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Nokia N9 announced as first Meego phone

Meego, an open mobile platform jointly developed by Nokia and Intel, is getting its first mobile phone in the form of the Nokia N9. With the unique “no front buttons” design of the Nokia N9, swipe gestures is the focus of the Meego design. From navigating the three home screens (notifications, main screen, running apps) to switching and accessing mobile apps, the Meego design lets users do things with a simple swipe.

The Nokia N9 is made of a single piece of polycarbonate that has been machine precisioned and seamlessly integrated with a curved glass. The 3.9-inch AMOLED screen is made from scratch-resistant curved glass. The N9 is equipped with an 8-megapixel Carl Zeiss autofocus camera with a wide-angle lens. It is capable of capturing HD-quality video capture and the large lens aperture provides great pictures even in lowlighting conditions. The Nokia N9 is also the world’s first smartphone with Dolby® Digital Plus decoding and Dolby Headphone post-processing technology.

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Apple store in the US selling unlocked iPhone 4

The Apple Store in the US has started selling unlocked versions of its iPhone 4 on their web site. Both black and white versions of the iPhone 4 is currently available. The iPhone 4 is available in either 16-GB and 32-GB models. The unlocked 16-GB iPhone 4 is currently selling at US$649 while the 32-GB version is available for US$749. The unlocked iPhone 4 can only be delivered to a US address if you order it from the US Apple Store. You can check out the details here.

Nokia ships first Symbian Anna phones – E6 and X7

Nokia has announced that it is now shipping the Nokia E6 and Nokia X7 phones. These phones come loaded with Nokia’s latest Symbian Anna mobile operating system. According to Nokia, the X7 will be available in Europe, Eurasia, China, India and other Asia/Pacific countries, while the E6 will be available in Europe, Eurasia, Asia/Pacific, as well as the Middle East and Africa — looks like no X7 for China and India.

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Nokia Oro premium Symbian phone launched

Nokia is launching today a new phone called Nokia Oro which uses such materials as 18-carat gold plating, sapphire crystal and leather. The Symbian Anna powered mobile phone offers the same hardware specs as the latest generation of Nokia phones. It has a 3.5-inch AMOLED display, an 8-megapixel camera capable of 720p video recording. It also has a pentaband radio which essentially allows you to use it in almost any part of the world.

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Xperia Play becomes a Verizon connected phone

Android 2.3, Gingerbread, powered Xperia™ PLAY is Sony Ericsson’s first PlayStation® Certified smartphone. It sports 1 GHz Qualcomm® Snapdragon® processor with Adreno 205 GPU, a 4-inch multi-touch display and 5 Megapixel rear facing camera. But what makes it stand out is the slide out game pad revealing a directional keypad, dual analog touch joystick, two shoulder buttons and the four iconic PlayStation® symbol keys: circle, X, square and triangle.

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Windows 7 / Symbian dual boot Fujitsu phone

The Japanese never ceases to amaze me. Imagine Fujitsu creating a mobile phone for NTT Docomo that actually dual boots the Windows 7 OS and Symbian. The LOOX from Fujitsu has pretty amazing specs to. For starters it uses the Intel Atom and has a 4-inch 1024×600 resolution complete with a slide-out keyboard. The thing could be pretty useful in cases where you need to do a quick editing of your MS Office documents.

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Nokia C6 firmware finds its way into the 5800 Symbian phone

Nokia has been hard at work on improving it’s Symbian mobile platform. The recent release of the Nokia C6 smartphone has made a connected phone even more affordable to the masses. The Nokia C6 which retails for a little over $200 without any carrier subsidies have basically the same specs as the Nokia N97 mini sans the large capacity internal memory and higher price.

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