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The Nokia C7 has begun shipping, and it's aimed at users who want a budget phone that's still packed with multimedia features. It offers a 3.5-inch AMOLED touchscreen display, 8.0-megapixel camera, 1GB of ROM, 256MB of RAM, and 8GB of internal memory. Video after the break. Click here for more pictures.

In conjunction with the release of the C7, Nokia is heading a contest on Facebook to find the most active user of the social-networking site.

Designed by Patrick Hyland, the Nokia E-Cu is an innovative cell phone that can be charged from the heat in your pocket. In other words, "an integrated thermogenerator converts heat from any source into electrical energy to charge the phone, whether while being carried in your pocket or placed on top of a radiator." Click here for more pictures.

I'm not so sure the increasing prices (and demand) for copper will ever make this phone a reality, but in the meantime it's nice to see someone use the Nokia name for good. Unlike, err, Nokia.

Limited to just 14-units worldwide, this ultra rare Star Trek Communicator Nokia phone is "intended to simulate the iconic voice comms devices of the original TV series." Video after the break. Click here for more pictures.

Hardware-wise, it's based on the somewhat less exciting N76 and comes with an external LCD and a trifecta of lights on its front, both protected by a big and heavy brass grill.

From afar, this Nokia 2330 is barely recognizable, but once you get a closer look, you'll realize that the handset has received a complete steampunk makeover. Best of all, it still works. Click here for more pictures.

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Though not officially announced, a batch of newly leaked images purportedly show the Nokia N9 QWERTY slider phone. A Nokia insider "ran this handset's serial number through an internal Nokia system and has confirmed it as a Nokia prototype." Video after the break. Click here for more pictures.

Remember this scandalous little leak from back in June? It looks to have been validated today, as imagery of Nokia's MeeGo (or is it Symbian 4?)-powered N9 QWERTY slider has emerged over in China.

Despite Nokia's reputation for producing consumer-oriented phones, the Kinetic is purely strange. Essentially, it has an "electromagnet that can shift weights in the curved base, causing the phone to tilt upright on cue, that cue being an incoming call." Click here to see more pictures.

It's intended to be a playful feature, though I can see it being useful in a quiet office where even vibrating phones are sometimes an irritant to others.

A leaked picture of the Nokia N98 has surfaced, revealing "distinctive tapered edges with contrast coloring, moving through the black bezel-sporting display." Plus, there's also a QWERTY keypad. We'll update you with more information as it's released.

Now, we don't live anywhere near Espoo, so we can't tell you whether this was just a precursor to the N8, which lost its physical keyboard and N9x naming scheme to become the beastly media phone we know today.

The Nokia N8 was officially announced yesterday, and "here is the first HD video sample captured in 720p; this amazing footage of a dancer on a rooftop has not been enhanced or tweaked in any way." Continue reading to watch.

This, combined with pleas from Nokia to please, please wait before passing judgment on its inauspiciously leaked prototype phone, is part of a rehabilitation effort after early reports claimed the software, Symbian N^3, didn't feel finished.

The Nokia N8 has officially been announced. Available in a variety of colors, this handset features a 3.5-inch capacitive touchscreen, 12.0-megapixel camera, 16GB of built-in memory, HDMI-out, microSD expansion, and Ovi Maps. Videos after the jump. Click here for first picture in gallery.

...availability pegged for "select markets" in Q3 for E370 ($494) without any subsidies involved. Not like it'll have any other competition up in its grille by that point or anything...

Amazon has the unlocked Nokia E71 for just $199.99 shipped, originally priced at $449.99. This 3G-enabled phone "includes integrated Wi-Fi connectivity (802.11b/g) for accessing open networks at work, at home, and on the road from a variety of wireless hotspots." Product page. Video review after the break.

Other features include a 3.2-megapixel camera/camcorder, Bluetooth for handsfree devices and stereo music streaming, MicroSD memory expansion (up to 8 GB), built-in A-GPS and Nokia Maps application, and up to 10.5 hours of talk time on standard GSM networks. Free Ovi Maps Navigation.