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Nokia has finally shown of their low-cost mobile handset C5, part of the new C-series during CeBIT 2010. The C5 features the current Symbian OS, a 2.2 inch QVGA display, HSDPA, Ovi Maps 3.0 and a 3.2 megapixel camera.

Nokia is known for a lot of things, marketing hype sometimes being one of them; however when I heard about the Nokia BH-905 “high performance” Bluetooth headphones with active noise reduction, my cynical side immediately kicked in. I mean, what could be so “high performance” about Bluetooth headsets?

I’m sure you’ve heard the news: Moblin and maemo are merging! We are taking the best pieces from these two open source projects and are creating the MeeGo software platform. Both teams have worked for a long time to support the needs of the mobile user experience – and MeeGo will make this even better. We want it to be fun, focused, flexible, technically challenging and ultimately, something that can change the world.

Call it a work in progress, but some illustrious members of Maemo.org have gotten Google Android (Eclair) to boot and be functional on the Maemo Linux based Nokia N900. Why is it a work in progress? The touchscreen works, as well as the keyboard on the N900; however you will not be making any phone calls via Android on the N900 quite yet. In fact, not all sounds or modules have been interfaced yet.

“Nokia used to charge for navigation packages that included turn-by-turn directions. That all goes away now. Now you can get turn-by-turn directions covering 74 countries in 46 languages as well as detailed maps for 180 countries,” the report said.

Earlier in the week, Nokia came out with their PR1.01 and people were wondering when the “by Christmas” update that Nokia promised was coming. Well, question no more. Nokia’s PR1.1 update raises the Maemo 5 build to 2.2009.51-1.

Perhaps one of the worst kept secrets, the HTC built Google Phone, formerly named “Phone 88″ and now “Nexus One” – which still might be one of the project names and not its final name – has finally been sussed out and shown to the world… but not fully announced yet.

Callpod has introduced the Callpod Fueltank Uno, a small rechargeable battery that allows users to charge their devices some 3-5 times off of one Fueltank Uno Charge.

Nokia N900 is now shipping to Europe, the Middle East, Russia and North America. It’s about time!

Nokia has a couple of viral advertising websites up and running – Maemoproject.com and Majorcompete.com – hinting towards something cool.

Nokia announced today a total combined loss of 1.36 Billion – that with a big “B” folks – due to slumping sales during it’s Summer 2009 sales. This would include the sale(s) of their flagship Nokia N97 which sold relatively strong with 2 million units in about 3 months. The problem though was that most users shifted from their flagship, more expensive phones to much lesser expensive phones due to the global economy downturn.

About a day or so ago, I mentioned FlyCast’s BlackBerry mobile radio software.
Thanks to the nice people at FlyCast – and also because I have only a few Nokia phones as well as Apple iPhone 3G to currently do my testing so feel free to send me some test phones! – I have [...]

I normally don’t like to start rumors… but I’ve yet to see anything mentioned anywhere about the Motorola Aura. It’s going to be their upscale “answer” to the Nokia 8800 series.
It’ll come at a premium price, be made of premium materials… and yes. I’ve actually seen it.

More when I can actually talk about [...]

A quick collected list of gadget rumors going on over the weekend and morning:

iTunes 8.0 and iPhone 2.1 on September 9th?
Nokia to release the 5800 “Tube” on October 8th?
New Zune features leaked
GM Volt EPA rating could be cut by new standards
Joost to go from the desktop to browser only? Screenshots!
Adobe CS4 is nearing the door?

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Well, after the Google Talk announcement for the iPhone and iPod Touch Mobile Safari browsers yesterday, Gizmo Project – which until my Nokia N810 I had rarely used since all of my contacts were either on Skype or other IM protocols (MSN, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ) – announced the ability to use IM via your cellphone. [...]


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