N95 8GB Edition: Fat meets Black

If you thought slim is in, you’re wrong. Black is what’s in. Apple’s proved that with the black iPod Nano and black Macbooks, and now Nokia is trying it’s hand at it too. It’s released the N95 8GB edition today and it’s all black, sleek and still fat. No wait, it isn’t fat it’s huge.

The specs are mostly the same as the normal N95, just the cost goes up. And if you liked the N80 you’ll simply love the N81. The only downside is that, the RIZR still wins if design is what you’re looking at.

Your High-End N-Series phone is your new N-Gage

It’s official. The new N-Gage gaming platform is going to be introduced not on a separate phone but as part of the N-Series phones itself.

The phones that will be compatible with the new platform will be the N95, , N93, N81 and N73. Each game will cost anything between 6-10 Euros. That’s much cheaper than most portable gaming titles, and I think the quality will also remain only as bad.

The news is really upsetting, I was expecting more from Nokia.

Nokia to revamp N-gage platform

The N-gage got a lot of attention when it was initially released, and it became extremely popular in India. It had some (recognised) mistakes in it’s design elements and hopefully Nokia will correct them later today.There are many people who would swear by Nokia and refuse to use a phone manufactured by anyone else, and there’s good news for all of them. Here’s the Nokia Virtual Event Schedule:

 Here’s what’s expected today:

• Nokia N81
• Nokia N95 8GB M 
• Music store
• NGage

I’m mostly interested in the updated N-gage, we haven’t really seen much of innovation on the mobile gaming front, and I’m dying in anticipation.

iPhone - A revolution in disguise

You’ve heard about the iPhone and you’ve probably even got one. It’ has the best mobile web browser, it does email and you can flip through your music(and video) just as easily as you can on iTunes. It does all that and more but are people really willing to buy this rounded brick?

Steve Jobs proudly stated that the “real cost” of the iPhone is just $300 if you remove the iPod feature that’s worth $199. If that’s true, then we really wouldn’t mind having an iPhone without the iPod feature for $300 as mobile web browsing is considered “the killer feature” that is inviting many people to buy it. If they get that for $300, why would they pay $499?

Apple Updates iPhone Specs

Finally Apple has updated the specifications page of the iPhone to include the battery info that we all wanted to see. The iPhone has a 250 hour(10 days) standby time, 24 hours battery capacity for music, 7 for video and 5 for browsing the internet.

They also mention that these may vary depending on different factors and conditions which means we still have to wait for another 10 days till we see the real picture.