It’s Friday again (high fives and butt slaps all round!) which means it’s once more time for us to bring you the finest Nokia-related stories our digital bluds out in the blogosphere have to offer. Strap yourselves in, cadets - you’re taking a trip to Newsville!
Darla Mack has reported up some “leaked images” of the Nokia N96, a rumoured double-slider smartphone with two keypads that shoot out to form a full qwerty array. And it’s got 10GB of storage, a 6-megapixel camera and GPS! Could well be a load of baloney, but take a squiz anyway.
Google Maps gets “virtual GPS”
Use the S60 version of Google Maps and fancy finding your location - but don’t have a GPS receiver on your phone? No bother - the new version can triangulate your position to within a few metres using mobile phone masts (or “cell towers” if you’re an American). IntoMobile takes a detailed look-see.
Nokia has just released a pretty full-on firmware update for the original N95, and good old Symbian Freak has managed to find a full rundown of the changes and improvements it makes. Read it and weep (with smartphone-related joy).
Proper mobile telly on the way to Europe
While our Far Eastern friends have been watching live digital television on their phones for years, us Euros are still stuck in the mobile telly Dark Ages. But not for much longer, according to Engadget Mobile. The EU has finally picked a standard for mobile TV - and it’s DVB-H, which has been Nokia’s choice all along. Proper TV on your Nok can’t be far off.