Sep 02

The Guardian revealed that Nokia has developed a new charging system for cell phones in which cell phone is able to recharge itself without using the conventional mains electricity system. This new prototype charging system from Nokia uses ambient radio waves to power itself.

Nokia - world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones.

Nokia - world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones.

Ambient energy generators have the potential to replace battery power as a source of energy in a variety of practical applications, particularly in remote locations. Research has shown that it is possible to produce electric power from ambient sources like human energy, radio waves and transmission wires. Traditional electrochemical batteries and fuel storage systems are limited by factors such as battery life, power supply and weight. Recent advances in electronic components and sensor technologies are steadily reducing the energy requirements of many remote components and devices, further advancing the potential capabilities of ambient energy power generation.

Ambient radiowaves for recharging.

Ambient radiowaves for recharging.

The power produced is although small, but it is almost enough to power a mobile in standby mode indefinitely without ever needing to plug it into the mains.

In today’s life, it is very common that when you come from your work, you plug-in your cell phone to recharge it daily. Because its usage has increased a lot and people are now pretty much dependent on this small device. Beside voice calls and text messages, listening to FM radio, listening to stored music, browsing Internet, doing photography, and even making video calls is something very common now for most of the mobile phone users. In that case, you are always in a bit of bother that your cell phone’s battery is running out of power.

Mobile chargers will no more be required.

Mobile chargers will no more be required.

Nokia claims that this prototype, instead of harvesting tiny amounts of power (a few microwatts) from dedicated transmitters, is able to search and collect relatively large amounts of power around a thousand times as much from signals coming from miles away. So the mobile phone users won’t have to worry about recharging their most used device in their daily routine.

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Jun 16

nokia_logo1_2006_04_23Nokia announced three new handsets at the Nokia Connection event held in Singapore on June 15, 2009. The full QWERTY Nokia E72 comes to succeed the extremely popular E71, while the touch-operated Nokia 5530 XpressMusic introduces a more compact version of the 5800 XpressMusic S60 5th edition pioneer. The third offering for today is the mid-range Nokia 3710 fold that has an affordable price tag and a stylish design as some of its main virtues. I am going to talk about the first two i.e. Nokia E72 and Nokia 5530 XpressMusic.

Nokia E72 packs a full hardware QWERTY keypad, much like its successor – Nokia E71, but follows the design of Nokia E52 and Nokia E55.
The Nokia E72 extends the functionality of its forerunner with a 5 megapixel camera, HSUPA (up to 2Mbps) and faster HSDPA (Up to 10Mbps). The UMTS support has upgraded and now the E72 will come with two tri-band versions (850/1900/2100 Mhz and 900/1900/2100 Mhz). The best part is that the Nokia E72 has managed to maintain the slim 10mm waistline of its predecessor, despite the added goodies.

nokia_e72Among the other goodies on board the new Nokia E72 is the new optical Navi key, which serves as an optical trackpad for going through menus and applications and the electronic compass that enhances the GPS navigation experience.

The rest of the Nokia E72 features are pretty much on par with the E71 – S60 3rd edition UI, a 2.4″ QVGA landscape screen, microSD card slot and FM radio. On the connectivity end we’ve got WLAN, A-GPS, FM radio and quad-band GSM. There’s also a 3.5mm standard audio jack, Bluetooh and USB onboard. Continue reading »

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Jun 11

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The Palm Pre Touchstone will let you charge your Pre just by sitting it on top of the magnetic induction pad. That’s pretty good, but the phone and the charger still need some level of physical contact. Its just so.. this year.

radio-waveNokia are developing what they hope will be the future of mobile chargingAmbient Power. No, not a charger with a built-in windchime and tibetan prayer wheel (although that would be a big seller at Glastonbury, Nokia, if you are reading this) but rather a technique for using radio waves to remotely induce a charge into a battery.

The Nokia Research Center has some people at work on creating nanoscale materials that can draw charge from any wifi, radio or similar radiation that is in their vicinity. Just leaving a phone laying around where there is significant radio traffic (eg near a wifi base station) could generate enough charge to ‘trickle’ into a phone’s battery.

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Jun 08

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Nokia flagship stores in New York and Chicago who’ve received stock of the black version of the N97 today. You can’t buy the units just yet, but they’ll be available tomorrow morning — the only catch is that there are established waitlists at both locations, so you might have to wait for those folks to burn through stock before you get your own. It’ll run $699.99, so, you know… do what you’ve gotta do tonight to make sure those funds are available by sun-up tomorrow.

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Jun 02

nokia6730-2Nokia has announced the release of the Nokia 6730 smartphone exclusive to the Vodafone network in Europe [Techtree Reported]

nokia6730The 6730 classic is a new S60-powered phone and comes preloaded with a select range of software. It’s been initially offered as an upgrade to the existing mid-range S40 phones like the 6500c or 6300. The phone is available in the standard white Vodafone livery.

The phone has been optimized for mobile Internet and navigation services and comes loaded with software that provides access to turn-by-turn directions, a point-of-interest database and yellow pages information. On the hardware front, the 6730c sports a 3.2megapixel camera, a 2.2-inch screen. HSDPA and HSUPA connectivity and 50MB of internal memory, expandable up to 16GB. It comes with a 2.5mm audio jack so if you were about to get this and connect your own headphones, thats not going to happen!

The phone is slated to be released on Vodafone Europe later this month.

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