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!
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Figure out what 8AM Monday morning UK time translates into your local time as that’s when Nokia will release two Nokia new smartphones. People are saying that the N79 and the N85 are the two N-series handsets to be launched on August 18th.

The N79 will get you a 2.4 inch display and a generous 5 megapixel camera. A-GPS and WiFi are included too. The N85 is bringing its dual slide thing to the table. Quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE is on and so is HSPA support. A generous 5 megapixel camera is also present accompanied by dual LED flash. Sure we have WiFi and A-GPS in here too.

Which Nokia will you choose? The cheapest one? Which one is that? We’ll get back to you on Monday.

Their last tease still hasn’t materialized, but Nokia is determined to plough on with yet more announcements this year. Come August 18, the Espoo, Finland-based manufacturer will unveil the latest members of the Nseries family, most likely to be the N79 and N85, in a closed online event before the public announcement on August 25th. The ever elusive XpressMedia 5800 or Tube seems not yet ready for the limelight though, and the N96 is still MIA more than a year after it was announced. We already know some tidbits about the handsets in question, like the dual-slider N85’s 5 megapixel camera and Symbian S60 FP2 operating system, and the N79’s 2.4-inch display and its own 5mpx lens. The event is only four days away, so look for us to get you more on it pretty soon!

This one made its first unofficial appearance exactly a month back hanging out with the likes of 5800 XpressMusic and the N79, but it looks like Nokia is having a tough time like Sony Ericsson with plugging holes and controlling leaks. Although this doesn’t cement anything about the N85, the rumored specs point to a positioning between the lovely N95 and the upcoming N96. From what we know at this point, it will be a dual-slider with a 5-megapixel camera, 3G support, GPS with geotagging, and S60 Third Edition FP2. These new pictures still reveal the model name as N00, so lot’s more development to go in before it’s worthy enough to get the N85 number. Read on for more pictures.
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