The smallest of Nokia E-series Nokia E50

Nokia has announced the addition to the Nokia Eseries family, the Nokia E50. With excellent voice, email and data capabilities, the Nokia E50 offers enterprises a cost-efficient way to extend mobility to a broader range of employees, enabling them to access company telephony and business applications whenever required.  Just as importantly the globally-viable Nokia E50 device is easily and securely managed by a company's IT department through Intellisync Device Management solution.

With classic Nokia design, the small, sleek, and stylish Nokia E50 is also designed for people who want a single phone for both business and leisure use. The device comes equipped with pre-installed business applications, exceptional voice and calling functionality, and the ability to have two phone numbers in one phone, while lifestyle features include an MP3 player and optionally a 1.3 mega pixel camera.

Built on S60 3rd edition smartphone platform and Symbian OS 9, the Nokia E50 supports popular corporate mobile email solutions, including Intellisync Wireless Email by Nokia, BlackBerry Connect, Visto Mobile, Altexia, and Microsoft ActiveSync. The thinnest Nokia Eseries quad-band phone (EGSM 850/900/1800/1900), the Nokia E50 supports GSM networks worldwide, offering clear phone calls and rich voice and calling functionalities. With up to six hours of uptime, the Nokia E50 offers significantly high battery performance for such a small phone.

The Nokia E50 comes with a set of pre-installed business applications that help increase the productivity of mobile professionals. The Nokia Team Suite, part of the Nokia Office Tools offering, helps to facilitate conference calls and to initiate push-to-talk sessions with selected team members easily and fast, through a built-in speakerphone. The Nokia E50 also includes a search function enabling fast queries into critical data such as, contacts, emails and messages. Important business attachments received via email, such as documents, presentations, and spreadsheets, can be swiftly accessed via the Quickoffice viewer.

The Intellisync Device Management offered by Nokia enables remote enterprise grade device management, without additional client software installation, on OMA DM capable devices such as the Nokia Eseries. For IT administrators, an easy-to-use administrative web-interface allows remote management of OMA DM compliant business devices, with access to a device management server located either within a company's own premises or at a service provider's facilities.

Nokia E50 features
- GSM (850/900/1800/1900 MHz), GPRS and EDGE
- TFT- QVGA display (240х320 pix) 262К colors
- 1,3-Mp camera (optional)
- MP3 and AAC audio player
- Streaming video and audio ( (3GPP and RealMedia))
- Up to 70 Mb embedded memory
- microSD cards slot (TransFlash)
- Pop-Port, USB, Bluetooth 2.0 and IrDA
- SMS, MMS
- E-mail (POP3, IMAP4 and SMTP), XHTML and HTML browser
- Instant Messaging and Presence Services IMPS 1.2
- Size 113х43,5х15,5mm
- Weight 104g

A complete list of the Nokia E50 features and technical specifications can be found at www.nokia.com/business.

Photos of the Nokia E50 can be found at www.nokia.com/press. Video of the Nokia Eseries can be found at www.nokia.com/press/broadcastroom

Opera Mobile 8.60 Web Browser for Symbian Series 60

Opera Software have released Opera Mobile 8.60. It is my favorite browser for my Nokia 6630 phone. The most cool feature is Opera's Small-Screen Rendering (SSR) technology, which refits Web pages to the width of the mobile screen.

Opera Mobile 8.60 is designed for the new Symbian 9, S60 3rd Edition phones, featured on handsets such as the Nokia 3250, N91, N80, N71, E60, E61 and E71. It also supports all current Symbian S60 2nd Edition mobile devices.

New features of version 8.60
- Symbian 9, S60 3rd Edition compatible
- Auto-completion for URL entry
- Password manager for easy logins
- New and improved smooth scrolling
- Updated user interface with new skin
- Open and toggle up to four windows, each with separate settings for zoom levels and display options
- Read and bookmark newsfeeds
- Send images as MMS or save to phone gallery

Version 8.60 available here

Opera Releases Mini 2.0

Now with Opera Mini 2.0, users can download mp3s, pictures and videos directly onto their phones. Also they can buy content via sms automatically. Opera Mini 2.0 is free and works on any Java enabled phone.

Mobile Web Server on Nokia S60 mobile phones

Nokia have ported open-source HTTP server Apache to Symbian. Also they have ported mod_python and integrated it with Python for S60.

Learn more about Apache on Symbian here.

SoonR Talk

Simple and nice idea:
1. Click on the buddy you want to talk to.
2. SoonR Talk will tell your PC to call your mobile phone using SkypeOut.
3. Then SoonR Talk will instruct Skype to call your buddy, placing you in a conference.

Will Skype fight with it?

Nokia S60 Summit will begin soon

As I have received in announce this summit will start on 24th May in Nice. The Summit and its Expo will examine the opportunities, markets and threats facing operators today. There you can meet new partners and see innovations that can help create business success.

The Summit’s agenda aims to show you:

· How a software platform ecosystem can boost the efficiency of service differentiation

· Which consumer segments to focus on for services development and delivery

· How subscribers actually use rich mobile devices

· How the business rules are changing

· How innovative developers are generating new and lucrative business opportunities

Registeration to summit available here.

Nokia have delayed its multimedia smartphones

By info from Reuters Nokia will release smartphones N71, N80 и N91, also E60, E61 и E71 models in next few week. But previously Nokia claims that N91 would have been released till the end of 2005, then the date of release was shifted to begin of year 2006. Nokia explains delay by fixing the software for these models.

Another smallest smartphone in the World

ASUS claims that its P305 is the smallest Ms Winodows Mobile 5.0 smartphone in the world. This phone is targete to work in 3G networks. Windows Mobile 5.0 with Direct Push Technology gives ability to instant updating of Microsoft Office Outlook Email, Calendar, Contacts and Tasks when synchronizing with MS Exchange Server. The P305 also runs Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player 10 Mobile so it can play MP3, AMR, AAC, WAV and WMA, as well as streaming MPEG-4 video. Connectivity consists of Bluetooth 1.2 and IrDA. Memory expanded with use of the mini-SD expansion card slot.

Photos of new Symbian smartphones by Nokia

Again leaked photos have been published in the net of new Nokia smartphones. At this time it were N73 and N93 models. N73 model have to replace N70 Symbian smartphone. It will have upgraded camera with 3.2 Megapixel sensot and Carl-Zeiss optic. The phone will work in 3G and UMTS networks. N93 model will replace N92 smartphone. Camera will be the same as in N73 but with 3x optical zoom. Both models are based on Symbian OS 9.0 and Series 60 3rd Edition, have support of Bluetooth 2.0. N93 phone will work in GPRS, EDGE and UMTS/WCDMA networks with support Wi-Fi.

Premium Smartphone Mago

This is a high end smartphone with exclusive desing and made of unique matherials. Also it is a is quad band GSM phone. Features of this smartphone are following:
- running Windows Mobile 2005 (latest version of MS Mobile for now)
- it has 240x320 2.8 inch LCD screen
- built-in memory is 128MB SDRAM, 128MB Flash and SD/MMC support
- conectivity imlements 850/900/1800/1900MHz GSM, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi 802.11b
- also it have not such a big size - 134x55x15mm

The price of this smartphone is also really exclusive - about 3K euros.

The smallest Windows® Mobile smartphone

Malai company Fifth Media has presented its new product - the smallest Windows Mobile 5 smartphone in the world. The size of this phone is 20.8 x 48.8 x 113.3 mm.
The name of this new product is AXIA A308. It supports GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz networks with GRPS and EDGE technologies. Also this phones have support of Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11b) and Bluetooth technologies. Fifth Media has used Intel PXA272 processor with working frequency 416 MHz. Other features is 1.3 megapixel camera, 128 Mb of the flash memory, and 64 Mb of RAM. The memory can be expanded by using miniSD cards. The phone have screen with resolution 240 х 320 pixels and can play WAV, WMA, and MP3 files.

This phone will be presented on CeBIT 2006 in Hannonver.

Antivirus now preinstalled on Symbian S60 3Ed. devices

Nokia has announced that F-Secure Mobile Anti-Virus will be available through Nokia to the users of new devices based on S60 3rd Edition - Nokia N71, Nokia E60, Nokia E61 and Nokia E70. More info here.

Symbian on 3GSM 2006 World Congress

If you want to read latest Symbian news from 3GSM World Congress just go to this site: Symbian 3GSM 2006 Mini site.