Nokia, please drop whatever you were doing a pay some attention to this cell phone design. It’s not an Apple nano but it’s a Nokia Aeon designed by Mac Funamizu. Since it’s just a concept phone we don’t have any features available. And there’s no price either. All we know it would look and feel like a nano and it would have a nondescript tactile feedback technology with the surface adapting to various actions. That’s a phone right here I’d buy in a heartbeat. But I’ll have to wait for that…

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Look what the FCC dragged in. It’s Nokia’s N79. The phone is expected on non-US markets to hit by the end of the year and it’s rumored to cost around $520. The phone might arrive in AT&T stores in the same time but there’s no official announcement to point to that.

The N79 will have 850/1900 UMTS support, a 5 megapixel Zeiss camera with sliding lens cover, dual LED flash, VGA video recording, TV-out, S60 Feature Pack 2 and probably more. I’d be curios to see how much will AT&T charge for it, but I guess that’s the subject for another story!

This may not be good news to the Americans but should get people in the Europe and parts of the world excited, as the 5800 XpressMusic in question here is a non-NAM, dual-band 3G (900/2100MHz) designed for the European market, that has garnered FCC’s support. If we are not mistaken, Nokia will soon push another version of the 5800 XpressMusic, the one that supports US 3G, and not just crappy EDGE speeds that this version supports, even if it knows the US isn’t as big a market as other parts of the world like Europe and India. But this is good news anyways, as European customers who are eagerly awaiting to get their hands on this baby will have to wait just a little longer to get it as the 5800 XpressMusic finishes up on its final exams.
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Nokia has just had a tiny taste of the touchscreen phones world with its 5800 XpressMusic phone. We’re expecting more phones to follow that trend in the near futures. At a recent Nokia event in New Delhi, the marketing director of Nokia India, Devindere Kishore said that: “We will have lots of touchscreen phones coming up, including an N-series device very soon.” Not that a future N-series to sport a touchscreen is such an unexpected move but we have at least a small confirmation from a Nokia official.

Here’s a concept phone with has Nokia written all over it. I don’t think it’s the phone we’re going to see next week since it proposes quite an interesting idea. As you can see it’s a phone that immediately makes you think it comes with a touchscreen. Indeed it does. The other features aren’t clear right now but we don’t actually need them right now.

We are more interested in the touch experience. This Nokia will get you the feedback you are looking for in your touchscreen phones. And it’s not haptic feedback it’s water. The phone has a pump which allows water to be inserted into the substrate beneath. Thus you will get some buttons on that surface. Wonder if this concept phone will ever be picked up for mass production… What do you think?

We know the story already. Same stuff, different handset. We’ve seen how the Chinese iPhone will loose its 3G chip and WiFi antenna. Well Nokia’s first touchscreen phone, the 5800 XpressMusic will get the same treatment. Again it looks like Chinese mobile carriers want to determine their subscribers to only use the Chinese custom TD-SCDMA network. I understand the lack of 3G but shouldn’t they be able to use WiFi if they wanted to? After all it should be one of the most important human rights! One should be able to use WiFi at any time and any place he or she would feel like, no matter of age, race or religious beliefs.

Nokia has launched a new teaser website, Somebody Else’s Phone, to announce a mystery product on the October 13th. Not much is revealed on the site except for a countdown timer running on the already launched 7610 Supernova slider and a trailer featuring three people who have fed almost all of their lives into their cell phones. The “Somebody Else’s Phone” campaign could point to a device or a new service just as well, but the use of a device that is already available might turn our bets to some kind of a service rather than a new handset. With just 2 days to go, we won’t have to wait long before we know and we’ll keep you in the loop as it emerges.

Recently there seems to be a great rush for low-end cellphones on US carriers, so on top of the Samsung SGH-a637 announced today, there is the Nokia 1680 which is available T-Mobile. You can’t get more cheap than $15 after the rebate and T-Mobile contract, can you?

The 1680 Classic cellphone was first seen a few months ago, and at that time it was most affordable camera phone on the Nokia catalog.

Currently it boasts basic SMS, MMS and IM messaging functionalities, a VGA camera, and a speakerphone. One positive point goes for the battery life in stand-by mode, that can last 18 days. While talking the battery only has life for 4 hours.

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Nokia has released yesterday their first touchscreen phone. If you’re already writing long letters to Santa about how you’d been a good kid this year and how you’d love to find a 5800 XpressMusic under the Christmas tree, maybe you should stop. I know Nokia promised us worldwide availability by the end of the year. It might just be that the whole worldwide concept has different meanings for Nokia ane me.

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic will certainly be available in: India, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, the UAE, Spain and Russia. That’s Nokia’s worldwide. China, North America and quite a few European countries are left out. Not to mention South America, Africa or Australia.

Is it worth waiting for 2009 to get your hands on the 5800. I’d say yes. Although by that time Nokia might launch a better touschreen phone.

Here’s what you might be interested in waiting for:

• Symbian S60 5th Edition
• 3.2-inch TFT touchscreen with 16 mil. colors and 360 x 640 pixels
• Quad-band GSM, dual-band HSDPA connectivity
• GPS & A-GPS
• Accelerometer
• Wi-Fi, full Web browser
• 3.5mm audio jack
• MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+ player, MPEG4/WMV/3GP player
• 3.15 MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics, flash, autofocus and VGA video recording
• 81MB of internal memory
• 8GB on a MicroSDHC card

Nokia just proved it can manufacture a touchscreen device. The 5800 XpressMusic is not the high-end smartphone you would have expected but it has lots of useful features. On top of those is the iPhone-like appearance and the touchscreen itself which will become a standard for future phones.
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The 5800 XpressMusic wasn’t the only thing that Nokia announced at the Nokia Remix Event, as the Finnish mobile manufacturer also unveiled its operating system’s next iteration, Symbian S60 5th Edition, and the “Comes With Music” service. We are not talking about an online store here but a deal where Nokia will bundle a subscription allowing access to millions of songs with a Nokia device. That’s right, any customer that buys a “Comes with Music” cell phone will have unlimited access to tracks for a year from almost all major record labels and independent musicians. If that doesn’t sound attractive, get this, the customer gets to keep all the songs downloaded afer the year expires. Sounds too good to be true, and we can’t see a catch in all this for now, but we’ll know if there’s something hidden somewhere when it starts selling in the United Kingdom on October 16, like an extra fee or DRM lockdowns.

The service will kick off in the UK before being rolled out in the rest of the world with the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, 5310 XpressMusic, and the N95 8GB becoming the first of a lot more devices to come with this offer. The new “Comes With Music” 5310 XpressMusic will be offered exclusively through Carphone Warehouseat a price of 129.95 pounds.

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is here! Nokia’s first touch screen phone is among the company’s first devices to support Nokia’s “Comes With Music” service which offers one year of unlimited access to the entire Nokia Music Store catalog.

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic features the Media Bar, a drop-down menu that provides direct access to music and entertainment, as well as web and online sharing. With Flash support, you can enjoy a bigger slice of the web. The phone comes with 8GB of memory, a graphic equalizer, and most importantly, a standard friggin’ 3.5 mm jack. The phone also boasts surround sound stereo speakers.

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The giant company on the cellphone market – Nokia – has announced the interest to buy OZ Communications – a provider of mobile messaging services that is located in Canada.

The main functions of OZ consist on providing access to instant messaging programs such as AOL, ICQ, Windows Live Messenger, and also to offer email services that work with Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, and others. Obviously, all these features are suppose to be made while using your cellphone.

At the moment OZ has a big number of paid users, more than 5.5 million, and by joining forces with Nokia that number will surely grow.

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Apple shares took a 17% tumble today. Everybody else who’s anybody saw their shares dropping valuable points today. No matter what business we are talking about, its shares took a smaller or bigger plunge following the Nasdaq and Dow Jones.

The $700 billion emergency bailout failed to pass the House today creating one of the worst trading days in Wall Street ever since 9/11. The Dow Jones lost 800 points which is its personal worst ever. (more…)

NTT DoCoMo is getting ready for its next-generation 4G network and in the process it has chosen Fujitsu to help. NTT DoCoMo will use the Evolved Packet Core from Fujitsu. Fujitsu will also supply the wireless base stations and handsets for the future LTE network in Japan. Nokia will provide hardware and software to be used with Fujitsu’s technology.

Does anyone know when the new LTE network will be finishing? Any official testing to take place soon? Any LTE capable devices to be created soon? Is Nokia going to provide them first? Too many questions will be left unanswered for now.

Finally, its almost here. In an internet article from dailymobile, colors for the upcoming Nokia N85 phone was revealed. The phone as seen on the picture would feature a dark brown and dark grey colors.

Nokia unveiled the Nokia N85, the latest Nokia Nseries multimedia cell phone made to set new standards for mobile entertainment, gaming and sharing. Along with an eye-catching 2.6″ OLED screen and smooth, sleek finish, the Nokia N85 cell phone redefines the mobile experience.
It boasts Nokia NGage gaming, music with in-built FM transmitter, digital camera with Carl Zeiss optics and geotagging capabilities, three month integrated license for turn-by-turn voice navigation and high-speed internet connectivity, all in one mobile device. A 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and bright dual LED flash captures clear, sharp images as well as DVD-quality videos at 30 frames per second.

via: dailymobile

A couple of days ago we heard that Nokia will be launching the Tube on October 2nd. If it was only a rumored piece of news then, it has just been confirmed by Reuters. The date for the Nokia Tube or the 5800 XpressMusic is October 2nd.

Everything will happen in London, just as we heard before. That means next week we’ll have more news about the actual specs of the Tube and official pricing. Hopefully the first Nokia touhcscreen phone will be more than just an mid-range phone with a cool screen.

October 2nd seems a bit more closer now, but that shouldn’t stop us from foraging for any small detail that we can find for you guys about Nokia’s much-awaited touchscreen device, the 5800 XpressMedia aka the “Tube.” Mobil.cz was lucky enough to come across a press photo that must have been meant for the upcoming official announcement and shows the Tube clad in dark, brooding red with the usual black bezel, a nice color combination. For those who have forgotten the specs, here’s a refresher: Quad-band GSM, UMTS 2100, and HSDPA support, aGPS, USB 2.0, Bluetooth 2.0, WiFi, 3.2-inch 16-million color touchscreen display, 3.5 mm headphone jack and TV-out feature, 150MB internal memory with microSDHC expansion for up to 16GB, and a 3.2 megapixel camera with dual LED flash with Symbian S60 Taco 5 as the operating system. There you go, all that juicy enough to hold you until the announcement?

So… A Nokia touchscreen phone! Where do I sign up for it? Who do I have to sleep with to get one? I had my share of Nokia phones and they have always turned out to be very dependable devices. The Nokia Tube might be is Nokia’s touchscreen idea and it’s rumored to arrive on October 2nd in London.

I am sure it will be a very successful phone although it might be overshadowed by the G1 released yesterday and the expected BlackBerry Storm. The photo above looks like a press photo, but there’s no press release filled with hot details to confirm the Nokia Tube.

While other companies have long put in their entries for the ongoing touchscreen competition, Nokia is still yet to formally release the much-awaited Nokia “Tube” or more officially, the Nokia XpressMedia 5800. But it looks like we may not have to wait long as Pocket-Lint has a secret, vaild source that whispers a launch date of October 2nd. According to the source, Nokia’s first full touchscreen cell phone is planned to be launched at a London event together with the arrival of Nokia Comes with Music service. October 2nd is not too bad, but you should know Nokia that we have moved on and fallen for the Touch HD instead!