According to a new eMarketer report, the U.S. spending on mobile content and services like video, text messaging, and music is set for a significant growth in the coming years, and is estimated to hit $37.5 billion in 2010, up from $5.4 billion in 2006.

eMarketer’s report also shows:

• Mobile messaging spending will account for $15 billion in 2010 (this year – $3.3 billion)
• Mobile entertainment spending will reach $15 billion by 2010 (this year – $1.1 billion)
• Spending on information services will total $7.5 billion in 2010 (this year – $1 billion)

To put these number into play, several companies have announced their mobile initiatives, including The New York Times and Clear Channel.

Symbian Watch already announced that three N-Gage games at Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Software Market were discounted. Well, now all available N-Gage games are priced at the same price of EUR 9.99.

Please note that (unfortunately) I’m not paid by Nokia.
Nevertheless, I still encourage all Nokia N-Gage owners to visit the Nokia Software Market and get some of these great games.

Nokia (NYSE: NOK)’s PR works round the clock, as today Nokia announced “Perspectives of London”. It is an unique exhibition that brings together the cutting-edge technology of the Nokia N93 advanced mobile video device with the creative talent of four artists to produce films that epitomise the capital city from their different perspectives.

The four artists to take up the challenge are Jefferson Hack, founder of Dazed & Confused, Another Magazine and Another Man; Naomi Cleaver, designer, writer and TV presenter; Tom Dixon, creative director of Habitat, design company Artek and his namesake design company – Tom Dixon; and Nigel Coates, head architectural professor at the Royal College of Art.

The inspiration that informs each of the artists and their work has resulted in four very different films – from Jefferson Hack’s study of free-runners in Dérive, to Naomi Cleaver’s London from Horseback. Each of the films shows the artists’ own powerful feelings of connection with London, as well as the relationship between the people captured in the film with the city and with each other. Read the full article »

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) wants to give you the chance to develop applications that could redefine the way we work, play and interact with the world around us. If you think you’re up for the challenge, keep reading.

Competition entries

To enter you must complete the entry form by 30th October 2006 and include the following:

• Application proposals in less than 1500 characters
• Your name, email and address
• An URL where judges can see a working prototype or finished application

An application must fit in one or more of three categories: Travel, Entertainment or Productivity. Judged criteria include quality of an application, benefits it produces and the creativity of the author(s).

Nokia N95 Developers Competition is open to all developers. More information here.

Introducing the worlds first free multi-channel mobile TV service – FreeBe TV. The service delivers video streams over 2.5G GPRS to WAP-enabled handsets. Yes, that include Symbian OS handsets.

By targeting primarily 18-36 year olds with smartphones, FreeBe TV have already seen 3,000 people sign-up to FreeBe TV in just the last 2 weeks from around the world.

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Malcolm Bryant of FreEPOC has recently released two very useful applications for UIQ 3 devices – jZip and jText.

jZip (current version is 2.01) is an easy to use zip and unzip utility for the users of Sony Ericsson (NYSE: SNE)’s latest smartphones (P990/M600/W950). jZip is also available for other platforms including EPOC (Psion), UIQ 2 and old Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Communicator 92xx platform.

jText (current version is 1.05) is a simple UIQ 3 text editor with Unicode support and an ability to password-protect files. UIQ 2 version is also available.

One of the Nokia (NYSE: NOK)’s ESeries range, the E60 brings Nokia’s S60 platform to the business community. Beside the E50, which is the smallest in the series, E60 is also one of the not-that-much-talked-about smartphones. The reason is obvious – it lacks camera and doesn’t sports a QWERTY keyboard. However, it is a solid business smartphone, powered by the Symbian OS v9.1, which gives a business user access to the growing number of available software. Beside that, E60 also sports a wide array of connectivity options including Infrared, USB, Bluetooth and WLAN. Conservative business users, who are looking for the simple phone, should consider E60, as it offers all the features one can image.

Here are the reviews: About Nokia, infoSync, Mobile Review, GSM Arena and CNet Australia.

Nokia today announced the latest addition to its family of “Active” phones with the introduction of the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) 5500 Sport Music Edition. Adding to the well-received concept of the Nokia 5500 Sport, the Music Edition is enhanced with a 512 MB microSD card for enjoying up to 375 songs, as well as a fitness carrying strap, bicycle holder and sports headset packed in a new energetic color.

The innovative carrying strap of the Nokia 5500 Sport Music Edition allows it to be worn around the waist or strapped around an arm to ensure that the handset stays in place, even during vigorous exercise. The sports headset also offers handsfree convenience for music and conversation with an anatomically engineered, over-the-ear design. For a complete music experience, the Nokia Music Manager application makes music transfer in multitude of different digital music formats from your PC easy and convenient. Read the full article »

During October, at all the events that UIQ Technology will be present at, they will offer free face-to-face on-the-spot support to developers. At these events, some of the software engineers who created UIQ 3 will be present to answer questions from developers and show them how to get started with UIQ 3 or even help them with their applications.

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A very special thanks to Tommi from Tommi’s S60 Applications Blog who unveiled us the new great-looking Turquoise theme that will be used in forthcoming Nokia (NYSE: NOK) devices based on S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 (i.e. Nokia N95). And yes, this theme works on your S60 3rd edition handset like Nokia E61, N80… you name it.

Unlike many other fancy themes which you love at first sight, but later on you just want to get it out of your phone ASAP, Turquoise theme looks great AND is very simple. This means that you’re getting a beautiful theme that is actually usable.

Finally, here’s the download link. And… Thanks again Tommi.