The Nokia (NYSE: NOK) 3GSM site has updated. Check it out!

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I love meat!

Source: I just stumbled upon this image; it was tagged "3GSM" on Flickr

Higher resolution version: Flickr

Source: Biskero (am I the only one laughing at how grumpy that old man in the lower left looks)

Looks like Alessandro was standing in the middle of the hall and did a quick 360:

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The Nokia (NYSE: NOK) E90 is going to be the most popular device at the Nokia booth. Engadget was nice enough to get the first pictures sent to them by a secret source. The "press shot" that came a few hours later was nothing but a photoshop job by a member on the Mobile Review forum.

Michael Jerz, the owner and operator of My-Symbian has officially stated that he has signed an NDA, reviewed the E90, and that he will publish his findings the second Nokia unveils it. Keep an eye out on his site.

Steve Litchfield has been a sly fox as well. In his latest post over at All About Symbian he states:

So many things we’ve not been allowed to talk about but which will be announced at 10am GMT on Monday… Watch this space for analysis, photos from the launch events and more… Rafe’s in the thick of things in Barcelona – wish him good health and plenty of bandwidth!

Definitely keep an eye out on his site too.

The guy he mentions, Rafe, is going to be uploading everything he possibly can on his Flickr page. I suggest you add this RSS feed in to your reader. He is an awesome guy and will do his best to answer any questions you have about the new devices. While I’m talking about Rafe I should mention that you should watch his Nokia N95 review on youtube.

Series 60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 is going to be demoed at 3GSM. I sincerely hope Nokia lends the guys over at All About Symbian a prototype device with the new OS so we can get a thorough review. Time will tell on that one. We have conformation that it will be demoed on a Nokia 6290.

More information, including screenshots of S60v3FP2 are at this blog post by Jouni Juntunen, an official Nokia employee handling marketing. Another Nokia employee, Phil Schwarzmann, has interviewed Mikko Röntynen, Head of S60 Platform Marketing at Nokia about the new OS. It is a quick 14 minute (audio) interview, but something I definitely recommend you check out.

The Nokia E61i is going to be released. All we know so far is that it is essentially an E61 but with a 2 MP camera and some slight cosmetic changes. I found some pictures of the dummy phone, posted them here.

The E65 is going to be the first E series slider. We have pictures of the red version, as well as the black/brown version. I prefer the brown/black version myself. That cluster of keys at the bottom of the screen however looks painful.

Not to be out done by the E series alone, Reuters of all people tells us that there will be a Nokia N77 at the show. It is supposed to be a cheap DVB-H device. By cheap I mean coming in at under 300 euros. No pictures of this device have surfaced.

That’s Nokia’s press conference in a nutshell folks. At least this is all the information we have thus far.

The link to the webcast isn’t up yet, but I have information on the right hand side with more information as to when this will be taking place. I’ve added a few extra time zones to help you guys out.

Hopefully in a week or two I should be getting a package in the mail
from Nokia. They want me to check out a (as in single) device they
released at CES. I’ll let you guys wait and guess what that device is.
Little recap: At CES Nokia launched the N76, N93i and N800.

As always I will do my best to cover this event, expect a lot of blog posts over the coming week. If you feel that there is something I should cover feel free to drop me a line!

(image above was found on Flickr)

It is 22:18 and I am up and atom. I shouldn’t even be glancing at my RSS reader (I should have my head in my genetics textbook) but this is too cool not to mention:

Wisair, one of the chipset makers trying to get its Ultra Wideband
(UWB) and Wireless USB solutions into every consumer product ever, is
demonstrating the use of Wireless USB in camera phones at 3GSM.

Using a Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N series handset embedded with the Wisair 542 chip, the
company will show visitors to the WiMedia Alliance area (the rest of us
will just have to take their word for it) just how great it will be
when you can use Wireless USB to transfer pictures and video off your
mobile phone and onto your computer—wirelessly. Assuming the carriers
don’t lock down those features to keep you from using it.

Source: Crunch Gear

Holy WOW batman! Nokia is still transitioning away from the POP port to USB but this just made life a whole lot more interesting. We’re probably going to see phones with WUSB within a year, 2 years maximum.

Don’t know anything about WUSB? Wikipedia is useful as always:

Wireless USB is a short-range, high-bandwidth wireless extension to USB that combines the speed and ease-of-use of USB 2.0 with the convenience of wireless technology. Wireless USB is sometimes abbreviated as "WUSB", although the USB Implementers Forum discourages this practice and instead prefers to call the technology "Certified Wireless USB" to differentiate it from competitors (see below, "Competitors"). Wireless USB is based on the WiMedia Alliance’s Ultra-WideBand (UWB) common radio platform, which is capable of sending 480 Mbit/s at distances up to 3 meters and 110 Mbit/s at up to 10 meters. It operates in the 3.1 to 10.6 GHz frequency range and spreads communication over an ultra-wideband of frequencies.

Now do you understand why I’m going gaga?

I’m still crossing my fingers however for the next version of Bluetooth based on Ultra Wideband to be shown off at 3GSM.

The reminder with all the relevant information is in the side bar.

Find your time zone and set yourself an alarm!

Judging by my web traffic analysis today, the hottest thing is the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) E90. People want it now. Right now.

Let us review what we know so far:

• S60 v3 FP2 will be demoed
• Nokia E61i launch
• Nokia E65 launch
• Nokie E90 launch
• Nokia N77 launch

This is going to be one crazy show! I really wish that Nokia could’ve set up some sort of blog to cover it instead of this flash nonsense they pulled once before at CES.

Am I asking for too much? I mean I understand that this event will be covered by a lot of people. Information will be overflowing. However there are just some things I’d like to see covered from a Nokia employee’s perspective. There really should be a year round, 24/7 official Nokia blog. wink wink, hint hint.

This is a message directly for Rafe at All About Symbian: I know you have a high resolution camera, a Sony Cybershot DSC-W12 to be exact. I know Nokia will probably let you take a few of these devices to your hotel room for a day. I also know you have a pro Flickr account so I just have one request: upload the pictures you take in their full 5 megapixel, 2592×1944 glory.

Please? Thanks.

Thanks to Biskero for posting the URL!

Link to Nokia’s 3GSM 2007 site

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) employees speaking at the event:

• Dr. Tero Ojanperä: Technology Symposium Session: Defining the Next Technological Evolution
• Harri Männistö: Mobile TV Panel
• Mary McDowell: Name of session to come
• Simon Beresford-Wylie: Name of session to come

The live webcast will be February 12th between 11:00 and 12:00 CET (+1) time. 5 AM in NYC, 2 AM in California, 4 AM for me in Texas.

My predictions: The Nokia E61i, E65, E90 unleashed. Something in my gut makes me want to believe there is a forth phone that will be unveiled. We will find out soon enough!

Notes for Nokia:

• Easy on the flash there killer! I had to type out all the information, no copy and pasting.
• Please start a blog in a similar fashion that the Nokia World 2006 blog was run.