Well… would you take a look at the video below.

You just know that Nokia have a lot of faith in the Nokia Booklet 3G when you do a little bit of thinking about how much that nifty 90 seconds might have cost to make. Brand new phone? Some intern in London with a DV cam. Rehash of an old Classic phone? A secretary in Finland with a Polaroid camera and some sticky back plastic is about par for the course.

But this thing…. lordy. And, in all seriousness, we think the Nokia 3G Booklet deserves every bit of currency being thrown at it because it is a little cracker of a netbook. Really, truly, honestly… we’re not about to build up then knock down your expectations with some cuttingly, perfectly timed cynicism, or make you cry a little bit with some acerbic punchline that’d make a boxer wince. Nope, not this time. The Nokia Booklet 3G is a damn good netbook. One of the best out there. Simple as that.

The fact that it’s Nokia’s first foray into the computing world will attract a lot of attention of course. But to us it just makes plain sense. Mobile technology experts in shock transition into, erm, a slightly different type of mobile technology. It’s not exactly trading horse grooming for rocket science, is it?

There’s plenty that isn’t astonishing about this thing – screen size, RAM, processor – but this all disappears from thought when you consider what IS astonishing. 12 hour battery life. Check. A-GPS + Ovi Maps. Check. WiFi + 3G. Check… How cool is that?! Especially the GPS bit…

So there we have it. We told you, didn’t we: not an ounce of cynicism; not a sniff of negativity. How the times they have a-changed.

Check out this Nokia Booklet 3G review, or have a look at the official page for even more cynicism-free ramblings.

Now, we’re off to neck a load of rum and start ranting in the pub to relieve this sarcasm-blockage that’s making us choke…

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Stereotypes can be a terrible, terrible thing. Wars are started, friends fall out, communities are torn apart…

However, stereotypes can also be incredibly useful in helping us navigate the daily world and, used in the right way, can help us overcome certain problems.

The video below, for example, is an intriguing example of how, using one particular batch stereotypes, we can overcome another group of stereotypes, and so reach a better and more fulfilling place.

Stereotypes group 1 – Middle-aged men with funny hair that looks like it’s made of plastic and Stussy t-shirts that are too tight and make their beer bellies stick out should not be trusted in any way, shape, or form. And, in fact, the police should be informed of said man’s whereabouts, just, you know, in case.

However, before you turn off said video in agreement with all of the above, consider that name, and that funny accent a little harder. Then you’ll realise, golly gosh: he’s not a dangerous weirdo, he’s simply Finnish. Finnish! A man of Finland. Land of, erm, reindeer?

But also, land of Nokia. And that’s where stereotypes group 2 comes into play, because, thanks to Nokia, we all know that all of the Finnish people have very tiny fingers and are taught to solder from the age of four and so therefore make the very best mobile phones the world has ever seen. And to think, we though this gentleman kidnapped children for a living! How rash we were.

All that being in place, you can now carry on watching the video and come to realise, as well you should, that the N900 that they’re yapping on about with their funny Finnish mouths is in fact one of the best phones released for a very long time. That the Nokia N900 is, in fact, a work of genius.

Still can’t get over that slight mistrust of the video-Finns? Then read this Nokia N900 review, or have a look at the official stats this-a-way instead.

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Oh, how times change, dear reader, how times change.

It wasn’t long ago that all 149 Euros before subsidies got you was a can, a string and an instruction manual informing you to shout very loudly into your new talky-can device. Then it was even less time ago that 149 Euros before subsidies would just about get you a mobile phone communication device that could – hold your breaths now – send these things called SMS messages, or “text” messages as the crazy kids of the day called them.

Now? Now look, now would you look at what you can get for 149 Euros before locally applicable surcharges and taxes: the Nokia 5230 no less! Why, the future is, at least briefly, very much here, dear reader. Rejoice and hold hands.

3.2” inch resistive touchscreen? Ovi Maps working with on-board GPS? Music playing for up to 33 hours? Facebooking? Emailing? Loud music on the bus playing? Bright shiny eye hurting cover swapping? Yes, yes, yes and yes again, all on the Nokia 5230.

Have a look at this Nokia 5230 review, or venture towards the official page if you don’t believe us.

And just imagine, just imagine what the future holds for us if this trend continues. Why, in 2011, we can’t but think we’ll all be travelling through time and exploring the deep, cold canyons of the moon thanks to the new teleportational features of whatever-random-4-digit-coded Nokia gets released that year, all for, well, about 149 of your Euros, before, that is, any of those locally applicable taxes and regional surcharges.

What exciting times these are indeed. My goodness.

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It might be because we’re getting old. It might be because this job has made us jaded. But when something as beautifully dull as the Nokia 6700 comes along, we get all warm and fuzzy inside our cockles. Wherever our cockles might be. The 6700, like most smartphones on the market these days, has a very decent camera, 3G, Bluetooth, very quick HSDPA, a fantastic we browser and all the other things that make us yawn and reach for our cocoa. (That’s cocoa the drink, you pesky web police, not coca the brain fizzler).

But the Nokia 6700 classic is so much more than that. Or, put more accurately: so much less. It has a far smaller screen that most of these other smartphones. It’s not got all the 3d/HD gaming potential. It doesn’t take pictures that would fill our pathetic desktop’s hard drive in a matter of minutes. And despite, or more precisely because of these bare-faced choices, the 6700 is a stonker of a phone. It’s a phone, like its predecessor the 6300, that is made to be used as and when you actually need to use it, then put away (snugly, seeing as how small and perfectly formed it is) into your pocket and forgotten about. In many ways, then, it’s the anti-phone. And we can’t get enough of it. We know there’s going to be plenty of you out there who want more / bigger / louder / fancier. But we think there’s probably more who – if you actually think about it – really don’t want that bigness / loudness / etc.

And don’t go away from this thinking the 6700 is under-spec’ed, far from it. It’s a fully-fledged 3G phone, as this Nokia 6700 review proves, as does Nokia’s official page. It’s just not the very very best, or the very very latest. But then, those claims only hold water for a month or two, whereas the 6700 will hold its own for a very, very long time to come. Have a little look at the video below for more of a taster.

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With all the high-end functions, features and other fancy stuff that the Nokia E52 thing has, it seems a little silly to focus on battery life, but that’s exactly what we want to do. So, in the interests of time, we’re going to list all those features as quickly as possible so we can get to the stuff that we (and perhaps no-one else) think is interesting.

Deep breath now: Noise Cancellation Symbian OS, S60 v3.2 Email Nokia Messaging Mail for exchange and IBM Lotus Notes Traveller A-GPS Nokia Maps 3.0 3.2 MP camera: LED flash 4 x digital zoom auto focus, red eye reduction Film video up to 15 fps Second camera which faces the frontWatch videos in MP4 RealVideo WMV HSDPA speed10.2 Mbps Compass 1GB in-box Micro SD card extendable to 16GB Two different shades: metal grey and golden aluminium 2.4” TFT display, 240 x 320 pixels up to 16 million colours High speed micro USB Bluetooth 2.0 Wifi 3.5 mm audio jack

Phew, anyway, so: the battery life. You’re going to like this. Not a lot, but you’ll like it. The battery life is claimed as offering somewhere between 25 and 28 days of standby! 28 days! And if zombie films have taught us nothing, it’s that a (hell of a) lot can happen in 28 days. We still can’t quite believe it. And fair enough no one is actually going to use the E52 for 28 days without actually using it, but if you think about how that compares to some other phones (iPhone 3G S – 12 days; Blackberry Curve – 17days) you’ll realise this is a stonker of a battery. There’s a slightly less manic Nokia E52 review here, or have a look at this Nokia E52 video below:

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Like Rubik’s Cubes, space hoppers, 80’s music and (where we are at least) denim jackets, something else is about to make a comeback: tiny phones that don’t do much.

And we’re in full support. The Nokia 2720 Fold is a tiny clamshell phone with less impressive features than an old Skoda (something else that made a comeback, come to think of it). But what it lacks in megapixels, WiFi and GPS, the Nokia 2720 Fold more than makes up for in charm. Chances are the 1.3 megapixel camera’s going to take some pretty interesting low res shots, and we don’t doubt the range of ring tones will be delightfully retro. And it’s for these reasons and more we can see the fold being something of a surprise hit. Like the 2730 Classic blogged about below (but even more basic than that), Nokia might just find they’re getting more orders from the so-called developed world than they’re expecting for the Nokia 2720 Fold.

While not everyone might be ready and willing to ditch their iPhone in favour of one of these things, we think there could well be a swell of people ready to abandon disappointing mid-range phones to embrace a new simplicity. Read a more detailed Nokia 2720 fold review here, and chuckle away at this terrible video below. It seems Nokia spent as much on this as they hope you will on their phone. Very smart ploy of theirs we reckon…

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There’s nothing that satisfies the phone vulture more than a nice long list of stats, specs, features and other bits and bobs, especially whe it comes to long awaited phones such as the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic, the follow-up to the obscenely successful 5800. And far be it from us to deny you in your quest for the perfect phone. Feast your eyes (and your vulture beaks) on these:

• 104×49x13 mm (so smaller in every way to the 5800)
• Weight: 107g
• 2.9 inch widescreen display (640×360 pixels), with tactile feedback (smaller, again, then the 5800, but far crisper)
• Full touch interface (no physical buttons)
• New homescreen and ‘carousel’ contacts bar (20 contacts now accessible from homescreen)
• Memory: 70MB Phone Memory with Micro SD card extendable upto 16GB (4GB included, kindly enough)
• 3.2-megapixel camera and LED flash (and picture-blogging)
• Bluetooth, WiFi, and EDGE for all your connection needs (no 3G)
• Fully equipped music player (one of the best around)
• 3.5mm audio plug for your personal headphones (such good sound from this thing)
• FM radio with RDS technology
• Widescreen video playback at 640×360 (as good as ever)
• 640×360 resolution Video capture with up to 30 FPS
• Standby time: Up to 14 days
• Music playback: Up to 27 hours
• Talk time: Up to 4.9 hours

What more can we say about the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic? Oh, that’s right: all this is going to come at you in a strangely cheap price. So come launch date (we’re putting our money on September), chances are the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic is going to fly off the shelves. Check out a full Nokia 5530 review here, and a dodgy video below (no, not that kind of dodgy video, you vulture you):

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It’s very (very very) rare these days that something worthy of attention is already shouting and screaming about how worthy of attention it is before you’ve even had a chance to see for yourself. Take almost every footballer, pop star, actor, celebrity chef, etc., etc. for example. Not so with the Nokia E72. We have a sneaking suspicion that come autumn, this little phone is going to set a new standard in the business phone market. And we reckon Nokia know that full well. And we can think of at least a handful of companies who even if they has half a suspicion that one of their soon-to-be-released phones was going to do well, they’d be hollering it from every press release, trade article and conference speech they could get invited to prepare.

But then Nokia have always done things slightly different. And there’s not much more different than the music choice for this video for the Nokia E72(that they’ve obviously made themselves in about 30 minutes, bless ‘em):

And we love it. The phone that is, although the video has its own “special” charm. Not only is the look of the thing impressive, check out what else has gone on:

• New optical navi key – check out how smooth it looks in the vid
• Camera upgraded to 5 megapixels (with autofocus and flash)
• Top-loading 3.5 mm audio jack added
• New IM features allowing you to connect to your current IM accounts (Yahoo, Google, Ovi, etc.)
• Faster all round performance / internet speeds
• GPS and compass w/ integrated Maps
• Noise cancellation added
• One-tap torch function
• New version of Quickoffice

We admit it. We just can’t wait for the Nokia E72… Check out a Nokia E72 review here if your hungry for more specs.

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The Nokia E75 is ideal for the traveling business individual or even someone who is searching for a phone to make their everyday life much more convenient. This side slider phone has a full QWERTY keyboard and the E75 Nokia phone is known for a number of impressive features such as:

- Nokia Maps Application
- 4GB microSD memory card
- Integrated A-GPS
- Video calling
- Video streaming
- Real Player
- PDF viewer
- Java MIDP 2.1

The E75 Nokia phone has a variety of alternative features that are quite valuable. The phone is also quite easy to carry around and weighs only a mere 139g. The dimensions of the phone are as follows: 111.8mm x 50/80mm x 14.4mm.

The phone has a 3.2 megapixel camera which has a number of other features that will make this camera even more valuable to its user. The camera in the Nokia E75 has a LED flash, 8x digital zoom, JPEG/EXIF image formats, auto focus and 10cm to infinity focus range.

The Nokia E75 also has a fully functional and quite impressive video camera. The Nokia shows that this video camera has a 2x digital video zoom and video light. The video recording is up to 176 x 144 pixels.

Those interested in the Nokia E75 will be able to See more info here regarding the basic specifications that every phone has, nevertheless they should not ignored or underestimated. The phone has a converter, TO-DO list, calendar, calculator, analogue and digital clock, support for contact groups and fixed dialing number support.

The Nokia E75 is a phone that you should be aware of if you are looking to invest in a new phone. You are guaranteed to be quite astonished at how much the Nokia E75 can be of help to you.

If you are looking for network specific deals, follow the links below:

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The Nokia E55 is a phone that is designed to make the user look good as well as provide some amazing functions that will improve your life in a positive way. This particular phone is set to be released in the second quarter of 2009. According to certain reviews, the Nokia E55 phone has a number of features that contribute to making this yet another successful venture in the Nokia family.

- 2.4 inch TFT display with 240 x 320 pixels
- Half-QWERTY keyboard
- Speaker phone with 3.5mm audio jack
- Internal memory of 60MB
- Class 32 GPRS
- Bluetooth connectivity
- Symbian Operating System

The E55 is a phone which only weighs in at a mere 98g and thus makes this Nokia phone one piece of technology that can be taken anywhere with you and you will be amazed as to how small and convenient it really is. The phone also has dimensions such as 116mm x 49mm x 9.9mm.

The phonebook in the phone is also quite an impressive feature. It has an astounding unlimited number of entries and fields. It also has the photo-call feature. The E55 phone has the amazing ability to store call records in your phone for a maximum of 30 days in great detail.

These Nokia mobiles have a 3.2 megapixel camera which is also one to keep an eye on as this is one feature that every individual purchasing a phone is quite keen on. You can now capture those valuable moments with you loved ones in memorable locations.

The official product page of the Nokia E55 states that the phone has up to 8 hours of talk time and up to 672 hours of standby time.

The Nokia E55 phone is a phone that everyone is bound to fall in love with as it has both style and function incorporated into it. The Nokia E55 is a phone that will surely be a wise investment for your future.

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