I hope you will excuse my absence and lack of blogging last couple of days, you see, as the Christmas season starts life is getting pretty hectic here, my office is extremely busy with various different activities but I believe everything's gonna be alright from now on because... .. ...holidays are coming ;)

Also I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone the best, by avoiding any religious differences, Merry Christmas for all MF and SF members or whatever you celebrating at this time of year, and even if you don't, have a great and long holidays and a very happy, healthy and successful 20... .. .

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) today announced the adoption of Bluetooth® low energy wireless technology, which is the hallmark feature of the Bluetooth Core Specification Version 4.0.

As an enhancement to the specification, Bluetooth low energy technology opens entirely new markets for devices requiring low cost and low power wireless connectivity with this evolution in Bluetooth wireless technology that will enable a plethora of new applications – some not even possible or imagined today.

Many markets such as healthcare, sports and fitness, security, and home entertainment will be enhanced with the availability of small coin-cell battery powered wireless products and sensors now enabled by Bluetooth wireless technology. “With today’s announc... .. .

Good folks over at official Nokia Nseries blog have just published the very first video update from one of the winning PUSH N900 teams in which Solderin Skaters showing their project and explains how they’re planning on turning it into reality.

Following the recent launch of Nokia’s PUSH N900 project at the onedotzero ‘Adventures in moving image’ event in London couple of week ago, Nokia was inundated with "hundreds" of cool, innovative and wacky N900 hacks and mods, from all four corners of the globe.

After the judges whittled the entries down, PUSH N900 had a total of five winning teams that all received funding, assistance and N900 devices for their hac... .. .

Analyst firm Gartner has supported Nokia’s view of an upturn in the mobile device market next year, forecasting a 9 percent year-on-year increase in sales compared to 2009. Stronger than expected sales in Western Europe and an acceleration in the grey market in the third quarter of this year will drive worldwide mobile device sales to end users to 1.214 billion units, a 0.67 per cent decline from 2008, according to the latest outlook by Gartner, Inc. In September, Gartner had forecast sales to decline 3.7 per cent in 2009. Gartner now predicts sales in 2010 will show a 9 per cent increase from 2009.

“Although the grey market or ‘white label’ is not a new phenomenon and has been generated by Chinese device manufacturers who do not have a licence to sel... .. .

Music continues to be a major passion for mobile phone users and therefore it is important that Nokia N900 is capable to delivers superior music experiences in a number of different ways to ensure people get the music they want, how , where and when they want it.

Just released Vagalume 0.8 application is yet another step in right direction as it includes Last.fm’s scrobbling functionality, adds support for the Libre.fm and is compatible with Nokia N900 although UI hasn’t been completely adapted to the Maemo 5 platform.

Vagalume is a GTK+-based Last.fm client designed for the GNOME desktop environment but it is also designed to work in the Maemo platform, used by some Nokia devic... .. .

Haven't gone near the beta repository just yet, just set it up to sync my google contacts (shame that Google Email sync doesn't work, no matter, I can get push Gmail via Nokia Messaging for now), and installed a bunch of software...

My Zephyr heart rate monitor works a treat in eCoach (although eCoach is a much more basic piece of software than run.gps).

Build quality, a litle plasticky, but feels solid overall. Slider is solid, only a little play in the closed position (maybe half a mm), I think the slider turned out reasonably well because they were so conservative with the small 3 row keyboard. On the keyboard, its a little cram... .. .

Some really good news for those of who live in the UK and who are using the Vodafone network. Apperanetly it seems you won’t have to wait too much longer to get your hands on the latest Android-powered handset.

Vodafone looks set to beat its UK rivals by offering the most eagerly awaited phone of the year before others as it has announced today that Nokia N900 is coming soon to its UK customers.

There is no word on how much it will cost, other than it will be free with some price plans and that it shoul... .. .

Hey all, I got my phone a couple of days ago on Friday and thought while you are waiting for yours to come you might want to know a few things so here are a few insights about the phone from my experience of the last day or so enjoy!

First I Just want to say that it is as great as I expected it to be but one thing I have noticed though it that it does lag sometimes...but this could be down to the fact that before I properly started using it, I loading every application I wanted onto it, and have loads of things on the desktop!

The only 2 things I don't like about the phone right now is that it doesn't support MMS and that it's mostly in landsc.... .. .

The first Nokia’s Maemo powered phone is now out and there is no doubt that its Linux based OS is very flexible but have you ever asked yourself is it highly and easily customizable through the high-quality themes like S60 platform!? Will it be possible to download, install or even create your own themes for the hottest Nokia phone at the moment!?

Well, one of the greatest things about the Nokia’s S60 platform is the full theme support and ability to seamlessly personalize your phone by installing some of numerous 3rd party themes or to create your own themes with the free to download and free to use Nokia Theme Studio, although some users complains that is a disappointingly complex tool and is not aimed at users with a basic or even interm... .. .

Those interested in developing widgets and applications for the world's most powerful smartphone, would like to know that Forum Nokia has released the first update of the Maemo™ 5 SDK was recently released. This Forum Nokia update reflects the software delivered in the retail version of the Nokia N900 mobile computer.

In addition, a GUI installer has been added to simplify the SDK and scratchbox installation, making it easier to create a development environment. The SDK contains the headers, libraries, and tools required to write Maemo 5 applications.

Also, Qt developers can enter the Forum Nokia Qt Mobility Contest by creating and submitting a working code example that utilizes Qt and the that are bei... .. .