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Specifications:

• 3.5-inch, 640 x 360 pixel (16:9 aspect ratio)
• Resistive touchscreen display with tactile feedback
• HSDPA, WiFi, and Bluetooth
• A-GPS
• 3.5-mm headphone jack
• 32GB of onboard memory with microSD expansion
• Battery capable of up to 1.5 days of continuous audio playback or 4.5-hours video
• 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss glass and “DVD quality” video capture at 30fps
• It will cost €550 ($693)
• Release date: Q1 2009

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Nokia’s first attempt to get a piece of the “full touchscreen phone” pie is not too bad. The touchscreen is not as fluid as the one on iPhone, but it does have some nice features. Here’s some of them:

• 3.2-inch haptic touchscreen display
• 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus
• GSM/EDGE radio, 3G UMTS/HSDPA
• Bluetooth 2.0
• WiFi
• GPS
• 3.5mm headphone jack
• TV-out port
• 140MB on-board storage
• It will be released in Europe first for $227, and the U.S. “next year” (of course)

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• 2.8 inch QVGA display.
•  5 megapixel autofocus camera with Carl Zeiss Tessar lens.
• 3.5mm headphone jack.
• A2DP, WiFi, AGPS.
• N-Gage interface.
• Will not support American 3G networks (just EDGE).
• 3rd quarter at €550 (about $797).

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The screen is up to 2.8 inches versus the original N95’s 2.6, but the 8GB of internal storage comes at the cost of the microSD slot. Out in stores this quarter for $749 

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“In its first full quarter of sales, the iPhone has already climbed past Microsoft’s entire lineup of Windows Mobile smartphones in North America, according to figures compiled by Canalys and published by Symbian. That puts the iPhone ahead of smartphones running Symbian, Linux, and the Palm OS, but behind the first place RIM BlackBerry. The figures mesh with retail sales data already reported by NPD, which similarly described the size of the US market with a 27% chunk bit out by Apple’s iPhone.”

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“Is this the best smartphone ever made? Yes. You could even drop the ’smart’ bit and call it the ‘best phone ever made’, since this will be sold in High Street shops and picked up, as the original was, by people from all walks of life, most of whom have never even heard the term ’smartphone’. “

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