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Nokia N97 mini makes its big debut in stores. With its stainless steel cues, the Nokia N97 mini is designed for style-conscious people who are active with social networks. The device features a tilting 3.2″ touch display, QWERTY keyboard and fully customizable homescreen. The Nokia N97 mini features same software with the Nokia N97 and will be in stores with an estimated retail price of EUR 450 before taxes and subsidies.

Espoo, Finland – Nokia announced that it has today filed a complaint against Apple with the Federal District Court in Delaware, alleging that Apple’s iPhone infringes Nokia patents for GSM, UMTS and wireless LAN (WLAN) standards.

Nokia detailed ten patents in the case that relate to technologies “fundamental to making devices which are compatible with one or more of the GSM, UMTS and wireless LAN standards,” it said in a statement.

It claimed all Apple’s iPhone models shipped since the Cupertino-based firm debuted its popular device in 2007 infringed the patents.

The blog Post about this in nokia’s official website said’

“The basic principle in the mobile industry is that those companies who contribute in technology development to establish standards create intellectual property, which others then need to compensate for,” said Ilkka Rahnasto, Vice President, Legal & Intellectual Property at Nokia. “Apple is also expected to follow this principle. By refusing to agree appropriate terms for Nokia’s intellectual property, Apple is attempting to get a free ride on the back of Nokia’s innovation.”

UPDATE:After some delay and wait the Nokia N900 is finally shipping today in select markets such as Europe, Middle-East, Russia and North America. As preorders are being shipped now , the retail price of the n900 is expected to be around 500 euros or Rs.35000 approx before taxes.

Nokia has today announced the highly anticipated N900 (aka Rover, RX-51) Maemo 5 handset.

The first thing to be noticed is the resolution. The resolution of this Mobiles display is 800×480, hard to find for a 3.5 display.

Then the processing power, this comes with a 600MHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor. Thats way ahead of its kind.

This will turn up the heat on Apple for sure.

The press release boldly states that the device is “designed for computer-grade performance in a compact size” with the help of Linux-based Maemo 5 OS, browser based on Mozilla technology, Adobe Flash 9.4 support and last but definitely not least 1 gigabyte of application memory (256MB RAM and 768MB virtual memory). Yet they call this a phone.

The US FCC website leaked a new version of the popular Nokia 5800. It’s called 5800i, but contrary to what the name suggests, it’s not a pure upgrade over the regular 5800 XpressMusic. There are no detailed specs yet, but as evident from the photos and the concluded tests, there are at least two differences.

Just by looking at the shots of the Nokia 5800i XpressMusic, there don’t seem to be any visual clues to what is different. A closer look at the 3 megapixel camera specs written on the back reveal a longer focus distance – 4.6mm as opposed to 3.7mm in the original model.

Now that may mean one of two things – either the camera has a more narrower field of view (it’s more zoomed-in in layman’s terms) or there’s a larger sensor hiding behind the Carl Zeiss optics there. The first suggestion doesn’t make any sense for a cameraphone, so the right answer is probably B). The Nokia 5800i XM has a bigger sensor and that’s here to fix one of the major disadvantages of the original – the poor camera results.

Check out the pics of OLD 5800 Xm and the leaked picture of Upcoming 5800i XM above. Click on the Pictures for getting a clear view of the camera details.

However for some reason, Wi-Fi has been left out of the new 5800i equation. Quite strangely, as we’re not really sure whether users would prefer better image quality over Wi-Fi.

The Nokia 5800i XpressMusic, of course, is probably far from its official announcement so we’d just have to wait a little bit longer to get all the juicy details. In the end things might take a turn for the better.

After a long waiting now the nokia users from india can use the music store of nokia. But the problem is it is still in beta. And that means we can only hear a 30 minutes sample of the songs. And besides this we cannot even purchase the songs now.

The store was delayed over 6 months, and will remain in beta phase for the time being.

More importantly for Indian users, the store will carry a “large selection of Indian music across different genres, which included music in regional Indian languages as well,”

says Symbian Freak.

Also the nokia spokesperson added that

“The pricing mechanisms for India are currently being worked out.”

The Nokia 6600i has just been launched in India and it establishes itself as the smallest 5-megapixel phone in the market. The 6600i has a slider form factor with an extremely impressive design and style.

The camera being the phones USP promises to deliver crystal clear imaging with its 8x zoom and auto focus functionality. It also comes with a dual LED flash for enhancing image quality.

Other features include FM radio, playback for all kinds of media files/formats, stereo headsets and bluetooth v2.0. A microSD card slot capable of holding a 16GB card fits perfect for this phone.

Price: 13000 Rs/- *

*not Confirmed.