Debuts two new Nokia phones for emerging markets: Nokia 101 ($ 35) and Nokia 100 ($ 30)

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Nokia today announced the launch of two dirt cheap Nokia phones and Nokia 101 100, which the company said its most affordable phones to date.

Prices only 25 euros ($ 35) and 20 euros ($ 30), respectively, this should hardly come as a surprise.

Of course "dirt cheap" is relative-feature phones are for people in countries where phones should be this inexpensive even considered for purchase (large parts of Asia and Africa, in particular).

"We recognize that for many of these billions of people phone purchase is an investment. People are looking for a phone that offers great opportunities, but also reliable, "said Mary McDowell, Executive Vice President, mobile phones, Nokia.

Nokia 101 is a dual SIM device that allows users to connect to two different networks to receive calls and messages, helping them to manage costs and decent coverage without the need for multiple phones. It comes with FM radio, MP3 player and 103 Phon loudspeaker and supports up to 16 GB microSD memory card.

The phone will be available in the third quarter of 2011, and comes in black and red.

Nokia 100 represents a primitive color display phones with FM radio. It will be available in the fourth quarter of 2011, and comes in blue, pink, black and red.

Nokia 101 and Nokia Nokia life tools offer 100 (albeit limited to certain markets) and Nokia money (in India), providing access to locally relevant information on health, education, agriculture and entertainment.

Both phones are based on a series of 30 of the operating system and can support up to five separate address books and store personalization data for up to five different SIM cards.

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It's official: HP kills off webOS phones and touch pad

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Brace yourselves, webOS fans.

In the hours before the Conference call Q3 later today, HP has just confirmed that they would cease operations associated with the touch pad and all the phones webOS.

According to their press release:

HP announced that it plans to announce that it will cease operations for webOS devices, specifically the touchpad and webOS phones. HP will continue to explore options for optimizing the value of the webOS software, go ahead.

This news will come as a huge hit in the gut for fans of webOS (including me, although you can't say that we could not see it coming), many of which were the product of years — the first in the hope that eventually the Palm will be worthy of a pretty fantastic device's operating system, and later in the hope that the HP purchase of Palm could spark a fire, which simply never seemed tolight.

On the upside, webOS, the itself is not dead – at least not just yet. HP wording up above leaves things a bit blurred, with at least two potential routes remains open: licensing webOS to other other, phone/tablet device sticking webOS (HP has already made plans to put it in the printers and cars). Until further notice, however, this is essentially dead in the water.

One for webOS devices this evening, my fellow geeks.

Update: If HP output still saving face, here's a way to do it.

Update: HP Stephen Dewitt says, "we are not going from webOS." they will continue their efforts to advance and may license the OS, but his life as we know that it is definitely over.

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WhiteMagic: Sony reveals next generation LCD for cameras and phones

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Sony announced today WhiteMagic "next generation" 3-inch TFT LCD screen, which boasts a 1.23 M-dot full VGA resolution. That special display is that it has two modes: if moved to "low power" mode, backlight power consumption pushed down more than 50% to 125mW, with Sony, saying the brightness in this mode is still comparable to conventional LCD.

When you select the "open air" mode, WhiteMagic in brightness can be strengthened by 470 CD/m² up to an impressive 1000 CD/m², while the backlight power consumption in this mode (300 MW) is about higher than conventional screens. For comparison: the iPhone 4 reaches maximum brightness 500 CD/m².

Sony do this by adding a white pixel pixels red-green-blue (RGB) and the development of algorithms to correct the distortion of the image ("RGBW method").

The company plans to start shipping the first samples already in October (price: $ 65 each). He looked forward to the WhiteMagic for use on mobile devices such as cameras and Smartphones (even if it's obviously not a touch screen).

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