Mats Lindoff, of Sony Ericsson, and Rick Simonson, of Nokia, seems to be very safe of their position of leader in the market of the movable telephony, but the recent announcement of Apple with his iPhone has turned east market a time bomb, a pump that could explode to him in the hands of Steve Jobs, or to crack the present panorama and leadership of both companies.

On the one hand, Mats Lindoff, CTO of Sony Ericsson, say that the company is not worried about imminent iPhone, simply because his Walkman devices already well they are positioned in the market, in addition… offer 3G, contrary to iPhone of Apple that in principle would not have 3G.

By another one, Rick Simonson, of Nokia, says that the opening of iPhone will lead back the market of the moving bodies made the concept of devices multimedia, something in which Nokia does not have anything to envy to others and it even has great lessons that to give. Nevertheless, the final decision is into the hands of the public.

That Nokia N81 that was a hot rumor is now a reality, with specs being released for all to see.

For starters, it has 8GB of memory, which is a bit mind-blowing for a device that small. It’s Wi-Fi and Bluetooth-friendly, and its talk and surf capabilities incorporate 3G, EDGE, and HSDPA.

The N81 has two cameras, one 2-megapixel and the other CIF. It has a music player, which can play up to 12.5 hours before the battery dies. It has dedicated music and gaming keys, which suggests one-touch. It also has a navigation wheel.

If you think this sounds a lot like a slider version of the N91, you’re probably right. But it’s another new Nokia advancement, which is always good for a bout of excitement around the globe.

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High-end smartphones such as the Nokia N95 and Sony Ericsson W950i Walkman are becoming increasingly popular. Some 15.9 million Symbian -powered mobiles were shipped in the first 3 months of this year.

The latest figures from Symbian represent a 35.9 per cent increase on the number recorded for the same quarter last year. The increasing dominance of the Symbian smartphone platform demonstrates the difficulty facing Microsoft ’s Windows Mobile platform and the soon-to-launch Apple iPhone . Making headway into the lucrative high-end smartphone market is not an easy task.

Since the Symbian platform launched in 2000, over 126 million Symbian smartphones have been sold. There are now 114 Symbian mobile models on the market - 73 per cent up on a year ago. Nokia has led the way for Symbian with numerous popular S60 handset including recently the N73 and N95.

The latest estimates for smartphone usage worldwide give Symbian a 72 per cent share of the smartphone market. Windows Mobile takes around 6 per cent and Linux around 17 per cent. With the latest Windows Mobile 6 release, Microsoft is hoping to boost its share of the smartphone market.

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This was posted by Ginz over mobile-review’s forum. He also provided the following specs:

GPRS & EDGE
Quadband
2 Meg camera
Bluetooth
Mid-end mobile with high-end design

Wow…the phone looks great in this pic. Alot better than previous pics here and here. Hopefully the finalised version looks good. FCC also approved this phone lately so maybe Nokia will announce this phone soon.”

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 Nokia’s N75 Review Roundup includes summaries from all main cell phone expert reviewers as they become available, company specification sheet, owners manual, Cell Phone Tracker’s unique review conclusion thermometer, and sample photos taken with the Nokia N75.

Nokia N75 Features Include:

• 2 megapixel camera with Integrated LED Flash
• Bluetooth
• Music Player
• Video Capture
• miniSD slot

Mobile Tech Review - 5/16/2007 - has reviewed the Nokia N75 and they write, “In general, we love Nokia S60 phones. While the N75 doesn’t earn our outright love, it still gets a positive nod. The good features outweigh the bad, and indeed there are many good features like the fantastic display, easy to use S60 interface and software, good music playback quality and features, Cingular Video support, excellent voice quality and good call volume, strong speakerphone and 2MP camera. It’s a smartphone that’s easy to use and sync and it has good multimedia skills. And it speaks to Americans’ love of the flip phone, though it doesn’t appeal to a high sense of fashion. But the rose has a few thorns: lack of the faster HSPDA standard which road warriors may crave, short battery life and that darned Pop Port headset connector with no headset or headset adapter in the box. I mean c’mon Cingular: folks can’t even use the FM radio without that headset. Our other quibbles are smaller and have to do with Cingular’s choices such as putting the WAP browser closer at hand than the real HTML web browser, disabling manual network selection and 3G vs. GSM manual selection and marketing this smartphone which competes with the Cingular 3125 as a music phone instead.

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