MWC: Nokia kicks things off

Nokia's unveiled a widely-trailed clutch of phones - no, no Nok-iPhone - including the 6210 Navigator, which has pedestrian-focussed GPS augmented with a compass (I guess flux-gate, but don't know yet) and accelerometer. Location-based services work a lot better the more inputs you can give them, so those are good ideas.

Then there's the N96, which is is the follow-up to the N95 but with video in mind. It has a kick-stand so you can prop it up on a desktop to watch stuff, 2.8 inch display (that looks rather special, to be honest) a DVB-H receiver for mobile telly in places where they do that, 16GB of storage expandable to 32GB through MicroSDHC, 5 megapixel camera that does 'DVD-like' video capture. HSDPA (well, you can't be a serious phone without it). And a 3.5mm headphone socket. Rah.

And the N78, which is an update to the N73 and has HSDPA, FM transmitter - play your phone music on home or car radio - 3.2 megapixel camera, and geotagging: take a picture, and the phone puts the GPS co-ordinates in the metadata. Bung it on Flickr over HSDPA or Wi-Fi: beats postcards. 8GB. Yada.