Nokia today announced that it has signed on as a global sponsor of the Live 8 concerts on July 2, 2005, organized by Sir Bob Geldof to call on the eight leaders of the world's richest countries to act for debt cancellation, increased aid and trade justice for the world's poorest people at the G8 summit six days later.

SCN LTD, a leading creator of VoIP Wireless LAN technology, today launched Truphone, the world's first fully converged solution - allowing people to make VoIP calls on the Series 60 Platform. Developed by Nokia, Series 60 is the world's leading smartphone platform, with millions of devices already in the market. Truphone allows you to carry only one phone for both fixed and mobile use - seamlessly roaming between Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 3G - connecting via SIP to the public phone system. The Series 60 smartphone architecture provides users with all the basic and advanced cellular phone functions in a compact device characterized by a large color screen, rich communications and enhanced applications.

Last week we looked at Project Professional, an application which used the Sony Ericsson P910i's Java support for project management. Sony Ericsson have a comprehensive Java strategy, from their Symbian OS powered phones down. This paper from Sony Ericsson explains the strategy.

Sony Ericsson has adopted a Java platform strategy for its mobile phones which we believe is key to supporting content developers in their struggle to create applications for a multitude of phones. Currently, there are five Java Platform versions used for Sony Ericsson feature and mass-market phones, and two for Sony Ericsson smartphones. By making Sony Ericsson's Java Platform Strategy public to the developer community, our aim is to help developers concentrate on enhancing the game-playing experience for the end-user instead of spending all of their time on porting issues. When new Java Platform versions are introduced in the future, we plan on making these public also.