digital compass seen in Nokia 6210 Navigator.
Of course all the basics are covered too - with stereo Bluetooth, 3.5mm audio jack, TV-out and FM radio with RDS.
With so many features it is prone to eat up on the power, but Nokia has not repeated the mistakes of N95 and N96. The phone comes with 1500mAh power packed battery which should allow you to use the phone to its full capability without running out of charge.
This powerhouse should be available in market by Q2 of 2009.
The future is here, it has begun with the Nokia 5800, and will lead to some great devices in 2009.
And Nokia might force us to wonder... Is this what computers have become??


Check out these amazing official videos.A must watch.