By Editor on March 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The first U.S. device to arrive preloaded with Nokia’s popular Ovi Maps navigation application has been announced by Nokia. It is T-Mobile USA’s forthcoming Nokia 5230 Nuron. It is also the first from a national U.S. operator to come preloaded with Nokia’s Ovi Store mobile content marketplace.
T-Mobile is also offering carrier billing as well as credit card purchases. Free turn-by-turn navigation and directions, weather forecasts and Facebook-based location sharing, the 3.2-inch touchscreen Nurion device Android Develops Enhanced OpenGL Support are some of the features of the smartphone.
Ovi Maps also features recommendations from Lonely Planet guides. Scheduled to be shipped in the next few weeks, T-Mobile USA exclusive comes preloaded with maps for the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
The announcement that more than 3 million consumers have downloaded the Ovi Maps application since its debut in late January was made by Nokia during last month’s Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona.
According to Niklas Savander, the handset giant’s executive vice president of services, Ovi Maps now averages more than one download per second, 24 hours a day, translating to around 100,000 downloads on a daily basis.
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By Editor on June 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Apple introduced the new iPhoneâ„¢ 3G S, the fastest, most powerful iPhone yet, packed with incredible new features including improved speed and performance—up to twice as fast as iPhone 3G—with longer battery life, a high-quality 3 megapixel autofocus camera, easy to use video recording and hands free voice control. iPhone 3G S includes the new iPhone OS 3.0, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system with over 100 new features such as Cut, Copy and Paste, MMS*, Spotlight Search, landscape keyboard and more. iPhone 3G S customers get access to more than 50,000 applications from Apple’s revolutionary App Store, the largest application store in the world where customers have already downloaded over one billion apps. iPhone 3G S offers twice the capacity for the same price with a 16GB model for just $199 and a new 32GB model for just $299.** And beginning today, iPhone 3G is available at the breakthrough price of just $99 for the 8GB model—a huge milestone for the high end smartphone market.
iPhone 3G S is the fastest, most powerful iPhone yet and we think people will love the incredible new features including autofocus camera, video recording and the freedom of voice control,†said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of WorldWide Product Marketing. And with a breakthrough price of $99, we are thrilled to get iPhone 3G into the hands of even more users who want them.†(more…)
