Nokia N96 Starts Shipping in US

The US version of the Nokia N96 is now available through various unsubzidized channels in the United States, including the Nokia Flagship stores in New York and Chicago. You can get yourself one even online by visiting Nokia USA website or other independent e-tailers.

The US version of the Nokia N96 has support for the American 3G bands (850 and 1900 MHz) and will retail for around 900 US dollars and, cough, an arm and a leg, cough!

Ridiculously overpriced, the latest and greatest of Nokia N-series smartphones can be yours for a nice pile of cash. Nevertheless, we are sure that the dull all-black oh-so-N81 design will make it worth it. If it doesn't you can at least rest easier when you know you have got yourself last year's technology in this year's makeup at the price of almost two equally capable smartphones.

source : gsmarena.com

E63, the plastic series of E71

It seems it's high time that Nokia drops the curtain on the Nokia E63. The smartphone leaks for a second time now this time featured on a live video bringing in a short demo of the handset. At this point there are no surprises and all the expected specifications that we already told you about are confirmed.

The Nokia E63 runs on the Symbian v9.2 OS with S60 v3.1 UI. It also has a full QWERTY keyboard and a landscape QVGA screen. Basically the E63 will be a lower-spec'd, plastic-cased and more affordable version of the marvelous business tool that the E71 is.

Some of the other features of the device are Wi-Fi, 2.5mm AV jack, microSD card slot, Bluetooth and 2 MP camera. In order to reduce the price the metal construction of the E71 is replaced by plastic.

We are yet to see the official announcement of the E63 but it will hardly bring too many surprises too. However we are quite eager to know if the price tag is low enough to make it worth it. Meanwhile here is the video in question for you to enjoy.

adapted fro: gsmarena.com

LG KS 500, New From LG

The latest LG KS500 is one of those handsets that won't get your attention on first look but it packs quite a punch under its unassuming looks. The nifty slider boasts a 3 megapixel camera, a QVGA display, a GPS receiver with Yahoo! Go maps application and quite possibly an affordable price tag.

Contrary to many of the online rumors, which spawned when the device was first leaked through the US FCC website, it's now finally clear that LG KS500 is not a smartphone.

The LG KS500 is a tri-band GSM phone which offers dual-band UMTS/HSDPA support. Measuring 102.8 x 49.2 x 14.9 mm doesn't really make it the most compact chap on the block, but still it's nothing too big.

The KS500 has a 262K color display of QVGA resolution, a 3 megapixel fixed focus camera (sad, we know), 100MB of built-in memory and a microSD card with support for an addition 8GB.

Although it doesn't sound ground-breaking by any means, you might be interested to know that the LG KS500 is the first handset by the South Korean company to feature an optical touchpad. It helps navigation through the menus or the web browser.

Unlike similar Samsung solutions, with the KS500 you can opt for turning off the optical trackpad in the menus, but leaving it on for an extra sweet experience in the web browser, which we guess will be the mouse-enabled NetFront 3.4 variety.

And finally, the LG KS500 brings GPS connectivity with A-GPS support. Yahoo! Go maps and location services application is preinstalled on board to make finding your way around that much easier. Of course, you can always add Google Maps for Mobile if you wish.

We don't know much on the projected availability or pricing of the LG KS500, but judging on the Vodafone brand on the official photos, you will be able to find it through Vodafone networks, so a nice, subsidized price seems a fair guess.

adapted from : gsmarena.com