Not the N95!

There have been a few mutterings around the office of late that we're concentrating too much on the Nokia N95 on this here new(ish) fancy blog of ours...

Well!

We're happy to announce that the Mobizines service is now live on the Nokia 6300.

To quote Nokia:

"Clean, modern design with stainless steel covers, 2 megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom, music player and FM radio, multimedia messaging, and a video player and recorder..."

Well they should add 'Mobizines Reader' to that list too!

The Nokia 6300, the Nokia N95 and the Nokia E65 are all over the press (certainly in the UK anyway) at the moment and we're happy shout out that we support all of these handsets.
The current clients are all Java but we are working on Symbian variants for both the N95 and the E65.

On a personal note - a friend of mine got the 6300 a while back and I almost dumped my (then) N73 for it overnight!
It is a great little phone and probably the best choice for non-techie/non-business mobile phone users.

Anyone out there got one of these handsets?
Have you tried Mobizines?

Let us know!
Leave a comment or email us at bloggers@mobizines.com

(note - we've got a new email address)


PS - Click here to see our handset compatibility list

Perhaps Nokia users are just easier to please

Robin, our chief technologist (he posts here occasionally as "Eyemags"), has done some interesting research on user voting patterns on eyemags. He's posted the preliminary analysis at the Nokia Forum blogs, but the gist of it is, that when asked to vote on the quality of an Eyemag, Nokia users tend to rank their experience higher than any other handset owners. We've a bunch of theories about this (they have better screens, they can only see the first option, they're more enthusiastic by nature than Samsung owners) but nothing definite. Robin's story also got picked up at the Register in their inimitable nudge-nudge, wink-wink style.

N95 has Arrived

Those of us that do not have a hangover because we were not invited to the do last night have just got excited because the N95 has now arrived at T-Mobile UK.

Richy has just ordered his and it only cost him for less than £40 for the upgrade (including P&P) as long as he agreed to extend his contract to 18 months. Worth every penny, its a great phone. Cannot wait for mine...

Three new phones from Nokia

Just picked this up on my RSS...

"The Nokia 5070 is an affordable phone (100 EUR before taxes) from the company's active line of products, that targets young consumers.
The 5070 packs an FM radio, a camera, and it could be used as an MP3 player. Battery of the device should hold up to 3.5 hours of talk, and up to 12 days of standby time.
The Nokia 5070 will be available in red and blue colors.

The second device is the previously rumored Nokia 5700 XpressMusic, a phone that "adds a new twist to mobile music."
It's a 3G device that runs Symbian OS with S60 3rd edition (Feature pack 1 or 2, I guess).
The 5700 XpressMusic aims to bring the combination of a music and a smartphone lifestyle to the younger crowd. In terms of specs, the Nokia 5700 XpressMusic comes with a 2 MP camera, a hiqh-quality screen which can display up to 16 million colors, the standard 3.5mm audio jack, a Bluetooth with A2DP support and the loud stereo loudspeakers. Memory of the device is expandable with microSD cards. Interested parties should wait for the Q2 2007, when the Nokia 5700 XpressMusic will start selling for the price of 350 EUR, before taxes and subsidies.

Finally, the Nokia 7088 is a device that targets the fashion-aware crowd in the CDMA markets. This phone is part of the Nokia's L'Amour Collection, and we've already seen its first photos, as well as the FCC's approval. The Nokia 7088 a slider feature phone that boasts the high-quality screen, a camera, a voice recorder, and a music player. It is expected to be available in selected markets in Asia/Pacific, Middle East, Africa, China and Latin America during the 2nd quarter of 2007."


These phones arent available yet through Nokia...
But I've been considering putting something on the mobizines.com web site asking for volunteers/offering prizes for the first consumers to get Mobizines working on these phones...

Thoughts?

Minor bug fix release this morning*

We've just rolled out a new server release (no need to update your Mobizines client: it's just at our end) that fixes a problem some Symbian Edition 3 handsets were having where they couldn't get beyond the initial Mobizines catalogue download.

If you've recently tried installing Mobizines on a fancy new Nokia and have run into this problem it's worth having another try.

* That has to be the most exciting headline on the blog yet.

Look! We've got an N95!

Well - we've got three actually...

...and Guess what?!
Mobizines looks GREAT on it!

I managed to let the techies upstairs let one out of their sight for a whole week a little while back and I can safely say you are looking at the phone of 2007.

Do not misunderstand me when I say this - I'm not talking about 'the phone' that everyone will be chatting/blogging about (they're already doing that).
What I'm saying is - by the middle of the Summer; EVERYONE YOU KNOW WILL HAVE ONE.

Y'know how right now everyone's either got an N73 or a Sony K800i?
(that's the case in this office anyway)
Well forget about your iphones buddy - the N95 is the way forward.

What can I tell you about it?
Hmmm... Well - a few mobile bloggers have their own N95 RIGHT NOW - so there's probably not much I can tell you that hasn't been covered already...
My own opinion?
It's cool.

It slides both ways, which is cool.
It has a 'proper' headphone jack, which is cool.
It has a massive screen, which is cool.
It's got an AMAZING camera, which is also cool.
Nokia Pop-port? No.
Mini USB Port? Yes.

That last point - I'm sure it will a good thing in the long run (no - scrap that - I'm certain, I've already half-inched my colleague's blackberry cable) but Nokia just keeps changing things! AARGH!

That doesn't really count though - the phone is amazing and really needs to be seen to be believed.
Vodafone have promised me my own one in 2wks. These things often get delayed so we'll see - but if you manage to see one out on the market, get one!

Then once you've got one - Get Mobizines!