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RIM’s first touchscreen handset, the BlackBerry Storm 9500 is a beast of a phone, incorporating a host of features already found on the BlackBerry Bold 9000 as well as an all-new display and a brace of new multimedia features; with the Storm, RIM hope to hold on to their traditional client base who might be tempted to leave the BlackBerry flock for one of these plucky up and coming smartphones which are now toting push email in addition to cameras, media players, GPS navigation, web browsers, touchscreen displays…

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Nokia 5030 is the company’s first phone with an internal FM radio antenna, which eliminates the need for a headset or external speakers. The one touch FM radio and channel selection keys on the side of the device ensure the product lives up to its XpressRadio name.

Placed sideways on the table, the Nokia 5030 doubles as a portable FM radio and is ideal for emerging markets, where people rely on a radio as their main source of entertainment and news.

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Nokia 5730 XpressMusic has already leaked in the past with quite a few details on its specifications, and now this unusual QWERTY-enabled music handset is finally officially out.

Quite similar to the Nokia E75, the new Nokia 5730 XpressMusic runs on the Symbian S60 OS and has got a 2.4-inch 16M color QVGA display, built-in GPS receiver, Wi-Fi and USB connectivity. Some of the other extras include a 3.2 Megapixel snapper with Carl Zeiss lens and 3G with video-call support.

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Nokia 5330 Xpressmusic is an S40 device with a 2.4-inch 16M color display and a 3 megapixel fixed focus camera. Touch-sensitive keys on the side control the music player, but there is also a standard 3.5mm jack, stereo Bluetooth, stereo FM radio. A 2Gb card comes along in the retail box.

You’d be also interested to know that the Nokia 5330 has a GPS receiver and comes with Nokia Maps for S40. Connectivity-wise the handset offers quad-band GSM and tri-band HSDPA support plus microUSB port – no Wi-Fi on this one.

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This monster of a handset comes with a 3.7″ OLED capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 640 x 360 pixels, capable of displaying up to 16 million colors. An 8 megapixel shooter with the industry-first 720p HD video recording at 24fps has made headlines well before the official launch. The other imaging assets include geo-tagging, face and smile detection and WDR (Wide Dynamic Range) setting.