Thursday, April 27, 2006

Nokia's latest mobile dazzle:

location based services

"Nokia, a company that isn't known for creating slick and sexy phones, has recently released its latest endeavor, the Nokia 6682. Nokia calls it a multimedia computer and not a phone, as it sports a speedy processing chip and includes numerous 'computer like' functions like letting you take your e-mail and office anywhere so you can view files created with programs like Adobe Reader and Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

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The phone also includes a phone book with multiple numbers per contact, a calendar with notes and reminders, and an alarm clock with snooze offline mode.

But curiously enough, even with all of this productivity functionality, it's not a classic PDA. This phone is somewhere between a regular phone and a full-featured BlackBerry or Palm Treo-style PDA. It lacks touch-screen functionality and doesn't have a miniature keyboard like these other phones. So navigation isn't as easy or intuitive as it should or needs to be.

The phone supports external Flash memory, comes with 10 MB of onboard memory and has a 64 MB external memory card. Also included is a USB cable and headphones so you can listen to your MP3 files. The phone's music functionality is really nice as it supports full polyphonic ringtones, Midi, AAC and MP3s via the previously mentioned Flash cards or downloaded directly to the unit via its integrated Web browser.

Nokia's main push with the new 6682 is its new multimedia, connectivity and gaming functions. While Nokia's nGage pla"

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