As Apple seems to have all but forgotten that it was digital music that originally drew so many people over to its camp--with the iPhone supposed to have been the logical cellular successor to the iPhone--one of its top competitors in the smartphone game, Nokia, is taking up the torch.

Today, Nokia introduced the new Nokia 5630 XpressMusic, a smartphone specifically targetted towards music lovers. Powered by the Symbian S60 OS, this flashy candybar 3G smartphone supports Nokia's Come With Music service that grants users access to millions of major label songs. It has an FM Tuner with internet radio. And it sports a snazzy "Say and Play" feature that lets you speak the new of an artist or track to hear it played.

To top it off, unlike most non-N Series handsets, the XpressMusic also comes with N-Gage, a Nokia service that grants users access to all the mobile video games available for Nokia devices.

Thanks to Google (of course) anyone with an internet-enabled smartphone can visit Google's summergames page for mobile devices and get all the updated information they could possibly want on almost 40 Olympic events. Among the information listed there is the full schedule of each event and the winners (once known). Best of all, the mobile site is available in more than 60 countries and in 36 languages.

Video coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics is also available for people on a BlackBerry or a Palm OS or Windows Mobile device, through MobiTV.

Alternatively, sports fans can also hook themselves up with a SlingMedia Slingbox and redirect any program coming through their television to their smartphone device - including NBC's coverage of the Olympics.
The Slingbox, however, is the only option with an extra up front cost (for both the box and the mobile software), and is available on Windows Mobile, Symbian S60, and Palm OS devices.

The application, called WalkingHotSpot, currently supports 3G smartphones running the Symbian S60 or Windows Mobile operating systems, but that’s just the beginning. TapRoot promises support for other OS’s are on the way.

Currently, WalkingHotSpot is being marketted strictly to wireless carriers, but plans are in effect to market the software to consumers any day now.

The technology, promoted as being energy-efficient, user-friendly, and – above all – secure, is also poised to allow smartphone users to have WiFi service activated and make and receive voice phone calls simultaneously, though at the moment only devices on the AT&T HSDPA/UMTS service can do so.

At the WalkingHotSpot website, smartphone owners interested in the service can sign up to be notified as soon as a demo download is available for their system.