For those of you interested in the Nokia N76:

1) MobileBurn’s preview of the Nokia N76

Today I had the chance to play around with what could fairly be called Nokia’s first RAZR, the 14mm thin N76. The N76 sports the same clamshell form factor pioneered by Motorola with its RAZR V3 in that it has its internal antenna located below a flat, metal keypad. Nokia’s N76, however, is a true smartphone and runs its own powerful S60 user interface on top of the Symbian OS.

Link to article

VIA: [Ring Nokia]

2) Endgadget Mobile’s preview of the Nokia N76

“Nokia” and “thin” aren’t terms that we generally find ourselves assembling into a single sentence, but the freshly-introduced N76 changes all that in a big way. We had a chance to run our hands over a couple N76es at CES — one red, one black — and the smart money says future owners are not going to be disappointed. After the initial shock of handling an Nseries device this svelte, we were really digging what Nokia put together here. Sadly, the lack of American 3G bands leaves the phone dead in our eyes, but we enjoyed our brief interlude nonetheless.

Link to article

VIA: [Ring Nokia]

3) UberGizmo’s Nokia N76 Hand-On experience

CES 2007 - The trend is thin and nobody can ignore it, not even Nokia. The Nokia N76 closes a gap in Nokia’s offering in a stylish way. They will probably hate me for saying this but the Nokia N76 looks like the RAZR and the Sanyo Katana. I don’t say that in a bad way – the RAZR design is what brought struggling Motorola back into the game.

Link to article

VIA: [Ring Nokia]

4) SymbianFreak gets a Nokia N76 Hands-On preview

On the unofficial press release on Sunday Evening, we had the opportunity to get our eyes exclusively on the black edition (the red one next day) and the first thing came in my mind: Girl’s Phone!?.. The N76 looks stylish with its mirror touch (don’t forget to polish all the time!), a nice external screen (1.36 inch color display (160 x 128 pixels) TFT with up to 262,144 colors), dedicated mp3 player buttons .. all what a phone needs so far ..

Link to article

5) AllAboutSymbian’s N76 Flickr Set

6) Tech Digest’s Nokia N76 preview videos

• Video 1
• Video 2

VIA: [Ring Nokia]

Nokia has announced the CA-100 and the CA-70 portable usb chargers for Nokia phones. This looks to be a useful accessory, particularly for frequent travellers or people who use their phones a lot (me). It looks to be quite compact and I would definitely prefer carrying this rather than the wall charger in my backpack.

CA-70 (Nokia USA)
CA-100 (Nokia Europe)

The CA-70 allows for pop-port connectivity as well, thereby allowing you to use the PC Suite via USB and simultaneously charge the phone. Great for most nokia phones, but not particularly useful for phones like the N91 which have a mini-usb port.

Clicking on the link for the CA-100 takes you to the Nokia support page which means its not out yet (:(). The CA-70 is out of stock at the Nokia USA website. It retails for $59.99 (expensive, I know). I’ll definitely buy the CA-100 as soon as its available.

SOURCE: [Darla Mack]

On the eve of CES, nokia has just announced the new Nokia N76!

It is definitely one of the most beautiful S60 phones I’ve ever seen. Great job on the design, Nokia.
Here are a few screenshots:

Black:

Red/Pink:

(All images are from the N-series website)

Official Links: N76 official page @ Nokia Europe, N-series Home
Technical Specifications:

Although the phone is quite stunning, the question that comes to my mind is: “Where is U.S. 3G?”. You’ve announced 2 new phones already, but not one of them has US 3g?

Nokia has announced a collaboration with skype to build a skype client for the N800 internet tablet. Here is the press release:

Las Vegas, USA - At the CES conference in Las Vegas today, Skype and Nokia announced a collaboration to develop a new mobile Skype(TM) experience on the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet, introduced earlier today.

The collaboration builds on the familiarity and richness of desktop Skype and makes it mobile. The Nokia N800’s small size and easy wireless connectivity frees Skype users from their desktop, allowing Skype conversations to take place anywhere, as long as there is an available wireless Internet connection. Packed with features such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth phone connectivity, hands-free properties, webcam, media support and messenger keyboard, the Nokia N800 makes Skype conversations captivating experience at home, at work and on the move.

“Skype is the recognized leader of Internet communications with over 136 million registered users worldwide,” said Ari Virtanen, Vice President, Convergence Products, Nokia. “Nokia’s new N800 Internet Tablet is designed for mobile Internet. Together, we can develop communications devices beyond expectations.”

“Skype is very happy to be partnering with Nokia,” said Eric Lagier, Director, Business Development, Hardware and Mobile, at Skype. “Working with the leading mobile-handset manufacturer puts us in a unique position to get Skype to the mobile masses.  With the introduction of the Nokia N800, we are positioning Skype as the centerpiece of Internet conversations on this WiFi-centric device. The Nokia N800 is an excellent platform for taking Skype conversations beyond the PC.”

The first implementation on the Nokia N800 is expected to be made available for download by the end of first half of 2007.

I hope that this collaboration extends further beyond the N800 and encompasses the N-series multimedia computers as well. I’m dying to see a fully-functional stand alone skype client for the N91.

Its really major issue and I simply can’t imagine how this went through the testing phone unnoticed. Here’s the problem:

If you have the Messaging Memory set to the N91 HDD, then you can’t use the phone as a Mass storage device.

I recently switched messaging memory over to the N91 HDD as I was running low on phone memory. And since then, I haven’t been able to use Mass Storage at all. It says, “Messaging is currently using the hard disk. Mass Storage mode cannot be activated”. I use a powerbook, so mass storage is the only option for me when I transfer music. So for now, I have to choose between being able to access and save my emails or being able to transfer new music to my phone.
This totally sucks! I really hope someone from nokia reads this and releases a patch.