Having used the 808 PureView, we can verify that it takes better photos than the Apple iPhone 4S/Samsung Galaxy S III, widely regarded as the best cameraphones in the market today.
But we feel that the steep price and outdated Symbian operating system means that the 808 PureView will find few takers. Nokia should include PureView technology on Windows Phone to generate more interest.
SPECIFICATIONS
Display: 4-inch amoled
Processor: 1.3Ghz
OS: Symbian Belle
Weight: 169 grams
Storage: 16GB + microSD slot
Camera: 41MP rear, VGA front
Battery: 1400 mAh
Pros +
41MP camera sensor that provides 5MP images with far better detail than any other cameraphone using PureView technology 4-inch amoled capacitive touchscreen display with excellent viewing angles, good touch response and sunlight legibility Digital Dolby Plus audio enhancement provides theatre like 5.1 surround sound output over headphone for audio
What's On: Boyce Avenue at the O2 Academy, Newcastle - Chroniclelive.co.uk
Entertainment Editor Gordon Barr chats to Boyce Avenue ahead of their gig at the O2 Academy in Newcastle tomorrow night.
THEY get more than 100 million hits for each of their YouTube videos and now hot American trio Boyce Avenue are bringing their live show to Newcastle.
Having become one of the biggest music internet sensations in the world, tomorrow’s show at the O2 Academy Newcastle is a chance for their legions of online followers to see them in the flesh.
A few years ago Daniel Manzano was studying law at Harvard – now with his two brothers, the Florida-based bassist is enjoying global popularity with Boyce Avenue.
The brothers first came together as a band in 2004 when Alejandro (lead vocals, guitar, piano), Fabian (guitar, vocals), and their older brother Daniel (bass, percussion, vocals) reconnected after Daniel graduated from Harvard Law School and moved back to Florida where Fabian and Alejandro were both attending classes at the University of Florida.
It was there that the brothers continued to write music and to perform local shows, taking their most formative steps toward becoming a band.
In 2007, in an effort to share their music and ideas with the world, the band decided to start filming and posting videos on YouTube of them performing their own songs as well as some of their favourite songs by other popular artists.
The band’s debut album All We Have Left, is out now on their own label, 3 Peace Records.
Earlier this year the lads supported One Direction on their debut UK tour – despite the trio already notching up five headline tours themselves over here.
Their current outing is their biggest to date.
“What we do is predominantly online. We are an independent band, we’ve done a lot on YouTube, we make a lot of videos and we’ve got a following because of that,” Daniel tells me.
“So when we started touring it was actually just to play for our fans. Then it just grew from there.
“At the end of the day we have just been playing for our fans who found us all the way across The Pond on their computer screens at home and just loved the music, videos and what we were doing.
“It’s only been about two and a half years but we’ve been touring roughly every six months in the UK.
“We did the One Direction tour as those guys are friends and fans of ours. It was mental. That was our first time ever doing an opening slot, it’s not something we usually do.
“We realised immediately how massive and crazy the 1D mania really is.”
Getting 100 million-plus hits for videos puts Boyce Avenue amongst the most popular bands on the web.
“Sometimes I see what’s happening and I am just blown away. We posted a video recently and in just three days it hit a million views,” says Daniel. “It blows our minds every day and we are always appreciative.
“I just think the things we do, the amount of passion we put in to every video, the amount of care, really shows and people appreciate that.
“We’re not just about putting out one video and having it be a gimmick and hoping it gets 100 million views. We’re about making sure every video is as good or better than the last one.
“There’s a passion and pride in everything we do.”
Nokia Siemens aims for 35 pct of Brazil 4G network - Reuters
* Chairman says aim is stable market share after 4G auction
* In talks with Brazil partner to start producing by Sept.
By Sérgio Spagnuolo
SAO PAULO, June 13 (Reuters) - Nokia Siemens Networks aims to supply more than a third of Brazil's nascent fourth-generation (4G) wireless network, the head of its Latin American board said on Wednesday.
As Brazilian regulator Anatel wrapped up its first auction of 4G licenses, the regional chairman of Nokia Siemens, Aluizio Byrro, said the company wants a piece of the new market that is in line with its more than 35 percent share of the 3G market.
"We don't want to let go of a single percentage point," Byrro said in an interview, citing the company's growing focus on Latin America, which contributes over 10 percent of revenue.
Byrro said Nokia Siemens is in talks with a local partner to start producing 4G equipment in Brazil by September to help wireless operators establish coverage in host cities for the 2014 Soccer World Cup.
New requirements that equipment be Brazilian-made also spurred the rush to manufacture locally, he said.
"We have been studying the possibility of producing in Brazil for some time and the conditions have improved quite a bit recently," Byrro said, saying the company was holding off a decision about setting up a local factory.
"The next big challenge is to also make Brazilian production competitive enough to export."
Nokia Siemens is a joint venture between Nokia and Siemens AG, formed to compete with dominant industry suppliers such as Ericsson, which has said it expects 4G networks to cover half the world by 2017.
But Nokia Siemens has struggled and announced a wave of staff cuts globally over the past year, including a 3,500-person layoff in Latin America following the end of a large services deal in the region. (Writing by Brad Haynes; editing by Andre Grenon)
Nokia in talks with EQT to sell Vertu: sources - Reuters UK
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LONDON (Reuters) - Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is in talks with private equity group EQT to sell its luxury handset subsidiary Vertu for around 200 million euros ($249 million), sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
One of the sources, who declined to be named because talks were still in progress, said a deal could come as early as this week but there was still a chance it could fall through due to the difficulty of carving the unit out of Nokia.
Vertu makes some of the world's most expensive mobile phones, often featuring crystal displays and sapphire keys. The phones can cost more than 200,000 pounds ($310,900) due to previous metal components, although they are not the most technologically advanced phones.
Permira, another private equity group, had previously been in talks to buy Vertu but did not make an offer, according to sources.
Nokia, once the world's leading mobile phone company but is now struggling with falling market share, has said it plans to sell "non-core assets".
($1 = 0.8028 euros) ($1 = 0.6432 British pounds)
(Additional reporting by Simon Meads; Editing by Elaine Hardcastle)
O2 Deploys Cloud-Based Sales Platform to Boost CRM Capabilities - TMCnet
Cloud computing comes into focus when you think about what IT always needs: a way to increase capacity or add capabilities on the fly without investing in new infrastructure, training new personnel, or licensing new software. O2 has integrated CloudSense’s Order Management stack into O2 Business’ Salesforce.com (News 
- Alert) platform in an effort to increase efficiency and boost its customer relationship capabilities.
The sales and service cloud-based platform has been deployed within O2’s (News - Alert) Joined-up Business operations – ad vision that aims to help companies connect their IT, staff, and customers through communications products. The Joined-up Business strategy – along with the evolving and changing needs of its customers – is the method for O2 Business to drive change from within to further improve its customer experience while driving out costs within its core operating model.
"Given the business challenge we have around managing this increasing portfolio of products [through O2 Joined-Up Business], whilst trying to drive down costs, cloud allows us to implement without large upfront CAPEX costs and gives us a quick time to market," said Ricky Mortimer, e-enablement program manager at O2 Business.
CloudSense is a cloud integrator that offers advisory, delivery, and long-term partnership consulting. The Order Management solution is the only system of its kind to manage the entire sales process – from product design and order capture right through to delivery – all hosted on one cloud platform. It includes applications such as CS ClickApprove, CS Configurator, and CS Orchestrator, which enable O2 to manage its products, quote customers, carry out electronic approval for contracts, and enable end-to-end fulfillment in the cloud.
"We were using Salesforce at the time for lead-to-opportunity management - so pure sales pipeline stuff. We looked at how we could take that lead-to-opportunity and extend it all the way through to lead-to-cash," said Mortimer. "The target was to do that in a way that would leverage the Force.com environment and run everything natively inside that platform.”
By running applications natively inside the Force.com platform, O2 was able to use Salesforce's other cloud services, such as Chatter, mobile, and native security features.
Moving from lead-to-opportunity to lead-to-cash would enable O2 to develop a fully cloud-based CRM platform. Its strategy is to get a full CRM system in place, 100 percent in the cloud, and integrated into O2’s systems via its service oriented architecture.
Prior to this deployment, O2 had been using a combination of manual processes and Microsoft (News - Alert) Office products, but over the past 12 months, has managed to get 800 users on the new sales and service platform. It also plans to increase this to 3,500 users over the next 18 months.
"We have been using it for the best part of a year now and we haven't had an outage yet, which isn't what you expect from new platforms and new technology,” said Mortimer. “Typically what you would be looking at is hundreds of minutes of downtime and how you would reduce that."
Looking to the future, O2 Business plans to launch more capabilities and add more process automation as the business continues to grow and diversify its product and service offering. Mortimer explains, “This is perhaps the biggest benefit of the CloudSense solution – it enables us to add more capabilities as and when we want to. This means that we can ensure our order processes keep pace as we evolve as a business. For us this is essential as it means we will be able to keep finding operational efficiencies well into the future as we grow. With CloudSense, we know we can keep our focus on the business, knowing that the right technology platform is in place to support any changes we make.”
Edited by Allison Boccamazzo
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