S60 Open to new features

Good news for S60 fans in US!

Check it out:
http://www.cingular.com/cell-phone-service/get-started/index.jsp?q_returnUrl=/cell-phone-service/cell-phone-details/%3Fq_list%3Dtrue%26q_phoneName%3DNokia%2BN75%26q_sku%3Dsku950091

-Jukka

Wohoo!!

Which one do you prefer, red or black?

-Jukka

Source: http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1121807

In addition to a minor update for PC Suite and iSync plugins for Mac OS, there is a brand new add-on application for the PC Suite: meet Nokia Video Manager.

The purpose of this application is to manage and transfer video clips between your phone/device and PC. The beauty of Video Manager is in the transparent on-the-fly transcoding it does for your video clips when transferred from PC to phone. This way you don't have to care which format, bitrate etc. your material is, it will get optimized quality and size-wise when copied to the phone.

Compatability is promised only for Nokia models 6110 Navigator, Nokia 6290 and Nokia 5700 XpressMusic. What's up with that, I don't know.. I tried it briefly with my Nokia N76 and it seemed to work just fine. Hopefully support is added for other S60 devices also since the video capabilities vary a lot between various models. And who knows the exact parameters for each device better than Nokia?

Let me know your experiences or enhancement ideas!

Update 13.4.2007: Based on comments from users and my experience, looks like in addition to officially compatible devices some of the newer (Nseries) devices can play back MP4 (H.264) videos produced by Video Manager. Those "un-officially" supported devices include N93/N93i, N95, N76 and E90.

-Jukka

In a surprising but very cool move Forum Nokia has added the actual CPU specifications for many of the Nokia S60 devices into their pages.

Some picks, here Nokia N95:

Dual CPU
CPU Type: ARM 11
CPU Clock Rate: 332 MHz
3D Graphics HW Accelerator