DISQUS

Thanks for the link, Mark. I was rather annoyed to see how confusing it is to vote, really. There's nothing that prompts you to scroll to find the 'Save my vote' (or whatever it says) button, you just kind of have to find it. The same thing with the captcha. I wonder how many votes are lost because of that?

Did you read the full announcement? It's stated that the HTML supporting version of Nokia Messaging *will* be available to everyone, and not specifically limited to the E75 and E55.

Quote: The E75 and E55 feature our first clients that include support for HTML, but don’t worry, we are close to our next release for older devices that includes support for HTML.

Great news, but that's kinda lame that it's $399, when the Euro version is $350 at the flagship stores. What's with the $50 premium for a phone that should have been launched months ago? Bad form, Nokia.

@Schattenwand - if you're comparing the Dual-LED still performance to the Xenon, then yes. However, that's inaccurate. The debate is, starting with the single-LED flash that we're used to, which is a better upgrade: Xenon or Dual-LED. That's where my argument is based - Xenon is only for still photos (by its nature, Xenon cannot function as a video light) whereas Dual-LED provides a better flash than single LED, *AND* it offers benefits to video capture that a single LED doesn't.

Interesting stuff, though as I've mentioned before at Symbian-Guru.com, another consideration, aside from *only* the image capture, is the overall image+video performance of the device.

With a Xenon flash, sure you get great stills, but there is no benefit to the video capture. However, with Dual-LED flash, you get an improvement to the stills capture (over single-LED flash), but you also get a great improvement with video capture.

Also, the N97, as you mention, is clearly not the new video flagship - it's also not the new imaging flagship, either. In fact, Tuomo, one of the product managers for the N82, is also one of the product managers for the N97. I had the chance to ask him about that, and he said that the N82 is still Nokia's flagship imaging device, and the N97 simply wasn't designed to dethrone it.

I have to say, I'm somehow completely missing why this would be even remotely useful. Given that Bluetooth typically has a range of ~30 feet, and in real-world scenarios, even falls short of that, I don't really see why you wouldn't just step a bit closer to the person, or talk a bit louder.

MOBBLER. It's frikken brilliant.

Just found out this morning (I was actually at breakfast with Ray) that you're not coming, Ewan - gutted! Anyways, excited to meet Rob, and get this show on the road!

Ah, I wasn't aware that the track order was recorded anywhere (other than the back of the CD case, obviously). That makes sense, then. I wonder, how do other phones fare? This is something I've never noticed before (as again, I think albums are complete silliness). Do Nokias?

I'm interested as to how you might recommend they 'fix' this. I.e. how would the phone be able to know the proper album order?

We'll just ignore the fact that the whole premise of 'albums' is ridiculous and out-dated, along with 8-tracks and cassette tapes. ;)

We did Isla Mujeres on our honeymoon, it was WAY fun.

Thank you, for bringing a bit of fact and common sense to the conversation. it's nice to see someone analyzing something and not spazzing out over hype/buzz.

I believe this is the first Eseries to have a standard 3.5mm audio jack. Interesting.

What's worse is you end up like me, who still manually chooses an access point each time I use a data-app, simply because my phones don't intelligently switch even between 3G and WiFi yet.

Glad to be included here, as well, Anders. Social makes life worth living, and I, too, am glad to call you a friend. If ever I'm in your neck of the woods, you can rest assured I'll be giving you a call for a meetku. :)

Does the 6230 count as 'old' yet? Hands down the best mobile phone this decade, I think I ended up owning a total of 3, after I'd sell one I'd end up buying it again later.

Ewan - we've discovered that the update breaks compatibility with BlackBerry Connect, so if you use that, you may want to hold off.

Also, if you run into trouble getting the update to go properly, try backing up your phone, and then hard resetting it (*#7370#). That helped me out, and the E90 doesn't have UDP, so you'd basically have a formatted phone after the update anyways.

Why would carriers *not* want to have a full-featured IM client installed out of the box? Most of them already have that, as evidenced by OZ's currently partnerships. If nothing else, this will benefit consumers and carriers, because consumers with unbranded devices will now have an easily-justified reason to spring for that higher data package - out of the box.

Good to know that the N95 version works fine on the N82, I was disappointed a few weeks ago when I decided to use my N82 for a while, and didn't think to try the N95 version.

I'm also fascinated at the mention of a new release - wish Davis would come back with an estimated timetable. I'd also like to see the inclusion of Sync on Ovi support built-in. THAT would be killer.

I have to say I completely disagree, on several points:

1. If it runs S60, it's a smartphone, regardless of the featureset. To argue otherwise is to say that any other phone running S60 is not a smartphone, which is completely silly. It would be accurate to say it's not a flagship smartphone, sure.

2. According to the rumored spec sheet, it has roughly the same features as the Nokia N78. Would you also argue, then, that the N78 is not a smartphone?

3. While I think we can all agree that Nokia's first foray into a touchscreen smartphone since the 7710 is likely to be a disaster in terms of user experience, I think it's rather irresponsible to completely disregard it before it's even been made official.

Is this one able to charge the phone while the phone is in use? One thing I love about the Proporta (aside from having 3x the capacity) is that I can keep using my phone (email, Jaiku, camera, etc) while it's charging, and it will still take on more charge than it's sucking down.

Or do you need to leave the phone alone while it's charging off this one?

(I hope that question makes sense)

Dude, the quikpod is TOTALLY designed for a video blogger like you - DEFINITELY want to pick one up.

The best overall solution, imo, is a combination of 2 Google setups - the downloadable java app and your E90 (or whatever other device's) built-in email client. I use Gmail IMAP and on all of my S60 phones, I get near-push (within seconds) email with minimal fuss, and it doesn't kill the battery on either my N95-3 or the N82 (the latter on EDGE, of course).

You would still want the downloadable client to be able to easily a quickly search through your entire Gmail archives pretty-instantly, but for just typical sending/receiving, the regular IMAP works best.

What is it about IMAP that you don't like? It's instant, and it keeps things in sync, so if you read it on your phone, it's marked read when you get to your desk. Brilliant.

Too late to enter to win the Cellranger? Hopefully not, my 3G is dismal in the new apartment!

If you're going with glass, I'd say trying to get a cell phone design, albeit simplistic, would be key.