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Filed under: Software, Nokia, Symbian

N82 users seem to be among the most diehard fans in the entire Nseries stable, so we’d say they’re owed a bone as a token of Nokia’s appreciation for spreading the gospel. To that end, Espoo has brought firmware v30’s splendors to the N82 hot on the heels of its N95 and N95 8GB debuts, offering a new Flash Lite build, Maps 2.0, speed and stability improvements, and a host of other tweaks. Sadly there’s no N-Gage client bundled, but whatever — it’s available as a separate download, so no harm, no foul.

[Via All About Symbian]

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Filed under: Software, Nokia, Symbian

N82 users seem to be among the most diehard fans in the entire Nseries stable, so we’d say they’re owed a bone as a token of Nokia’s appreciation for spreading the gospel. To that end, Espoo has brought firmware v30’s splendors to the N82 hot on the heels of its N95 and N95 8GB debuts, offering a new Flash Lite build, Maps 2.0, speed and stability improvements, and a host of other tweaks. Sadly there’s no N-Gage client bundled, but whatever — it’s available as a separate download, so no harm, no foul.

[Via All About Symbian]

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Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE

Billed as an “affordable touch phone with the benefits of HTC’s TouchFLO,” the Touch Viva picks up where the original Touch left off and move things just a little bit downmarket for the benefit of smartphone lovers in emerging markets. To that end, the screen stays low-end with QVGA resolution, the radio tops out at EDGE speeds, and the camera’s a mere 2-megapixel piece — but by the same token, the Viva hangs onto WiFi, 256MB of ROM, and GPS. It also gets blessed with a tweaked version of TouchFLO that doesn’t Rel. on 3D acceleration found in HTC’s higher-end units. It’ll be available starting next month for what we can only imagine will be a pretty reasonable price; backup smartphone, anyone?

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