Forgive the (now) monthly plug, but I've added the Nokia N82, N95 8GB and (non Symbian) HTC Kaiser/TyTN II to my infamous 'choose your perfect smartphone' grid. And hey, the iPhone's in there too, comments welcome on any unusual winners!
Now available exclusively on Nokia's Music Store is Kylie Minouge's latest album, X. With a street date of November 26th, this is a big coup for a store that's only been around for less than a month. The album will sell for £8 (a saving of 98p compared to Amazon's list price) over at music.nokia.com .
OK, don't get too excited, a forum member (Vineeth) on Symbian Freak has been playing with a build of the upcoming firmware (v21) for the Nokia N95, demoing version number and some features via Remote Device Access. The new firmware isn't public yet (though the number of people trying every day must be in the 10s of thousands by now) but the good news is that it includes demand paging and the active standby Search integration.
Thanks to Ed for pointing out that firmware 2.0633.65.01 is now available for the Nokia E61i in many regions (updating people from 1.0633 etc). There's no changelog as yet, someone please comment as to what's new!
Zach, over at Symbian in Motion, has just done a long term review of the USA-spec Nokia N95 (larger battery, redesigned back, more RAM), comparing it to an imported European original. Well worth a read if you're in the USA.
Version 2.1 of Nokia's free Mail for Exchange is now out, with support for the N81 and N95 8GB, plus auto-configured Heartbeat and with the Company Directory application (supporting the Global Address List lookup feature) now available as a standalone application via its own .SIS file. More details and links below.
Red Five Labs has just announced that their Net60 product, which enables .NET applications from the Windows world to run unchanged under S60, is now available for beta testing. By the way, if you don't know what a .NET application is then you don't need the product!
I've been mulling over an editorial looking forward to the (hopefully imminent) Nokia N95 firmware upgrade but was stopped in my tracks when Vaibhav Sharma, who has perfected telepathic theft, managed to raid my mind and get it all down for the world to read first(!) Kudos. Nokia, please take note of this list of things you need to fix and add. Users, enjoy - I wonder how many of these we'll see in the real world?
