I’m really excited to hear that the N-Gage Blog has announced Capcom is working on Resident Evil for N-Gage! In a related amazing coincidence the N-Gage Blog posted the news exactly one year after I posted here pondering if Capcom would bring Resident Evil to N-Gage.

Capcom has done some great things on mobile devices before, including Capcom Mobile bringing a Java version of Resident Evil to mobiles and there is an amazing port of Resident Evil 1 (aka Biohazard 1) for the Nintendo DS. They have a great track record of bringing Resident Evil to portables, so you can understand why I’m looking forward to seeing what Capcom does with Resident Evil on N-Gage.

Jukka of Mobile Web Server fame sent me the details on a new Mobile TV receiver accessory, the SU-33W. It’s a Bluetooth accessory that allows you to receive DVB-H mobile TV broadcasting with the N73 Multimedia Computer.

What does that mean? That means with this accessory you can now take your N73 and watch you favorite TV programs on it! If you already own an N73 and you live in a region where DVB-H is available this new accessory is definitely worth checking out.

The N73 is currently the only Multimedia Computer that has support for the SU-33W, but I hope to see more devices getting support in the future. To find out if your region has DVB-H coverage check the official DVB-H services website.

I regularly watch video podcasts on my Nokia N82 while commuting to work. In order to share what video podcasts I watch on a regular basis I compiled a list of them in no particular order, including their RSS Feeds, over on the Forum Nokia Web Talks Blog.

Are there any great video podcasts that I missed from the list? If so post them in a comment here or leave a comment on the Forum Nokia Web Talks Blog. Enjoy the videos!
http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/forum-nokia-web-talks/kevin-korpi/2008/05/15/video-podcast-roundup

The N82 has recently been awarded the Best Mobile Imaging Device for 2008 by the Technical Image Press Association (the largest photo and imaging press association in Europe).

I recall that the N95 was also given the same honour last year, and just found out that the N80 was in fact the winner of the same award in 2006!

A pretty neat and impressive hat-trick by Nokia and S60. Let’s look forward to bagging the next three, or perhaps a hat-trick of hat-tricks?

But more importantly than the awards is to discover and appreciate what our devices are capable of. For the past several months, I have been enjoying the spectacular winning entries from the Nokia Creative N95 Photo Awards at James Burland’s Nokia Creative Blog. I’m eagerly awaiting the results from the new series of Nokia N82 Photo Awards.

Congratulations to my co-author Kevin and the N82 product team! (Now, where can I get my hands on one of these fantastic imaging devices? ;))

- Carol.

All about symbian has compiled a list of the Top 10 Classic Smartphones. They compiled the list by looking at what new cutting edge features were introduced in those devices at the time of their release. Of the chosen devices, half of them run various versions of S60! I am especially honored at the Number 1 choice of top most ground breaking Classic Smartphone because it was the first device that I worked on when I started working at Nokia.

Dotsisx over on Symbian-Guru posted that she expected to see devices such as: N82, N91, and the Nokia 6600 on the Top 10.

Mobile devices are advancing so quickly, just look at some of the technology added in devices over the last couple of years makes me stop and think about how far these devices have come. Wifi, VGA resolution video recording and playback, GPS chips built-in, High Resolution Cameras, TV-Out display, native MP3/AAC and other audio codec playback, large internal flash storage, large memory card support, Web browsers with capability to render real webpages not just mobile ones, etc. etc. the list goes on. These things have become standard in current S60 devices but just a few short years ago we could only dream of using them in our mobile devices.

My question to you readers is: What are your Top S60 devices that you think were groundbreaking when they were released and why? Also what new features are you looking forward to trying out on future S60 devices: S60 Widgets, Flash Lite 3, Touch UI, something else?