Well, as long as you're a pre-pay (pay as you go) user anyway. The info doesn't seem to have made it onto Vodafone's web site yet, but as from 1st June, pre-pay users in the UK will be charged £2/MB for mobile data rather than the current £7.30/MB. It's not exactly flat rate, but it's a step in the right direction for those of us that don't want to go on contract.
A major new firmware for the Sony Ericsson P990i was released at the start of this week. Organizer version R5A17, with a faster interface, fewer bugs and better RAM use, should be offered when you connect your P990i to Sony Ericsson's Update Service. Any problems or questions, see the forum.
Nokia has released Nokia Video Manager for Windows PC. The software helps you copy videos to your phone and transcodes them on the fly (converts them to an optimal format). Nokia Video Manager supports conversion from avi, mpeg, wmv and mov (DivX, XVid, MPEG-2 and Quicktime codecs) to mp4 (H.264). As such it is only compatible with devices that can play back the H.264 format.
Here's your chance to win your very own W950i. We're just looking for a little feedback and an entertaining and creative comment - if you'd like to win this UIQ 3 Walkman phone, see the competition page.
The Nseries team always do a pretty good job on these video promotionals.... This one minute short film, aired on the Nseries Arena blog, demonstrates the Nokia N73, N95 and N80 used to help avoid cooking disasters and to bring a group of friends together for a meal...
In How To Build Your Own Web Home Page Ewan describes how you can create a custom start page for your phone's web browser. Intended for novices this feature explains the basics of page construction and how to get the page set up on your phone.
Part 5 of our Nokia N95 review sees its battery life put under intense scrutiny. Injecting some reality into the voices of doom around the world, the truth is that it isn't quite as bad as the critics claim, although you do have to bear in mind the limited 950mAh capacity and there's definitely room for an aftermarket higher capacity alternative.
PalmInfoCenter is reporting that Palm has announced and is working on a new Linux based mobile platform. The new platform was announced at a Palm Analyst meeting and is described as a new foundation for Palm. The new platform will compete with Symbian OS, although Palm has said they will not be licensing the platform.
In this in-depth editorial feature Krisse asks whether non-portable game systems are doomed? Home consoles and home computers have played such a big part in the history of gaming, it seems inconceivable that they would ever disappear. But is gaming about to become 100% mobile?
Nokia have released iSync plug-ins for a number of their recent phones including the Nokia N95, Nokia E65, and Nokia N76. The release of these plug-ins mean all currently available S60 phones will sync with a computer running Mac OS X.
It's all very well Apple announcing 100 million iPods sold since the first player hit the market in late 2001, but when you compare it to the mobile arena, where over 80 million smartphone devices with music and video capability were sold in the last tweleve months, you realise that while it might have the zeitgeist, the iPod is quite clearly no longer the top selling family of music devices.
Thanks to the User Agent Profile lists on Nokia.com we know there is another S60 device on the way. The 6120 runs S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 (Symbian 9.2), is a 3G device (including HSDPA) and has a QVGA screen. The device is referred to as the 6120c indicating its full name will be the Nokia 6120 Classic.
The MOTORIZR Z8, Motorola's recently announced UIQ powered multimedia smartphone, will be climbing Everest in the company of Mark Baber as part of a Motorola sponsored expedition to make a phone call from the top of the worlds tallest mountain. The Z8 will be available in shops towards the end of May.
In the fourth part of our definitive review of the Nokia N95, Steve Litchfield looks in detail at its video recording capabilities. How does it stand up in terms of picture and audio quality, what can you do with recorded videos and are there any gotchas?
