Nokia N9 available in three colors

Your smartphone doesn’t have to look boring. Check out the Nokia N9. It is designed for techies who appreciate exceptional design and craftsmanship. It’s sleek and simply gorgeous.

Nikka Abes, Nokia Philippines Corporate Communications Manager shares, “Since we announced the Nokia N9 in June this year, the feedback that it has gotten from discerning and avid smartphone users across the world has been nothing short of fantastic.”

Nokia N9

This beauty features an intuitive user interface that can be controlled with a simple swipe.

There’s no home key so there’s a lot more room for applications to shine. It has three home views: Applications, Events, and Live Applications. These enable people to navigate easily and access their favorite content faster.

Nokia N9

The Nokia N9′s other features include:

• 3.9-inch AMOLED screen made from scratch-resistant curved glass
• Easy single-tap pairing with NFC-enabled accessories
• 8-megapixel Carl Zeiss autofocus sensor and wide-angle lens for HD-quality video and photo capture, and large lens aperture for great camera performance even in low-lighting conditions
• Dolby Digital Plus decoding and Dolby Headphone post-processing technology
• Free turn-by-turn drive and walk navigation with voice-guided maps for more than 100 countries and in more than 50 languages
• Top social networking, communication, entertainment and gaming apps preloaded for a hassle-free out-of-the-box experience
• Global and local apps available through Nokia store for further personalization and new discovery opportunities

The Nokia N9 will be available in three colors, black, cyan, and magenta with 16GB and 64GB storage options. It will beon sale very soon in Nokia Stores nationwide.

To learn more about the Nokia N9, visit http://swipe.nokia.com .

Manila Fitness gives away a Nokia 3720

Manila Fitness and Nokia are giving away a Nokia 3720 for their Nokia: My Life Contest.

The Nokia 3720 is one of the most durable phones in the market. It received an International Protection rating of 54 for being both water resistant and dust resistant. Plus, it has a long battery life with talk time that can extend up to 7 hours.

It has a 2 megapixel camera with digital zoom and a built-in LED flash. It has a 20 MB internal memory with a slot for a micro SD which can have as much as 8 GB memory. It has a 2.2″ display and comes in grey or yellow.

It is the perfect compact basic phone that is durable and practical.

Win one of these from Manila Fitness, a blog about fitness, nutrition and well-being. Join the Nokia: My Life Contest now.

Fellow foodie blog Manila Reviews and Nokia.com.ph are giving away a brand new Nokia 5230 for their Nokia: My Life contest.

I would like, like, like to have the Nokia 5230 because it would perfectly fit my lifestyle as a multi-tasker. As a writer, columnist, professional blogger, marketing consultant, and chef in training, I am always on the go. I need to document everything, communicate well with my colleagues and contacts, and be most of the time.

The Nokia 5230 has a camera with a photo editor plus a 70 MB storage. It’s perfect for capturing my foodie moments when I’m eating, cooking, or baking. It has a touchscreen with a handwriting recognition capability which makes it easy to use especially when I’m rushing about from one venue to another.

I’m happy that Manila Reviews, our one stop shop for everything a foodie and traveller needs to know about Manila, is giving away a Nokia 5230 for foodies like them.

Check out Manila Reviews’ contest and their posts about their latest food finds and discoveries.

Ever wondered what that flashlight in your mobile phone is for? My blogger friends and I have discovered a new and very useful way of using it that will surely help a lot of bloggers. Aside from helping you find your way in a dark cinema, that flashlight can be used as lighting when taking macro photographs.

My friends and I use the flashlight as additional lighting when the lighting is bad in a restaurant or store and we have to shoot food or products. Last weekend, we had a nice (and yummy) al fresco dinner at Mamu’s Restobar here in Davao City. Since there was barely enough lighting under the stars… we used the built-in flashlights in our respective phones (mine is a Nokia 1200) to make our shots clearer. Here are the rest of the shots I took using my Canon Ixus 70 in Digital Macro Mode:

So next time you need better lighting for those crucial digital macro shots for your blog (or other publishing or vanity) purposes, remember there might be that nifty built-in flashlight function is your mobile phone.

Food courtesy of Mamu’s Restobar located along Bacaca Road in Davao City, a host of the Davao Food Appreciation Tour 2009.

I took digital macro / close up shots using the Nokia N95 of the details and parts of this table decor at a local restaurant….

Here are the shots:

Not bad, right? I like the way the colors pop out and the details are captured well.

According to the Fritz Tentativa and many other sources, the Nokia N82 is the best cameraphone with a 5 megapixel resolution, Carl Zeiss optics, and a Xenon flash. I am proof that the N82 is quite a kick ass camera phone.

I have shaky hands and photography principles are quite alien to me. But tinkering with the N82 camera has been a pleasant one for me. The photo above and the ones below were taken using the Close up (Digital Macro) mode, without a flash during evening using only a single florescent lamp overhead as light source.

Money folded and arranged by my assistant/our group’s card dealer Burnz Flores. Photos are uploaded to my http://technomaria.com/?p=13 Tweet

I have never had a hi-tech phone. I have three phones (all Nokia) but none of them have a camera or any such things. For quite some time I have been eyeing a PDA phone because I badly need one to juggle everything I do. Testing an N95 8GB is the next best thing to owning my own PDA phone.