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Filed under: Handsets, Nokia

Besides the RAZR, few handsets have milked longevity like Nokia’s 8800 slider — first introduced in April 2005 (spied in March). Unlike RAZR, however, the 8800 somehow manages not to annoy… too much. The latest Carbon Arte model brings 3G, a 3.2 megapixel camera, 4GB of flash memory, and OLED display with anti-fingerprint coating. Fine, but it’s the rocket-esque carbon fiber, titanium, and stainless steel materials that help push the price tag to €1,100 (that’s about $1,600) before taxes and of course, carrier subsidies. Expected to brazenly appear in the smoking dens of Europe’s finest gentlemens’ clubs sometime in Q3.

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Tags: April 2005, Arte, Carbon Fiber, Euro 1, Europe, Fingerprint, Flash Memory, Gentlemens Clubs, Handsets, Longevity, Moon, Nbsp, Nokia, Price Tag, Q3, Slider, Smoking, Stainless Steel Materials, Subsidies, Titanium

Filed under: Handsets, HTC, ATT, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, HSUPA

We were personally pulling for the “Full Tilt,” but WMExperts is citing a tipster that claims AT&T’s rendition of the HTC Touch Pro will end up seeing the light of day as the “Fuze.” That name would certainly make sense, because, you know, “Fuze” is a word that evokes ultimate productivity without sacrificing the hip style that today’s young mobile professional demands. Whoa, did we just channel a marketing guru, or what? The tip goes on to say that we can expect the QWERTY slider to hit “sooner rather than later,” so you might want to hold off on that imminent Tilt purchase if you can help it.

[Thanks, Malatesta]

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Tags: Amp, Att Mobile, Full Tilt, Fuze, Gsm Edge, Guru, Hip Style, Hsupa, Htc Touch, Marketing, Nbsp, Productivity, Professional Demands, Qwerty, Rendition, Seeing The Light, Slider, Tipster

Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

If you dig the slider form factor and the trick OLED d-pad, you’ve got no need for a super high-res cam, and you’re alright with download speeds that are merely blazingly fast (as opposed to super crazy blazin’ fast), look no further than Samsung’s modest update to the Soul. The new model, dubbed S7330 according to Mobilmania, looks to carry over most of the original model’s headlining features while knocking the photographic prowess down a notch from 5 to 3.2 megapixels and dropping peak HSDPA speeds from 7.2 to 3.6Mbps. In return, though, you score an updated user interface and pick up GSM 850, so it’s not all bad. Rumor has it it’ll run for about 8,000 Czech crowns ($500) later this year.

[Via Unwired View]

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Tags: Czech Crowns, Download Speeds, Gsm Edge, Megapixels, Nbsp, New Model, Notch, Original Model, Prowess, Samsung, Samsung Gsm, Slider, Soul Train, Super High Res, Umts, User Interface