Last night Nokia UK held a small press event in London where we were told that Nokia's UK Music Shop, first shown off at the Go Play event in August, will launch on Thursday morning (November 1st). Music is priced at 80p per track and £8 for a complete album. Read on for more details.
The latest version of Nokia's search tool (as seen in the Nseries N95 8GB and N81) is now available for download for a select number of handsets (N95, 6110, 6290, N76, 5700, 6120). In addition to the previous web and local search functionality the new version now offers more comprehensive in-device search. There's also support for continuous search with result updated as you enter your search term.
I've been emailed about mScrapbook, a brand new video editing and uploading/sharing solution from Mogic, a company started by one of Quickoffice's architects. Essentially it creates embeddable Flash movies directly on your smartphone. More details below.
One of the best S60 3rd Edition utilities has just had a big update, though you wouldn't know it from the .01 version change. 'Best Profiles', which automanages your profiles to reflect your schedule and location, is now at v1.01 and worth checking out. Changelog and link below. (via Symbian in Motion)
Phone Guardian, perhaps the ultimate security utility for anyone paranoid about losin their phone, has just been given a major new upgrade. V2.0 introduces security fixes over the previous version and adds new SMS commands for instant thief tracking, full lock and turning on and off the siren. The press release and screenshots below...
Opera has launched a new Link service to keep your mobile and desktop Opera browsing in step, with synced bookmarks, speed dial sites and personal bar. It has also launched a new beta (3) of the upcoming Opera Mini 4, point your browser to mini.opera.com as usual. The Opera Link press release follows...
Nokia seems to have had a spring clean on its Download! catalog for many devices. Comments welcome, but maybe time to hit 'Refresh'? On my N95, I noticed the Foreca Weather utility (think iPhone Weather), Boingo Wi-Fi (a one-hit sub service to most commercial Wi-Fi networks), Easy Wi-Fi (err... ditto), Sonic Jump (a trial version of a Java arcade game, licensed from SEGA) and a Simpsons game, while the Symbian Blog has spotted the new IAC (Independent Artists Club) downloader. What have you spotted on your device?
More from the Smartphone Show last week. In AAS podcast 39, Ewan talks to Scott Lowe from eLeader about the ways they can help businesses keep their sales forces equipped and communicating through the use of special add-on S60 applications.
Nokia's Beta Labs has released a standalone version of their free Device Status utility. It's fast and it works well, to give you free RAM and a hundred other bits of geeky information on any S60 3rd Edition smartphone.
In AAS video podcast 24, I talk to Phil Spencer from Quickoffice about the upcoming Quickoffice Premier v5 and I then collared Stuart Collingwood from SlingMedia to get a demo of the new Nokia N95 client, with a number of new features and better performance.
'Windows Live and Hotmail' has now appeared in the 'Internet' section of Download! for most Eseries smartphones and communicators (this was previously Nseries only). The blurb says that Windows Live is currently free but that there may be a charge in the future. Or you could just use Google and GMail instead 8-) (via Eseries)
Symbian in Motion is reporting that the Nokia E90's Active Notes application, letting you insert images and other objects into HTML-based text notes, is now available for all S60 3rd Edition devices. [updated] SiM provides a download link but you may also find Active Notes in your Nokia smartphone's Download! directory. See also my Active Notes mini-tutorial.
