Phat^Trance of Daily Mobile always has some good news and scoops when it comes to mobile phones. This time he has got his hands on a scoop, which has come from a reliable source of his. According to his source, Nokia will soon be releasing a new Touch screen XpressMusic phone the 5530. This phone will be based on S60v5, will have 2.9 inch touch screen, 3.2 mega pixel snapper and 3.5mm standard headphone jack. There is already a strong rumor that, Nokia is planing to release three new touch screen phones this year. So I guess, Nokia 5530 will be one of them and might see an official pat on its back during the Nokia World Event in September.

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Out of the box! It’s the AT&T Samsung Propel Pro, a QWERTY slider Windows Mobile smartphone, live and in the (plastic) flesh. Read the rest of this entry »

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has launched a clock that is rapidly ticking up to mark the one-billionth iPhone application download. The countdown reveals the lightening fast pace that applications are being downloaded from the nine-month old mobile store. Read the rest of this entry »

Its been long time, when Nokia 5800 Tube was spotted in last year’s hit action prequel to the Batman series, the Dark Knight. The phone is used by Morgan Freeman and The Batman to kick the ass of the massive building in Shanghai where a corrupt money launderer has his office. Anyway, I am talking all this as a new concept phone has been spotted in the recent trailer of the movie, Echelon Conspiracy. Everybody is talking about this new concept phone as the phone closely resembles Nokia’s Aeon, another concept phone from Nokia, which must have popped up in your mail boxes in those concept phone mail forwards. Only the screen of the phone in Echelon Conspiracy resembles the Aeon. The Aeon is slim and taller and has distinguishing green color. Check out the trailer and the Aeon like concept phone. [Video Via]

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Stepping aside from the relatively well-known fact that Research In Motion is my favorite technology company and Apple is a close second, RIM recently made a decision that will impact future BlackBerry devices coming out of Waterloo. The company has hired Don Lindsay, the former Director of the design team behind the user interface of Mac OS X and one of the masterminds behind the user interface of the iPhone.

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