I’ve never used a Nokia smartphone so I’m really not sure whether this the first time that an RSS reader app has become available for Nokia smartphones powered by Symbian^3 or S60 5th edition. But if you’re using any of these smartphones, you might be interested to know that the Nokia Reader is now available more »

It has been a little while since we last heard mention of the Sony Ericsson Vivaz. In fact, it has been since June when the handset was revealed by way of an FCC listing. Unfortunately we are not yet getting an official product release announcement, though we are expecting it to come available with AT&T more »

Nokia N9 from Techno Buffalo on Vimeo. It looks like more is being shown off in regards to the Nokia N9. And this time the details are once again coming by way of images and video. Granted we saw some of this stuff in the last round, but still nice to see a new video more »

It looks like we are being given a pretty good look at the upcoming slider styled Nokia N9. The look comes in the form of a hands on video as well as a fairly complete collection of images. That said, the video is showing the N9 running Symbian^3, which we already know will not happen more »

A day later than expected, the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music is officially here in the US. After a false alarm at their NY and Chicago stores yesterday where they got the phones in, but didn’t actually begin selling them, the phones are now officially on the shelves.

Nokia delves into the touchscreen market with a music smart phone that many people have been looking forward to. While not really up to the iPhone like lots of people were hoping for when it was first being talked about, its reviews seem pretty positive.

It has 8 GB of memory which lets you store up to 6000 tracks and also supports all of the big digital music formats. You’ve got the 3.5-mm jack, and surround sound stereo speakers. The XpressMusic gives you quick access to music (as well as videos and photos) through the “Media Bar.” You can also use the Media Bar to link directly to the Web.

Implementing the latest S60 OS, the touch screen is a 3.2-inch widescreen with a 16:9 aspect ratio. You also have a 3.2 megapixel camera featuring a Carl Zeiss lens. You can do one touch photo uploads as well, which is handy. Users get a few input methods to choose from – the QWERTY keyboard, the virtual alphanumeric keypad, or a pen stylus. You can even use a guitar pick if that is your thing.

Google has some good news for all the road warriors and smartphone junkies out there; at least for mobile workers who are fans of the spreadsheet function of Google Docs. Google has officially added edit and filter functionality to their mobile spreadsheet application.

It was over a year ago that Google launched a mobile version of its Google Docs suite, which was met with some criticism, based on the fact that it was missing the capability to edit files. This was especially frustrating to users of T-Mobile’s G1 and the iPhone, who do not enjoy the native editing support found in Windows Mobile or third party editing capabilities that can be found for Blackberry or S60 operating systems. Google has now begun to remedy this by introducing data manipulation, entry, and sorting to their spreadsheet application.

Nokia has unveiled a new flagship phone during the recent Nokia World 2008 event — the N97, and according to Nokia it is the “world’s most advanced mobile computer.” So, just what is the N97 packing that will make it the most advanced? Well, it seems that Nokia has packed the N97 about as full as they could. To begin with, the N97 has a 3.5-inch touchscreen display with a (16:9) 640 x 360 resolution, a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard and an incredible 32GB of built-in memory with a microSD card slot for added expansion.

Other features of the N97 will include HSDPA, Wi-Fi, A-GPS, Bluetooth, a 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and video capture, a 3.5mm headphone jack and a TV-out. The N97 will be running S60 5th Edition. With a nice overall feature set, the N97 also has the power to back it up, it will offer up to 320 minutes of 3G talk time and up to 400 hours of standby. Additionally it will also allow for up to 37 hours of music playback and 4.5 hours of video playback in an offline mode.

As for pricing and availability, the N97 is expected to retail for €550 (around $694 US) and will be shipping sometime in the first half of 2009.

Keep reading to check out a few more pics of the Nokia N97…

It looks like AT&T will soon be getting the S60-powered Nokia E71, of course there will be a slight re-branding — it has been dubbed the Nokia E71x. Based on the decent reputation that the E71 already has, we can only hope that any changes, and AT&T bloatware will be kept to a minimum. Currently, as an official announcement has not yet been made, this is still in the rumor stage. That said, these images (above and below) appear to be pretty accurate. So far the release date is still unknown. As for the pricing, rumor has it that the E71x will be priced around $150 on a 2-year agreement.

Keep reading to check out another shot of the AT&T branded Nokia E71x…

Nokia has taken the mobile world’s centerstage today with the slew of announcements it made during the Nokia Remix event which happened simultaneously in London and Singapore. An enhanced S60 mobile platform, an online music store a la iTunes and, of course, a new music phone with touchscreen features, a la, well what else, but the iPhone.

The enhanced S60 Mobile Platform

Nokia’s S60 mobile platform which runs on Symbian OS finally gets a much needed upgrade in its 5th iteration. Key features of this fifth edition S60 is none other than touch UI and support for tactile feedback. This simply means that Nokia mobile phones using the S60 OS will now have touchscreen features similar to the iPhone.

Likewise, the S60 is also bringing enhanced web browsing capabilities to the soon to be released S60 mobile phone. This is made possible through Adobe Flash Lite 3 support. More details after the break.

Google has just ported its mobile version of Picasa Web Albums to S60-based handsets, similar to the versions featured on the iPhone and Windows Mobile phones. However, the Google Mobile Team did not just tweak Picasa to make it fit with the S60 mobile phones, it also refined the application a bit to fully maximize more »