The Nokia Nseries is a new branded range of multimedia devices offering the powerful functionality small enough to fit in your pocket. These devices are more than mobile phones; they are high performance small computer with the most comprehensive set of multimedia features.
Content digitalization and Internet services are changing the world. Today’s consumers expect immediate access to information, to purchase content and to share experiences through the Internet via their desktop PCs. Nokia offers the same experience directly from people’s pocket with the Nseries.
Broadband technologies such as DSL have revolutionized the PC based Internet experience and now broadband wireless technologies such as 3G WCDMA and WLAN are doing the same in the mobile world.
Nokia Nseries offers people the best possible multimedia experiences and differentiates the new “mobile multimedia computers” from traditional mobile telephones.
Nokia is today the world’s largest manufacturer of digital cameras, digital music players and handheld computers. Nokia aims to establish The Nseries as the leading brand in the new mobile product categories that are driven by digital convergence.
Digital convergence is the answer to the needs of today’s time-poor, experience-hungry consumers as the traditional boundaries between work and social life blur. People listen to music at their desks, read work emails at the weekend and are constantly plugged into the Web. Nokia aims to make the NSeries the ultimate answer to those needs making digital convergence a reality.
All Nokia Nseries devices provide solutions to meet the needs of consumers in the following areas:
Photography
Capture your experiences anytime, anywhere with a Nokia Nseries camera device. You can take print-quality pictures (minimum 2 megapixel sensor) that can be printed easily using the Nokia XpressPrint solution. Users can also share their holiday snaps with family and friends using email, MMS or solutions such as Kodak’s online album. For the bloggers, Nokia Lifeblog makes it easy to create your own personal online diary and upload images straight from your camera phone onto the Web.
With built-in photo editing capabilities on Nokia Nseries devices and Adobe’s Photoshop Album Starter Edition, users can make sure their photos are exactly the way they want them.
Budding Spielbergs can make their own mobile movies with Nokia Nseries devices, recording an hour or more of video footage and using the on-device editing capabilities.
Music
Each Nseries device incorporates music player, high memory capacity and an FM radio. The Nokia Nseries devices support a wide range of digital music formats including MP3, M4A, AAC and WMA.
With the Nokia Nseries, it would be easy to find and purchase music over the air and download it to the device from the operator’s music store. Or users can simply drag and drop their personal music collection from their PC to the Nokia Nseries device or synchronize the recent music purchases with the PC via Bluetooth or USB cable.
A new feature of the Nokia N91 is the possibility to share playlists by multimedia message, email or Bluetooth.
Media
It is now possible to access information on the move wherever and whenever. The combination of an HTML browser and 3G or WLAN connectivity makes it possible to browse web sites at high speeds. Users can also listen to media on the move with the built-in radio player and interact with radio stations (e.g. rate songs, enter compositions, buy ringtones) using Visual Radio (depends on the provider and operator support).
Nokia is also collaborating with Yahoo! to allow Nokia Nseries users to stay informed, entertained and in touch through Yahoo!’s rapidly developing Internet services, such as email, instant messaging and search, all available from the Nseries device.
A new application coming soon to Nokia Nseries devices is Mobile TV. Users can catch up on the news, watch the latest music videos or enjoy re-runs of soap, all from the mobile device. Mobile TV services are offered already today by many 3G network operators and starting in 2006 Nokia will introduce DVB-H enabled broadcast TV to Nokia Nseries devices.
Productivity
The Nokia Nseries range helps users balanced personal and work life with a range of productivity features. It also supports push email, access to email attachments while on the move and access to calendar, synchronized with personal computer.
Connectivity
The Nseries features a USB connection that enables high speed synchronization of contact and calendars, transfer of music and photographs and direct printing. Bluetooth wireless technology is also standard on all Nokia Nseries devices, it provides wireless means of transferring data to and from the handset and connecting with other Bluetooth enabled devices.
Nokia Nseries Range
Nokia has so far announced three Nseries devices:
The Nokia N90 Multimedia
The world’s first camera phone equipped with Carl Zeiss optics. Featuring a 2 megapixel camera and VHS resolution video capture, the Nokia N90 offers superior quality photography with the added possibility of instantly printing and sharing shots over distances.
The Nokia N70 Multimedia
The Nokia N70 is the world’s smallest multimedia computer, offering the full Nokia Nseries multimedia feature set, including a 2 megapixel camera, 3G connectivity, push email, an HTML browser, music player and FM radio.
The Nokia N91 Multimedia
Optimized for music, the Nokia N91 is a mobile jukebox. Industry’s first device to feature an integrated 4-Gigabyte hard disk, the Nokia N91 can store up to 3000 CD-quality songs. The device is also packed with a range of connectivity options including 3G WCDMA, WLAN, Bluetooth and USB 2.0.
As a standard feature set, all Nokia Nseries products will come equipped with:
• WCDMA (3G) connectivity
• A minimum two megapixel camera
• The leading Series 60 operating system + access to thousands of downloadable applications
• Digital music player
• HTML web browser
• Email client with attachment support
• Easy and convenient printing with Nokia XpressPrint solution
• Personal productivity features including calendar and contacts
• Bluetooth wireless technology