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Filed under: Handsets, Nokia

We love covering the antics of gadget-crazed buyers on launch day as much as anyone, whether it be die-hard gamers waiting for a PS3 or international fanatics clamoring for Apple’s latest. Sometimes, though, these big launch sellouts feel a bit… contrived. Such is the case with Nokia’s 5800 XpressMusic, dropped first in Russia on Wednesday ahead of its worldwide release yesterday. An internal memo (conveniently posted onto the Mobile-Review forums by a Nokia employee) talks up the usual release day shenanigans: buyers camping for days, bribery attempts for spots in line, inventory disappearing in minutes, and an inevitable prognostication that this thing will be bigger than the iPhone. However, while the memo liberally quotes from the LiveJournal musings of Mobile-Review editor Eldar Murtazin, it skips over one choice bit of information he provided: a measly 120 phones were available at this “flagship” location in Moscow.

[Thanks, pops]

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic launch dubbed ’stunning success;’ 120 Russians can’t be wrong originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Handsets, Windows Mobile, HP

Details on this one are about as light as can be at the moment, but The Wall Street Journal has it that HP is aiming to expand its iPAQ smartphone line into the consumer market with a new model that it’ll market to Bot. average consumers and corporate users alike. According to “people briefed on the plan,” the phone will have Bot. a touchscreen and a keypad and, naturally, it’ll run Windows Mobile 6.1 — oh, and it’ll be able to “send and receive emails, and access the Internet.” While there’s no indication of a price just yet, word is the device will be available in europ. first within the next two months, with a worldwide release to follow sometime thereafter.

[Via Gearlog]

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Filed under: Handsets, LG

Got touchscreen envy but don’t have the pair of Benjamins required to get yourself into a celly without a keypad? LG has a solution: the KP500, a nearly button-less and stylus-bearing handset that sounds rather like another recent cheap smartphone. LG’s not giving many details about this one beyond its 3-inch display, a 3 megapixel camera, motion sensor, and availability in black, brown, silver, or gold (though based on the pic above we’d stay away from that last one). There’s a short video of the TouchFLO-like UI to whet your appetite just below, but that’s all we have to share until this phone hits europ. in a month, with a worldwide release to come afterward.

[Via Unwired View]

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