Yet another smartphone wants to have a space in the limelight. O2 UK confirmed that starting next month Sony Ericsson XPERIA X8 will be released. The mid-ranger smartphone will make it for a market release only in the last month of the promised Q3. Sony hasn’t announced if they will also be doing pre-orders just like iPhone 4, BlackBerry and Nokia did.

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And the race for the best smartphone continues. iPhone and Blackberry are not the only ones competing for the top spot, Nokia isn’t just far behind. Nokia N8 isn’t the first symbian^3-running smartphone but also the only Nokia device to come with a pretty 12-megapixel camera. It also features an anodized aluminum casing, a 3.5-inch capacitive touchscreen, a 680MHz processor, HDMI port and a video player with DivX / XviD support. Pre-ordering system also seem to be a good marketing strategy for these mobile phone giants. The first Symbian^3-powered device, Nokia N8, was first said to start selling in August. pre-orders are now accepted in Italy.

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| General |
2G Network |
GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 |
|
3G Network |
HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 |
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Announced |
2010, April |
|
Status |
Coming soon. Exp. release 2010, 3Q |
| Size |
Dimensions |
113 x 53 x 16.8 mm, 80 cc |
|
Weight |
150 g |
| Display |
Type |
TFT resistive touchscreen, 16M colors |
|
Size |
360 x 640 pixels, 3.2 inches |
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|
- QWERTY keyboard |
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- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off |
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- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate |
| Sound |
Alert types |
Vibration; MP3 ringtones |
|
Speakerphone |
Yes |
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- 3.5 mm audio jack |
| Memory |
Phonebook |
Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall |
|
Call records |
Detailed, max 30 days |
|
Internal |
240 MB |
|
Card slot |
microSD, up to 16GB, 2GB included |
| Data |
GPRS |
Class 32 |
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EDGE |
Class 32 |
|
3G |
HSDPA 3.6 Mbps; HSUPA |
|
WLAN |
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g |
|
Bluetooth |
Yes, v2.0 with A2DP |
|
Infrared port |
No |
|
USB |
Yes, v2.0 microUSB |
| Camera |
Primary |
5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash |
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Features |
Geo-tagging, face and smile detection |
|
Video |
Yes, VGA@30fps |
|
Secondary |
Yes, QVGA |
| Features |
OS |
Symbian OS v9.4, Series 60 rel. 5 |
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CPU |
ARM 11 434 MHz processor |
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Messaging |
SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email, IM |
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Browser |
WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds |
|
Radio |
Stereo FM radio with RDS |
|
Games |
Yes + downloadable |
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Colors |
White, Black |
|
GPS |
Yes, with A-GPS support |
|
Java |
Yes, MIDP 2.1 |
|
|
- Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, Windows Live Messenger |
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- MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ player |
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- MP4/H.264/WMV player |
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- Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF) |
|
|
- Flash Lite v3.1 |
|
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- Voice command/dial |
|
|
- T9 |
| Battery |
|
Standard battery, Li-Ion 1200 mAh (BL-4J) |
|
Stand-by |
Up to 384 h (2G) / Up to 384 h (3G) |
|
Talk time |
Up to 7 h (2G) / Up to 5 h (3G) |
|
Music play |
Up to 30 h |
| Misc |
SAR US |
1.20 W/kg (head) 1.21 W/kg (body) |
|
SAR EU |
1.05 W/kg (head) |
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Unofficial preliminary specifications of Nokia N9 slider. Another phone to be lined up on high quality smartphones and maybe another contender of iPhone 4.

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Nokia confirmed that photos of their next full touch smartphone, Nokia C7, which leaked a couple of weeks ago were real. However, the launch date and price of Nokia C7 are still a question. For now, here’s the unofficial preliminary specifications of Nokia C7.

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