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To mark the launch of Nokia’s first touchscreen phone today, Pocket-lint has teamed up with Dial-a-Phone.co.uk to offer one lucky reader the chance to win a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.

The price for Nokia’s first touchscreen handset will be £249 SIM-free, including plectrum.

The handset formerly known as the Tube will be exclusively available from 10am at the Nokia Regent Street store as well as Nokia’s Heathrow Terminal 5 shop.

Full Details of the Nokia 5800

• A 3.2″ touchscreen displaying a resolution of 360×640 and 16 million colours!
• The latest 5th Edition Symbian S60 operating system, especially adapted for finger control.
• The XpressMusic tag should tell you the 5800 is a great music phone, and it really is!
• A 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus and a dual-LED flash.
• Assisted GPS with Nokia Maps installed.
• The 5800 XpressMusic is a 3G device with HSDPA support.

Nokia has announced the Nokia N97 today and already people are wondering if it has the feature set to become an iPhone, Blackberry and Google Phone killer all rolled into one.

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With a 5 megapixel camera, HSDPA and qwerty keyboard it beats the iPhone in terms of features hands down. For mainstream users who want a decent camera and Blackberry/Google Phone style keyboards this is a dream device.

Nokia expects the handset with a large touch screen, retailing for 550 euros ($693) before taxes and subsidies and due to reach market in the first half of 2009 will bolster its N-Series smartphone offering.

ere’s a run-down of the specs: tri-band HSDPA 3G support; 802.11b/g Wi-Fi; aGPS and stand alone GPS; 3.5-inch touch resistive touch screen that measures 640 x 360 pixels in a 16:9 widescreen format; 32GB of built-in memory, with support for another 16GB with the addition of a microSD card; 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, LED flash and video capture at 30 frames per second; on-board accelerometer and compass; and support for Flash Lite 3.0 and Flash Video in the browser. Not bad. Not bad at all.

As for the hardware, the preview units we saw were literally built by hand and the product managers couldn’t stress enough that they are many generations away from being final. That said, the hardware was very good. The hinge that slides the top half of the phone open was solid and had no side-to-side play. The keyboard was spacious and comfortable to type on. The buttons all felt good, and the materials were quality all around.

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Gadget Venue has a post up today about the Nokia E63 which was unveiled by Nokia this week.

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The exact release date has yet to be confirmed but the specs of the phone reveal a real competitor to the E71 Business Phone.

The E63 should operate in exactly the same way as the E71 as it runs Symbian 9.2 S60 version 3.2 software too, however the new touch sensitive Navi-Wheel which encircles the traditional d-pad should make it even easier to flip between menus and screens.

Full Features:

Size 

• Form: Monoblock with full keyboard
• Dimensions: 113 x 59 x 13 mm
• Weight: 126 g
• Volume: 87 cc
• Full keyboard
• High quality QVGA display

 
Display and 3D 

• Size: 2.36″
• Resolution: 320 x 240 pixels (QVGA)
• Up to 16 million colors
• TFT active matrix (QVGA)
• Two customisable home screen modes

 
Security features

• Device lock
• Remote lock
• Data encryption for both phone memory an microSD content
• mobile VPN

 
Keys and input method

• Full keyboard
• Dedicated one-touch keys: Home, calendar, contacts, and email
• Speaker dependent and speaker independent voice dialling
• Intelligent input with auto-completion, auto-correction and learning capability
• Accelerated scrolling with Navi^TMKey

 
Colors and covers

• Available in-box colors: Ultramarine Blue and Ruby Red

 
Connectors

• Micro-USB connector, full-speed
• 3.5 mm standard AV connector

 
Power 

• BP-4L 1500 mAh Li-Po standard battery
• Talk time (maximum): GSM up to 11 hours; WCDMA up to 4h 40 min
• Standby time (maximum): GSM up to 18 days; WCDMA up to 20 days;WLAN idle up to 170 hours
• Music playback time (maximum): 18 h

Memory

• microSD memory card slot, hot swappable, max. 8 GB
• 110 MB internal dynamic memory

This was a guest post by James a business continuity expert and lover of business phones.

The Nokia N85 is coming to the UK tomorrow on all networks apart from Vodafone. Vodafone users need to wait until 1st December until they can get their hands on the Nokia N85.

The Nokia N85 is being described as a multimedia powerhouse with an Organic LED screen, Carl Zeiss 5 megapixel camera and integrated music player.

The games included on the N-Gage gaming service are awesome and the dual slider design looks fantastic. It’s hard to find anything to fault with the latest N-series mobile phones, the N85 especially.

“The Nokia N85 was created to be more than the sum of its parts, offering a complete mobile entertainment package designed for connecting, sharing and discovering,” said Juha-Pekka Sipponen, Director, Nokia Nseries. “The iconic Nokia Nseries dual slider design has evolved to become smaller and sleeker while integrating the newest features and services to deliver the best mobile experience to date.”

With a strong lineup of multimedia features, the Nokia N85 is taking the world of mobile convergence to the next level. Gaming, photos, navigation and music blend together with the newest Ovi and third party services via 3.5G HSDPA and Wi-Fi connectivity to make discovering and sharing experiences quick and seamless.

Image via Nokia N85 @ Mobile Shop

The Nokia E71 has scooped the coveted “phone of the year” award at last nights Mobile Choice Awards. Nokia won two awards including “best smartphone”.

The iPhone 3G won the dream phone award.

Samsung took 3 awards while O2 won best operator.

Samsung scooped up three awards at last night’s Mobile Choice Awards. The company won the title of Best Manufacturer, while the i8510 was named best camera phone and the F400 the best music phone.

Nokia’s star of the night was the E71, which won the Phone of the Year award as well as the best smartphone. Mobile Choice readers’ dream phone was predictably the iPhone 3G.

O2 won the award for the Operator of the year, while Virgin Mobile won the Best Customer service award for the eighth year running.

This was a guest post by Nick who blogs about mobile phones over at Mobile Shop

We posted way back in July about how the Nokia N96 was launching in the UK but it’s taken months to actually reach launch status.

Checking a few of the major UK retailers and doing some research by calling up some local stores we were able to find out that the Nokia N96 will be released within the next two weeks.

Most of the retailers don’t seem to have any information on their websites when we called up Phones4u they said they are taking pre-orders on the Nokia N96. Carphone Warehouse don’t seem to have a page up as far as we could find.

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The Nokia E66 is an excellent business phone which is also a great alternative for those looking for sleek design in and out and one that is paired with tons of outstanding features. The cell phone offers excellent options for business users an it includes robust office suite and exchange server support but not everything is easy to be used as it can be a carrier support mobile. You might also find yourself searching for server settings, instructions and additional applications in order to get the cell phone working on your country’s carrier. However once all the settings are done you will be surprised by the rich features and how powerful the cell phone can be.

Design

The Nokia E66 is a classy business slider cell phone offering tight feel to the shell and slides open through a smooth click. The device also does not have a seamlessness of the Samsung Slider and is also not a small device, but you will like the usability through the extra added width with some added weight to make it feel solid. Apart from this there is also an outstanding bright coloured screen and it also features a very rich and comfortable keypad enabling easy typing. The interface is much like the re-skinned Symbian S60 design and so you know that you might have to dig through the enigmatic icons and folders. There are also a few new design tricks a sit includes am accelerometer. Nokia has also perfectly stuck with the easily recognized icons that include the main menu key, home key, email, calendar and address book shortcut key.

Multimedia

When it comes to multimedia you will however not find those impressive features like previous Nokia N78 as there are a few changes. The Nokia E66 offers you a headphone jack of 2.5mm rather then the 3.5mm in N78. However the stereo speakers would offer a speakerphone boast and also the music playback. The E66 also includes a more focused multimedia menu that offers quick access to the music player and several other multimedia applications. The mobile also includes a remarkable music player that offers customizable EQ settings with playlists. There is a support for stereo Bluetooth and includes a 2GB MicroSD card. You can ensure a good picture quality through the 3.2 megapixel sensor camera of E66 that also includes auto focus lens. There is also a good range of selection of options for printing and sending images.

Web browsing and navigation

The browser of Symbia S60 that Nokia uses in their high end handset is one of the best in the market. The pages would load pretty fast through the HSDPA network and you will also find it faster then the EDGE connection. Once the web pages are loaded the browser would handle them with assurance. The layout is also very good as the browser can also scroll through long pages very quickly. The GPS sensor used in E66 is also very sensitive that can find you in minutes. However the voice guidance and navigation system might cost you a bit extra on the unlocked devices of Nokia but the Nokia Maps 2.0 is yet another impressive piece of software that can help you with navigation.