Mobile Royale - An Asian Perspective on Mobile Industry

Our good friend Steve Litchfield over at AllAboutSymbian has posted a nice comparison of video recording audio quality in Nokia N82, N93 and N95. Click here to find out who the winner is!

A new firmware update for Nokia N82, v20.0.062 is available now. The main noticeable features include Flash Lite 3, web runtime apps (widgets) and integrated Geo Tagging. Head over to AllAboutSymbian for a detailed report and some screenshots!

Details of the North American version of Nokia N78, including external and internal photos plus the user manual, have been posted at the FCC website. The device product code is RM-236, which differes from the N78-1's product code of RM-235 for the LACK OF 3G AND WI-FI ! Read for yourself and see the photos at at TheNokiaBlog.com.

The new web browser for Windows Mobile enabled mobile phones, Skyfire, is close to completion of a new Skyfire version on the N95. An engineer at Skyfire revealed that it is working great at an IntoMobile news discussion. It seems that we can expect Skyfire on S60 devices soon!

Is your smartphone battery above or below the red line of capacity? Read a nice article by Steve from All About Symbian, click here.

The all new Nokia N96 has made a few appearances at Mobile Royale already. It has a lot of new tech gadget options - Technology Rocks! But is it really worth buying? Looking decent enough, the phone is a hybrid of the N95 and iPhone 16GB. Although it is still too early to find out whether the N96 prototype REALLY had a 16GB onboard, the appearance of a memory expansion slot must be appreciated. With a 5MP cam, 16GB internal memory, DVB-H and a lot of great new features, it really is worth a reading. Read more on it at All About Symbian here. A great preview by Steve, our friend.

A German Nokia webmaster has leaked N96 specs. It's 125g in weight, 5MP cam with Carl Zeiss optics, 30fps VGA video recording and dual LED flash, Wi Fi, Flash Lite 3 supported browser, AGPS, DVB-H, 2.8" 240x320 16M, MicroUSB, Dual Band 850/2100 HSDPA and the VERY SPECIALS being
*16GB Internal memory AND a microSD card slot. Upgrade to 24GB for an extra $80.
*S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2
My guesses sometime ago haven't go wrong, check in the archives to see my N96 review. Expect more details soon!

This is the Nokia Roundup of the last week. This feature lists the most important incidents and news that took place relating to Nokia (and specially N Series). And the hottest Nokia News this week is - N-Gage First Access !!!

* RotateMe 2.0 came out of beta
* Fring improved with file sharing capabilities
* Open Signed Online beta was launched
* N-Gage First Access was launched
* Opera Mobile 9.5 was announced
* Nokia became the official sponsor of the Grammy Awards
* Twango beame Ovi Share
* N82 Black version became available
* Widsets Challenge 2008 was opened

Stay tuned to Mobile Royale for more hot news coverage !

The Black colour version of N82 was made available from Nokia USA online stores yesterday. The basic features are as same as the original white colour N82. Wow! Now it looks stunning. I feel that N78 will not be announced tomorrow. N78 is predicted to be having Wi-Fi and a 3.2 Mega Pixels camera and there are rumours that it will be announced on Feb 8th or so. Many suggest that it will be Nokia's long awaited N73 replacement. However, all these stuff on N78, including the specs are still rumours.

This pic, along with a few more, appeared on the internet late last year. They are of N96, a not yet released Nokia product, which sometimes might not ever see the sun and be limited to just another testing prototype, but it deserves a writing. The phone has a Symbian S60 interface, but looks different from the current Symbian 9.2 platform and could possibly be the future Symbian 9.5. It has three menu options assigned for the key pad (like in S40 v3), instead of the two on current S60 devices. The phone lacks the Symbian pencil key, but we can be assured that the hash key has the same functionality. There seems to be a secondary video call camera, but it's not clear enough in the photos. The phone has music player controls, and interestingly, the controls are centered around the D-pad. The phone can be set in a speaker mounted position using the camera lens cover (I'll post that pic later), which will make listening to music a pleasant experience. Those are clues that this is a music oriented device. Which could have been a winner for Nokia if they released it. Who knows, may be they'll release it on time for the Ovi launch.



:The pics are NOT fake. I'll try to post more pics later, it's a bit troublesome for me as I'm mobile blogging.