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Battle of the titans: Nokia E90 vs HTC Advantage
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?
Nokia 6290 - a cutting edge smartphone at half the price?
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.
The Nokia N95 and smartphones for the mass market
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...
Nokia N95 - The Verdict
Orange and Vodafone remove N95 VOIP - Truphone to lodge official complaint with UK authorities
Symbian's David Wood at Future Technologies Conference
Nokia 6120 Announced
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.
Can you add a Nokia N95 tip?
Unboxing the production Nokia 6290
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 Beta Labs goes live
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.
S60 Widgets and Web Run-Time
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.
TV Out demo and Operator Crippling
PC Suite now for Vista, plus much more
Thanks to Darla for the scoop on the new version of PC Suite, available now, with selective content restoring, full Windows Vista support and firmware update notifications.