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After nearly 2 sets of unofficial leaks and a number of debates with regard to the authenticity of these leaks on many forums, including Nokia Conversations, Nokia have finally officially unveiled the Nokia N97 Mini at the Nokia World 2009 which took place in September earlier this year. The mini is a slightly stripped – down version of Nokia’s flagship, the Nokia N97 and should be released in October worldwide, including in the UK. The price of the Nokia N97 Mini is estimated to be around 300 euro (£275) before any taxes or subsidies. The Nokia N97 Mini Reviews have been quite positive so let’s have a look under the hoods and see whether the phone is worth purchasing.

The Nokia N97 Mini can be used on any 2G or 3G network, meaning that you can use it anywhere in the world. The phone is fairly slim at 14.2 mm. This is with a slider QWERTY, making it all the more appreciable. The phone is, however, a bit heavy at 138 grams and you might feel a bit uncomfortable when you are carrying it around in tight jeans. The phone utilizes a 3.2 inch TFT resistive touchscreen with a resolution of 360×640 pixels and can display a maximum of 16 million colours. A proximity sensor as well as an accelerometer sensor are also present on the phone.

The 3.5 mm audio jack allows you to use your favourite headsets rather than the standard ones provided with your phone. The phone’s internal memory is 8GB, expandable by another 16 GB via a microSD memory card.

Internet connectivity is possible via EDGE, GPRS, Wi-Fi and HSDPA. Stereo Bluetooth and microUSB v20 connectivity are also available. A 5 MP Carl Zeiss camera is present with a dual LED flash and autofocus. The phone should be available later in October so when that day arrives be sure to check out all the Nokia N97 Mini deals on offer.

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The Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition is a GPS – centric edition of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, which was unveiled in August via Nokia Conversations. The Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition Reviews have been good, so let’s look under the hood.

Using the leverage provided by the popularity of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, the phone has all the features that the original edition of the phone has. The looks are also the same, but the biggest difference between both the phones is the awesome car holder and the car charger which enable you to use your phone as a SatNav device for your car, saving you the trouble of having to buy a stand – alone one.

There is another difference which we were able to identify via the data sheet of the phone provided by Nokia. The phone’s colour scheme are different from the red and blue that was available in the original edition of the phone. It will be released in a Black and Chrome colour combination.

The phone is set to be released in 3 different versions. All of them have a common feature in the support for quad – band GSM networks. 2 of the version will also come with 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity while the last one will not have these connectivity options. This is perhaps because the last version is geared towards China or the emerging markets.

However, when we look at the promo video released by Nokia to coincide with the unveiling of the phone, we realize that the problem of the screen’s legibility under direct sunlight persists. This might make you think twice about using the phone as a dedicated GPS device on your car’s dashboard as it would be exposed to direct sunlight during the daytime.

The Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition should be ready to ship during the 3rd quarter of the year for £236 before any subsidies or taxes.

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A Finnish mobile phone manufacturer mimicking a Danish lager brewer… whatever will they think of next?

Because for years you’ve been hearing about what would happen “if” Carlsberg did other things. If they did parties you’d be surrounded by nubile young things wearing very few things… If they did Sunday pub teams you’d be playing with a bunch of senile ex-England stars. If if if…

But, in a sense, those Finns have gone one better with the Nokia Booklet 3G, because Nokia haven’t just asked us to imagine how great it would be if they went out and made a netbook, they’ve actually gone out there and made a netbook. And, well, it’s great.

Like, really, properly, full on great. We’ve been using netbooks for a while now, loving their no (or low) frills attitude and sheer portability. And, seeing as how Nokia phone’s have always been about those kind of things too, we had every confidence the Nokia 3G Booklet was going to be a cracker. And boy, is it.

A 10” HD screen, 3G, WiFi, sim card slot, Windows 7, 12 (twelve!) hours of battery life… what more do we need to say. Well, the question, as always, is what more can we be arsed saying. The answer, as always, is very little. But, good news too is that this fair Nokia Booklet 3G review and this official page say far more than we ever could here anyway.

So click through, agree with the greatness, crack open a beer, and just thank the day that Nokia ever decided to do a Carlsberg on us

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Sometimes, as utterly amazing, fantastic, intelligent, witty, attractive, fantastic and downright historically important as our blogs are, even we realise that whatever we right is not as effective as a mere video. Only sometimes mind, but, credit where it’s due, today is one of those days. So go on, we won’t feel bad, have a skip down to the video about the N900 attached to the bottom of this post. Go on, we won’t shout, honest.

Done it? Excellent.

So, presumably, like us, you were a bit bemused at first. Or if not bemused then sighingly depressed. Another self-made Nokia video, another reason to get mad about Nokia self-making videos. Guy with stupid Finnish hair? Check. Guy with stupid Finnish hair trying not to look like a middle-class dad of two who owns a sensible car by wearing a Stussy t-shirt? Check. Uber geek second Finnish guy who looks, well, less, or, maybe, more, oh god, what, terrifying? Check. Dodgy camera work? Check? Disappointing shots of the – GOOD LORD WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT

See, right there, that moment, that point at which they actually stop blathering on and show the phone, that is when it suddenly all becomes worth it. Because the Nokia N900 is a stonker, a stone cold screamer, a downright bad ass of a phone. And that’s not even doing it full justice. It’s not even worth mentioning any of the features of this phone here, in fact. And not only because we’re lazy and can just point you in the direction of this Nokia N900 review, or these official stats. But because there’s just too many. And every single one of them, every stat, every app, every gadget, gizmo and design feature is just spot on. Fair enough, you might not want what used to be (and now, thank god, doesn’t seem to be) called an internet tablet. But if you do, if you’re in any way in the market for a multimedia / smartphone / other kind of all-singing/-dancing handset, then put your feet up, relax, you just found what you’re looking for. It’s as simple as that.

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Man gets run over by car on Oxford Street. FAIL!

Dog bites woman on hand, detaches finger. FAIL!

Grandparent drops baby. FAIL!

Sometimes, the kids, they give us great things. Not very often, to be fair. But sometimes phrases, inventions, new musical styles or other such things emerge from da yoof. However, most of the time, all we get from them are inanities, stabbings, swine flu and all manner of STDs.

What we’re not able to decide, however, is in which camp to place the newest craze sweeping the nation (or our local pub, at least): that of people shouting FAIL at anyone who does something wrong, anyone who is bettered by someone in any way, or even just at the occurrence of an event, happening or circumstance that could have in some small or large way gone better than it did. It’s the Nelson in the Simpsons shouting HA-ha for 2009.

Mostly, it just winds us right up. But that might be because we’re quite often on the end of said FAIL! hollerings. However, we also find ourself using it more and more, and today was such a day. Because we slightly reluctantly – knowing the “quality” of the videos they produce – sat down to watch the below offering for the Nokia 5230. Then at about 35 seconds, we did a double take, rewound, then watched again. And then we shouted FAIL! At the screen. Have a go yourself. 33…34…35… finger scrolls over screen…36… screens decides to actually respond to touch. Massive, terminal FAIL! How could you make a video that shows a possible failing in your product? Utter FAIL! Radical FAIL! Sublime FAIL!

Which is all rather a shame, because as this official page details, and as this Nokia 5230 review explains, the Nokia 5230 is really not a bad phone at all. In fact, it’s a very decent, very affordable phone. Hey ho, there’s no accounting for FAIL!

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Despite the fact that it has been roughly two years since the XpressMusic range from Nokia came out, it still stands pretty high. One of the most recent additions to this music range by Nokia is the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic. The phone is to come out pretty soon and of course is a much anticipated one. With a thickness of roughly thirteen millimetres, it is sure to create a bit of a stir. Capable of being somewhat pocket friendly, the phone weighs roughly 107 grams.

On the other hand, who won’t like the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic, after all it’s an affordable touch screen phone. Yes, that’s right! The phone has a TFT touch screen which is about 2.0 inches and is quite a beauty in itself. After all, the screen allows the displaying of up to sixteen million colors at a 360 x 640 resolution. You can also make use of the proximity sensor and the handwriting recognition feature, both of which are quite interesting features.

Onboard memory on the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic is around 70 MB. However, you can get quite musical since the memory can take up to 16 GB. If you want to have a walking music jukebox, the 5530 is for you!

The Nokia 5530 Xpress Music has quite a range of different options as far as connectivity is concerned. These cool options include class 32 EDGE and GPRS too. Wi-Fi features let you download large files as per your wish. However, the lack of 3G connectivity is somewhat disappointing especially for those who love to video call.

On the whole, if you are a musical person looking for a cheaper alternative of the iPhone, there is no excuse for you to miss this little beauty! Go grab it right away and have fun choosing from five colors!

If you are looking for Nokia 5530 XpressMusic contracts then visit Moby1. They compare thousands of contracts being offered by online retailers for this music phone and are a good place to look for ideas.

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Ageing is a terrible thing. Just ask, well, anyone who’s really old. There tell you. Once they’ve finished dribbling into a bucket and wetting themselves.

But even before all that nastiness other terrible things happen. You can’t leer at girls and get away with it any more. Or, more accurately, you can’t leer at girls without the police being called, whereas before they just used to punch you. Then there’s hair loss. Then there’s immovable beer bellies. Then there’s the sudden realisation that you’re just not cool any more.

And, a bit like how dogs age far quicker than humans, the Nokia 5800 has already reached its middle age, less than a year after it was first released. How do we know this? Well, the Nokia 5800 Navigation edition is about to be released, and gone is the XpressMusic tag. That’s not to say this thing doesn’t still play music really really well (it does), it’s just that – like your dad and his fancy stereo – it’s just better that we don’t mention it. Instead, Nokia want the Nokia 5800 Navigator edition to be all about that most middle-aged of things: driving to destinations efficiently and in a timely manner, avoiding all queues and possibly stopping at a service station or quaint pub to enjoy a pint of bitter and some kind of pie. Because the 580o Navigation Edition comes pre-installed not only with Nokia Maps, but with lifetime license for voice-guided Drive and Walk navigation for your region.

Obviously you’ll be paying for these licenses via your contract, or in whatever price you pay for a pay-as-you-go version, but it’ll work out cheaper than if you were to pay for them separately. So, no need for a separate GPS to plan those trips to your caravan in Aberystwyth. Whoop-de-******-do.

Sound good to you? Then have a little look at this Nokjia 5800 navigation review. Or at this official page. Or… oh, who are we kidding. No one who’s old enough to appreciate this even reads blogs, right?

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There’s LIES a problem LIES we find LIES with most LIES press releases LIES relating to LIES just LIES about LIES every LIES single LIES phone LIES that LIES ever LIES ever LIES ever LIES gets LIES released.

Have you guessed what it is yet?

That’s writing: a slight propensity for, somewhat, you might say, in a way, kind of, if you will, bending the truth ever so much. Or, as we’ll put it after a rum or six on Monday lunchtime: “EVERY ****INH ONE OF THE ****ING ****S LIES THROUGH THEIR ****** TEETH WHENEVER THE ******* OPENS THEIR ******* MOUTH.”

Which may seem a little harsh, but then the sweetness of our rum breath does soften the message somewhat in context. Anyway, sober as we are now, we’re able to approach the issue with a little more calmness, a little less spittle. The phone at hand in today’s demonstration is the Nokia N97 Mini. It’s a fantastic little phone, no doubt about it, being as it is exactly the same in almost every way to the fantastic big phone, the n97. The thing to note though, about the newer, slimmer, smaller Nokia N97, is that apart from some minor tweaks, it is exactly – exactly – the same as the bigger N97. What, we said that already? Right, okay, sorry. But guess, just take a little itty-bitty guess how the phone has been described? No? Okay, try on this for size: “the N97 mini is truly unique.”

Want us to repeat that one too? No? Us neither.

So angry did this make us, so full of rage and bile and nose dribble that we almost became to mad to point you in the direction of these Nokia N97 Mini deals, or this Nokia N97 mini review. Because how dare they bespoil this fair language with such utter tripe. This is, in fact, the least ‘truly unique’ phone we’ve seen all year.

But what’s funny is that that’s actually a good thing. Those marketing goons have been so determined to use the same old trite language that they’ve actually missed a trick. The point about the mini that is fantastic is that it is not at all unique, it is not at all truly original or anything like that. It is just a smaller version of what was already a fantastic phone. Simple as. Because that is as appealing as can be. We just wish they had the balls to admit it.

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Nokia have never, in our book, been given enough credit for their music phones. The XpressMusic phones came and went and, while they certainly didn’t fail in any way, they were never given as much credit as they were due. And now the all-new X-series (seems Nokia for some reason equates ‘X’ with music… god knows why) is hitting our shelves, headlined by the fantastic Nokia X6, and we feel it’s our duty to do at least a little shouting about how good this thing is as a music player. So, what better solution than a nice little list:

1.The music chip on this thing (the thing that processes your mp3’s or whatever and then sends the signal to the headphones) is the best on any mobile device. The best. Better than any other phone. Better than an iPod. The best
2.There’s 32GB of internal storage for your tracks. Not microSD, not hot swappable, not anything complicated. Turn it on, there it is
3.35 hours of playback thanks to the beefy battery. 35!
4.It’s a Comes With Music phone, meaning that you can download UNLIMITED tracks entirely for FREE and keep them FOREVER. UNLIMITED FREE TRACKS FOREVER

So there we have it. The Nokia X6 does music, does it better than any other phone ever, and… well… that makes us happy.

Don’t take out word for it. Take a look at this Nokia X6 review for more facts n figues. Or have a look through these Nokia X6 deals to see what’s the best offer out there for you. Or just have a look at the terrible, terrible video below instead.

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Nokia has been always applauded for bring classic devices into the market. Now, lay your hands on one of the most splendid devices produced till date by this company with Nokia 3720 Classic. This phone will be touching the UK shores quite soon in this quarter only.

Nokia 3720 Classic is a strong device, made durable enough to endure drops, bumps and splashes, that are a part of travelling in a rough terrain. The phone can be easily used on beaches without the fear of it getting harmed by water with a splash resistant micro screw lock. This phone is prepared from durable materials so even dust cannot enter inside it, which makes it suitable for use in construction sites. It is the right choice for people who want a phone that can last for a long time. This phone was tested in conditions like water and beer, with none of the two entering the phone and ruining its dynamics.

Apart from having a strong exterior, the phone also has rock solid features which make it an absolute must to possess. The phone is also endowed with remarkable features like a 3.2-megapixel camera, a GPS application with Nokia Maps and a 1GB microSD card. GPS navigation allows you to travel easily without hassles even if the route is not known. It also makes it easy to track the vehicle once you get lost.

Snap pictures with the 3.2 megapixel camera anywhere anytime. View them later on the 2.2-inch QVGA display with 16M colors.

Although Nokia 3720 Classic is made to endure every kind of a harsh environment, it lacks the features found in a smartphone like 3.5G support. There is an FM radio in the phone, so that music lovers can listen to their favorite tracks as they are travelling. Bluetooth is present in this device, so sending and receiving files from any other device supporting this technology is not much of a problem.

There is also an LED flashlight in the phone, so that users can easily use this phone as a torch.

Nokia 3720 Classic Links:

• Nokia 3720 Classic on contract
• Nokia 3720 Classic Sim Free
• Nokia 3720 Classic on T-Mobile

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