Nokia today announced the Nokia N97 desktop PC phone, claiming the world’s most advanced mobile computer, in Barcelona, Spain. The Nokia N97 features a big 3.5-inch TFT LCD Wide touchscreen (as big as Apple iPhone), a full QWERTY keyboard that slide out from the side, and Nokia’s Ovi services.

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Nokia today announced that it has successfully bought Symbian Limited, the world’s most popular operaing system for cellular phones. All conditions to Nokia’s offer to acquire Symbian Limited have been satisfied and it has received valid acceptance of greater than 99.9% of the total Symbian shares that Nokia did not already own.

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The new war among high-tech companies, Mobile operating system war, is getting a lot hotter with the introduction of Google G1 phone that is powered by a promising open-source mobile operating system, Android. The world’s number 1 cellular phone maker, Nokia, is getting worried that its marker share in cellular phone market will be challenged by other mobile operating systems, should Nokia failed to improve its S60 operating system. The porting of Qt platform for S60 signals that Nokia is trying to invite more developers to program applications for S60.

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These are the best first hand pictures of Nokia 7070 prism phone that was launched in Europe not too long ago. The 7070 prism is a quad-band GSM phone in cool diamond-cut design. Other than special design, the 7070 prism doesn’t has anything else to excite us. The phone doesn’t have built-in digital camera, which is one of the reasons why Nokia is capable of making 7070 prism so slim.

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The phenomenal success of iPhone, and iPhone 3G, which sells like hot cakes in 22 countries, brings Nokia, the leader in mobile phone market, jumps into touchscreen mobile phone market.
According to the leaked source, Nokia is set to launch Nokia 5800Tube that features a big 3.2-inch 16-millions Color VGA touchscreen (640 x 480 resolution), a 5-megapixel digital camera, GPS navigation system, WLAN support, and built-in MP3 digital music player. If this is true, Nokia 5800Tube has better features and specifications than iPhone 3G, making it one of the phones that could possibly challenge iPhone.

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Nokia unearths two new mobile devices, Nokia E66 and Nokia E71, which are optimized for personal and professional email. Nokia likes to think that both Nokia E66 and Nokia E71 are “computers” instead of cellular phones, as the Nokia press release says “Slim, stylish Nokia E71 and Nokia E66 multimedia computers offer easy access to range of email solutions, including Microsoft Exchange”.

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Nokia secretly launched the Nokia 7310 Supernova phone in Taiwan and Hong Kong. It is kind of weird that Nokia didn’t throw any launch party for this “Supernova” phone, although its name sounds like a highly anticipated phone that nobody should miss. The truth is the phone looks pretty much like the Nokia N82 8GB. The only thing that Nokia fans should be excited about is the crafted floral design on the case.

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