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While you may have had their hands on the Nokia N900 Maemo Based on long, was only recently launched in Taiwan and will be available soon in several other places. On May 10, Nokia launched the Nokia N900 in the Taiwan market and is priced at NT $ 22,100 or around U.S. $ 697.

As you probably already know, the Nokia N900 is the latest high-end smartphones of Nokia, Maemo and running instead of Symbian, while offering most of the subtleties of people have come to expect from a product manufactured by Giant Finnish. These include a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, built-in full QWERTY keyboard and 3.5 inch LCD screen resistive touch.

Not a lot of details related to this release were made available, although reporting on this, DigiTimes mentions that Nokia unveiled the high-end devices based on Symbian meegin 3 and in the second half of 2010. This is according to industry sources who arreference, which were mostly correct predictions about the market in the past.

Via DigiTimes

It might seem more like a candy dispensing cell phone toy available at dollar stores everywhere, but the newly announced Nokia 5235 Comes With Music might just be the perfect handset for a music loving touchscreen wannabe on a budget. Essentially the same handset as the 5230, the 5235 Comes With Music lets users download an unlimited amount of music free of charge for the first 12 to 18 months of ownership after which they are given the option of purchasing a subscription to the service or letting the tracks go. The Nokia 5235 Comes With Music will be available in Q1 2010 for 145€ ($214 USD) before any applicable carrier subsidies. Also, GPS is removed.

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If you happen to live in Canada, have $199.95 burning a hole in your pocket, are more than happy to sign away three years worth of discretionary income to keep it running and don’t mind rolling with something that feels like it’s straight out of 2007, you might want to stop by a Bell dealership and check out the newly-launched Nokia N97. If you happen to become smitten with it and walk out of the shop with it, stand proud, for as Bell said, if you rock the N97, “you’ll be one of a kind”. Literally.

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Google still has a ways to go in Europe where Symbian reigns supreme. Although Europeans easily recognize the Google brand, Android itself is still pretty foreign to them. It’s not surprising since there aren’t many Android offerings there, but numbers are still below expectations. At the end of the third quarter, Android’s market share in Western Europe was at 5.4%. “The lack of devices available didn’t help to raise awareness, though this is expected to change, with more handsets from LG, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, and other vendors hitting the market soon,” says IDC analyst Francisco Jeronimo. Right now, Nokia and Symbian are still at the top spot for Western Europe, but Samsung is surprisingly getting close to overtaking Nokia. How many of our European pals out there are using Android devices?

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