GLOBAL – Ok, folks, we are now on Day 5 of the Pass the Parcel game. There’s been a lot of speculation and excitement over this, more than we expected. Indeed, we are really happy with the reaction and all the guesses.

Nonetheless, for all of us who are not on the lucky list of parcel-passers, all we can do is guess what the heck is in the package.

As for what the package has been revealing, we’d like to make a few comments here, if only to occupy our minds while we wait for the final layer to be removed. Read on for more.

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Nokia 5800 Comes With Music launches in Mexico tomorrow

MEXICO – Only yesterday we saw the Nokia 5800 Comes With Music shake its hips for the first time on Brazilian soil, and now it’s official that the 5800 Comes With Music offering is hitting Mexico tomorrow, May 1st, exclusively through Telcel.

Read on for first details of the 5800 and Nokia’s all-you-can-devour music download service as they prepare to march into Mexico tomorrow. Plus, find out where it will be available and how easy it will be for people to download tunes on the move all across Mexico thanks to Telcel’s widespread 3G coverage.
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Unshackling mobile video sharing via high-speed uploads

ESPOO, Finland – Download speeds, and how fast we can suck up data over the air via 3G and newer HSDPA technologies, has been a collective obsession in recent years. Well, in fairness we’re not interested in the technologies per se, but rather purely the fact that we’re now (in many territories) able to download complex webpages, soak up songs and receive bloated attachment-packed emails in seconds. So it’s fair to say that the incoming delivery service is humming, and we’re reaping the fruits. However, on the flip-side, the outgoing postal service and uploading in general has been less talked about and has yet to spark a flame of excitement.

But of course it should, and now is the time to fan the fire.

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Mikko Kuusisto talks about Nokia’s over the air SW updating

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Rocket-speed 4G networks prepare for launch

GLOBAL – Looking backwards is healthy and can be entertaining, but it’s no secret that the guiltiest vice of being immersed in the mobile world is looking forward and seeing our future relationships with devices come into focus. Over the past couple of years we’ve witnessed the reality of high-speed data and Internet connectivity on the move, triggering an explosion in mobile Internet services and encouraging innovations such as location based services. Recent developments with HSDPA and the emergence of 3.5G networks has helped cement this, but already the seeds of a 4G planet are being sewed.

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Video: JoikuSpot performs Wi-Fi hotspot alchemy

ESPOO, Finland – Despite the broadening reach of the Wi-Fi cloud across cities, there remain large holes that need plugging, urban as well as rural. So with 3G and faster HSDPA networks plugging many of those holes, JoikuSoft lets us and our friends tap into this by transforming your 3G signal into a secure Wi-Fi hotspot.

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How video didn’t kill the audio star

GLOBAL – I don’t know for certain how many video-calling capable 3G phones I’ve had, but I know for sure I’ve never actually made a video call on any of them. People admonished Nokia for not including video calling in its first ever 3G device (which in itself was hardly a show-stopping product), but then perhaps the teardrop shape had some level of irony in there.

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Mobile TV hits Morocco

RABAT, Morocco – Sometimes new tech shows up in the oddest of places. And so it is that mobile TV is currently being rolled out across Morocco, starting with Rabat and Casablanca and another eight cities being added before the end of the year and 20 cities by the end of next year.

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Mobile broadband gets a speed bump

AUSTRIA – How fast is your broadband at home? On a good day, we get about 3Mbps, which is good enough for most activities, though downloading big files does take a little time. Now how about if we had 10Mbps? That’d be quick, certainly fast enough to do pretty much anything we want online. Now how about if you had 10Mbps on your phone? That’s just what Nokia Siemens managed in a recent test with mobilkom Austria.