Nokia is gearing up to launch the Nokia N8 around the world and all of you are going to hear a lot about it from Nokia World which is starting next week . Here is a cool TV ad for the N8 titled -- Its not technology, its what you do with it.The Ad features a Hamster, skateboards ,� a Nokia N8 mounted on a Remote-controlled helicopter and� a Dancing Robot powered by a Nokia N82. Totally worth watching

And if you have not watched it already here is the story behind the Hamster powered Nokia Charger

We are really looking forward to playing with the N8 Review unit

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Recently we were talking about the never ending�processor war and here we have Samsung pushing in a totally new processor which will leave every geek jumping once the specifications are read out loud The 3D graphics functionality of the new Orion is supposed to be five times that of other processors previously launched by Samsung. Well, I am not sure if having Samsung as the benchmark is the best possible way to compare the strength of this processor but this is what the company seems to be doing pretty confidently.

"Consumers are demanding the full web experience without compromise while on the go," said Dojun Rhee, vice president of Marketing, System LSI Division, Samsung Electronics. "Given this trend, mobile device designers need an application processor platform that delivers superb multimedia performance, fast CPU processing speed, and abundant memory bandwidth. Samsungs newest dual core application processor chip is designed specifically to fulfill such stringent performance requirements while maintaining long battery life."

The 1 GHz dual core ARM Cortex A9 will do video encoding at 1080p while decoding will be done at 30 fps. The chip also boasts of HDMI 1.3a interface with embedded GPS. The native triple display controller just heats up the specifications a bit too much.

[via Engadget]

We had an opportunity to attend Nokia Music Connects 2010 on September 2, 2010 and to discuss Nokia OVI Music Services in India with Adam Mirabella Global Director of OVI Music Services, Nokia. Its his 4th visit to India in a year, Adam Mirabella was pretty excited about the opportunities in Indian Market. It was not just related to Nokia Ovi Music Services but also bringing together all the Music industry giants� which includes Sony Music India, EMI, BMG, RPG SAREGAMA and many others at Nokia Music Connects 2010. The opening of the ceremony was done with a beautiful song named Shanti Aye performed by Australian Band Old Man River with Hamsika Iyer.

Nokia has transformed itself from a Mobile handset company to now provide a much more wider range of services which are bundled� to Nokia Mobile Phones & provided to the consumer. There are various services which includes Maps, Email, Contacts,� Applications and also Music and all these are branded as OVI.

India is a country with various languages & with different religions. To tap such diverse economy & various challenges Nokia India has dedicated editorial team who can bring up the regional expertise & provide quality content to its diverse audience. We also got to know that Nokia has significantly invested in this editorial team so that content they offer in Nokia Ovi Music will be unique & special.

One of biggest challenges in India are piracy which hampers the paid digital music significantly. Nokia has provided the very unique solution to this problem as well. Adam has conveyed us that their solution works for the entire Music Ecosystem, not only the artist / labels but also to the operators carriers. The solution is Nokia Ovi Music Unlimited Service. During his talk at Nokia Music Connects, Adam also revealed "that given the unlimited model, users have taken the liberty to try out more than twice as many different genres of music."

If we check their all services which comes under OVI Brand, we will know that OVI Music is the only paid service. All other services which includes Nokia OVI Maps, Nokia OVI Email, Nokia OVI Contacts, Nokia OVI Calendar are free, only exception is the Nokia OVI Store where some content is free & some content is paid. During his keynote to Nokia Music Connects, he mentioned that Nokia OVI Music is going to be no. 1 revenue driver for digital music content. That shows how much Nokia is concerned & interested about its OVI Music services in India.

During the interview with Adam Mirabella we asked no of questions; you can listen the interview in audio format below

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Some of the questions did not get recorded due to technical glitch. These are as follows with its replies provided by Adam Mirabella & Gitanjali Sharma Nokia India.

1. Will Nokia launch DRM free services in India?

Adam: No plans on the cards at this moments but we have launch such services in China.

2. Whats the definition of a Song or a Track in Ovi Music? For example, if a classical track is for 45 minutes, then will it be considered as single track or it will be break up in multiple parts?

Adam: Its all Label dependent but In India we have no such issues as these definitions are as per the various markets. In India we dont have such breakup of songs.

3. Why preview of a song in Ovi Music India is just for 30 sec? How will I get the idea of a song in just 30 sec? Dont you think so that the preview of song should be more than 30 sec? Like 1 minute or 1.5 minutes?

Adam: Yes its a good feedback. I will check into this.
Gitanjali: Yes, we can increase the preview for more than 30 sec.

You can check no of pictures which are captured during Nokia Music Connects 2010. Overall we had wonderful evening with Nokia Music Connects 2010 in Taj Lands End, Mumbai, India.

Gaurav Hasabnis contributed� this report

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