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Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Limpag: Nokia ‘Internet Edition’
By Max Limpag
Celltalk
Web services. Nokia is shipping a new version of the N80, which is dubbed as the Internet Edition. The phone offers wireless LAN access with an easy-to-use wizard to help in configuring Internet access.
The device will contain, “Internet services not previously installed together on Nokia devices.”
What’s great about the phone is that it allows users to place Internet calls using voice-over Internet protocol (VOIP). I’m not sure, however, whether telcos will be actively promoting this, especially in the Philippines, as they have been continually campaigning against it. VOIP threatens to eat up their huge cash cow: long-distance phone call charges.
The VOIP framework, according to a Nokia press release, is integrated into the phone’s interface that “making an Internet call with the Nokia N80 Internet Edition is as easy as making a regular voice call; only the call is carried over WLAN.”
The phone also allows downloading “compatible third party Internet call applications.” The company didn’t say in their statement but maybe we could assume Skype, the top VOIP application in the Web, will work with the phone.
PACKAGED. The Nokia N80 Internet Edition, the company said, “. . . comes out of the box ready to create, connect, consume and interact with some of the Internet’s most popular services.
“Use Yahoo! Search in the Mobile Search application to conveniently search for and find most anything on the web, and use the Mini Map functionality of the Internet browser to enjoy the pages you find. Browse through thousands of items at Amazon.com, or scroll though a book with Amazon’s MobiPocket Reader.
“You can also share your moments online—snap a photo and send it directly from your device to your Flickr site for your friends and family to enjoy, too.
Connect to the Yahoo! Community using the Yahoo! Go for Mobile application.”
Most of these services work with current multimedia phones but since these are not integrated into the service, you’d need a bit of a workaround to make them function.
Expect coming mobile phones to come integrated with Web services as the days of a truly mobile Internet slowly dawns on us.
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