Eseries

S60.com has finally discovered California, not a day too soon, and announced An Evening with S60 in San Francisco October 23rd.

If you are interested in S60, networking with people with a passion for mobile technology, hands on demos, presentations and of course drinks n' food - sign up.

S60 has also announced a California chapter of their S60 Ambassadors program. If you are an avid user of S60 devices, which of course Nokia Eseries is part of, you can sign up to receive more information about the platform, applications, new devices etc.

A number of photos of the recently announced Nokia E51 has surfaced. I received a few photos, below, and Mobile Burn has posted even more photos.

Phone Scoop scored big with a hands on demo of the Nokia E51. 

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The Nokia E51 supports EDGE (EGPRS), 3G, HSDPA, and WLAN. Mail for Exchange, Visto Mobile, and Seven Always-on are some of the corporate email solutions available.

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I personally think that Nokia Beta Labs is one of the more exciting initiatives Nokia launched in the first half of 2007. It is a powerful tool to foster new applications while soliciting honest and straightforward feedback from the core user base.

Tommi Vilkamo of S60 Blogs has scored what must be the most exciting and stimulating job at Nokia, as the General Manager of Nokia Beta Labs.
Congratulations Tommi, you have already improved a great concept. I expect many, many more exciting new applications, services and ideas to come out of Nokia Beta Labs.

The latest addition to Nokia Beta Labs is a threaded SMS application called - Conversations. The lack of a built in threaded SMS application in Series 60, especially the Nokia Eseries devices, has been my pet peeve.

Nokia creating a threaded SMS application is a great step forward. The application is integrated with the address book, it creates an additional tab where all your conversations are stored. The application is easy to use and if the text is too long to be displayed on the screen the message text will automatically scroll so that you can easily read the message.

 
However, I have to say that I am rather disappointed with this first version of Conversation.

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One of my favourite theme designers, Roman Keller, is back from a brief hiatus. We have covered Roman's excellent themes many times before so I am happy to see that he is back designing great themes for Nokia Eseries devices again.

Colorful By Roman Keller 

Good to have you back Roman!

Update:

Roman has just published a new great theme for Nokia E51 and N95.

Blue Sphere by Roman Keller 

Last year I featured several posts of Nokia E61 which had been transformed by the talented hands of Gmask employees. Gmask is the Asian company specializing in pimping just about any electronic gadget by wrapping a thin layer of decorative plastic around your favorite device.

Ericko was kind enough to share some photos of some very unique Nokia E61i.

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Earlier this week Nokia launched a new brand, Ovi, marking the company's entrance in to the endless area of Internet Services.

Ovi, meaning "door" in Finnish, will be the umbrella brand and destination to get access to Nokia's Internet Services. Two new services were introduced, Music and Games, in addition to the existing Nokia Map offering - Smart2Go.

The services will be available directly from Nokia devices and/or via a PC. There is a great presentation and more information about these services from Nokia: Go Play press site.

I think the new brand and focus on services makes perfect sense. Nokia can leverage the enormous distributing power they have by being the number one handset manufacturer in the world churning out tens of millions of devices.

The new services will be rolled out over the next 6-9 months, I can't wait. 

The Nokia: Go Play launch party was amazing! great music, abundance of food, drinks and many, many interesting people. More photos from the party on my Flickr.