With a huge number of partners, licencees and developers around the world, Symbian announced a partnership with the PGP Encryption Platform to protect the contents of Symbian laptops, desktops and email exchanges around the world; specifically the IP of Symbian and their partners. After all, one lost laptop with details on a prototype device getting into the wild would not be a nice scenario for anyone involved. I 'm just wondering if there's a mobile client for Symbian staff's smartphones, and if that will ever be available to the public?
Nokia has gradually been putting up all the keynotes from their event of the last couple of days, in video form, on their web site, and they're all there now. Here's the Nokia World webcast link, should there be any that you particularly want to dip into.
With Nokia's impending reorganisation, I started wondering what I'd do about the devices and visions from the current different divisions within the company. What would you do when integrating three separate hardware divisions? Read on for some of my thoughts...
Well done to Rafe and the team out in Amsterdam for winning WOM World's special Nokia quiz (against Symbian Freak and Mobile Burn) in handsome style. Best of all, the prize is a clutch of Nokia N82s for trialling. Congratulations all!
PDA Essentials magazine issue 69 is on the streets now in the UK, with a head-to-head of 'Smartphones under £250'. The Nokia 6120 Classic stole the show (and no, I didn't write the review) with the top score of 9/10 and with the editor declaring that it "is a great smartphone that simply works well and has the features to match".
A while back, Proporta kindly sent over the 'Freedom Mini GPS' for review, a tiny 30g GPS that could happily sit in the tiniest pocket or on a key ring - and I just hadn't got round to writing about it yet. Time moves on and there's now a 20g "Freedom Keychain GPS SiRF Receiver" that's even smaller. If you want to get your hands on either of these accessories, read on...
Describing itself as the world's "first social bookmarking system completely designed and optimized for mobile phone users", PhoneFavs is new and free. In addition to the social bookmark element, there's a mobile link directory and a new "mobilizing" engine which automatically adapts standard web pages for improved viewing on smaller screen devices and, helpfully, has an 'images on/off' toggle. See below for screenshots, links and the press release.
Nokia and Telecon Italia today announced that Ovi services will be enabled on Nokia handsets, starting with the N95 8GB and N81, offered by TIM. TIM services will be offered alongside Nokia's Map, Music and Photo services. TIM joins Telefonica and Vodafone who have made similar announcements endorsing Nokia's Ovi vision.
Nokia has announced 'Comes With Music', a revolutionary program that enables people to buy a Nokia device with a year of unlimited access to millions of tracks from a range of artists from Universal Music Group (more publishers to be added). After the year is up, you still get to keep the music, too, on that device at least.
In practical terms this is a music subscription that is bundled with the cost of the device allowing for a consumer perception of a device that comes with unlimited free music. For more commentary read on.
Nokia World starts in an hour or so (for 2 days) and we have Rafe and Ewan at the event, recording video and audio hopefully. You can also watch the main keynotes yourself on the web - in particular the opening hour or so with Nokia chiefs Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo and Anssi Vanjoki [URL now fixed!], starting at 8.15 GMT, although with the N82 already announced, your guess is as good as mine for what they'll talk about or launch - maybe they'll flick the switch on N-Gage? I'll have my N95s on 'Refresh', just in case!
