Disney Mobile subscribers should expect to see more services hitting their carrier of choice this summer. Among the announced improvements are the addition of the location based service Scout and a photo upload service. The first mentioned will display points of interests near the user’s location. On the other hand, introduction of the photo upload service will give subscribers ability to instantly upload and send photos from their camera phones.

Disney will of course go further — the MVNO carrier will also launch a unique online calendaring service later this year that will allow parents to manage the family calendar from a website with updates being pushed as alerts to family phones. (via: PhoneScoop)

Rich people around the world just got the additional way to express their richness with one of the recently released Bulgari mobile phone wrist-straps. The new luxury straps are constructed out of the combination of soft calf leather and palladium — just the right materials to help you more easily get the phone out of the depths of your pooch-carrying Louis Vuitton bag… (via: BoyGeniusReport)

Sprint and mFoundry teamed-up to deliver mobile banking and mobile financial services to the operator’s Vision and Power Vision subscribers. Carrier’s Spotlight mobile banking solution will enable consumers to check bank balances, transfer funds and make bill payments with a number of financial institutions, including Citibank.

mFoundry is promising high level of security, like multi-factor authentication, encryption and remote deactivation. Read the full article »

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) recently announced the availability of new developer productivity and cost-savings enhancements to its Carbide.c++ development tools for Symbian OS.

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There isn’t any new information in this interview, but it sums up the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) USA situation very well.

It is also nice to see Bill hinting at more Nokia devices with USA 3G.

Ricky isn’t going to name his source, but this would be some mind boggling news if it were true.

… Nokia (NYSE: NOK) will begin offering unbranded, unlocked handsets, tablets, and accessories through Dell’s distribution channels! The official announcement won’t be for a few weeks, but it’s been signed …

I’m speechless and frankly a bit skeptical. Who will educate the consumers about unlocked devices? Will consumers want to give up subsidized phone pricing?

Why Dell of all companies?!

This was the day before the actual summit; Nokia (NYSE: NOK) treated us to a party in the Spanish country side that was most enjoyable.

Check out Phil’s post over at See into S60, lots of pictures included.

Thanks for being my wingman Phil

It has been less than 6 months since starting Ring Nokia (NYSE: NOK). I must have done something magical because I ended up being interviewed by Phil for episode 22 of the Voice of S60 podcast!

Let me know if you enjoyed our conversation.

Thanks Darla!

19 hours of sleep … wow

The S60 parties were better than the ones at CES 2007 and that is definitely saying a lot.

Time to get my laptop back into blogging shape and post some thoughts, thanks and coverage!