I am late this week, but these are the news stories, blog posts and forum threads I found particular interesting:

• Nokia Maps 2.0 graduates from Beta Labs. May 23rd.
• Maps 2.0 now features network based positioning!
• Hard facts on Finnish mobile data usage. Forum Oxford. May 23rd.
• Total mobile network packet data traffic increased almost 11-fold in a year
• 17-19% of mobile terminals generated data traffic weekly
• .. but: Computers originate 92% of traffic in mobile network
• Mobile Marketing D & AD Awards. May 22nd.
  • Interesting solutions, I particularly like the New Zeeland bluetooth campaign and the Japanese mobile online multiplayer game (feat. 2D barcodes!).
• Børns mobil er som en åben pengepung. Kids' mobile phones are like open wallets. May 21st.
  • Somehow related: European Framework for Safer Mobile Use by Younger Teenagers and Children

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I attended a MCommerce workshop (mobile commerce) today and while I liked the presentations, I think none of them really hit home on neither the mobile, nor the commerce part.

The first presenter, professor Jan Damsgaard from the Copenhagen Business School told the story of how network products and services have changed basically everything about businesses, markets and customers, and how they relate to each other. I completely buy into this story, but I think it is mostly relevant to the net in general, and not specifically mobile products and services.

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Although I am very happy about the 6120 Classic I currently own and use, I have sort of decided to replace it with its successor, the Nokia 6220 Classic.

I really like the 6120C for its nimbleness; the HSDPA connectivity; and the fact that it has the full Symbian S60, 3rd edition OS. Compared to the N95, the 6120C is a very different device - both in terms of form factor and price point - but because the two phones run the same OS, most of the applications I know and like from the N95 work equally well with the 6120C. Also, using HSDPA on the 6120C is not really that different from using WiFi on the N95 (the price of data is, though).

What makes me so excited about the 6220 Classic is that it has all of the above…and then some. It appears that what the 6220C brings to the table are exactly the features I miss on the 6120C.

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Here are the news stories, blog posts and forum threads I found particular interesting this week:

• Ny pris på data hos Bibob - BiBoB lowers data tariffs to USD 0.21/Mb - w00t! May 15th.
• N78 Keypad - What were you thinking Nokia!? May 13th.
• Mobilt bredbånd med 21 Mbit/s kommer i år - HSDPA Turbo 3G at 21 Mbit/s before the end of this year. May 13th.
• Nokia Music PC application launched (early beta) - what do you think? - Nokia launches iTunes competitor. May 13th.
• The 75 Skills Every Man Should Master - totally forgot to include this one last week. May 8th.
  • In no way related to anything mobile.
• Communities Dominate Brands: Deeper insights into the 7th Mass Media channel, mobile is to the internet, what TV is to radio. May 2nd.
• Tomi Ahonen elaborates on the 7 benefits of the 7th mass media.

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I recently updated the "Share Online" application to the most recent version 3.0 on my N82 loaner device. I did so, because I wanted to use it with "Share on Ovi" - Nokia's online image and video sharing service - and I was quite surprised when "Share Online" failed to add the Ovi service.

The "Share Online" application is supposed to automagically look for, and add, new services. It worked nicely on my N95, but failed on the N82 and I am not exactly sure why. Maybe because the N82's has an "Emerging Markets"¹ product code and I use it in Denmark?

Anyhow, the precise reason is not very important - what is important is I am not the only on having this problem and that there is a way to fix it.

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1. Emerging Markets include: China,[2] India, Mexico, Brazil, Chile much of Southeast Asia, countries in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, parts of Africa and Latin America [back]

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Here are the news stories, blog posts and forum threads I found particular interesting this week:

• List of tips for speeding up the Nokia N95 OS (that would be Symbian OS S603rd) at N95 Users Forum. May 11th.
  • You are likely to know most of these, but the tip about shortening the call log was new to me.
• At Forum Oxford the discussion continues about Adobe's announcement last week that it will now license Flash Lite software for free for mobile devices. May 8th.
  • The discussion brought up an interesting link to a forecast showing shipments of Flash Lite enabled devices. I was surprised to see how few devices have been shipped with Flash Lite 3.0.
  • I attended a seminar this week at which a Flash Lite developer stated that 10% of current handsets support Flash Lite.
  • Comparison of different Flash Lite versions.
• Sprint et al (incl. Google) buys ClearWire (WiMax). May 8th.
• Teleselskaber investerer 8 mia. kr. i mobilt bredbånd [IN DANISH]. Investments in 3G networks by Danish MNOs surpasses USD 1.7 billion. May 6th.
• T-Mobile bestätigt UMTS-iPhone: Österreich wird Testmarkt - 3G iPhone is coming. May 5th.

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Ok, so this tip is not the most super advanced, but it is extremely useful, if you do not you happen to know about it.

I should know, because I did not until a short while ago.

Problem: How can items (contacts, messages, images, videos, music, files etc. etc.) be marked without using the not-so-handy menu commands: "Options" | "Mark/unmark" | "Mark"? If you have tried this more than once, you will probably agree it is quite cumbersome - especially if you need to mark more than one or two items.

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