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Nokia have today launched their new converged GSM/UMA/WiFi handset, offering consumers seamless voice and data mobility across GSM cellular and WLAN networks. The Nokia 6301 phone uses UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access) technology to integrate the benefits of landline and a mobile phone, including seamless indoor coverage, sound quality and affordability.
“The convergence of mobile and fixed/land-line technologies means consumers are looking for products that can help make their lives easier,” said Peter Ropke, Senior Vice President, Mobile Phones, Nokia. “With the Nokia 6301 utilizing UMA technology, worldwide triband GSM coverage is combined with superior indoor WLAN coverage to create a device that people can use in virtually any situation.
With UMA technology, the consumer can use the GSM network or a broadband Internet-connected WLAN network for mobile services. This can ensure excellent indoor coverage both at office and home. The consumer can have one multi-mode handset that works everywhere with enhanced and easy-to-use voice services. And, WLAN/UMA provides excellent coverage and sound quality, even in areas where mobile phone reception has previously been poor.
With UMA technology, the Nokia 6301 benefits operators as well, allowing them to deliver voice and data services to subscribers over WLAN, substantially increasing mobile service availability while decreasing the costs related to network deployment.
Orange will be one of the first operators to offer the Nokia 6301, as part of its Unik/Unique portfolio.
Yves Maitre, Senior Vice President, Devices, Orange said “The Nokia 6301 is a stylish new addition to our Unik range of converged fixed and mobile phones. Orange’s Unik offer brings together the convenience of a single phone and tariff at home and on the move and the widest range of UMA handsets. The Nokia 6301, with its sleek candy bar design and attractive stainless steel exterior adds to the appeal of Unik for Orange customers.”
The device features a 2-inch QVGA screen, 2 mega pixel camera with 8x digital zoom, an MP3 player and FM radio. It’s due to ship during Q4 2007 with an estimated retail price of 230 euros before subsidies or taxes.

Amongst all the iPhone non-news today, Nokia has chosen to announce it’s new E51 business handset.

According to the company, the slim and elegant Nokia E51 adds greater simplicity, faster access and tighter integration to key applications, while maintaining the smartphone capabilities and stylish design that customers have come to expect in a Nokia Eseries device. An all-round device, Nokia E51 is ideal for business professionals who require reliable, real-time access to business and people, need to manage time effectively and value a single device that is easy to set up, maintain and use. Nokia E51 users with Nokia mobility solutions can experience mobile telephony, mobile email and messaging, office phone functionality, and cost savings – with the convenience of one phone number, one voice mailbox, one dial plan – in a single device.
“Business users increasingly need one device that they can count on to work productively and which offers them the level of efficiency that brings more freedom and balance to their personal lives,” said Antti Vasara, senior vice president, Mobile Devices Unit, Enterprise Solutions, Nokia. “With the new Nokia E51 device, we are responding to this need with a business smartphone that combines the latest advances in business mobility and a classic, stainless steel design, at a price that makes it perfect for company-wide deployments.”
Amongst other features you’d expect from a business handset are Wifi and VOIP support, Intellisync for email synchronisation, plus something quite neat to do with business VOIP that supports Nokia Mobile Unified Communications solutions such as Nokia Intellisync Call Connect for Cisco and Nokia Intellisync Call Connect for Alcatel. These solutions deliver desk phone calling features – such as extension dialing, hold, transfer and conferencing – to a single, mobile device. Companies can also reduce their international call charges by routing the call over the corporate IP networks.
The E51 has also got an FM radio and a 2 megapixel camera. Which is nice.

Estimated launch date is Q4 2007, with an unsubsidised retail price of 350 euros.

Link: Qwest Offers Military Grade Mobile Phone

Do you constantly wreck mobiles through mistreatment? In the habit of going rock climbing, working in dangerous environments, or dropping your mobile from a great height? Then US mobile network Qwest might have the answer.

The company have just added the Sanyo SCP-7050 mobile – which meets the US military specs for vibration, dust and shock – to it’s range of handsets. Featuring a speakerphone, a rubber shell and voice-activated dialing, it’s perfect for harsh environments.

According to Frank Simanson, VP of product at Qwest, “This latest phone from Qwest is perfect for people who work in rugged industries and equally great for people who like to play hard. So, whether you’re an avid rock climber or a construction foreman, this is the phone for you.”

Nokia have just announced a new clamshell-style 3G handset that, according to the company, “pairs original design and quality workmanship with outstanding features.”

As well as sleak looks and a rather neat external analog clock, The Nokia 6555, estimated to retail at €200 without subsidy, features a QVGA 16 million colour 240×320 display, an unknown resolution camera with 6x zoom, video sharing and WCDMA and quadband GSM functionality.

“Mobile-savvy consumers expect superior quality and design. We understood that need, and so created the the Nokia 6555. The Nokia 6555 is a sophisticated accessory delivering the outstanding features that you expect from Nokia,” said Markku Suomi, Product Group Director, Mobile Phones, Nokia.

The handset also does the usual stuff, like make calls, send texts, and has Bluetooth. Nokia haven’t released a whole heap more information apart from that, as it appears they’re aiming the product more at fashion-conscious consumers than mobile geeks who get excited over umpteen million features.