FreshPhoneNews.com

Eldar Murtazin the Russian blogger who is the go-to guy when it comes to spilling beans on Nokia, not to mention all-round mobile guru, has just put the N900 aka Rover through its paces and then shared his views with the world. Overall Murtazin was impressed with the device. The 3.5 inch display is a resistive touchscreen and the device also sports a full QWERTY keypad (with the off-centre space key, because Nokia just can’t get enough of it). Of course the sturdy touchscreen then makes the stylus totally useless, but logic sometimes is not a factor to be considered when designing a handset. Anyway, the Maemo 5 interface is gorgeous so Nokia will probably get away with the stylus.

via

If you take more pictures with your cell than you text or make calls then your dreams are about to come true, that is if you live in the US where the Nokia N86 is soon to hit flagship stores and the official website. The phone is a photographer’s dream come true. It features an 8MP that’s right, count ‘em 8MP camera. The set is an S60 3rd Edition FP2 featuring an f-stop range of 2.4-4.8 and a wide-angle lens. Once you do however, you’ll find a 2.6-inch AMOLED QVGA display, quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE and tri-band UMTS, 8GB of internal storage, Wi-Fi and aGPS with Nokia Maps 3.0 pre-installed. But I doubt you’ll ever get over the camera which has the shutter speed of Britney Spears’ first divorce i.e. 1/1000 a second. The phone and the camera glory don’t come cheap, in fact the US will definitely be over charged. The set in Europe was tagged at €375 abroad something around $474 at the time of release in Europe but in the US will carry the heavy tag of $558. So camera bliss is not exactly cheap but the phone is fully unlocked and top notch camera S60. Who’s onboard?

via

Well we told you Nokia was planning something big, and yeah, that’s what the Finnish giant had promised. On Tuesday, the company held its Nokia World ‘08 Conference in Barcelona, Spain and announced the ever lushes, very very gorgeous looking N97.  

The phone has been designed to be loved by all who set eyes on it (corny as that may sound). Nokia is calling it the “Facebook Phone”, and for a pretty rock solid reason too. The N97 is aimed at heavy duty social networking and multimedia, all while keeping the business user happy and well equipped.

Specs:

The phone has some pretty cool specs;

1.      3.5″, 640 x 360 resistive touch screen

2.      QWERTY keyboard

3.      Tri-band HSDPA 3G

4.      802.11 b/g WiFi

5.      A-GPS and Stand-alone GPS for directions and geo-tagging

6.      32GB Built-In Memory

7.      microSD expansion support for ADDITIONAL 16GB

8.      5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics

9.      Flash Lite 3.0 support and Flash Video in web browser

10.  Music player up to 36 hours playback time

11.  Share and Ovi services support

That’s everything but the kitchen sink. The phone may not be an iPhone Killer, it sure rocks the multimedia loving crowd. The camera takes an amazing 30 frames per second video. And probably the biggest wao factor is the Flash Support and Flash video. Then there’s that 32 GB of built-in memory so you can fit in a hefty part of your multimedia collection. Although Nokia doesn’t have the greatest market share in United States, the N97 will defiantly be a big hit in Europe.

The N97 will be released in the first half of 2009 and will go for €550, or approximately $695. Till then, enjoy the pictures and here’s a video.