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Today we announce the Nokia Asha 205, our most Social Nokia Asha phone to date. With its QWERTY keypad, it’s made to make messaging and connecting through social networks quick and easy.

The usability of the keyboard is one of the key factors in the success of QWERTY phones, and the Nokia Asha 205 comes with isolated keys and quick-access buttons for superior speed and accuracy. Super-social, the phone even boasts a dedicated button for access to Facebook, for the first time on a Nokia phone.

Sharing accelerated with Slam

The Nokia Asha 205 (and the Nokia 206 – also announced today) sees the debut of a brand new sharing technology from Nokia called ‘Slam’. What is it? Let’s say you take a picture, choose ‘Send’ and then ‘Slam’ from the list. This quickly detects the nearest Bluetooth-enabled device and offers that device the file.

The other person can accept and download the picture instantly, without any need to pair the two devices, as you have to with regular Bluetooth sharing. The owner of the other device doesn’t even need to have a Nokia phone or Slam installed. You can also share using all the normal options like social networks and email.

The device has a bold, expressive hardware design, and a colour palette to match. The Nokia Asha 205 comes in cyan, magenta and orange, with stylish two-tone mixes.

Smarter internet for service savings

The Nokia Asha 205 is designed to make smarter use of the Internet, sipping data as it’s asked for, rather than guzzling it down unnecessarily. Notably, the latest version of the Nokia Xpress Browser is preinstalled, which uses cloud-based servers to reduce data volumes by 90 per cent, saving owners money. The browser is optimised for social networks and content discovery, making it quick and easy to make updates or read the content you want.

Owners will also find Nokia Nearby installed. While the phone doesn’t have GPS, it can make use of cell-tower co-ordinates to present a local map and identify nearby points of interest like cafes or landmarks. The app shares the massive database of places used in Nokia Maps, so they’ll never run out of places to go.

King of content

Facebook, Twitter and eBuddy apps are preinstalled to connect with friends and family from the start. There’s also the very popular EA gift pack of 40 free premium games (worth around €75, depending on the market) to download and keep forever.

Of course, owners also have access to the Nokia Store and the 1000s of free and paid games and apps available there.

In selected markets, the phone will also ship with Nokia Life or the new Nokia Life+.

Hard to beat

The Dual-SIM variant of the Nokia Asha 205 comes with Nokia’s unique Easy Swap technology. This means that you can change one of the SIM cards through a slot on the side, without even switching the phone off. The phone remembers the settings for up to five SIM cards, in case you’re juggling between several possible options for making calls or using the Internet.

Lastly, we can’t finish without pointing out the incredible battery life offered by this phone, with a standby time measured in weeks, not hours, and talk-times that mean you really don’t have to worry about where the next battery top-up is coming from.

The Nokia Asha 205 will be available from Q4 2012. Without any operator subsidies or local taxes, it will cost around $62 USD.

Let us know what you think about the new Nokia Asha 205 in the comments. Also check out today’s other new phone launch, the Nokia 206.

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We’re delighted to announce our second new phone today, the Nokia 206.

The Nokia 206 brings together classic and contemporary, with a traditional keypad married to a stunning design and a generous 2.4-inch screen. Like the Nokia Asha 205, it comes in single and dual-SIM varieties.

The Nokia 206 comes in cyan, black, white, magenta and yellow, and boasts a sleek curved form with a distinctive modern look. Who said a feature phone had to look old-fashioned?

Slam it to me

As with the Nokia Asha 205, owners of the Nokia 206 can take advantage of the new Nokia Slam technology for sharing items on their phone. This uses Bluetooth for transmission, but doesn’t require you to pair the two phones. We’ll be going deeper into how it works and why you want Slam in a forthcoming article.

With the Nokia Xpress Browser installed, owners don’t need to fear running up excessive data charges when browsing the Web on their phone. It calls upon cloud-based servers which cut download sizes by up to 90 per cent, saving the owner money.

Where the service is available, the Nokia 206 will ship with Nokia Life.

Appstravaganza

You can also share instantly to Facebook, as well as email. WhatsApp ( in the single SIM version) and eBuddy are preinstalled, and there’s a gift pack of ten premium entertainment titles to download.  In addition, there are 1000s of free and paid games and apps in the Nokia Store.

The camera is optimised for content sharing with lower sized files. The 1.3-megapixel resolution can automatically resize pictures to around 700KB. This is great for a Facebook posting. It also offers an ‘intelligent imaging’ feature, which will tell you when self-portraits are in focus, and allows you to take a sequence of shots and choose the best. Video capture is also supported.

Once again, exchanging SIM cards in the Dual-SIM variant of the Nokia 206 is made easy thanks to our Easy Swap technology which gives access to a SIM-card slot in the side of the phone where you can swap cards without even switching the phone off.

This is another world-beater when it comes to battery life, too. You can (if you really want!) talk for twenty hours solid without a recharge, or you could leave it on standby for a whole month and still be able to use it.

The Nokia 206 will be available from Q4 2012. Without operator subsidies or local taxes, it will cost around $62 USD.

We love a good comparison post here at Nokia Connects, and the post pitching the Nokia Lumia 920 against the HTC 8X from Jay Bennett at Windows Phone Central lives up to our expectations.

Broken down by ’round’, the post covers the standard Design, Hardware, Camera, Audio, Software, Conclusion sections, and Jay covers them all well, giving a winner in each section. UPredictably, the Nokia Lumia 920 wins the camera battle (but only just), and the software beats out the HTC due to Nokia’s ‘app dedication’. Where it doesn’t quite match up to the HTC is in the audio department – Jay reckons the Beats audio just outweighs the quality on the Nokia.

I won’t spoil the review by sharing everything Jay had to say, or which phone he ultimately preferred, but it’s well worth a read. Once you’ve digested all he has to say, share your thoughts with us by dropping a comment below.

Most people think that the music video is a relatively modern phenomenon, but it didn’t start with The Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night, any more than it started with MTV, VH1 or YouTube. In fact, believe it or not, the story of the music video begins well over a century ago.

A picture perfect beginning 

It was American electrician-slash-photographer George Thomas who was the first to marry images to music. His ‘illustrated song’ – a series of still images printed onto glass slides, coloured in by hand and projected onto a screen alongside a live musical performance – made song-book publishers Edward B. Marks and Joe Stern’s number, The Little Lost Child, a massive hit back in the music halls of 1894.

Melodies are made

Skip forward almost thirty years to the era of the talkies, and musical films were taking off dramatically. Spooney Melodies was a series of five musical shorts produced by Warner Brothers between 1930 and 1931 – films that mixed art-deco animation and live-action footage and aimed to showcase the popular tunes of the day. Clocking in a six minutes (so double the typical length of the later pop video proper), only one of them, Crying’ For The Carolines, is known to have survived.

Video boxes juke it out

In the late 1950s, a company called Cameca in Courbevoie, France, came up with the Scopitone, a jukebox that incorporated a 16mm film component. Magic! Soon the Italians were following suit with the Cinebox, which emigrated to the USA with the Scopitone in the 1960s, where the Cinebox became the Cinejukebox and Francis Ford Coppolla invested in the Scopitone. The craze for video jukeboxes had fizzled out by 1967, but by then the enthusiasm for music videos was unstoppable. 

Video kills the radio star

It was television, of course, that truly embraced the music video. In the mid-1970s, alongside the UK’s famous Top of the Pops (which had quite restrictive rules on how many non-live ‘outsourced clips’ they could use in the programme), Australian TV shows Countdown and Sounds were busy popularising the genre. Sounds presenter and DJ Graham Webb hired new director Russell Mulcahy to shoot videos for songs he wanted to feature on his show but that didn’t already have their own promo clips. Mulchay went on create the video for The Buggles’ Video Killed The Radio Star – which became, in 1981, the first music video ever to be played on MTV!

Music TV takes off

Since the 1980s, round-the-clock music video channels have become the norm – starting with MTV, VH1 and Canada’s MuchMusic – and in 1984, MTV launched their Music Awards (latterly the VMAs). Directors grew ambitious – John Landis’ video for Michael Jackson’s Thriller cost a staggering half a million dollars to make and opened the way for African-American artists in the music video scene.

Videos go viral

Although MTV is now more focussed on reality shows than music, the Internet has picked up where TV has waned, and, since 2005, YouTube is now the first port of call for anybody searching for their favourite artist’s latest video. The video for Lady GaGa’s hit, Bad Romance (which owes more than a nod to Thriller) became, in 2010, the most-viewed video not only on YouTube, but on the entire Internet. And now, thanks to smartphones, more people than ever check out videos anywhere, anytime.

So, one hundred and eighteen years old and still going from strength to strength – here’s to the music video!

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Today we announce the Nokia Asha 205, our most Social Nokia Asha phone to date. With its QWERTY keypad, it’s made to make messaging and connecting through social networks quick and easy.

The usability of the keyboard is one of the key factors in the success of QWERTY phones, and the Nokia Asha 205 comes with isolated keys and quick-access buttons for superior speed and accuracy. Super-social, the phone even boasts a dedicated button for access to Facebook, for the first time on a Nokia phone.

Sharing accelerated with Slam

The Nokia Asha 205 (and the Nokia 206 – also announced today) sees the debut of a brand new sharing technology from Nokia called ‘Slam’. What is it? Let’s say you take a picture, choose ‘Send’ and then ‘Slam’ from the list. This quickly detects the nearest Bluetooth-enabled device and offers that device the file.

The other person can accept and download the picture instantly, without any need to pair the two devices, as you have to with regular Bluetooth sharing. The owner of the other device doesn’t even need to have a Nokia phone or Slam installed. You can also share using all the normal options like social networks and email.

The device has a bold, expressive hardware design, and a colour palette to match. The Nokia Asha 205 comes in cyan, magenta and orange, with stylish two-tone mixes.

Smarter internet for service savings

The Nokia Asha 205 is designed to make smarter use of the Internet, sipping data as it’s asked for, rather than guzzling it down unnecessarily. Notably, the latest version of the Nokia Xpress Browser is preinstalled, which uses cloud-based servers to reduce data volumes by 90 per cent, saving owners money. The browser is optimised for social networks and content discovery, making it quick and easy to make updates or read the content you want.

Owners will also find Nokia Nearby installed. While the phone doesn’t have GPS, it can make use of cell-tower co-ordinates to present a local map and identify nearby points of interest like cafes or landmarks. The app shares the massive database of places used in Nokia Maps, so they’ll never run out of places to go.

King of content

Facebook, Twitter and eBuddy apps are preinstalled to connect with friends and family from the start. There’s also the very popular EA gift pack of 40 free premium games (worth around €75, depending on the market) to download and keep forever.

Of course, owners also have access to the Nokia Store and the 1000s of free and paid games and apps available there.

In selected markets, the phone will also ship with Nokia Life or the new Nokia Life+.

Hard to beat

The Dual-SIM variant of the Nokia Asha 205 comes with Nokia’s unique Easy Swap technology. This means that you can change one of the SIM cards through a slot on the side, without even switching the phone off. The phone remembers the settings for up to five SIM cards, in case you’re juggling between several possible options for making calls or using the Internet.

Lastly, we can’t finish without pointing out the incredible battery life offered by this phone, with a standby time measured in weeks, not hours, and talk-times that mean you really don’t have to worry about where the next battery top-up is coming from.

The Nokia Asha 205 will be available from Q4 2012. Without any operator subsidies or local taxes, it will cost around $62 USD.

Let us know what you think about the new Nokia Asha 205 in the comments. Also check out today’s other new phone launch, the Nokia 206.

We love a good comparison post here at Nokia Connects, and the post pitching the Nokia Lumia 920 against the HTC 8X from Jay Bennett at Windows Phone Central lives up to our expectations.

Broken down by ’round’, the post covers the standard Design, Hardware, Camera, Audio, Software, Conclusion sections, and Jay covers them all well, giving a winner in each section. UPredictably, the Nokia Lumia 920 wins the camera battle (but only just), and the software beats out the HTC due to Nokia’s ‘app dedication’. Where it doesn’t quite match up to the HTC is in the audio department – Jay reckons the Beats audio just outweighs the quality on the Nokia.

I won’t spoil the review by sharing everything Jay had to say, or which phone he ultimately preferred, but it’s well worth a read. Once you’ve digested all he has to say, share your thoughts with us by dropping a comment below.

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W ten weekend kolejna promocja gier ze studia EA. Najfajniejsze tytuły możecie kupić aż 60% taniej! Aby pobrać grę należy w przeglądarce telefonu (systemowej) wpisać adres http://m.play.pl/ea. Gry dostępne są na platformy Android i JAVA. Pobranie gry będzie możliwe tylko w zasięgu Play 3G (nie zadziała przez wi-fi). Opłata za transfer zgodna z cennikiem/pakietem. Zapraszamy! [...]

W ten weekend kolejna promocja gier ze studia EA. Najfajniejsze tytuły możecie kupić aż 60% taniej! Aby pobrać grę należy w przeglądarce telefonu (systemowej) wpisać adres http://m.play.pl/ea. Gry dostępne są na platformy Android i JAVA. Pobranie gry będzie możliwe tylko w zasięgu Play 3G (nie zadziała przez wi-fi). Opłata za transfer zgodna z cennikiem/pakietem. Zapraszamy! [...]

The title of this video from davomrmac (a.k.a. Geekanoids) says it all, so why change it? It’s a first look and unboxing of the Nokia Lumia 920 – and it gave him a ‘big, big grin’.

He covers the looks – ‘really rather striking’ (he got the yellow version) – and the box contents before moving on to the physical aspect of the phone. If you haven’t seen he phone before, it’s a well-paced but comprehensive look at the Lumia 920. He mentions in the video that he’s already tested the cameras (front- and rear-facing), so…here they are. Front first:

Then rear-facing (the one you’ll be using to shoot your 1080p videos):

He touches briefly on the screen and Windows Phone 8, but promises that review for another time (I suspect he has a lot to say about it, and I for one want to hear that), but what he does say its that it is

‘so fluid and nice and smooth’

Have you got any questions for Dave? Anything you want to add to his unboxing? Leave a comment here or on his video (if you liked what you saw, subscribe to his channel), or there’s always the Twitter route for letting us know anything.