I’ll go easy on the themes this week since we’ve already have two theme related post. This week we have two themes for you and your Eseries device.
First up is ICEman’s Lounge Red, originally not for the screen dimensions of the Nokia E61(i) but works quite well.
Lounge Red by ICEMan
Nokia Evergreen by (Not sure who made this theme)
Tony, who attended the official VIP launch event of the Nokia E90 in Jakarta last week, sent me two photos of Nokia E90 number 212. Only a limited number of devices were available at the event and Tony bought device number 212.
Tony was offered one million rupiah, approximately US $110 just for his VIP invitation and the chance of being able to buy a Nokia E90. However, availability is ramping up.
Two interesting video clips of Nokia E61i in the air has appeared.
The first one shows someone using TomTom with a Nokia E61i inside a plane - the GPS mapping software shows a speed of 862 km/h! Quite impressive.
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The other video is by Adam Curry who used his Nokia E61i to capture a video clip while flying himself from the UK down to Cannes. It is part of Adam Curry Daily Source Code
Credits to Ewan over at SMS Text News and IntoMobile.
With the start of Summer (vacation) we kick off a new, re-occurring blog category called Eseries Around The World. This will combine three of my passions - gadgets, photography and travel / learning about the world.
Although I will not be traveling, you will. I invite you to share photos of your Eseries devices from where you live or where you travel.
It's simple. Just send us a photo of your Eseries device and include something in the photo to make give it a "local" look and feel.
This week we start in Helsinki, Finland, the homeland of Nokia - very appropriate 
Click on the photos for a brief description of where the photos are from.
A big thank you to MJBR for sharing his photos!
If you have already sent me some photos a BIG THANK you. The photos will posted in future blog posts.
Would you like to contribute to Eseries Around The World?
Please send me some photos to ed<you know what goes here>e-series.org and tell me a bit of the photos.
Good advice is worth repeating… or in this case a good "how to" guide.
Most Eseries users probably don't know that it is quite easy to set up printing from your Nokia Eseries device.
The devices come loaded with the necessary settings to print to a number of HP printers. But even if you don't have an HP printer it is possible to print to almost any printer.
Kenneth wrote a great guide regarding how to print from Nokia E61. (Don't forget to check out the comment section as well).
There is also another great guide written by Moobekk about how to print from your Eseries device to a printer connected to a Windows system.
OK. I don't plan to turn www.e-series.org into a strictly theme blog but it's not everyday one of my favourite application developer comes out with a great theme.
Psiloc has created a high quality theme called REFLECT. The theme, which is $4 and available from their website, sports some beautiful reflective details as well as Flash screen saver for devices supporting this - S60 3.1.
OK, ok, ok, it's not Friday yet but you can never have too many themes. Especially when they are created by Nokia. Here is a great little tip on how to download two beautiful themes for your Eseries device.
Go to http://ea.mobile.nokia.com/content/spin/ea/E50/en/theme from your device.
This will bring you to a page originally for the Nokia E50 with two great themes. These themes will work fine on the E61(i) (and other Eseries devices)
DataViz recently announced a free update to their Exchange ActiveSync Client - RoadSync. (We briefly covered RoadSync in this post)
The updated version contains a number of fixes, many of them for the Nseries devices:
Nokia Media Transfer now works with Nokia E70 without any hacks!
Nokia Media Transfer, which enables you to transfer pictures, videos, podcasts, music, and files between your Nokia mobile device and your Mac, was released two weeks ago but it only supported Nseries devices.
However, Nokia has quietly introduced support for Nokia E70. (Thank you Nokia!) The device is not yet listed as one of the supported devices but there is a profile available for the Nokia E70.
It’s finally Friday and time for some good theme for your Eseries device.
This week’s themes are a mixed bag. First up is a theme that is rather old but have been requested a few times. It is a simple white/black theme with no bells or whistles but should appeal to those of you who subscribe to the philosophy of less is more.
White Revisited by Daniel
The resolution of N76 Red is (240×320) but it still works pretty well on Nokia E61(i).
N76 Red by mobile-reviews.de
OK, I don't plan to milk the fact that the Nokia E90 now is starting to show up in the retail channel forever but still… Here are some snaps from a store in Indonesia selling the Nokia E90
The following photos are from the Ambassador Mall / ITC Kuningan in Jakarta. The price for the devices is a whopping 15 million to 18 (yes , eighteeen) million rupiah! (approximately US $1,650 - US $1,980)
Ericko had his Nokia E61 decorated by the talented guys at Gmask. They created a one of a kind Metal Stripe Nokia E61.
I was hoping that Gmask would have opened a store in China so that I could have had a few of my Eseries devices modded but sadly, they do not have any presence in China, nor USA for that matter. At least not yet.
Today is the first day when the Nokia E90 is available to the general public in Indonesia (the number one market for Nokia's communicators).
I received reports that people started queuing from 2 am (TWO O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING!) for a sale start at 10.00 am. Since supply is so limited some people are turning around selling the device for a profit. It is reported that the retail price is about US $1,200 and the price from the hawkers can be as high as US $1,550
Thanks Iwan.
Update: Alex has more coverage from the first day over at Nokia E90 Blogspot. Great coverage Alex!
There was an official launch event for Nokia E90 earlier today in Indonesia, kicking off availability of the device. At the VIP event 1000 units were sold to Nokia Communicator Community members and other VIPs. Tomorrow the device should be available to the public in Indonesia.
I have also received reports that the Nokia E90 now is available in Finland.
Kaizen* is the Japanese management concept of incremental and continuous improvement - something the two main gentlemen behind Nokia Sports Tracker seem to have adopted.
They are continuously updating and improving the application at an impressive pace. These updates are often the direct result from end user feedback via the web. Very impressive!
The new version - v1.49 contains the following enhancements/changes:
Tommi writes that Nokia has started to love Mac. Sure, with release of the Nokia Media Transfer application which enables you to transfer pictures, videos, podcasts, music, and files between your Nokia mobile device and your Mac, you would think so but…
Sadly though, this is currently only for the Nseries devices….
Nokia Media Transfer supports file transfer of photos and video from iPhoto to the device and music, podcasts and videos in iTunes to your Nseries device - exactly what I would want for my Nokia E61i and for my future Nokia E90…
Back from vacation with so much to catch up on…
For an example, the Support Page for Nokia E90 is now live.
The page contains interactive demos, user manuals/set-up guides, great tips and tricks for Nokia E90, technical specifications and more.
Speaking of Nokia E90, My-Symbian.com has gotten their hands on a production unit of Nokia E90 and updated their in-depth review of the device. Equally interesting is AllAboutSymbian.com's a day with the Nokia E90 article.
No words yet regarding official availability of the device but I hope soon~!
As my vacation in China is coming to its end, things will be back to normal on this blog by next week.
A big thank you to everyone who wrote to me while on vacation with suggestions of places to go and offering me help and advice. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
I took your advice and of course visited, among other places, The Great Wall of China, The Summer Palace, The Temple of Heaven but also the trendy art district 798 (Thanks for the recommendation Sonnny).
I really enjoyed the time here. China is an *amazing* country so filled with contradictions and opposites; modern - old, East - West, high tech - low tech, etc.
I highly recommend anyone to visit this remarkable place.
Thanks to Risotto for pointing out that BlackBerry Connect 4.0 also is available for Nokia E61i. Since I am not a BlackBerry Connect user I tend to focus on Mail For Exchange.
However, I know that there are a number of Eseries users who are also loyal BlackBerry Connect users. Rejoice - BBC 4.0 has arrived.
Among the new features of BBC 4.0 for Nokia Eseries are:
More information about BlackBerry Connect for Nokia Eseries here.
There is a new version of Mail For Exchange available.
The new version, Mail For Exchange 1.6 includes support for Nokia E90, adds a few new features and fixes a number of bugs.
M4E 1.6 supports Eseries devices with firmware 1.610.04.02 or later.
From the release notes:
NEW FEATURES IN THIS RELEASE
• Support for synchronizing Japanese Yomi and VoIP contact fields.
• OMA DM can set “Always-On” even when password is missing from DM settings. User can add password manually, or at first manual sync attempt user will be prompted for password. Password will be saved.
• PointSec interoperability 4.
