fringsters listen up, your local fring blogger is in the process of releasing the Worlds first mobi guide to Snakes of South Africa. This educational guide will soon be available freely on the Nokia Ovi store.

Due to time limitations the app/Mbook only includes a handful of the many snakes found throughout South Africa. I started with the most dangerous and common snakes and once I have more time and have sourced more development funding I will update the app to include all the snakes found in our country, I will also add support for more handsets and future plans include the addition of multi language support.

The guide has been entered into the Nokia Calling All Innovators Developer Challenge and I look forward to reading what everyone think of this unique South African App.

If like me you love playing with new things, drop me a line via Twitter or email ( simon AT fring DOT com) and I will happily send you the app.

Update: Download the application directly to your mobile handset by clicking here from your mobile browser.

Btw the guide has been tested and works on all Nokia Symbian S60 5th edition handsets . (Including Nokia N97, N97 mini, 5800, 5530 and X6 handsets.)

Nokia sure knows how to heat up the airwaves, yesterday at Nokia World 09 we saw the release of 3 great new symbian handsets The X6, X3 and N97 mini. Then to top off the day Nokia gave more info on 2 brilliant new products that are going to change the mobile industry forever. The Nokia Booklet 3G and N900.

The Nokia booklet 3G, is a Windows 7 based machine which comes jam packed with 120 Gig harddrive an Intel Atom processor, 10.1-inch HD display, Bluetooth, Wifi, hot swappable 3G, GPS and a built in SD card reader. To sweeten the deal it comes with a 12 hour battery life. Nokia says the recommended retail price should be about €575.00 (R6270.00) Not bad for this dream machine.

The Nokia N900 is the first linux based mobile handset delivered by Nokia. This uber cool device comes with a 3.5 inch touch-sensitive widescreen display, 1GB of application memory, 32Gigs of onboard storage (space for an addition 16gigs via SD plugin), Bluetooth, GPS, WiFi and much much more. I think this is possibly the hottest handset to come from Nokia this yearbut don’t take my word for it though, checkout the video below and decide for yourself.

Nokia fans will be happy to know that the Nokia X6 comes with music will hit our shelves by November 09. Sadly though there is still no word on when we will see the Nokia booklet 3G or N900.

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.