Looks like Nokia has PC Suite version 6.85.11.1 just about ready for official release. And it has been nicely improved from the previous version.

The first thing you notice when you launch Nokia PC Suite 6.85 is the new sidebar:

The upper part of the sidebar has a nifty application that allows you to Drag&Drop any file from your PC to your Nokia phone. I tried this with pictures, mp3 and video and it worked great. Nokia PC Suite even converted the file I dropped to mp4 format readable by my Nokia N95.

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Today Nokia announced that its N95 8GB phone, first revealed in August at the Nokia:Go Play conference, would begin shipping globally.

As part of a joint marketing move with Sony, the N95 will also ship with a full-length version of Spiderman 3, a ring-tone, and games. Nokia relates the movie to the launch of its latest N95 this way: "Spiderman's suit turn[s] jet-black and [enhances] his powers in its latest incarnation," claiming that the N95 has also transformed. When your eyes are done rolling, we can continue.

As a quick refresher, the S60 Symbian OS phone features 100MB of onboard storage with up to 8GB of internal flash storage. It also has a 2.8" 240x320 resolution display, a 5 megapixel camera, 210 minute talk time, and standby up to 280 hours. The phone will also take advantage of Nokia's forthcoming N-Gage gaming platform, features TV-out functionality, 802.11b/g connectivity, and A-GPS support.

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Apple's iPhone is still the best thing invented this year. Why? Read the reasons:

1. The iPhone is pretty
Most high-tech companies don't take design seriously. They treat it as an afterthought. Window-dressing. But one of Jobs' basic insights about technology is that good design is actually as important as good technology. All the cool features in the world won't do you any good unless you can figure out how to use said features, and feel smart and attractive while doing it.

2. It's touchy-feely
apple didn't invent the touchscreen. Apple didn't even reinvent it (Apple probably acquired its much hyped multitouch technology when it snapped up a company called Fingerworks in 2005). But Apple knew what to do with it.

3. It will make other phones better

jobs didn't write the code inside the iPhone. These days he doesn't dirty his fingers with 1's and 0's, if he ever really did. But he did negotiate the deal with AT&T to carry the iPhone. That's important: one reason so many cell phones are lame is that cell-phone-service providers hobble developers with lame rules about what they can and can't do.

4. It's not a phone, it's a platform
when apple made the iphone, it didn't throw together some cheap-o bare-bones firmware. It took OS X, its full-featured desktop operating system, and somehow squished it down to fit inside the iPhone's elegant glass-and-stainless-steel case. That makes the iPhone more than just a gadget. It's a genuine handheld, walk-around computer, the first device that really deserves the name.

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As you all knows...Android is a new OS from Google.


Just like the good folks promised, the early look software development kit for Google's soon-to-be huge phone OS has hit the streets... er, internet. From what we can tell, the OS is as comfortable on larger, VGA devices as it is on more traditional smartphone layouts. Oh yeah... and it plays Quake. Here's what we know the software will support out of the box:

• Touchscreen
• 3G
• Webkit-based browser
• Optimized Java runtime layer (known as Dalvik Virtual Machine)
• Threaded text messaging
• MPEG-4, h.264, MP3, and AAC file formats
• Accelerated 3D graphics

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Perhaps the sleeper of this week's Nokia's aptly named Nokia World event, the WH-600 and WH-700 headsets kick it old school by eschewing Bluetooth for good, old-fashioned, reliable wires. They've got all the bases covered, too: the WH-600 goes on the ear while the WH-700 is a traditional bud style, offering three different cup sizes in the box. Both can be used for music and calls alike -- obviously -- and include 3.5mm jack adapters for use with any ol' music player you like.

Designed for your life on the move, these headsets give you the enjoyment of premium audio quality in the choice of two ergonomically different forms

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Maybe this is a new mobile phone from Nokia...

Here's an odd one for you, a Nokia patent application just revealed those images above. The odd part is not so much the slider mechanism they are attempting to patent. If we're not mistaken, that looks like "8 megapixel"stamped just below the lens.

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