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Nokia is allegedly set to launch a new Symbian-based device, the C5, according to a Daily Mobile report. If the details are correct, the device will serve as Nokia’s first Cseries smartphone. The new category appears to offer mid-range smartphone features compared to the company’s high-end Nseries handsets and Eseries business offerings.

According to the source of the leaked images, the C5 will offer a 3.2-megapixel camera, 2.2-inch QVGA display, GPS, and an FM radio. Internal memory is said to reach just 50MB, although a microSD slot is also integrated for further expansion. The operating system is claimed to be the Symbian S60v3 FP2 release.

Pricing information for the C5 remains unknown. The device is expected to be unveiled next month at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

source: electronista.com

Since it looks like GT5’s still another decade or two away from release, racing gamers need everything they can to survive the wait, and this is just about the most creative way we’ve seen to do that.

At a glance, Nokia’s Ovi Maps Racing looks like a pretty simple, standard 2D racer with an overhead view, but its secret sauce lies in the map: it can turn pretty much any street in the world into a racecourse.

The game lets you chart out your heated battle using nothing more than Ovi Maps data and your finger, meaning Manhattan, Prague, or your folks’ quiet, peaceful neighborhood are all potential targets for your high-speed bedlam.

Nokia has released an important firmware update for its N97 smartphone. Version 21.0.045 promises better call reliability as well as smoother scrolling on the smartphone’s touchscreen. The update also includes browser and music player improvements.

Only the company’s second touchscreen phone, its launch was marred by delays and dogged by complaints about the original interface design. Previous firmware updates have helped sales recover, surpassing the company’s original expectations.

N97 owners can upgrade their firmware with either the Nokia Software Updater, available on the Nokia support page, or by manually choosing to update from their phones.

Nokia has recently introduced the Nokia X6 16GB, a full touchscreen handset that has a 3.2-inch full touchscreen display in 16:9 ratio (360 x 640 pixels) and 16 million colors. Available in all black, all white, white with pink highlights and white with yellow highlights colors, the phone is powered by a 433.9MHz processor with a 5-megapixel camera with dual flash LED for low light photography, Bluetooth 2.0, a 3.5mm headphone jack, A-GPS and WLAN. The Nokia X6 16GB will be sold without the Come with Music service but will come with the latest Symbian S60 5th edition. Additionally, the phone comes equipped with a battery that provides up to 11.5 hours of talk time, up to 18 days of standby time, up to 35 hours of music playback time, or up to 4 hours of video playback time.

Nokia has rolled out the new games edition of the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic, which comes preloaded with a total of 20 games from renowned developers EA Mobile and Gameloft.

In case you didn’t know, the phone features a 3.2-megapixel AF camera, Bluetooth 2.0, WiFi, and a 70MB internal memory, and an included 4GB microSD card. Unfortunately, the phone doesn’t support 3G. The Nokia 5530 XpressMusic Games edition is currently available in the US for $269.

Nokia has recently unveiled the Nokia Supreme that is claimed to be the world’s most unique and expensive Nokia handset ever made.

Designed for women, the handset is encrusted with 12.5 carats of Pink diamonds.

Priced at £99,995 or around $160,000, the Nokia Supreme will be shipped in a granite chest with leather interiors.

The Mozilla Firefox RC1 (Release Candidate 1) for Maemo (Nokia N900 and Nokia N810) is now available for download. Dubbed as the Mozilla Fennec, Firefox for Maemo promises to make you “forget about the clunky, stripped-down mobile Web you’re used to”.

The Mozilla Firefox RC1 mobile browser features Awesome Bar, Password Manager, tabbed browsing, location-aware browsing, one-touch bookmarking, desktop syncing and add-on for personalization. You can download this mobile browser via Mozilla’s official website. It is available in more than 30 languages, including Arabic, French, German, Russian, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.

Folks in the UK will receive the Nokia N900 via Vodafone UK’s online store sometime next month. Vodafone is the only carrier to provide the Nokia N900 in the UK so far. As a reminder, the Nokia N900 is a 3G handset that supports HSDPA, GSM/GPRS, a 3.2-inch touchscreen display, a slide full QWERTY keyboard, a 32GB internal memory, GPS, Bluetooth, WiFi, Vodafone Mobile Internet, an MP3 player, an FM radio, a 5-megapixel camera with dual LED flash and Auto focus. The Nokia N900 measures 110.9mm x 59.8mm x 19.55mm and weights 181grams.

China has lots of cloned and weird cellphones. It’s another weird cellphone here, called the Kingk N99, which comes with a round LCD screen and is printed with a Transformer logo on the front. If you wanna stay unique from others, this could be the choice.The round LCD screen of the Kingk N99 cellphone will not be good for watching conventional 4:3 or 16:9 video. Well, the phone should attract some eyes as it comes in a shiny metallic body and there is a sliding metal door that hides the keypad. The N99 phone has a 1.3 megapixel camera. And the most strange part on the phone is it’s Nokia-branded and has a Nokia logo beneath the Transformer.The N99 is a GSM 900/1800MHz phone, which suits Europe, Asia, Africa etc but not the Americas. It costs $159 each or you can buy in bulk which each costs less.

FCC has approved another upcoming slider phone from Nokia namely the Nokia 7230. This new handset will work on US 3G bands (850/1900 MHz) and feature a 2.4-inch QVGA display, a 3.2MP camera, a stereo FM radio, Nokia Maps, a microSD card slot, a 3.5mm headset jack and Bluetooth 2.1 connectivity. The Nokia 7230 will probably be launched by AT&T in the US. Stay tuned for more updates.

Nokia is preparing to launch another touchscreen phone in 2010 called the Nokia 5235, which is basically the successor to the recently released Nokia 5230. This new handset will come with Music edition allowing users to enjoy a free and unlimited access to millions of music tracks via Nokia Music Store. As for the specs itself, the phone will offer a 3.2-inch touchscreen display, a 2-megapixel camera, a microSD card slot, a 3.5mm audio output and run on the Symbian S60 5th Edition operating system. The Nokia 5235 will go on sale in the first quarter of 2010 for a recommended retail price of €145 (about $214) before taxes and subsidies.

The Nokia 2710 Navigation edition is Nokia’s most affordable GPS-enabled phone that comes loaded with the Nokia Maps. The Nokia 2710 GPS phone costs only 110 Euro, which is very worth for drivers who want an affordable phone which can also be used as a navigation device.

The Nokia 2710 Navigation has almost everything that a full-fledged navigation device has. It offers turn-by-turn driving directions with voice guidance and point-to-point straight line navigation with the help of a digital compass.

The device is loaded with quite a number of relevant maps which allow it to be used even no Internet connection. And the company will continue to add more coverage for the maps. On the phone itself, it comes with pretty basic features including a 2 megapixel camera, 2.2-inch LCD display, and FM tuner. The phone should start sales in Q2 of 2010.

Nokia has released a new firmware update for its QWERTY keyboard-equipped E75 smartphone. This is a must-install firmware for all Nokia E75 owners. The firmware update version 201.12.01 provides several improvements,

* Integrated Ovi Contacts
* New shortcuts in Applications folder – Facebook, YouTube and MySpace
* Calendar speed improvements and synchronisation bug fixes
* Updated clients: N-Gage, Share Online, Nokia Messaging
* Contacts speed improvements
* Web update to next-gen browser, v7.1, which is faster
* Overall UI speed improvements
* Quickoffice updated to v5.3, with Office 2007 support (v6.0 is a free upgrade within the app)

Warning: Be sure to backup your data first before performing the firmware update.

Nokia has finally launched the Nokia E72 smartphone (Unlocked) in the US market for $469 before tax and shipping. The Nokia E72 is actually the successor of Nokia’s most successful full QWERTY keyboard device, the Nokia E71. The new smartphone comes equipped with a 5-megapixel camera, a QWERTY keypad, Nokia’s Navi Key setup and HSPA connectivity.