Of course, it will increased battery life of smartphone. Nokia also announced sales of Nokia N97 mini smartphones. It will appear in European stores this week and will cost 450 EUR (without taxes and subsidies).

Announcement of Nokia N97 mini in September, this phone is equipped with 3.2-inch touchscreen, slightly smaller than the “big brother” Nokia N97 and 8GB internal memory (compared to 32GB in Nokia N97). Otherwise, it has features like: sliding QWERTY keyboard, 5 megapixel camera, wireless communications and GPS. By the way, as of September 2009 was sold 2 million Nokia N97, quite possibly, Nokia N97 mini will repeat the success of its predecessor.

[ via Nokia ]

However, the announcement says that the Facebook 3.0 iPhone app is about 98% done with no real release date announced. They also added that users should expect a 3.1 update before the end of this summer that will add the much sought after Push Notifications.

But what will Facebook 3.0 bring? The “new” news feed, ability to “like” status, events with rsvp, notes, pages, better photo management and browsing, a new home screen, fixed comment notifications, SMS and call from friends screen, and auto-save so incoming calls don’t kill your unfinished messages.

To be exact, there are 15 core features of Facebook 3.0 as listed below:

• The “new” News Feed
• Like
• Events (including the ability to RSVP)
• Notes
• Pages
• Create new photo albums
• Upload photos to any album
• Zoom into photos
• Easier photo tagging
• Profile Pictures albums
• A new home screen for easy access to all your stuff, search, and notifications
• Add your favorite profiles and pages to the home screen
• Better Notifications (they link to the comments so you can reply)
• Quickly call or text people right from the Friends page
• Messages you are typing will be restored if you quit or are interrupted by a phone call

[ Source: Facebook

There are also a series of widget UI improvements included in the new software, such as the new facebook widget that fixes a problem of Home Screen background visible on soft-key area. The firmware 11.0.021 also comes with a series of UI transition error fixes (Portrait to/from landscape transition).

Btw, the following is the list of fixes and minor enhancements you can expect from this latest firmware:

• USB detection error fix
• PC does not detect N97 or USB charging connection not detected
• Widget
• Home screen online/offline widget crash fix
• Fix for “Alphabetical and Number input are mixed in facebook until end key is pressed
• Widget UI improvement – New facebook widget fixes a problem of Home Screen background visible on soft-key area
• Browser fixes to improve widgets stability
• MfE related fixes
• Partial fix for Messaging/calendar entry lost
• Mail for exchange calendar entry synchronization error fix
• UI transition error fixes (Portrait <-> landscape transition, there’s a home screen corruption)
• UI transition (Slowness and bad effects)
• Slow Touch UI response
• Picture of the device lock appears half of the screen when transitioning the UI sometimes
• Landscape: in some cases the soft buttons on touch (right hand) show the Home Screen in background (install maps.google.com)
• Photos thumbnail performance and stability improvements
• Device performance deteriorates when lots of content in the device – especially photos
• Partial fix no display backlight illumination when unlocking lock-key – CAP Genius reported already
• New version of Accueweather to improve the “Connection error” situation
• Device reset when browsing with high speed packet access (for Malaysia)
• “Browser soft key UI doesn’t work after putting Chinese character with qwerty keyboard”
• Java fixes (TCK, Pre-install app disappearing, *#7370#*)
• Operator fixes (CMCC, Hutchson and Telefonica, Vodafone)
• Ovi store client now embedded in the core image

So, whether you own an N96 or N97 mobile phone, you can start firing up Nokia PC Suite as there’s an appropriate update just waiting for you to download and install on your Nokia Nseries phone.

[ Source: Boy Genius Report ]