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The E90 update arrives - 7.40.1.2

Like many others, I've been on 1 hour 'refresh' on Nokia Software Update for what seems like weeks now. But the Nokia E90 update seems to have arrived and it's installing as I write this. Version number is 7.40.1.2 and [updated] I've listed the main changes below.

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 19:24, Oct 30th

N95 8GB vs iPhone (revised)

iPhone and N95 8GB Six weeks ago, I previewed the upcoming O2/Apple iPhone, putting it head to head with the upcoming Nokia N95 8GB. Now that I've had the latter for over a week, it's been time to revise my initial head to head. For completeness, if this is a comparison that you're interested in, here's the N95 8GB vs iPhone page to read/print/link to...

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 14:13, Oct 28th

Let the 6110 Navigator spotting commence

You may remember that Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman did a motorbike ride from the tip of Scotland to the bottom of South Africa, sponsored by Nokia and with them supposedly using the 6110 Navigator to get them there (and not a fully kitted out film and support crew)? The series starts on the BBC tonight at 9pm, so enjoy and remember to count your 6110 sightings!

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 06:47, Oct 28th

microSD catches up the 'built-ins'

SanDisk has started shipping 8GB versions of its microSD and M2 cards, for the current generation of S60 3rd Edition and UIQ 3-powered smartphones, taking possible capacity of these devices to 8GB while maintaining the flexibility to swap cards or transfer data in this way. MyMemory, (e.g.) have these coming soon at £60 inc VAT)

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 06:59, Oct 27th

Samsung phones, 5700 XM and GPS update

For completeness, S60 fans should note that I've updated my reasonably comprehensive S60 smartphone reference to include the new Samsung devices, as well as the Nokia 5700 XpressMusic and a new GPS column. As usual, if you can help fill in any of the remaining blanks....

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 11:32, Oct 23rd

The verdict: Nokia N95 8GB

Is the Nokia N95 8GB the best smartphone ever made? There's an awful lot to it, including some features which don't yet rise to their potential, plus a number of potential pitfalls, but on balance no other 'phone' ever created comes close. Within the limits of the QVGA screen and numeric keypad form factor, the '8GB' takes it to the limit in almost every department. Here's my illustrated Nokia N95 8GB review.

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 14:06, Oct 22nd

Bored? Never again - the N81 8GB ships, too

Hot on the heels of the Nokia N95 8GB shipping news comes the followup announcement for the Nokia N81 8GB (with more of a gaming focus and dedicated game/music keys). Full press release below - we've got no less than three N81s on order from various sources and will bring you a full review ASAP.

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 08:01, Oct 22nd

Show roundup, N95 8GB review

Smartphones Show 45 is now live, with a roundup of video from the London show last week, plus my hands-on video review of the Nokia N95 8GB, including video of two of the upcoming N-Gage games. A fuller text review can be found above! Enjoy both!

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 08:47, Oct 21st

E90 firmware note

Thanks to the people that emailed in about the new firmware 7.38.0.2 (with A-GPS) for the Nokia E90, but it seems that this might be an interim release in a few markets, it certainly doesn't appear on NSU in the UK. Also, my sources tell me that the official new firmware will be 7.40.0.2 - all intriguing, watch this space!

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 06:56, Oct 19th

IntoMobile's Stefan gets to unbox the N81 8GB

Apparently AAS-friend Stefan was getting jealous that I had the N95 8GB, so he got sent the N81 8GB to keep him happy - here's the unboxing video and first picture.

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 16:54, Oct 18th

Unboxing the Nokia N95 8GB

It's here, it's Black and it's very, very 'Bad'. And it's a production Nokia N95 8GB, not a prototype - this is the real deal. Read on for loads of close-up photos, plus screenshots and observations of this new, blisteringly fast stunner (Updated)

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 08:52, Oct 18th

Demonstrating Demand Paging in Symbian OS 9.3

Also on Symbian's stand at the Smartphone Show was this video demo of the new Demand Paging feature in Symbian OS 9.3 and above. Among other things shown was a dramatic reduction in RAM requirements for most apps and well over 30MB free RAM on the testbed vanilla Nokia N95. See below for the embedded video.

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 12:17, Oct 17th

ScreenPlay, FreeWay, technologies for the next 10 years

Symbian has announced two key technologies for the next generation of Symbian OS-powered smartphones, ensuring that superfast mobile broadband and complex interface, video and gaming requirements won't be a problem for the smartphones of 2008 and beyond. Read on for the full press release about the new ScreenPlay and FreeWay and for official reaction from Symbian licensees. And we'll have a video podcast up shortly with a full interview.

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 10:23, Oct 17th

Samsung Announce the i550 and i560

During their keynote today at the Symbian Smartphone Show, Samsung Electronics announced two new phones (the GPS enabled i550 and i560), to sit alongside three other phones. All five S60 3rd Edition phones will be available before the end of the year.

# Posted by Ewan in News || Comments 22:16, Oct 16th

The N95 8GB ships!

Nokia has announced that the black N95 8GB smartphone has started shipping across the world, with most of Europe and selected Middle East countries also getting the Spiderman 3 movie preloaded into the large internal flash drive. Reports of sightings welcome.

# Posted by Steve in News || Comments 08:12, Oct 15th

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