Verizon Wireless and Nokia are so willing to bet you’ll be enamored with the upcoming Dark Knight movie the two are releasing a new limited edition mobile based upon it. It is called the Nokia 6205 The Dark Knight edition and you’ll find it pricing around $70 after rebate and two-year contract.

The Nokia 6205 The Dark Knight is a themed-edition flip phone set in black and embellished with a subtle The Dark Knight emblem. It comes pre-loaded with wallpapers, voice tones, animated screensavers inspired by the film, and a full movie trailer.

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 has announced the 5220 XpressMusic phone with built-in lanyard making it an easy-to-carry device. This music phone will give you 24 hours of playback time and comes with the usual XpressMusic keys at the side and a 3.5mm audio jack.

The Nokia 5220 XpressMusic will start shipping by the third quarter of 2008 with an estimated retail price of €160. Some specs include: 2.0 inch QVGA display(240 x 320 pixels) with up to 256,000 colors, 30 MB internal memory, support for up to 2GB microSD memory card, 2 megapixels camera, video recording in QCIF quality, Up to 5 hours talk time.

This shiny and pretty gold phone is a modified Nokia N95 that’s been decked out in a Buddhist theme. It looks both enlightened and at peace with the universe. This is Buddha bling if I’ve ever seen it. (I don’t believe I have.) It’s got a Buddha on the back, and fancy imagery all over. It’s onboard custom wallpapers and ringtones complete the theme.

It’s pretty awesome looking and if you’re Buddhist, even more awesome I would think. Unfortunately, it’s only in China and not currently available to westerners. Pretty neat. It just goes to show you that cell phones don’t have to be boring and void of personality.

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.

The N-Gage mobile games service from Nokia goes live today and here’s hoping it doesn’t suck as badly as the original N-Gage. At least this time around Nokia is making more than one compatible N-Gage device rather than one odd looking phone like we got with the original service.

Nokia says that players on the N-Gage service will be able to connect to other players to play games via the N-Gage Arena community. Nokia also says that the N-Gage platform has exclusive titles that will only be available on the N-Gage platform.

Nokia had some ambitious plans to produce a transformable cellphone that would be called the Morph, which would have used nano technology to produce flexible electronic components that could alter their own shapes to suit the users’ needs. But now the Nokia 888 communicator which was proposed and designed by Tamer Nakisci, would be the way to make it come true.

The 888 is said to feature a flexible touch screen and speech recognition system. Liquid batteries allow bending flexibility. It’s also got a completely new feature called E-motions. (electronical motions) E-motions allows you to send or receive forms to or from friends. For instance, you could send your girlfriend a heart shape that would make her cellphone turn into a heart icon. It will probably take years, but I can’t wait to see it.

T-Mobile customers in European markets will later this year be able to exclusively get their hands on a rather sweet new Nokia mobile. It is called the Nokia 6650 and you can expect it during the third quarter of 2008.

The Nokia 6650 is designed to offer up access to several different wireless features, including integrated GPS and FM radio. It sports a 2.2-inch QVGA color display and high speed HSDPA data connectivity. There are also dedicated keys for the built-in media player.

Nokia’s new Morph concept phone is a futuristic beauty. The idea is that it would use nanotechnology to give it a flexible body with a transparent display. It would feature the ability to re-shape itself to the user’s needs, which is a quantum leap away from today’s solid and chunky phones.

The electronics inside would be transparent and flexible as well, so that the whole phone could be twisted and stretched into bracelet shapes or even a tablet. Thanks to nanotech, it would even clean itself. It was developed with some help from Cambridge University, and can be seen at the MoMA in New York. One day even this will seem obsolete, but for now, it’s the future. The future looks awesome.

It’s tough to give a good one-line summary of this new mobile handset from Nokia because as the younger sibling to the N95, this multimedia computer has a lot to live up to. Fortunately for us it appears to be handling it quite well.

For starters the N96 doubles the internal storage capacity providing a 16GB capacity that can be expanded further with MicroSD cards. It also packs in a 5 megapixel camera with a Carl Zeiss lens allowing quality photos and video to be shot at 30 frames per second. Video and DVB-H TV (if you are near it) can then be displayed on a generously sized 2.8 inch QVGA display. Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and A-GPS round out the connectivity of this HSDPA 900/2100 MHz phone.

This concept phone by Nokia is being called the Scentsory and it’s a fascinating device. It uses the human senses of sight, sound, touch and even smell for a multi-sensory experience. If this concept ever sees the light of day, it could revolutionize remote communication and interfacing. The dual-screen mobile has an LED touchpad, speakers, a camera and temperature sensors.

It has the basic audiovisual features, but Scentsory could also detect, transmit and emit smells, as well as radiate colors, lighting, and temperature from the caller’s environment. It has a sort of electronic nose that works with highly sophisticated sensors. The nose samples the odor of the caller’s environment and transmits this to the recipient electronically. Apparently this works due to distinct genetic patterns that are associated with every odor, and it’s simply a matter of matching electrical harmonics with gene activity. The perception of a smell by electrical stimulation could be technologically induced.

Nokia sure has a knack for offering us new cell phones to lust after. The new N82, which we first detailed earlier this year, is back again with official pricing and a release date. You can expect to pick it up for around 450 euros.

The Nokia N82 is what Nokia sees as being part digital camera, part mobile. It sports five-megapixels and is outfitted with Carl Zeiss optics and autofocus with a dedicated autofocus assist lamp. Another top end feature is built-in GPS, complete with preloaded maps and access to more than 15 million points of interest. Nokia even throws in 802.11 wireless connectivity.

Nokia has some new, small portable speakers that were launched along side their XpressMusic phones to give a handy and portable way to share music on the go. Nokia says that the Mini MD-6 speakers give “great sound” in full stereo from your mobile devices when you on the move, but what we really like about it is the case design.

The MD6 comes in just under a 5-inch case in which the top hinges open to expose two small speakers, and protects them when closed. They then connect to your media player through 3.5mm AV connector (headphone jack?). The specs also mention that the speakers have a built-in FM radio antenna which must be for bringing better FM reception to your player since the speakers don’t appear to have any FM tuner controls on it.

Nokia today announced it is releasing an American-optimized version of its popular N95 multimedia computer. This new model will price at around $700 and should be available in September.

The American version of the Nokia N95 gains North American 3G compatibility. In addition also added are product upgrades like assisted GPS (A-GPS) for faster navigational fixes, 124MB of RAM memory to go along with included 1 GB microSD memory card and the 160MB internal memory and longer battery life.