Nokia Erdos

via Gizmodo by Jesus Diaz

Believe it or not, Nokia keeps doing their expensive 8800 series. And believe it or not, they still run the dreadful Symbian S60. This is the next model, the Nokia Erdos, carved out of a single piece of stainless steel.

The 3G Erdos has a 2.4-inch OLED 320 x 240 display that remains invisible under mirrored glass until you turn it on. It also has Wi-Fi, GPS, stereo Bluetooth, 8GB of internal memory, and a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with Carl Zeiss lens, dual LED flash, and video recording capability.

Nokia E72 And 5530 XpressMusic Are Now Official

via Gizmodo by Simon Crisp on 6/15/09

After "leaking" a promotional video over the weekend Nokia have officially unveiled the E72 - their new QWERTY smartphone followup to the fantastic E71- at the Connection 09 event in Singapore.

Compared to its none-too-old brother, the E72 will see its camera bumped up to 5 megapixels along with the addition of an integrated compass, an optical navigation key (not unlike the BlackBerry Gemini's) and sensibly a 3.5mm headphone jack. Nokia say the S60 handset features a "desktop like email experience" and will begin shipping third quarter of 2009 for $485 without contract.

Also revealed was the 5530 XpressMusic - essentially a smaller, cheaper 5800 - featuring a 2.9 inch widescreen display, 3.2 megapixel camera with LED flash and a 4GB memory card. The GSM/EDGE phone doesn't use 3G but can at least connect via wifi; it will also be available third quarter of 2009 for around $275 unsubsidized.

Opera Mobile 9.7 to Support Flash, Google Gears, Server-Side Compression

via�Gizmodo�by John Herrman on 3/30/09

Despite being the obvious choice for WinMo browsing,�Opera Mobile�9.5 is far from perfect. That said, the next release,�due in a few months, might even put the likes of Mobile Safari to shame.

How's that, exactly? For one,�Flash Lite�will be supported, opening up a plethora of previously inaccessible streaming video sites.�Google Gears�will provide offline Google web apps and better performance, competing with the upcoming�Offline Gmail feature�bound for WebKit-based browsers.�OpenGL ES�hardware acceleration will add a missing fluidity to movements, assuming your phone has 3D hardware and drivers (like most HTC handsets). Most importantly, 9.7 will have the option to connect to�Opera Turbo, the content compression service used in�Opera Mini, which does a lot to knock down loading times for a small sacrifice in image quality.

Fans of�Skyfire�might notice that these features�excluding Gears�are all available on their browser already. True! But one thing isn't: proper VGA and WVGA support, which prevents it from being usable on�every desirable�Windows Mobile�phone, period. So basically, this is very good news. [Opera Mobile�via�Information Week]