Nokia today unveiled its latest addition to the Prism Collection, the Nokia 7900 Crystal Prism, aimed at design-conscious consumers. With its seamless diamond-cut design with a crystal centre key, the Nokia 7900 Crystal Prism continues to highlight the geometric shapes and personalized style of the Prism Collection. Nokia 7900 Crystal Prism will be available in the first quarter of 2008 with an estimated retail price of EUR 375, before taxes and subsidies.

Nokia worked in collaboration with the creative designer Frédérique Daubal, which resulted in unique laser-etched graphic designs, distinctive wallpapers as well as exclusive accessories to the Nokia 7900 Crystal Prism. The wallpapers inspired by Daubal communicate the reflection of light and capture the feel of angular prisms and triangles.

“At Nokia we are constantly looking for new and innovative shapes, styles and materials combined with advanced features and personalized experiences,” said Jo Harlow, who oversees the Live category in Nokia. “Additionally, we continue to seek opportunities to collaborate with designers and artists at the top of their fields, who can offer different talents and insights to help us create products that meet the individual and unique lifestyle needs of consumers.”

The graphic design of the aluminium back cover, together with intriguing light effects, make each handset unique and complement the glamorous appeal of the Nokia 7900 Crystal Prism.

Combining special design and technology, the Nokia 7900 Crystal Prism features an eye-catching large OLED display, with organic, modern digital art wallpapers inspired by Daubal. From a technical standpoint, the Nokia 7900 Crystal Prism comes with a 2 megapixel camera, 3G technology for fast and easy downloads and browsing, 1 GB of internal memory and a music player with matching headset. The user can also personalize the color of the light in the keymat choosing from 49 different colors.

Additional wallpapers designed by Frédérique Daubal are available for downloading at www.nokiaprismcollection.com. The website also includes images and information of the Nokia Prism Collection.

Nokia 7900 Crystal Prism

Ever wants to share a phone with your sibling, but you are worried about mixing up the Contacts in the phone book? Maybe you are a parent and you want to purchase a mobile phone for the use of every member of the family, but will rather prefer a phone that will not mix up the Contacts. I am happy to inform you that the new Nokia 1209 offers the solution.

The Nokia 1209, among other features, offers additional cost management features to make phone sharing easy and convenient. Innovations include the pre-paid tracker, a cost-tracking application, and the multiple phonebook - which allows up to five people to store personal contact lists of up to two hundred numbers on a single phone. Designed for first time buyers, the Nokia 1209 incorporates Nokia’s intuitive user interface, dust resistance, and offers up to 80 languages. The Nokia 1209 also has a one-piece key mat for durability and reliability.

Nokia 1209

The Nokia 1209, together with the Nokia 2600 classic were today unveiled by Nokia, targeting consumers in emerging markets. The Nokia 2600 classic allows consumers to customize their phone with colourful, fully changeable Xpress-on covers and MP3 ring tones. The cheerful Nokia 2600 classic also features a number of entertainment features, including an FM radio and a VGA camera.

The Nokia 2600 classic, which will retail for approximately 65 euros before applicable taxes or subsidies, has begun shipping, ramping up in all key markets during the first quarter of 2008. Nokia 1209 will become available globally during the second quarter of 2008 and will retail for approximately 35 euros before applicable taxes or subsidies.

Nokia 2600 Classic

Bluetooth(R) technology, the global standard for short range wireless communications, is 10-years-old this week. Though the Bluetooth technology was born over a decade ago, the first products didn’t appear commercially until the year 2000. In that short time, a span of eight years, about 1.5 billion Bluetooth enabled devices have been shipped, and the organization behind the technology, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, has grown from a handful of companies to 10,000 members.

The Bluetooth technology has been most deployed in mobile phones, portable computers and audio electronics. It is hard imagining enjoying digital lifestyles nowadays without the use of Bluetooth. Transfers of photos, music and video clips between digital or mobile devices are now easy even to the non-technically inclined individuals. Thanks to Bluetooth.

Since Bluetooth eliminates the use of wires that easily entangled, I cannot see myself using a mobile phone that lacked Bluetooth. Connectivity between my phones and laptops are always done via Bluetooth either for transfer of files or synchronisation with Microsoft Outlook. If a phone lacked Bluetooth, forget it, I am not going for it.

I wish the Bluetooth technology can do much more though; like charging my mobile phone from my laptop using Bluetooth so that I don’t have to worry about a desktop-, USB- or car-charger. That will be a thrill. This seems like an El Dorado now, but then we are in the age of miracles. Any technological breakthrough can happen.

I want to believe that in the next few years, we will see more deployment of the Bluetooth technology in home electronics. It will soon become the standard, where every TV set and stereo equipment will have Bluetooth by default, just as it is currently happening with cell phones. By then, using the ability to pair Bluetooth devices, it is not difficult to imagine the limitless possibilities of what can be done with Bluetooth technology.

Bluetooth Network