When I couldn’t find Skype for Symbian at the Ovi Store here in the US after the announcement, I thought there was probably a temporary delay. However, a Skype representative told Venturebeat that the app was intentionally excluded to drive more attention to a recent deal with Verizon Wireless. Read on for the quote.

If you have been live streaming videos from Qik on your Nokia phones, then you might like to know that Qik Premium was released today exclusively for the Ovi store. It gives you the ability to save your videos from qik.com in the mpeg-4 format, higher quality transcoding, and access to upcoming features.

Recent FCC documents show a Nokia device dubbed RM-612 that features WiFi 802.11 b/g, bluetooth, quadband GSM connectivity, and tri-band WCDMA connectivity (900/1900/2100 MHz). A separate document on a Nokia’s website connects the codename with its commercial name, Nokia C6-00. The only image available shows an outline with the FCC label.

The Symbian Foundation unveiled the Symbian^3 (S^3) platform on Monday at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. It will include significant usability and interface advances, HDMI support, multi-touch gesture, multi-pages homescreen, and more. The first devices using the OS are expected to ship Q3 this year. Nokia showed a preview of their vision of S^3 in a video.

It looks like the Maemo marketing team at the Nokia N900 London meetup got a little excited and said something they shouldn’t have. Ben Smith from The Really Mobile Project wrote that the team revealed on Wednesday that Nokia plans to drop Symbian from the Nseries line of devices in favour of Maemo by 2012. I’ve reached out to Nokia for comment and they say that the speculations are “completely premature.”