Nokia

With September just a few days away, things are really about to get real for Nokia’s flagship N8, especially in Europe. For instance, Vodafone’s UK arm has just updated the “Coming Soon” page for this Symbian^3 device. What’s new? Just the fact that the carrier will be offering the phone in two colors: black and green, with the latter ironically exclusive to red Vodafone. Yep, that’s pretty much it — no prices or dates mentioned just yet, but we’ll be keeping an eye out for you N8 believers.

Vodafone teases with exclusive green Nokia N8, still mum on prices and availability originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sat, 28 Aug 2010 03:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

It already kicked off this process in India a while back, but it seems like Nokia is finally ready to bring its faltering Comes with Music brand and service under the reign of the Ovi mothership on a more global scale — or in markets where Comes with Music has launched, anyhow — at this time that UK customers have started getting the news. There doesn’t seem to be word yet on precisely how this is plan to work, but it would make sense to see Nokia structure this the same way Microsoft does with Zune — Ovi Music for a la carte purchases, Ovi Music Unlimited if you want to pony up a monthly fee (or, if they keep the original Comes with Music model, you pay more for the phone upfront). Seeing how the service still hasn’t launched in the US, this would be a good opportunity, it seems — particularly with the N8 launch around the corner.

Nokia at this time Comes With Music morphing into Ovi Music Unlimited everywhere originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Sure seems like it to us. What you’re looking at in this place is the leaked image of the C7’s front (top) compared to the label diagram of a model code RM-718 that just got FCC approval, featuring quadband EDGE, HSPA 850 / AWS / 1900 / 2100, Bluetooth, and WiFi — and if you ask us, the similarities are a little too plentiful to ignore. As a refresher, this should end up slotting in just beneath the mighty N8 while still carrying over the 640 x 360 display and Symbian^3, so it should be a good decrease-cost alternative… you know, if anodized aluminum shells aren’t your cup of tea.