Ooh, ooh, there's a whole new PC Suite release on the loose, v6.8, with an upgraded Nokia Music Manager, various multimedia related improvements and a simplified interface. Thanks to the S60 Multimedia blog for the heads-up.
Nokia's full Q1 2006 report is now out (warning, long and lots that isn't relevant here). Of note is that the Nokia N70 is estimated to be the world's top selling 3G phone and is Nokia's highest revenue-generating device, and that sales in the USA have doubled, year on year.
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.
Darla reports on F-Secure anti-virus software being made available for S60 3rd edition, Symbian OS 9 smartphones. Hang on. Er.... but with Platform Security in OS 9, there's absolutely no way for malware to install and propagate. Which means that noone will ever be able to infect anyone else. So... what's the point in anti-virus software? Its existence was tenuous at best under Symbian OS 7 and 8. Under Symbian OS 9.... Comments welcome.
One of the S60.com blogs has posted comment and a link to Adobe's official (new) list of S60 3rd Edition devices which will have the Flash Lite 1.1 runtime loaded in their firmware.
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.
Freeware author Antony Pranata has launched his own S60Tips.com, with RSS feed. Worth adding to your Bloglines roll or RSS Bookmarks? In the battle to educate the masses, you can never have too many tips pages...
So what have sweaty naked Finns and smartphone keypad designs got in common? Read Russ Beattie's not so gentle poke at the bare-faced cheek(!) of Nokia's hardware design teams... A little gentle Easter reading...
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!
No, not another site from Rafe and the team, this is a hugely important FAQ from Forum Nokia explaining the ins and outs of the changes needed in applications in the move to Symbian OS 9 (with Platform Security). A must-read for anyone even remotely interested in developing applications for the next gen of Symbian-powered hardware.
Interesting to see someone on the front line at Nokia confirming that 2GB cards work fine with Symbian OS 9 and S60 3rd edition, at least on the E61 tested. I wonder who'll be the first to get hold of and try a 4GB miniSD? Still, 2GB is pretty jaw-dropping when you stop to think about it.
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!
