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Planning to attend CTIA Wireless IT or in the Bay Area anyway October 24th?

Check out the Nokia Enterprise Developer Workshop. Among other things we’ll be covering new Series 60 and Series 80 technologies and handsets such as the 9500 and 9300.

Bonus tip: Register today and you’ll also be eligible for free admission to the CTIA WIT exhibits and keynotes.

Nokia introduced the Series 80 based Nokia 9300 today. Read MobileBurn’s review and check out more photos from the Nokia press site.

The 9300 will support Blackberry email access along with other Series 80 based devices such as the 9500. In fact, one way to look at the 9300 is as a slimmed down 9500 for those with a “pocket space premium” (I definitely find myself in that camp quite often). Two areas trimmed to shrink the 9300’s size: digicam and WiFi support. If one or both of those is critical for your application development, look at the 9500 or other Nokia cellcams such as the 7610 instead.

Developer details: The 9300 is the second Series 80 Developer Platform 2.0 based device announced (the first was the 9500). 9300 supports development using either of the two J2ME stacks as well as C++:

• J2ME CDC/FP/PP and CLDC/MIDP 2.0 and related APIs
• Symbian OS 7.0s

Nokia and Six Apart have announced support for Typepad in Nokia Lifeblog.

Lifeblog’s blogging support will be Atom based. For more information, read Christian Lindholm’s post on Lifeblog and Typepad, learn more about Typepad’s implementation of the Atom API, and watch the Nokia Lifeblog site for more details. I need to dig into the details myself and verify if I’ll be able to Lifeblog to my own Atom enabled site…more to come on that as I get the skinny.

BTW, if you’re interested in Lifeblog you might also want to check out Nokia Album, available now for 7610. Russ wrote a short review last month if you’d like a third party take on it.

Nokia and Metrowerks announced a number of related things today including Nokia’s purchase of Metrowerks Symbian OS development tools.

Other details: Nokia will make employment offers to approximately two dozen Metrowerks employees who develop and support the technology being purchased. Nokia will also license a number of core Metrowerks technologies.

Click here for details from the joint press release.