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Nokia unveils new multimedia units
Finnish giant launches free media-sharing site allowing people to share photos and videos
- Reuters
- Published: 23:55 February 11, 2008
Barcelona: Nokia, the world's largest cellphone maker, unveiled four new multimedia phone models yesterday, including successors to its top N95 and N73 models.
Nokia also launched its new free media-sharing service "Share on Ovi", which it opened for live testing last week, and an updated version of its navigation software.
Nokia unveiled a new N96 top-of-the-range model, successor to its top profit generator, the N95.
It comes with 16 gigabytes of internal memory, and is expected to retail for around 550 euros, excluding subsidies and taxes.
Its new N78 model, a successor to the N73, Nokia's top-selling multimedia phone, will start sales next quarter for around 350 euros.
Nokia has sold some 15 million N73 handsets.
The company also unveiled new mid-range phone models 6210 Navigator, to sell for around 300 euros, and the 6220 Classic with a five megapixel camera, priced at around 325 euros.
Nokia's media-sharing site allows people to share photos and videos, and is built on technology acquired last year with the US firm Twango.
"We have taken the know-how from Twango and put it on top of our mobile experience," Niklas Savander, the head of Nokia's new internet services unit said..
"We have optimised mobile upload - you take a picture, click twice and it's on the site."
The media and mobile phone industries have been looking for user generated content boom to move over to cellphones, but so far limited usage of Internet on handsets has put a lid on the potentially lucrative business.
"As we continue to free the internet from the limitations of the desktop, we are taking mobility into a completely new realm of possibility," Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said.
Facebook access
Nokia is in talks to put access to the Facebook social networking site onto its cellphones, internet services head of the world's top cellphone maker said yesterday.
"We are negotiating with them," Niklas Savander, the head of Nokia's internet services unit, said on the sidelines of a news conference at the Mobile World Congress trade show.
"That is the application you and I would like to access from our cellphones," he said.
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