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- Touch-screen responsiveness gives tactile feedback and the fastest, most intuitive access to all the phone, web and multimedia features crammed inside - including music, video, gaming, social networking and messaging.

- Contacts carousel - one-touch access to 20 favorite contacts, each displaying their most recent emails, calls or social media updates and a thumbnail pic chosen by you.

- Media Bar pops-up to give quick access to instant messaging like Windows Live Messenger, on-board videos or YouTube, access to other sharing sites like Ovi Share, Flickr, Facebook, MySpace, VOX - or just to browse the web.

- Music features include a world-class quality music player for excellent audio quality, FM radio, stereo speakers with surround sound, dedicated full touch music keys, 4GB built-in storage expandable to 16GB for up to 12,000 songs with album art.

- Listen to music - plug in the superb Nokia Stereo Headset WH-205 that comes in the box, and features a great tangle-free lead, or plug your choice of headphones into the standard 3.5mm headphone jack, or listen over Bluetooth stereo audio.

- Synchronize and manage music with Nokia Music Store, upload and download tracks via WLAN, Bluetooth or MicroUSB. Manage playlists on the go, or via PC with Nokia Ovi Suite.

- 2.9-inch brilliant widescreen with up 16 million colors brings videos, album art, photos and phone menus vividly to life.

- Accelerometer automatically switches between landscape and portrait format whether you want use the phone, browse the web, watch a video or play games.

- 3.2 megapixel camera with flash and autofocus for snapping good quality photos and videos.

Nokia 5530 XpressMusic touch screen smartphone uses a scrolling 'people carousel' to view up to 20 friends' emails, phone calls, photos and social media updates

That 5800 XpressMusic phone Nokia's so proud of now has a variant: the 5530 XpressMusic. It's one of those 'the same, but different' jobs. Though perhaps a more fitting description would be 'the same, but with some 'good' syphoned off'.

You aren't left with a mere shadow of a phone, but rather one that's cheaper than the 5800 -- which is already free on sub-£20 per month contracts. It's got a 74mm (2.9-inch) touchscreen, a 3.2-megapixel autofocus camera, 70MB of internal memory (it comes with a 4GB microSD card for storing music), a 3.5mm headphone socket, stereo Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and the usual roster of mid-range Nokia features. It'll also support MP3, AAC and WMA music (including iTunes Plus downloads), as well as basic MPEG-4 video.

Unlike the 5800, the home screen on the 5530 will multitask with contacts at the top, your favourite four apps at the bottom and a music player widget in the centre. The interface on 5800 makes users choose between favourite people and favourite programs, a choice that leads to many excursions to the main menu and mournful soul-searching for owners of the phone who decided a shortcut to Snake was more important than their buddies. Hopefully this firmware enhancement will be rolled out to 5800 XpressMusic handsets as well.

The handset also features a pop-up Media Bar to quickly access music, photos, videos, Internet and on-line sharing applications such as Ovi Share, Flickr and VOX.

Videos from social media sites such as Youtube and Facebook can be viewed on its 2.9-inch widescreen display.

The smartphone has a built-in music player with 27 hours of playback time and a 4GB memory card. Users can buy new music from Nokia Music Store.

Nokia said the 5530 XpressMusic will start shipping in the third quarter and sell for $280 before subsidies and taxes.

Nokia 5530 XpressMusic Specifications:

- Dimensions: 104 x 49 x 13 mm
- Weight: 107 g
- Display: 2.9 inch widescreen (640 x 360 pixels) with up to 16 million colors
- Camera: 3.2 megapixels with autofocus and LED flash
- Video capture: widescreen 640x 360 px up to 30 frames-per-second
- Memory: Up to 70Mb phone memory with 4GB in-box MicroSD card, supports up to 16GB MicroSD memory
- Connectivity: High speed MicroUSB connector, 3.5mm stereo headphone jack, Bluetooth 2.0
- Data connectivity: GPRS/EDGE, WLAN (IEEE 802.11 b/g)
- Talk time: Up to 4.9 hours
- Standby time: Up to 14 days
- Music playback: Up to 27 hours
- Video playback: Up to 7.3 hours

Nokia has announced the Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition (5800NE) handset today. It also sports stereo speakers and surround sound, playback time of 35 hours, HSDPA connectivity and a 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics.

Nokia today announced the Nokia 5230, a lower mid-tier, music and Ovi. The device runs S60 5th Edition on Symbian and key features include a 3.2" screen, homescreen Contacts Bar and Media Bar, 2.0 megapixel camera, A-GPS, 3.5mm audio jack and integration with Nokia's Ovi services. The 5230 will be available from Q4 2009. Read on for full details.

Much like the Nokia 5800, the Nokia 5230 sports a 3.2-inch resistive touchscreen with a resolution of 640 x 360 pixels, FM radio, 3.5 mm audio jack and microSD card slot. The camera has been downgraded to 2 megapixel resolution but manages the decent VGA@30fps video recording.

Nokia 5230 runs the latest Symbian S60 5th edition and is powered by the same battery as 5800 - a 1320 mAh one, which is good 320 mAh larger that that of the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic. According to the manufacturer the 5230 will be capable of 33 hours of non-stop music playback.

Nokia 5230 Features:

• 3.2 inch touchscreen display
• HSDPA
• A-GPS
• Ovi Maps
• Ovi Store
• 3.5mm headset jack
• Bluetooth 2.0
• 2MP camera
• MicroSD card support, up to 16GB
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Nokia today officially announced the Nokia N900, the device is really a handset and runs on Maemo, a flavor of Linux for mobile devices backed by Nokia and Intel.

The N900 has a side-sliding QWERTY keyboard and an 800x480-pixel resistive touch screen. According to the man who let the cat out of the bag, the build quality is similar to the Nokia E75.

The device will also have a 5-megapixel camera with F2.8 lens, 32GB of onboard memory with a microSD card slot for up to 32GB (bringing the total capacity to a whopping 64GB), a micro-USB port, 1,320mAh battery, GPS and TV-out. But these details are not as interesting as the Maemo 5 software that the device is running on.

Without doubt this is Nokia’s hottest handset to date. And one we think has every chance of going toe–to–toe with the very best smartphones out there. And that means the iPhone 3GS and HTC Hero.

Nokia N900 Specifications

Display

- 3.5 inch touch-sensitive widescreen display
- 800 × 480 pixel resolution

Language support

- British English, American English, Canadian French, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Swedish, Russian

Connectivity

- 3.5mm AV connector
- TV out (PAL/NTSC) with Nokia Video Connectivity Cable
- Micro-USB connector, High-Speed USB 2.0
- Bluetooth v2.1 including support for stereo headsets
- Integrated FM transmitter
- Integrated GPS with A-GPS

Battery

- BL-5J 1320mAh

Processor and 3D accelerator

- TI OMAP 3430: ARM Cortex-A8 600 MHz, PowerVR SGX with OpenGL ES 2.0 support

Memory

- Up to 1GB of application memory (256 MB RAM, 768 MB virtual memory)

Size and weight

- Volume: Approx 113cc

- Dimensions: 110.9 × 59.8 × 18 (19.55 at thickest part) mm

- Weight: Approx 181g

Mass memory

- 32 GB internal storage
- Store up to 7000 MP3 songs or 40 hours of high-quality video
- Up to 16 GB of additional storage with an external microSD card

Keys and input method

- Full QWERTY tactile keyboard
- Full QWERTY onscreen keyboard

Colour

- Black

Operating frequency

- Quad-band GSM EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
- WCDMA 900/1700/2100 MHz

Data network

- GPRS class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 107/64.2 kbps (DL/UL)
- EDGE class A, multislot class 32, maximum speed 296/177.6 kbps (DL/UL)
- WCDMA 900/1700/2100. Maximum speed PS 384/384 kbps (DL/UL)
- HSPA 900/1700/2100. Maximum speed PS 10/2 Mbps (DL/UL) WLAN IEEE 802.11b/g

Call features

- Integrated hands-free stereo speakers
- Call waiting, call hold, call divert
- Call timer
- Logging of dialed, received and missed calls
- Speed dialing via contact widget
- Virbrating alert (internal)
- Side volume keys
- Mute/unmute
- Contacts with images
- Conference calling with up to 3 participants
- Internet calling

Email & Messaging

- Supported protocols: Mail for Exchange, IMAP, POP3, SMTP
- Support for email attachments
- Support for rich HTML
- SMS and Instant Messages as conversations
- Support for Nokia Messaging service
- Instant messaging and presence enhanced contacts
- Multiple number, email and Instant Messaging details per contact, contacts with images
- Support for assigning images to contacts

Web browsing

- Maemo browser powered by Mozilla technology
- Adobe Flash™ 9.4 support
- Full screen browsing

GPS and navigation

- Integrated GPS, Assisted-GPS, and Cell-based receivers
- Pre-loaded Ovi Maps application
- Automatic geotagging

Camera

- 5 megapixel camera (2584 × 1938 pixels)
- Image formats: JPEG
- CMOS sensor, Carl Zeiss optics, Tessar lens
- 3 × digital zoom
- Autofocus with assist light and two-stage capture key
- Dual LED flash
- Full-screen viewfinder
- Photo editor on device
- TV out (PAL/NTSC) with Nokia Video Connectivity Cable (CA-75U, included in box) or WLAN/UPnP
- Landscape (horizontal) orientation
- Capture modes: Automatic, portrait, video, macro, landscape, action

Video

- Wide aspect ratio 16:9 (WVGA)
- Video recording file format: .mp4; codec: MPEG-4
- Video recording at up to 848 × 480 pixels (WVGA) and up to 25fps
- Video playback file formats: .mp4, .avi, .wmv, .3gp; codecs: H.264, MPEG-4, Xvid, WMV, H.263

Music and audio playback

- Maemo media player
- Music playback file formats: .wav, .mp3, .AAC, .eAAC, .wma, .m4a
- Built-in FM transmitter
- Ring tones: .wav, .mp3, .AAC, .eAAC, .wma, .m4a
- FR, EFR, WCDMA, and GSM AMR
- Digital stereo microphone
- DLNA

Personalisation

- Background pictures
- Widgets on your desktops
- Intelligent contact shortcuts
- Shortcuts to your favourite websites
- Shortcuts to applications
- Themes

Operating system

- Maemo 5 software on Linux

Applications

- Maemo Browser
- Phone
- Conversations
- Contacts
- Camera
- Photos
- Media player
- Email
- Calendar
- Ovi Maps
- Clock
- Notes
- Calculator
- PDF reader
- File manager
- RSS reader
- Sketch
- Games
- Widgets
- Application manager for downloads

Gaming

- Bounce
- Chess
- Mahjong

What's in the box

- Nokia N900
- Nokia Battery (BL-5J)
- Nokia High Efficiency Charger (AC-10)
- Nokia Stereo Headset (WH-205)
- Video out cable (CA-75U)
- Nokia charger adaptor (CA-146C)
- Cleaning cloth

The Nokia X3 is an S40 6th edition slider with smallish 2.2-inch QVGA screen and dedicated music keys. It has a 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera, quad-band GSM support with GPRS and EDGE, Bluetooth, FM radio, 3.5mm audio jack, microSD slot and integrated stereo speakers.

The latest addition to Nokia's music device portfolio is ideal for people who like to express themselves through their music and their communities.

The Nokia X3 is a sleek and stylish slide phone with dedicated music and volume keys to control your sounds. It also has a combined send/end key and camera-shutter key for quick and easy operation. The design also features lighting effects around the dedicated ‘Navi’ key.

Priced for mass-market appeal, it is the first S40 device - the classic Nokia interface loved by millions - to offer direct access to Ovi Store. Using the store’s catalogue of applications no two X3’s need ever be the same.

As one of Nokia’s ‘Comes With Music’ devices the X3 enables users to discover, download and keep any and every track they want from the millions available in the Nokia Music Store*. The Nokia X3 also supports side-loading from PC - and comes pre-loaded with sample audio tracks and music videos from leading artists.

On top of a great music experience, the Nokia X3 offers a full set of features including a 3.2 megapixel camera, video recording and editing, email and instant messaging, web-browsing, and navigation with Nokia Maps. It even comes pre-loaded with the Guitar Rock Tour mobile game from Gameloft.

Nokia X3 Features

• Excellent music experience - high quality music player, FM radio with RDS and stereo speakers. Control and listen to music over Bluetooth or use the standard 3.5mm headphone jack. Switch to Flight-mode to listen without interruption. Customize the media player and radio skin with a theme to suit your style.
• Massive memory for music - supports up to 16GB of memory with a removable MicroSD card (not supplied).
• 3.2 megapixel camera takes good quality photos and video clips. Shoot, edit and share video clips with the on-board software, geo-tag and upload to sharing sites like Ovi Share and Flickr.
• Active home screen - lets you see your contacts, friends or the track you are playing. There are also animated wallpapers to show signal and battery strength.
• Great for social messaging - supports Nokia Chat, Windows Live! Messenger, Yahoo Go! and other popular instant messaging clients.
• Mobile email made easy - it is easy to set-up your email and, with Nokia Messaging, users can combine all their inboxes into one, including support for Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Windows Live Hotmail, AOL Mail and most other POP3/IMAP email clients.
• Brilliant web browsing - built-in Flash player and auto-landscape orientation means you really get the best out of online video and movies.
• Great games on-board - comes preloaded with Guitar Rock Tour by Gameloft, plus a range of Java games including City Bloxx and Snake III.
• Nokia Maps - integrated A-GPS navigation and Nokia Maps provides turn-by-turn, voice-guided navigation driving or walking.
• Ovi Store makes it easy to download games, videos, podcasts, applications and much more for your mobile. It has never been so easy to find something to suit whatever you want to do on the go.

The Nokia X6 is a spiritual successor of the popular 5800 XpressMusic packing 3.2-inch (640x360) capacitive touchscreen, 32 GB internal storage, a 5 megapixel camera (Carl Zeiss optics) with VGA@30fps video recording and dual LED flash and FM radio. Yes, that's right - there is no card slot, but the 13.8 mm thickness and the 32 gigs memory should compensate that.

Heralding the new Xseries range, the Nokia X6 is the latest edition to Nokia’s touch-screen device portfolio. Bursting with features for people who love music, socializing and entertainment on the move, the slim design makes carrying and listening to your favorite tracks a breeze.

The Nokia X6 is a ‘Comes With Music’ device, so it provides unlimited access to the Nokia Music Store. With ample on-board storage you can discover, download and keep all the music you could ever ask for.

Also perfect for people who like to snap, tag and share photos and videos. Superb image quality comes from a 5 mega-pixel camera with Carl-Zeiss optics. With its built-in features to edit videos, show them on TV or online, sharing your memories has never been easier.

The large 3.2-inch display enables you to fit 20 shortcuts onto a personalized home screen - offering one-touch access to the web, your photos, videos and music library - and favorite social networks such as Facebook, Flickr, MySpace and more.

The Nokia X6 is no slouch in the beauty stakes either, with its slim, curved-edge profile and a 16:9 widescreen interface providing a slick, finger-sensitive touch operation, optimized to give a great viewing experience. It all adds up to a coolly powerful, stylish and entertaining device to express yourself with.

Nokia X6 Features

• It’s all about your music - the Nokia X6 has a superb quality music player and built-in FM radio. Listen over Bluetooth stereo audio with a compatible headset like the new Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-505 with its cool, sporty headband. Or plug your choice of headphones into the standard 3.5mm headphone jack.
• Nokia Music Store is all yours - As a Comes With Music device, the Nokia X6 gives direct access to millions of tracks online. Download for free and yours to keep forever*. Stores thousands of tracks with 32GB out-of-the-box memory.
• 5 megapixel camera with Carl-Zeiss optics autofocus and dual LED flash for truly fantastic image quality.
• Customisable homescreen - add up to 20 shortcuts for one-touch access to Facebook, Nokia Music Store, Email, Contacts, Maps, Games - whatever you choose!
• Stroke-sensitive touch-screen interface - Nokia’s smoothest, slickest interface ever - with a 16:9 widescreen made specially to give the best photo and video viewing experience.
• Social networking - supports easy access to Facebook, Ovi, Windows Live!, Yahoo IM, YouTube, MySpace and more.
• Brilliant web browsing - built-in Flash player and auto-landscape orientation means you really get the best out of online video and movies.
• 3 premium games on-board - Nokia X6 ships with Asphalt4 and DJ Mix Tour by Gameloft and Spore by EA.
• Nokia Maps - The Nokia X6 comes with A-GPS with compass and integrated Maps so you can find your way to friends and venues quickly and easily with turn-by-turn, voice-guided navigation. Geo-tag your photos with Ovi to remember and share those great moments.
• Other Ovi services include push-email and IM with Nokia Messaging, N-gage games, downloadable Java applications and widgets, Ovi Contacts and Ovi Files for keeping your personal stuff safe and sound.
• Easy email - simple steps to set-up your email and combine multiple accounts into one inbox. Supports popular email clients such as Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Windows Live Hotmail and most other POP3/IMAP email - plus a lifetime license for Nokia Messaging, Nokia’s mobile email and IM service.
• Video editing and sharing - includes video center and video editing plus support for online-share and TV-out. So, you can make your clips perfect, then upload them to your social network page or play to friends and family at home.

The Fastest iPhone Ever

The first thing you’ll notice about iPhone 3GS is how quickly you can launch applications. Web pages render in a fraction of the time, and you can view email attachments faster. Improved performance and updated 3D graphics deliver an incredible gaming experience, too. In fact, everything you do on iPhone 3GS is up to 2x faster and more responsive than iPhone 3G.

Video

3-Megapixel Camera

Voice Control

Are you ready for twice the challenge and double the fun of the original Topple? This Apple Design Award-winning app reaches new heights with 6 new worlds, 4 new modes, and multiplayer game features. Challenge your friends to a live “stack attack” race. Or record your game then send it to other players via email, Facebook, or Twitter and dare them to top your score.

IMPORTANT

• BlackRa1n jailbreaks all iPhones and iPod Touch models
• BlackRa1n jailbreak will work with the latest 3.1.2 firmware.
• It will not hacktivate your iPhone. This means that if you are using an unlocked iPhone 3GS or 3G then stay away from it because BlackRa1n requires to update your iPhone to OS 3.1.2 resulting in updating your Baseband as well which means your iPhone will NOT activate on unofficial carrier.
• Use BlackRa1n only if you do NOT care about Unlock (You’re on official carrier).
• BlackRa1n also Jailbreaks iPod Touch 3G but it’s a tethered jailbreak. Which means whenever you would restart your Touch or it turns OFF because of empty battery then you will need to rerun BlackRa1n.

Samsung has issued a firmware upgrade for its first Android phone – i7500 Galaxy. The update brings firmware to version I7500VIAIG6, but we’re not exactly sure what’s changed after you’ve hit the button. We do, however, know that we’re always for keeping our devices’ firmware up to date, and hence, recommend all Galaxy owners to proceed and make their smartphone run the freshest firmware possible.

You’ll need Samsung’s new PC-Studio software and all your data should remain intact, though backup is always advised. You’ll also need an Internet connection so that software could download the firmware file, which usually is not that small. If you notice and changes after the update, don’t hesitate to drop us a comment…

YouTube will share profits with users who post popular videos on the site, the company announced on its blog. By extending the YouTube Partnership Program, the company offers more individuals with one off popular videos a chance to earn thousands of dollars a month. In the past amateur videos on YouTube never earned a dime for the creator, even if they clocked millions of views. But YouTube is now rewarding authors of videos that keep YouTube popular and is offering to spread the wealth it generates with the authors.

Czech company called Mivvy has launched its first Windows Mobile smartphone called Mivvy one. It’s the all-touchscreen device with features that include EDGE data, WiFi, GPS, 3.2-inch 240×400 pixels display, 3-megapixel camera, FM Radio, 128 MB RAM coupled with 256 MB ROM, 624 MHz Marvell PXA300 CPU, and a microSD memory card slot. Size wise, the Mivvy one measures 105×56×12.9 mm and has a weight of 120 grams.

MetroPCS (NYSE: PCS), Cricket has today announced that the Samsung Messager II is now ready to bring its sliding QWERTY keyboard to customers with power-texting needs. As the update to the Samsung Messager, the Messager II sports an upgraded features. The Messager II boasts a 2-megapixel camera, 3G data connectivity, video recording and playback, and support for web and email.

The original Messager has become one of Cricket’s hottest selling phones, and this successor comes to market packing a sleeker design and more powerful features. Cricket is offering the Messager II for $199.99 for use with unlimited text and talk plans starting at just $35. Of course, you’ll have to be living in a state that’s serviced by Cricket.

Apple has approved a streaming music application from Spotify for use on the iPhone, even though the program will compete with Apple’s own iTunes service. Rumors have circled in recent weeks that the app had been denied. Spotify is an advertising-supported music service that lets end-users stream music to their computers free of charge. The service is available in the U.K. and by invitation in countries including Sweden, Norway, Finland, France and Spain. Users can opt to pay for a version of the service without ads. The iPhone offering will be available “soon” in those six countries, Spotify spokesman Jim Butcher said on Thursday. The company hopes to launch a PC-based equivalent in the U.S. early next year but has no current plans to offer the service there on phones, he said.

China Telecom is in talks with Palm about offering the Pre smartphone in China, intensifying the race between Chinese carriers to win 3G users by offering attractive handsets. China Telecom is also talking with Palm about offering other handsets and is still in talks with Research In Motion (RIM) about offering a version of the BlackBerry, an investor relations representative said Friday. The move adds to efforts by China Telecom and its rivals to offer fashionable 3G handsets from Western companies. Local carrier China Unicom said Friday it had reached a 3-year deal with Apple to offer the iPhone in China, and China Mobile, the world’s largest carrier by subscribers, appears set to launch a Dell smartphone. A device called the Dell mini3i is listed beside handsets supported by China Mobile’s new application download store.



China Telecom knows it needs good handsets to attract more 3G users, the representative said. Nokia also plans to launch a 3G handset with China Telecom this year, and Motorola may launch two, she said. China’s carriers are also moving toward offering low-priced handsets to attract 3G subscribers. China Telecom and its distributors have ordered 4 million 3G phones from handset makers to sell in China, and most will be priced between 500 yuan (US$73) and 1,000 yuan, the company representative said. The phones will have low prices because 3G services are popular among college students and other young people with low income, she said

Motorola A45 Murano has been officially announced in Brazil as MOTOCUBO A45. The name makes perfect sense considering the device look and feel. Still, it offers the full slide-out QWERTY keyboard and is hence ideal for heavy texters.

Rest of the specs include EDGE connectivity, QVGA screen, Bluetooth, music player, standard 3.5mm headset jack, 2-megapixel camera, FM Radio with RDS, and a microSD expansion slot (2GB card memory card comes in the box). Pre-loaded software includes Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Maps, some games (Spore, The Sims 2), and a social networking app that allows quick access to Facebook, Orkut and MySpace……

Most notable thing about the MOTOCUBO is the fact that the 25% of the phone is made out of recycled plastic bottles, making it an ideal choice for eco-friendly texters… At least those who are willing to pay 549 Brazil reais (about $293) in order to grab one.