As just about every other mobiles site in the world seems to be cranking up the hype about Nokia's new Nseries devices being released on Tuesday, we thought we'd at least give the event a name check. Try Darla's site, for example. Rest assured, as soon as any devices are officially announced, you'll find full details here.
Stuart Mudie has discovered who bought all the N-Gage gaming phones from Nokia. Turns out the TGV Train Service allows you to hire an N-Gage for the duration of your journey. Now, I wonder which games they have, and if there's a SIM card...
Nokia UK has announced the Finnish giant's first online shop, for purchase of SIM-free hardware and accessories. The URL is www.nokia.co.uk/shop. This should set the cat among the pigeons among mobile phone retailers in the UK and is perhaps long overdue.
Interesting to see Nokia UK's new dedicated 3250 (twisting music smartphone) Flash web site, including a (trivially easy) competition to win a 3250 of your own.
Nokia's E60 and N71 are also apparently now fully supported and near to shipping. Here's the E60 support page and the N71 support page. Thanks for the heads-up, Jukka!
Nokia's N80 pages have appeared on their web site, with the usual mix of FAQs, documents and add-on software. Which can only mean that the N80 is shipping. Somewhere in the world, anyway!
Having a mini-keyboard seems all the rage on Enterprise devices, but what if you're on a device that doesn't have one? Well you could live with T9 input, or look at the Bluetooth enabled Freedom Mini Keyboard. Steve Litchfield has reviewed it, and, while it's got some potential, it's a very niche product.
Ever helpful, Ewan has prepared a quick reference guide to the brand new Symbian OS powered smartphones that are specifically aimed at music playback, with comparison to the ubiquitous iPod. Food for thought, though don't forget that almost any recent Symbian OS device can also play back stereo music too...
Steve mulls over his favourite theme, convergence, and tries to spot where it's all going to end. If all phones are smart, there's no real point in talking about smartphones...
As reported by the S60 Multimedia Blog the support pages for the Nokia N91 are now available. The support pages includes the manual and interactive demonstrations to help you get the most out of the phone. Also available is the Nokia Music Manager Plug-in for iTunes on the Mac which allows you to sync music between your N91 and Mac OSX.
It may not be the number one object of lust for the Nokia fanboy, but the N91 is one of the best consumer targetted Series 60 phones around. With S60v3, gorgeous build quality, and a 4gb Hard Drive to go with the dedicated music controls, it's all the entertainment you could need. Isn't it? Read Ewan's Review on the N91 to find out...
Right before the whole smartphone thing kicked of, Psion (one of the Symbian founders) were close to releasing a third generation Revo PDA - while it never made it into the retail channels, a number of prototypes were manufactured, along with a unicode rebuild of Epoc Release 5 / Symbian OS. One of these is now up for auction on Ebay. I've been in touch with the seller, and it is a genuine sale and unit. So if you want one of the last Psion machines ever, head on over to Ebay, and bid on The Conan.
Steve gets his hands on the first S60 v3 phone we've had for review, the Nokia 3250 Music Phone. With an interesting keyboard layout (the bottom section spins around to reveal the playback controls) it's well suited for music playback, but how is it as a general smartphone? Read the full Nokia 3250 review to find out why.
Rafe Blandford's been living with the Nokia N70 for over four months now. Here's his detailed (and illustrated) report, covering both the basic device and (in his case) its Orange network makeover.
