Nokia X7 Testing

A Tough Phone built for the Wild West….
Testing of the New Nokia X7 is going well, impressed with the solid build and speed of the new operating system.

Nokia X7 Testing
Stands out with a 4-inch AMOLED Screen – 8 megapixel Camera creates an impressive 3264 x 2440 pixels image (image from http://noknok.tv/) great for viewing HD videos and Photos.
The Nokia X7 is the only smartphone with a large Nokia 4-inch screen. The larger screen means movies come to life and playing games is a great deal more immersive [tested].
Screen size also views maps and navigation effortlessly. No QWERTY keyboard (uses the virtual keyboard sans input) then the Nokia X7 is the way to go.

#NokiaUnfenced Nokia X7 Testing

Symbian Anna Operating System
Symbian Anna is the latest version of the Symbian installed on the Nokia X7, delivering a faster and smoother user experience, quicker load times and a host of new features. Comes with a 680 MHz processor.
Unique Design and Solid Build.

If you like a solid metal feel to your phone own the Nokia X7. Too many smartphones simply look.The Nokia X7 is all about standing out from the crowd with its opt-angular sided styling. It’s a winner.

New Nokia Maps (3.08) Reviewed
This comes with a new version of Nokia Maps, 3.08. which brings a number of changes to the Drive (car navigation) functionality of the application. The new feature is the ab

utility to use live traffic information to automatically re-route you around traffic delays. New look and feel to the user interface ( have added “Just drive” mode), This version has can set a contact as a destination and an easier to use settings menu. The new beta also marks the brand switch from the Ovi Maps back to Nokia Maps.
Nokia Maps 3.08 beta is available for all Symbian 3 devices: Nokia N8, Nokia C7, Nokia C6-01, Nokia X7, Nokia E6 and Nok

ia E7.

New Nokia Maps 3.08 Reviewed

Faster Nokia Maps – And GPS Fix with assisted GPS is fast under 30 seconds.
(source of image All About Symbian)

Camera – X7 Camera Shots
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gletham/sets/72157627044792323/
by Glenn Letham


http://www.flickr.com/photos/roland/with/5920752728/
and Roland Tanglao

Plastic is dead bring on the stainless steel
Nice design, the age old plastic phones is gone a makes the smartphone sporting and good to hold. The stainless steel of the Nokia X7 adds sturdiness without compromising on weight. Expect a rugged life.
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Big thanks to womworld/1000heads for their organising and hospitality so far. Post will be updated through the weekend.
Map of the Ranch with Photos..

Nokia admits defeat

It’s official. Nokia has retreated from the smartphone OS battlefield, dominated by Apple and Android, and announced phasing out of the Symbian OS. But the company is not giving up just yet as it will be joining forces with Microsoft and switching to Windows Mobile OS.

Nokia was once a dominant player in the industry but has failed to innovate and dropped its market share to only 27.1% , according to Gartner. Symbian, an open source operating system and software platform designed for smartphones and maintained by Nokia, is a casualty. The scale is tipping now in favor of operating system providers and away from hardware vendors and the market will now be shared between three giants – Google, Apple and Microsoft.

This new development resembles very much what happened in personal computers market a few decades ago. In 2009 I have written a post discussing the scenario of market power shift to operating systems providers. Android barely registered then in statistics so it looked like Symbian was to become the open source equivalent to Linux. Now it seems rather unlikely and this title will most likely go to Android OS. The only difference between PC and mobile market scenarios is a large dominance of open source operating system but the rest plays out almost exactly like a few decades ago (ie. Apple vs Microsoft vs open source community)! This is one more proof that history tends to repeat itself and therefore we should expect many more similarities to PC market: Dell-like handset customisation, liberation of content and apps on mobile devices as with the advent of the Internet, emergence of new service providers that will eventually muscle out the power from operating system providers, etc. etc…

Update

More details emerged on the Nokia Microsoft deal. It looks like Microsoft it taking a gamble for long term gains, paying Nokia $1B up front to switch to Windows OS…