I asked a Nokia spokesperson at Nokia World to show me the new firmware 2.0 on the Nokia N97. It will feature usability enhancement, additional widgets, updated Facebook app, increased free internal memory, as well as stability improvements. The firmware is going to be available in Software Update this October. You can also watch this video

I just saw YouTube video showing the upcoming major software update for the Nokia N97. The software is set to bring dozens of bug fixes and further optimize functionality and stability of the phone. The most importantly, upcoming firmware v20 will finally add support for kinetic scrolling across many applications. Besides that, it will also adds couple of new widgets including an update Facebook a...

Starting August 2nd., AT&T (NYSE: T) will be selling the Samsung Solstice, a full-touchscreen handset with that all-too-familiar TouchWiz user interface. The A887 comes with a 3″ screen, 2 megapixel camera, dual-band 3G, quad-band EDGE,and a virtual landscape QWERTY keypad. Preloaded software ranges the gamut of Facebook, MySpace and Yahoo widgets to Napster Mobile and

I had a chance to play with the Nokia N97 recently, and captured a few screenshots that I thought you might find interesting. There was not much software loaded into this unit, which was running prototype firmware v10.0.005, so I wasn’t able to check out N-Gage, nor was I able to ogle the new Facebook

The N97 Mini comes preinstalled with these new homescreen widgets, facebook, and Accuweather, which I show you in the videocast below, they are intelligent widgets, and the facebook widget adds much more functionality that its previous bug-ridden release.  So far during my tests of these, I have not had a single script error with either of them, and in my opinion, the facebook widget is ...

We recently reviewed both the Omnia HD and the Nokia N97 and found them to be good devices. Now with software updates due shortly both handsets will give an even better user experience. The Samsung updates include a new QWERTY keyboard, 3D task switcher like on the Omnia2, new widgets and bug fixes for the web browser and media player. The Nokia will receive kinetic scrolling, the keyboard will sh...

Steve Litchfield has augmented his Phones Show portfolio with a new format, the Phones Show Chat. In the first episode, he chats with Tim Salmon about various devices, beginning with the N97 and the homescreen widgetisation. The subject of how much RAM is taken up by the larger widgets (Facebook, Accuweather etc.) as opposed to application

This software release includes improvements in updating software using your device. Other improvements include an adjustment to the size of the browser cache, to save space. This release also includes an updated Nokia Ovi Store application. Also, Mail for Exchange has updates available from the device's software updates application, and other widgets have updates available through Ovi Store.T...

Those interested in developing widgets and applications for the Nokia's flagship device, would like to know that Nokia has released the final version of the Nokia N97 SDK. Latest version of Nokia's first device specific SDK is now available for free download and brings number of improvements including the improved support of home screen features, updated SDK documentation, support for th...

Nokia N97 is the company's first device that features a new and greatly improved interactive homescreen, which can be customized with a wide range of widgets that bring live information directly to the device. These widgets include key social networking destinations like Facebook and Hi5, news services like the Associated Press, Bloomberg and Reuters, as well as shopping and weather informati...