These cellphone bots were developed by PhD student Ji-Dong Yim and Prof Chris D. Shaw at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University, Canada. They are capable of displaying facial expressions to let you know of their moods, while also performing gestures and dancing when you get an incoming call.

It uses the Nokia N82′s camera to detect human faces and will mimic arm gestures using hand tracking. These bots are pretty cute. Almost too cute. Like they will get up to no good when you turn your back.

Nokia has now announced the N8. It has a 12MP camera with Xenon flash, and runs the Symbian^3 platform. In fact it’s Nokia’s first Symbian^3 phone. The camera has Carl Zeiss optics and the Xenon flash most Nokias are equipped with. It can also record video in 720p and with it’s HDMI output, can play footage on your HDTV.

Some other specs include a 3.5-inch capacitive touchscreen, 16GB of storage, expandable up to 48GB with a microSD memory card and free Ovi Maps is included.

Cellphones with Cyprus touchscreens, like the Nokia S60 and Palm Pre, will have an extra dimension very soon. Hovering. No, they won’t hover by your ear. This is like when you’re working on your desktop computer, and an icon changes when you move your cursor over it. Get it? Starting in the next few months, cellphones will be able to do just that, by detecting your finger near the screen, and letting you hover the cursor without touching the screen.

How’s that for awesome? …

It wasn’t that long ago that we pointed out the Nokia E72 purple edition and now a white version is on the scene. Interestingly, you can also get accessories that match the phone’s color.

Like a white Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-216, white Nokia StereoHeadset WH-205, white pouch, a white strap and more. Songs say it best. Play that funky music white boy. Or… Great gift for a… white wedding.

Keep in mind that this is still in rumor territory, but according to Ashok Kumar, an analyst at Rodman Renshaw, Nokia is working with suppliers and design manufacturers on a touchscreen tablet. One that might be available as soon as this fall.

We don’t have many details, but we are guessing that it will be powered by Microsoft’s Windows 7. Again, there’s nothing official on this yet, but we wouldn’t mind a Nokia tablet at all. Now that the iPad is out, competitors can offer all of the things that the iPad lacks and we look forward to seeing what they can do.

Is there an area of our lives that Twitter has not taken over? Not anymore. Twitter has many uses and one of those uses is commanding robots like this Lego Mindstorm robot. It’s controlled by a Nokia N900 phone and users can tweet commands to the @N900Niko account and tell Niko the robot what to do. Stuff like, move forward, turn around or take a photo with the N900.

Photos are posted on Twitter using Twitpic. While you aren’t likely to see anything shocking, you’ll see plenty of floor, some chairs, maybe a trashcan. Who knows, it may go all Alfred Hitchcock and let you witness a murder. Probably not though.

Normally Nokia keeps things pretty uni-sex, but now they have gone and launched a new version of the popular E72 in Purple, trying to appeal to those businesswomen who want something to match their nail polish.

The color is Amethyst Purple to be exact. The E72 Amethyst Purple comes after the black, grey and brown versions that have been available since the Nokia E72′s launch. It surfaced in Lebanon and will apparently start selling there soon.

If the latest leaked images are to be believed, the Nokia C6 comes in slider form and looks fairly similar to the Nokia 5230. Looks genuine, but you never can tell for sure. Hopefully Nokia will confirm or deny soon so we can put it to rest either way.

It also looks similar to the N97 and N97 Mini, but the sliding QWERTY keyboard is parallel to the screen, which is much nicer. Looks like the C6 also has a trackpad that you won’t really need with the full touchscreen display.

They have a special edition phone for every occasion so we kind of expected this one. Oakley and Nokia have teamed up to launch the limited edition Nokia N97 Winter Olympics 2010 edition. If you want one you better not mess around, because as usual they won’t produce very many.

In fact Nokia will release just 200 units. The phone sports the Oakley Thunderbird logo for the Vancouver Olympics laser etched on the back. It also comes preloaded with exclusive Oakley team videos and photos.

If luxury phones are your thing, then check this out. Nokia is going gold with the Nokia N97 Mini Gold Edition. It comes covered in 18 carat gold. Aside from that, everything else is the same. Except now you are more likely than ever to get mugged.

Some of those specs include the 3.2″ touchscreen display at 360 x 640 resolution, 8GB of internal memory, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, microSD memory card slot, 3G HSDPA, Wi-Fi, integrated FM transmitter and a 5-megapixel camera with autofocus and Carl Zeiss optics.

Nokia and Intel have teamed up to create MeeGo, a new open source software platform for use on mobile devices. The new platform will be a combination of the best features from the two companies existing platforms and will not target just smartphones but also tablet PC’s, netbooks and even connected television devices.

This announcement comes shortly after Nokia announced that the Symbian platform was going open source and hot on the heals of Google and their newly popular Android mobile software platform, in a clear chase to regain some of their market share. Nokia says the plans for the Symbian platform have not changed but will be used on less expensive smartphones, with the more expensive devices running MeeGo.

Nokia has a phone that has a clear screen that was all for looks. I don’t care for being able to see through a screen myself; the feature is more of a gimmick to me. I certainly don’t want to be able to see through the display of my notebook at what is going on behind me.

Samsung showed off a notebook with a transparent AMOLED screen a while back and the notebook was popular enough that reports are now coming in that Samsung plans to bring the notebook to market in the next 12 months. The machine will come with the clear AMOLED screen that will drive the ADD prone to be unproductive.

Symbian, the world’s most popular smartphone operating system, has announced that it’s going open source about four months ahead of schedule. This move will allow more software developers to have access to develop applications and mobile devices based on the operating system.

The plan was to complete the transition of putting the OS under the Eclipse development license and work out deals with existing third party developers by later this summer. Symbian was able to move ahead more quickly, most likely to try and keep an edge on the newer open-source Android mobile operating system from Google.

Well, that didn’t take long. The Nokia X6 16GB is now official. Yesterday we told you about the pink version. The phone doesn’t have Comes With Music, but here’s some of what it does have:

This one features Symbian S60 5th edition, a 3.2-inch touchscreen display, 360 x 640, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, Ovi Maps, free navigation, TV out and a 5-megapixel camera.

Nokia still has not announced the X6 16GB, but reports are already swirling around the interwebs that the device will be available multiple colors that aren’t available with the 32GB version. Apparently the 16GB version will be available in black, pink on white, and blue on white.

This one actually doesn’t look bad in pink. With the lower capacity, the price should go down some as well. The phone will probably not include Nokia’s Comes With Music (CWM) service. Aside from that, the 16GB version should be very similar to the 32GB version, with a 360 x 640 pixel touchscreen display, Wi-Fi, GPS, TV out, and 5-megapixel camera.