It was only a few weeks ago when I was lamenting about the lack of smart syncing between the Nokia N95 phone and Mac desktop. Even though Nokia offers Nokia Music Manager, it is hardly a software you can recommend to people addicted to the iTunes’ easy music and photo syncing. It only syncs music, and it a bit difficult to work with, one of the reasons I have stopped using it after trying it out.

Nevertheless, a source of ours tells us that Nokia is about to release an upgrade to this software - the Nokia Media Manager - which will allow two-way syncing of not only music, but more importantly, photos. In other words, all the snaps you took on your Nokia N95 can now be simply synced with iPhoto. While I have not used the software so far, our source says it is a definite improvement over the previous version. The software, apparently will support most of the new N-Series phones.

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Britain’s Carphone Warehouse has started sales of a black fashion phone model from the world’s top cell phone maker Nokia (NOK1V.HE: Quote, Profile , Research) which has not yet been unveiled by the Finnish company.

The mobile retailer’s Internet sales site on Monday advertised the Nokia 8600 — similar to Nokia’s strong-selling top-of-the-range 8800 — and said it will come with a 2 megapixel camera, music player and FM radio, in a stainless steel casing.

The Web site said it was an exclusive offer and that deliveries would start next week.