There's a new firmware on the loose for the Nokia N93i. v30.0.013 is on Nokia Software Update and includes "Nokia Maps 1.0 (edition 1.2)" (eh?), plus faster opening of downloaded video files, MP4 editing improvements, better 2nd camera image quality and support for more Bluetooth stereo headsets.
There's a new S60 blog in town. The Mobile Web Server blog will keep you up to date with the Mobile Web Server (MWS) service and application. MWS lets you run a web server on your phone and interact with some of the features on the phone such as the contacts store and camera. In one of the first posts on the blog Jukka mentions that a new version with new features is coming soon.
Nokia Beta Labs has released an interesting application, Device Status, which lets you access a variety of information and which can be helpful in solving support issues. There is an application for S60 devices which collects information about your phone and a companion PC application which allows you to more easily view the information about your phone as well as collecting information about your PC.
I have to confess to not being that excited by Nokia's MOSH - yet another social network, albeit this time with a dedicated S60 client. Phil from S60 has been chatting to MOSH's Communications Manager, James Waterworth. What were the thoughts behind MOSH, what can you do with it, and where's it going?
Another week, another acquisition for Nokia. This time it's Enpocket, a "global leader in mobile advertising providing technology and services that allow brands to plan, create, execute, measure and optimize mobile advertising campaigns". Comments welcome. The press release follows.
Nokia N95-toting professional photographer Henry Reichhold is being featured in an international gallery of his best N95-taken photos at the Royal Albert Hall at the end of this month. Well worth popping in, I think, some of the images are stunning. If you go, please report back to AAS! (via Nokia Creative)
Symbian has just added a number of new speakers to its Smartphone Show agenda, including a VP of Samsung, the SVP of Freescale, the president of RIM and a director of Vodafone. Full details here, but I think it's safe to predict that there's going to be plenty to see and hear. And if you get into town early, see our own meet!
This is the question I've been trying to answer in Smartphones Show 44, using a Nokia N95 and a Bluetooth keyboard cold turkey for a working week. Did the experiment succeed? Also, Rafe and I were at HTC's big launch two days ago in London. Non-Symbian, but still very interesting, show 44 includes my video report.
Talk about mad scientists - I just ran across Symbian Resources, an open source (i.e. free) set of S60 3rd Edition research projects, featuring a speaking clock, a snowboarding log(!), a car acceleration tester, a Nintendo Wii controller driver, a ski resort navigator, and more. Cool projects, guys, keep up the good work!
Nokia today announced that its has added new content parters to the Nokia Video Center. Nokia Video Center, an application which runs on the Nokia N95 and will be available on future devices, offers Nseries users a simple way to access video content (effectively it's a video podcast aggregator / catcher). New content partners include Sony Pictures (movie trailers), ROK (FreeBeTV) and CNN (news for the APAC region).
