Just when you’ve seen just about anything this happens.

Mere days ago we told you that Ari Jaaksi, VP of MeeGo devices at Nokia, had resigned. Turns out he’s headed Palm’s way, where he’ll be the Senior VP of webOS from this November.

Now its more than obvious that his personal reasons were anger and frustration. After dedicating his life to Nokia, the Finns reward a virtual outsider to lead them. John Grisham are you following the story, this would surely make a great book.

Via Gizmodo

The popular Foursquare is now officially on the Symbian platform and they’ve arrived at the OVI store. This is certainly a great sign of all the great applications coming to Symbian 3 and 4. As Nokia Conversations says

You’ve been asking for it. We’ve been working on it. We’ve been extensively showing it at Nokia World 2010. And now, it’s finally available on the Store.
I’m talking about the Foursquare application for Symbian 3.2, 5.0 and ^3 based Nokia smartphones

Most importantly, Foursquare for Symbian features an exclusive Home Screen Widget (for supported Nokia smartphones): without opening the application you will always know your friends’ latest check ins and you will be able to check in faster than anyone else.

So iPhone and Android, in your face !! Nokia is coming back with a vengeance.

Ovi Store link

With the everlasting number of Nokia blogs, I myself as a reader sometimes feel overwhelmed with the amount of information disseminated. Then their is the advent of RSS and we all now how RSS works; we pick them, we see them and we don’t read them often. or at least that’s my with my numbered of unread items approaching 20k. Yes, I subscribe to many blogs but sometimes I don’t have the time to continually “mark all items read” so I just keep them like that and funnel through them when time permits.

There always Twitter off course but as you know its an evolving timeline which often makes it difficult to keep in sync with your reading needs although the advents of Twitter List have made things a bit better but its not quite the same in my opinion.

There are tons of great Nokia blogs out there; AAS, The Nokia Blog, Symbian Lifeblog, Daily Mobile, Fone Arena, and tons others but those come to mind instantly. Often times I read 30+ Nokia blogs, sometimes for fun and other times for research. Now wouldn’t it be nice to have a dedicated site which is curated. What is curated ? Curated is often a term used in weblog which are more designed oriented usually but I believe that the term can be applied to our beloved Nokia smartphones as well and why not.

Definition of Curate
to act as curator of; organize and oversee with care.

So with those thoughts in mind I decided to create such a site. The name is Nokia Mobile Talk Curated a weblog dedicated to curating the best Nokia news from around the world. Below is a sample of what the linked post will look like. The concept is really quite simple, curate the best content from the Nokia sites and boom have it always available no ads, no funny pop ups, no banners to disturb your reading, just good ole Nokia News in a static site. I hope you enjoy it.

And as John Gruber so aptly said,

“I wanted to write a site for someone it’s meant for. That reader I write for is a second version of me. I’m writing for him. He’s interested in the exact same things I’m interested in; he reads the exact same websites I read. I want him to like this website so much that he reads it from the top to the bottom, and he reads everything. Every single word. The copyright statement, what software I use, he’s read it all.”

And that friends is the goal of Nokia Mobile Talk Curated.

[UPDATE] This new weblog is not an indication that NMT as you have known it will not remain but during this time I find it more pleasing to share and engage in a different sort of mobile journalism. NMT is still alive.

In an unprecedented move Nokia hire’s Stephen Elop to join them as President and CEO. This news is certainly shocking for the one fact that Mr. Stephen happens to be Canadian not Finnish.

For the past two to three years Nokia has been experiencing a widely accepted phenomenon as described in Spencer Johnson’s world acclaimed best seller – Who Moved My Cheese.

Change is good Nokia and this decision to hire Mr. Elop in this new role will certainly pay dividends in the short and long run. Best of luck Mr. Elop my best wishes are with you and my beloved Nokia.

Great news from the Ovi store, good ole Jan Ole Suhr, the developer of the best Symbian application Gravity, just retweeted something that grabbed my attention and it was a link to the Ovi Store statistics and Nokia displaying some impressive numbers. I highlight some of theme here for you guys.

At a high level, Ovi Store provides developers with unmatched distribution opportunities:

Global reach: more than 190 countries, available in 30 languages

Local relevance: content from over 90 countries

Adaptable: 120 device models offer Ovi Store content

Convenient: payment options include mobile billing with 85 operators in 26 countries and credit card billing in most countries

More than 120 devices are supported,
70+ are Symbian devices
Six of the top nine downloading devices are touch devices: 5800 XpressMusic, N97, N97mini,
5530 XpressMusic, 5230 Nuron, and X6 where available

Prominent Eseries devices included the E63, E71 & E72
The Nokia 5310 XpressMusic & 2700 are the top downloading Series 40 devices
Markets

The most active countries in alphabetical order are: China, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Turkey, and UK

Over 80% of these consumers can purchase from Ovi Store using their local currency
In countries where mobile billing is available, more than 2/3 of customers choose this payment option

With support for 30 language variations, 90% of Ovi Store visitors are using their local language when available

There are 1.7 million downloads a day with more than 75% of downloads being apps

Offscreen Technologies has had more than 34 million downloads

This is great news, I actually thought the Ovi Store was doing a lot worse but these are some very nice and young numbers as I am sure that in the next 24 months these numbers should increase dramatically with devices rocking Symbian 4.

Nokia please pay large sums of money so that popular apps in the Apple and Android app store get ported over to Symbian, its only money for you guys and if you choose not to advertise all that much in certain markets ie. United States, then let your application platform do the talking. Some of the apps we need are:

A quick ass Facebook application, not the current one
A killer Twitter app or why not just buy Gravity and port it natively with all devices, Twitter bought Tweetie for the Iphone and now its a native app with some killer functionality so in my opinion Gravity and Jan Ole Suhr can fill that void and ramify from the Gravity framework to other apps, just a thought Nokia but why compete with the best application out there, hmm.

Guys we also need a revamped PIM set of applications but ahh tons more, I digress, you guys already know but you must be like the American company Nike.

Ovi Stat link

A new twitter client has arisen for Symbian with a very unique and cute name, its called Trill. It looks very basic and certainly not at the level of Gravity but its in the same leagues as other 3rd tier twitter clients, you really just have to see for yourself. Its free and perhaps its a good match for someone who just needs something basic. Ovi store link

via Fonearena

Very interesting and check out the price $917.82 dollars, oh my, I can put another $70 buy a Mac Book for that price. In my opinion, the N8 is too overpriced, Nokia should price this handset at a modest $479.99 USD to garnish market share. I’m afraid at those skyrocket prices we’ll be looking at another Nokia N900 ordeal.

Web site already has available for sale the Nokia N8 for 6300 yuan = 917.82 USD, also have a physical store located in Beijing. You´ll see all the images in the store and it seems that it is not a fake or a clone N8. CEO Lee Williams also announced via Twitter Symbian this week They will make an important announcement and he is already in China and although officially announced another brand with the New Renovated Symbian, here is the proof that he has gone on sale first Nokia Symbian N8

via the very resourceful Nokiausers forum

Its certainly nice to see folks getting excited over Nokia products, here we see a crowd of Vietnamese folks dying to get the Nokia C3.

Another great update to the very useful LCG Photobook, follow through on the forums for the link.

LCG PhotoBook is handy photo browser and photo viewer to display digital photo images, photography taken with your mobile phones, cell phone or downloaded from PC.
Application contains a graphic photo browser and photo viewer which allow you to preview, zoom, slideshow and many other functionalities. Viewer supports Google maps, so you can open in details the GPS tags with Google Maps mobile or with mobile phone web browser

It seems like the Silicon Valley folks are chiming in according to Bloomberg and telling us what they think Nokia needs amidsts all the turbulence that’s been going lately, with talks of ousting OPK and the Nokia N8 coming soon, it almost seems like it too much to handle to quick. Only time will tell and the devices will speak for themselves. The N8 has lots of expectations and I surely do hope that Nokia can meet those. I cheering for you guys Nokia, make it happen, dazzle us with your innovations.

The Apple brand promises fun, the BlackBerry brand stands for serious work, but what does Nokia stand for?,” said Ulf Moritzen, who helps manage 1 billion euros ($1.29 billion) at Hamburg-based Aramea Asset Management including Nokia shares. “Nokia needs someone who positions the company in an aggressive and clear way.

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