A Basque businessman was shot and killed Wednesday in northern Spain, CNN+ reported, the first attack since last month's arrest of the leader of the Basque separatist group ETA.

The Nokia Messaging Service, announced this morning at Nokia World in Barcelona, will open up popular email and instant messaging services and make them easily accessible both on your handset and via the Ovi web site. The on-device version of the Mail on Ovi service is due to go into beta before the end of 2008, with the web based version to follow in early 2009. Update; now with added YouTube demo video.
Consumers using Yahoo! Mail, Windows Live Hotmail, Gmail and AOL accounts will have support for push updates from those services to their handset, with their mailboxes integrated into the regular messaging application on your smartphone. We'll have a closer look at the capabilities of the client and the integration in the near future here on All About Symbian.
Access to your IM accounts will also be available, likely using technology from Oz Communications, who Nokia recently acquired.
One thing to note is that Nokia are talking about a commercial launch in 8 territories (Australia, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Singapore, Spain and the UK, with selected other countries to follow) so there are likely to be some elements of Nokia Messaging that will be 'premium' services. Files on Ovi is also a chargeable service, so there is some precedent for this.
Mail for Ovi will provide a web-based environment to manage all your mail accounts alongside your handset. There will be 1GB of storage for all users, and you will be able to access your paired accounts (eg GMail) from the Ovi web site.
Corporate Messaging is also taken care, of with updated clients for Exchange and Lotus Notes. Integrating into the S60 mail client as additional mailboxes, Mail for Exchange will be available for all N series and E series devices, while Lotus will include their client with new Domino servers.
Alongside the other announcements today, including the Nokia N97, the vision of Ovi is now starting to be backed up in a practical sense, with the traditional PIM data being synced over the air, music and gaming available via on-device clients, and now your connection to others, via mail and IM, can also be included in the cloud that is Ovi.
Nokia have taken time to present this vision, it's now time to see if users are going to pick it up and run with it.
Update: Nokia Beta Labs have posted a YouTube video of Mail for Ovi in action, here it is....

-- Ewan Spence, Dec 2008


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Hi everyone,

Im new to this forum. I got a problem with my iphone 2nd generation. I have upgraded my iphone from 1.2 to 2.1 and now i have a big problem. everytime i use an application, be it which application it may be it activates the GPRS of the phone. Im located in Spain and i have requested my provider to desactivate the gprs on my "contract" but it seems its not possible. If i open an application - games, such as Black Jack, iPint, etc.. application which in theory dont require internet connection, the GPRS activactes and i get charged for it. I dont know it is a bug in the unlocking software or if there is an application that is giving me problems. I cant pin point the error. Can anyone help? or suggest what i can do, as so far, my phone bill for GPRS is nearly 100 Euros a month just on "internet GPRS" connections. I have Wi-fi at home so now im scared to connect to internet using my iphone just in case its connecting both ways, WI-FI "and" GPRS!!!

please advice.

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Twenty-four hours after teasing us with news of a major product announcement, Nokia officially took the wraps off its mystery smartphone on Tuesday at the Nokia World 2008 conference in Barcelona, Spain. Part of the company’s high-end N series of multimedia computers, the Nokia N97 trumps all previous models with a slide-out full QWERTY keyboard and a tilting 3.5-inch touch screen. For example, the smartphone provides easy access to a number of social-networking sites, and the Web browser supports streaming Flash videos. The N97 also introduces something Nokia calls “social location,” which uses the capabilities of the integrated A-GPS sensors and electronic compass to automatically update users’ social networks, or let them share their location via photos or videos with friends.

The Home screen can be personalized with widgets of favorite Web and social-networking sites. Finally, the N97 is fully compatible with Nokia’s Ovi Internet services, which include the Nokia Music Store, Nokia Maps, and the N-Gage gaming platform–though these services have yet to fully launch in the United States. The Symbian-based smartphone also features a music and video player, a 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, and a whopping 32GB of onboard memory that can be expanded with a 16GB microSD card. The quad-band (GSM 850/900/1800/1900) world phone is HSDPA-capable handset, but it currently supports only the 900/1900/2100MHz bands (AT&T’s 3G network runs on 850/1900MHz, while T-Mobile runs on 1700/2100MHz). There is integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, however. The Nokia N97 is expected to ship in Europe during the first half of 2009, with an estimated price of 550 euros ($695).

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Nokia unveiled its latest smartphone in Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday at the Nokia World 2008 conference. The N97, set for release in the first half of 2009, could challenge high-profile mobile devices such as Apple's iPhone, Research In Motion's Storm and T-Mobile's G1 for a share of the smartphone market. The N97 features a 3.5-inch touch display, personalized homescreen with widgets, and a full Qwerty keyboard. For socially minded users, the handset also sports several social networking features utilizing real-time data.

Usually when we recap events we start them off with, “as expected” but no such comment will be made this time as Nokia announced the N97 at their Nokia World event in Barcelona, Spain today. The phone will be $550 Euros before carrier subsidization and its being described as the Noka 5800 on Steroids.

But what we’re most interested in here are some jabs that Anssi Vanjaki, Executive Vice President (Markets) for Nokia, took directly at Google. Three quarters of the way into his monologue which he delivered in dramatic fashion, he made some direct barbs at Google which I have tried to republish word for word but for which I can only be credited as paraphrasing:“There is a company that wants to index the world. We are going to go deeper and coordinate the world. Not just standard like a standard GOOOOGLE Map. A map that is dynamic with vector graphics…. etc…”
Notice all the O’s in Google? Yeah… he said it like that and with a spooky, ominous tone that came off as a “yucky” kind of “nanny-nanny-boo-boo”. First of all perhaps Mr. Vanjaki should be a bit more familiar with Google’s goals. Here is Google’s actual mission statement:Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.
I think “indexing the world” and “organizing the world’s information to make it universaly accessible and useful” are quite different. I think Nokia is perhaps just a little ticked off that a little website that just conducted internet searches at a weird sounding URL is now threatening their market share.
Taking Google head-on by name was an interesting approach but not one that I think serves Nokia best. When you go out of your way to insult another company at your own companies self-proclaimed revolutionary announcement, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out why. Nokia is obviously nervous that Google’s Android seems poised to take off while the Symbian Foundation still has a lot of groundwork to lay. Those words made Nokia seem vulnerable and threatened.
I don’t want to take TOO much away from Nokia. To their credit the device looks pretty darn sweet, its packed with multimedia capabilities and seems quite functiona although you need to really play with one for awhile to determine that. But I felt that this whole Nokia-Google comment needed to be addressed because it stuck out like a sore thumb in the presentation… or am I the only one who was slightly shocked by the comparison?


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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/n97_shot_1_800.jpg" width="800" height="532" style="display:block;float:none;" /It's been a long time coming, but after dabbling with touch on the midrange a href="http://gizmodo.com/5058030/nokia-5800-xpressmusic-hands+on-with-nokias-first-s60-touch-phone"5800/a, Nokia has finally brought a touchscreen to its brand new flagship S60 smartphone, the N97.script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" galleryPost('nokian97', 6, ''); /script/p pBut it's not quite a full dive into touch—there's still a horizontal QWERTY keyboard hidden below the 3.5" 640x360 resistive touchscreen and accesable via a smooth 30deg; flip mechanism. The N97 will run an even further touch-enhanced Symbian OS, S60 v5, which features the 5800's quick contacts bar and adds an assortment of customizable desktop widgets that can pipe in your Facebook info, RSS feeds and the like, much like those found on Nokia's internet tablet OS. The widgets will be open to third party developers and available via the traditional "Downloads" Symbian app "for now" says Nokia—so not quite the App Store equivalent fans would hope for, but customization via software add-ons is definitely the route being pursued here./p pBut alas, the downsides. Characteristically for Nokia, the N97 is aimed at Europe and Asia first. So big ballers in Moscow and Macau can expect to be toting an N97 sometime in the "first half of 2009," with a U.S. release (with the appropriate 3G bands) to follow "soon after." In Europe it'll run a hefty euro;550 ($695) unsubsidized./p pThe model we briefly handled tonight in NYC was, of course, the Euro version, with no U.S. 3G (and, sadly, no Wi-Fi). Its handlers were keeping it close to the vest, and with no connectivity there wasn't much testing to be done, but we can say that the hardware is indeed pretty—befitting a $700 Nokia piece. The desktop Symbian widgets look nice, but the drawbacks of a resistive touchscreen (there, as always, to ensure character recognition via a stylus for Nokia's Asian market) were immediately noticeable when dragging widgets around the desktop./p pRounding out the gaudy specs are 32GB of on-board memory (with 16GB more available via microSD), A-GPS with Nokia's refreshed Maps 3.0 app, 5MP camera with Zeiss lens and LED flash and N-Gage support./p pFull press release follows:/p blockquote pDesktop. Laptop. Pocket: The era of the personal Internet dawns with the Nokia N97/p pTilting touch display, QWERTY keyboard and personalized home screen - a true mobile computer./p pBarcelona, Spain – Nokia today unveiled the Nokia N97, the world’s most advanced mobile computer, which will transform the way people connect to the Internet and to each other. Designed for the needs of Internet- savvy consumers, the Nokia N97 combines a large 3.5” touch display with a full QWERTY keyboard, providing an ‘always open’ window to favorite social networking sites and Internet destinations. Nokia’s flagship Nseries device introduces leading technology – including multiple sensors, memory, processing power and connection speeds – for people to create a personal Internet and share their ‘social location.’/p p“From the desktop to the laptop and now to your pocket, the Nokia N97 is the most powerful, multi-sensory mobile computer in existence,” said Jonas Geust, Vice President, heading Nokia Nseries. “Together with the Ovi services announced today, the Nokia N97 mobile computer adjusts to the world around us, helping stay connected to the people and things that matter most. With the Nokia N97, Nseries leads the charge in helping to transform the Internet into your Internet”./p pThe Nokia N97 introduces the concept of ‘social location’. With integrated A-GPS sensors and an electronic compass, the Nokia N97 mobile computer intuitively understands where it is. The Nokia N97 makes it easy to update social networks automatically with real-time information, giving approved friends the ability to update their ‘status’ and share their ‘social location’ as well as related pictures or videos./p pThe home screen of the Nokia N97 mobile computer features the people, content and media that matter the most. Friends, social networks and news are available by simply touching the home screen. The 16:9 widescreen display can be fully personalized with frequently updated widgets of favorite web services and social networking sites. The Nokia N97 is also perfectly suited for browsing the web, streaming Flash videos or playing games. Both the physical QWERTY and virtual touch input ensure efficiency in blogging, chatting, posting, sending texts or emailing./p pThe Nokia N97 supports up to 48 GB of storage, including 32 GB of on-board memory, expandable with a 16 GB microSD card for music, media and more. This is complemented by excellent music capabilities, full support for the Nokia Music Store and continuous playback time of up to 1.5 days. The Nokia N97 also has a 5- Megapixel camera with high-quality Carl Zeiss optics, 16:9 and DVD quality video capture, and support for services like Share on Ovi for immediate sharing over HSDPA and WLAN./p pThe Nokia N97 is expected to begin shipping in the first half of 2009 at an estimated retail price of EUR 550 before taxes or subsidies./p /blockquote br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=camp;i=d69200e62a07b03788705a63062b1262amp;p=1"img style="border:0;" src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/ht.php?t=vamp;i=d69200e62a07b03788705a63062b1262amp;p=1" border="0" //adiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=AlBpBNKR"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=nFsS4CX1"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=0EpW2g75"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=0EpW2g75" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=ZlLlyEJR"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=ZlLlyEJR" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/PPIrwRPrzSk" height="1" width="1"/

The Nokia Messaging Service, announced this morning at Nokia World in Barcelona, will open up popular email and instant messaging services and make them easily accessible both on your handset and via the Ovi web site. The on-device version of the Mail on Ovi service is due to go into beta before the end of 2008, with the web based version to follow in early 2009.
Consumers using Yahoo! Mail, Windows Live Hotmail, Gmail and AOL accounts will have support for push updates from those services to their handset, with their mailboxes integrated into the regular messaging application on your smartphone. We'll have a closer look at the capabilities of the client and the integration in the near future here on All About Symbian.
Access to your IM accounts will also be available, likely using technology from Oz Communications, who Nokia recently acquired.
One thing to note is that Nokia are talking about a commercial launch in 8 territories (Australia, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Singapore, Spain and the UK, with selected other countries to follow) so there are likely to be some elements of Nokia Messaging that will be 'premium' services. Files on Ovi is also a chargeable service, so there is some precedent for this.
Mail for Ovi will provide a web-based environment to manage all your mail accounts alongside your handset. There will be 1GB of storage for all users, and you will be able to access your paired accounts (eg GMail) from the Ovi web site.
Corporate Messaging is also taken care, of with updated clients for Exchange and Lotus Notes. Integrating into the S60 mail client as additional mailboxes, Mail for Exchange will be available for all N series and E series devices, while Lotus will include their client with new Domino servers.
Alongside the other announcements today, including the Nokia N97, the vision of Ovi is now starting to be backed up in a practical sense, with the traditional PIM data being synced over the air, music and gaming available via on-device clients, and now your connection to others, via mail and IM, can also be included in the cloud that is Ovi.
Nokia have taken time to present this vision, it's now time to see if users are going to pick it up and run with it.
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