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NOKIA N900 IN TESCO THIS WEEKEND

2010-09-15 / Comments Off

Nokia has announced today that the N900, its multi-tasking mobile phone powered by Maemo, will be available from Tesco Phone Shops this weekend. The N900 will be available for £30 a month on Vodafone Your Plan 300, including 300 minutes, unlimited texts, and unlimited internet.

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With Mozilla web browsing technology and Adobe Flash Player 9.4 on board, the N900 provides consumers with a full web experience on a mobile that now includes video streaming and access to interactive websites that use drop down menus and other features to simplify usage of applications and services.

Additional features include a 5.0 megapixel camera, a 3.4-inch high-resolution touchscreen and full QWERTY keyboard packaged within a sleekly designed black case.

A Tesco Telco spokesperson comments: “We are delighted to welcome the N900 into our current portfolio of mobile phones as one of the most advanced mobile computers we now offer. The N900 marks a further step forward to providing our customers with a greater variety of choice at highly competitive pricepoints.”

Mark Loughran, Managing Director, Nokia UK, adds: “This is further proof of the wide appeal of this much-praised device and this deal will bring this great computing experience into the hands of many more people.”

For existing Nokia N900 a software update last week enables video calling with Skype and Facebook IM chat, together with email and calendar enhancements.

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Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]