Nokia World 09 in Stuttgart Germany is really heating up the fringing airways.

Earlier today Nokia announced “the launch of the new Nokia X6. Capable of playing up to 35 hours of music, the Nokia X6 is a powerful entertainment device, combining 32GB of on-board memory with a slick 3.2″ finger touch interface.”

The hard working boys and girls at Nokia also announced the launch of the Nokia X3 which “is designed for music lovers and is the first Series 40 Ovi Store-enabled device. The Nokia X3 is a sleek and compact music device that comes with stereo speakers, built-in FM radio, and a 3.2 megapixel camera.”

Both the X6 and X3 are sold as comes with music devices.

If that was not enough, Nokia further intorduced the Nokia N97 mini. The N97 mini “packs 8GB of storage, a 3.2-inch touchscreen and full QWERTY keyboard into its 14.2mm thin frame.”

These great new handsets from Nokia will soon be available and we can’t wait to welcome them to the fring family.

Hi guys,

We’ve just released a new version for you, S60 (Nokia) users.
The new version provides an even better and much faster Twitter experience; solves connectivity issues including fixes to some issues fringsters have been reporting in certain connectivity states & includes a few other bug fixes, all making for an even better fringing experience!

Users of Nokia’s latest E52, 5630, 5530 and E72 devices – we didn’t forget you either. We followed through with our promise to spread the fringing freedom to you, as well, all reported issues have been addressed and resolved.

The new version (3.40.29/29) is now available on our download page.

As always, your comments & suggestions are welcome.
The fringTEAM

fringsters as you may have seen in our last post, Nokia last night announced that ‘Comes with Music‘, “a pioneering digital entertainment service, is now available in South Africa. The service, offers consumers a year of unlimited access to the entire Nokia Music Store catalogue.

Comes With Music devices enable the consumer to download an unlimited number of the over 5-million digital tracks available on the South African Nokia Music Store http://music.nokia.co.za for a one year period. In addition, the consumer is able to keep all their downloaded music from the diverse catalogue of international and local artists - even when the service period of one year is over – on both their Comes With Music device and dedicated PC.

Comes with Music will be available exclusively across a range of Nokia devices through MTN, Cell C, Nashua Mobile and Autopage cellular. Devices include the Nokia 5130 XpressMusic Comes with Music edition – exclusive to MTN, the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic and the Nokia 5630 XpressMusic available across all four channels.”

Comes With Music is a great new service, the only question I have is when will we see Comes With Fring

If you happen to have any one of these great new Nokia handsets be sure to download fring here.

fringsters put your hands together for the one and only Nokia 5530 Xpress Music.

This sleek and sexy Nokia handset is now officially available in South Africa and we are excited to announce that fring already lets you take your friends mobile with this great new Nokia device.

Although “Nokia might have been late to the touchscreen game,” it sure is “making up for lost time now by following up the successful 5800 XpressMusic and N97 with the budget 5530 XpressMusic.”

Most of the western world is abuzz after Apple recently introduced the Apple iPhone 3Gs. Here in Africa though things are different. Most of us cannot afford the high tech gadgetry on offer from Apple. I mean lets face it, most people here in Africa are just looking for something cool yet low cost which will do the job and boy oh boy does the Nokia 5530 do just that.

Nokia last night together with the launch of the Nokia 5530 and 5630 Xpress Music also launched “Comes with music.” “The service, which offers consumers a year of unlimited access to the entire Nokia Music Store catalogue, is now available in South Africa. Comes With Music devices enable the consumer to download an unlimited number of the over 5-million digital tracks available on the South African Nokia Music Store http://music.nokia.co.za for a one year period. In addition, the consumer is able to keep all their downloaded music from the diverse catalogue of international and local artists - even when the service period of one year is over – on both their Comes With Music device and dedicated PC.”

This is why in my humble opinion, companies like Nokia will always have market share in Africa. They are making sure that people of all walks of life are able to groove to the beat on a sexy touch screen device. Thank you Nokia

fringsters if you happen to be one of the lucky few who already has your hands on the Nokia 5530 what are you waiting for download fring today. If you are still thinking of upgrading to a new device, think no more, head over to your nearest cellphone dealer and grab yourself one of these beauties while stocks last.

Note: I will review the Nokia 5530 more closely in the coming weeks.

During the 2nd quarter of what has probably been the worst year for global economies it is good to see that smartphones sales world wide are still booming with over 41 million handsets shipped. This is but a small number when you think that during the same time 228 million regular ‘junky’ handsets were shipped world wide.

During this quarter Apple reportedly sold 5.2 Million iPhone handsets, while Nokia reported sales of 5 million E71 and 6.8 million 5800 Xpress Music handsets, RIM sold around 8 million BlackBerries.

It’s going to be interesting to see how the fring family grows in the next few months as more and more people start to investigate the cool features of their newly aquaired smartphone handsets. We look forward to welcoming the 41 million new Smartphone users world wide to the fring family

Breaking news: Nokia has just officially launched 2 new handsets into the South African Market, earlier today we saw the release of the Nokia N97 now put your handset together for the Nokia N86 8MP.

“The Nokia N86 8MP is a 2-way slide dual-mode mobile computer supporting WCDMA/HSDPA, EGSM, and WLAN. Enjoy videos, music, and graphics on the 2.6” Active Matrix OLED display and orientation sensor. Find directions and locations with the integrated A-GPS and included maps. Take photos with a 8-megapixel autofocus camera with Carl Zeiss optics, Tessar lens and dual LED flash. Additional features include Flash lite 3.1, USB charging with simultaneous data transfer, UPnP and TV out.”

The good news for fringsters is that fring already supports this amazing handset. So what are you waiting for watch the video below and then jump in line and order your Nokia N86 8MP today.

P.S. Those lucky enough to already have this handset can download fring here.

We have just been introduced to the super sexy Nokia N97 handset. Which btw is now officially available in South Africa.

“The Nokia N97 is a S60 5th Edition mobile computer with a large 3,5“ TFT color display with resistive touch screen and tactile feedback. The device provides excellent user experience for internet and entertainment by combining qwerty keyboard with touch UI and Home screen functionality. Use the N97 to connect to mobile broadband using WLAN or HSDPA (3.5G). Find directions and locations with the integrated A-GPS and included maps. Additional features include game titles with N-Gage, a 5 mega pixel camera with dual LED flash and automatic geotagging of images and videos.”

The handset is easy to use and after playing with it for a few miutes can tell you that its a dream machine.

It’s all good news for fringsters today as we already fully support the Nokia N97 so if you are one of the lucky few who already own this device or if you are planning to purchase it in the coming weeks, don’t forget to take your friends mobile by getting downloading fring here.