Nokia has recently announced that they will be moving out of Germany for good. By moving out we meant Nokia is going to lay-off a massive 2,300 employees. The company said the move was due to market changes and the need for running a more cost-effective business. As such, Nokia is moving to lower-cost European neighboring countries. Aside from the cell phone plant itself, Nokia is also selling their automotive plant as well as a software research and development entity. As of current, Nokia is still negotiating with employee representatives to reach some kind of amicable settlement.

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Due to the iPhone’s success, the demand for touch phones by the consumer market has increased. Due to this, not only do copycats try to mimic the iPhone but big corporations try to surpass its popularity. Nokia, however, promises to bring a new flavor to touch phones. Details about the Nokia S60 Touch were unearthed and what was discovered impresses us. The new patent indicates that the Nokia S60 Touch won’t even require you to actually touch the screen. The technology is designed so that the phone would recognize 3D gestures made in mid-air. Think “delete” when you gesture an “x” or “verify” when you gesture a “check.” The pic above features the list of gestures which could be used such as scroll, zoom, run, switch, copy, etcetera. As of current, it’s just a patent, so we don’t know if we’ll actually see it happen. But we’d like to remain optimistic and hope that we’d live to see the 3D gesture control multi-touch screen in our lifetime.

Read the patent.

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Engadget people caught this nice looking Nokia 3555 recently approved by FCC. It is a 3-G flip phone. As rumored, the cell phone will reach AT&T. This one too has a clamshell design like Nokia 6555 Mobile Phone for AT&T Customers. But Nokia 6555 has hot looks. However, as stated by the FCC, Nokia 3555 supports 1700MHz and is 3G ready. Worthy to mention, the Company will offer it on T-Mobile too. Anyway, how many of us want a 3G?

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After the spec leak of the E71, the E66 would follow, of course. Given the codename “Liam,” it will be christened its “E” name by the time of its launch. It features GPS, 3.2 Megapixel camera, quadband and bluetooth with a 320 x 320 display. We’re, of course, STILL looking at a second quarter release with the “Dora” having a USD$550+ price tag.

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Things do go by fast, don’t they? It hasn’t been long from the time the first rumors took the tech world by storm to the time the first pic was leaked. As of now, the specs for Nokia E71 have been spotted. Slyly branded as the Nokia LIAM at this stage as if we won’t be able to identify it, the rumored specs of what we had come to call the Nokia E71 seem to have been correct. See for yourself. Looks like we’ll be seeing a second quarter release date so I’m pretty much sure news about the E71 will trickle steadily as time goes.

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Just yesterday we had reported on the rumors concerning Nokia E71 and Nokia E66. As of current, an alleged pic of the Nokia E71, the successor of Nokia E61i, leaked online. Take a look. If you’re enamored into buying one, don’t worry, it has been surmised that it will be presented in the Mobile Phone Congress in Barcelona on February 11. Just a month and a few days away, folks!

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It seems specs of new Nokia phones have leaked online. We’ll leave deciding if the rumors are real up to you but so far, here are what came out. Two successors to existing phones have been revealed — the Nokia E71 (successor to E61i) and the Nokia E66 (successor to E65). Both are wi-fi capable with GPS. They will also be smaller compared to their predecessors and both will sport 3 megapixel cameras.

On the other hand, some more specs of the Nokia N96 had leaked. N96 will have 16GB memory the first half internal and the other via memory card. It also seems we’re looking at an April or May release.

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Nokia has just released the latest firmware update for the Nokia N95 8GB. The new version, v15.0.015, features various upgrades, bug fixes and speed boosts. Upon installation, you will have Flash Lite 3 video support as well as the Web Run Time engine. The former will allow you to watch various online videos like YouTube. The latter, the Web Run Time engine, on the other hand, is the phone’s new widget platform.

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Talks of color variants for the Nokia N82 were rampant. This time around, we get real pics of the milk white version of the Nokia N82. The front façade remains the same but the back looks like it’s been white-washed. And I must say, I like.

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It seems like FCC presented a nice New Year gift for music lovers. Those of you, who were not able to purchase the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic, watch for the upcoming Nokia 5610 XpressMusic. The latest mobile based on cutting-edge technology recently got FCC approval. It has a slider form factor like its predecessor. The company has increased the configuration of the integrated camera in Nokia 5610 from 2.0 MP to 3.0 megapixel and music playback from 18 hours to 22 hours. The Nokia 5610 cell phone comes with aluminium side panels and has a black high glossy panel. Users can enjoy web 2.0 services directly from the phone. Obviously, it does possess all the features of the XpressMusic 5310, but with advancement. There is no word on price. Let us see when it reached USA shops.

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Here are exclusive pictures of the worlds 1st production of the Nokia 8600 Luna Platininum Edition only 500 to be made priced at £699.95.

A fantastic colur combo of platinum and black pearl with full rear casing and front accents adourned with genuine platinum.

You have all by now seen the full Platinum iphone creation by Goldstriker International well the Luna is just one of the latest additions to the much talked about Power of Platinum Collection soon to be launched by Goldstriker for January 2008.The second picture is The Power of Platinum Collection montage features just some of the exclusive items to expect. web - www.goldstriker.co.uk

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Nowadays, it’s not only the model you’ll have to worry about when buying mobile phones. Even versions are of issue as of late. Take for example the Nokia N95. According to Mark Guim of The Nokia Blog, the Nokia N95 8GB North American version will be released by mid-January 2008. These mobile phone companies do love to confuse mobile phone fanatics, don’t they?

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No doubt Nokia is one of the hottest selling brands of mobile phones today. So hot that even a shotgun blasted Nokia E90 Communicator is up for grabs. That’s right, folks. Someone posted on eBay about how his or her negligent discharge of 12 Gauge Shotgun killed this E90 shown above. On top of that, he or she as the guts to now sell its parts to interested buyers. Parts for sale include front keypad, camera, and Mini SD reader. Obviously, the damaged battery and blasted screen are not on the list. As I checked eBay, the winning bid is $20.50 and there were 12 peculiar bidders all in all. (more…)

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Perhaps striving to be as open as possible, Nokia is opening its door to Apple to collaborate in its upcoming Web portal called Ovi. According to CNN Money:

‘In Finnish, Ovi means door. And our door is open. Of course, Apple can get into our portal. We even invite (Apple Inc chief executive) Steve Jobs to do so,’ Anssi Vanjoki of Nokia was quoted as saying.

I don’t think the ever cunning Steve Jobs will appreciate this welcoming tone. For one, Apple is a very closed system when it comes to their popular products and services like iTunes and iPhone. Then again, you cannot rule out this possibility for Apple is slowly opening its iPhone to outside developers with its SDK on February 2008.

On the other hand, the undertone of this seemingly friendly gesture is maybe to taunt Apple and hype the openness of Ovi and its gang of accessible services including Skype, Flickr, YouTube, and many more. Well, this whole mobile lifestyle war is just getting started and it’s very interesting to see which player will emerge as leader at the end of the day.

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Nokia announced that Nokia N81 users would get a pre-release preview of the new Nokia N-Gage (called the Nokia N-Gage First Access) before Christmas. Unfortunately, things didn’t go as planned. According to the N-Gage blog:

Unfortunately, as can sometimes happen in software development, unexpected difficulties can occur. We have been doing an internal run with more than 1,000 global testers this week, and during this process we uncovered an issue we feel we need to address. Overall, the games and service are working smoothly, but because of this issue, we feel we could not release N-Gage First Access before the holidays as planned.

Don’t make us wait too long, Nokia. We might forget all about N-Gage in a few months’ time, after all.

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Goldstriker International is famous for designing special diamond and precious metal variations of mobile phones and iPods among a range of other products. A new addition to their 24ct gold collection is the Gold Nokia 8800 Arte — the first of its model in the world to be manufactured in 24ct gold. The luxury phone would be released by the end of January 2008 and would cost GBP£749.95 each — that’s USD$1489.70 for our American readers. A lot cheaper than the GoldVish Le Million and in my humble opinion, a lot better looking — between the two, you all know which one I’d choose. And unless you’re in the Forbes 500 list, I know which one you would, too.

A montage of Goldstriker’s 24ct Gold collection after the jump.

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It feels like it wasn’t long ago when the Nokia N95 was released. I remember the thrill Nokia fans were emanating and it was infectious. But just like every other digital good, the Nokia N95 would be replaced as its company’s most-prized device. Just recently, supposed pictures of the Nokia N96 were leaked in the Internet. It seems Nokia drew parallels in design with the N81. It’s also clear that from the pics, this model has a 5-megapixel camera. They’re sure damn convincing, if you ask me. But hey, take everything you see on the Internet with a grain of salt, okay? So what do you think — truth or hoax?

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Following Nokia’s direction to provide comprehensive mobile games through N-Gage is a design concept integrating a portable gaming console and mobile phone. In one of its patent applications there is a new concept called “handheld electronic device” characterized as:

a computer gaming console, input elements 121, 122 being provided for user input by the left hand of a user and input elements 123, 124 being provided for input by the right hand of user. The games are displayed on the display 110, but in other embodiments, the games can additionally or alternatively be provided for display on another electronic device associated with the device. In the present case, the device 100 also allows the user to make radiotelephone calls (e.g. using cellular telephone functionality), take pictures (camera on reverse of device 100 is not shown), and play recorded/streamed audio (e.g. music/speech etc).

This concept phone looks like a PlayStation Portable (PSP) and obviously optimized to improve mobile gaming experience. This might give Sony the reason to push the development of their PSPhone despite their incessant denial.

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Webot, a remote media platform for browsers and mobile devices, now features a custom interface for the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. Touted as the first media player that lets N810 users access their media collection from anywhere over an internet connection, Webot customized its media search, sharing and player technologies to suite the tablet design.

Webot also supports the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. A nice thing about the service is that it can search and stream media from Windows, Mac OS and Linux machines.

More details at Webot

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Any firmware update is supposed to improve or correct the flaws of the current system. However, this is not the case for the infamous Nokia N95. According to UK’s The Register, the update has added new features but took away the GPS tracking feature from its Nokia Maps.

Nokia claims this GPS tracking feature was just a limited-time promotional offer. To avail that service again, N95 users must upgrade to the premium version.

Because only few geeks use this feature, Nokia can get away with such an annoying act. However, it creates tension among users because other services offered now for free might suddenly become premium contents. Nokia must weigh each decision and communicate constantly with their customers if they don’t want to alienate or infuriate its loyal customers.

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