Nokia E62 Phone Features

Nokia E62 Phone Technology

Email and Messaging

• Support for personal and business email accounts such as POP, IMAP (with idle) and SMTP1
  
• Supports third party email clients: Good Mobile Messaging, BlackBerry Connect, Nokia Intellisync Wireless Email, Mail for Exchange (Microsoft ActiveSync) and Xpress Mail 1
  
• Attachments viewers and editors support the most common features of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel (Microsoft Office 97, 2000, XP and 2003). Compatible with Zip Manager and Adobe Reader
  
• Instant Messaging client (Yahoo, AOL, OMA)1
  
• SMS distribution list
  
• Email LED indicator, vibrate and tones to alert you of new email
  
• Full messaging keyboard for easy text and data input

Organization

• Personal shortcuts
  
• Customizable profiles
  
• Alarm clock
  
• Music Player (MP3/AAC)
  
• Notepad for short notes
  
• Automatic key guard
  
• Calculator

Messaging and Imaging

• Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS, ver. 1.2) for text, voice clips, video clips and still images receiving, editing and sending1,14
  
• Distribution list
  
• Video and audio streaming (GPP and RealMedia: Real video and Real Audio)1

Enhanced Voice Features

• Voice dialing and voice commands for menu short cuts, keypad lock and profiles
  
• Enhanced voice commands (SIND)
  
• Dedicated voice key for easy use of voice recording, voice dialing3
  
• Speed dialing, up to 8 names
  
• Automatic redial (max 10 attempts)
  
• Call waiting, call hold, call divert, call timer
  
• Automatic and manual network selection
  
• Caller identification with photo
  
• The name of the calling party (spoken caller line identification) is mixed with the ringing tone. The functionality is enabled/disabled through profile settings.
  
• Conference call capability (up to 6 participants)1
  
• Vibrating alert
  
• Integrated handsfree speakerphone

Display and User Interface

• 320 x 240 pixel active matrix display with up to 16 million colors
  
• Adjustable brightness and contrast
  
• Ambient light sensor for keypad display lighting control
  
• Two soft keys with five-way joystick, power key can be used as profile key
  
• Configurable right and left soft keys
  
• Input method: full keyboard
  
• Active standby enables user to configure 7 shortcuts for fast access
  
• Symbian operating system OS 9.1
  
• S60, 3rd edition

Memory Functions

• Up to 80 MB of fixed user data memory†
  
• MiniSD hot swap slot available for memory card insertion & removal. Supports miniSD cards up to 2GB. Memory cards sold separately

Connectivity

• miniUSB port
  
• Remote and local (peer-to-peer) synchronization over Bluetooth technology, IR or data cable
  
• Bluetooth wireless technology 2.022
  
• HTML browsing with Nokia Browser1,2,12
  
• WAP 2.0 browser for viewing mobile web content1,2,12
  
• EGPRS (Class B, MSC 10)1,15
  
• GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) Multislot Class 101,15
  
• GSM Circuit-Switched Data up to 14.4 and 43.2 (HSCSD) kbps

Support

• Nokia Access: Receive world-class support for your Nokia E62 and specified client software. Nokia Access for Business Devices provides support at a predictable annual cost, focusing on issues specific to enterprise businesses
  
• Application Management enables the delivery and management of native Symbian and Java™ add-on applications over OMA DM
  
• Terminal Management Security includes security model, which enables protecting device data via device wipe and device lock management, protecting service usage by ensuring that right settings are in place

Specifications

• Weight: 5 ounces
  
• Dimensions: 4.61 x 2.76 x .63 inches
  

Service

• GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
  
• Speech codecs: AMR, FR and EFR, NB-AMR

Mobile Technology by nokiausa

Orange to turn mobile into remote control

Mobile operator Orange is said to be developing technology that will allow its customers to user their mobile handsets to control televisions. The Sunday Telegraph reported that Orange is developing a system whereby its customers can use their handsets to program their personal video recorders.

At the moment in the UK, this type of service is available to users of SkyPlus PVRs. Users download Sky's application onto their 3G handsets, allowing users to decide remotely what programs or channels they wish to record.

According to the newspaper, Orange will try and launch its IPTV service in the third quarter of 2007. It intends to allow access to content, whether on the TV, PC, or mobile phone. Orange is said to be developing the technology to do this in-house, rather than relying on third parties, and there is talk that it will provide a search facility to allow users to search for content across all three mediums.

The paper quoted Orange's homes services manager, Eric Abensur, as saying, "When you buy content you should be able to watch that content wherever you want to, whether that is on your TV, on your PC, or on your mobile."

Orange already offers a "free" broadband connection to its contract customers, and its IPTV service would compete with similar offerings from BT Group Plc, Virgin Media, and BSkyB.

Mobile Technology by cbronline

Nasa's aurora mission blasts off

A US space agency (Nasa) mission to study auroras - the Northern Lights - has blasted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida, after it was delayed by wind.

The Themis mission, comprising five identical probes, aims to gain new insights into the colourful displays in high-latitude skies.

In particular, scientists want to understand what triggers a sudden brightening of the lights.

The rocket carrying the probes launched at 1801 EST (2301 GMT).

Power in numbers

Auroras have their origin in the vast clouds of charged particles that billow away from the Sun.

When these are accelerated by the Earth's magnetic field into the upper atmosphere, they will collide with, and excite, gas molecules, which then emit light when they return to a more relaxed state.

From time to time, this green band of light will brighten, then break into many bands that dance rapidly and turn red, purple and white.

These events are called auroral substorms. One of the main aims of the Themis (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions During Substorms) mission is to determine how these are initiated.

"A substorm starts from a single point in space and progresses past the Moon's orbit within minutes, so a single satellite cannot identify the substorm origin," said Vassilis Angelopoulos, the Themis principal investigator at the University of California, Berkeley.

Above and below

Three events in the tail of the Earth's magnetic field are associated with the onset of substorms: current disruption, auroral eruption and magnetic reconnection.

But scientists are divided about the order in which these occur.

"The first spacecraft will identify the start of the substorm; where the disturbance first occurs in the Earth's magnetic field, and the other spacecraft will be used to determine how fast and how quickly that disturbance spreads towards other locations," Themis project scientist Dr David Sibeck told BBC News.

The mission only needs four spacecraft to complete the task; the fifth probe is essentially a spare that will provide additional data.

The satellites will magnetically map the North American continent every four days for approximately 15 hours each time.

Simultaneously, 20 ground stations in Alaska and Canada with automated, all-sky cameras and magnetometers will document the auroras and space currents from Earth.

Exploration team

The mission, though, is far more than a simple quest to understand pretty lights in the sky.

When the Sun is particularly active, a series of 10 or more substorms can occur in rapid succession.

"During some of these very intense auroras, there could be disruption to power grids on the ground as well as disrupting communication with satellites; so it's important to be able to predict when these things will happen," Dr Tai Phan, a mission scientist, said.

The quintuplets join a fleet of Sun-Earth connection explorers already in orbit - four from the European Space Agency's (Esa) Cluster mission and two from the Chinese space agency (CNSA) Double Star mission, which is run in collaboration with Esa.

All the spacecrafts' efforts are highly complementary, and several European research institutes will take an active part in the Themis venture.

"This is the first time in the history of space physics that such a high number of scientific satellites are in operation simultaneously," observed Esa's Philippe Escoubet, the Double Star and Cluster project scientist.

"It represents an unprecedented opportunity to study the global solar-magnetospheric environment and the physical processes involved."

Technology by BBC News

Deaf to sign via video handsets

Deaf people could soon be using video mobiles to chat with their friends using sign language.

Video compression tools made by US researchers make it possible to send live pictures of people signing across low bandwidth mobile networks.

The system cuts down on the bandwidth needed by only sending data about which parts of each frame have changed.

The researchers are talking to mobile firms about how to get the technology in to the hands of deaf people.

Long look

Many American deaf people prefered to communicate via sign language but this was impossible over current mobile networks, said University of Washington computer scientist Richard Ladner, who is one of the principal investigators on the project.

Chatting via signing across mobile networks was impossible, Prof Ladner explained, because the bandwidth available meant video was of too low a quality to accurately depict the arm, finger and face movements of sign language.

While video compression techniques could ease this problem there were other barriers too, said Prof Ladner.

"To do all this calculation and video compression runs down your battery pretty fast," he added.

Prof Ladner and his co-researchers, Professor Eve Riskin and Professor Sheila Hemami, have overcome these problems by creating compression software that looks for the parts of each video frame important to signers.

To cut down on the amount of data that has to be sent, video compression systems typically only send information about what elements of a scene change from frame to frame.

By contrast, the system developed by Prof Ladner and his co-workers only looks for hand, arm and face movements. In addition, it ensures that the face of a signer, where movements during signing are quite subtle, is presented in more detail.

"The large, slower movements of hands and arms can be picked up at low fidelity," said Prof Ladner. "The face needs higher fidelity because the movements are much smaller."

This approach also made sense, he said, because people interpreting sign language looked at the face of the signer 95% of the time.

This lets the peripheral vision pick up the gross movements of arms and hands while the fovea, the part of the retina capable of picking out detail, concentrates on the smaller facial actions.

The system developed by the team can work across networks that only had 10-20 kilobits per second of bandwidth available, said Prof Ladner. In the UK, most people are on mobile networks that offer them about 40kbps download speed but much less than this to upload.

The research has gone so well that the team is in talks with handset makers and operators to put it on phones.

"We realised that the technology is close enough that we can deploy it," he said.

Technology by BBC News