T-Mobile just announced an unlimited data plan (web'n'walk') as a £7.50 addition to their existing business tariffs. You'll still end up paying around £40 a month or more though, but it's a step in the right direction. Who'll offer me £20 a month for unlimited data with no calls? Vodafone? O2? Roll up, roll up...
Symbian will be exhibiting at CTIA in Las Vegas from April 5th to 7th. EMCC, Visto, Zi and UIQ will be among those helping out. CTIA Wireless is the leading trade show for mobile and wireless for the Americas market.
MobHappy has the best reading today - You'll have seen PayPal Mobile's launch plastered all over the net. But is it relevant to the likes of you and me? Carlo has a good analysis. Plus Russell Buckley makes the excellent point that one day your smartphone may be your ONLY computer.
More bold talk from Nokia, now the world's biggest camera maker, with 100 million cameraphones sold in the last year alone, and with Konica and others withdrawing from the standalone market. Next in Nokia's sights, unsurprisingly, are music players and camcorders.
I was intrigued to see Mobile Review's four-part, two month test of the P990, given that the firmware isn't even finished yet and that the smartphone isn't due until some time in July, but there's still plenty of interesting facts and screenshots if you're waiting patiently for this device. Watch out for the dodgy English throughout though, the whole review's one big translation from the native Russian!
Nokia's Tommi, over on his S60.com blog, has penned a neat showcase for the steps Nokia have taken to help both new users and those upgrading from older devices.
The S60 blog team have put up a few morsels on this new non-Nokia S60 device. Interesting stuff, even though I still refuse to buy any device who's name I can't remember...
Here's the week's Carnival of the Mobilists (a.k.a. all sorts of interesting articles about mobile computing), hosted by C Enrique Ortiz. Have a good weekend!
In an interesting (but niche) development, Nokia has licensed content from the Discovery Channel for demoing on its forthcoming N92 TV handset. Darla's got the details...
The official support pages for the Nokia 3250 are now availble on the Nokia.com site. Material available includes an interactive demo of the functions and features of the phone, the user manual and some additional software for the phone. Nokia support pages usuaully appear just before the phone in question is shipped.
You may remember that PDA Essentials magazine, the only UK newsstand publication to feature smartphones, disappeared at the end of 2005 with the bankruptcy of its publisher, Highbury? Just a heads-up that it's back, under Imagine Publishing, and here's the web site to prove it. OK, so it's little more than a placeholder, but still worth bookmarking for the future.
Symbian's main web site has just gotten itself a face lift! Well worth a browse. First impressions? Lots of curves and better organised menus/sections.
Nokia seem to be adding regularly to their impressive Flash-based N series site. Added recently seem to be this spotlight on the upcoming N80 and a similar multimedia fest for the clamshell N71. Good stuff...
