In a superbly long and detailed review, Krisse reports on a few weeks spent with the very latest Nokia S60 clamshell, the 6290. Marketed as a feature phone, the 6290 shares many of the specs of its Nseries cousins. Are there any gotchas? Krisse also reports on the integration with Nokia Video Manager and on the new features in S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1.
Here is a small gallery of hands on photos of the recently announced Nokia 6120 smartphone. Included are some comparison shots with the Nokia E65 and Nokia N70 (Music Edition) that demonstrate the small proportions of this most recent S60 phone.
Podcast 21 is now live, by the way, with the Q&A that followed David Wood's talk at the Future Technologies conference last week. The question about whether smartphones were for the mass market fascinated me though - read on for some relevant photos of the current Nokia N95 marketing in the High Street and some thoughts...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Never mind the quality, feel the width.... With both Nokia E90 and HTC Advantage in for review, it was time to pitch them directly against each other. Which flagship pulls off the 'laptop replacement' claim best? Which one's most usable as a mobile office while on the road?
In a superbly long and detailed review, Krisse reports on a few weeks spent with the very latest Nokia S60 clamshell, the 6290. Marketed as a feature phone, the 6290 shares many of the specs of its Nseries cousins. Are there any gotchas? Krisse also reports on the integration with Nokia Video Manager and on the new features in S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1.
Podcast 21 is now live, by the way, with the Q&A that followed David Wood's talk at the Future Technologies conference last week. The question about whether smartphones were for the mass market fascinated me though - read on for some relevant photos of the current Nokia N95 marketing in the High Street and some thoughts...
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.) 
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?