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The Nokia N900 brings the power of computer to mobile devices. It’s a high performance mobile computer with advanced Maemo 5 software on Linux. Explore Nokia N900 features like multitasking on a live Dashboard, wide screen video capture, 3,5“ WVGA touch display (800 x 480 pixels), QWERTY keyboard and personalisable panorama desktop. The Nokia N900 also features 1 GB of application memory and up to 48GB of storage. Maemo browser is powered by Mozilla Technology and includes Adobe Flash 9.4 and full AJAX support. Wi-Fi and 3.5G connectivity provides fast access to Internet. Take high quality photos and wide screen videos using 5Mpix camera with Carl Zeiss optics. Tag photos and browse them using the tag cloud, and see where images were taken with the automatic geotagging. Merge your phone book, Skype contacts and other contacts into an all-in-one address book. And naturally, N900 has a phone application for voice calls.

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The Nokia X3 is a phone supporting EGSM 850/1800/1900 mhz (or 900/1800/1900 mhz depending on region). Main features include Series 40 6th Edition developer platform, WebKit Open Source Browser, 3.2 megapixel FullFocus (EDOF) camera, stereo FM Radio with internal FM radio antenna, Flash Lite 3.0, Bluetooth 2.1 +EDR and MIDP Java 2.1 with additional Java APIs.

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The new X series replaces the Xpressmusic line which is logical since the other lines are the E and N series respectively. The X6′s .55-inch thick case will hold 32GB of storage, a 5 megapixel camera, a dual LED flash, TV-out, and a 3.2-inch capacitative touchscreen. Technically it is the same as the 5800 yet with a much better touchscreen. It will be out late this year.

With the onslaught of GPS-Celphone combos coming soon, Nokia will release a  rebranded 5800 XpressMusic and named it 5800 Navigation Edition. Instead of having free music it will be preloaded with Ovi Maps and lifetime licenses for voice guided driving and walking directions. I cannot comprehend why Nokia came up with this thing, as if the 5800 XpressMusic could not do that stuff before(aside from the free licenses).  Below is a clip about the 5800 Navigation Edition.

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