Filed under: Nokia Turn your portable telephony nostalgia up to 11 and join us on a journey down Nokia memory lane. Nokia Conversations have filmed a collection of 100 phones charting the progression through the last 20 years of the Finnish manufacturer’s history. Sadly, this Nokia retrospective doesn’t stretch so far back as to include galoshes and bike tires, but you can still spend an inordinate amount of time trying to identify handsets just from their profile.

Filed under: Messaging, Software, Nokia, Symbian Nokia Messaging represents Espoo’s premiere email experience — so premiere, in fact, that the company eventually plans to charge for it on some of its devices — and to help makes it just a little bit more awesome than it already is, they’ve now started adding in instant messaging capability. The new Nokia Messaging - E75 IM Beta (yes, that’s the full official name) offered by Nokia Beta Labs rocks compatibility with Yahoo Messenger and Ovi — more services are expected to be compatible in the future — and appears to serve up pretty much all the features you’d expect of a modern mobile IM client, including background notification, multiple conversation management, status control, and chat log save capability. So far, only the E75’s compatible, but Nokia’s imploring folks to stay tuned to Beta Labs for updates on when they’ll open it up to other devices.

Filed under: Software, Nokia, Symbian There’s no shortage of complaints — some minor, some not-so-minor — about the shipping firmware in the N97s that are already out in the field (our wonky backlight comes immediately to mind), but fortunately, it seems that Nokia’s looking to tackle the issues perhaps more proactively than it’s ever done before. Nokia Conversations’ official Twitter account has announced that the “first variants” of the N97 (which we would take to mean the North American version, since the US got it first) will be blessed with firmware 1.1 starting on July 1, which hopefully will be available over-the-air without any Nokia Software Updater silliness. No word on what exactly will be changed in the new release, but honestly, if we can just get the LL Cool J startup screen, that’ll be good enough for us

Nokia Beta Labs team have contiuned with their hard work developing new, and wonderfully usefull applications for our Nokia devices, this time, they have just announced a new Nokia Java Runtime 2.0 for S60 (JRT 2.0) is a totally re-written Java mobile execution environment for Nokia S60 devices.

Just a day before Nokia said they will be releasing V11 Firmware for the new N97, an Official Changelog has surfaced.  Thats right, an Official Nokia Changelog.  There is hoax changelog doing the rounds, mentioning Multi-Touch would be implemented, but as said, this was a cruel hoax.  Anyway, moving on, and the Official Changelog can be seen below, and although there are many bugfixes, thats pretty much all there is, but this is indeed a very welcomed sight giving the N97’s really buggy released V10 firmware.  Us early adopters are all too familiar with early releases. USB detection error fix -PC does not detect N97 or USB charging connection not detected. Widget -Home screen online/offline widget crash fix -Fix for “Alphabetical and Number input are mixed in facebook until end key is pressed

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Rogers Wireless, GSM, EDGE In North America, Rogers has a reputation for getting the most cool GSM handsets the quickest (that’s not the only reputation it has, but we won’t go there right this second) — but this is one case where T-Mobile USA beat ‘em to the punch by a mile. The Canadian carrier is adding the Nokia 7510 to its TalkSpot-compatible lineup, meaning you’ll be able to offload calls to WiFi when you’re within range of a hotspot and transfer seamlessly to and from GSM. There’s no 3G, but the colorful flip does come with changeable faceplates, a concealed secondary display, 2 megapixel camera with flash, and microSD expansion

Filed under: LG, Motorola, Nokia, RIM, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Accessories While the free-market works pretty well when, uh, left alone to be free , sometimes it needs a push from a visible hand. Case in point, phone chargers, at the moment some 30 different types of chargers are used on handsets throughout Europe. Today, the European Commission received industry backing of its phone charger standard that relies on a micro-USB socket.

With V11 Firmware rumoured to be released for early N97 releases on the 1st of July next month, this video will come in handy for those of you who wish to be notified right away when this update becomes available for your Nokia N97 handset. 

Filed under: Software, Windows Mobile So Microsoft France’s product manager for Windows Mobile, Audrey Zolghadr, is saying that the company’s upcoming Windows Marketplace launch will be accompanied by around 600 apps certified and available on day one. Depending on your perspective, that’s either ridiculously anemic — the iPhone’s App Store has a couple orders of magnitude more currently available, for example — or a veritable cornucopia. Though the Ovi Store has no shortage of “items” to buy, an overwhelming majority of those are currently wallpapers, ringtones, and the like, and Palm’s App Catalog launched with so few apps that many folks (we’re not naming names) literally had every app installed within a few minutes of buying the phone

Just a few days ago, Nokia Beta Labs announced, and released a new Desktop Application for all your Nokia needs, this is the New Ovi Suite 2.0.