Cheap Wi-Fi for Nokia Handsets
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Beginning today, Boingo Wireless is offering Wi-Fi for select Nokia mobile devices. Boingo Mobile affords select Nokia devices both high-speed internet access and VoIP calling for a flat monthly fee.
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(InfoWorld) - Nokia and Alcatel are jumping the gun on Wi-Fi phones that work like regular office handsets: They're offering the same capability on ordinary cell phones. The advent of VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) phones and IP PBXes (private branch exchanges) opened the door not only to business handsets that sat on a desk and sent packets around a wired LAN, but also to ones that could be carried around and use Wi-Fi. That can mean one handset for all business calls, anywhere in the enterprise, but that still leaves the employee's cell phone for use outside. Dual-mode cell and Wi-Fi devices are just starting to emerge, and moving between networks raises technical issues. By the end of the year, Nokia and Alcatel will offer software that makes Nokia Eseries cell phones, a line of smart phones designed for business, talk to the Alcatel IP Communication server. That means they can be used like a PBX-connected desk phone, with features such as call conferencing and dialing by name, the companies said. It also lets employees keep their desk phones, use just one number, and program which device they want to receive calls on at a given time. The system also lets cell phone users tap into Alcatel's Least Cost Routing capabilities, which can cut enterprise long-distance charges, and make cellular billing records easier to find, they said. In its first iteration, the Intellisync Call Connect for Alcatel software will make the phones talk to enterprise PBXes over the ordinary cell phone network. In the near future, it will support dual-mode phones, the companies said. Nokia, in Espoo, Finland, acquired Intellisync last year to gain a better foothold in enterprises. It also weighed in to that market on the hardware side last year when it unveiled the Eseries phones, which include a variety of business features including QWERTY keypads and support for business applications and mobile e-mail systems. Its E70 phone includes Wi-Fi as well as cellular radios. Alcatel, in Paris, is near to closing a merger with Lucent Technologies Inc. and recently agreed to buy the UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) business of Nortel Networks Corp. Intellisync Call Connect for Alcatel is part of the Intellisync Mobile Suite from Nokia. It is set to become available through Nokia and Alcatel resellers in the fourth quarter. Pricing was not immediately available.
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T-Mobile's new Wi-Fi service for cell phones for the Seattle area requires one of two handsets.
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HONG KONG -- Nokia Corp. has developed a prototype handset that supports Mobile IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6), a version of the protocol that will help to improve the quality of VOIP (voice over IP), streaming video and other applications delivered to wireless devices, the company said Tuesday.
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By BRUCE MEYERSON  NEW YORK - Cingular Wireless plans to sell a new BlackBerry-like device from Nokia Corp. for as low as $150, perhaps the most aggressive entry yet in an increasingly crowded market of devices with typewriter keypads for wireless e-mail and text messaging.
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InfoWorld - A U.K. startup specializing in offering Internet telephone service via certain Nokia Wi-Fi enabled cellphones is making few friends with mobile operators, signalling tension ahead in the high stakes mobile phone industry.
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Dual-mode handsets will be able to connect to the company's worldwide Wi-Fi network on the cheap.
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Short-range, energy-efficient wireless technology called Wibree is unveiled by Nokia.
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More handsets, more languages Nokia has powered up its handset software update system, having trialled the tool last year. The web-based system allows phone owners to update their devices without having first to find a service centre to do it for them.â¦
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Software radio could offer an elegant solution to a vexing problem: how to have a single handset communicate across multiple networks.
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Nokia and Motorola, who dominate the  low-cost mobile phone segment, could feel the pinch after  Vodafone's  deal to buy cheap handsets from Chinese  handset maker ZTE (000063.SZ).
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The Nokia (NYSE: NOK) 6620 tri-band smartphone (850/1800/1900 MHz) from Cingular Wireless incorporates a higher-speed EDGE (enhanced data rates for global evolution) capability that is designed to achieve data speeds of up to 118 Kbit/sec over compatible GSM/GPRS networks.
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Mobile technology firm Nokia  (NOK1V.HE) said on Tuesday it was introducing what it hoped  would be a new industry standard for short-range wireless  connections between small devices.
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Mobile handset firm Nokia&#39;s  ultra-low-power short-range wireless technology is to be  developed as a new version of Bluetooth to connect devices such  as watches and heart monitors, the company said on Tuesday.
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SHENZHEN, China  - Waiting for a friend in Shenzhen's plush Kingglory Plaza, Chen Jing, 25, admires her new red Nokia mobile phone. Complete with 3G and MP3 features, the phone cost just over 3,000 yuan ($400) -- Chen's entire monthly wage.
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Cell phone market leader Nokia   NOK1V.HE unveiled a new short-range wireless connection on   Tuesday that is smaller and more energy-efficient than current   Bluetooth technology and can be used in devices such as   watches.
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Nokia&#160;announced on Wednesday the latest version of its Linux-based tablet device, this time with a full keyboard.The N810 is the third version of the Wi-Fi tablet from Nokia. It&#39;s expected to become available in November and cost $479.The N810 is larger than a cell phone, but smaller than a laptop, yet contains many of the applications typical to both. It includes a Mozilla browser so users can check Web e-mail and visit social-networking sites. The N810 also features a camera, Skype, music player, and GPS, plus preloaded maps.While the device comes with a touchscreen like previous versions, this one also has a slide-out full keyboard.Unlike the iPhone, which also sports a large touchscreen, but is so far closed to third-party developers, the N810 is based on Linux and thus open to development. Nokia also announced on Wednesday that it has launched support services for developers on the platform within its existing Forum Nokia developer community. Apple&#160;said on Wednesday that it plans to begin allowing third party development on the iPhone starting early next year.Bloggers predicted the impending launch of the N810 after a news release said that a trade-show party next week would include demonstrations of the N810 as well as Mosh, a Nokia social-networking site still in beta.Interest in this type of device -- in between cell phones and laptops -- may be set to grow. A group of companies, including Mozilla, Arm, and MontaVista Software, recently began work on a Linux-based platform aimed at making it easier for hardware developers to create such devices.Nokia made a stir when it introduced its first tablet because it didn&#39;t include cellular connectivity, an unusual move for the number-one cell-phone maker. The N810, like its predecessor, can be connected to cellular data networks via a Bluetooth connection to a mobile phone. Nokia hasn&#39;t revealed how many of the tablet devices it has sold.Nokia also announced on Wednesday that users of the tablets and some of its mobile phones can subscribe to hotspot service from Boingo Wireless. Users will download a Boingo client to their device, allowing them to identify and connect to Boingo hotspots. Subscriptions cost $7.95 per month.