Nokia is making VoIP more difficult for Nseries smartphones

In an obvious tip of the hat towards carriers, Nokia has quietly begun removing the Internet Telephony application from its newer Nseries devices, which run the S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 user interface. While this will indeed make it more difficult to use VoIP services on your Nseries device, since it will now require 3rd party application support, it does not remove the VoIP abilities entirely.

The Internet Telephony application found on earlier Nseries devices made it simple for SIP providers to simply send a settings file that would use the built-in VoIP application. Newer handsets still have the ability to use VoIP, but providers will need to develop their own applications, rather than being able to simply send settings to the user's handset.

Nokia issued an official statement, saying that they're anxious to work with developers through the Forum Nokia site to create these new applications.