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Here is a new potential gift for Christmas shopping season, Motorola will be releasing a new version of its popular RAZR V8 handset. The so called “RAZR2 Antique Rose” brings more than a new color to the table.
Featuring a stainless steel internal frame and tempered glass on its external screen for increased resistance to scratches, the Motorola RAZR2 V8 Antique Rose boasts having CrystalTalk technology, a 2.2-inch QVGA display and 2 megapixel camera. Read our Motorola RAZR2 V8 Luxury Edition review to learn more about its other features.
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Nokia today announced the Nokia N97. Designed for the needs of Internet-savvy consumers, the Nokia N97 combines a large 3.5″ touch display with a full QWERTY keyboard, providing an ‘always open’ window to favorite social networking sites and Internet destinations.To back up the claim they’ve dropped in HSDPA, WiFi, and Bluetooth radios, A-GPS, a 3.5-mm headjack, 32GB of onboard memory with microSD expansion (for up to 48GB total capacity), and a battery capable of up to 1.5 days of continuous audio playback or 4.5-hours video. 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss glass and “DVD quality” video capture at 30fps, too. The specs are certainly impressive, let’s see if the S60 5th Edition OS can support it. The N97 will launch with a retail price set at around €550 ($693) excluding subsidies and taxes, phone to ship in H1 2009.
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Verizon on Tuesday became the first American carrier to offer the Samsung Omnia. The Omnia will be priced at $249.99, after a $70 mail-in rebate and the signing of a 2-yr contract agreement. The carrier doesn’t provide full specifications for its version of the handset but confirms a very close similarity to the original version previously limited to Europe and Korea. While switching to CDMA and EVDO, the Verizon Omnia continues to carry a 3.2-inch, 400×240 touch display with haptic (vibration) feedback and a customized on-screen keyboard; a touchpad at the bottom lets users control normal d-pad functions without losing precision.
It also provides a five-megapixel camera with an LED flash, Wi-Fi and more advanced media playback than Microsoft offers with support for DivX and XviD video along with regular media formats. Storage isn’t mentioned, but in foreign versions usually combines at least 4GB of built-in storage with a microSDHC card slot.

AT&T launched the Motorola Karma QA1 messaging/multimedia slider.The phone is a variant of the CDMA Hint and features a 2.5 inch QVGA resolution landscape display, quadband GSM/EDGE, dualband HSDPA access, 3.5mm headphone jack, Bluetooth with stereo audio support, messaging client with social networking access, GPS support, QWERTY keyboard, 2.0 megapixel camera with video recorder and speakerphone. The phone is now available for $129.99 after a new 2 year agreement and required data/messaging plan before an additional $50 mail-in rebate, bringing the total to $79.99