RIM has launched the Porsche Design P’9981 smartphone from BlackBerry, a BlackBerry smartphone that has, unsurprisingly, been designed by Porsche. It’s not the first time that the middle-class car-manufacturer beloved by the upwardly mobile has turned its hand to mobile phone design, but it is the first time its futuristic style and sharp racing angles have made their way to a BlackBerry. The handset comes running BlackBerry OS 7 featuring an exclusive Porsche Design UI and bespoke augmented reality app. Given that designers and car manufacturers really know what they’re talking [...]

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Nokia introduced the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic touchscreen mobile phone, a compact XpressMusic mobile phone that uses a touch interface for accessing people and content on the brilliantly clear homescreen. The ‘scrolling’ Contacts Bar provides direct access to 20 people and their latest conversations and media updates. The homescreen also features one touch shortcuts to content and popular social networks, like Facebook and MySpace. The Nokia 5530 XpressMusic mobile follows in the footsteps of the top-rated Nokia 5800 XpressMusic mobile, expanding the TouchScreen XpressMusic mobile phone [...]

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