Nokia's Mail On Ovi available for Series 40 powered cell phones
Nokia has launched a global public beta of its new web mail service, Mail on Ovi. The service is currently only available for select S40-powered feature phones, and can only be setup from the phone.
Nokia announced its Mail on Ovi service a few months ago, pointing to the emerging markets as the motivation since personal computers are not as common in those markets. The Mail on Ovi service is free and offers users up to 1GB of online storage, with integrated junk mail filtering. Oddly, the web-accessible version of Mail on Ovi is not planned to launch until February 2009. Interested users can get more information from Nokia's Beta Labs.
Nokia also recently announced that it is integrating all of its online services with a single sign-on for users. Nokia's online services, such as Share on Ovi, Sync on Ovi, and Files on Ovi, previously required users to keep track of different user names and passwords. The creation and integration of the Nokia Account for users will offer a single sign-on experience.
New cell phone antenna tech to drastically reduce power use
A new wireless antenna technology developed by Atif Shamim, an engineering student at Canada's Carleton University, is claimed to be able to reduce a mobile phone's antenna power consumption by nearly 92%. The key piece of the technology involves disconnecting a cell phone's antenna from the rest of the electronic components in the device.
In order to separate the antenna from the rest of the phone, Shamim's system uses very short range wireless transmitting micro-antennas within the chip design to handle the communications. Shamim says that by insulating the antenna from the rest of the devices that it would normally be wired to, there is no chance for the antenna's transmission power to be drained, thus lowering the overall burden a cell phone places on its battery.
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