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The Olympic iPhone 3G by London jeweller De Vere is set to dazzle the event’s opening day on 08-08-08, turning the ordinary iPhone into a glitzy-blitzy status symbol.

Price of bejewelling your iPhone (yes you have to provide your own iPhone) goes for US$8,224 for the 88-diamond ‘prosperity’ version while the 168-diamond ‘Path-to-Riches’ get-up will set you back by US$15,493.

Video of the diamond-studded Olympic iPhone:

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Mac sync software developer Mark/Space has announced the release of The Missing Sync for Symbian. Designed to sync Mac applications for Symbian UIQ and S60 smartphones, the new product for $ 39.95 (electronic download) has a unique feature - synchronizing proximity. When your Mac and Symbian phone are within reach of Bluetooth (about 30 feet / 10 meters), they synchronize automatically to ensure that both are updated.

The Missing Sync for Symbian synchronize personal information such as contacts, calendar events and tasks, and also uses the property registry calls and SMS applications to move the telephone call recording and text messages to the Mac. Video, photography, music and document files can also be synchronized.

If you think the iPhone is the only smartphone on the market, it is important to realize that over 100 million Symbian-based phones were sold worldwide, with Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and be the largest suppliers . As a result, the Missing Sync for Symbian is available in English, French, Italian, German and Spanish.

Beijing 2008 by PiZero is the new Symbian S60 Theme made to celebrate the XXIX Modern Olympic Games that will took place in China in August.

Beijing 2008 is a 100% SVG Theme for 3rd edition symbian phones, including the new Fp2 platform for Nokia N78, N96 and more. get it on PiZero's website.

Back in February, we all had high hopes that the Linux-based Samsung i800 would be a real winner when it launched on Orange this fall. Unfortunately, the i900 is apt to be out and about before the i800 can even have a proper funeral. According to Edelman, Orange's PR firm, the "i800 has been withdrawn in order to... prepare a more competitive Linux mobile." In all honesty, we don't suspect that many folks will miss it, but those holding out on picking up a new cellie can safely move on to courting other handsets.
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For those invited to private parties launch in New York and Chicago last Thursday, probably, you have been playing with his new shiny U.S. E71 throughout the weekend. For everyone else, today is the day. The americas version of the team - which includes 850/900/1800/1900 GSM 850/1900 and HSDPA support - is finally for sale to the general public through a variety of retailers. Now, the only problems are Sneaking away from the office early, finding a warehouse with material and reach approximately U.S. $ 500.

Although Skyfire continues to promise great things in the front Windows Mobile - a striker that needs as many high quality as browsers that can get - there is another beta version of the company getting underway for a version of its S60 Flash-enabled Web viewer. Like Opera Mini and Deepfish, Skyfire makes the content server side - and besides Flash, is supported by packing for Quicktime, Windows Media, Silverlight, and AJAX, so it must serve a PC very similar to experience. Unfortunately, this is an experience that only a few in the private sector can enjoy beta at the moment, but now Skyfire taking subscriptions for Beta 2.

The number of OSes that can be run on N810 Internet Tablets just grows and grows. Now it's time for MS Windows family. I hope you still remeber Windows 3.1. The trick to run it on NIT is to use DOSBOX utility - x86 PC emulator (the instructions may be found e.g. here or on Internet Tablet Talk forums). What's more interesting, there's a proof that you may also run Windows 95 this way, but don't expect that it will start and work smoothly (you really need to be patient). Thanks to very active Internet Tablet community, you can also have MAC on MIT by using the Basilisk II Macintosh emulator (list of Macintosh Software that can be run on a NIT and instructions).

Purists would extend the list of working OSes by adding Android, Ubuntu and numerous emulators (all ported to maemo) like Amiga 68k - UAE, Apple II - Winapple, Commodore 64 - Frodo, Palm OS - Access GarnetVM, TI-89 Calculator - TiEmu 2 (just to mention the most interesting ones). Can you do this all on iPhone?

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Here is the awaited new version of Abstraction by PiZero.

This new version is made using Flahorns icons, and it’s improved and compatible with all 3rd edition phones including FP2 phones like N78, N96 and others. Download

Miyaliu from Digi QQ exposes plenty of pictures of the Nokia 5800 Tube, the upcoming touchscreen S60 Nokia phone which we all have seen briefly on the Dark Knight movie. 3.2 inches screen size with 640×360 resolution sounds good to me.

Here are the specs according to Digi QQ:

• Measurements: 111 × 52 × 14.5 mm, and weighs only 104 grams.
• 16 million color TFT LCD
• 640 × 360 pixel resolution
• 16:9 display mode
• Fifth edition of Symbian S60.
• finger touch operation will provide vibration feedback function.
• 3.2 megapixel Carl Zeiss optical lens with autofocus
• Dual LED flash
• Built-in GPS
• 140 MB RAM
• GSM / GPRS / EDGE / WCDMA / HSDPA / WLAN wireless networking and Bluetooth technology.
• 3.5 mm Headset interface
• TV-out interface
• BL-5J 1150mah Battery

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Arne over at the unwired has his hands all up on the production version of Samsung's touchtastic Omnia i900, and yeah, it's pretty much official: the Touch Diamond has a solid competitor on its hands. The skinning Sammy's managed to perform here atop Windows Mobile's ancient UI might not be quite on part with the magic that is TouchFLO 3D, but it looks pretty close -- it's still better by leaps and bounds by the default, the transitions are kinda cool, and you're certainly going to want to use it if you're using this phone. Like the GSM version of the Touch Diamond, the Omnia sadly lacks any whiff of North American 3G (for the moment, anyhow), so this video is the closest many otherwise-interested yanks and canucks are going to get.
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What happens to your old mobile phone after you upgrade to a new model? Ever wondered what to do with your old mobile phone? Recycle It! Nokia has launched an Integrated Nokia Kiosk (INK), its first automated recycling and care kiosk in Malaysia in an effort to promote environmental initiatives in the mobile industry. The kiosks will be rolled out in four locations – Nokia Concept Store at The Gardens, Nokia Store at The Curve, Nokia Store at Suria KLCC and Giant Hypermarket at Bandar Puchong Kinrara. The Kiosk are easy to use. You just need to follow the instructions on the touchscreen. It accepts any brand of mobile phones, batteries, phone covers, travel chargers and accessories. For every phone recycled, the company will donate a tree dedicated to the person who recycled the phone. After dropping off your old phones for recycling, customers will be contacted with instructions on how to view the tree via Google Earth.

The launch of Android, Google's open-source OS for mobile phones, was postponed . As a consequence, a majority of carriers and handset vendors have pushed the launch of their Android-powered smart phones to the end of the year or beginning of next year. In the meantime, Nokia acquired Symbian and then released this dominant mobile OS in open source. Many believed that this was a prelude to a head-on collision with Android but it looks like the two are headed for more of a beast with two backs relationship than a tap out.

"We expect that within the next 3-6 months, Symbian and Android will combine to provide a single open-source operating system," said Jack E. Gold, founder and principal analyst at J. Gold Associates, who has been tracking computer, electronics and mobile phone spaces over 35 years. "Many of the same sponsors are involved in both initiatives."

"The question is, how many open source mobile platforms do we need? The mobile market does not need more divergence. It needs convergence, and this would be a way to accomplish this," said Gold. "The mobile market needs some level of consolidation of platforms if it is to make big leaps forward, as developers currently struggle to make their applications available on so many divergent platforms." Other key players in the mobile OS arena are Windows Mobile, Palm and Apple.

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We've already gotten word of most of the details of Samsung's i8510 INNOV8 (get it?) smartphone, but things just got a whole lot more official for the device in Europe and, coincidentally, a number of sites recently got to spend some time with the phone in NYC (despite the lack of an official US release). Of course, there's not a whole lot of surprises to be found, but it certainly seems like the phone will get the job done and then some, with its built in camera not only boasting an impressive 8 megapixels, but auto-focus, image stabilization, and a flash as well. The rest of the specs aren't too shabby either. Head on past the break to check out one video of the device courtesy of MobileBurn, and be sure to hit up the Laptop Mag link below for a second, higher-quality look at it.
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Purple Lights By cmdesignz, i found this theme here, I liked it and posted:) Download

That’s right the jailbreak/pwning software for Windows users running the iPhone 2.0 software, has been released. If you are looking to jailbreak your iPhone 3G, iPod touch or iPhone running the latest firmware version (we don’t condone this in any way) you can now do so using Windows OS. Full details and download links after the break.

WinPwn 2.0

- Support for both 1.1.4 and 2.0
- Custom Image Support
- Custom Payload Support
- 3g iPhone support

Bugs

Some users have had problems with installing Cydia on Windows XP. This will be fixed in tomorrows release

2.0 How to:

- 1) First create a custom IPSW using the IPSW Builder.
- 2) Click "Ipwner" and browse for the custom IPSW that you just created.
This will pwn itunes and allow you to flash Custom IPSW
files via DFU mode
- 3) Once you have pwned Itunes, put your phone into DFU mode.
If you don’t know how to do this click Here.
- 4) Once you are in DFU mode Itunes will pop up and then you can hold
shift and click restore and browse to your custom IPSW file.

Done!

Important Notes

Remove Winpwn 1.0 completely if you have it installed. Installing over the top of WinPwn 1.0 will cause problems.

Make sure you have the latest version of iTunes ( Currently 7.7)

If you already have service with AT&T do not activate or install Youtube Fix

Thanks again for all those who supported me. WinPwn was made possible by PlanetBeing, Squpix and the dev team ( Especially Wizdaz, MuscleNerd, Gray, Pumpkin, bgm, roxfan ). I will be updating WinPwn with some better features and upgrading the credits and help sections over the next few days.

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Remember the rumoured Nokia N85 that was leaked not so long ago!? Well earlier today a User Agent Profile posted by Nokia confirmed the devices existence and revealed its true specifications!

First impressions, i’m a little disappointed. Nothing about it so far brings anything new to the portfolio and seems to be a midrange N96.

The release of this information suggests that the device should be announced relatively soon!!!

Read on for more details and a link to the profile!!!

The N85 carries on with the design language introduced by the N81 and followed with the N78 and N96 and still makes use of a QVGA 240 x 320 pixel screen. What I found surprising is that Nokia have decided to use a 3.2 megapixel camera. From the pictures that were leaked the N85 will have a dual LED flash (much like the N96) and a camera shutter to protect the lens.

The device will run on Symbian S60 Feature Pack 2 and features the usual connectivity options - GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, Wifi and HSDPA, but no signs of GPS this time…

Overall, as I mentioned in the introduction to this post, the device seems to be a midrange N96 aimed at the mass market. Even though no there is nothing new included in the specs of the N85, it will be interesting to see how well the device performs.

Heres a link to the profile so you can view the full specification list for yourself!

http://nds1.nds.nokia.com/uaprof/NN85-1r100.xml

Could the N85 be what the N81 should have been, have the N-Gage application preloaded and be the gaming device to launch the N-Gage service publically to the masses???

The dual slide form factor could easily cater for dedicated gaming keys as well (just like the N96).

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Top 10 iPhone battery life tips

1. Store and use the iPhone at room temperature

Direct sunshine or putting the iPhone in the glove compartment of a warm car will cause your iPhone's battery life to drop sharply. The iPhone functions well between 0 degrees centigrade and 35 degrees centigrade (32-95° F).

You should store your iPhone in conditions between -20° C and 45° C (-4° F to 113° F).

The ideal battery life environment for both usage and storage is room temperature: 22° C (72° F).

2. Change Mail autochecking from every 15 minutes to every hour

• Go to Settings
• Click on Mail
• Click on Auto-check and increase the interval or turn it off altogether

3. Turn off Wi-fi

If you don't need to use Wi-Fi constantly then you will get better battery life by turning it off and then enabling it when you want to browse via a hot spot.

• Go to Settings
• Click on Wi-Fi
• Click on Off
  
  

4. Turn off Bluetooth

• Go to Settings
• Click on General
• Click on Bluetooth
• Select Off
  
  

5. Reduce the display's brightness

• Go to Settings
• Click on Brightness
• Drag the slider to the left to dim the display's brightness

6. Enable the display's Auto-Brightness

Alternatively you could enable Auto-Brightness so the iPhone's display is automatically adjusted to match the current lighting conditions:

• Go to Settings
• Click on Brightness
• Set Auto-Brightness to On

7. Lock the iPhone

It may sound obvious but locking the iPhone as soon as you've finished using it will turn off the display immediately and ensure that it won't be making persistent calls while it's in your pocket. Simply click on the Sleep/Wake button on the upper right hand of the iPhone.

8. Enable Auto-Lock

Better still, if you can get into the habit of locking your iPhone yourself simply turn on the Auto-Lock feature:

• Go to Settings
• Click on General
• Click on Auto-Lock
• Select a duration before the Auto-Lock kicks in, eg 1 minute or less

9. Turn off keyboard clicks

If you regularly use the iPhone's touch keyboard then the constant need to generate audio keyboard clicks can add to the iPhone's power consumption. To turn off keyboard clicks:

• Go to Settings
• Click on Sounds
• Turn Keyboard clicks to Off
  
  

10. Turn off the music equalizer (EQ)

The iPhone's audio equalizer may add some oomph to the songs but it also delivers a powerful blow to the handset's battery life because of the constant processing it requires. To turn off the EQ:

• Go to Settings
• Click on iPod
• Select EQ and click on Flat

The well-known Messenger Slick by Lonely Cat Games has a small update to version 0.43. Improved login in invisible mode, fixed ICQ offline message receive, fixed MSN getting contacts proble. Download

No, it’s not real, only a parody from David Ngo. Although it is short, it’s still funny and useful for a short break at the office.

The above is a screenshot of the VGA resolution version of S60 5th Edition UI. As you see, it is touch enabled and you won’t need the application key (top left) on the keypad anymore. The screenshot was taken on Carbide UI 3.2.

A BIG THANK GOES TO ICEman_c81for kindly providing this screenshot (If the name sounds familiar, yes, he’s a great theme maker too).

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It’s a mixed bitmap and svg theme, suitable for both portrait and landscape modes. Download

So apparently a healthy exchange of cash and a captive audience glued to one of the biggest flicks of the year are all it takes to land early dibs on Nokia's elusive Tube. The Tube - which will likely be branded either XpressMusic or XpressMedia and carry model number 5800 - represents Nokia's first serious foray into the wide world of touchscreen smartphones (don't even try to pull the Series 90 card, people), so there's quite a bit of buzz building around it. Just like there's lots of buzz aroudn this new Batman joint. Coincidence? We think not!
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Yesterday iPhone-dev team made a new message, the new PwnageTool 2.0 seems to be available for download “Very Very soon” according to the post. “Happy Birthday guys! Very Very soon we will have for you a downloadable birthday present for you, so hold on tight!”

When available, the PwnageTool 2.0 will be able to activate, unlock & jailbreak the first generation of iPhone. As for the iPhone 3G, the team are still working on the unlock solution for it. iPhone 3G users will be able to activate & jailbreak their iPhone 3G for this release

Read more info at iphone-dev team blog here http://blog.iphone-dev.org/

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Opera Mobile 9.5 beta is the latest mobile browser for Windows Mobile phones. The new and enhanced browser is fast and more features. Download Opera Mobile 9.5

It's being held on the main Nokia Island ("Nokia," funnily enough) and runs from 7pm GMT (Noon in SL, 8pm in the UK).

The panel is for all aspiring Second Life entrepreneurs, those already in business, and anyone interested in learning the down-and-dirty on how business really operates within the metaverse. The event will be held as an informal, moderated panel discussion with direct audience Q&A

• Hydra Shaftoe (host) - Developer, Community, Events, and project manager (USA)
• Rissa Maidstone - (World2Worlds, USA)
• Malburns Writer - (Metaverse Infohub, England)
• Uchi Desmoulins - (Avatar Maker, USA)
• Chriistopher Carter - (Glued Designs, USA)
• Slim Warrior (Virtual worlds music promoter, England)
• Draxtor Despres (Film maker, draxtor.com, Germany)
• Digistar Brouwer (Nokia, Finland)
• John Zhaoying (Ziff Davis Enterprise, USA)

Goldstriker has a new look for E71. This a stunning exclusive mobile phone brilliantly struck with 24ct gold. If you are constantly on the move this mobile work hourse certainly has the edge. You can buy it on Goldstriker website for £549.95

If you've had your eye on Samsung's forthcoming Omnia, you've known good and well it was coming to Europe sometime this month. Thankfully, Sammy has removed the mystery by announcing that Italy will get first dibs when it launches in said country on July 22nd. We aren't told who will be second, third or last, but most major European locales should have it before September dawns. Obviously, prices will vary depending on operator and contract terms, but the 8GB edition (along with an Xbox 360 Arcade, as part of some random promotion) will reportedly be €499 ($789) without subsidy. Glean from that what you will.
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The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg has been testing the iPhone 3G for a couple of weeks and today posted his review. As you’d expect, he loves the “between three and five times as fast” 3G networking, “wireless synchronization with corporate email” and the App Store which gives iPhone 3G “a chance to become a true computing platform with wide versatility.”

I have gathered a few nice wallpapers and made a pack of them, you can see in the sample photo what the pack contains(just 9 of them in the sample, much more in the archive). DOWNLOAD

Duncan Riley at The Inquisitr decided to share his iPhone unboxing with the world, but unlike the boring traditionalists who've done the same before, Duncan has a white one. There's not much new here, but it nice to get a good clear view of the look and finish on the paler model.

Nokia Beta Labs today unveiled Nokia Chat - a brand new location based chatting application for your S60 device. You can send one-to-one messages and pin point your location through Nokia Maps (and you can select where you want to be published as your location). You can also record and send voice messages to your friends. Go, grab it here - http://www.nokia.com/betalabs/chat

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The original (and free) JoikuSpot has risen through the ranks to become one of the more popular S60 apps around, and for good reason -- it turns your WiFi-equipped S60 device into a go-anywhere hotspot -- and when you add 3G into the mix, the result is truly magic. The Premium version of the same app is now available, adding VPN support for the corporate types out there and removing the forced Joiku-branded landing page that would-be users of your makeshift hotspot see the first time they connect. If you need the extra horsepower over the free version (which is still available), you can grab it now for €15 (about $24).

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The new version of Nokia software updater comes with Vista support. This is from thier news site:

We are pleased to announce that the Nokia Software Updater once more supports Microsoft Vista.

We are very sorry that many of you have been unable to update your devices, and we are sorry that you have had to wait so long. Thank you very much to everyone who gave feedback on the Beta release.

The latest version of Nokia Software Updater (1.4.49) is now available from www.nokia.com/softwareupdates or your local Nokia support pages.

Warm regards
The Nokia Software Updater team.

Walt Mossberg had posted a review video of his impressions of the iPhone 3G. On the whole, mostly positive about the device; he likes the form factor (which he wants to stress really hasn’t changed much), says the 3G speeds are a big improvement over EDGE, and informs us that the audio quality and phone reception are a big improvement.

Hackers have posted an installer that streamlines the porting of Google's Android software onto Nokia's Linux-based N810 and N800 Internet Tablets. Android has yet to appear on a cell-phone development platform, so the installer could play a key role in expanding Android development.

Download instructions and links for the Android-to-Nokia N810/N800 installer should be available here. Further coverage of the installer can be found on eWEEK, here.

Summertime by PiZero features the new great icon pack by Flahorn, that has been completed with some 3rd party icons from an older pack. Download here and don't forget to buy a beer to PiZero if you like the theme.

the guys at Pocketnow have posted a video glossing over the Toshiba G910. Looks like a nice phone and in comparison to everything that seems to be coming out over the next month it looks nicely unconventional.

According to idnes.cz, Samsung is planning to launch yet another full touch screen smartphone, the Samsung SGH-i740. The i740 the sucessor of Samsung i710, it has a 2.8-inch QVGA touch screen, 3 megapixel camera, built in GPS and FM radio receiver. The smartphone will be running with the new Windows Mobile 6.1 with a 624 MHz cpu.

The Samsung i740 is not going to be an expensive smartphone though, according to the source it will lack of 3G support and also without the WiFi capability. If I didn’t read wrongly, it won’t even support EDGE network and what it left for you could be just the GPRS. It does have a GSM Quadband radio though.

Other features include the bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, 107 x 59 x 13.8 mm body and a special designed dial-pad navigation button at the middle.

Nice video made by Mobiletech Addicts of HTC Diamond video calling, so watch the video if you want to see how video calling looks on Diamond.

You'd blind half the room when you whip out this little beauty - the diamond encrusted Nokia N95 from Continental Mobiles.

The handset features a smooth Sterling silver front panel that has been festooned with 4.42 carat of brilliant-cut, VS1 quality, naturally mined diamonds.

And it's only £10,000. We'll take two.

Nokia has quietly launched its Files on Ovi service in beta a few days ago. Resulting from its purchase of Avvenu last year, Files on Ovi from Nokia uses a desktop Connector application to allow access to files on your home computer securely from any internet-connected device.

Files on Ovi features a mobile site that allows users to view and download files from a home computer onto any mobile phone. Users can also share files with friends easily through Files on Ovi, with the ability to set a time limit on how long those shared files are available.

Files on Ovi also offers Anytime Files, with online storage of 10GB or 30GB, each with a monthly subscription fee. When users sign up for Files on Ovi, they get 60 days free of 10GB storage. Anytime Files are available even if the desktop connector software is not running, making it perfect for important documents and other files.

The guys over at Talk About Nseries have posted a few unboxing pictures of Nokia 500. You can find the unboxing pictures and the initial thoughts here

The Nokia 500 box contain:

• Nokia 500 Auto Nav
• Car Mount
• Nokia DC-1001 microUSB Car Charger
• SD with Europe Maps (varies by country)
• Soft Carry Pouch
• A CD containing backups of the maps and a digital version of the user guide

Version 20.0.056 brings Flash Lite 3 and Demand Paging, what we’ve seen already on the N82 or N95. More over, it has Feature Pack 2 like transition making going through the menu even more ‘’stylish”. Flash Lite 3 allows watching flash videos, ala YouTube, directly in the internetbrowser and supports also the Web Run Time Widget. Take a look at the video to see how the new transition look like.

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Widget Maps allows you to get your location position using an address search facility which then plots it on Google maps on your phone. The widget also allows you then to move the cursor to your exact location and get the corresponding latitude and longitude which you can share with your friends. The nice thing is that this will work on any J2ME phone supporting WidSets client Irrespective of having access to some form of positioning technology (sort of low tech my location). Widget Maps is currently available as a beta widget on the Widsets site.

Compatible with : Nokia 3250,5500,6120,E50, E60, E61, E62, E65, E70, N71, N73, N75, N76, N77 N80, N81, N91, N92, N93, N95 , all other Symbian Series 60 3rd Edition Device

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Google's released a new version of its Google Talk web app that's optimized for the iPhone and iPod touch -- that's right, web app, meaning that they've stayed true to Stevie's original vision of keeping everything within the Safari sandbox. No firmware 2.0, no App Store, and certainly no iPhone 3G needed to take advantage of this one, just a plain ol' iPhone Classique and a willingness to keep Safari open for however long you wish to be available to your Google Talkin' comrades.

You can read the full review here.

Nokia PC Suite 7 has completed the period of beta testing and is ready for download. The changes, even too much, especially concerning new applications added, Communication Center and support for the new generation phones that have just arrived or are about to enter the market.

You can download the english version HERE.

These days almost everyone, even non corporates feel the need for ‘push email’ - email sent straight into their inboxes and Nokia seems to be aware of this. Pursuant to this Nokia has launched a new beta service called Nokia Email which is the mail for exchange equivalent for those out of the corporate world. So basically if you have a IMAP or POP email provider such as GMAIL, you can have push email for free.

The service is still in beta and for now the list of compatible devices includes Nokia E51, E61, E61i, E65, E66, E71, E90, N73, N80, N81 8GB and the N95, looks like FP2 devices are out of the loop so far. All you need to do in order to get this setup is sign up on the Nokia Email website and get the download link sent to your mobile phone. Once you do that, installation and setup on the phone is a piece of cake. There are options to set the sync interval, whether you want it active while roaming and so on. The UI of the application is nice and feels FP2.

The good news is that attachment download and upload is included and we can choose whether they would be pulled automatically and further specify which file types should be.

I’m am just begining to try it out and seem to like it. In order to try it yourself register here and proceed from there. You can also meanwhile check out the FAQ page in you are new to push email or even otherwise.

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PassioneMobile has posted a HTC Diamond vs Nokia E71 Video, watch it and let me know what you think.