Cellphone Star

pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/07/nokiaand.jpg” width=”500″ height=”373″ style=”display:block;” /From London’s ema href=”http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2009/jul/06/nokia-mobile-internet-phones”Guardian/a/em, we get this surprising report: Nokia, (recent) full owner of Symbian, is making an Android touchscreen phone, set for unveiling at a conference in September. This would be strange!/p pIt’s not just that the rumor if totally out of left fieldmdash;and besides, baseball lingo probably isn’t appropriate for a British story about a Finnish company. It’s that, on the surface, it just doesn’t really fit with Nokia’s MO. First and foremost, we’ve got the issue of Symbian, Nokia’s still-developed-though-kinda-old-seeming OS, which they finally fully gobbled up last year in a multi-hundred-million dollar deal, and for which they’ve just opened a brand-new app store called Ovi./p pThen we’ve got these rumors about what the recently a href=”http://gizmodo.com/5301187/intel-and-nokia-partner-to-make-future-something+or+other”announced/a Nokia/Intel collaboration could possibly be. Many people see a tablet with an alleged in-house OS called a href=”http://gizmodo.com/5260260/nokias-leaked-future-tablet-screenshot-large-smartphone”Maemo Harmattan/amdash;odd and mysterious, sure, but decidedly not [...]

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