You can throw away all those leaked rendered photos and rumors out the window. Nokia has finally made the Nokia N900 official, releasing it together with the Maemo 5 OS. The Nokia N900 is expected to be unraveled next week at Nokia World.

Among the highlights of the Nokia N900 include an HSPA, WiFi and 32GB of storage into a touchscreen device powered by an ARM Cortex-A8 with 1GB of RAM. Maemo 5 supports desktop-style multitasking, Nokia Messaging and a new “cloud” UI.

Other features to watch out:

• Slide-out QWERTY keyboard
• OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics acceleration
• Full Adobe Flash 9.4 support
• 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics

There is also a microSD card slot that allows you to increase storage up to 48GB. The estimated retail price for the Nokia N900 is about €500 or $712 and is due for release in October. Check out the official videos.

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Acer seems to be holding on to its promise of introducing two new phones and it looks like they have been revealed in the DX650 and X960 mobile phones which run under Windows Mobile 6.1 operating systems.

Both phones come with a wide range of capabilities, including GPS support, HSDPA, WiFi and Bluetooth, connectivity, as well as miniUSB capabilities and a microSD card slot for additional storage space. They are are powered by a 533MHz Samsung S3C6410 processor and also feature hardware graphics acceleration, 256 MB of ROM and 128 MB of RAM.

One of the differences between the Acer phones is that the X960 comes equipped with a 3.2-megapixel camera, while the DX650 only includes a 2-megapixel snapper.
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