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For those intrigued by the ads, here is where to get started for Nokia development. It is important to note that all applications must be signed (expounded on here), with the option (but not requirement) of doing things through a Symbian Signed certificate.

It should also be noted that Nokia's openness to development in comparison to the iPhone has been suitably documented previously.

Python for s60 solves that problem for Nokia phones.

Selling units as fast as they can make them is a failure? So far, they seem to have exceeded even their own projections...

According to whom??? They aren't selling units as fast as they can make them AC. I can go pick one up right now if I wanted a pretty paperweight. There are no back orders, they were in negotiations to cut production in half within a month of the debut, at two months they dropped the price by 33%, and they didn't hit a million units until 74 days after release on Sept 10th. Since 270,000 of those units were last quarter sales, they'll be lucky to hit a million units this quarter. By comparison, Nokia, in their most recent quarter, sold 1.5 Million units of their new and much more expensive N95 smartphones.

Selling units as fast as they can make them is a failure? So far, they seem to have exceeded even their own projections...

According to whom??? They aren't selling units as fast as they can make them AC. I can go pick one up right now if I wanted a pretty paperweight. There are no back orders, they were in negotiations to cut production in half within a month of the debut, at two months they dropped the price by 33%, and they didn't hit a million units until 74 days after release on Sept 10th. Since 270,000 of those units were last quarter sales, they'll be lucky to hit a million units this quarter. By comparison, Nokia, in their most recent quarter, sold 1.5 Million units of their new and much more expensive N95 smartphones.

The same thing happened with the iPhone. At the beginning they weren't sure if they'd sell 1 or 1 million. They had to guess and price accordingly.

Uh, no... actually they were banking on selling 10 million. They aren't even close, so the iPhone becomes more like an F22. By your rationale, the price should go up. It's a nice textbook theory, but in the real world where real businesses exist, there are contracts. The price went down, because Apple is desperate to sell the phones it has contracted to buy from asian manufacturers. If they can't, they are hung with a pile of phones and a huge loss.

Doesn't anyone remember all the talk about how the iPhone was outrageously priced above competing smart phones?

No, actually, I remember buying a more expensive phone a month before the iPhone was released because the iPhone was locked and guaranteed to never have any third party apps, ever. I saw it coming months ago, made plenty of noise and was told I was wrong. I was told repeatedly by fucktards here on Slashdot that I was not in Apple's target market.

So ladies, how would you like your crow cooked? You were obviously waaaaay off the mark, and I was right. 100% correct. I told you the iPhone would fail. It did fail. Miserably. Think Cube. And Apple will continue to fail as long as they ship locked phones with no native SDK.

Are people really happy with Apple's contributions to BSD and Konqueror code?

Nokia was happy enough to take WebKit and use it on their S60. Besides, if you want to be made happy by people using your code, license it in a way that makes you happy.

Nokia made it far better. I wonder why they discontinued this.. I used to have one. It was great!

The announcement last month that 46 million Nokia-branded lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries made by Matsushita Battery Industrial could potentially short circuit and overheat was just the latest in a spate of product advisories and recalls of the technology over the past two years.

But it's not as if Li-ion batteries are at the early point in their life cycle when you would expect these sorts of problems to crop up. Sony invented the technology back in 1990. So why is it failing now?

The theories behind the technology's recent spotty performance are complex and varied, which makes fixing the problem a perplexing engineering challenge.

A Constantly Evolving Technology

"You can't really say that for the first ten years the battery makers got it right and now they're screwing it up," says Jim Miller, Manager of Argonne National Lab's Electrochemical Technology Program. Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, his group's research is directed at developing new materials for Li-ion batteries and addressing some of the major issues in scaling up the technology.

Miller points out that Li-ion battery technology is not just a single design or composition, but rather it's an entire family of chemistries that is constantly evolving. "When Sony invented it in 1990, it was lithium cobalt oxide. But cobalt is expensive and so engineers started replacing it with nickel, which costs less. And then as time went on engineers found that they could substitute cheaper nickel manganese alloys for the nickel."

Cost reduction isn't the only driving force behind the evolutionary march of Li-ion batteries. The desire to extend battery life, achieve higher energy densities and faster charging times, and improve reliability has led to a constant tinkering of the technology. Energy densities are double what they were five years ago, for example, and new surface coatings are being applied to make the batteries more stable and reduce their reactivity rates.

Ever-Increasing Demands, More Trade-offs

The trade-offs inherent in these often mutually exclusive goals make for a diabolical design challenge: You can make a Li-ion battery that has high performance, for example, but the trade-off is a shorter life. And as every design engineer knows, making the right trade-offs and getting everything right takes time, experience, and a bit of finesse.

"A problem doesn't necessarily pop up during the first generation of cells," says Miller. "Things may look fine in the lab and then when you go to production you find that the technology behaves in a slightly different way, which means things can and do go wrong."

Something certainly went wrong at Sony last year, resulting in the recall of millions of its Li-ion laptop batteries. As for what exactly led to the short-circuiting problem that posed a risk of fire and in one case caused a Dell notebook to burst into flames, Sony Spokesperson Rick Clancy says that there were different conclusions at different levels.

"When you produce lithium ion batteries, the objective is to either have zero metal contaminants or at least as few of them as possible and surround them by a protective shell or layer so that they cannot penetrate the separator," explains Clancy. The separator in a Li-ion battery keeps the anodes and cathodes from touching each other and causing a short circuit.

Clancy says that Sony engineers discovered that there was a greater frequency of these metal particles escaping from one part of the cell and entering the other part. They've addressed the issue at a product level by designing in a stronger lining, he notes.

But there were other

So who is copying who, huh? Nokia firsts

though I stopped with the N80

Ouch. Never used one, but according to forum chatter that one was a lemon. On paper a great device, but way too slow CPU and gimped battery.

It has gotten better, though. The latest batch of 3rd ed phones are quite good (E90, N81, N95*).

* Make sure you get the second edition of the N95 (the soon-to-be-released US or the just released 8GB one), the first ed is a bit short on RAM and battery. I got one of the 1st ed myself, and it is almost a small laptop in my pocket; the functionality is mainly gimped by Nokia skimping on the RAM.

As has now become tradition, nokia will require that every single piece of software be signed before installation

It isn't quite that bad. "Please notice that Symbian Signed is not mandatory, if your application uses only unrestricted APIs or user-grantable capabilities." http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/technical_services /testing/cap_granting.html

Still, the process for signing is too cumbersome for most freeware / FOSS devs to be bothered with. It's unfortunately a sad state, because smartphones really need a good open platform for 3rd party devs and Nokia seems to be going in the wrong direction here. And it is likely that we'll have to wait a long time for Apple to release an iPhone SDK, too. Once you unjail the thing there doesn't seem to be any sort of security at all; at the very least, Apple needs to sort out a security model first. WinMobile? Oh, don't get me started...

The only other ray of hope is Linux, it will be interesting to see if efforts like OpenMoko are successful. I really hope so, because as I said we need a good open platform for small mobile devices. Even a moderate success might cause Nokia and others to open up their platforms a bit more (just like the iPhone is causing them to revisit their UIs).

And when you have read the manual, go and read the Nokia S60 dev documentation. Things changed in S60 3rd ed. The security model in 3rd will not let unsigned applications access many of the phone capabilities. http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/platforms/s60/secu rity.html

This is especially a problem for freeware / FOSS because many of them need their applications signed. It is supposed to be a quick and non-painful process, but many devs are frustrated at the moment. http://mobile.antonypranata.com/2007/08/09/controv ersy-over-symbian-signed/

Their 770 and N800 tablets have touch screens, run Debian Linux and have WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity. They don't have a phone module but I suspect that's for the want of Linux drivers. They're a bit big to be a phone but a bit of development could produce a truly open competitor.

Their 770 and N800 tablets have touch screens, run Debian Linux and have WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity. They don't have a phone module but I suspect that's for the want of Linux drivers. They're a bit big to be a phone but a bit of development could produce a truly open competitor.

It seems that you don't understand how Nokia works. Nokias competitive advantage isn't design or superior technology, it's main competitive advantage is mass production of phones and phone models. Yes, Nokia doesn't just produce massive amounts of phones, it produces massive amounts of different phone models. The idea is simple, produce as many phone models as quickly as you can, and hope that at least few will be big hits and the others will just do.

It also seems that you really don't have a grasp of mobile phone markets. Nokia isn't just top at the moment, they have been for almost the last 10 years at the top. They currently have 37% market share globally. They are the most profitable mobile phone company not just now, but have been for the long time being. When we look at technology, production and marketing abilities, there really isn't any other phone company as Nokia.

On technology wise Symbian is the number one mobile OS. It was originally developed for the handhelds and has been powering them from the days of Psion. Most of the smart phones in the world are powered by Symbian and the platform has support not just from Nokia and Sony-Ericsson, but from other handset manufacturers also. As what comes to interface, yes the iPhone has a pretty interface which polished to death, but news flash, that same polishing can be found from the newer phones. Also it should be noted, it just isn't one interface Nokia is catering, they have Series 60, they are Series 40, they customize and try quite a lot. They may not be as innovative as Apple, but why be when they can just copy, imitate and mass produce.

As to your question about what happens when and if Apple will produce its low market version of iPhone, the answer to that one is easy: Nokia will just copy it, produce handful of new models, drop margins if needed for those phones and make sure that there is no way for Apple to succeed in the market. Actually I would argue that for now it's even impossible for Apple to try to gain any strong foothold from the markets, they have shown their cards are they are being copied and out imitated. It should also be noted that Apple isn't known to play in the mass production league, they are a company serving niche segments and are to do that with a bigger gross margin.

I would suggest that you take a visit to a Nokia NYCs Store or maybe visit their European pages to see on just what and how much they offer. Nokias European homepage

I'd prefer Nokia continue to work on their Tablet products. If the NGage is destined to becomes a gaming service, my only hope is it will be available for 770 and 800.http://europe.nokia.com/770

All in all a great idea, horribly executed. If the cost hadn't been next to nothing I would feel I wasted my money.

HA, Article tagged Patrick Stewart..........Classic

the page https://www.nokia.com/batteryreplacement/en/ demands a 26 char product id number, I have a BL-5C battery with the id number 067040070341251311. I know it's the id number as it's placed in the same place as my other battery which has a 26 char id (0670400363807L322A2BR73050). Guess I have to call Nokia.

m10

Go to the following URL http://www.nokia.com/batteryreplacement/en/ to check if you are affected

I've got one of these. It is by far the best phone I've had. Reliable, long-life battery and indestructable.

AT&T has the phone vendors at their mercy and cripple the capabilities of the phones they sell to protect their own vested interests and not those of the consumer. There are have been several GSM phone models sold in Europe with WIFI and VOIP capabilities but those same models are only sold in the US without those capabilities removed or disabled. Recently Cingular/AT&T and now t-mobile require all J2ME applications that use "advanced" features be signed with a carrier certificate as opposed to a usual code signing certificate from a trusted CA like verisign. The user no longer has control over what software they can run on their phone and whom they can trust with newer phones sold by AT&T's with their customized firmware. If one wishes to make a networked application run on a phone with the AT&T's firmware they will need to fork over big $$$ to get it "certified", leaving hobbyists and small market players out in the cold. carriers confronted forum discussion Who benefits from the carrier being the only entity who decides which software will run on the user's phones? AT&T can cry all they want about capitalism and free markets but until they stop interfering in the markets the same way they accuse the government and google of doing then they only come off as hyprocrites.

They'll all include either Opera Mobile or Minimo, to compete with Safari on the iPhone.

Can I run a real Web browser? No. Pathetic. The Web is almost 20 years old. When are they going to get around to it?

Real "not iPhone" thing could be Nokia E90. Full keyboard, all 3G and this time a good camera included.

I could buy it instead of laptop but 9300 is really fine here.

http://europe.nokia.com/link?cid=PLAIN_TEXT_118960

Of course.

I wonder if there'll be an option for a bluetooth keyboard, like with Nokia phones. That would seem to be a fairly good alternative, for when you find yourself in need of a keyboard.

Despite those other people's suggesstions that it should be that way, I believe Nokia has a model(VOIP and Voice Dial) or another(yes, this one is tri-band, but is fine if you're not going NSAT&T).

Sure, neither of them has a "touch screen", but both are out now, and in fully unlocked and developer friendly form. Sure, both have a higher price tag but you can have any provider the hardware will support.

As for the folks who are averse to having such in a car, please move to the nearest cellphone hostile state.

Despite those other people's suggesstions that it should be that way, I believe Nokia has a model(VOIP and Voice Dial) or another(yes, this one is tri-band, but is fine if you're not going NSAT&T).

Sure, neither of them has a "touch screen", but both are out now, and in fully unlocked and developer friendly form. Sure, both have a higher price tag but you can have any provider the hardware will support.

As for the folks who are averse to having such in a car, please move to the nearest cellphone hostile state.

Their estimate is 1% of the smartphone market in the first year. You dictate nothing at one percent. Even pretending that it will be as popular as the iPod (by ignoring the millions of smartphones, and billions of feature phones already out there), the carrier lock-in will still put a hard upper bound on its acceptance. If I thought they'd have even 5% in two years, I'd put my savings in Apple stock, but I still wouldn't bother caring about the iPhone as a unique platform.

In three years, Microsoft will have the mobile IE be as functional as the desktop, Minimo won't be the bloated pig it is now, Opera and Nokia's browser will still be best browsers you've never used, and there will undoubtedly be open source newcomers based on the improvements to KHTML.

So I'd bet on c.) mobile browsing looks just like it does now, only sucks less.

European carriers spent billions to enable 3G on their networks and there are many working, real life applications running thanks to 3G. Asia? They are testing 3.5G and 4G

This is the device iPhone will be racing with:
http://europe.nokia.com/phones/n95

The massive problem is money. Some network offered services as paid movies, audio is bearable thanks to 3G bandwidth speeds. People having a good flat rate contract already listens to their home hosted music (including iTunes) live on road. Of course it needs fast speed (3G), an actual application framework (Flash or Symbian etc) and an OS which ALLOWS you to install third party applications.

Now think why iPhone misses those specs :)

http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/resources/technolo gies/browsing/widgets.html

You missed out the most populous phone operating system, S60 :

http://forum.nokia.com/main/resources/tools_and_sd ks/index.html

EDGE, 802.11b, Bluetooth, Java, and PuTTY all on a QWERTY keyboard:Nokia 9500

Expensive (~$1000) successor to the 9500, but is more like 2 phones in one package (same openness, more connectivity):Nokia E90

One of the other ones(S60, small form factor):
Nokia E61i

Yes, despite the European site origin, all are availible now if not upcoming(E90) to the US.

Unlike that iWhat device, all of these can use third party apps, and are open to development.

EDGE, 802.11b, Bluetooth, Java, and PuTTY all on a QWERTY keyboard:Nokia 9500

Expensive (~$1000) successor to the 9500, but is more like 2 phones in one package (same openness, more connectivity):Nokia E90

One of the other ones(S60, small form factor):
Nokia E61i

Yes, despite the European site origin, all are availible now if not upcoming(E90) to the US.

Unlike that iWhat device, all of these can use third party apps, and are open to development.

EDGE, 802.11b, Bluetooth, Java, and PuTTY all on a QWERTY keyboard:Nokia 9500

Expensive (~$1000) successor to the 9500, but is more like 2 phones in one package (same openness, more connectivity):Nokia E90

One of the other ones(S60, small form factor):
Nokia E61i

Yes, despite the European site origin, all are availible now if not upcoming(E90) to the US.

Unlike that iWhat device, all of these can use third party apps, and are open to development.

Embedded Visual C++ 4.0 is free. It works with the Windows Mobile 5 SDK. Knock yourself out.

But don't stop there.

Series 60
Palm OS (Treo SDK)
BlackBerry

Meanwhile, the Nokia N95......has been shipping for months, and is proving extremely popular...

It really looks like a Flybook subnotebook, which is about the same size and has the same 1024x600 resolution. I own two of them. The good thing about Flybook is that it can connect to the Internet through cellular networks supporting GPRS (53 kbps), UMTS (384 kbps), and HSDPA (1.8 to 3.6 mbps) and that it runs on a x86 processor (Transmeta or Pentium M). The bad thing is that its standard battery has just 1-2 hour autonomy depending how you use it (but the extended battery has much more, from 3 to 4 hours depending on use) and it lacks an integrated DVD drive. I would like to point out that Flybook is designed to be usable while you walk, as the pointing device is located at the top right position (unfortunately there is no left-hand version!). I notice that this Palm Foleo machine has its pointing device on the centre, which would make it difficult to use it while walking. Palm's claimed battery life is 5 hours, which is too low for an ARM-based machine (my HTC Universal with the extended battery has 22 hours autonomy, and I'm able to connect to the Internet through cellular GPRS and UMTS networks from it, connect to my servers via SSH, code in Python, and browse Slashdot at 640x480 thanks to OzVGA. Actually I would say that HTC Universal would be completely perfect if it had more memory, wasn't based on Winblows, and could connect via HSDPA just like Nokia's E90 does). I also notice that the Palm Foleo's keyboard seems very well designed, while I can't say the same about Flybook's keyboard (try coding in C or another language with lots of brackets, or use any application requiring heavy use of PgUp and PgDown keys on a Flybook keyboard while standing up and you'll understand). There are many interesting mobile devices out there (see HTC's new toy or Sharp's Zaurus) and only time will tell whether Palm's new machine will be a hit in the mobile warriors's market. It's interesting to note that as x86 subnotebooks become smaller and ARM machines larger there are less and less differences between them, to the point where we may have difficulty distinguishing them at first glance.

You mean for the tiny fraction of users in the US who already have a Treo. I hate to break it to you, but no-one else in the world uses them. The rest of the world uses Nokia S60 based smartphones. So Palm have just limited them to a small percent of a small market.

Have a look at the latest Nokia E90 Communicator and tell me again why I would possibly want this?

Palm is dead, long live Palm...

Nokia gives out S60 SDK freely: http://forum.nokia.com/. Nokia S60 phones can be programmed with C++, Java or Python.

Nokia N95 supports standard SIP VoIP natively (with Gizmo http://www.gizmoproject.com/, for example). Using Skype/Google Talk/MSN is possible too with fring: http://www.fring.com/

See my other comment http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23500 1&cid=19176363 for more details.

Get a Nokia CA-100 USB charger: http://europe.nokia.com/A4160308. I have one and it works great.

When N95 is used as a mobile phone, the the battery of N95 lasts about two days for me. As an all-round device, you'll have to recharge it daily. It's not the best device for those who need the longest autonomy possible, but I never go a day without being:

• in a car
• near an USB port
• near a wall power source

So recharging is not a problem for me. The supplied wall charger is tiny, so it's easy to carry around.

I'm using my own N95 http://www.nseries.com/n95/ as:

• an IRC client: http://mirggi.net/ (native Symbian software)
• a SSH client: http://s2putty.sourceforge.net/ (Putty is ported to and runs on Symbian natively)
• a podcast player: Nokia Podcasting (http://blogs.s60.com/nokiapodcasting/). I can download new episodes on the fly and listen to them when I want. I don't need a computer to download the episodes. MPEG-4/H.264 video podcasts work too.
• an Internet radio (Shoutcast) client: http://opensource.nokia.com/projects/s60internetra dio/index.html All the Internet radio stations just when I want. Open Source.
• an FM radio and MP3/AAC player. Any headphones with a 3,5mm plug work fine.
• a 5 megapixel digital camera: http://www.flickr.com/cameras/nokia/n95/
• a 640x480 30fps MPEG-4/AAC video camera.
• a modem for my laptop. Thanks to HSDPA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsdpa) I get about 120kB/s downstream and 44kB/s upstream (yes, kilobytes) with the current 1,8Mbps HSDPA network. 90ms pings. I have an unlimited packet data contract from my mobile operator. The operator is currently software upgrading the base stations to support 3,6Mbps HSDPA, which doubles the downstream speeds.
• a SIP VoIP client: The SIP standard is supported by the device natively. And the Internet call functionality is well integrated to the user interface. I can use the normal phone book to call via the Internet. Instead of normal voice or video call, I just select Internet call from the menu. Internet calls work over 802.11g 54Mbps WLAN at home, and over the mobile packet data network on the go, thanks to HSDPA. Works great with Gizmo (http://www.gizmoproject.com/), for example.
• a web browser and RSS feed reader: RSS feeds are supported by the excellent S60 web browser, which is based on Apple Webcore/KHTML: http://opensource.nokia.com/projects/S60browser/. It's a full featured web browser and not a toy. Web sites can be zoomed in/out to fit the screen. Opera can be installed on the device too.
• a gaming device: I'm not a enthusiastic gamer though. I'm just playing the preinstalled games. btw. N95 has got hardware accelerated OpenGL by PowerVR: http://www.imgtec.com/PowerVR/Products/Graphics/MB X/index.asp
• a Push-email client. I receive email as soon as it is available on the IMAP server. I can open ZIP attachments, Word/Excel documents, PDF files and view them on the device.
• a GPS and a map: N95 has got an integrated GPS receiver. Nokia Maps software is preinstalled on the device. Free detailed maps for over 150 countries are available. And Google Maps works on it too: http://www.google.com/gmm/. I also use N95 to track my work-outs with Nokia Sports Tracker http://research.nokia.com/research/projects/Sports Tracker/.

I can install any S60 3rd edition and Java ME software on this phone. No restrictions. Also the SDK is available freely: http://forum.nokia.com/ Symbian is also fast, and supports multitasking of applications natively. I can program it even with Python (http://wiki.opensource.nokia.com/projects/PyS60) if I want.

Hot-swappable 2GB Micro SD cards work as stora

I'm using my own N95 http://www.nseries.com/n95/ as:

• an IRC client: http://mirggi.net/ (native Symbian software)
• a SSH client: http://s2putty.sourceforge.net/ (Putty is ported to and runs on Symbian natively)
• a podcast player: Nokia Podcasting (http://blogs.s60.com/nokiapodcasting/). I can download new episodes on the fly and listen to them when I want. I don't need a computer to download the episodes. MPEG-4/H.264 video podcasts work too.
• an Internet radio (Shoutcast) client: http://opensource.nokia.com/projects/s60internetra dio/index.html All the Internet radio stations just when I want. Open Source.
• an FM radio and MP3/AAC player. Any headphones with a 3,5mm plug work fine.
• a 5 megapixel digital camera: http://www.flickr.com/cameras/nokia/n95/
• a 640x480 30fps MPEG-4/AAC video camera.
• a modem for my laptop. Thanks to HSDPA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsdpa) I get about 120kB/s downstream and 44kB/s upstream (yes, kilobytes) with the current 1,8Mbps HSDPA network. 90ms pings. I have an unlimited packet data contract from my mobile operator. The operator is currently software upgrading the base stations to support 3,6Mbps HSDPA, which doubles the downstream speeds.
• a SIP VoIP client: The SIP standard is supported by the device natively. And the Internet call functionality is well integrated to the user interface. I can use the normal phone book to call via the Internet. Instead of normal voice or video call, I just select Internet call from the menu. Internet calls work over 802.11g 54Mbps WLAN at home, and over the mobile packet data network on the go, thanks to HSDPA. Works great with Gizmo (http://www.gizmoproject.com/), for example.
• a web browser and RSS feed reader: RSS feeds are supported by the excellent S60 web browser, which is based on Apple Webcore/KHTML: http://opensource.nokia.com/projects/S60browser/. It's a full featured web browser and not a toy. Web sites can be zoomed in/out to fit the screen. Opera can be installed on the device too.
• a gaming device: I'm not a enthusiastic gamer though. I'm just playing the preinstalled games. btw. N95 has got hardware accelerated OpenGL by PowerVR: http://www.imgtec.com/PowerVR/Products/Graphics/MB X/index.asp
• a Push-email client. I receive email as soon as it is available on the IMAP server. I can open ZIP attachments, Word/Excel documents, PDF files and view them on the device.
• a GPS and a map: N95 has got an integrated GPS receiver. Nokia Maps software is preinstalled on the device. Free detailed maps for over 150 countries are available. And Google Maps works on it too: http://www.google.com/gmm/. I also use N95 to track my work-outs with Nokia Sports Tracker http://research.nokia.com/research/projects/Sports Tracker/.

I can install any S60 3rd edition and Java ME software on this phone. No restrictions. Also the SDK is available freely: http://forum.nokia.com/ Symbian is also fast, and supports multitasking of applications natively. I can program it even with Python (http://wiki.opensource.nokia.com/projects/PyS60) if I want.

Hot-swappable 2GB Micro SD cards work as stora

I'm using my own N95 http://www.nseries.com/n95/ as:

• an IRC client: http://mirggi.net/ (native Symbian software)
• a SSH client: http://s2putty.sourceforge.net/ (Putty is ported to and runs on Symbian natively)
• a podcast player: Nokia Podcasting (http://blogs.s60.com/nokiapodcasting/). I can download new episodes on the fly and listen to them when I want. I don't need a computer to download the episodes. MPEG-4/H.264 video podcasts work too.
• an Internet radio (Shoutcast) client: http://opensource.nokia.com/projects/s60internetra dio/index.html All the Internet radio stations just when I want. Open Source.
• an FM radio and MP3/AAC player. Any headphones with a 3,5mm plug work fine.
• a 5 megapixel digital camera: http://www.flickr.com/cameras/nokia/n95/
• a 640x480 30fps MPEG-4/AAC video camera.
• a modem for my laptop. Thanks to HSDPA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsdpa) I get about 120kB/s downstream and 44kB/s upstream (yes, kilobytes) with the current 1,8Mbps HSDPA network. 90ms pings. I have an unlimited packet data contract from my mobile operator. The operator is currently software upgrading the base stations to support 3,6Mbps HSDPA, which doubles the downstream speeds.
• a SIP VoIP client: The SIP standard is supported by the device natively. And the Internet call functionality is well integrated to the user interface. I can use the normal phone book to call via the Internet. Instead of normal voice or video call, I just select Internet call from the menu. Internet calls work over 802.11g 54Mbps WLAN at home, and over the mobile packet data network on the go, thanks to HSDPA. Works great with Gizmo (http://www.gizmoproject.com/), for example.
• a web browser and RSS feed reader: RSS feeds are supported by the excellent S60 web browser, which is based on Apple Webcore/KHTML: http://opensource.nokia.com/projects/S60browser/. It's a full featured web browser and not a toy. Web sites can be zoomed in/out to fit the screen. Opera can be installed on the device too.
• a gaming device: I'm not a enthusiastic gamer though. I'm just playing the preinstalled games. btw. N95 has got hardware accelerated OpenGL by PowerVR: http://www.imgtec.com/PowerVR/Products/Graphics/MB X/index.asp
• a Push-email client. I receive email as soon as it is available on the IMAP server. I can open ZIP attachments, Word/Excel documents, PDF files and view them on the device.
• a GPS and a map: N95 has got an integrated GPS receiver. Nokia Maps software is preinstalled on the device. Free detailed maps for over 150 countries are available. And Google Maps works on it too: http://www.google.com/gmm/. I also use N95 to track my work-outs with Nokia Sports Tracker http://research.nokia.com/research/projects/Sports Tracker/.

I can install any S60 3rd edition and Java ME software on this phone. No restrictions. Also the SDK is available freely: http://forum.nokia.com/ Symbian is also fast, and supports multitasking of applications natively. I can program it even with Python (http://wiki.opensource.nokia.com/projects/PyS60) if I want.

Hot-swappable 2GB Micro SD cards work as stora

I'm using my own N95 http://www.nseries.com/n95/ as:

• an IRC client: http://mirggi.net/ (native Symbian software)
• a SSH client: http://s2putty.sourceforge.net/ (Putty is ported to and runs on Symbian natively)
• a podcast player: Nokia Podcasting (http://blogs.s60.com/nokiapodcasting/). I can download new episodes on the fly and listen to them when I want. I don't need a computer to download the episodes. MPEG-4/H.264 video podcasts work too.
• an Internet radio (Shoutcast) client: http://opensource.nokia.com/projects/s60internetra dio/index.html All the Internet radio stations just when I want. Open Source.
• an FM radio and MP3/AAC player. Any headphones with a 3,5mm plug work fine.
• a 5 megapixel digital camera: http://www.flickr.com/cameras/nokia/n95/
• a 640x480 30fps MPEG-4/AAC video camera.
• a modem for my laptop. Thanks to HSDPA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsdpa) I get about 120kB/s downstream and 44kB/s upstream (yes, kilobytes) with the current 1,8Mbps HSDPA network. 90ms pings. I have an unlimited packet data contract from my mobile operator. The operator is currently software upgrading the base stations to support 3,6Mbps HSDPA, which doubles the downstream speeds.
• a SIP VoIP client: The SIP standard is supported by the device natively. And the Internet call functionality is well integrated to the user interface. I can use the normal phone book to call via the Internet. Instead of normal voice or video call, I just select Internet call from the menu. Internet calls work over 802.11g 54Mbps WLAN at home, and over the mobile packet data network on the go, thanks to HSDPA. Works great with Gizmo (http://www.gizmoproject.com/), for example.
• a web browser and RSS feed reader: RSS feeds are supported by the excellent S60 web browser, which is based on Apple Webcore/KHTML: http://opensource.nokia.com/projects/S60browser/. It's a full featured web browser and not a toy. Web sites can be zoomed in/out to fit the screen. Opera can be installed on the device too.
• a gaming device: I'm not a enthusiastic gamer though. I'm just playing the preinstalled games. btw. N95 has got hardware accelerated OpenGL by PowerVR: http://www.imgtec.com/PowerVR/Products/Graphics/MB X/index.asp
• a Push-email client. I receive email as soon as it is available on the IMAP server. I can open ZIP attachments, Word/Excel documents, PDF files and view them on the device.
• a GPS and a map: N95 has got an integrated GPS receiver. Nokia Maps software is preinstalled on the device. Free detailed maps for over 150 countries are available. And Google Maps works on it too: http://www.google.com/gmm/. I also use N95 to track my work-outs with Nokia Sports Tracker http://research.nokia.com/research/projects/Sports Tracker/.

I can install any S60 3rd edition and Java ME software on this phone. No restrictions. Also the SDK is available freely: http://forum.nokia.com/ Symbian is also fast, and supports multitasking of applications natively. I can program it even with Python (http://wiki.opensource.nokia.com/projects/PyS60) if I want.

Hot-swappable 2GB Micro SD cards work as stora

I'm using my own N95 http://www.nseries.com/n95/ as:

• an IRC client: http://mirggi.net/ (native Symbian software)
• a SSH client: http://s2putty.sourceforge.net/ (Putty is ported to and runs on Symbian natively)
• a podcast player: Nokia Podcasting (http://blogs.s60.com/nokiapodcasting/). I can download new episodes on the fly and listen to them when I want. I don't need a computer to download the episodes. MPEG-4/H.264 video podcasts work too.
• an Internet radio (Shoutcast) client: http://opensource.nokia.com/projects/s60internetra dio/index.html All the Internet radio stations just when I want. Open Source.
• an FM radio and MP3/AAC player. Any headphones with a 3,5mm plug work fine.
• a 5 megapixel digital camera: http://www.flickr.com/cameras/nokia/n95/
• a 640x480 30fps MPEG-4/AAC video camera.
• a modem for my laptop. Thanks to HSDPA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hsdpa) I get about 120kB/s downstream and 44kB/s upstream (yes, kilobytes) with the current 1,8Mbps HSDPA network. 90ms pings. I have an unlimited packet data contract from my mobile operator. The operator is currently software upgrading the base stations to support 3,6Mbps HSDPA, which doubles the downstream speeds.
• a SIP VoIP client: The SIP standard is supported by the device natively. And the Internet call functionality is well integrated to the user interface. I can use the normal phone book to call via the Internet. Instead of normal voice or video call, I just select Internet call from the menu. Internet calls work over 802.11g 54Mbps WLAN at home, and over the mobile packet data network on the go, thanks to HSDPA. Works great with Gizmo (http://www.gizmoproject.com/), for example.
• a web browser and RSS feed reader: RSS feeds are supported by the excellent S60 web browser, which is based on Apple Webcore/KHTML: http://opensource.nokia.com/projects/S60browser/. It's a full featured web browser and not a toy. Web sites can be zoomed in/out to fit the screen. Opera can be installed on the device too.
• a gaming device: I'm not a enthusiastic gamer though. I'm just playing the preinstalled games. btw. N95 has got hardware accelerated OpenGL by PowerVR: http://www.imgtec.com/PowerVR/Products/Graphics/MB X/index.asp
• a Push-email client. I receive email as soon as it is available on the IMAP server. I can open ZIP attachments, Word/Excel documents, PDF files and view them on the device.
• a GPS and a map: N95 has got an integrated GPS receiver. Nokia Maps software is preinstalled on the device. Free detailed maps for over 150 countries are available. And Google Maps works on it too: http://www.google.com/gmm/. I also use N95 to track my work-outs with Nokia Sports Tracker http://research.nokia.com/research/projects/Sports Tracker/.

I can install any S60 3rd edition and Java ME software on this phone. No restrictions. Also the SDK is available freely: http://forum.nokia.com/ Symbian is also fast, and supports multitasking of applications natively. I can program it even with Python (http://wiki.opensource.nokia.com/projects/PyS60) if I want.

Hot-swappable 2GB Micro SD cards work as stora

The Webbrowser in S60 3rd edition is infact WebKit. So it's fairly likely that the iPhone will have a virtually identical html renderer apart from the UI.

S60 Webkit

Is there a phone that is just a phone? Designed to have a respectable life span for the phone itself and the battery? A phone that isn't also a camera, PDA, and now web surfing device. Just a phone.

I'm excited about cool mobile hand held devices, but sometimes people just need a reliable phone.

Oh, but are there any phone currently that synchronize with gmail and the Google calendar?

The Nokia 6300 ticks all the boxes for core functionalities (including camera) and does it all in a pretty, small package with decent battery life. You can use Gmail for mobile to read your Gmail (go to gmail.com/app on your mobile to download the app) and Goosync to sync with your Google Calandar.

• J2ME CLDC
• J2ME CDC
• J2ME JSR-184
• J2ME M3G

The S60 webkit is a port of Webkit to the Series 60 3rd edition platform. Nokia has created a memory manager for this port that can make the webkit works with low memory. If only I can have the low memory footprint browser in my Mac.

Do you realise that the hardware in this phone is identical to the Nokia E61?

The major difference between these two models (apart from the frequencies and those things) is that the WLAN (802.11g) support is disabled on the E62. I'll let you speculate why that is.

I have an E61. I also have an unlimited 3G data plan with my provider. I can use Fring to make Skype voice calls over the data connection, either using 3G or WLAN.

Now, ask yourself the following: Why is this impossible to do in the US, when it's possible in most of the rest of the world?

The phone I currently use is much simpler than that!