Unleash your inner Karate master with the Nokia N96 Bruce Lee Edition. Yes, it comes with a Bruce Lee doll. It’s awesome yes and no doubt when you use the phone, it makes your voice all out of synch with your mouth like any good karate flick, but sadly it is exclusive to Hong Kong. Expensive too at about $1,286 US bucks, but we’re still tempted. Hopefully we see more phone/doll bundles in the near future. Maybe Chuck Norris and that wandering Kung Fu dude.

We didn’t see this one coming. Boy Genius has uncovered some pics and specs on a new Nokia flip that’s destined for AT&T. It’s super secret codename? “Wahoo”. Damn they’re creative. This quad-band clamshell has an interesting half-QWERTY keypad, internal 2.2-inch QVGA display, 1.36-inch external unit, push-to-talk, microSD expansion, and A2DP support. It sports a form-factor that’s similar to the BlackBerry Pearl Flip. Nothing on a release date. Wa-freakin-hoo.

If you’ve been drooling over the Nokia E71 but want something a bit more affordable, here’s the recently released E63. It looks like the E71 and also has most of the business functionality. Some specs include: Full QWERTY keyboard, Touch sensitive Navi wheel, 3.5mm audio jack, 2.36″ 16 million colors QVGA display, 110MB internal memory, microSD memory card slot, Quad-band GSM and dual-band UMTS, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity and a 2 megapixel camera. The price is $250. No GPS, but for that price you get plenty of other great features.

When you think Nokia, you think cellphones. But now the cell phone maker is getting into the bench biz. Nokia is setting up musical benches throughout the United Kingdom, in ’secret locations’, in order to promote their Comes With Music audio service. Each bench will feature three integrated handsets with headphones so passers-by can sample music.

Apparently the track lists will mirror the region where the bench is deployed, so you would get the Beatles in Liverpool and say Black Sabbath in Birmingham. You probably already want to steal the bench since it’s neat and all. You can’t. Each will be under close supervision by a security guard and a “performer”.

Found in textlad’s Flickr pool, with the copy reading: “The first Nokia eight mega pixel phone? I guess we’ll have to wait some time for that… Only a concept made of wood from sustainable forests at this stage but fun anyway.”

Apparently Nokia themselves designed and created this object of Ewok desire. It’s an 8-megapixel “handset” that appears to actually work. Are they up to something? Only the creatures of the forest know for sure. Obviously we won’t be seeing it available anytime soon. Though it would be cool to use, what with it’s old-timey look and all.

Nokia’s sexy 5800 XpressMusic is official. If you’ve been waiting, and I know you have, the phone will be shipping this quarter, available in black, red or blue, and will cost an affordable $392 unlocked, with an 8GB memory card. It will be powered by the S60 5th Edition operating system. Some features include a 3.2-inch 640 x 360 touchscreen, 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera with Carl Zeiss optics, Dual LED flash, GPS, and Wi-Fi. It’s all set to go up against the iPhone.

The Nokia 3500 is now available in pink from Fido, even though it doesn’t look all that pink. Not really that big of a deal. The pink is limited to the direction pad and keypad which light up. The pinkified Nokia 3500 will cost the same as the regular version of the 3500: $15 a month with a 3-year contract, $90 for a 2-year contract, $100 standalone phone. Probably a good phone for those girls who want to be all Sex in the City.

It features a 2 megapixel camera, music player and built-in FM radio, Bluetooth connectivity, tri-band GSM support and a microSD memory card slot. Also has Handsfree speaker, Voice commands, calendar, to-do list, notes, countdown timer, stopwatch and calculator. Just a bit of pink. Nothing to see here. Move along.

Meet the Nokia BMW Video Phone. Take one look and it’s obviously the BMW of cellphones right? A thing of beauty. It’s what you get when you combine the ultimate driving machine with the ultimate video mobile phone.

The Nokia BMW mobile phone has an interesting standout feature called “push to open” which is a mechanism that rotates 90 degrees. Push the button and your phone is a handy-cam. We’re thinking they should get on this one real quick, but experience tells us that they’ll take their own sweet time and let someone else beat them to it. Someone like Sony for instance.

The Nokia 7510 Supernova flip phone has a push-to-open side key and is available in four dramatically named colors: storm blue, red, emerald green and espresso brown. It’s got a 2MP camera with NIPS, LED flash, 4x digital zoom, and a large 2.2 inch QVGA display.

Still more features are an FM radio, MP3 player, and even access to Nokia Maps 1.2 to navigate, routing and local search, and support of A-GPS. The Nokia 7510 Supernova should be avaiable in the fourth quarter of 2008 for 180 EUROs.

Music phones are becoming more and more popular and will continue to do so as the available wireless bandwidth in the U.S. grows allowing for over the air downloads in more areas. T-Mobile announced today that it was launching its latest music phone from Nokia.

The Nokia 5310 XpressMusic phone features external music controls, stereo Bluetooth, wired stereo headset, USB cable for loading music and a memory card. The device ships with two tracks installed from Panic At The Disco and Phantom Planet.

Nokia’s People First concept uses navigation that’s shallow with minimum use of folders, applications, etc… A vertical list shows your personal history, with new content being added at the top of the list. So things are simple, using universally understood organizing principles: time, lists and faces.

With People First Nokia is “encouraging personalization, hacking, and entrepreneurial ventures with widgets support, accessible native programming language (as simple as html) and freely available hardware and software specifications.”

Nokia’s 8800 arte Platinum Snow Fox Edition from Goldstriker is one sleek and sexy phone. It’s not for those who lead an average lifestyle. Just like it’s not for those who are a little light in the checkbook. The phone is enhanced with 40 individually set AAA grade ultra white synthetic diamonds. It will be released on May 1st of this year for £1095.

It impressed Goldstriker’s director Katherine Hughes enough to comment “I have been lucky over the last few years to be involved and witness so many different customizations of mobile phones but this handset seems to stand out from the rest. It is for sure the most stunning to date”. I’m not much for AAA grade ultra white synthetic diamonds myself, but like I said it is sexy and certainly makes a statement.

Nokia recently showcased a cool new app for Nokia mobile phones. The app is named shoot-to-translate and it translates from Chinese to English by taking a photo of the Chinese text that you want to read. This is super handy for those frequent travellers who have no idea how to read the local language.

You won’t have to worry about flipping through some translation book. You’ll know quickly what it says. Though the application shows only Chinese to English translation, we are obviously going to see the ability to do more languages in the future.

Here’s a new cell phone from Nokia that’s got a lot of features and is relatively cheap at the same time. The Nokia 5000 boasts a high-res QVGA display plus a 1.3 megapixel camera, MP3 player with recording capabilities and FM radio, bluetooth connectivity, GPRS, and it supports Nokia Xpress Audio Messaging. Expect it sometime in the 2nd quarter for about $140.

Nokia announced a new clamshell in it’s Prism line. The Nokia 7070 Prism comes with a 128 x 160 TFT display, 11MB of internal memory, MP3 ringtones/24polyphonic, GPRS connectivity and light indicators. It’s a basic phone, with no camera, no Bluetooth and no memory slot.

This sort of phone is ideal for those who want to use it only to make calls and use SMS, pretty much. The 7070 Prism is expected to be shipped in Q3 of 2008 with a price of €50. Despite the fact that it’s got no frills, it does have a cool geometric design with external light effects , which reminds me of some of those old Rubik’s puzzle games.