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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.

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.

For whatever reason, Nokia’s Dutch outpost is showing off a C6 variant that’s been up-spec’d to 8 megapixels with dual flash, a 3 megapixel bonus over the existing model — a phone that still isn’t widely available in all markets. This kind of has a whiff of something Nokia would do; they’ve done it in the past by gently massaging the N85 into the N86, for instance, but so soon?