As part of reorganization and labor shortage, Nokia planned to move four production lines from Salo factory, Finland, to Korea. Those four are categorized as early stage production, while six early stage stayed remained. The final assembly will be focused in Salo.
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For those who own N800 and N810 Tablet, Nokia just released OS2008 (v.2007.50-2) for both gadgets. The idea is making the User Interface more friendly.
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Leaked in the internet, the new slim clamshell of Sony Ericsson. Z660, the next in line of stylish and fashionable clamshell series, may represent RAZR form factor with W880 feature. Reported to have 14 mm thin, 3G connectivity, 2 megapixels camera, and new User Interface A200 as being introduced in K850.
Source: Just AMP, CellPhoneVibes
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As the Sony Ericsson W960 been available in the market, people may need guidance for using brand new Walkman 3.0, especially navigate it with stylus. User can set rating of the music played or changing visual background. We can even play in Time Machine mode, means that the playlist can be selected from certain period [...]
People who miss the absent of N-Gage, Nokia’s arm in gaming phone form, now can use Nokia N81 (and its 8 GB variant) to play their favorite games. Those handsets will have exclusive access to the pre-release version of the N-Gage application and one or more N-Gage games. The release is scheduled this December 20. [...]
Advertising is now reaching mobile sector. As new media, not many advertising service has been implemented successfully. Among all countries surveyed, Korea and Japan, as predicted, take in lead in this area. According to ABI Research, the total value of all mobile advertising and marketing will reach $1.2 billion in Japan and $684 million in [...]
As Japan is one of the largest Apple market, Steve Jobs finds out big opportunity for iPhone to be brought in. Seems the idea will come true in near future. Apple seeks for partner in either DoCoMo or Softbank.
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Korean manufacturer, LG, launched 2 new phones. Both are categorized as music phones. The first one is Rhapsody LB3300. Another sliding phone, it has touch wheel for music navigation, music lyrics playback capability, and has a special Bluetooth headset set-up, that allows two persons to listen to music simultaneously.
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SteamIron, claimed to be the true Real Time Strategy (RTS) mobile games, will be launched next January 2008 for Korean market. The game will feature multiplayer RTS game for 3G handsets, short and fast-pace game session, and real time 1-vs-1. It is created by Singaporean based studio, Mikoishi.
Source: Official Site via the Final Home
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Toshiba plan to unveil its latest 920T phone. It will be a 3G sliding phone and equipped with built-in 1 GB memory. Another features are 1seg support, 3.24 megapixels camera, GPS function, and up to 5.3 hours of recording time. The phone will only available in Japan market.
Source: aving
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