Many Chinese companies have been making rip offs of numerous devices, but this one is surely worth mentioning. The NokiPhone N3000i is basically a combination of iPhone and Nokia’s N95. It has the looks of an iPhone and sliding features borrowed from Nokia N95.

It is a Tri-Band GSM 900/1800/1900MHz phone with 3.2-inch screen. It comes with a 2MP camera too. Here are its full specs:

• Screen : 16:9 wide screen, 260k QVGA
• Dual sim cards work at the same time – Dual Standby
• Bluetooth 2.0
• Key input
• Dual speakers
• Language : English/ French/ Vietnamese/ Arabic/ Russian/ Thailand
• T-Flash Card Supporting, 256 TF included
• Camera : factory print 5.0 mega pixels(2MP actually), max output is 1280*960, support video with sound, the time depended on storage
• Stereo Loud speaker, 64 chord ring tone
• MP4, AVI, Support to play in full screen, speed/pause and play AVI film
• GPRS & WAP connectivity, MMS Transceiver
• U disk support function to keep the information storage
• Calendar, To do list, Alarm, World Clock, Spotwatch
• Caller picture, caller Ring Tone, Caller Video
• Video Recorder, photo Editor, Audio Player, Sound Recorder
• Telephone directories : 300 groups of contacts, support MP3 ring, can use downloaded MP3 as SMS rings, 200 SMS, support MMS; can use downloaded MP3 as SMS rings
• Games : 1 common games
• More information : MP3, MP4, Handsfree, SMS group sending, Voice recorder, WAP, Handwritten input, Bluetooth, GPRS download, MMS, Memory extended

It costs $129.99 and chinnagrabber claims that you get best of both worlds. Well, kinda..

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Looks like the Nokia is not happy with the privacy laws prevailing in Finland. Nokia is now giving a threat that it will move away from it’s home country, if the laws which block other companies from poking into their employee’s emails are not introduced. On the other hand, Finland’s Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen straight away denied that they have received no threats from Nokia that they would leave Finland, if the laws needs to be changed.

The company generates around 1.3 billion euros (1.7 billion dollars) worth of tax revenues and employs 16,000 people in Finland

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Nokia and bit-side GmbH today announced that an agreement has been signed for Nokia to acquire substantially all assets of bit-side. Bit-side is a privately owned Berlin-based professional services and software company with 39 employees. By acquiring bit-side Nokia will strengthen and accelerate its mobile development for Nokia Maps.

“Acquiring bit-side enables Nokia to offer consumers the world-leading mobile location applications, such as Maps, along with routing and navigation at an accelerated speed” said Michael Halbherr, vice president and head of social location, Nokia. “Nokia has been working with bit-side since 2007, and bit-side has become a strategic development partner to Nokia.”

At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Nokia (NYSE: NOK) will showcase the industry’s broadest and most exciting mobile device portfolio including the coveted Nokia N97 mobile computer, the multiple award-winning Nokia E71 and new devices announced for North America. CES also marks the first public debut in North America of the highly anticipated Nokia N97 mobile computer which has been repeatedly commended as one of the most stylish, functional and impressive converged mobile devices to date.
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Nokia has added a new section to its mobile website (nokia.mobi) called Here & Now which provides the latest world news, music, celebrity buzz, as well as information on Nokia services and products.

Featuring downloads, music, news, celebrity buzz, and a section to discover more information about Nokia’s service offerings, Here & Now is designed as an easily accessible means to get to know more about Nokia devices and enhance the mobile experience.

http://nokia.mobi

Nokia announced today that it has expanded its Supernova range of devices with fresh, new colors reflecting the latest runway trends, as well as enhanced services. Here is more info:

The Nokia Supernova 7610, 7510, 7310 and 7210 are now available in additional colors including Graphite and Passionate Purple. Building on the existing music and entertainment experiences offered by the Supernova range, the enhanced services let people share their images and video with friends through Ovi Share, as well as keep up to date with friends via Nokia Maps and instant messaging with Windows Live Messenger.

The Nokia Supernova range of products lets consumers express their personal styles on a number of levels ranging from bold colors, to exchangeable covers. Aimed at style conscious men and women who want to stay connected, the Supernova range delivers exceptional mobile functionality alongside a variety of social entertainment experiences.

In an event held today in Nanjing Nokia unveiled the Nokia 6208c, a new pen input device which caters for a number of different customers, specifically those in China. The touch screen on the 6208c is optimized to write Chinese characters and messages in the most natural way, with a pen. The design of the stylus, attached to the back of the phone, is inspired by bamboo slips and works perfectly with the large color display which is reminiscent of an ink stone, another element from traditional Chinese art and culture. All these design cues are implemented using premium materials such as the stainless steel back cover, which makes the handset both easy to use and comfortable to hold.

With a 3.2 megapixel camera, dual LED flash and 4x digital zoom, the Nokia 6208c makes capturing memories and sharing moments simple and easy. The large input area features larger fonts for messaging and browsing as well as viewing pictures and web pages. The new handset also supports optional microSD cards up to 8GB, providing ample memory for images, videos, music and more.

The Nokia 6208c is expected to start shipping in select markets in the first half of 2009.

Mail on Ovi, the free email account from Nokia, is now ‘live’ and can be set up directly on Nokia phones without requiring a PC to get started. People who use Nokia Series 40 devices can create their own email address directly on their mobile phones. The Ovi email account gives a person all the features and functionalities of a typical PC-based email account. During the Beta period, consumers will be able to choose from 12 languages based on the settings of their device, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Hindi, Bengali, Tagalog, Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Malaysia.

“We’re creating a mindset shift with mobile messaging. Mail on Ovi is the first-ever email service which allows people to create an account directly on their mobile phone, and start using it right away” said Senior Vice President Tom Furlong, who oversees Consumer Messaging initiatives within Nokia’s Services & Software organization. “Rather than focusing purely on push email for the world’s most advanced mobile users, we are mobilizing email across Nokia’s mainstream device portfolio, while giving consumers in emerging markets their first email account, Mail on Ovi, as well as their very own internet identity. These people are the new ‘mobile digital natives’ who will exclusively use their mobile phones for email and internet, rather than a PC.”

Mobile phone users from India, Malaysia and the Philippines have been able to use the Beta service since November, with extremely encouraging results, and the availability is now being extended to the rest of the world. Continue…

Nokia announced today that Research In Motion (RIM) has renewed a multi-year patent license agreement. The agreement covers the worldwide use of standards essential patents for GSM, WCDMA and CDMA2000 technologies.  The financial terms of the agreement consist of an up-front payment and on-going royalties payable to Nokia.

‘Today’s announcement demonstrates the success of Nokia’s increased focus on patent out-licensing’ said Ilkka Rahnasto, Vice President, Intellectual Property Rights, Nokia. ‘This agreement confirms Nokia’s leading role in developing key technologies and the value of our patent assets’.

Nokia is the industry leader in wireless innovation and the development of GSM and WCDMA technologies. Nokia has built one of the strongest and broadest IPR portfolios in the wireless industry and since the early 1990’s has invested close to EUR 35 billion in research and development. Nokia’s patent portfolio includes approximately 300 GSM, 370 WCDMA and 170 CDMA2000 declared essential patent families. Continue…

Nokia announced today that Research In Motion (RIM) has renewed a multi-year patent license agreement. The agreement covers the worldwide use of standards essential patents for GSM, WCDMA and CDMA2000 technologies.  The financial terms of the agreement consist of an up-front payment and on-going royalties payable to Nokia.

‘Today’s announcement demonstrates the success of Nokia’s increased focus on patent out-licensing’ said Ilkka Rahnasto, Vice President, Intellectual Property Rights, Nokia. ‘This agreement confirms Nokia’s leading role in developing key technologies and the value of our patent assets’.
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Nokia today announced that it has completed its offer to acquire Symbian Limited. All conditions to Nokia’s offer to acquire Symbian Limited have been satisfied and it has received valid acceptance of greater than 99.9% of the total Symbian shares that Nokia did not already own. Symbian is the software company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market-leading open operating system for mobile devices.

The closing of the offer is a fundamental step in the establishment of the Symbian Foundation, announced on June 24, 2008 by Nokia, together with AT&T, LG Electronics, Motorola, NTT DOCOMO, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, ST-NXP Wireless, Texas Instruments and Vodafone.

All Symbian employees are planned to become Nokia employees on February 1, 2009.

Tilting touch display, QWERTY keyboard and personalized home screen – a true mobile computer

Nokia today unveiled the Nokia N97, the world’s most advanced mobile computer, which will transform the way people connect to the Internet and to each other. Designed for the needs of Internet-savvy consumers, the Nokia N97 combines a large 3.5″ touch display with a full QWERTY keyboard, providing an ‘always open’ window to favorite social networking sites and Internet destinations. Nokia’s flagship Nseries device introduces leading technology – including multiple sensors, memory, processing power and connection speeds – for people to create a personal Internet and share their ’social location.’

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