Mobile phones are generally between 50 and 80% recyclable. IntoMobile reports that Nokia plans to extends its phone recycling program as part of the Earth Day celebrations. Read on for the details of the Nokia program and information on more generic recycling programs.
Just to note that Smartphones Show 30 is now live, with a hands-on preview of the Nokia N77 (thanks Rafe), interview snippets with a couple of Forum Oxford speakers (more from these in AAS video podcasts next week), a demo of the Proporta USB Mobile Device Charger and a rant on the subject of touchscreens on smartphones.
Nokia today released their full (and highly detailed) sales figures and financials for Q1 2007. Highlights were almost 8 million Nseries devices sold (a number which should go up for Q2, with the N95 entering the equation) and over one million Eseries communicators. There are lots more stats in the full press release.
The Register reports that VOIP company Truphone is to lodge an official complaint with the UK telecoms regulator OFCOM against phone network operators Orange and Vodafone, over the networks' crippling of the Nokia N95 to remove VOIP functionality. Truphone has a video of the N95's crippling here.
Interesting, although perhaps not surprising, to see that the Nokia N95 is now the Carphone Warehouse's top selling device, with over 50,000 sales forecast in the first month alone. Nokia UK say that all channels have had enough stock and that the demand has been met.
In case you haven't subscribed to the RSS feed yet, make sure you don't miss this one. I was at Forum Oxford's Future Technologies conference last week, where David Wood from Symbian (architect of Psion's EPOC and much of Symbian OS) was speaking on 'Browsers and Beyond'. Here's his talk, in AAS audio podcast 20, even more appropiate in the light of S60's Widgets announcement, of course. See also Tomi's blog post here and Russell's here, for more description of what went on at the conference, and see Smartphones Show 30 (out later this week) for video interviews and footage from the event.
Looking for all the world like a non-descript mid-range candybar, the S60 powered '6120 Classic' has been announced by Nokia. There's nothing stunning here for long term Symbian users (2 megapixel camera with digital zoom; QVGA screen; quad-band GSM, WCDMA, HSDPA; microSD) but that's not the point. This is yet another step from the high-spec digerati toys of the last few years and is getting S60 and Symbian OS into the hands of regular users. This helps drive the numbers up, creates a much wider user base and provides more licensing revenue to Symbian. 2007 is clearly going to be the tipping point year of mass market adoption. Expect the device before Q3 2007 for an impressively cheap 260 Euros unlocked.
We've been seeing several of Nokia's beta projects surfacing recently. Now there's a proper home page for them in the shape of Nokia Beta Labs. Worth a regular visit at least, though we'll buzz you here if something great gets launched. Via Tommi.
Nokia has gone widget-mad, introducing full widget (mini-apps built on Ajax and Javascript) support into S60, beginning with S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 (so we're looking at next year for the first devices with full widget support). Widgets will run under 'Web Run-Time', as explained in the full press release, below.
Thanks to Stefan for pointing me towards a couple of interesting videos. Here the TV Out capabilities of the Nokia N95 are demoed well, watching a video on three different screens in one shot, while here one of the developers of VoIP software demonstrates how Internet telephony is 'missing' on branded/locked versions of the N95.
Ewan's a messaging power user and he's been smitten by a new utility, ThreadSMS for S60 3rd Edition, promising Treo-like threaded 'conversations' held by SMS. Here's the review.
Looking for all the world like a non-descript mid-range candybar, the S60 powered '6120 Classic' has been announced by Nokia. There's nothing stunning here for long term Symbian users (2 megapixel camera with digital zoom; QVGA screen; quad-band GSM, WCDMA, HSDPA; microSD) but that's not the point. This is yet another step from the high-spec digerati toys of the last few years and is getting S60 and Symbian OS into the hands of regular users. This helps drive the numbers up, creates a much wider user base and provides more licensing revenue to Symbian. 2007 is clearly going to be the tipping point year of mass market adoption. Expect the device before Q3 2007 for an impressively cheap 260 Euros unlocked. 
Krisse gets the hardware honours this time around, with an unboxing and first comments on the Nokia 6290, the brand new S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1 clamshell. Full review to follow next week, of course. (Krisse adds: If you have any questions about the 6290, please post them in the comments and I'll try to answer them.) 
Nokia has gone widget-mad, introducing full widget (mini-apps built on Ajax and Javascript) support into S60, beginning with S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 (so we're looking at next year for the first devices with full widget support). Widgets will run under 'Web Run-Time', as explained in the full press release, below.