Nokia Nearby For S40 Or S60 Phones

Nokia Labs is working a new feature that can provide location aware searches on your phone without the need for a GPS receiver. It is called an hyper-local search and we’re not exactly sure what this means. The new service is “Nokia Nearby” and allows you to discover places and businesses near you. You can even use it to share your location using SMS and share the app itself via bluetooth. Your first question might be “how this works without GPS, i no understand”. Well it is simple. Nokia is probably relying on the location information that it gather by querying which cell tower you’re connected to. Or it may utilize WiFi signals to figure out your approximate location. Either way it is seems like a good idea to introduce this in emerging markets where S40 devices are very popular.

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Nokia 6720 Classic

Nokia 6720 classic was another device just introduced by Nokia.

It has an autofocus 5MP camera with Carl Zeiss lens, active noise cancellation, turn-by-turn navigation thanks to the integrated A-GPS receiver and Nokia Maps 3.0 application, fast internet access, and a 2.2″ QVGA display.

All this for only 245 € starting second quarter of 2009!

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Nokia 6710 Navigator

Nokia just added the new Nokia 6710 to its Navigator series phones. 6710 uses the new integration of Nokia Maps with Ovi which allows users to pre-plan their journey on a PC and sync with their device.

Nokia which currently owns Navteq - one of the leading digital mappers in the world - is pretty much competing with stand alone GPS navigation systems with Nokia 6710, offering drive and walk navigation, full regional maps, a dedicated navigator key, a touch area for easy zooming, and a large 2.6″ that’s bright enough to be visible under sunlight.

Other features of Nokia Maps, which is now at version 3.0 include high-resolution aerial images, 3D landmarks for over 200 cities, terrain maps, weather service, premium travel and events content and traffic and safety warnings.

Nokia 6710 Navigator will be available starting third quarter of this year for about 300 €.

Here are some specs for the 6710:

• Dimensions: 104.8 x 50.1 x 14.9 mm
• Resolution: 320 x 240 pixels (QVGA)
• Ambient light detector
• 2 GB MicroSD card (with pre-loaded mega region maps)
• 950mAh battery
• Bluetooth version 2.0 (A2DP/AVRCP)
• A-GPS
• Nokia Maps 3.0 with: Drive, Walk, and Traffic (license for device lifetime)
• S60 3.2

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Nokia 8208

Nokia 8208 is company’s latest GPS enabled handset coming out of MWC. This is a bit different than the rest though because it also supports CDMA band. However not for Sprint or Verizon though; Nokia is preparing this phone for countries other than the U.S.

Some features of Nokia 8208 are the 2.2″ screen, 3MP camera, FM radio, GPS receiver, and microSD card slot.

Speaking of CDMA, Nokia 8208 will support 800MHz, 1900MHz, and EVDO.

Nokia 8208 is expected to launch in select CDMA markets, in the first quarter of 2009.

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