Last month I wrote to tell you all about a new upcoming site/project from the ex MIR team , Ben Smith , Dan Lane and James Whatley , who have been joined by Vikki Chowney to form The Really Mobile Project , a fun, fact, fast paced site about everything mobile, which as it happens, launched today, and in true style, the team are back to doing what they enjoy, and do best, networking, openness, and up close, and personal about everything mobile in their familiar style.  They have launched a few new videos today on their site, and I have to be honest, the quailty is amazing.  Very impressed, check them out for yourselves.!  You can also follow the team on Twitter by clicking on their names above, or, you can follow the team together, also on Twitter here  ReallyMobile .

Monte Carlo, Monaco - David Emmanuel Castro Guerrero from Mexico and Plusmo from the United States were today named one of the hottest software designers and developers in the world having beaten strong competition to win the Nokia N97 Widget Competition. Created to celebrate the much anticipated launch of the Nokia N97, Guerrero’s winning application, was Rocket, a social location widget (SoLo) which shows the nearest three friends in any given place was built on-site by the application developer.

Filed under: Multimedia, Nokia After some rather disheartening (albeit unconfirmed) estimates last week that Nokia’s Comes with Music service had snagged only 23,000 subscribers in the United Kingdom, Rob Taylor, vice president of Nokia Music says that the company is pretty “happy” with what its learned there so far. He admitted that the UK launch (the service’s first) devices — the 5310 Xpress Music and the 8GB N95 — were “slightly out of date” at the time pointing out that the service was doing much better in subsequent markets, which all boast the 5800 as their hero device. Taylor said he also recognized that Nokia needed more retail partners to help move units, and that the company is not “giving up” on the UK as a market for CwM, adding that they’ll be bringing the 5800 there in the future.

While some phones stay true to a single flick (take Sony Ericsson handsets and any Bond movie ever , for example), some leap around Hollywood like a heiress on a booze binge. One example of the not so loyal

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Symbian, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS The remainder of the N97’s juicy technical details have now been spilled on Nokia’s dev-oriented Forum Nokia site — previously, only cursory data had been posted here — and there are a couple notable bits that might be of concern to developers and would-be buyers alike. First off, the processor turns out to be a single-core ARM 11 putting along at 434MHz, just 65MHz faster than the 5800’s

With the previous versions of the Native S60 Youtube client, there was an annoying bug which played many of the online videos too fast, see my video below for an example, however, if you too have been experiencing this bug, uninstall your Youtube client, then point your S60 browser to www.youtube.com , and download, and install the new version, which now fixes this bug. 

If like me, you have always wanted to get a look inside Nokia’s HQ in Espoo, then you will certainly enjoy watching this five minute video, where 13 year old Ross gets to not only be shown around the Nokia Head Quarters, she gets an insight to how things operate. She evens gets to visit the Nokia Flagship store in Helsinki, somewhere I will be visiting this summer.! Carita from Nokia Conversations published this video this morning

Just a quick heads up on a new N97 video demo I think you will like, its of the N97 being shown off at the recent Developers Summit in Monaco, you can clearly see how well the N97 can handle multiple applications, music, twitter using the Gravity application, and facebook etc. Watch the video, and enjoy! You can watch the same N97 being demonstrated from another angle here on My Nokia Blog . 

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Symbian, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA Thanks to the always revealing FCC, we knew good and well Nokia’s painfully expensive N97 had Carolina (and probably the other states, to be fair) on its mind, but now we know the moment of truth is drawing near.

Filed under: Software, Nokia Nokia needs to pull out all the heavy artillery — major device launches, carrier support, impressive software, and a seamless user experience — if it wants the Ovi Store to succeed on a grand scale, and by all accounts, they’re serious about making that happen with the recent integrations of MOSH and WidSets. Here’s the thing, though: for many, direct carrier billing could be a big part of that “seamless user experience” thing, and recognizing that, Nokia had planned to offer it from the get-go in the US (along with eight other countries) when it launches next month. That’s now been called off for the States for an undisclosed reason — carriers around here are notoriously finicky in their relationships with manufacturers and we wouldn’t be surprised if it all came down to a few heated boardroom discussions with the big wigs — but whatever the cause, users will need to roll with a less-integrated payment option to start.