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The long awaited and much anticipated touchscreen offering from Nokia, the 5800 went on general release in the UK. Reports suggest there were long queues around the main Nokia store in Central London with many people waiting for hours just to get their little paws onto the new device.

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With the market well and truely focused on the whole touchscreen craze lately, it looks like Nokia are going to release a QWERTY with a touchscreen screen nowhere to be seen, called the 5730. This will be part of the ever growing XpressMusic family. This is looks like an average, run of the mill normal phone with real buttons under the screen at first glance, however, push up the side to reveal a QWERTY keypad.

What you can’t see from the photos are the applications this baby has underneath. The usual suspects are all there, Bluetooth, USB and camera (3.2MP to be exact), but there is also 3G, GPS functionality and Symbian S60 OS. Downloading music from Nokia’s DRM via EDGE.

Supposed to be released in April of this year, it is said to be priced from €220.

Via : techdigest

Picture Via : Mobile-review

Here are a few images of the Nokia N97, taken at CES

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Nokia have announced at CES 2009 in Vegas that their new Smartphone, the E63 will be let loose on the American market in the coming weeks. Expected to be priced around $279.00, it has seems like this has been coming for ages, November 2008 to be exact when it was first announced by Nokia.

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If you have one of the original 4GB N95, then this firmwire update is for you. To avail of this upgrade, which is availible from Nokia themselves, simply Nokia software updater and upgrade!

As to what is being updated, we don’t have a full list, and although it is only a minor update, you may as well. It might solve some issues you may have with the N95. The new firmware has been updated to version 31.0.017.

Via : Symbian-freak

Just as the title suggests, the Nokia 5800 touchscreen handset will be availible in the UK from the end of the month. It will be sim free from £249 (€275) from Nokia’s online store and from their flagship store in terminal 5 in Heathrow. It is availible to pre-order from their website right….now!

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According to the BBC, the two main contenders for greatness in 2009 are Nokia 5800 and T-Mobile (or Google’s) G1. These two will soon go head-to-head with the launch of the 5800 soon in the UK while the G1 has already been out for a while.

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A new leaked image of a full touchscreen Nokia handset has been leaked to give us an idea of what is to come in 2009. Although the handsets are only in the conception stage, the future looks good with this great big screen and huge interface.

This handset wil be hot on the heels of other touchscreen handsets released or to be released by Nokia, the N97 and 5800 to give you two examples. Nokia have already come out and said that they will be releasing more N-Series touchscreen handsets soon.

Until this is actually released onto the market, it is unknown if it will be an “iPhone killer” but from the leaked images it sure does look good.

Another major announcement made as part of the keynote Nokia speech in Barcelona, Spain is the release of the Nokia N97 in the not too distant future. This is a handset that has got us all hot under the collar, it looks great, great specs; just great really!

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In Barcelona Spain this morning, Nokia announced that they have acquired Symbian Ltd. This was made during their keynote speech. Symbian are the software firm which has developped the OS which is licenced to other manufactorers.

The plan is that as of the 1st Feb 2009, all Symbian employees will become employees of Nokia.