Isaiah's Tech

At Nokia World, Nokia, of course, announced new handsets. This morning they announced the Nokia X3 and Nokia X6. First up we have the X3. The X3 is a clamshell handset has: a 2.2-inch display, a 3.2MP camera, integrated Stereo speakers, an FM radio, dedicated music keys, a microSD card slot, and runs S40. The X3 will be available in Q4 of this year for €115 ($164 USD).

I believe the Nokia X6 is the "Alvin" that we saw pass the FCC two days ago. The Nokia X6 is the high-end handset of the two and has: a 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen display with a 16:9 aspect ratio, a 5MP camera, 32GB of internal storage, Lifecasting (check out what that is here), Ovi Store integration, S60 5th Edition, and a battery long enough to last 16 days of standby time / 35 hours of music playback. The X6 will be available in Q4 of this year for €459 ($654 USD).

We don't know when this will hit the US, but in the meantime, you can check out the Pocket-Lint link here and Fone Arena link here for a couple more photos. The Nokia X3 hands-on video is below; underneath is the hands-on video for the Nokia X6.





[Fone Arena, Crunch Gear, Mashable, Engadget Mobile]
XpressMusic X3 Video: Slash Gear
XpressMusic X6 Video: Slash Gear

Back in mid-July, we heard that Nokia could be launching a new X Series - and C Series. This announcement is expected to be, well, announced at Nokia World next week. The latest rumour suggests that the X Series will be replace the XpressMusic brand, which isn't exactly impossible. There are actually a lot of rumours floating around right now, especially one about a Nokia N920 - somewhat a successor to the still unannounced Nokia N900 tablet. If you want to read all of the rumours, just check out the link below.

Nokia already has their N-series and E-series mobile phones out there, but it looks like they're planning to expand their line-up with a new series called the C-series. On April 14, Nokia filed a patent for "Cseries." At this point, no one knows what this line-up could consist of - but it could be just about anything you can think of. It could be a new series for their future: Android-based handsets, netbooks, Symbian 2 handsets, "Linux/Maemo based smart devices", or even mobile phones utilizing Synaptics capacitive multi-touchscreen displays. Basically, anything is possible at this point.

My speculating may not be too accurate, but I'm sure Nokia will spill their guts on this new "Cseries" at this year's Nokia World 2009, set to take place this September.

Update on July 19th: According to The Symbian Blog, Nokia looks like they could also be launching a new Xseries as well. We still don't know what either of these series' will contain, but let's hope that we see some new devices in September at Nokia World. Click on the picture below to enlarge it, if you'd like.

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