Nokia has officially announced the availability of its N900 smartphone in the US market. The handset is sold for $649 unlocked via Nokia Flagship stores in New York and Chicago or online and through various independent retailers and e-tailers including Amazon. As a reminder, the N900 is the company’s first Maemo-based device that sports a 3.5-inch 800 x 480 touchscreen display, a full QWERTY keyboard, a 5MP camera with video recording, a 32GB of internal memory, a microSD card slot, an FM radio, WiFi, GPS, a 3.5mm headphone jack and supports both quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) and HSDPA connectivities. [Press Release]
LG Electronics has recently announced that they will launch its new LG GW550 smartphone with Windows Mobile 6.5 OS in twenty countries starting in Brazil and Argentina. Designed for professionals, this slim candybar phone features a 2.4-inch LCD screen, a 3.2MP shooter, Wi-Fi support, a-GPS and front-facing QWERTY keyboard. The LG GW550 also supports ‘Smart E-mail’ and ‘Smart Contact’ functions, and adopts a high-performance dual-speaker. [AVING]
T-Mobile has officially announced that the BlackBerry Bold 9700 will be available on its networks starting on November 16th for $199.99 on contract. Just a quick reminder, the 9700 sports a 2.4-inch 480 x 360 display, a 3.2MP camera, a 624MHz processor, a 256MB flash memory, a microSD card slot, a full QWERTY keyboard, a touch-sensitive optical trackpad, A-GPS, 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth and runs on BlackBerry OS 5.0. [Product Page via Engadget Mobile]
Garmin-Asus will launch the nuvifone M20 smartphone with Windows Mobile 6.5 as its operating system. The smartphone will be released later this year in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Turkey Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and Czech Republic. If you have the M20 with Windows Mobile 6.1, you can upgrade your handset to Windows Mobile 6.5 on Garmin-Asus’ website free of charge. In case you didn’t know, the Garmin-Asus nuvifone M20 comes jam packed with a VGA touchscreen display, HSDPA, GPS navigation, Wi-Fi and a 3.2MP camera. [Asus]
Sony Ericsson today released the latest promotional video of Sony Ericsson Xperia X10. In case you didn’t know, this new smartphone comes jam packed with a 4-inch touchscreen capacitive display with WVGA (800×480) resolution, an 8-megapixel shooter with Autofocus, LED flash, image stabilizers, smile and face detection, Bluetooth 2.1 and WiFi b/g. Other specs include aGPS, Android 2.0 with Custom user interface, and a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon Processor. Video after the jump. More
Mark Guim from the Nokia blog has made an unboxing video of the recently released Motorola Droid. In case you’ve forgotten, this new smartphone offers a 3.7-inch touchscreen display, a 5-megapixel camera, a QWERTY keyboard, a 16GB of microSD card, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth and runs on Android 2.0 OS. Watch the video after the break for more details. More
