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This week Nokia has revealed a part of its future plans: the N9, a MeeGo-based smartphone with last year’s hardware specs, but with a gorgeous button-less design, a great UI, nice multitasking capabilities, and a beautiful touchscreen. Soon after that, the Nokia Sea Ray has been leaked, the first Nokia Windows Phone 7 device that should become available for purchase by the end of the year. Now let’s take a look at another Nokia device: an Android-poweredsmartphone.

The Nokia Android device follows the same design pattern as the N9 and Sea Ray, and I’m talking about that pillow shape which impressed many folks. At first sight it’s hard to understand why Nokia works on an Android smartphonewhen it has to focus on both MeeGo and WP7, but the answer is simple: in case the Windows Phone 7 platform fails, then Nokia has not one, but two back-up plans.

Android smartphones are selling better and better, and soon they will overtake Symbian as the most popular mobile platform, and it’s open source therefore it can explore the operating system whenever it wants on whatever it wants.

This Nokia device is powered by Android 2.3 Gingerbread and it seems like its part of the C-series though that’s not that important for the moment.

The sad part about this story (from Nokia’s point of view) is that Eldar Murtazin was once again right. I remember back when he tweeted that if Nokia’s deal with Microsoft will be a fiasco, then Nokia will finally switch to Android so this kinda contradicts the Finnish officials who’ve said that the Russian blogger’s rumors are getting less accurate.

There is no doubt that this Nokia Android smartphone is only a prototype and that the Finnish-based company is testing the environment, but Espoo should learn how to keep a secret. It already said that it will follow the Apple secrecy-based policy, but that WP7 device was leaked in no time and we know almost everything about it.

Check out the photos below to see for yourself!

RIM's Wi-Fi tablet can link with BlackBerry smartphone

BlackBerry Bridge eliminates the need to subscribe to a wireless carrier


TORONTO, CANADA: The BlackBerry tablet PlayBook will hit markets in India and 15 other countries within the next month, Research In Motion (RIM)...

The Waterloo-based Canadian company announced it plans to roll out the Playbook "in an additional 16 markets around the world over the next 30 days.''

Launched in the US and Canada last April, the tablet will reach India, Britain, France, Australia, the UAE and 10 other countries in the next 30 days, RIM said.

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Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Italy, Spain, Germany, Holland, Mexico, Indonesia, Venezuela and Columbia will be the other countries to get the RIM tablet.

The RIM announcement said, "The BlackBerry PlayBook is the world's first professional-grade tablet, delivering industry leading performance, uncompromised web browsing, true multitasking, HD multimedia, advanced security features, out-of-the-box enterprise support and a robust development environment.''

Unlike the rival iPad which sold like hot cakes on its launch in April 2010, theBlackBerry tablet sold just 50,000 copies in the first week of its launch April 19. Sales at the end of its first month on the market were put at 250,000 units.

According to analysts, RIM is expected to sell half a million tablets by the end of its current quarter.

India has over a million BlackBerry users and RIM will target them as the Wi-Fi tablet can link with the BlackBerry smart phone through BlackBerry Bridge without the need to subscribe to a wireless carrier.

Though Indian prices are not known at this stage, the seven-inch, Wi-Fi-only PlayBook comes in three models in the range of $499 to $699, featuring 16, 32 and 64 gigabytes of storage capacity.

RIM has said that it will launch 3G and 4G versions that run on wireless networks later this year. The new versions will also offer Android as well as native email.

Meanwhile, there was no respite for the troubled Canadian wireless giant as its stock further slipped 2.26 percent to close at $35.82 on the Toronto Stock Exchange Friday.

The stock is not even one-fourth of its value of $150 seen just before the onset of the global meltdown, fuelling rumours that RIM could be snapped up by Microsoft or Apple.