That right folks, your local fring Blogger has been invited to attend the much anticipated Nokia underground fusion extravaganza, to be held in Johannesburg on the 16th of July.  The event, press conference and cocktail party will celebrate the launch of 3 great new Nokia products:  The Nokia N97, N86 8MP and Ovi Store.

Attendance is by invitation only which means only a few privileged individuals will get in the door.  The good news for fringsters though is that I will be live blogging and tweeting from the event to give you the full benefit, feel free to follow me on twitter for live updates.   That said if any of the other invited attendees want to meet up with me at or after the event feel free to drop me a line [simon <AT> fring <DOT> com]

See you guys in Johannesburg.

The ever sexy Nokia E75 has just landed in South Africa and is now available on all networks.

The handset “sports a 3.2 megapixel camera, 2.5 inch QVGA display, Nokia maps and GPS assistance, 50MB of internal memory and a 4GB MicroSD with support for up to 16GB.”

What makes this news even better is that the Nokia E75 officially supports fring.

So if Nokia smartphones are your forte, why not make the upgrade to this sexy fringing device today

fringsters everywhere have been asking for it and we are happy to say the day has arrived that we invite the ever popular totally sexy Nokia 5800 Xpressmusic aka Tube to the fring family.

And before we go any further, a big shout out and thanks to those fringsters who were part of the early access group – your feedback has helped us create a fantastic fringing experience, tailor-made for the 5800’s touch screen capability and cool new features.

As most of you probably already know the 5800 comes with “3.2-inch haptic touch-screen, 3.2-megapixel AF camera with dual-LED flash, VGA front camera, A-GPS, HDSPA, and up to 16GB of storage via microSD” the features are so good that some in the industry have gone as far as calling the 5800 XpressMusic the “iPhone killer“ and looking at the amount of requests we received for support, I’d say they were not that far off.

So what are you still waiting for, go get it quick and as usual please let us know what you think

Have fun

The fring team

Hey guys

Just a quick one to let you know that, as always, our R&D team has been hard at work, going through your feedback, and we are pleased to release a new version for Nokia Symbian 9 handsets, with software improvements and bug fixes which make the fring experience even smoother and more reliable.

As always, we’d love to hear your feedback.

ps: All you Nokia 5800 users, we haven’t forgotten you…your handsets will be supported in the very near future.

Nokia is the largest mobile phone manufactures on earth, producing more than 1 000 000 handsets every day, 14 handsets every second. WOW now isn’t thats impressive. Have you ever wondered though how Nokia tests these handsets to be sure we get the best possible user experience, after all it’s that great user experience thats leads to sales of more than 20 000 Nokia handsets every hour of every day.

Well the good news is that frings Indian Blogger Frazier, found a handy video which shows just how Nokia tests their phones and he though it would be good to share with everyone.

Thanks Frazier

Update: fring now supports the all new Nokia 5800 – Get it here.

Hot on the tail of handsets like the iPhone 3G and the HTC G1, Nokia announced yesterday the release the much awaited 5800 XpressMusic codenamed TUBE. The 5800 XpressMusic is the first handset running on Symbian S60 5th edition.

This sexy looking handsets comes with some great features including “3.2-inch haptic touch-screen, 3.2-megapixel AF camera with dual-LED flash, VGA front camera, A-GPS, HDSPA, and up to 16GB of storage via microSD” the features are so good that some in the industry have gone as far as calling the 5800 XpressMusic the “iPhone killer“. It sure sounds like a killer handset and we cant wait to welcome this baby to the fring family.

Sadly though there is still no news on when this handset will reach the South African market.

Here’s a creative look at how multimedia, entertainment and communication have evolved from the big screen to the small screen. Welcome to the 4th screen.

Thanks to Tyler Reed for originaly blogging this video and to Scott for linking it via Twitter.