This year will the year of touch screens for Nokia. After the immensely popular Nokia 5800, Nokia is all set to see the day when its other high-end touch screen phone of the N Series range, the Nokia N97 will hit the retail market. In the third quarter of 2009, Nokia has announced that three more touch screen handsets will be launched. We already saw the leaked pics of the Nokia 5900, which is one of the rumored handsets, it indeed looks good, I mean if its a real Nokia, we have to wait and see. Nokia might also be launching the Nokia 5530, which is one of its cheap touch screen smart phones. According to some industry sources in Taiwan, Nokia will be sourcing touch screen ICs from Synaptics and there is also a possibility that, some of the touch screen handsets that, Nokia is set to launch will be having multi-touch technology. Lets wait what exactly comes in 2009, how many of the above mentioned handsets and also this Synaptics technology!!

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QWERTY, mobile IM & Email, and it’s only 20 bucks. Noah checks out the AT&T Samsung Magnet.

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Though the avid PhoneDog readers are well aware of my preference for BlackBerry devices, few people outside of my Twitter followers knew that I spent last month with the iPhone in an attempt to convince myself that other formidable smartphone options existed outside of the BlackBerry.  My RIM loyalty goes back many years, through many different models.  As a result, my thought process was that I may have gotten too comfortable with the BlackBerry product to render an effective judgment on another device.

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