T-Mobile USA’s Nokia 5230 Nuron has just been officially announced as the first US carrier-supported Nokia handset to come with free turn-by-turn navigation (Ovi Maps 3.0).

The smartphone even has maps of the US, Canada and Mexico preloaded, and it allows users to access other 180 maps.

Like the European version of the Nokia 5230, T-Mobile USA’s Nuron features 3G, a 3.2 inches touchscreen display with 360 x 640 pixels, full HTML browser, personal and work e-mail, 3.5mm headset jack, 3.2MP camera and MicroSD card support.



Nokia hasn’t announced the price of 5230 Nuron, but we’ve heard T-Mobile will offer it for as low as $69.99 on contract. The handset should be available “in the coming weeks”, when the HTC HD2 and the Motorola Cliq XT will probably also be launched by T-Mobile.

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After officially unveiling the Nokia 5230 Nuron for T-Mobile USA, Nokia has made a pretty important announcement: it has partnered with Skype to offer Skype for Symbian through the company’s Ovi Store, making it available to more than 200 million smartphone users around the world.

Skype for Symbian is free and allows Nokia phone users to use it via Wi-Fi, as well as via a mobile data connection (3G is recommended; GPRS and EDGE should also work, although some Skype features work best on 3G only).

Like the other mobile versions of the app, Skype for Symbian features free Skype-to-Skype calling, cheap calls and texts to phone abroad, instant messaging, file transfers and so on.



If you don’t find Skype for Symbian in the Ovi Store, you ca get it here.

The list of Skype-compatible Nokia phones is quite long and currently includes more than 20 devices (Symbian ^1 is required):

* Nokia 5530
* Nokia 5320
* Nokia 5800
* Nokia 6210 Navigator
* Nokia 6210
* Nokia 6220
* Nokia E51
* Nokia E63
* Nokia E66
* Nokia E71
* Nokia E72
* Nokia E90
* Nokia N78
* Nokia N79
* Nokia N81
* Nokia N81 8GB
* Nokia N82
* Nokia N85
* Nokia N95 8GB
* Nokia N96
* Nokia N97
* Nokia N97 mini
* Nokia X6

“Symbian enables us to bring smartphones to more and more people and ensures scale for our solutions and compelling services, such as Skype. We’re seeing around 1.5 million downloads a day on Ovi Store now and believe that the Skype client for Nokia smartphones will have wide appeal to Symbian users,” declared Jo Harlow, Senior Vice President for Smartphones, Nokia.

Skype for Symbian will also be available for phones made by other manufacturers than Nokia, including Sony Ericsson.

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If you remember the Nokia X6 then you know is a nice and seductive device which people around Europe seem to like a lot and perhaps you’ll have a chance to get one. The handset is being made available to the North American market through Nokia USA and you can pre-ordered it here.

The Nokia X6 unlocked will set you back $455 and offers a few colors to choose from as well as a 3.2-inch capacitive touch screen with 640 x 360 resolution, 16.7 million colors, Accelerometer and up to 16 GB internal memory. It also comes with Bluetooth 2.0, A-GPS, Ovi Maps 3.0, a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics and dual LED flash and many more goodies.

If you visit the pre-order page for the Nokia X6 you’ll notice that it doesn’t mention anything about a ‘Comes With Music’ requirement. So go on and check it out Nokia lovers, and if you buy one let us know how much you like or dislike this handset.

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