Filed under: Software, Samsung, Announcements Oh, look, it’s another place to buy bite-sized mobile apps, this one courtesy of Samsung. The company isn’t exactly new to the whole application store thing, launching a little outlet for Nokia users earlier this year, but piggy-backing on someone else’s platform and boldly blazing a trail of iFart knockoffs on your own hardware are two very different things. The imaginatively named Samsung Application Store launches on September 14 for British, French, and Italian Omnia and I8910 HD handsets, later coming to the Omnia II and OmniaLITE as well as users in various other nations

If like me, you were smitten with the Nokia N97 when first announced at Nokia World 2008, then you would of possibly also viewed many of the videos that surfaced from Nokia World, CES09, CTIA09 , and the Nokia Developer Summit , showing the N97 in action.  One, or two of these very popular videos showed Julien Fourgeaud demonstrating the N97 to Press members, and of course, Bloggers, who in turn, all asked Julien many questions about the N97, and what it could do.  You can still watch these videos here , and here . After personally watching these videos, I took it upon myself to track down Julien, and find out more about him, and his position at Nokia, which I found very very interesting.  I mean, working for Nokia, and showing off a prototype device to the public at an event such as Nokia World has to be a dream job no?  It certainly had me interested in finding out more.

Back in June this year, I wrote about the Shozu Application, and service becoming a paid for service .  ShoZu did indeed start out as a free application, and service, and since my last article, things have been a little quiet over at the ShoZu team, however, yesterday they released a very detailed Newsletter, detailing why it’s been quiet, and what exactly they have been upto during the transtion to a paid for service. They have been quite busy, and you may reconsider purchasing the ShoZu appplication when you learn of the new features it now hosts.  The ShoZu team have been taking on board the many suggestions, and recommendations from existing ShoZu users, on how to improve the application.  They have now implemented many of these new features, some  of which can be seen below, and by clicking “Read More”

A little while ago I told you all about a new service from PEIR , and its concept of combining Mobile usage with your daily travel, bringing together the technology of being able to see what your actual Carbon Footprint on the environment. PEIR collects location and speed information which is fed to complex mathematical and environmental models on the server and correlated with GIS (Geographic Information System) data. This combination provides analysis on an individual’s environmental impact and exposure, visualized online either on an individual basis or as a community on Facebook widgets.

Filed under: Nokia A healthy percentage of Nokia’s revenue comes from emerging markets, and the company goes to great lengths to fill out the very bottom rungs of its lineup with devices to satisfy seemingly every need of every demographic — built-in flashlights, segmented contact lists for phones shared among family members, the list goes on — and now the company’s tackling another need by offering rudimentary banking and money transfer services by way of the handset. Noting that of the four billion cellphones in the world there are only 1.6 billion bank accounts, Nokia’s so-called Nokia Money service will bring electronic money management to some areas of the world for the first time — a customer need only know the phone number of the intended recipient to send a payment.

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia We’ve already gotten quite an eyeful of Nokia’s N97 Mini — so much so that it’s hard to believe this thing still isn’t official. So be it, though, here’s the first official press shot we’ve seen, from the same site that revealed the N900 pic earlier

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Symbian, GSM, HSDPA Ok S60 5th edition fans, here you go: another touchscreen Nokia to admire before it could be leaked by Eldar Murtazin. The new 5230 candybar brings a 3.2-inch touchscreen riding HSDPA data, A-GPS, 2 megapixel camera, microSD expansion, and Bluetooth 2.0 with the promise of 33-hours of music pumped over its 3.5-mm audio jack

Filed under: Handsets, HTC, LG, Nokia, RIM, Samsung, Verizon Wireless We’ve heard about a good number of these phones were bound for Verizon Wireless already, but if this leaked doc via Boy Genius Report is to be believed, we now have a much better idea when they should be within reach of consumer hands. First up is Samsung Rogue for sometime this month (we previously heard today, but that’s looking very doubtful at this point) for an estimated $370 subsidized

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia The Garmin-Asus nuvifone is finally inbound to domestic retailers, but it’s taken so many wrong turns on the way that it’s given the competition plenty of time to catch up and prepare their own nav-enabled mobile offerings. TomTom’s iPhone kit is due any minute, and now Nokia is getting into the game, announcing the 5800 Navigation Edition. Instead of coming with music it comes with a pre-loaded copy of Ovi Maps and lifetime licenses for voice-guided driving and walking directions

Filed under: Accessories No, someone didn’t just Photoshop the Duracell logo on a WildCharge pad — this actually is the newest product from the ubiquitous battery maker.