- Nokia PureView 808 Coming to U.S. for $699, Amazon Preorder Begin This Week(Photo: Nokia | Mobile & Apps)
Introduced at Mobile World Congress, Nokia PureView 808 is the best camera phone that money can buy. It has received a lot of positive review for its 41-megapixel rear snapper. The smartphone is currently available in European and Asian market. However, the U.S. release of this phone was being doubted. And though Nokia might never release this smartphone through a cellular network carrier in U.S., the company has confirmed that it will sell the unlocked version of PureView 808 through Amazon U.S.
The Finnish mobile major announced on its Conversations blog on Tuesday that it will offer the smartphone in the U.S. through Amazon. The retailer will be selling the unlocked version of the smartphone for $699 with preorders scheduled to begin later this week. The PureView 808 supports GSM networks only. So, it will not work on Verizon Wireless or other CDMA networks. Nokia has confirmed that the smartphone will be functional over AT&T and T-Mobile network.
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Packing 41-megapixel Carl Zeiss optic sensor, PureView 808 is better in photography than most of digital cameras available in the market. The maximum effective resolution in PureView 808 is 38 megapixels. Utilizing Creative Shooting mode, it can capture photos at a resolution of 7728 X 5354 pixels in 16:9 format or 7152 X 5368 pixels in 4:3 formats. However, Nokia recommends 5-megapixel settings for capturing a perfect noiseless image.
At 5-megapixel capture resolution, PureView 808 utilizes the concept of oversampling to pack up to 7 pixels in one single pixel to capture a completely noiseless photo. By zooming-in the image up to 3 times, there is no loss in quality of image without any artificial pixels produced. The smartphone also records 1080p videos at 30fps with 4X loseless zoom. Crisp clear audio recording takes place even at a high level of 140 db.
The rest of the features include 4-inch AMOLED display with 360 X 640 pixels resolution, Gorilla Glass protection, 1.3GHz ARM processor, 512MB RAM and 16GB internal storage with microSD card support up to 32GB. The PureView 808 runs Nokia Belle OS. The regular connectivity features like Wi-Fi, NFC, Bluetooth, microUSB and GPS are all there.
User can also sign-up for e-mail notification regarding the availability of smartphone in the U.S.
Google Offers Now Available for iPhone - Mashable
Google Offers app is now available for the iPhone. The app is only available in the United States with deals located in a wide swath of major metropolitan areas. A complete list of cities can be found on the Google Offers website. Users can find nearby offers suing the app’s map view, or they can search for specific deals by category.
After purchasing a deal, you can easily track your offers in the My Offers section of the app. Deals can be redeemed instantly from your iPhone without having to spend time remembering to print and bring your voucher.
Google Offers can be downloaded in the App Store for free. It is designed for the iPhone and iPod touch but is also compatible with the iPad.
Google’s iOS availability may be huge for its Offers platform. When the Android version of the app launched last fall, users spent three times more time on the app compared to the site. That’s a pretty big difference.
As of publishing time, the featured deal is for new Netflix streaming subscribers. After watching three movies or TV shows on the service, you can receive two movie tickets for $1.
Nokia 808 PureView makes US debut, still no word on UK availability - mobot.net
The reason we ask is that Nokia has just made the 808 PureView official in the US, effectively upgrading it from “coming ever?” to “coming soon”.
The 41-megapixel mobile snapper was unveiled for the first time back at Mobile World Congress in February, and it's no exaggeration to say that it stole the whole Show, something just about nobody would have thought possible from a device running everyone's favourite OS whipping boy Symbian.
Since then, however, the 808 PureView has largely been a homage to how Nokia used to launch phones all too regularly: make a big deal about it, do nothing for months than finally start selling it just when everyone has completely forgotten about it.
That last part probably won't happen with the 808 considering just how unique it really is, but Nokia seems to be doing its best anyway. We've had pre-order pages and about five or six different supposed launch dates, yet here we are running down the clock to the second half of the year and we still have no idea when we'll be seeing it.
June 21 – as in Thursday – seemed a good bet for a long while, but that's now looking unlikely and it seems those who said the 808 PureView will only arrive in July are going to be proved right.
That's unless it only arrives in August, of course...
T-Mobile cuts roaming rates for Europe - zdnet.co.uk
The new bolt-ons, called 'Internet Travel Boosters' and 'Broadband Travel Boosters' will allow a customer to add them to their package on arrival at their destination. The user is simply redirected to a page where they can buy the add-ons when they first connect to a mobile network, T-Mobile said.
"Once the purchase is complete, they can immediately continue to browse the internet, update Facebook, email or download apps and documents without the worry of paying more than they expect when they return from their travels," T-Mobile said in a statement.
The internet booster allows smartphone-only usage while the Broadband booster can be used with "all mobile broadband devices", such as dongles and tablets.
Pricing for the boosters starts from £1, T-Mobile said. The amount of data allocated for each booster depends on the country being visited. For example, within Europe a £1 internet or booster plan would provide 3MB of data usage. To get the same amount of data use while on holiday in the US would require a £5 booster.
However, visiting places further afield, such as Hong Kong, still attracts significant commitments, with 3MB of data costing £20. Currently, and without the bolt-on, T-Mobile customers visiting Hong Kong are charged £7.50 per MB for data. Increasing the amount of the bolt-on does provide some economy of scale, but 20MB of data, even with the bolt-on, will still cost £75.
The decision to reduce costs, albeit primarily within Europe, makes T-Mobile the fourth of the five major UK operators to announce reduced roaming rates before the new EU roaming regulations come into effect on 1 July. Only Orange is yet to announce new rates.– Ernest Doku, uSwitch.com
It's still down to consumers to protect themselves and make bill shock a thing of the past.
Earlier in June, Vodafone also announced it was cutting its prices for roaming within the EU. The EuroTraveller add-on costs £3 per day and allows contract customers to use their normal monthly call time and data allowance. Out of bundle charges are then charged at UK rates.
Despite the clampdown from regulators on roaming rates within the EU, Ernest Doku, telecoms expert at price-comparison site uSwitch.com, doesn't think some of the new measures go far enough.
"We have now seen four of the five major providers take steps to protect their customers. However, with Orange still to show its cards and some of the packages not going quite far enough, it's still down to consumers to protect themselves and make bill shock a thing of the past," Doku said in a statement.
Spotify Introduces Free Mobile Radio for iPhone, iPad - Billboard Business News
Spotify today introduced free radio streaming for iPhone and iPad users, making the site more directly competitive with online radio leader Pandora. Using internal data from Spotify's database of 16 million tracks in the U.S., Spotify will create custom radio playlists based on track, artists, albums, genres or playlists themselves. As an example of the latter, a playlist based on the current Billboard Hot 100 playlist might suggest a track like Foster the People's "Warrant," a song that hasn't charted but is similar to the songs on the playlist and also to users' own meta-data.
Spotify Play Button Launches, Aims For Ubiquity
In another Pandora-like move, Spotify's radio service comes equipped with the ability to "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" a song, which will in turn update the next track on the playlist in real time to more accurately reflect the user's listening preferences. Such additions could be useful in helping Spotify narrow the gap between its competitors -- Pandora reported 50 million active users in May (compared to Spotify's 10 million active users and 3 million paying subscribers), with 70% of usage coming from mobile devices. Prior to today's announcement, only premium users could access Spotify on a mobile device (premium users will also be able to use the new radio service on iPhone and iPad).
Spotify Lifts Limits on Free Listening in U.S.
"One of the things users kept asking us was for better discovery of new music," says Donovan Sung, product manager for Spotify. The free mobile features could also have a halo effect on other usages of the product. "There's a high correlation between time spent streaming and being a paying customer. We're just trying to improve the experience," Sung says.
Spotify Introduces First iPad App, Aims To Become 'Home Stereo'
"Liking" a song on the new Spotify playlists will automatically save the track to a special playlist so users can revisit any song they've given a "thumbs up," similar to the starred playlists users can currently create to remember their favorite tracks. A radio icon also features prominently in the middle of today's update for Apple devices -- making it "the central feature of the mobile app," Sung notes.
Spotify Developing Online Radio to Challenge Pandora (Report)
With an Android version of the new mobile app in the works (an updated, radio-free Android app debuted Monday), could a click-to-buy feature for songs be far behind? "We have to see what the users will say," Sung says. "We're constantly updating to include anything users really like."
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