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Nokia n97 hits FCC with glorious photography – by Engadget
We're not sure if these are false color images, weird lighting, a Finnish sense of humor, or an actual production color scheme for the N97, but regardless, we like it. Nay, love it. Ship it, Nokia. Anyhow, the FCC has published full submitted details of one of the non-North American varieties of Nokia's halo device for the year, putting GSM / EDGE 850 / 1900 and WCDMA band II (1900MHz, if you're curious) through their paces along with the FM transmitter, Bluetooth, and WiFi. We've also got a manual to peruse — unfortunately, details on the Ovi Store are missing, but at least we can brush up on our phone basics before we get our hands on a device. Anyone else totally forget that it's got an internal magnetic compass, or was that just us?
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Nokia E75 Starts shipping - by Allaboutsymbian
According to a Nokia press release, the E75 QWERTY sliderphone is now making its way into shops, and may even be available already in some areas. As mentioned in previous stories, the E75 features Symbian S60 3rd Edition FP2, a 2.4 inch QVGA screen, side-sliding QWERTY keyboard, GPS, 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera, 3.5G HSDPA and Wi-Fi support. It's also the first Eseries device to be compatible with the N-Gage platform. The full release is below.
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Aikonlab adds support for s60 5th edition – by Symbian-Guru
AikonLab, Samir Oueldi’s new venture, has been quite silent recently. We all loved the innovation that Samir brought in the S60 field with his mastering of the accelerometer and sensors technologies on RotateMe, NokMote amongst others, but ever since he launched AikonLab, updates have been a bit on the slow side. Not anymore, as Samir has been busy bringing new versions of all his projects.
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15 minutes long Hands-on Demo of the N97 at CTIA '09 – by Symbian-Freak
Matthew Bennett from Nokia Daily News and Myriam Joire gave us a whooping 15 minute long walkthrough the Nokia N97's software, hardware, greatly improved and highly customized active standby screen, widgets implementation, demo of the new version of the web browser with kinetic scrolling and much more.
Nokia's Julien Fourgeaud has done a great job of presenting this powerful device that offers the best of both worlds, an awesome touch sensitive screen, and the full size QWERTY keyboard packed into complex tilt-slide-out form factor that instantly transforms phone into mini laptop with a QWERTY keyboard and the huge high-definition screen.The hardware architecture is still mystery unfortunately and all we have at the moment is the ongoing rumour over at forum section about the OMAP 3 chipset.
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