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Nokia is apparently working hard on its upcoming smartphones. Besides the already announced and/or leaked Symbian^3 and Symbian^4 plans it looks like the Finnish company is also working on a Snapdragon-based smartphone which should be unveiled at some point in the not so distant future.

Nokia's own CEO, Olli-Pekka Kalasvuo has said that:

"Qualcomm definitely is a potential partner going forward. The companies did fight a long time in court, and now we see them as a potential partner."


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It looks like the C6, the second Nokia handset in the C-Series line has been spotted. And if the picture is genuine then we can expect the C6 to be totally different than the Nokia C5 which was announced officially a couple of weeks ago at CeBIT in Germany.

While the C5 was rather a more entry-level kind of a device, the C6 seems to be ready to offer a lot more smartphone-like capabilities. From the picture here we see that it resembles somewhat the Nokia Nuron, also unveiled recently but the C6 packs an extra slide-out full QWERTY keyboard.


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Vodafone invested a lot of cash in order to provide its own location based services to customers in various markets. In January 2009 the company bought Wayfinder, a Swedish company for no less than $30 million which was definitely impressive.

But now Vodafone has to simply quit charging for Wayfinder as people will surely want to use similar services that happen to be free of charge. Such is the case of Google's Google Map Navigation software or Nokia's Ovi Maps app that has been recently made available to all GPS-enabled Nokia handsets for free.


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Nokia cellphones usually come with pretty dependable batteries on board and now we hear that the giant Finnish company is plans to make even better handset batteries in the near future. Nokia has filed for a new patent and the company seems to want to make a piezoelectric-based battery.

The documents refer to a "piezoelectric kinetic energy harvester" and the future battery would be "contained within a first frame that is coupled to a second frame by one or more piezoelectric elements."


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Just a few days ago we've seen Skype made available for the Ovi Store but not everyone will be able to take advantage for it. The Skype app for Symbian phones has been pulled from the U.S. Ovi Store and everyone is blaming Verizon for the whole thing.

That means you will have to get your VoIP app from somewhere else until Skype and Verizon do launch their joint application and finish promoting their VoIP deal. But not every Symbian customer in the USA will be signing up with Verizon in order to get VoIP calls!


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Earlier this week we heard that Apple has filled a suit against HTC for alleged patent infringement and now we hear more lawsuits-related news involving Cupertino.

It looks like Apple vs Nokia trials are currently being suspended by a judge pending the ITC investigation. If that doesn't sound familiar then I'll remind you how both Apple and Nokia sued each other only to request the ITC to ban each other's imports.


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Nokia and Intel proudly announced a brand new mobile platform at MWC 2010 and you must surely remember it. They called it MeeGo and apparently this new Maemo and Moblin mix is ready to arrive later this year. The first targeted gadgets to run it are Nokia's N900 smartphone and an Intel Atom-based netbook.

The team working for this whole new MeeGo project expects to have it available at some point later this month which sounds more than interesting. It's actually a lot sooner than we thought and we'll be looking forward to see how MeeGo will look and feel like.


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After we've seen Skype pull its Windows Mobile clients in order upgrade them and make them offer us a better mobile experience, we now here that Nokia users can download and enjoy Skype on the go as a free client is now available in Nokia's Ovi Store.

The application is finally out of beta and you can start enjoying almost-free, unlimited calls to your friends and family. All you have to do is make sure you have an unlimited data plan available to meet your needs or access to lots of Wi-Fi spots.


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It looks like March is going to be a nice month for T-Mobile customers. Three brand new handsets are coming to T-Mobile: HTC HD2, Motorola CLIQ XT and Nokia Nuron. We knew they were arriving but we didn't have any prices for you just yet.

Luckily the pricing details have been leaked and you can start planning what new T-Mobile handset to buy already!


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Just as we hinted a new C-Series Phone from Nokia has been officially confirmed. The C5 is an entry-level candybar handset which will prove to be a more than dependable phone for every-day use.

The C5 features a 2.2-inch display, 3.2-megapixel camera, GPS, Ovi Maps, Nokia Messaging, 3.5mm headphone jack, microSD support for up to16GB of extra storage space and Symbian S60 3rd Edition running underneath it all.


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