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The Nokia 6630 Music Edition has been designed with enhanced music functionality to make it convenient for you to take your music collection with you while on the move.  Shipping later this month, the Nokia 6630 Music Edition is available for European, Middle Eastern and African markets.

Told you you were going to be hearing a lot more about Mobile TV.  According to Nokia:

In a UK first, EastEnders, Coronation Street, CSI and Lost are just some of the TV programmes up to 400 O2 customers, living and working in Oxford, will be able to watch live on an advanced mobile phone from next week.
 
O2 and Arqiva (previously known as NTL Broadcast) have teamed up with Nokia as well as the leading terrestrial and satellite broadcasters to kick-off the UK’s first trial of full multi-channel mobile TV. 16 channels are being offered to O2 customers, including BBC ONE, BBC TWO, BBC News 24, ITV 1, ITV 2, Channel 4 and Five, which will provide a core of mainstream channels coupled with programmes from British Eurosport, Cartoon Network, CNN, Discovery Channel, MTV, ShortsTV, Sky News, Sky Sports News and Sky Travel.
 
Customers will be able to select their favourite programme from an on-screen service guide, search for specific items as well as set their handset to alert them when a show starts. The trial will run for up to six months and is designed to test and showcase the televisual capabilities of the next generation mobile services. It will look at how people choose to catch up on their favourite TV shows, how they watch the latest music videos and keep up to date with the news and sport when on the move, and provide an understanding of how much customers are willing to pay for the service.

Sony Ericsson have announced a new addition to its Walkman™ phone family – the W550 – an affordable phone that offers great quality stereo music and integrates a 1.3 megapixel camera, full Internet browsing capability and a credible games console, all in a compact and stylish swivel phone design. This new Walkman phone will appeal principally to expressive fun seekers who enjoy life to the full and want to take their music with them everywhere they go. If you’re an “expressive fun seeker” (love those PR people and their fancy words :), check out the full details.

Ever since BlackBerry turned a nation of phone users into email-addicts, most mobile phones these days enable you to access your email.

However, to set your phone up for email access requires a few steps that aren’t immediately obvious. Fortunately, help is at hand. This How To will guide you through the process, helping you to configure your phone to access an existing email account.

There are now 2 billion mobile phones in use around the world! According to a report by Wirless Intelligence, “the middle of September 05 saw a significant milestone reached in the cellular world as the total number of connections worldwide passed through 2 billion. According to our calculations this happened on Sunday 18th September. The growth rate is impressive – after clocking up 1 billion in 2002, 20 years after cellular was first launched, the 2nd billion came up in just 3 years.”

The Register adds that “most of the growth now is obviously in large developing markets, such as China, India and Africa along with Eastern Europe and Latin America. Western Europe is pretty much mined out, and penetration is expected to exceed 100 per cent in the region by 2007. According to Nokia, which Gartner says sold nearly 32 per cent of all phones in Q2 this year, getting to three billion will take another five years. ”

Damn, five whole years to reach another billion people. Seems the mobile phone industry’s in decline!

Here’s something we’ll all be hearing a lot more about real soon – mobile TV. I’ve always thought TV on your mobile made perfect sense. I mean, interactivity’s all very well and good, and cramming gadget-fest features like cameras and MP3 players into your phone is great, but what you really want to do when you’ve a few minutes to kill is to sit down and watch the telly! And I don’t mean poor video-clips of Big Brother or a 10 second clip of a goal being scored, either. I mean proper telly. And, thanks to the mobile phone operators, handset device manufacturers, network operators, broadcast engineers and content providers (phew!), it looks like our wishes are about to be granted – very very soon.