Interesting to see a final speaker line-up, with pictures, on the Smartphone Show web site. Note that there's a more varied array than in previous years, including speakers from Google, Sony and RIM, and that there are catchy titles for each talk that will hopefully mean more interesting content...
Anyone wondering how to set up Voice over Internet (voIP) on the E61 (or other Eseries device with Wi-Fi) should make a beeline for this Eseries blog article and bookmark it or print it. Very informative, well illustrated and with helpful links.
Thanks to Darla for spotting that Nokia are having a bit of a clearout - the RAM-challenged 6680 and the Linux-powered and utterly niche 770 'Internet tablet' are now available as a bundle for less than £400. A bargain bundle, I guess, but sorry guys, we (he mean I, see comments - Ed) didn't want to buy either of them in the first place...
Shameless self/site promotion again, but I've been updating my (hopefully definitive) table of S60 smartphones and their attributes, with new models and more mini-reviews. Presenting S60 device history.
Despite my attempt to be a party pooper last week, David Beers brings the Carnival of the Mobilists right back on track with festive photos galore. Plenty of interesting mobile-related reading, as always.
I came across this fascinating blog post by Barbara at Little Springs Design, talking about the different schools of thought with regard to the 'mobile web', and making the good point that switching quickly from one browser or application 'window' to another is far more inconvenient than on the desktop and that this point makes a difference to how the mobile web will pan out.
DVB-H, perhaps already the worldwide front running candidate technology for mobile TV, has received a huge boost with the news that Nokia and Motorola have announced that they will 'work to achieve interoperability among their DVB-H-enabled mobile devices and network services'. Full press release follows...
AAS colleague Darla attended the opening of Nokia's New York City flagship store. Here's part one of her illustrated diary entry. I wonder when Nokia will hit London?
You may have already bookmarked my own 3-Lib web guide, but there's another mobile web portal on the block, 247mini, run by recent Nokia E61 convert Shaun McGill. It's pretty impressive, too, and well worth bookmarking from any PDA or smartphone.
GearLog have spotted that Nokia's officially introduced a new variant of the E70. The black-faced E70-2 has 850MHz GSM instead of 3G, effectively making it quad band and thus working properly in the USA. It's initially available only in the 'flagship' stores, though.
Herewith first news of a major firmware update to the E61. V2.0 is now available and is being rolled out to service centres over the next few days and (hopefully) via the PSU service. Full details here. Items that caught my eye: improved performance and better RAM use, plus audio improvements.
Now, don't get too excited. This huge list of improvements to S60, posted on Tommi's Applications blog, isn't stuff which is all definitely being implemented, it's strictly user requests. But it's still impressive that someone at Nokia is both talking and listening to real users, and we're promised that the list has been passed on to the right departments.
Interesting to see Darla posting the news that ROK have launched a free mobile-based Voice over IP service. The catch? Well, it currently requires S60 2nd Edition smartphones at each end, each running the client application and each within a few metres of their home or office broadband connection with Bluetooth-enabled PCs. Hardly mass market, but let's drink to continuing innovation.
