According to some weird clause in the Sprint (NYSE: S)-Nextel merger contract, the company is not allowed to compete with smaller operators. Northern PCS Services just got purchased for $312.5 million dollars and the aquistion should be complete by the end of the third quarter.

The bigger question here is who in their right mind would use Sprint?

[Via: Engadget Mobile]

According to The Boy Genius Report this baby is slimmer than the RAZR2. Specs include QVGA (frame rate?) video recording, QVGA screen that might have 16 million colors, a 2 megapixel camera, microUSB port, quadband with edge support and it runs the JUIX operating system.

This baby has nothing on theNokia 6500 Classic.

Samsung has filed a patent that would put a full size male USB port on your mobile phone, right where the antenna should be. Crunchgear thinks this will fail miserably due to the fact that accessory vendors like to make their systems proprietary. I think this will fail because the form factor of a standard USB port is bloody massive. Nokia (NYSE: NOK) just switched over to microUSB on the 8600 and 6500. Let us not forget that the next version of USB will be wireless and those chips will go in our devices. There was a Nokia N93 at this years CES with Wireless USB.

Windows CE inside, 100% N800 outside, don’t you love a country where piracy has extended past digital media and into physical goods? I’m not insulting China by any stretch of the imagination, plenty of exgirlfriends can tell you how much they enjoy their imitation Coach bags.

With a 4.3 inch touch screen, MSN and Internet Explorer built in, not to mention Skype, it looks like XIACHAO has a hit on their hands.

[Via: Slashgear]

Indonesia’s Communicator Community was invited to a VIP party where the first 1000 units available in that country were sold. Reports are coming in that this device is available in Finland as well, so get ready to start importing! I hope you have a part time job because you’re going to have to cough up at least $1000 to own the latest and greatest from Nokia (NYSE: NOK)’s Enterprise Division.

More pictures from the event over at E-Series and Symbian-Freak.

Do they look happy to you? I would be jumping for joy, look at my self portrait when I got a Nokia E61i:

I need to lay off the espresso.

Props to the guy who made this image. It is crisp, clean and looks like something that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) would actually work on internally.

Click here for the complete high resolution photograph, with hilarious specifications:

- 7.2 mega pixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens
- optical zoom x5 and digital zoom x20
- 3.5 inch VGA 16 million color touch screen
- GPS
- Symbian S70 3rd edition
- graphics accelerator
- bluetooth/WIFI b+g+n/HSDPA

[Via: Just Another Mobile Phone Blog]

Crop below:

Forbes has the heads up that Nokia Siemens will begin buying components for second and third generation base stations from Hon Hai. These new base stations will be deployed in China.

Don’t know who Hon Hai is? You probably know them by their English name: Foxconn

T-Mobile has it for $19.99

T-Mobile (NYSE: DT) also has unlimited internet for $5.99, just call them up and ask for T-Zones

Enough trying to convince you getting to switch, just use who you want and be happy.

[Via: Engadget]

Not the prettiest N95 I’ve seen, but at least it comes pretty close to looking like the original, not to scale of course.

[Via: Engadget]

3 inch touch screen, not bad!

There is the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) PC Suite, The Nokia N Series PC Suite and today Darla Mack just discovered the E Series PC Suite.

S60 is a platform, yet the Multimedia, Enterprise and Mobile Phones Divisions inside Nokia probably didn’t get that memo. This is a huge mess!