Nokia N900 Linux-based Mobile Computer

clipped from www.heise.de

Nokia announces N900 mobile computer

With less than one week before the start of this years Nokia World in Stuttgart, Germany, Nokia has officially announced its new Maemo-based next generation Internet Tablet. The N900 isn't Nokia's first Internet Tablet (770, N800, N810), but it is the companies first that also includes a GSM and 3G/UMTS modem, making it a fully fledged smartphone. Previous models could only connect to the Internet via the built-in Wi-Fi connection or via a Bluetooth link to another mobile phone.

clipped from www.nokia.com

Maemo 5 injects speed and power into mobile computing

August 27, 2009

The new Nokia N900: Computer-grade performance in a handset

Espoo, Finland - Nokia today marked the next phase in the evolution of Maemo software with the new Nokia N900. Taking its cues from the world of desktop computing, the open source, Linux-based Maemo software delivers a PC-like experience on a handset-sized device.

The Nokia N900 has evolved from Nokia's previous generation of Internet Tablets and broadens the choice for technology enthusiasts who appreciate the ability to multitask and browse the internet like they would on their desktop computer.

Running on the new Maemo 5 software, the Nokia N900 empowers users to have dozens of application windows open and running simultaneously while taking full advantage of the cellular features, touch screen and QWERTY keyboard.

clipped from www.youtube.com

Nokia N900 - Video Promo

clipped from www.youtube.com

N900 interaction documentary

clipped from maemo.nokia.com

Maemo brings the power of computers to mobile devices. Designed with the internet at its core, Linux-based Maemo software takes us into a new era of mobile computing.

See the features

clipped from maemo.nokia.com

At the heart of this mobile computer is its powerful 600 MHz processor and up to 1GB of application memory.

The built-in 32 GB storage is big enough to store up to 7,000 of your favourite songs or 40 hours of DVD-quality video.

For the first time get high-speed broadband that’s as fast as an internet connection at home.

Capture vivid images and DVD-quality widescreen video with the integrated 5-megapixel camera.

Powerful hardware packed into a sleek, compact design.

Find your position quickly and accurately with the built-in Assisted-GPS receiver.

clipped from www.youtube.com

Maemo 5 user interface

Sources:

1. heise online - Nokia announces N900 mobile computer
2. Nokia - ShowPressRelease
3. YouTube - Nokia N900 - Video Promo
4. YouTube - N900 interaction documentary
5. Maemo software | Nokia › The software behind your mobile computer
6. Maemo software | Nokia › Nokia N900 mobile computer
7. YouTube - Maemo 5 user interface

Related:

1. An Early Peek at the Nokia N900 - Digits - WSJ
2. Nokia N900 finally announced, is Linux-based
3. maemo.org - maemo.org: Home of the Maemo community
4. maemo.org - Intro: The Home of the Maemo Community

Ambient Power for Cell Phones

Clipped from: Nokia developing phone that recharges itself without mains electricity | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Nokia developing phone that recharges itself without mains electricity

Prototype harvests radiowaves from TV, radio and other mobiles

Standby mode is often accused of being the scourge of the planet, insidiously draining resources while offering little benefit other than a small red light and extra convenience for couch potatos. But now Nokia reckons a mobile phone that is always left in standby mode could be just what the environment needs.

Clipped from: Technology Review: Wireless Power Harvesting for Cell Phones

Wireless Power Harvesting for Cell Phones

Nokia hopes to create a device that could harvest enough power to keep a cell phone topped up.

A cell phone that never needs recharging might sound too good to be true, but Nokia says it's developing technology that could draw enough power from ambient radio waves to keep a cell-phone handset topped up.

Ambient electromagnetic radiation--emitted from Wi-Fi transmitters, cell-phone antennas, TV masts, and other sources--could be converted into enough electrical current to keep a battery topped up, says Markku Rouvala, a researcher from the Nokia Research Centre, in Cambridge, U.K.

Clipped from: NRC Cambridge UK laboratory | Nokia Research Center

NRC Cambridge UK laboratory develops nanotechnologies for mobile communication and ambient intelligence. Studying physical, chemical and biological phenomena and manipulation of matter at the nanoscale enables generation of knowledge for enhancing human capabilities.


Scope of Nokia nanoscience and nanotechnology research.

Clipped from: Nano Devices, Cambridge UK | Nokia Research Center

Home > Research > Laboratories > NRC Cambridge UK laboratory > Nano Devices, Cambridge UK

Research topics

• [...]
  
• Enhanced energy and power capacity in mobile devices: As mobile devices become ever more capable and thus power-hungry, one key issue becomes increasingly important: the storage and efficient use of energy. In practical terms, this translates as the development of energy storage media that are able to provide more energy, both more quickly (for responsive operation) and for longer (less recharging needed) whilst occupying a smaller space. In addition, what if such devices could also harvest their own power without needing mains recharging? Here too, nanotechnology has an enabling role to play; electrodes incorporating nanostructures can to be fabricated with hugely-enhanced surface areas providing significantly increased charge-storing capacity. In this project, the University of Cambridge's great strength in novel nanomaterial synthesis, and their previous work developing polymer-carbon nanotube composites with controlled conduction is used to fabricate and test nanotube-enhanced supercapacitors and nanocomposite solar cells - all essential ingredients in a coherent approach to improved energy handling.
  

Sources:

1. Nokia developing phone that recharges itself without mains electricity | Environment | guardian.co.uk
2. Technology Review: Wireless Power Harvesting for Cell Phones
3. NRC Cambridge UK laboratory | Nokia Research Center
4. Nano Devices, Cambridge UK | Nokia Research Center

Related:

1. Inhabitat » Nokia Phone Charges by Drawing Energy Out of Thin Air
2. Nokia trying to charge mobiles with radio waves | // Pocket Picks //
3. Ambient power | Nokia Conversations

The Nokia E75 (reviews)

Clipped from: Nokia E75 smartphone announced - Mobiletor.com

Nokia E75 smartphone announced

Nokia has announced the availability of the much awaited Nokia E75 phone. The company claims that this new device is the first phone to come integrated with the Nokia Messaging and email services as well as to use a new email user interface.

Clipped from: Nokia - ShowPressRelease

Email the way you want it - Nokia E75 begins shipping
April 06, 2009

Espoo, Finland - The Nokia E75 has arrived in stores, bringing the company's best efficiency and productivity solution to the market. The new arrival is the first device to ship with the new email user interface, offering full desktop email functionality, and complete integration of Nokia's email and messaging services.

Clipped from: YouTube - Nokia E75

Nokia E75

Clipped from: Review: First look at the Nokia E75 messaging device | Smartphones and Cell Phones | ZDNet.com

Review: First look at the Nokia E75 messaging device

Clipped from: Ye Giant Nokia E75 Review | ZOMG its Cj

Ye Giant Nokia E75 Review

The E75 is positioned as the next Eseries Flagship device, with it’s formfactor stated to replace the E90 Communicator Series. The device however, comes fully loaded with features such as the 3.2 MegaPixels Camera, Slide-Out Qwerty Keyboard in addition to the AlphaNumeric Keypad. There’s GPS and Wifi built-in, and the mostly stainless steel finishing gives it a nice classy expensive feel and weight to the device.

Here are a couple of the features that the E75 boasts :

• 240 x 320 pixels 16M colors TFT Screen at 2.4 inches
• Symbian OS 3.2 (S60 V3 Feature Pack 2)
• ARM 11 369 MHz processor
• 3.2 MegaPixel Camera with autofocus and LED flash, VGA Video Recording at 30fps
• Quad-band GSM with Dual-band 3G with HSDPA support
• Wifi and GPS built in
• microSD card expandable, includes 4GB in package
• FM and Bluetooth
• Micro USB v2.0, suppports USB-Charging
• Standard 3.5mm Audio Jack
• Slide-out Full Qwerty Keyboard
• Accelerometer sensor for automatic UI rotation and motion-based features

Clipped from: YouTube - Nokia E75 Full Review

Nokia E75 Full Review

Full review of Nokia's slider QWERTY for the business set - thanks to the folks at WOMWorld for the loaner. What'd Noah think after a week or two with the E75? Watch and find out!

Sources:

1. Nokia E75 smartphone announced - Mobiletor.com
2. Nokia - ShowPressRelease
3. YouTube - Nokia E75
4. Review: First look at the Nokia E75 messaging device | Smartphones and Cell Phones | ZDNet.com
5. YouTube - First look at the Nokia E75
6. Ye Giant Nokia E75 Review | ZOMG its Cj
7. YouTube - Nokia E75 Full Review

Related:

1. Nokia Europe - Nokia E75 - Products
2. Nokia E75 video round up | Nokia Conversations
3. Nokia E75 Now Shipping : Email the Way You Want It | ZOMG its Cj

The Nokia Morph concept

Morph is a concept that demonstrates how future mobile devices might be stretchable and flexible, allowing the user to transform their mobile device into radically different shapes.

clipped from sparkingtech.com Nokia Morph concept - this futuristic gadget is all you’ll need Nokia has recently announced their Morph concept, a gadget which should (in about 100 years) replace everything you carry in your pocket today. clipped from www.nokia.com The Morph concept Featured in The Museum of Modern Art “Design and The Elastic Mind” exhibition, the Morph concept device is a bridge between highly advanced technologies and their potential benefits to end-users. This device concept showcases some revolutionary leaps being explored by Nokia Research Center (NRC) in collaboration with the Cambridge Nanoscience Centre (United Kingdom) – nanoscale technologies that will potentially create a world of radically different devices that open up an entirely new spectrum of possibilities. Flexible & Changing Design Self-Cleaning Advanced Power Sources Sensing The Environment To learn more about the “Design and The Elastic Mind” exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art visit MoMA webpage

Related:
Nokia Morph concept - this futuristic gadget is all you’ll need - Sparking Tech
Nokia - The Morph concept
Nokia - ShowPressRelease
Flexible Cellphone: Nokia Morph Cellphone Rolls Up, Stretches, Cleans Itself
Nokia unwraps bendy nanotech phone | Register Hardware
DVICE: Shapeshifting device of wonders: the Nokia Morph
nokia morph

Nokia GPS Phones -- Real Time Traffic Information

Nokia has developed software that allows data to be received from GPS enabled phones, which is then compiled and interpreted into traffic flow patterns. The plans are currently at concept stage, with a demonstration recently taking place as a joint venture between Nokia, California Center for Innovative Transportation (CCIT), CalTrans, and Berkeley's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

textually.org: Nokia GPS Phones to Fight the Traffic Plague

"This is really the first time that you can take an urban system, like a big city, and try to see in real time how it lives, how people move and what's happening in the city," says Carlo Ratti from MIT.

"In the city for example you've got taxis with GPS, you've got buses with GPS, and also you've got mobile phones.

"If you take that information and you apply artificial intelligence and algorithms to it, then you can understand very interesting things about the urban system," he says.

BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click | Beating congestion with mobiles

Related:
Article - TechJournal South - The Southeast's Source for Technology Business News
Lg Elec, Nortel to Set Up Jv to Provide Telecom Systems"
Concepts: Nokia GPS Phones to Fight the Traffic Plague