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Nokia E75 vs N82 Image Gallery

Many people have been wondering about the size of the Nokia E75, worrying that it’s too big or that it doesn’t easily fit in a pocket. In order to set things straight, here is a small picture gallery comparing it to everyone’s favorite cameraphone Nseries, the Nokia N82. From the images, you can notice how well built the E75 is, how small it is, especially in terms of thickness compared to the N82, and how pocketable its form factor is.

Many of my friends have taken a look at the E75 and told me that they would love to own one, as it looks like a usual phone, but when you slide open the keypad, you get all the qwerty goodness and all the power inside. I have to say that I agree with them.
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Nokia N85 vs N82 – Part 3 : Camera

The Nokia N82 remains the king of the darkness in terms of picture quality, as far as Nokia devices are concerned, especially thanks to its Xenon flash. So how does the new Nokia standard, the Dual-LED flash perform in comparison to the Xenon, in pitch darkness? Are the pictures good enough? Are the videos better? Here is the answer to your questions, as the 3rd part of our N85 vs N82 comparison.

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Nokia E75 vs E71, Camera Comparison

After having brought you an amazing E75 picture gallery, as well as a comparison of the device with its older brother, the Nokia E71, here is a comparison of both devices’ camera performance. Both handsets sport a 3.2MP camera, with no special lenses (ie no Carl Zeiss lenses like the ones found on Nseries), but with autofocus and an LED flash. Even though, on paper, the specs are pretty similar, the performance and the results speak for themselves. The E71’s pictures are grainy, washed out, have a violet tone to them, whereas the pictures taken by the E75 are more vibrant and more realistic. Continue reading “Nokia E75 vs E71, Camera Comparison”

Nokia E75 and N85 Video Reviews

If you’re sick of all the N85 and E75 coverage on FoneArena, then you should turn your head, as here comes a heavy N85/E75 post. We’ve been showing you image galleries of the two devices, we also showed you comparisons with the E71 as well as the N82, in terms of external looks, as well as camera performance, and other cool things. Now is the time to show you how both of these babies perform when it comes to actually turning them on and using them. In the two-part review of each device, we go over the hardware, the design, the menus, some applications, and we show you what we like and what we don’t. You have a demonstration of some games and Nokia Messaging on the E75, of the FM Transmitter and the camera on the N85, as well as many other goodies.

So here they are, two video reviews of both handsets, in 2 parts each, totalling some 38minutes of mobile goodness. Get a cup of coffee and enjoy! (P.S: the volume on the E75 video review is low, my apologies for that, you’ll have to crank up the volume on your speakers!)

Nokia E75 Review Part 1

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNmXSq8Q4cA

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Nokia N85 vs N82 – Part 2 : OLED vs LCD

The 2nd part of our Nokia N85 vs N82 comparison tackles the N85’s biggest addition: the OLED display. OLED which stands for Organic Light Emitting Diode bring a new technology to the N85’s screen removing the small light bulbs from underneath it, and thus allowing for more accurate color renditions, darker blacks and a better contrast. Here is a comparison of the same image being displayed on the N82 (regular LCD screen) and the N85 (OLED screen).

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Nokia Launching a 12 Megapixel Camera Phone

As we all know, Nokia may well be the only top brand that is let behind in the Megapixel race. Brands like Samsung, Sony Ericsson etc have announced their 12 Megapixel phones which are on their way to the markets while Nokia’s top cameraphone, the Nokia N86 sports only an 8 Megapixel camera.

Nokia said that it doesn’t believe in the Megapixel count and wishes to focus more on the lens quality etc. But since most of this is not known to public, they will opt for the devices from Samsung etc with more Megapixel count and Nokia will end up losing a lot of sales. Continue reading “Nokia Launching a 12 Megapixel Camera Phone”

Nokia N85 vs N82 – Part 1 : Hardware

After having brought you the Nokia N85 picture gallery review, we tackle a small comparison with its older brother, the N82. The first part of this comparison is axed on hardware and design.

Both devices bring the black plastic and shiny look in the design category. The N85’s screen is bigger and more vibrant due to its OLED technology.

The N85 is shorter, due to its slider design and also thinner, making it more pocketable and easily carried in a hand. The replacement of the useless Gallery key (N82) with a keylock key (N85) is a welcome addition as it allows to quickly lock and unlock the handset. Continue reading “Nokia N85 vs N82 – Part 1 : Hardware”

Nokia N97 Unboxing Pictures

We have unboxing pictures of the Nokia N97 here for you. After you watched the unboxing video here are some pics of the N97 retail box. Its not a normal flashy nokia box with tons of marketing material on the outside. Then box has a nice engraving on the top and feels to touch. We could not even find the package contents printed any where. The box is just plain and simple and made of eco-friendly recyclable material.

Nokia’s Ambarish mentioned about the the company’s commitment to make it’s retail boxes smaller and eco-friendly.

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Nokia N97 Black Unboxing Video

Here’s the Unboxing video of the Nokia N97 Black Edition

I just fell in love with the slider mechanism of the N97 and the build quality of the phone. The display is very good and Touchscreen is far more responsive than 5800. I also like the handwriting recognition present in the input options. I added bunch of rss feeds to my homescreen and loving it ! Continue reading “Nokia N97 Black Unboxing Video”

The Apple iPhone 3GS Review

A friend of mine Jonty sent me this review of the Apple iPhone 3GS from Canada. While we wait for the phone to launch in India, Jonty brings us a short review of the device along with some great pics. Go ahead and read the Apple iPhone 3GS Review – the first on any indian site !

I’ve been a long time cellphone connoisseur, and have used phones from all major platforms such as Blackberry OS, iPhone OS X, S60v3, S60v5, and WM6/6.1. Last week, Apple announced a new iPhone. The question that arose after the keynote was – Should you get it?

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Nokia N85: Image Review

N97 aside, the N85 is one of the most recent Nseries devices offering a range of features and combining the best of Nokia into one handset. Many people are calling it the N95 successor, or the better N95 as it takes the flagship’s dual slide design but adds a lot more to it in terms of battery, RAM, internal memory and hardware features. Here is an image review of the N85, but we also have a video review that we will publish later.

The N85 is a slider device. The main unit packs a 2.6″ screen with an accelerometer that rotates the display to landscape when needed. On top of it is the speakerphone with the front camera and the light sensor. Below it are the d-pad which also functions as a Navi-Wheel, the multimedia key and the red and green call keys. Another set of keys, that only light up when the device is being used are the right and left softkeys and the menu button and delete key. Continue reading “Nokia N85: Image Review”

Nokia N86 8MP Hands on Pics from India Launch Event

We grabbed some pics of the Nokia N86 8MP at the launch event in India yesterday. The phone fits really well in the hand and the build quality is really good. There was no wobbling even though the phone has a 2 way slider mechanism. The keypad is really nice with large keys. The home screen had a new clock but could not figure out what exactly it was.The design is very similar to the N85 but its not glossy but a matte finish. Here is the monster 8 MP Camera with Carl Zeiss optics on the back.

It has a nice shutter and the keystand is also present around the camera. A nice metallic is present around the corners of the device and even in the menu key.

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Search for N Contest Winners Announced

The Search for N Contest to Win a N97 has officially come to an end at 8 am today. Nokia India has picked the 2 winners from each website. The winners will be contacted by Nokia by SMS and Email. Here are the 2 two lucky winners from FoneArena.

	Winner 1		Varun goyal
	Winner 2		Manish Aggarwal

We would like to congratulate the winners. And to all of you who took part in the contest , a Big Thank You from the FoneArena team. It was a contest that had thousands of submissions and sadly only 2 winners.We would like to thank all of you for your support and participation.

Nokia N97 Mobile Multimedia Monster

UPDATE :Winners have been announced.

Welcome to Day 5 of Search for N to Win a Nokia N97.

Question : What’s currently the largest storage available for any Nokia ?

Please read the article and submit your answer below in the N97 phone.

Nokia is calling its phones mobile computers. Nokia N97 is certainly a mobile multimedia monster.Even a 2 year old kid called the N97 a laptop when he looked at the pictures of the phone.With over 32 GB of inbuilt memory and a microSD memory card slot, the N97 can store hours of music and videos. I am really excited about watching movies on its 16×9 inch screen.Also the tile angle of the screen seems interesting.

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The Nokia N97 QWERTY Keyboard

Welcome to Day 4 of Search for N Contest to win Nokia N97. The N97 has a revolutionary keyboard.

Today’s question : What are the first six letters in the modern day keyboard layout ? There are a lot of interesting things about the keyboard on the phone.Its got 3 rows of keys which are nicely spaced apart.The first question I asked N97 Designer, Axel Meyer was about the space bar on the QWERTY keypad.The space bar is pretty tiny and finds it place on the right side. Normally one would expect a larger spacebar and also positioned at the center. But Axel suggested that I use the keyboard for a while and see how it worked. After I used the space bar on the right, i actually found it easy to use. It seems that this new keyboard follows haptics effectively(Haptics is study of human touching behaviour)

The full QWERTY keyboard with nice backlighting

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