Nokia E66

Technical specifications
Size

• Form: Slide
• Dimensions: 107.5 x 49.5 x 13.6 mm
• Weight: 121 g
• Volume: 62.6 cc
• Smooth sliding action

Display and 3D

• Size: 2.4"
• Resolution: 240 x 320 pixels (QVGA)
• 16.7 million colours

Keys and input method

• Numeric keypad
• Dedicated one-touch keys: Home, calendar, contacts, and email
• Speaker dependent and speaker independent voice dialling
• Accelerated scrolling with intelligent Navi^TMKey
• Illuminated One-touch keys

Colors and covers

• Available in-box colors: Grey steel and White steel
• Operating frequency
• Quad-band GSM 850/900/1800/1900
• Automatic switching between GSM bands
• Flight mode

Data network

• GPRS class B, multislot class 32
• EDGE class B, multislot class 32
• WCDMA 900/2100 or 850/1900 or 850/2100
• HSDPA, maximum speed 3.6 Mbps (DL)
• WLAN 802.11b, 802.11g
• TCP/IP support
• Capability to serve as data modem
• Support for MS Outlook synchronization of contacts, calendar and notes

Local connectivity and synchronization

• Infrared, maximum speed 115 kbps
• Bluetooth version 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate
  - Bluetooth profiles: DUN, OPP, FTP, HFP, GOEP, HSP, BIP, RSAP, GAVDP, AVRCP, A2DP
• Add-on solutions enable integration into enterprise private branch exchange (PBX) infrastructure
• MTP (Multimedia Transfer Protocol) support
• Print support
• Support for local and remote SyncML synchronization, iSync, Intellisync, ActiveSync
  - Support for PC synchronization with Nokia PC Suite

Call features

• Integrated hands-free speakerphone
• Automatic answer with headset or car kit
• Any key answer
• Call waiting, call hold, call divert
• Call timer
• Logging of dialed, received and missed calls
• Automatic redial and fallback
• Speed dialing
• Speaker dependent and speaker independent voice dialing (SDND, SIND)
• Fixed dialing number support
• Vibrating alert (internal)
• Side volume keys
• Mute/unmute
• Contacts with images
• Conference calling with up to 6 participants
• Video calling
• Push to talk
• VoIP
• Easy dialling directly from home screen

Messaging

• SMS
• Multiple SMS deletion
• Text-to-speech message reader
• MMS
• Automatic resizing of images for MMS
• OMA Instant Messaging and Presences Service
  - Instant Messaging client (OMA IMPS 1.2)
  - Windows Live Messenger application* * service not available in all countries
• Cell broadcast

E-mail

• Supported protocols: IMAP4, Mail for Exchange, POP3, SMTP
• Support for e-mail attachments
• IMAP IDLE support
• Support for Nokia Intellisync Wireless Email
• Support for Nokia Mobile VPN

Web browsing

• Supported markup languages: HTML, XHTML, MP, WML
• Supported protocols: HTTP, WAP
• TCP/IP support
• JavaScript version 1.3 and 1.5
• Nokia Mini Map Browser
• Nokia Mobile Search
• Photography

  • 3.2 megapixel camera
  • Image formats: JPEG/EXIF
  • CMOS sensor
  • 4x digital zoom
  • Autofocus
  • LED flash
  • Flash modes: On, off, automatic, red-eye reduction
  • Flash operating range: 1 m
  • White balance modes: automatic, sunny, incandescent, fluorescent
  • Centre weighted auto exposure; exposure compensation: +2 ~ -2EV at 0.7 step
  • Capture modes: still, sequence, self-timer, video
  • Scene modes: automatic, user defined, portrait, landscape, night, night portrait
  • Colour tone modes: normal, sepia, black & white, negative
  • Full-screen viewfinder with grid
  • Active toolbar
  • Dedicated camera key
  • Landscape (horizontal) orientation
  • Share photos with Share on Ovi

  
  Video

  • Main camera
    - Video recording at up to 640 x 480 pixels (VGA) and up to 22 fps
  • Up to 4x digital video zoom
  • Front camera
    - Video recording at up to 128 x 96 pixels (QCIF) and up to 15 fps
  • Video recording file formats: .mp4, .3gp; codecs: H.263, H.264
  • Audio recording formats: AMR, AAC stereo
  • Video white balance modes: automatic, sunny, cloudy, incandescent, fluorescent
  • Color tone modes: normal, sepia, black & white, vivid, negative
  • Clip length (maximum): 60 min
  • RealPlayer
  • Video playback file formats: .mp4, .3gp; codecs: H.263, H.264
  • Video streaming: .3gp, .rm
  • Landscape mode video playback
  • Video calling: up to 640 x 480 pixels (VGA), up to 22 fps
  • Video ring tones

  
  Music and audio playback

  • Music player
  • Real player
  • Music playback file formats: AAC, AAC+, MP3, AMR-NB, AMR-WB
  • Audio streaming formats: .rm, .eAAC+
  • FM radio 87.5-108 MHz
  • Visual Radio support. Read more: www.visualradio.com
  • 2.5 mm Nokia AV connector
  • Nokia Music Manager
  • Nokia Music Store support
  • Nokia Podcasting support
  • Ring tones: mp3, aac, 64-tone polyphonic (25 built-in tones)

  
  Voice and audio recording

  • Voice commands
  • Voice dialing
  • Voice recorder
  • Audio recording formats: AMR, AAC stereo
  • FR, EFR, WCDMA, and GSM AMR
  • Digital microphone
  • Text-to-speech

  
  Personalization: profiles, themes, ring tones

  • Customizable profiles
  • Customizable ring tones
  • Customisable video ring tones
  • Support for talking ring tones
  • Customizable themes
  • Two customizable home screen modes

Sony Ericsson introduced C902

Taking the Cyber-shot to an innovative level, Sony Ericsson premiers its enticing C902 Cyber-shot. A great blend of flair and distinctive characteristics makes the C902 a fascinating device. Mr Sudhin Mathur, General Manager Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, India remarked "There is a change in the trend of more and more people replacing the camera with the camera phones. The Cyber-shot C902 is a perfect combination of style with superb camera features. Its unique camera features lets you capture your beautiful moments with the perfect shot"

To capture those impeccable moments easily, the slender C902 unveils a 5.0 megapixel Auto Focus camera exhibiting unparallel performance with the camera ready in a moment due to its significant slide-out lens cover. Allowing you to captivate the optimum shot with its eight camera touch keys, you can select between camera modes, face detection and photoflash, all in a single touch. The phone's lighting changes from white to blue indicating you are in camera mode. The distinctive feature of the C902 is BestPic that enables you to take 9 photos instantaneously by simply clicking the camera key half way down. You can opt for the best picture and delete the rest. If you love music, drama and action you can create your own multimedia slide show with X-Pict story. Other key features include picture blogging, video recording, image stabilizer, Access NetFront Web browser and 3D Games.

The CCR-70 USB Adapter empowers you to easily transfer images from your phone to your computer. With an inbuilt memory of 160MB, it has the ability to store up to 100 full resolution photos. The C902 has a talk time GSM of up to 9 hrs and a standby time GSM of up to 400 hours whereas a talk time UMTS of up to 3.5 hrs and a standby time UMTS of up to 350 hours. Accessories comprise of great, extra stylish hands free Bluetooth Headset HBH-PV712, added GPS technology GPS-Enabler HE-100, Memory Stick Micro support, removable jewellery, a black compartmentalized leather case and an attractive hand strap. At an appealing price of Rs 20,995, the sleek and classy phone will be available in selected markets from Q2 2008 in two chic colors Swift Black and Luscious Red.

First Look: OpenMoko's Linux-based open smartphone platform

Penguin calls

Last Friday, OpenMoko launched its highly anticipated FreeRunner smartphone, a Linux-based handset that's completely open in both hardware and software, and is designed to encourage third-party modification and customization. Although the FreeRunner's software platform is still incomplete, the device has attracted considerable attention from mobile software developers and Linux enthusiasts.

The FreeRunner handset is obviously a powerful tool for prototyping mobile software, but it isn't clear yet whether it's also ready for adoption as a personal smartphone. We won't have a conclusive answer until we get a handset to test, but we decided to take an early look at the OpenMoko software platform to get a glimpse of what it offers at launch.

In many ways, OpenMoko's platform strategy mirrors the diversity of the Linux desktop software ecosystem. There are a multitude of parallel options with many layers and varying degrees of overlap. This provides end users with an enormous amount of flexibility, but it also creates a lot of complexity. The choices are difficult to navigate, and the lack of a cohesive direction contributes to fragmentation and redundancy. OpenMoko's potential for success will be heavily predicated on the ability to turn choice and diversity into an asset rather than an impediment.

There are currently three separate software stacks that are available for OpenMoko handsets. The original OpenMoko software environment was built on top of GNOME Mobile and Embedded technologies including the GTK+ toolkit. As the FreeRunner launch date approached and the development priorities began to shift towards a stronger emphasis on mainstream consumer adoption, OpenMoko reevaluated its approach and decided to build a new stack on top of Trolltech's proven Qtopia mobile environment. The third stack, which will implement the FreeSmartphone.org APIs, is part of a long-term framework initiative that OpenMoko hopes will eventually ameliorate the problems created by fragmentation and redundancy while still offering developers a full range of choices.

Because the FreeRunner is a completely open device, users will be able to choose which platform they want to use. They will also be able to adopt any third-party software platforms that emerge in the future. We have already seen an impressive variety of Linux desktop environments and graphical shells ported to Nokia's Internet Tablet devices, so it is likely that we will see similar innovation on OpenMoko's handsets. Indeed, developers of the KDE desktop environment have already started working on experimental OpenMoko ports.

OpenMoko's GTK-based stack

The GTK-based OpenMoko stack, which is referred to as om2007.2, offers a moderately conventional finger-oriented interface and a variety of standard productivity, Internet, and entertainment applications. It is a reasonably intuitive environment and it adheres to a very high level of visual consistency. There are a lot of similarities between om2007.2 and Nokia's Maemo platform—both are based on GTK+ and use OpenedHand's lightweight Matchbox window manager. OpenedHand also developed several other important pieces of the om2007.2 stack, including the personal information management suite, which is called Pimlico.

The om2007.2 web browser uses Apple's open source WebKit rendering engine. As many readers are already aware, I'm a big fan of the GTK+ WebKit port and I've been very impressed with its small footprint and excellent support for standards.

In addition to all of the standard applications one would expect to see on a smartphone, a terminal application that supports entering commands with an on-screen keyboard is also included. Users have full root access to a BusyBox shell with all of the standard scripting tools like sed and awk. The stack also comes with a multitude of games, a media player application, a calculator, a package manager for installing additional software, and other tools.

Booting om2007.2	The home screen
The dialer interface	OpenMoko's WebKit-based browser
The application launcher	The media player
The terminal utility

To build new applications for om2007.2, developers will need to set up a cross-compilation toolchain on a Linux system. The OpenMoko wiki offers detailed instructions for this process and also describes how to compile and package a program. Developers who want to go further and modify the underlying platform can use the OpenEmbeded infrastructure, which provides an elaborate build engine for generating package sets.

The platform exposes phone capabilities through the gsmd daemon, which sits between the GSM modem and userspace applications. Instructions can be sent to the daemon through standard UNIX sockets. The libgsmd library is an abstraction layer that wraps the instruction protocol with a simple API. There is also a gsmd command shell tool for testing and debugging that gives the user interactive control over the daemon. A wide range of functionality is accessible through the daemon, including the ability to dial and answer calls, toggle the phone's vibrator, detect signal strength, read and send SMS messages, and retrieve the phone's battery status.

For rapid prototyping and avoiding the hassle of having to set up a compiler toolchain, developers can use Python to create OpenMoko applications. Python isn't officially supported, but the interpreter is available from the main repositories and GTK+ bindings are available from third-party repositories. The Python library for interfacing with gsmd isn't there yet, but there are already several useful Python-based utilities for OpenMoko that send instructions to the daemon by using the command line gsmd control utility. These include the SettingsGUI tool and the SMSTool.