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Nokia N86 8MP finally available

It's still showing as a preorder on Nokia USA's own site, but Amazon and the brick-and-mortar flagship stores in Chicago and New York are finally stocking the N86 8MP a little bit of a stretch for the "coming weeks" claim made at the North American version's launch announcement back in July. T he beefy dual slider features a 2.6-inch QVGA OLED display, US 3G up to 3.6Mbps on the downlink, and WiFi  but clearly the big draw is its 8 megapixel cam with Carl Zeiss optics around back accompanied...

AT&T Halts Nokia Mural

It looks like the folks who picked up the entry-level Nokia Mural from AT&T might have been a little shortchanged. Apparently the device only runs on AT&T’s 2G network, instead of the 3G network as promised. From an AT&T memo leak, the company is blaming it on Nokia’s factories. The faulty devices will have to be sent back to Nokia to be re-flashed. AT&T will have to send the devices back to Nokia by Sept 25th. A spokesperson for AT&T has said that folks who don’t...

Nokia Twist

I don't know about you, but I have always wanted to twist a phone into different positions. Er, did I say phone? Verizon's new $100 Nokia 7705 Twist won't even cost too much to do it. Besides having a swiveling screen that opens to a full QWERTY keypad and a handy mirror on the back for checking food in your teeth, the square sized phone is pretty much your standard messaging phone though it does have a 3 megapixel camera (that can also record video). You will want to pick up a MicroSD card to...

Nokia X6 video

While Nokia wouldn't invite us to Nokia World this year, we were fortunate enough to discover a pair of its new X6 handsets on the IFA floor here in Berlin. On hand were two engineering prototypes, one of which was peeling away from its plastic shell while the other seemed less responsive to our finger-taps than the other. Still, it's clear that the capacitive touchscreen is far more responsive to human touch than the resistive screens found on its N97, or the 5800 XpressMusic especially. This...