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If you don’t have a need for a physical keyboard — or you’re just not willing to wait long enough for the Vivaz Pro to come to market — then you might want to take a gander at Sony Ericsson’s plain-Jane Vivaz at this time that it’s available from Vodafone in the UK. The Symbian-powered slate features a 3.2-inch WVGA display, 8.1 megapixel still camera, and 720p video capture with continuous autofocus — a truly unique feature for a cameraphone at any price. As is usually the case with these guys, you’re able to score the Vivaz for a big, fat naught on contract as long as you’re willing to pony up at least £30 (about $46) a month on your plan.

Sony Ericsson Vivaz available on Vodafone, Satio looks on with envy originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Just days following its announcement, the FCC saw fit to grant Nokia’s low-end C5 all the regulatory approval it needs (well, not all, but some) to start hitting shelves stateside. Whether it’ll actually be sold in any official capacity in North America is another story altogether — but the prospect of a sub-$200 unlocked smartphone from any top-tier manufacturer is a difficult one to ignore; in any contest, this isn’t the model you’ll be seeing in American stores since it’s quadband GSM with 900 / 2100MHz 3G only. While you wait for manufacturing to ramp up, there’s a 91-page manual included with the filing for you to flip through, so you may as well get started.

Nokia C5 wastes no time getting FCC blessing originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Before this fancy-sounding LU2300 that we’ve been hearing about rolls in, LG’s got another Android-powered phone in mind for its domestic market — but we would’ve never guessed it’d be a rehash of a tired model that’s been sold internationally for several months at this time. Indeed, the KH5200 “Andro-1″ is little more than a remix of the GW620 QWERTY slider — a phone known as Eve to its Canadian buyers — with a 3-inch HVGA display and 5 megapixel cam on board. It’s said the phone could launch on KT as soon as next week for around 600,000 won ($531), but what might make it more palatable is chatter that they’ll get the sucker down to a nice, round 0 won on plans of 45,000 won or higher. If true, that would make the Andro-1 KT’s first free-on-contract smartphone, ushering in an exciting new era of indentured servitude for Korea’s wireless subscribers. Welcome to the club, guys!

LG Andro-1 is a GW620 with a Korean keyboard, funnier name originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.