Details on the Nokia E63 Surface

Looks like we have even more of the all too rare Nokia + QWERTY combination headed our way, in the form of the mysterious E63 device. Without a side-by-side, the E63 would be hard to tell apart from the E71, which we would consider to be a good thing.

The main difference between the two is price. The E63 will make you drop less bills for ownership, while still including a very solid feature set in the form of HSDPA support, a QVGA screen, 3.5mm A/V jack, microSD card slot, Bluetooth and 2MP camera.

There is a but though. The beautiful metal construction of the E71 has been dropped for the all-plastic variety. Ah well, the cheaper price tag had to come from somewhere.  This model, like the E71, will come in variants, the E63-1 for Europe, the E63-2 for those not wanting a camera, and the E63-3 for North America.

[Via GSMArena]

Google Maps for Mobile and More on S60

A recent contest held to showcase the capabilities of S60, the Symbian Smartphone OS owned mostly by Nokia, recently came to close. Submissions came in the form of YouTube videos and the winners have been announced. That gives us an awesome opportunity to showcase to you some of the things that S60 can help you do:

Here’s a video showing Google Maps integration on S60, illustrating how to find a pizza shop with an amusing (but quickly annoying) old-style Charlie Chaplin video:

Here’s an example of Joikuspot running on a Nokia N95. It will allow you to connect to the internet on your desktop computer using the connection from your mobile phone:

Are you a nature person, outdoors person or hiker? Are you a dog lover who goes on frequent walks with your pup? Or, maybe you are abandoned on an island but have an S60 based phone and want to know more about the landmarks and geography around you. This video/application is for you:

One winner posted a helpful, 5-minute video with various S60 tips and tricks. Definitely worth a watch if you’ve got an S60 based device:

We’ve left out another Tips video winner which was painfully boring and monotone. The Yoyap! video posted by Rita was also too annoying to include. We wouldn’t wish a forced viewing of these upon our worst enemies, much less our readers.

So, for the original posting with all the winners listed visit the S60 Blog. We originally found this on the Official Google Mobile Blog who were apparently excited that a winner featured Google Maps for Mobile. Seems kind of like an NBA player being excited that their hometown newspaper wrote an article about them, does it not?

Oh, and congrats to all the winners… even those we refused to post here.