Nokia 7510 Supernova, Flips Out

Nokia introduced its new flip phone that comes with a nice name, the Nokia 7510 Supernova. It sports a classy hidden external display and an ‘organic’ main desktop that adapts to your behaviour over time. Interestingly, this clamshell handset also has a built-in A-GPS receiver, allowing the phone to guide you out of the traffic jam. The 2 megapixel camera also features NIPS, Nokia’s proprietary photo processing algorithm for low-light situations.
It uses Nokia Maps 1.2 software for maps navigation, routing, and local search. Moreover, it provides an advanced 2 megapixel camera module that boasts a NIPS, LED flash, and 4x digital zoom capabilities.

An FM radio is on board, so that you can tune in to your favorite station, as well. Quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900Mhz) offers worldwide connectivity, and the integrated LED flashlight ensures you don’t get lost in the dark. Users can manage music with an FM Radio, an enhanced MP3 player, and Nokia Music Store and Nokia Music PC Client. Additional features include a link to YouTube, access to Nokia Maps 1.2 to navigate with free mapping, routing and local search, support of A-GPS and the Nokia WidSets service. [Read more]

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Nokia Acquires Plazes, Geo-based Social Network

Nokia is to acquire Swiss start-up Plazes in a deal which the handset maker says will help it develop location-based social networking. European geo-based companies continue to be a hot commodity, with Nokia announcing June 23 it has acquired Plazes, which develops Web platforms for location sharing and publishing. This is the second “mobile social network” in Europe to be acquired in as many months – Danish startup ZYB was acquired by Vodafone in May for 31.5 million Euro.
The deal allows Nokia to extend its context-based service offering with social presence and time-based activity planning features. Plazes adds the elements of place and time to social networking through features that allow people to alert friends and associates to their activities and locations.

Plazes, a privately-owned company of 13 employees founded in 2006, makes a “context-aware social activity service that people can use to plan, record and share their social activities: why they are at a given location at a given time, whether in the past, present of future,” Nokia said in a statement. [Read more]

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