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Nokia Conversations which calls itself, "The Official Nokia Blog" is one of the handset maker's primary ways of interacting with users. It's really more of a tech news site than a typical dry corporate blog. Conversations is about firmware updates, game and app reviews and recommendations and coverage of Nokia in the news.  And in keeping with the blog's name it's a two way communication channel, reader comments are accepted and encouraged.  Nokia doesn't appear to censor negative comments either as it's very easy to find them on the site.

Conversations is available on the mobile web too.  For the mobile edition Nokia is using a custom WordPress template.

What began as Lenny Bonsignore's personal blog, "Mobile Innovation" has evolved this year into "Nokia Innovation" one of the leading US based Nokia specific tech blogs.  Lenny's been joined by 4 other bloggers and the site is now updated daily with fresh Nokia hardware and software news, reviews and tips.

Tools, tips, applications and specs for for all Symbian devices from the Psion PDAs to the latest phones. Some coverage of other platforms as well. Home of the Phones Show video podcast published weekly since 2006.

News, downloads FAQ and tips for Symbian phones. Updated daily.

Nokia's global user support forums are now available in a mobile friendly version. Read and share advice and tips with thousands of Nokia users from all over the world.

A UK based news blog, updated several times a day, that covers Nokia hardware and software with news,reviews and tips on how to "Tap into your Nokia's hidden talents"

Download Freeware applications for Psion PDAs and Symbian Smartphone

Written by @MikeyFin, an English mobile radio engineer living and working in Finland. Project - DNA reviews phones, apps, software and accessories.

From the same team as PalmFreeware.mobi, PocketPCFreeware.mobi and SmartphoneFreeware.mobi .The Symbian edition has over 1220 freeware software downloads for the various flavors of this, the most popular of smartphone platforms. Unlike Palm and Windows Mobile where backward compatibility is the rule, Symbian is fragmented into at least four different, non-binary compatible versions. This site would be more useful if you could filter on say only UIQ3 software. You can kind of do that by using the search function and including the platform name in the query but an explicit filter would still be nice.

Remember Mathew Miller at ZD Net's Smartphones and Cell Phones? He's the guy who wrote the ultimate T-Mobile G1 launch day review with  five videos and 260 images including a shot of every single screen and dialog box on the phone!

Matthew's back with a new site, his third and it covers my favorite mobile hardware brand. It's called Nokia Experts and the topic is Nokia phones and software for them. Nokia Experts is available boyj on the full web and on the mobile web.  The mobile edition is created with Alex King's WordPress Mobile Edition plug-in. There is no special mobile URL, if you go to nokiaexperts.com with a mobile phone you should get the mobile formatted version

Mathew has been witting about portable electronics since the days of the original Palm Pilot.  think he started at PDAGeek and then went on to create two blogs under the ZD Net Blogs umbrella; The Mobile Gadgeter and Smartphone and Cellphones I've been enjoying his writing for a long time, he's an excellent writer, his reviews are very through and he doesn't hesitate to point out the flaws in the devices he covers.

November 2011 - No longer updated

The N97 was Nokia's flagship model, until the N8 came out.  It didn't get very good reviews initially but with release of updated firmware it became  more usable. The N97 sold like hotcakes too, moving two million units in the first three months to become Nokia's best selling Symbian device.

Some of those two million have likely been to N97 Fanatics to read the best break down I've seen of what exactly is in firmware 2.0 as well as a comprehensive hands-on 2.0 review.

N97 Fanatics is Mike Macias' newest site. Mike ran Nokia's S60 Ambassador program, until it was recently shut down, and has a couple of other model specific sites; E71fanatics.com and theN82blog.com.  N97 Fanatics looks to be a great place for N97 users and prospective buyers to hang out and read the extensive coverage of the phone as well as apps, games and themes for it. There are also inks to the best current deals on the phone and an active N97 users forum on the site.

The mobile edition of N97 Fanatics uses Crowd Favorite's. WordPress Mobile Edition plugin to generate mobile formatted versions of all the site's pages except the forums.  There is at least a link on the mobile site to the desktop version of the forums, which load quickly and are actually quite usable in either the Nokia browser or Opera Mini.

No longer updated

The official voice of The Symbian Foundation. Content includes news, product announcements and high-level technical discussion relating to the popular open source operating system.

The Symbian Foundation has tranisitioned to a licensing body with no permanent staff. This single page site is all that's left of its once huge web presence.

This site is loaded with hundreds of tips for Symbian phones and apps as well as reviews. Even experienced Symbian users can  learn some new things from this site.  I just discovered the N8's hidden super macro mode.

No longer mobile friendy and hasn't been updated in six months.