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Is Nokia N9 a N8 with a QWERTY keyboard ?

The guys from NegriElectronics have kept their promise to show a video of the leaked Nokia device . They are still strongly calling it the N9. Till know we were pretty sure that the N9 might be a MeeGo phone. But this thing is running on Symbian 3. We are hearing from sources that the Nokia N8 has some siblings one of which might have a QWERTY keyboard. Having looked at the Keypad it reminds of the N97 mini but this one has 4 rows unlike the min with 3 rows. We are not convinced that this is the N9. This might be a N8-01 or N8-02 or simply N8 QWERTY. It can also be the E7 or in a rare case the C7 !

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The FoneArena Apple iPhone 4 Unboxing

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FoneArena presents the Unboxing of the Apple iPhone 4 which is selling like hot cakes in USA and UK. We managed to grab on from O2 UK so that we can bring you all the stuff about the latest iPhone ! Ours was the 32GB Black model. The phone uses the new microSIM card and we’ll show you a bit about it in the demo video below.

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Apple sells 1.7 million iPhone 4 devices in just 3 days

Apple just announced it has sold 1.7 million iPhone 4 devices in just 3 days. Thats 17 lac phones or 1700000 phones sold in just 72 hours making it most successful Apple product launch in the company’s history. Apple CEO Steve Jobs also said sorry to customers who could not get the iPhone 4 due to supply issues. But no word about the Antenna or death grip issue .Apple is gonna grab a lion’s share of the smartphone marketing share for this quarter with such impressive numbers.

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HTC Desire and Wildfire coming to India in July ?

The HTC Desire is still not available in India. The company had planned to launch it in May but we don’t know what happened. But we are hearing fresh news that the Desire is coming along with the Wildfire in July

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Pictures: Blue Nokia N8 compared to N900 and X6

As reported before, I was lucky enough to get invited to a special little Blogger event, hosted by Nokia Austria. We have been shown and demoed the Nokia N8, the latest photography flagship from Finland. Since the Device were still in proto status, we weren’t allowed any exhaustive hands-on times, but the bit we got to see really impressed. I was lucky enough to grab one of those N8’s and quickly shoot some size comparisons, with a Nokia N900 and a X6 16GB. Enjoy the Pictures!

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An Apple iPhone 4 launch day story from London

Here is a Apple iPhone 4 launch day story from Fone Arena reader Neha from London. The above photo is a scene at an O2 Store in Brighton . People are crazy about Apple products in USA where Apple does majority of it’s business. But it’s interesting to see what Apple is doing across the seas in UK. Japan should be much more interesting ! Continue reading “An Apple iPhone 4 launch day story from London”

Apple iPhone 4 Pics

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The Apple iPhone 4 has been launched in USA and UK and FoneArena readers have been sending us photos of their latest Apple toy. Vinay from UK shared with us some great pics of the iPhone 4 Retail Box. Abhishek shared some pictures of the phone in action from Los Angeles , USA. If you have any gadget / interesting news to share do mail us at tips at fonearena dot com

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White iPhone 4 too hard to make , post poned till mid-July

Apple has announced that the White version of the iPhone 4 has been more challenging to manufacture than expected. So users can buy only the black version of the latest iPhone until the 2nd half of July ! When we unearthed the presence of the white version of the device many of you did not like the idea much and some of you felt that the quality was not great !

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Sony Ericsson X8 Hands on Pics

We had already shared the Video of the X8 but we still had some hands pics of the XPERIA X8 to share with you . Here are the pics for all the Sony Ericsson fans out there ! Having used the X10 and X10 mini and X8, X10 is too big and X10 mini is too small the X8 seems like a nice form factor ! Continue reading “Sony Ericsson X8 Hands on Pics”

Nokia C5 Live Pics

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Here are some live pics of the Nokia C5 from a Singapore event. The C5 reminded me a lot of the popular 6233 music phone .Back then that phone was running S40 but now the Nokia folks have managed to cram in Symbian in a similar form factor. The C5 might turn out to be a successful no-frills phone used mainly for calls or messaging. Check out the pics below ! Continue reading “Nokia C5 Live Pics”

2 Android phones activated every second, FroYo open-sourced !

Not one can deny that Android is turning out to be a major player in the Mobile market ! There are Android phones which are available from around Rs.10000 to up to Rs.30000 in India. Motorola and Verizon have announced the Droid X in USA today and Google has issued a statement about Android to coincide with the the launch !

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O2 Shipping microSIMs to iPhone 4 customers including an Adapter

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O2 UK has started shipping microSIM cards to its iPhone 4 Customers who have pre-ordered them. The customers would be getting their iPhones tomorrow. Many users keep asking us if microSIM cards would work with other phones or if they can use normal SIMs with the iPad 3G or iPhone 4.

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Vodafone UK selling iPhone 4 from Today

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We just heard from Vodafone UK that they are going to starting taking orders for the Apple iPhone 4 from Thursday 7 am. Seems like this information is for the contract phone. But if you are in UK and a Vodafone customer or if you are travelling in UK, you might be able to check out the iPhone 4 at a Vodafone Store ! While the email states that they are going to start taking orders , its not clear when the phone will land in user hands !

Photos : Samsung Galaxy S Camera Options

A lot of users have been asking us about the Camera in the Samsung Galaxy S Android phone. The phone packs a 5 MP Camera without a Flash. It has capable for full hd video recording . We already showed you Camera Samples and a Video Sample. Here are some photos which show the Camera options available in the Galaxy S i9000

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Nokia X6 8GB Pics

Nokia launched the X6 at Nokia World last year and it was the first nokia phone to sport a capacitive touchscreen ! While the original X6 packed 32GB of inbuilt memory , the company released the X6 16 GB few months ago and now at Nokia Connection 2010 in Singapore the X6-00 ( X6 8GB version) was launched in order to bring take the x6 to a lower price point ! Here are some pics of the X6 8GB. Its looks identical and feels exactly similar to the X6. The only difference is the difference in the internal memory ! Continue reading “Nokia X6 8GB Pics”