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There has been lots of leaked information with regards to the N900 and Nokia has gone official with the specifications for the device. The N900 will run an ARM Cortex A8 CPU at 600MHz. The device will have 1GB of application memory and 32GB of internal storage expandable to 48GB with a microSD card.

The OS supports 3D graphics with OpenGL ES 2.0 and the N900 will operate on Quad band GSM with GPRS. Flash 9.4 is supported and the touchscreen device has a full-screen Mozilla web browser. The camera on the phone has Carl Zeiss optics and a sliding QWERTY keyboard is featured. The screen has a resolution of 800 x 480 and it will sell for EUR 500 in select areas this fall.

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The latest addition to the Nokia line is the Nokia 5230 that is capable of downloading content from the Nokia Music Store as well as apps and games form Ovi. The device sports A-GPS navigation and the latest Ovi Maps version.

The 5230 has 33 hours of music playback time per charge and in some markets the device will include the Comes With Music service. When the music service is included, the 5230 will sell for 259 EUR and without the service, the device is 149 EUR. The handset will launch in Q4.

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Nokia has announced Nokia Money, a service that allows users to pay bills and other types of payments directly from their mobile phones. Mobile phones are common in developing worlds and the new service will make it easier for users to pay for items.

Nokia says that it is in the process of setting up a network of money accepting locations where users can get cash or add money to their accounts. Sending money to other users is as easy as sending a text message according to Nokia. Nokia Money will be shown for the first time at Nokia World.

Nokia has announced a new navigation edition of the 5530 XpressMusic phone that offers 3G and navigation capability. The nav feature is good for as long as the phone lives without any additional fees, which is a big plus.

The nav edition also ships with the Nokia car kit and voice prompts for Ovi Maps. The car kit included with the phone features a car charger, car holder, rotating swivel adapter, and an easy mount. The GPS features traffic update, weather forecasts, and 3D landmarks. The handset will hit in Q3 at about $405 in Europe, no word on a U.S. version at this time.

Nokia is getting ready to officially unveil and announced the RX-51 N900 Rover phone in a few weeks at the Nokia World conference. Ahead of that official announcement, Mobile Review got hands on a pre-release model and recorded the molestation with photos.

The publication didn’t spill all the beans and risk the wrath of Nokia, but you can get a decent idea what the device is all about. The screen is a resistive touch unit and it uses an ARM Cortex 8 CPU, the same processor type in the Palm Pre.

The handset is powered by Maemo and run by Freemantle. We can also tell by the images that the device uses a slider style keyboard in addition to its touch sensitivity. That is really all the specs we have at this point.