Rafe's had some hands on time with the new devices from 3GSM, and when he finds even a trickly of bandwidth we'll have his reports. In the meantime, some of his pictures have made it through, and there is an immediate bit of trivia, with the previously announced LG Joy being relabelled as the LG KS10. Picture ater the break...
Ewan Spence has been watching the E65's launch today and remarks on similarities to last year's N80. With a certain core feature set now well established, is the E65 all about marketing?
More from Nokia at Barcelona, this time with the Nokia 6110 Navigator - a S60 powered device that has GPS built in. alongside the more high-end N95 and E90, the 6110 has GPS and location based services as the focal marketing point. With HSDPA, WCDMA and GSM connectivity (there's no Wi-Fi), it's going to be interesting how the companies that have built up a niche market with GPS (such as Tom Tom) feel about Nokia's entry into their space with their own bundled software. Availability is late Q2 2007.
For all the funky form factors in the E-Series devices, the one that's been missing - the slider phone - has finally arrived. Announced today in Barcelona, the E65 comes with a QVGA 240x320 portrait screen, the aforementioned slider for the keypad, around 70MB of usable internal storage and microSD if you need more. Wifi is supported, and there is a large dollop of VOIP capability as well. Nokia reports it is already available in 'selected markets'.
DVB-H mobile TV just got smaller and more affordable, with Nokia's candy bar N77, announced today at 3GSM. See below for the full press release and photos. There's a dedicated TV key on the handset, many TV-related services and utilities, plus the usual Nseries goodness.
If you want to follow the Nokia launches this morning live, here's the web address to visit at around 9.50am GMT. We'll be putting up news and analysis during the morning, of course.
What a busy time (but perhaps an appropriate one) to divulge a mass of stats from the smartphone world. Canalys' latest report shows that 64 million smartphones shipped worldwide in 2006. Symbian's world market share was up to 67%, of which Nokia accounted for 50% and Sony Ericsson 5%.
If you're heading over to 3GSM, perhaps it's not too late to add Symbian's new free utility AmiGO to your S60 smartphone (a UIQ 3 version is 'coming soon' - let's hope it arrives in the next couple of days!). AmiGO offers a map-based guide to bars, clubs, restaurants, plus handy Spanish phrases in audio format, a friend-finder functionality for other AmiGO users, plus news and a prize draw.
And with energy levels rising round the blogosphere we come to 3GSM 2007 at last. So many things we've not been allowed to talk about but which will be announced at 10am GMT on Monday... Watch this space for analysis, photos from the launch events and more... Rafe's in the thick of things in Barcelona - wish him good health and plenty of bandwidth!
In this special feature Steve looks more closely at specific criticisms of the S60 UI and application set. He argues that some of these are answered in S60 3rd Edition's Feature Packs, some are down to user education, but there is still work to be done
Telefonica Moviles Espana and Symbian today announced a collaboration that sees the two companies working to reinforce the role of Symbian OS devices (both S60 and UIQ) in Telefónica's mobile device portfolio. The deal is aimed at reducing development costs and time to market for new devices.
Nokia and T-Mobile have announced that they are working together to help bring T-Mobile's core services to the market on S60 devices and to improve the ability for S60 licensees to create devices for T-Mobile. T-Mobile is the third such operator collaboration for S60 following on from Vodafone and Orange last year.
Nokia has today announced that they will make their mapping and navigation solution (smart2go) available for free download. Initially available for S60 and Windows Mobile 5 it will later become available for other platforms. It is the same solution that is found in the Nokia N95. Mapping and route planning will be available free, but turn by turn voice navigation will be a premium service. Location is via any Bluetooth GPS. The download will be available from this Saturday.
More from Nokia at Barcelona, this time with the Nokia 6110 Navigator - a S60 powered device that has GPS built in. alongside the more high-end N95 and E90, the 6110 has GPS and location based services as the focal marketing point. With HSDPA, WCDMA and GSM connectivity (there's no Wi-Fi), it's going to be interesting how the companies that have built up a niche market with GPS (such as Tom Tom) feel about Nokia's entry into their space with their own bundled software. Availability is late Q2 2007.
The most-leaked device in recent Nokia history finally sees the light of day. The E90 Communicator has been announced. In this illustrated article, I look at its ancestry, its specifications and who it's aimed at. See below for snippets from the press release and extra photos, some from the 3GSM show floor...
For all the funky form factors in the E-Series devices, the one that's been missing - the slider phone - has finally arrived. Announced today in Barcelona, the E65 comes with a QVGA 240x320 portrait screen, the aforementioned slider for the keypad, around 70MB of usable internal storage and microSD if you need more. Wifi is supported, and there is a large dollop of VOIP capability as well. Nokia reports it is already available in 'selected markets'.
DVB-H mobile TV just got smaller and more affordable, with Nokia's candy bar N77, announced today at 3GSM. See below for the full press release and photos. There's a dedicated TV key on the handset, many TV-related services and utilities, plus the usual Nseries goodness.