Nokia (NYSE: NOK) today announced Nokia Service Suite, a solution that enables a rapid shift to automated high capacity data and rich media transfer over WLAN, mobile VoIP and all new potential high value services.

The idea is to simplify and economize any communication application by automating connectivity and achieving the most convenient combination of cellular and WLAN access.

Telio, a leading European broadband telephony provider and technology innovator, is the first to adopt and deploy the technology for consumers.

Nokia Service Suite makes its official debut and will be demonstrated at VON Europe Autumn 2006 Conference in Berlin, Germany on November 6 - 8.

In collaboration with UIQ Technology, Symbian Press made the new booklet - “Essential UIQ: Getting Started” - available for download. It targets individuals and companies who wish to start developing UIQ 3 applications for Symbian OS.

All the basics are covered, including the key concepts of UIQ 3 platform, application design introduction, building applications and adding views. Plus, the booklet also contains handy tips.

Some time ago, we had a duel of high-end camera mobile phones - namely Nokia N90 vs N93, and guess who won? This time, I’m presenting you a QWERTY smartphones duel - Nokia (NYSE: NOK) E62 vs T-Mobile (NYSE: DT) Dash. To make things even saucier, one of the phones runs Symbian OS and the other Windows Mobile. So, it’s kind a mobile OS duel.

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Some time ago, we had a duel of high-end camera mobile phones - namely Nokia N90 vs N93, and guess who won? This time, I’m presenting you a QWERTY smartphones duel - Nokia (NYSE: NOK) E62 vs T-Mobile (NYSE: DT) Dash. To make things even saucier, one of the phones runs Symbian OS and the other Windows Mobile. So, it’s kind a mobile OS duel.

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Looking for a way to chat with your MSN buddies and you have no money for IM+. Then you’ll like HIER, the free mobile and powerful instant message tool, which incorporates MSN messenger and other most popular instant messengers (it’s not specified which are the “other”).

Highlights:

• Multiple channels with support to switch between them (separate tabs for each conversation)
• Attachment support
• Conversation history
• New message alerts
• Automatic download and updating of the contact list
• Contact and presence management, status information
• Photo messaging support
• Hot keys

More information and download instructions available from here.

Last month Kaspersky Lab published the first part of its latest analytical report, “Evolution of Mobile Malware: An Overview” by Alexander Gostev, a senior virus analyst. It should be a must-read, as mobile malware can harm you in many ways. Today’s malicious applications have a range of functions, including spreading via Bluetooth or MMS, sending SMS messages, infecting files, providing remote access to smartphones, blocking memory cards, stealing data, and installing other malicious programs.

Luckily, with the version 9, Symbian introduced enhanced platform security. However, the threat isn’t 100% eliminated as users are still not aware enough of the potential threats to their smartphones. Therefore, I urge you to read this report and gain a bit of understanding of how mobile malware applications work and how to protect from them.

These days, rumors are spreading around future Nokia (NYSE: NOK) devices. Last week, we found leaked photo of something that could be their next Internet tablet device.

This time, people are talking about further expansion of the Eseries family. Namely, three devices are mentioned - Nokia E61i (potentially slimmer version of E61, with a camera), E65 (business-oriented clone of N80, with a single camera) and a feature-rich E90 which should be the next Communicator. Potential sketches of the last mentioned were found from one of the Nokia’s presentations and are circulating around the blogs.
UPDATE: More info/speculation about the upcoming E90 device - here.

It’s too early to say. The fact is that many people would like a single device with both QWERTY keyboard and a solid camera, and I’m certain that we will see such device somewhere in the future. Also, it seems that the time has come for the next Communicator. This time with a more powerful processor and a S60 3rd edition UI.

In the meantime, all we can do is hope that Nokia is listening.

The Swedish magazine Mobil celebrated the 50-year anniversary of the mobile phone in Kista Science Tower, Stockholm on October 26. At the same time they held the annual mobile award show Mobilgalan.

The prestigious award Guldmobilen (eng: Gold mobile) was given in 18 different categories and the winners were selected by the readers of Mobil. The award for the Smartphone of the year went to Sony Ericsson (NYSE: SNE) for its UIQ 3-based P990!

It’s official - Nokia (NYSE: NOK) 330 Auto Navigation, the company’s first dedicated personal navigation device, has just been announced. It includes Europe-wide maps, with clear spoken and 2D/3D visual directions on the large 3.5″ color touchscreen.

The Nokia 330 Auto Navigation comes with an integrated GPS receiver and a 2GB memory card with the preinstalled ROUTE 66 Navigate 7 application and NAVTEQ map data. As I’ve already posted, the Nokia 330 can also play music, video and view photos.

At the moment, we don’t know which OS Nokia uses for this device. Is it Symbian, Linux? I guess we’ll know in the upcoming days. In the meantime, you should know that the Nokia 330 Auto Navigation will soon be available (Q4 2006) in select channels in Europe, at an estimated retail price of EUR 360 without taxes.

So far, we’ve all learned that Nokia N95 is the best announced smartphone (”multimedia computer”). And we had a bunch of video previews to virtually experience the joy of using this magnificent device.

This time, thanks to the Nseries WOM World, we’ve found a Russian site Sotovik, which made series of photos comparing N95 with some other devices including Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N73, 9300i and E70.

Plus, GSM arena’s forum has an interesting discussion with a useful table comparing high-end smartphones. Guess who tops?