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Goldstriker has unveiled the upgraded version of the Nokia 8800 Arte 24ct Gold prepared for the releasing on May 1.



The 24ct Gold Firefox Edition will be available at Goldstriker at a price of $1,960 and the upgrade consists of 40 more AAA grade ultra white synthetic diamonds.

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Nokia 8800 Arte released in December 2007 by Nokia is a slider cell phone working on 2G and 3G networks, with a 16 million color OLED display of 2 inches with scratch-resistant properties, living wallpapers, music player, 1GB memory, no card slot, EDGE support, Bluetooth 2.0, microUSB connectivity, e-mail support, Xhtml browsing, a built-in 3.15MP camera with autofocus and video recording, and covered in a durable stainless steel layer.

The world’s largest cell phone manufacturer has unveiled 4 new models destined for the emerging markets, equipped with basic features such as built-in camera, music player, FM radio, multimedia messaging and Bluetooth connectivity.

Nokia set the price range from EUR 50 to EUR 90 to be affordable for all customers who will be able to purchase the cell phones starting the third quarter of this year.

Together with Webmail International, the company has introduced a new mobile email solution exclusively in South Africa with the availability starting in the second quarter of 2008.

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Nokia 5000 cell phone model will be available at a suggested price of EUR 90, and it is a candybar sporting a QVGA display, built-in 1.3MP camera, FM radio, MP3 music, email functionality, the Nokia Xpress Audio Messaging, Bluetooth module for file transfer with other compatible devices, and GPRS.

At a lower price of EUR 75 comes the slim Nokia 2680 slider cell phone equipped with built-in camera, FM radio, recording capability, MP3 player, and a large phone book.



Nokia Prism is still in the top of most appreciated cell phone models and the 7070 Prism brings the known geometric pattern, external light effects and customizable themes and wallpapers, besides the MP3 player, voice recording capability, hands free speaker, to be available soon at a suggested retail price of just EUR 50.



The most affordable mobile handset is Nokia 1680 classic which comes at a starting price of EUR 50, with camera, video recorder, media one-touch access, phone sharing functionality, and email.



"People in emerging markets like Africa are increasingly demanding more from their mobile phone - their expectations and demands in terms of functionality and design are similar to people in any other part of the world - they simply have less income at their disposal," said Alex Lambeek, Vice President, Entry, who oversees Nokia's efforts in emerging markets. "From the introduction of Nokia's most affordable megapixel camera phone, to a localized email solution in South Africa, we believe today's announcements demonstrate Nokia's firm commitment to bringing products and services that serve the varied needs and tastes of people in emerging markets."

I don’t know why it’s called Nokia N98 and not N97 to follow the famous N96 model highly expected to come out this summer, but anyway this one here is just a phone concept created in Photoshop or some similar program and it appeared on Flick.

In the view of the person that made the image, N98 would feature first a full touch-sensitive interface, then a built-in 7.2MP camera with Carl Zeiss lens, 5x optical zoom and 20x digital zoom, video recorder at 30 frames per second and 720 x 576 pixel resolution, and the display would measure 3.5 inches, being capable to render16.7 million colors in 640 x 480 pixel resolution.

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The GPS is not missing, same as the Symbian S70 operating system, The Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, HSDPA and Nokia PC Suite, and it would integrate a powerful 3D graphics card from NVIDIA.
In front there would be a 640 x 480pixel camera for video calling.

People like to dream but from these unreal visions cool new products come alive.

Remember the famous Nokia Aeon cell phone concept that many of you were crazy about back in 2007?
I can say I have a surprise for you but not necessarily in the good way.
It seems that HongKong Gofar Limited from China has developed a very similar phone model and called it exactly like the Nokia’s concept. You can see the product page here.

I was searching on the web for some new cell phone concepts and this is what I’ve found.
The so called Touch-Sensitive Keys Cellphone with Bluetooth W168 looks very similar with the Nokia Aeon and after some research I found the Chinese model manufacturer’s website.

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The Aeon W168 costs $109.44 starting from three units per purchase and supports GSM 900/1800 MHz bands only.
It sports a 2.2-inch TFT display of 26K colors, has a built-in 2MP camera, calendar, calculator, alarm clock, Bluetooth, T-Flash card support, and its battery lasts up to 760 minutes of talking.
The dimensions are 106 × 48 × 14 mm at 510 grams weight.
If you intend to get only one Aeon made in China you can check the Special Phones website, on the Music & Youth Phones section and look for the Crystal Blue model.

One interesting characteristic of the Aeon imitation is the Dual SIM support, but besides that it lets you play music and movies.

Symbian Limited, the creator of the leading mobile operating system for Smartphone announced the releasing of FOMA NM705i at NTT DoCoMo in Japan.

The mobile candybar-like handset made by Nokia comes in a light form factor with an orange housing and support for international roaming.

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Running on S60 software on Symbian operating system, FOMA NM705i is the lightest model from this series at 89 gra6ms measuring 105 x 46 x 15 mm.



It is not a high-end mobile phone but it comes with a very useful Japanese-English/English-Japanese dictionary, FM radio, and a built-in 2MP camera with 4x digital zoom.



Other colors available are black and white.