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Moconews and Reuters report that that UK's smallest network has signed a deal with and will offer ambitious Nokia's Comes With Music service with a monthly contract starting next month, in the package with the Nokia N95 8GB Smartphone!

Nokia has struggled to get the country's big four operators, Vodafone, O2, T-Mobile and Orange to offer its Comes With Music handsets and Nokia just takes the next logical step by inviting the 3.

Although it is country's smallest mobile operator, UK regulator Ofcom estimates that 'Three' has four million subscribers and therefore it is not surprise that Nokia is trying to involve 3 into the CWM network! The service would obviously get more traction if it got the distribution through the carriers, especially if it wi... .. .

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3 UK To Offer Nokia's CWM Handset On Contract - full story

I bet most of you already know that Nokia has rolled out another firmware update for the E90 but most of you don't know what is exactly changed with this firmware and is it worth update to version 300.34.84! After a bit of nervous searching and waiting in the dark, I finally managed to get the full official change log which will clear all your doubts to update it or not, at least I hope.

Beside this log I also got a few more documents, including the logs for the latest firmware of the Nokia N96 as well as the detailed logs for few Eseries phones but these updates are not yet announced so I am not sure to publish it or not!

So here it is, the full change log of the latest firmware update for the Nokia E90. Firmware is announced as major update but unfortunately change log isn't as impressive as the last one which brought numerous new and useful features like WRT (Web Ru... .. .

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Nokia E90 v3 change log is in da house - full story

There is quite an interesting interview over at SymbianOne with Antony Edwards, Vice President, Developer Product Marketing at Symbian.

One of Nokia's reasons for creating Symbian Foundation and making Symbian open source was to drive innovation by attracting developers and this interview is mostly focused on how developers will be able to contribute to the Symbian Foundation, the challenge of software distribution and how the Symbian Foundation's developer program is shaping up.

In my personal opinion, Symbian Foundation and open source is a definitely good idea with a huge potential but I don't think that open source itself is enough to attract independent developers and they'll have to do a lot more to involve the hobby cod... .. .

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Is Open Source Enough To Attract Freeware Developers - full story

According to documents that just appeared on the US Federal Communications Commission's Web site, Nokia has received regulatory approval to start selling its first SF60 touchscreen phone in the states!

As you may already know, such approval is required before a wireless device can be sold to consumers in the United States and if nothing else FCC approval is always a good sign that phone is on the way and indicates that it will be released for US markets soon, maybe sooner than expected!??

FCC pages reveals nothing new about Nokia Tube beside the semi attractive internal and external photos, as well as the the draft version of the user manual in pdf format. However the most interesting is fact this is not the typical NAM version of the p... .. .

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Nokia 5800 Gets The FCCApproval - full story

Free yourself from the wired and often clunky bondage of computers and Go Live on Stickam from your own mobile phone anywhere!

Stickam.com, the first and largest Web site dedicated to live interactive video streaming, today launched Stickam Mobile, enabling members to stream live video to their Stickam players via cell phones.

Stickam Mobile is currently available as the beta for all Nokia S60 3rd Edition platform phones. Application has been tested on the Nokia N95 and Nokia N80 phones but it should work on any S60 phone and it attempts to compete with the recently announced Qik client and the Kyte applications for the 3rd Edition S60 devi... .. .

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Stickam.com Launches Stickam Mobile - full story

Gigantic Eldar's review of the S60 5th Edition platform with a huge collection of attractive screenshots is completely translated to English and waiting for you to read at your leisure on the English part of the Mobile Review and to discuss it here on Symbian Freak :]

Eldar did a great review of the latest version of the S60 platform and the touch UI and it definitely worth checking out, especially if you’re interested in Nokia 5800 or upcoming flagship touch device that will be probably released under the Nseries brand.

Although it may looks pretty much the same at first sight, the 5th Edition of the S60 platform brings numerous improvements and set of advanced features that enable new innovations and new experiences for consumers that want to fully embra... .. .

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S60 Touch UI Review Available In English Now - full story

Sybase iAnywhere today launched its new Nokia Intellisync Migration Program.

The program is aimed at supporting Nokia Intellisync partners and customers affected by Nokia's decision to stop the development and marketing of its behind-the-firewall business mobility solutions.

Sybase iAnywhere is offering Nokia Intellisync customers abandoned in a difficult position free copies of selected Information Anywhere Suite components, including mobile email, device management, device security and application enablement cap... .. .

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Sybase iAnywhere offers lifeline to Nokia intellisync partners - full story

For the benefit of those who haven't caught this over at our forum section permit me to briefly inform you that there is a new touchless game on the way that is supposed to bring natural feel of gaming and virtual reality (literally) to your hands! Augmented reality game uses the main camera to capture the real world and to put user in the middle of the action with an unlimited and intuitive freedom of movement!

The core technology is based on the image processing and algorithms that utilize the phone camera together with user movements and translate them to commands that control the UI. Game is based on the camera motion flow tracking techniques and in combination with advanced image processing algorithms transforms the phone camera into a movement sensitive game controller enab... .. .

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Augmented reality game - Video demo Nokia N95 - full story

I love that first S60 touchscreen phone is hot enough to force developers to make a touchscreen optimized version of their application! Sure, S60 5th edition is backward compatible and most of the 3rd applications will works just fine on Nokia 5800 but it is nice to see that developers want to improve their applications and optimize UI to get the most from the touchscreen phones!

Same as the Qik dev team, the folks over at officially Telewaving blog are excited about the launch of the 5th edition of the S60 platform that brings support for touch-screen equipped mobile phones and they really like the very first Nokia touchscreen phone powered with the latest OS and platform version!

But that's not all of course, they are apparently started to work on the porting its mobile blogging client Wavelog to the lat... .. .

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Touch optimized Wavelog application on the way - full story

This is definitely not shocking news for freaks like us, but it seemed that Nokia managed to surprise a few bloggers with official confirmation that they are working on a touchscreen Nseries phone.

As a matter of fact, about a half year ago I told you that Nokia 5800 is typical mid range phone and that flag ship touch model is supposed to hit markets shortly after.

Yesterday, at the recent Nokia event held in New Delhi, it is officially confirmed and the only surprising part is that it maybe coming a little bit sooner than expected! Way back in July, Nokia confirmed my predications that its first touch-screen phone will be typical mid-range model device and additionally, they are expec... .. .

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Flagship touch device in the works- full story