Nokia to make phones faster, prettier
Nokia is a company that doesn’t rest, they are always introducing super mobile phones like the N95-3 that push the envelope for such devices. This week they have been announcing technologies that they will be leveraging on their handsets beginning next year that promise to make the mobile phone experience more desktop-like. FreeWay is a technology that will make broadband-like speeds possible to do on mobile phones. They demonstrated this in London this week and showed speeds over 120 MBps are possible using FreeWay on existing hardware. FreeWay is an advanced Internet Protocol networking architecture that will be integrated in Symbian, the operating system Nokia uses on their handsets. The speeds possible with FreeWay really ramp up as hardware improves.
The other technology Nokia is touting that looks to revolutionize the mobile phone experience is ScreenPlay which makes it possible to better play video, even high-definition video, on mobile phones. ScreenPlay is software-based so the video playback improvements are hardware independent, with even better playback possible on hardware with graphics acceleration.
"We’re bringing a desktop-like experience to mobile devices. Today thistype of capability is only available on desktop operating systems like Mac OS X and Windows Vista," said Jørgen Behrens, Symbian’s executive VP of marketing, in an interview.
This is going to be exciting to watch unfold and the smartphone space is really heating up.
(via Yahoo News)
Please. This is like watching a drunken blind man trying to cross a busy street without getting killed.
Nokia & Symbian are blind and drunk.
The car has the license plate of A-P-P-L-E.
*splat*!
Mike, competition is a good thing. Give Nokia a shot, can’t you feel the love?
At least it appears like they’ve been looking at the problem with their phones. If my 6630 and N73 did the things they do but reliably, seamlessly and simultaneously they’d (obviously) be much better phones!
That’s my main gripe with Nokia’s S60 handsets, not features – reliability!