Nokia Phones: Phone Reviews and News

Top 56 mobile phones in Finland were all made by Nokia

Thu, 29 May 2008 09:35:16 +0300

Finland is sometimes called NokiaLand because the company Nokia comes from Finland and due to the fact that many people in Finland have a Nokia phone. A recent study shows that Nokia�s market share in Finalnd is 86%.

For the third year running, the most popular phone was still the old classic, the Nokia 3310 with a 5% market share. In fact, the 56 most popular phones were all made by Nokia. At the high end of the range, the most popular phone was the Nokia N70. Nokia held an overwhelming 99% share of the smartphone market in Finland.

From the other manufacturers, Korean phone manufacturer Samsung held about 4% the market, Sony Ericsson 3%, Benq-Siemens 3%, and Motorola less than 0.5%. Other manufacturers made up 1% of the market and 3% of the phones in the study were not identified.

Nokia�s market share has hardly changed in the past three years. Samsung and Sony Ericsson have slightly increased their market share, while Motorola and Siemens have lost out, researcher Antero Kivi told the Finnish news agency STT.The study was conducted in autumn 2007 and was based on information on four million mobile phones from telecom operators Sonera, Elisa (including Kolumbus) and DNA.

Mobile trends in Finland

The findings also showed that Finns change their mobile phones every 2.7 years. There were about 1,000 different phones being used in Finland. According to Kivi, the other manufacturers don�t have a model comparable to the Nokia 3310.

More than 70% of the phones in use had a colour screen and half included a camera. Manufacturers have great expectations regarding the gps feature on the latest models but the study showed that so far this has failed to take off. Only 2% of Finns used phones with gps last autumn and there were still only a few gps models available in the shops.

The third generation 3G phones gained an 18% share of the market, which was more than double the figure in 2006. The market share of the Symbian operating system also increased significantly from 12% in 2006 to 18% in 2007.

Markku from Finland :-)

Sun, 7 Oct 2007 17:23:53 +0300

Markku teaches facts about Finland, cell phone throwing and the S60 the operating system.

Sony Rolly blog

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:02:30 +0300

This has nothing to do with Nokia, but I promised to promote my friends Sony Rolly blog. What�s Sony Rolly? Follow the link and find out!

Talk About a Cell Phone Collection!

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:34:47 +0300

Cell Phone Collection

Darla Mack has a post about Anssi Hautabackas Nokia Collection. It�s huge and Darla asks if anyone can top that? I don�t exactly know how many Nokia phones Anssi has, but I know another finn that also has a huge collection of cell phones and most of them are Nokia. About-nokia.com proudly presents alias M�Cs� (from a finnish cell phone community) cell phone collection (picture above). M�Cs� says he had 101 phones during the year 2005!

Nokia Power Pack DC-1

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:25:25 +0300

Nokia Power Pack DC-1

The Nokia Power Pack DC-1 has reserve power in a portable package, so you can take the equivalent of up to three batteries with you and recharge your device when you need it. Nokia Power Pack DC-1 is compatible with Nokia 2mm charging interfaces, the power pack has two charge output cables so you can charge two phones at the same time. Available globally, it will cost an estimated 105 euro, without taxes.

We Say: Well if you cannot make better batteries this is one way to tackle the problem...

tags: Nokia, Power, Pack, DC-1

Carnival 79 at Route 79!

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:54:24 +0300

The 79th edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists is up at Route 79!

1,6 million or 36 % of Finns have a radio on their cell phone!

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:53:51 +0300

Cell phone radio

According to Finnpanel 1,6 million Finns (older than 9 years) have a radio on their cell phone. You might say "that�s not much", but that is actually 36 % of the finnish population (in 2005 the figure was 17 %).

Other figures from the newlu released research say 16 % use the radio on their cell phone weekly. I was little suprised about that radio usage was most popular for kids under 15 years of age and when at the same time 60 % of 15-24 years old have a radio on their cell phone.

Well what does this mean? You propably know the song "Video killed the radio star"? Excellent song! Maybe we will have a new song "Cell phone resurrected the radio star :-)

* Finnpanel is owned by TNS Gallup Oy and A.C. Nielsen Finland Oy and is specialized in panel research focusing on Television and Radio Audience Measurement. The original research press release (in finnish). More about Finland (Wikipedia) or NokiaLand.

Nokia N95 Video

Wed, 6 Jun 2007 21:28:45 +0300

I took this short video clip when we were at our summer place. It�s Johannes (5 years) fishing. Watch the whole video it�s getting better at the end :-)

Nokia N95 Software Update

Thu, 17 May 2007 18:50:34 +0300

Nokia N95 Software Update

I made the first software update for my new Nokia N95. If you are a Nokia smartphone user you might know you can update your phone software over the air or using a PC and the Nokia PC Suite. It�s very easy and I recommend doing it. Usually the updates are small bug fixes, but if you are lucky you might get a better camera by updating your phone - It�s all about software these days...The firmware update I performed was to 11.0.0.26. This update should improve speed, imaging and more.

Nokia N95 firmware update 11.0.0.26

Improvements

# Video stabilization
# Exposure
# Video sharpness and noise
# Images visibility in browser
# General stability for browser
# Refreshing web page functionality
# WLAN stability
# Stability to BT connectivity
# USB stability
# General stability
# Maps stability
# Barcode reader icon changed

Thanks to the update I lost all my contacts and some recently installed applications :-(. I didn�t loose all the programs I installed since I got the phone. I lost Shozu and ScreenCapture, but didnt loose Opera Mini and Widsets...

Nokia firmware update for N95

My Nokia N95 Review

Tue, 15 May 2007 21:55:29 +0300

Nokia N95

My wife really needed a new phone so I gave her my Nokia N70 and got myself a new phone. Ok, lets call it a gadget or should I say device? Anyway compared to the N70 my new phone, a Nokia N95 has a lot of new features and cannot be called a phone only. It has a 5 megapixel camera, GPS, WiFi (WLAN) and a lot of other nice features.

Operating System
The Nokia N95 runs the latest version of the Symbian OS (S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1). Compared to previous versions or editions of the Symbian OS the updates are quite small - you get a new version of S60 web browser with some new features like improved RSS and Flash Lite support. Also support for more Bluetooth profiles (A2DP stereo audio profile). The UI (user interface) has some small changes too - a notification graphic over the icons of applications that are open. Overall feeling for me is a faster and more stable device than previous Nokias I used.

N95 camera
The camera has 5 megapixels, uses Carl Zeiss optics and has a lens cover (good!). The camera has a lot of extra settings, but I have used only the standard ones. Settings include 4 ISO settings, contrast and sharpness adjustment. Look here for Nokia N95 pictures (from Flickr)

Usability
The usability of the device is ok. If you are used to a Nokia smartphone there is now big news when it comes to the operating system, desktop shortcuts etc. The device uses the Symbian OS (operating system) and technical specs are S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1. The keyboard is large enough and the five way navigation works better than on some old Nokia models.

Music
When you pull down the top of the N95 you can see the multimedia controls and as you see from the picture below these include forward, pause / play, stop and rewerse to control the Music Player. This could be handy, but I must admit that I have been using only the preinstalled music player and the default controls in that player.

The speaker output on the N95 is suprisingly good for such a small device. We used my N95 as a "jukebox" at our companys spring party when we forgot to our gettoblaster at home. The has a a 3.5mm standrad audio jack - Great! The microSD card slot takes cards up to 2GB in size.

I say: Compared to my previous phone (Nokia N70) the N95 is more future packed, but of course much more expensive. The other cons are short battery life and the FM radio quality. At least the radio on my N95 has more "channel noise" than my N70 radio.

Compared to my previous phone the pros of this device is the quality camera and video capture, GPS and WLAN (WiFi). Despite all these features the device is not as big as one could expect. Also some of the features like the GPS require a bigger display which automatically makes the device bigger.

More info: Nokia N95

tags: nokia, n95