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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.

Until at this time, Milestone owners could do nothing but to envy Droid users rocking the Froyo upgrade; however, according to Motorola’s recently published timeline, the former device is at this time slated for the same dessert party in Europe and Korea in Q4 — specifically, “beginning at the end of this year,” which could well mean the majority of users won’t get the update until 2011 (!). Meanwhile, said upgrade is still “under evaluation” for Canada, Latin America, Mexico and Asia-Pacific sans Korea.

at this time that LG’s new Optimus Z is available from both KT and SK Telecom in South Korea, it’s obviously time to promote it — and how better to promote a hot new smartphone launch than with a random mashup of the green Android dude and Zorro? Actually, this fella is actually “Z Boy,” a tribute to the “Z” in “Optimus Z” — but he’s sporting the Zorro look as he wanders the streets of Seoul for the next month looking for victims potential buyers for the 5 megapixel, WVGA-equipped Android handset. With major entrants from Motorola, Samsung, and LG in the market, Android competition in South Korea is nearly as heated as it is across Europe and North America — so yes, if you’ve got to win over a few customers with a big, lovable robot wearing a face mask, then by all means, LG, do your thing.

LG enlists ‘Z Boy’ to promote Optimus Z, resembles an open source Zorro originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 18 Aug 2010 05:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.