GLOBAL – Nokia is celebrating offered 1.5 billion phones by seeking to the future.

“It’s a fun number,” pronounced Antti Vasara, Nokia’s Senior Vice President of Mobile Devices, “and when you begin meditative about the stroke of 1.5 billion it’s a flattering overwhelming achievement.”

After the toasts were finished, however, Vasara went behind to work on how Series 40 could bond an additional billion people to mobile record and the internet:

“What you have been perplexing to do is a in advance thing. We infrequently dont think about which half the world’s race does not have a phone. So, celebrating 1.5 billion is great, yet it’s back looking. What you wish to contend is – you have been only half approach to where you have been going.”

A dozen Series 40 and Series thirty phones have been sole each second around the world, and 3.5 million apps have been downloaded each day.

“For a lot of people Series 40 is the initial time they’ve ever had entrance to the internet or a computer. And the story of joining those people is a outrageous story, since it will shift the world.”

Series 40 began in the late 1990s in flagship devices, sole at sincerely tall prices to horse opera customers, Vasara said. That has right away been remade in to a operation which is right away offered in outrageous numbers in tall expansion economies, at a fragment of the cost.  

“The people who buy these phones – and who will be shopping these phones – have been ambitious, and really wakeful of technology. They’re young, civic and what you call ‘hyper-social’. In alternative words, they know what the most appropriate of the most appropriate is – and you have to broach a product which is state of the art and affordable.”

The Nokia Browser exemplifies Nokia’s expostulate to set up smarter phones for everyone, in Vasara’s opinion.

“In Europe and the US you download interpretation yet meditative really most about the cost, yet in flourishing economies it is a outrageous issue. With the Nokia Browser you can get a full internet experience, with really crafty clouded cover application record to have which knowledge affordable.”

Vasara, and his team, have additionally been concentrating on creation Series 40 feel similar to “phones which have been vocalization your language.”

The destiny of Series 40 will be some-more about the services which you wish in your “neighbourhood” – in your own language, delivering report which “feels really local.” Part of which will be operative with developers to rise some-more Series 40 apps.

Even yet offered 1.5 billion Series 40 phones is a smashing milestone, it is the growth of the height and the product which gives Antti Vasara a clarity of achievement:

“My proudest impulse was essentially producing the initial Dual SIM device,” he says. “We were removing a lot of feverishness about it, and it was a outrageous priority – yet the timing was so parsimonious and you had most moments when you suspicion you couldn’t have it.  But you did – on time and with good quality. Now that was a miracle for Series 40.”   

GLOBAL – Nokia is celebrating offered 1.5 billion phones by seeking to the future.

“It’s a fun number,” pronounced Antti Vasara, Nokia’s Senior Vice President of Mobile Devices, “and when you begin meditative about the stroke of 1.5 billion it’s a flattering overwhelming achievement.”

After the toasts were finished, however, Vasara went behind to work on how Series 40 could bond an additional billion people to mobile record and the internet:

“What you have been perplexing to do is a in advance thing. We infrequently dont think about which half the world’s race does not have a phone. So, celebrating 1.5 billion is great, yet it’s back looking. What you wish to contend is – you have been only half approach to where you have been going.”

A dozen Series 40 phones have been sole each second around the world, and 3.5 million apps have been downloaded each day.

“For a lot of people Series 40 is the initial time they’ve ever had entrance to the internet or a computer. And the story of joining those people is a outrageous story, since it will shift the world.”

Series 40 began in the late 1990s in flagship devices, sole at sincerely tall prices to horse opera customers, Vasari said. That has right away been remade in to a operation which is right away offered in outrageous numbers in tall expansion economies, at a fragment of the cost.  

“The people who buy these phones – and who will be shopping these phones – have been ambitious, and really wakeful of technology. They’re young, civic and what you call ‘hyper-social’. In alternative words, they know what the most appropriate of the most appropriate is – and you have to broach a product which is state of the art and affordable.”

The Nokia Browser exemplifies Nokia’s expostulate to set up smarter phones for everyone, in Vasara’s opinion.

“In Europe and the US you download interpretation yet meditative really most about the cost, yet in flourishing economies it is a outrageous issue. With the Nokia Browser you can get a full internet experience, with really crafty clouded cover application record to have which knowledge affordable.”

Vasara, and his team, have additionally been concentrating on creation Series 40 feel similar to “phones which have been vocalization your language.”

The destiny of Series 40 will be some-more about the services which you wish in your “neighbourhood” – in your own language, delivering report which “feels really local.” Part of which will be operative with developers to rise some-more Series 40 apps.

Even yet offered 1.5 billion Series 40 phones is a smashing milestone, it is the growth of the height and the product which gives Antti Vasara a clarity of achievement:

“My proudest impulse was essentially producing the initial Dual SIM device,” he says. “We were removing a lot of feverishness about it, and it was a outrageous priority – yet the timing was so parsimonious and you had most moments when you suspicion you couldn’t have it.  But you did – on time and with good quality. Now that was a miracle for Series 40.”   

GLOBAL - Nokia has reached a singular of the greatest milestones in the company’s story – offered 1.5 billion Series 40 mobile phones.

The record-breaking handset was sole to 21-year-old aged Mayara Rodrigues in Brazil.

“It is tiny and beautiful,” pronounced Mayara as she hold up her latest Asha 303 in front of the Magazine Luiza store in São Paulo where she perceived it.

Receptionist Mayara motionless a Nokia was right for her after researching which phone would be easiest to use, affordable, and suggest the most appropriate song and print editing. Although she creatively suspicion about shopping a Nokia C2, she was since a giveaway Asha 303 as the 1.5 billionth customer.  

She’s only got married, and so she likes to keep in hit with a lot of family and friends around amicable networks. 

On the Asha 303 that’s easy – we can sort messages on the QWERTY keypad and refurbish your standing on a amicable network similar to Facebook, or Orkut – the a singular Mayara uses. You can additionally operate the Nokia Browser to poke the internet, restrict the interpretation which we wish by as most as 90 per cent, and download it some-more affordably.  

Mary McDowell, Executive Vice President for Mobile Phones at Nokia, said: “We have been incredibly unapproachable to strech this milestone. Having 1.5 billion Series 40 inclination sole is a hard-to-reach mark, let alone a singular receptive in a singular line of products.”

 McDowell combined which Series 40 had played an necessary purpose in Nokia’s ongoing plan to bond the subsequent billion users to mobile technology: “It is delightful to cruise how Series 40 inclination have done mobile record permitted and assistance go on to shift people’s lives for the better.”

The initial Series 40 phone, the Nokia 7110, was grown in 1999,  but the key of the Asha operation – with services similar to Nokia Maps for Series 40, Nokia Browser, Nokia Money and Nokia Life Tools – has led to a blurring of the normal eminence in between a underline phone and a smartphone, with Series 40 right away heading the expansion of a latest difficulty called ‘smartphone lite’.   

As distant as Mayara Rodrigues is concerned, it doesn’t unequivocally make a difference what difficulty her phone falls into: The Asha 303 gives her all she wants for the right price, and she can even fool around Angry Birds on it.

GLOBAL – Nokia is a indeed tellurian association and thus the product roll-outs start all corners of the planet. Nokia Lumia smartphones have been rising mostly in opposite tools of the world, mostly with an sparkling eventuality to celebrate.    

To assistance uncover the global impact of the Nokia Lumia worldwide roll-out, the Lumia Momentum Map is now available for all to see.

The map facilities a preference of locally applicable videos, images and amicable networking conversations, capturing people’s excitement. The map additionally allows we to see that carriers await the Lumia, so we know where to collect a single up.

At the bottom, specific tiles uncover off the extraordinary celebrations surrounding your circuitously Lumia launch, such as the heart-stopping deadmau5 eventuality in London in November.

The specialized website and map will be mostly updated to uncover launch activities and the appetite and fad around them.

Do conduct over and check out the site if we wish to see Nokia Lumia accessibility in your nation or if we attended a launch-associated eventuality and wish to relive the fun memories.

GLOBAL – When you’re roving opposite busy cities in India, or Africa, you infrequently consternation how any a single knows where they have been – or where they’re going. 

With millions of people in suit around the world, everybody needs navigation – not only smartphone users. Now Nokia Maps will be accessible on Series 40 phones as an necessary partial of joining the subsequent billion people to mobile technology. 

Nokia Maps on the Series 40, together with the latest Nokia Asha 303, has a tellurian range, directed at internal needs – and that’s because it brings giveaway maps covering some-more than 180 countries, and giveaway turn-by-turn visible routing in some-more than 100 countries.    

There’s no GPS: The operate is privately written to operate network-based positioning, and offers a lot of facilities offline to save on interpretation costs and downloading. You can demeanour at a map, or devise your route, offline as the map interpretation is stored on the device itself. 

Even online we’ve selected the lowest price options: The normal price of regulating the positioning operate is the homogeneous of promulgation a customary SMS in India. 

Maps of your nation and segment come preloaded, so there’s no need to outlay time installing – and adding additional maps of the universe is giveaway and easy, by Nokia Suite. 

That’s a single of the most appropriate things about Nokia Maps: It’s not only about anticipating out where you are, it’s about giving millions some-more people the event to find the world, and share locations with friends and family.  

Aruba, Brunei, Olivia, Bermuda, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, Guatemala, Sri Lanka and Tanzania have been all-new countries which we’ve combined to the list. 

We’ve lonesome 31 million km of roads, and 73 million points of seductiveness – giving Series 40 users only the same turn of coverage as smartphone users.

Let’s only say, you don’t consider you’re starting to skip much.

GLOBAL – Nokia’s latest Asha mobile phones come with all the facilities we unequivocally need to bond with the many appropriate of the online universe at an affordable price, and a little good surprises you’d routinely design on some-more costly devices.

They have been colorful, in vogue and absolute and they concede we to entrance amicable networks around the web on Nokia’s extraordinary browser. But, by delivering the necessary functions for customers, they stop reduced of being fully-fledged intelligent phones, creation them ultra fit and elementary to use. It additionally helps to keep the costs down.

Nokia Asha 303

First up is the Nokia Asha 303. Beautifully rendered in lead finishes, the 2.6-inch hold screen, with QWERTY keypad, is driven by a large 1GHz processor, creation it as absolute as many intelligent phones.

This absolute engine contributes to delivering a unequivocally quick internet tie around 3G and WiFi. And when we cause in the upgraded Nokia Browser, that compresses the web for mobile by up to 90 per cent, you’ll find the internet knowledge on this phone tough to beat.

One click from your splendid home screen, that is entertaining in approach sunlight, takes we to your the a singular preferred amicable networking site, as good as email and present messenger, proof Nokia has listened to what their business unequivocally wish and need.

There’s additionally one-touch entrance to your song player, with 47 hours of fool around time on a singular assign and a 3.2-megapixel camera.

The phone functions in landscape for games and mural for chat. It’s rarely fascinating to a outrageous marketplace of younger, price-conscious users for around €115, depending on region.

That’s all many people wish on a smartphone for around a entertain of the price. Weighing only 97g and measuring 116.5mm x 55.7mm 13.9mm, the Asha 303 has a speak time of around 8 hours and a standby time up to thirty days.

As good as Angry Birds Lite, The Nokia Asha 303 comes preinstalled with Facebook Chat, Whatsapp and even Nokia Maps for Series 40 (in comparison markets). It will be accessible in the legal holiday season, prior to the latest year.

Key features: 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth and 1 GHz processor. Full QWERTY keypad. Display: 2.6-inch QVGA, up to 262k colors, capacitive touch. Readable in approach sunlight. Stereo FM Radio and Internet Radio, 47 hours song playback. 3.2 megapixel camera.

Dimensions: 116.5 x 55.7 x 13.9mm. Weight: 97g. Standby time: thirty days. Talk time: 7 hours. Angry Birds Lite pre-installed.

Colors: red, graphite, china white, aqua, green, purple.

Nokia Asha 300

Next up, the Nokia Asha 300 additionally facilities a touchscreen and pass pad. Like the 301 it has a 1GHz processor and 3G. Also preloaded with Angry Birds Lite, the 300 offers quick entrance to messaging, email and present messaging. And upgraded Nokia Browser gives we appropriate entrance to apps, song or games from the Nokia Store.

The Nokia Asha 300 comes with a 5-megapixel camera with video It additionally underline song player, FM radio, Bluetooth and mental recall label genius of up to 32GB.

The 300 weighs in at 85g and measures a neat 112.8mm x 49.5mm x 12.7mm and boasts speak time of 6.9 hours and an startling twenty-two days mount by time.

All this for an amazingly affordable price of around €85, depending on where we are. Also accessible in the fourth entertain of this year.

Key Features: 3G, HSPA  Quadband and 1GHz processor. Touch interface with keypad. Display: 2.4-inch resistive  hold display, with 262k colors. 5-megapixel camera with video recording at up to twenty-five fps. Stereo FM air wave and MP3 song player. Angry Birds pre-installed.

Dimensions: 112.8 x 49.5 x 12.7mm.Weight: 85g. Standby time: twenty-two days. Talk time: 4.3 hours. 

Colors: graphite, night Shade, gold, white silver, pink and red.

Nokia Asha 200

Third up is the Nokia Asha 200, featuring twin SIM with Easy Swap that allows we to switch a singular SIM but branch off the phone. And around the sim physical education instructor we can personalize user profiles for up to 5 sim cards.

The Nokia 200 additionally has shortcuts for amicable networking, email, IM and others together with RenRen, Orkut and Flickr support. With await for up to 32 GB mental recall cards, we can attend to a preference of thousands of songs for up to 52 hours. Plus, we can snap away, capturing images with the 2-megapixel camera.

It weighs 105g and shapes up at 115.4mm x 61.1mm x 14mm. Talk time is up to 7hrs and there’s a 36-hour standby time. It’s out prior to the finish of the year, design to compensate around €60, prior to any internal taxes or user subsidies.

Key Features: Dual SIM with Easy Swap and SIM physical education instructor to personalize up to 5 SIM cards. Full QWERTY keypad. High behaving loudspeakers, extended stereo FM radio, FM Recording (where permitted), 52 hours of song playback. 2-megapixel camera with 4X zoom.

Dimensions: 115.5 x 61.1 x fourteen mm. Weight: 105g. Standby time: 36 days. Talk time: 7 hours

Nokia Asha 201

Nokia Asha 201 is the singular SIM chronicle of the 200 and is directed at immature song lovers. Instead of the additional SIM genius we get a loud, loudspeaker and glorious FM radio.

You get the same song storage and listening time as the 200, as good as amicable networking, together with await for the glorious WhatsApp, messaging app, simply downloadable from the preloaded by-pass or around the Nokia Store.

Measuring 115.4 mm x 61.1 mm x fourteen mm and weighing 105g, the 201 has a speak time of up to 7 hours and standby time of 35 days. Out early subsequent year, it’s approaching to price around the same as the 200.

Key Features: Full QWERTY keypad. One-click entrance to amicable networking, email, Nokia Messaging, Whatsapp and Facebook chat. High behaving loudspeakers, extended stereo FM radio, FM Recording (where permitted) 2-megapixel camera with 4X digital zoom. Access to Webapps. 

Dimensions: 115.4 x 61.1 x fourteen mm. Weight: 105g. Standby time: 35 days. Talk time: 7 hours. Display: 2.4-inch QVGA, up to 262k colors.

Lots of good apps strike the Marketplace this week. Here have been a little we might’ve missed, along with alternative Windows Phone headlines from around the web.  Have a good week end and let me know if there’s anything cold I missed!

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Never skip an additional Xbox LIVE game

As many of the Windows Phone star knows, Angry Birds is only days divided from Marketplace (arriving Jun 29, to be precise). But what about all those alternative good Xbox LIVE games? You no longer need to theory when a prohibited ultimate pretension is starting to land, interjection to Microsoft’s ultimate SMS diversion alerts operate for Windows Phone. When a ultimate pretension drops, we get a text—simple as that. Sign up now

New Me array installment

The ultimate monthly payment of the ultimate Me series—a pick up of video essays about genuine people and their Windows Phones—is here. This part focuses on cook Matthew Poley, owners of the ancient artifact LA food lorry and catering commercial operation in Los Angeles. Check it out.

Zune HD apps entrance to Windows Phone?

Microsoft is weighing either to have a little Zune HD apps accessible for Windows Phone 7. The probability of porting the apps was discussed progressing this month on the Zune Insider podcast, though gained wider notice after it appeared this week on the Windows Phone Secrets blog. “I can’t discuss it we when or what the expect dates are, though that’s something we’re really seeking at doing,” Microsoft’s Dave McLauchlan pronounced on the podcast.

Plants vs. Zombies arrives
In box we longed for it, Pop Cap’s Plants vs. Zombies showed up in Marketplace this week. In this strike building invulnerability game—the next-to-last entrance in the Must Have Games array for Windows Phone—you contingency urge your residence opposite twenty-six sorts of zombies regulating arms depot of plants.

New time to go to bed stories for Windows Phone

Good headlines for Windows Phone-toting parents. Touchy Books, a heading purveyor of digital children’s books, is move over 300 interactive kids books to Marketplace this month, together with classics similar to Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood. The books, WinRumors writes, will be labelled from $ 0.99 to $ 3.99 and be accessible in English, Spanish, French, and German.

Digital A-Z Maps of London

Most travellers and ultimate transplants to London wouldn’t be held passed but their arguable “A to Zed,” the only arguable approach to navigate the city’s famously treacherous streets. Now the classical A-Z London Map is accessible for Windows Phone.  Another plus: The map comes entirely commissioned and doesn’t need a network tie to use.

Master Chief on your Windows Phone
Are we as vehement about the ultimate Halo diversion as I am? If so, check out this homebrew Halo 4 thesis for your Windows Phone. This giveaway fan-created thesis lets we pretence out your phone pure wallpaper and alternative Halo-inspired decorations. Get it now

And finally…
NFL quarterback Matt Hasselbeck isn’t the only luminary who loves WP7. Add British cook Jamie Oliver to the flourishing list. On a new part of his uncover Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution he uses Bing and voice poke to get him where he needs to go.

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I longed for to check out this series, bt prior to I do I longed for to see if it is accomplished or nt so is there gonna be a seventh book? Thanx in modernized to everybody who answers!