Sometimes it’s good to be different and stand apart from the crowd. Just because the iPhone has rounded corners does that mean all mobiles should shy away from 90-degree angles? Not if you consider Nokia’s new 7500 Prism phone which just had its first official appearance at an industry event in China.

Tech lovers in Finland will be the first to get their hands on the new Nseries “multimedia computer”, as Nokia calls it, featuring mobile TV. The Nokia N77 will continue its tour to Vietnam and India later this month offering live television on the 2.4″ screen.

Not only with the mobile handset pick up live DVB-H mobile TV, but it also has a 30 second replay function to catch key moments in sporting events and it remembers the last channel you were watching. In addition, you can set the N77 to remind you when a show you want to watch is on and plan out your viewing times with a 7 day program guide. Other more standard Nseries features of the Nokia N77 include support for playing MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+ and WMA files, a 2 megapixel camera, and tri-band GSM …

It looks like Nokia is getting ready to release an in-car Bluetooth product to provide the driver information on their Bluetooth enabled mobile phone while driving.

According to Crave the Nokia CK-15W Bluetooth Display Car Kit provides on-screen information to manage incoming and outgoing calls through the 2.2″ TFT display. The device is mounts on the dashboard at more of an eye level to keep drivers eyes more on the road and less looking down at their handset.

The CK-15W is expected to have some “handsome” looking menus and can download the entire Contacts list from your mobile phone to the device. The photo shows a graphical menu with what looks to be icons for Contacts, a Bluetooth connection, some synchronization function and a couple tools that may be used to configure the device.

No information …

Nokia released news of three new mobile phones today, the priciest of which being the Nokia 8600 Luna with an expected asking price of a little over $900.

Features include connectivity via Quad-band GSM, a 2 megapixel camera and a single micro-USB port for transferring data and charging, but the real focus on this one is the physical materials and design.

The Nokia 8600 Luna is crafted from smoked glass and stainless steel to give it a solid and smooth feel and a dark glowing look, according to Nokia. It’s a slider-type design where the smoked glass covers the keypad which pulses light when calls come in. Sliding the glass cover down exposes the keypad.

If your not big on internal features but are swayed by the design and feel of your phone in your hand then you may want to …

Nokia has come up with a plan to help out the environment by saving some energy when your not charging your mobile phone.

According to Kirsi Sormunen, Vice-President of Environmental Affairs at Nokia, “Around two-thirds of the energy used by a mobile phone is lost when it is unplugged after charging but the charger itself is left in a live socket. We want to reduce this waste and are working on reducing to an absolute minimum the amount of energy our chargers use. The new alerts also play an important role, encouraging people to help us in this goal by unplugging their chargers.”

This seems like a good idea, and most people have no idea that electricity is still being used by chargers that are plugged into a socket but not plugged into any device. I would imagine that electricity might …

Along with the preview of the N81, RingNokia also got a look ahead at the Nokia N82. The model number is only incremented by one, but we have a feeling price will be incremented a fair amount more.

The Nokia N82 is also quad-band GSM supporting Bluetooth and WiFi, but only has 100MB of memory built into it. You can add your own though, with an included 1GB microSD card or your own card (hot-swappable no less).

Some additional features round out the N82 to be a pretty nice system, including a GPS receiver, TV-out, and FM tuner and the relatively high quality cameras it houses. One for still photos at 5 megapixels with a XENON flash and another for VGA recording at 30 frames per second.

Most of our curiosity regarding the N82 now focuses on the price tag. I can’t imagine a package like …

We found this preview of the Nokia N81 slider phone at RingNokia, showing a new sleek looking multimedia-focused device, which according to their source is expected to be available to consumers in the 4th quarter yet this year.

The N81 is quad-band EDGE which also supports WiFi and Bluetooth and has a nice 8GB of internal memory to store your media. WiFi connectivity and lots of internal memory are a big plus for any handheld device in our book. The Nokia N81 also houses two cameras and a 2.4″ QVGA screen at 240×320 in 16M colors.

The battery it ships with is expected to give 3-4 hours of talk time or up to 3-4 hours of gaming time. Oh yeah, and apparently this phone has some “dedicated keys” for gaming and navigating music but we’re not seeing them in the photo. The listed dimensions are …

We new it was coming soon, and now the Nokia N95 that was released in Europe a couple weeks ago is available in the US. An unlocked version can be purchased through Nokia’s site for the N Series mobile phones or through select wireless retailers, but it will cost you.

As with many situations “cool” comes at a price, and in the case of the N95 it comes at a price of $750. In order to try and justify the price for this gadget, keep in mind that this is the smartphone that slides both directions; one way to expose a keypad and the other to expose some multimedia buttons. It has GPS built-in with associated navigation software, a 5 megapixel camera, supports WiFi and Bluetooth but no 3G.

The Nokia N95 seems to have the right stuff, but its hard to …

Nokia has announced a new entry level mobile phone clearly targeting the more youthful of consumers by focusing on messaging type communications and a high level of personalization at an affordable price.

The Nokia 5070 comes in colors of blue and red, comes with a battery, charger, stereo headset and a host of messaging features. Voice mails can be sent through the Nokia Xpress Audio Messaging, you can take your pick of text message mediums including email (IMAP4, POP3, SMTP, TCP/IP) with SMS support, MMS, instant messaging, and top it off with predictive text input for speedy entry.

The Nokia 5070 runs Java apps that you can download along with the pre-installed applications which could include Sudoku, Space Mahjong and Canal Control depending on the country of purchase, and of course allows personalization through ringtones, wallpaper and themes. An xHTML browser allows surfing the internet and local …

We first gave you a heads up last September about Nokia’s new revolutionary design for the N95 handheld multimedia computer/phone; now the company has informed us that it’s begun to ship to European, Asian and Middle Eastern stores and will roll out everywhere else in about two weeks time. The 22 mm thickness design of the N95 is different in that it slides open two different ways depending on what you want to do with it. One direction reveals the keys for making a call; slide the other direction and you get another set of keys for all your computer functions.

It’s also got a ton of cool features including GPS, Nokia Maps software good for 150 different countries, a 5.0 megapixel camera (2592 x 1944, 10x zoom), support for HSDPA, WLAN, EDGE and WCDMA networks, built-in stereo speaks and high-speed WiF, voice recorder/commands/dialing …

Nokia has lifted the curtain off the E90 Communicator, the company’s latest vision of the mobile office of the future. Sexy is what we’re calling this delicious looking 210 gram marvel that’s loaded with a ton of features packed in a sleek, stylish black and silver casing.

Capable of supporting WiFi, quad-band GMS, WCDMA, Bluetooth and USB 2.0 plug-and-play functionality, the E90 also has an internal 128 MB of RAM (extendable up to 2GB), a built-in GPS receiver and a stereo FM receiver smuggled inside of it just in case you get tired of listening to your MP3s. Up to 3.6 Mbits/sec allow super-quick data transfer rates and the inner 800 x 352 pixel screen is the first of its kind to give the user full-screen display of the websites you surf. Two cameras are on-board, a 3.2 megapixel one with autofocus and flash and another …

Nokia is making its smart2go mapping and navigation platform available as a free download. Smart2Go is a mapping and routing application for mobile devices and includes maps of over 150 countries and support for full turn-by-turn satellite navigation.

The Smart2Go application allows people to view their current location on a map, create routes, and search through an extensive points-of-interest database. Smart2Go contains over 15 million points-of-interest including nearby sights, restaurants, and accommodations. Consumers can use the application to send locations, map excerpts, or routes to friends or take screen shots of maps for future reference.

Nokia has plans to pre-install smart2go on all future Nokia Nseries multimedia computers under the name “Nokia Maps”. Current owners of Nokia devices may also download Nokia Maps to their supported devices.

Nokia plans to start offering the smart2go application for free, on …

Gizmo Project has created a special version of their VoIP client for the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet. With just a few taps of the stylus, you can can make crystal clear Wifi calls using Gizmo Project. The key features of Gizmo for the N800 include:

Use your Internet Tablet to make Internet phone calls.
Free calls to other Gimzo, Google Talk or MSN users.
Ultra cheap calls to landlines and mobile phones anywhere in the world.
Voicemail, call forwarding and conference calling included.
Access your existing Gizmo Project contacts from the Nokia N800.
Presence lets you instantly see which of your contacts are online.

Gizmo Project comes from the team who developed the SIPphone VoIP platform. Gizmo is a software application that allows you to make free computer-based calls to other Gizmo …

Navicore has announced that its Navicore Personal GPS Navigation Software will be available for the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet. The 4.1 inch touch screen display and Internet connectivity make the N800 an ideal platform for GPS navigation.

Navicore Personal is a popular GPS-navigator that was specifically designed for mobile devices. Navicore Personal is also a handy pocket-guide that includes a points-of-interest database with restaurants, hotels, convenience stores and other tourist locations to help mobile users find out where they are, where to go, and how to get there.

The current map coverage for Navicore Personal 2007 includes maps for Europe, Australia, South Africa and the Middle East, with maps of North America becoming available in Q1 2007.

Navicore Personal 2007 will be available as a standalone Navigation Kit that includes the software along with a GPS …

Have you tried tablet PC’s but found that writing on one isn’t so enjoyable? Do you like writing notes but wish there was a nice way to transfer them to a digital format? Well your problems are solved.

Nokia’s Digital Pen SU-1B (couldn’t their marketing come up with something better?) is an an ink pen that remembers what it writes. In fact its memory is so good it can remember up to 100 A5 sized pages. A5 is the typical size of American notebook paper used in schools.

The pen is compatible with both phones, via Bluetooth and PC’s, via USB. To use the pen with a phone it must be “paired” to that phone. Once this is done you can send text to your phone.

The pen comes with B7 and A5 sized digital paper. The paper is included with the package but when you run out you must get more at …