Nokia and IBM announced yesterday Lotus Notes support to be added to selected Nokia S60 devices. This means that Lotus Notes users are now able to access email with their Nokia devices. This also represents a significant market opportunity for IBM Lotus Notes - which has 140 million licensed users - with many Nokia customers now able to purchase Lotus Notes and access its collaboration capabilities on the go.

Lotus Notes Traveler software will be available for Nokia devices [...]

The newest member in the S60 family, the Samsung I7110 is a slim and sleek bar type device, based on S60 3rd Edition, Feature pack 2, 12.9mm thick and including HSDPA and Wi-Fi connectivity.

With powerful multimedia technology, the Samsung I7110 provides you with seamless multimedia power play. It offers features such as a 2.6” AMOLED (Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode) screen, enhancing advanced navigation, multimedia and connectivity, and boasts geo-tagging and navigation capabilities in pedestrian and [...]

In our 3rd edition FP2 new features list I mentioned the Scalable icon support for Java applications.

Java MIDP specification mandates only the support of PNG icons from a device implementation. Nokia Java implementations have thus far supported only bitmap based icon formats, most notably PNG, GIF and JPEG files. Vector graphics based scalable icons provide a lot of benefits over bitmap icons.

The application icons are used in many contexts in S60 device user interface. The normal application menu is [...]

Nokia expands the range of devices that enable Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync. All Nokia S60 3rd Edition devices, 43 of them, will now feature the Mail for Exchange mobile email application. This makes Nokia’s device range the largest ever to enable the solution chosen by more businesses than any other messaging solution. Mail for Exchange will be available out-of-the-box in future releases of Nokia Eseries and Nokia Nseries devices.

Nokia owners whose companies use Exchange can set up Mail for Exchange for [...]