Today Nokia started shipping its first Symbian 3 operating system based smarphone Nokia N8 in the US market.

Nokia N8 is a 3.5 inch AMOLED (active matrix organic light emitting diode) touch screen display with 640×360 pixels resolution, Wi-Fi, 16GB internal storage and external microSD support, 3G, microUSB and GPS.

The most important feature of N8 is the 12 megapixel camera with HD video recording and Xenon flash and Carl Zeiss optics.

Features of Nokia N8

Shoot in HD with 12MP sensor and Carl Zeiss optics. Xenon flash helps to take good pictures even in low light conditions

New Symbian ^3 operating system : many new features like HD video playback on compatible wide screen TV, visual task manager, switch between open apps with a single tap etc

HDMI Support : Connect to compatible televisions and projectors using HDMI cable and play HD 720p content.

Social Networking Integration : Facebook, Twitter apps

Free GPS Navigation : Voice guided free GPS navigation with Ovi Maps

Nokia N8 Technical Specifications

• 3.5” 16:9 nHD (640 x 360 pixels) AMOLED, 16.7 million colors, Capacitive touch screen
• Orientation sensor, proximity sensor and Ambient light detector
• Menu key, Power key, Lock key, volume keys, Camera key
• On-screen alphanumeric keypad and full keyboard
• Dedicated camera and volume keys
• Available in Silver white, Dark grey, Orange, Blue, Green
• BL-4D 1200 mAh Li-Ion battery : GSM talk time 720 mins, standby time 390 hours
• GPRS/EDGE class B, multislot class 33
• HSDPA Cat9, maximum speed up to 10.2 Mbps, HSUPA Cat5 2.0 Mbps
• WLAN IEEE802.11 b/g/n and TCP/IP support
• Support for MS Outlook synchronisation of contacts, calendar and notes
• Bluetooth 3.0, HDMI, Micro USB connector and charging, High-Speed USB 2.0
• Internal memory: 16 GB, MicroSD memory card slot, hot swappable, up to 32 GB
• Symbian ^3 OS, Java MIDP 2.1, Flash Lite 4.0
• Nokia Ovi Suite, Nokia Ovi Player
• Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Windows Live, Hotmail and other popular POP/IMAP services, Mail for Exchange, IBM Lotus traveler
• Supported markup languages: HTML, XHTML MP, WML, CSS
• Full web browsing of real web pages
• Integrated GPS, A-GPS receivers, Wi-Fi Positioning
• 12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics
• Fullscreen 16:9 viewfinder with easy-to-use touchscreen parameters
• Xenon flash with automatic red-eye removal
• Face recognition software
• Video capture in 720p 25 fps with codecs H.264, MPEG-4
• Streaming: H.264, Flash Lite 4, On2 VP6, Sorenson Spark
• HD 720p Video playback on HD TV through HDMI cable

Nokia N8 Price in India : Rs 26,259/-

Nokia E5 is the latest E series smartphone from handset major Nokia with Symbian S60 V3, QWERTY keypad, 5 megapixel camera, social networking integration.

Nokia e5 is a business smartphone with social networking support – Exchange and IBM Lotus Notes Traveler, Nokia Messaging IM application, Access up to 10 personal email accounts including Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo! Mail, Ovi Mail, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk and Ovi Chat are the major attractions of E5.

• Five-way Navi key with soft keys, call and end keys
• Classic QWERTY keypad and dedicate home/messaging keys
• Size: 115 x 58.9 x 12.8 mm, Weight (with battery): 126 g
• 2.36" 320 x 240 pixels (QVGA) display, up to 256k colors
• BL-4D 1200 mAh Li-Ion battery : GSM talk time up to 13 hours and standby 635 hours
• 256MB user memory, microSD support up to 32GB (2GB included)
• HSDPA cat9 (10.2mbps), HSUPA cat5 (2mbps), Tri-band WCDMA
• GSM GPRS/EGPRS data class 32, DTM32
• High-Speed Micro-USB 2.0, Wireless LAN, Stereo Bluetooth 2.0 (A2DP & AVRCP)
• Synchronization for local & remote synchronization
• OMA DRM 2.0 and Windows Media DRM for copy protection and WMV
• Symbian OS version v. 9.3, S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2
• Java MIDP2.0, C++ & Java SDKs, Speech codecs: AMR, NB-AMR, HR/FR/EFR
• Over the air SW update (FOTA) and Ovi Suite (PC/Mac)
• Email (SMTP, IMAP4, POP3), SMS, MMS (OMA 1.3), audio messaging (AMS), Nokia Messaging: Email and Chat
• Quick Office Suite, Adobe PDF Reader, Active Notes
• OVI Contacts 1.1, Lotus Notes Traveler, World Traveler, Vlingo, VPN client, Device management (TARM support), VoIP
• Nokia Messaging email, Mail for Exchange, Nokia Messaging IM, Easy Dialing, Facebook client
• Contacts with Facebook status and support for multiple phone and e-mail details per entry
• Integrated hands-free speaker, Speed dialing and enhanced voice dialing
• Nokia Web Browser (OSS) with Mini Map, Web feeds support (RSS) and xSP framework support
• WAP 2.0, XHTML browser over HTTP/TCP/IP stack, 3GPP H.263 playback+streaming, H.264 and MPEG4
• Nokia Maps 3.0 SR3 with Free Navigation forever
• 5 Megapixel camera with LED Flash, 3x digital zoom and Full Focus
• Bluetooth with A2DP, AVRCP (Remote Control), SAP (SIM Access Profile), OPP (Object Push Profile), FTP (File Transfer Profile), DUN (Dial-up Networking Profile), HSP (Headset Profile), HFP (Hands-Free Profile), SDP (Service Discovery Application Profile), GAP (Generic Access Profile), SPP (Serial Port Profile), GOEP (Generic Object Exchange Profile)
• Video resolution in 176 x 144 (QCIF), 320 x 240 (QVGA) or 640 x 480 pixels (VGA)
• Stereo FM radio (87.5-108 MHz/76-90 MHz) with headset as antenna

Nokia E5 Price in India : Rs 11,000/- (apx)

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Google History

In January 1996 Larry Page and Sergey Brin started Google as a research project to improve the searching method on the internet using a new algorithm with a new technology called PagaRank which give a 1-10 rank for each page on the web by calculating number of internal and external link to that page. Originally it was nicknamed as BackRub.

Google Milestones

Google.com was registered on September 15, 1997  

Google was incorporated as a private company on Sep 4, 1998

Google opens Palo Alto office in Feb 1999

9th May 2000 : Google introduced in 10 languages

26th June 2000 : Google becomes world’s largest search engine with 1 billion pages

23 October 2000 : Google Adwords launched with 350 customers

11 December 2000 : Google Toolbar launched

28 July 2001 : Google Image search launched with 25 crore images

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1 Apr 2004 : Gmail Launched

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24 Aug 2005 : Google Talk

14 Nov 2005 : Google Analytics

10 May 2006 : Google Trends

28 Aug 2006 : Google Apps

5 Nov 2007 : Android Mobile Platform

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1 Sep 2008 : Google Chrome Browser

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