Nokia, the world’s largest cell phone maker, today announced the Nokia 5330 Mobile TV Edition that supports mobile broadcast TV (DVB-H) for watching live high-definition TV channel on the phone’s 2.4-inch QVGA screen. After marketing MP3 phones, and Camera phones for several years, it is the time for cell phone makers to focus on the rising TV phones and the sell-like-hot-cakes touch phones. “With mobile broadcast TV consumption on the rise – by 2012 there will be over 300 million people worldwide watching TV on their mobile phones – this handset offers easy access to anyone wanting to enjoy an exceptional live, on-the-move TV experience.”

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Nokia today release three new CDMA phones, which are Nokia 6316s, Nokia 3806, and Nokia 1506, in Beijing, the capital city of China. These new Nokia phones are not as sexy looking as China’s Michael Jackson phone; in fact, they look very dull and old. However, Nokia seems like very confident that these new phones will sell in China, the electronics manufacturing hub for the world.

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Nokia today announced that Software 2.0 is now available for Nokia N97. You may download it at Software Update website (http://www.nokia.com/softwareupdate), or you may update over the air if you have data plan. The new features of the 2.0 include “flip scrolling”, shortcuts to personalized homescreen, 3-D Ovi Maps 3.0, Ovi contacts, Nokia Email, and Ovi Store. According to Nokia, the Nokia N97 is selling like hot cakes.

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Nokia Booklet will be available at BestBuy stores nationwide in November, right before ThanksGiving holidays. As the first netbook of Nokia, the Nokia Booklet is a rare product from the Finland-based cell phone maker. The Nokia Booklet features a 10.1 inch HD LCD screen, A-GPS with Ovi Maps, Ovi Suite for data synchronization, SD card reader, 3G, and Wi-Fi connectivity. It weighs less than 2.76 pounds, measures slightly more than two centimeters thin. The selling price is going to be $299.99 with an AT&T Data Connect plan two-year activation. While made-in-Asia netbooks, such as Acer and Asus, are sold for less than the price of Booklet, it is hard to say whether the Nokia Booklet is going to be big success.

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If you are planning to get new phones from T-Mobile, please wait till you check out these two new phones that are hot out of the oven from T-Mobile – T-Mobile Tap and Nokia 3711. T-Mobile USA, the 4 largest mobile carrier in the US, announced the T-Mobile Tap and Nokia 3711 today. Both T-Mobile Tap and Nokia 3711 are low-to-mid level phones, but they do offer decent features and specifications, enough for casual use.

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Verizon Wireless today announced the Nokia 7705 Twist, one of the cutest and smallest phone that we have seen so far. Unbelievably, with its tiny size, the 7705 Twist phone still has a full QWERTY keyboard that twisted open beneath the 2.4-inch QVGA screen screen. The Nokia 7705 Twist supports Verizon Wireless VCAST Video / Music with Rhapsody. It will be available for $99.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with two-year customer agreement.

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Nokia today announced a new flip style phone called Nokia Mural for AT&T Wireless in the US. The Mural phone is an entry-level affordable flip style phone that surprisingly supports 3G connectivity. The coolest feature of this Nokia phone is its front cover that light up in blue, red, green, orange, purple or pink color when the phone is opened or closed or when users receive a call, a text or notification.

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Can’t wait to get a Nokia’s first laptop, Nokia Booklet 3G? Well, you still can’t get one yet, but now you could watch the first hand-on video posted at Nokia website. The suggested retailing price of Nokia Booklet is 575 Euros, a lot more expensive the netbooks that have pretty much the same features and specs of the Nokia Booklet. Video after the jump.

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Guys, check out these first-hand videos of Nokia N900, the most exciting phone released by Nokia so far this year. The Nokia N900 is powered by Linux Maemo 5 user interface with unbelievable features and specifications. Here is the release announcement in case you miss it.

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Nokia today announced a brand new touch screen phone, Nokia N900 that is powered by Maemo software, an open-source Linux-based software that delivers PC-like experience on a handset-sized device. The release of Nokia N900 instantly crowns the new king of mobile phone of the year. The N900 is powered by an ARM Cortex-A8 process with up to 1GB of application memory and OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics acceleration, enough to support PC-like multitasking experience. Storage and memory wise, it has 32GB internal memory, and is upgradeable to 48GB via a microSD card. Besides that, it has a big high-resolution WVGA touch screen, a full QWERTY keyboard, 5-megapixel digital camera with Carl Zeiss optics, fast HSPA and WLAN connectivity, and full Adobe Flash(TM) 9.4 support.

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The world’s largest cell phone maker, Nokia, today announced the latest addition of Nokia touch phone portfolio, the Nokia 5230. The 5230 touch screen phone is very affordable, as it will be sold for merely 149 EUR, a lot less than other touch screen phones in the market. Features of the phone include a MP3 music player with 33 hours of playback time, Ovi services support, 3.5mm headset jack, YouTube client, and social networking apps including Facebook.

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Nokia today broke the news that its Ovi Mail services hits 1 million users mark in just over 6 months. Ovi Mail is email services targeting users in developing countries. Users could set up their email accounts using Nokia phones without using a computer.

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