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Nokia says cellphone future is 'smart`


Monaco, 03 Nov 2004

Nokia unveiled several new products, including a Web-browsing, image-oriented wide-screen handset, at its mobility conference in Monaco, where the emphasis has been on smartphones and supporting technology.

"Smartphones are now at the heart of the industry," says Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia multimedia executive VP. "Smartphones are reaching the mainstream and drawing on cross-industry technologies to spur further innovation."

Vanjoki says Nokia defines smartness as "connected computer power", enabling a richer audio-visual experience. With all the enabling factors in place, he says, Nokia has every reason to believe there will be a big acceleration in smartphone technologies and services promoting productivity and media consumption simultaneously.

Nokia has outlined plans to expand the Series 60 smartphone platform to cover high-end and mid-range categories. Antti Vasara, Nokia technology VP, says extending Series 60 will help operators and developers to innovate and differentiate their offerings in new and rapidly evolving markets.

As part of the expansion plans, the Series 60 platform will support more extensive multimedia capabilities, widescreen resolutions, as well as touch-screen and pen-based input methods.

Nokia`s new 7710 wide-screen multimedia smartphone takes advantage of all these platform capabilities.

The Nokia 7710 is scheduled for release in Europe and Africa in the first quarter of 2005. The new handset features a 640x320 pixel wide-screen, pen input, handwriting recognition, Internet browsing, music player, stereo audio, FM radio, megapixel camera with 2x zoom, and a set of video features including playback, streaming and recording.

The Nokia mobility conference featured several technologies and products that illustrate the rapid evolution of the mobile industry. These include interactive radio and video, mobile TV, the Lifeblog multimedia diary, an end-user consulting service to help operations develop new mobile services, and the "Connect to Art" initiative to bring art to mobile phones.

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