I read over on Mark’s The Nokia Blog site that the Nokia N97 may be arriving at reseller facilities on 2 June. This is an estimated date and doesn’t mean that they will ship out to buyers on that date so I don’t think people should get their hopes up too high just yet.

Another analyst report was released, this time from Gartner, that shows Nokia still has a huge lead in worldwide market share for the 1st quarter of 2009. Their sales were actually great in number than in 2008 and I think the Nokia 5800 availability may have had a lot to do with this increase. The people who buy Nseries devices may have been a bit hesitant this quarter and probably in the 2nd quarter as they wait for the Nokia N97 that was announced way back in the Fall of 2008

As we get closer to the Nokia N97’s release date, some lucky people have been getting early access to the highly-anticipated device. Lester Chan, creator of very popular Wordpress plugins, brings us his Nokia N97 preview from Nokia Singapore’s office. As you can tell, I’m very excited about the N97

There has been a Google Sync client for S60 devices, but in the past it only synced up your Contacts. As posted on the Google Mobile blog there is a new Google Sync for Nokia S60 client that syncs your Google Calendar and Contacts to your device.

I’ve written about how to get Nokia Maps 2.0 up and running on your Nokia E71x and hope you have been successful. Today Nokia announced further support for Ovi Maps (they changed the name to match their services branding) 3.0

I just read some good news over on the Olive Tree Bible Software blog that should make S60 Bible readers very happy. They added a new developer to their team to focus on the Symbian platform

Setting up Google Sync on my Nokia 5800 after reading the announcement on Wednesday made me very happy! Whatever I edit or add on my phone’s calendar or contacts automatically show up within minutes in my computer. This works from computer to phone as well

Filed under: Handsets Back when you were nothing more than a twinkle in your daddy’s eye, the Nokia 6600 was among the first S60 devices ever to reach American shores when it launched on T-Mobile in 2004. The 6600i of today, though, is a very different beast — a Series 40 handset that Nokia hails as its smallest and lightest 5 megapixel slider to date. Besides the cam, you’ve got 15fps VGA video recording, dual-band UMTS with quadband EDGE, Bluetooth, microSD expansion, and a QVGA display clocking in at a tight 2.2 inches

Mike from Nokia Conversations brings us up to date with all the goings on at the Where 2.0 Conference, in San Jose, California . This week Nokia is in attendance at the Where 2.0 Conference in San Jose, California, the world’s biggest event focussed on exploring location-based services. With over 1,000 key people in attendance, this year’s event is already proof of the rise in significance of location-based services and tools for the mobile industry as a whole, and is primed to be a hotspot of creative thinking and investigation into what’s possible in terms of location-based services today, and what’s just around the corner

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia It’s a sad state of things in the smartphone arena, folks. Nokia can’t even get its forthcoming N86 out of the door in official fashion before the cloning labs in China push out a suitable impostor. Of course, it’s not as if this hasn’t happened to Nokia before, but with such an anti-knockoff mentality, you think it’d take a little action to make the nightmare stop.