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Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Symbian, GSM, EDGE, UMTS

The E63 just broke the shackles of the rumor monger to become Nokia’s latest messaging device. With a pre-tax, pre-subsidy price of just €199, Nokia hopes to see the Symbian S60 device generate some mass-market appeal. So let’s see: WiFi, physical QWERTY, choice of ruby red or aquamarine blue, standard 3.5-mm audio jack, camera with video recording, and the ability to switch from an E-series business mode (corporate email, appointments, intranet) to personal mode (pictures, personal email, and browser shortcuts) with a single key press — sounds like a winning combination to us. Nokia’s even tossing in 1GB of Ovi file storage for free when the E63 begins shipping in the coming weeks — where, is Nokia’s little secret for at this time. We’ll update you with the hard details just as soon as Nokia releases them. Until then, check the blue version after the break.

Update: We were able to hack forth the following detail from the bowels of Nokia’s website: 113 x 59 x 13-mm / 126g, 320 x 240 pixel display, quad-band GSM / EDGE with 660 minute talk / 432 hours standby, microSD memory slot with 110MB internal memory, 2 megapixel camera capable of QVGA video @ 15fps, and of course, Bluetooth. Sorry, no HSDPA Dat. or infrared like that found on the E71.

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

Hot on the INNOV8’s trails comes another 8-megapixel phone out of Samsung’s frighteningly fast-paced labs, this one dubbed M8800 Pixon (is it just us, or does that sound like a great name for an alien life form?). They’re really mixing it up in this place, too — unlike the S60-based INNOV8, the Pixon packs a full-on 400 x 240 touchscreen and settles for Samsung’s proprietary non-smartphone platform. The OS seems to be the only place it’s settling, though, since we’ve got triband HSDPA, GPS, an FM radio, microSD expansion — and, oh yeah, there’s the little matter of that whopping cam with face detection, geotagging, and WVGA video recording. Sadly there’s no WiFi on board, but it’d be just a little less useful than normal without an honest-to-goodness smartphone OS as your playground — and at least you’ve got global 3G on your side. it seems like we can expect shipments of this one sometime in November for €550 (about $805).

[Via GSMArena]

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Filed under: Handsets, LG, ATT, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

That Knick isn’t even out yet, and it seems like AT&T might already be gearing up to stuff a competitor right alongside it in the lineup. Boy Genius Report is showing a picture (possibly a rendering — hard to tell) of a reasonably-spec’d QWERTY slider dumbphone from LG dubbed “Xenon” that is claimed to be wrapping up testing as we speak in preparation for a holiday launch. Rumored goodies include dualband HSDPA, a 2.8-inch QVGA display, 3-megapixel cam with VGA video recording, microSD expansion, and WiFi — so needless to say, we’re not really seeing a free-on-contract future for ‘er.

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