The inclusion of an N-Gage hot title in the N93's ROM didn't escape Ewan's beady eye. In this editorial he argues that with the N70 and N93 each containing an N-Gage game, Nokia's next generation gaming platform is well and truly 'in beta'.
Over on the MRKTNGman S60 blog Jouni gives some details of a forthcoming Nokia Podcasting Appliction for S60 3rd Edition. The program allows you to update podcasts on a manual, automatic or scheduled basis over a WLAN or 3G connection. The application will available in July and will be S60 3rd Edition only.
OK, Smartphones Show 8 is at last live, comments welcome if it doesn't play OK for you. No sign of the E61 or E70 reviews as neither device has actually arrived yet, and there's more of a Windows Mobile flavour to Show 8. Still, there's video of the Nokia N93 and a video version of my N70/N90 camcorder tips.
Calcazoo is a new application/service for S60 owners, with an application customised to your monthly network tariffs, keeping track of exactly how many charged minutes you've used and of your overall bill. The developers are looking for beta testers at the moment and it's currently free to download.
Following on from our first looks at the N72 and N93 Rafe previews the Nokia N73 the new all around multimedia Nseries S60 phone from Nokia. He concludes that as a modestly sized phone with a 3.2 megapixel camera, advanced music capabilities and backed by S60 3rd Edition it is a worthy sucessor to the Nokia N70.
Darla reports that there's a new version (1.7) of the popular ShoZu S60 photoblogging client. The main improvement is that "there's a cost-saving option to upload 'blog quality' photos, if desired, rather than full resolution images." Something we really, really missed from previous versions.
More detailed Q1 sales analysis for smart mobile devices from Canalys, this time broken down just for EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa). Sales are up 25% year on year, Nokia have 75% market share, with RIM, HP and Q-Tek second equal with just 3%. Palm has 2% of the market.
The Nokia N72, announced yesterday, is Nokia's new Nseries fashion phone for emerging markets. Rafe in his Nokia N72 preview summarises and explains the phones features, capabilities and market positioning and concludes that the Nokia N72 could be a best seller.
A S60 blog reports that the Nokia E61 support pages are online, which means it's shipping somewhere in the world. Free software for this S60 3rd edition device includes WorldMate and Handy Expense.
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SEPT Solutions has announced a new version of Mobile Search that will work on S60 3rd Edition devices. We still think this function should be part of the OS, but until that day, this is a good stop-gap.
Canalys has released it's latest set of figures for the global smart mobile device in Q1 2006. Shipments up are 55% year on year with Nokia increasing its global market share to 54% with 8.6 million devices sold. This, together with strong performances from Mitsubishi and Sharp (4th and 5th in global sales respectively), gives Symbian its highest ever market share at 69%, with Microsoft second at 12%. Additionally the Asia-Pacific market has over taken the EMEA market in smart mobile device shipments.
On the day of the announcement of the Nokia N73 and N93, no prizes for guessing what Symbian's David Wood's latest topic is over on symbian.com. In Insight no. 8, he goes into even more detail than I've done in the past, estimating that the smartphone is on the verge of forcing into extinction over 30 categories of mobile device or service.
Ho yes. This could be the smartphone convergence-mad Steve's been waiting for - the Nokia N93 has DVD-quality video recording, 3,2 megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, landscape mode and every other S60 3rd Edition refinement. Here's his assessment of the new Nokia flagship.
The new Nseries devices (N93, N73 and N72) will all have built-in support for Yahoo's! Flickr service. No details as yet on the exact nature, but given other S60-based Flickr apps, and the press release comments of having the facility in the Gallery application, I'm expecting an extra 'Send to Flickr' on the menu options. Following up the recent S60 YahooToGo! application, this is a great bundling service for Flickr.
