Nokia WRT is a development and delivery platform that allows the creation of applications (widgets) based on standard web technologies. Forum Nokia have just release a video demo of the Guarana UI Library – A complete UI and application framework built on top of jQuery to create and deploy Web Runtime widgets in a friendly way. Check out the goods after the jump.

My buddy Norman John of SymbianWorld and four other Symbian experts were interviewed by Symbian France over the weekend, in a Q&A session to discuss the expectations from Nokia in 2010. The panel were asked to highlight Symbian’s strengths and weaknesses, identify Symbian’s biggest competitor and suggest an application the would each like to see on the Symbian Platform this year.

Over 100 fans were invited to shoot the official music video for the Noisettes new single Saturday Night, using only Nokia mobile devices. Under the watchful eye of a leading music promo director, Kim Gehrig, the fans filmed the Noisettes playing in a disused swimming pool in East London capturing all the energy and excitement of an exceptional Saturday Night out. The fans were both the cast and crew. Check out the video after the break.

Nokia plans to develop its operations at the Salo plant in Finland to ensure production is focused fully on the high-value smartphone market, especially in Europe, and it also intends to further increase speed and efficiency of its device production. In the process of this development it is expected that 285 employees effected. Juha Putkiranta, Senior Vice President of Markets, Nokia, stated that, “Salo is a crucial part of Nokia’s global manufacturing network. Plans involving changes to employees are always painful, and they are set in motion only after thorough consideration. However, with these plans our aim is to ensure the plant’s future competitiveness and its special role as one best suited to the production of high value mobile devices.”

Today we’d like to give you a quick update and let you know that our S60 5th Edition Applications download page has been updated, where you will find a nice, easy to view list of games and apps for your S60 5th Edition device. We will continue to update this page every week if not daily, so make sure you keep popping by. Our Maemo5 Applications section also has a great deal of apps available to download, and is currently being revised in order to provide you with more resources, and make installing applications easier. We also have a S60 3rd Edition Applications section which, to be fair we have neglected a little. Over the next few weeks we will also be updating this section with new applications, so make sure you stay tuned for that.

The Nokia Beta Labs have released a great new toll for S60 5th Editiondevices. Nokia Diagnostics is a new experimental application that makes it easy to diagnose and troubleshoot situations on your mobile phone by running various tests. “Our intention is to create a solution for helping millions of Nokia users diagnose, troubleshoot, and configure their devices with ease on their own. We believe that exposing this idea to the Beta Labs community and sharing this application prototype would help us realise just that.” Check out the video tutorial after the break. You can download Nokia Diagnostics from our S60 5th Edition applications download page.

Who needs gaming keys on the phone when you can hook up one of the best games console controllers in the world to your device. Check out this awesome video demonstration after the break, of the setup allowing you to play emulated SNES games on the Nokia N900 using a PS3 Sixaxis controller.

It appears to be that time of year when Nokia push out new firmware updates to enhance their Nokia devices. Today the Nokia 5730XM gets its update to v200.12.87, bringing noticeable speed improvements in the web browser and photo gallery. New firmware updates generally contain many bug fixes and optimizations necessary for the software on your device to perform better, therefore we recommend you always keep your device up to date. Unfortunately there is no official changelog for the update, however there are a few noted changes after the break, so feel free to add to them in the comments.

Nokia today announced the Nokia 6303i classic, a sophisticated and compact device that follows in the footprints of the Nokia 6303 classic and builds on the proven formula that made Nokia the world leader in mobile phones. The device is great value for money with its amazing feature list and an estimated retail price of EUR 105, before taxes and subsidies.

The Symbian Foundation has just announced that Symbian, the worlds most popular smartphone operating system, is now officially open source. In 2008, Symbian Software Limited was acquired by Nokia for USD 410 million, and in April 2009 a new independent non-profit organisation called Symbian Foundation was established. The foundation includes Nokia, AT&T, LG, Motorola, NTT Docomo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone. The Symbian Foundation’s decision to make its code open source means that any organisation or individual can now use and modify the code for ‘any purpose.’