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Nokia today officially announced the Nokia N8 Symbian^3 powered smartphone.

The Nokia N8

Sepcifications for the handset include:

• 12 Megapixel Camera with Xenon flash.
• High definition video recording.
• 3.5 inch capacitive touchscreen.
• HDMI connector for viewing content on a HDTV.
• 16GB of buit in storage expandable to 48GB with the SD card slot and a 32GB Micro SD card.
• Multitouch gestures.
• Ovi Store and Nokia Maps turn by turn GPS

The handset is going to be made available in 5 different colours at a cost of €370.

For more info and some pictures taken with the 12 Megapixel camera hit the source links below. I like it!

Source: Nokia Blog, Nokia Blog sample shots, YouTube

There have been 2 “first glimpse” videos released featuring Symbian^4′s UI:

Homescreen UI:

Gallery UI:

The new UI looks very finger friendly and touch centric but these early videos lack some polish. Hopefully it will look more polished once released and there is no reason to think it won’t as these to seem to be very early previews.

Source: Fiercewireless

In it’s Q4 results, Nokia seem to have bounced back after having a few poor quarters. Sales of smartphones were up in Q4 of 2009 (12% increase over 2008). Estimated market share has increased by 2% to 39% of global phone sales.

Sources: Nokia (pdf), GSMArena

Following Google with free navigation (US Only for Android), Nokia have now released its GPS software for free to all with a Nokia smartphone.

Nokia has today announced plans to release a new version of Ovi Maps for itssmartphones that includes high-end walk and drive navigation at no extra cost,available for download at www.nokia.com/maps. This move has the potential to nearly double the size of the current mobile navigation market. The new version of Ovi Maps includes high-end car and pedestrian navigation features, such as turn-by-turn voice guidance for 74 countries, in 46languages, and traffic information for more than 10 countries, as well asdetailed maps for more than 180 countries.

For more info  and to grab it now, visit http://nokia.com/maps

Sources: Nokia Reuters

Mobile-ent.biz has reported that Nokia will be holding a press conference citing “Big news” on it’s Ovi services.

Nokia Ovi Event in London

The event will start at 9:30 UK time on the 21st of January.

More here (via mobile-ent.biz)