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Its been rumoured and somewhat announced for sometime. In fact Sony Ericsson told us all about it at the Mobile World Congress but now its officially here. The Satio is a slick touchscreen device with a 12.1 megapixel camera and a Xenon Flash. It supports all the latest network connection and high speed Internet. The phone also has a huge 3.5″ touchscreen display. The Satio will run on the S60 5th edition Symbian OS that already has tons of applications available for it. It is slated to be released this October in 3 different colors: Black, Silver and Bordeaux.

Samsung has just unveiled its latest reincarnation of the wildly popular F480 touchscreen phone. The Samsung F480 has now sold more than 5 million units worldwide and Samsung hopes that number will continue to rise with the new gaming edition. While the specs on the new F480 Gaming Edition are the same as the standard version it does come loaded with a bunch of cool games. Coming pre-installed with “Pacman”, “Who wants to be a millionaire 2009″ and “Millenium Poker.” It will be available in mid-June across Europe and will cost around €399.

Even though the world economy is struggling it hasn’t slowed the mobile music industry down. Research company Juniper is reporting strong growth in streamed mobile music services and full-track downloads. The growth will be so strong in fact that sales will rise from the current $2.5 billion mark to $5.5 billion by 2013. As more music is released to mobile music websites and ringtone sales remain strong there will be a continued market growth. The study also found that the most revenue will come from Asian countries and the Western Europe.

Rumours say that Nokia has at least four more devices heading to AT&T in 2009. If the rumours are true Nokia will launch the Mako, Grouper, Thresher and Snapper sometime in the second half of this year. The Mako is a QWERTY messaging phone will all sorts of bells and whistles. The Nokia Grouper is a clamshell phone that is very similar to the Motorola flip phone. The Nokia Thresher is a slider phone with an very sleek design. While the Nokia Snapper is another classic clamshell phone. More on these phones as it becomes available.

In a clever move by the Vatican, the Pope himself is launching a new iPhone app. While we are sure the Pope is not behind the new app it is a great move by his organization to keep his followers up to speed while on the go. The new app is called Pope2you/H2Onews and will feature audio and video from the Vatican Television Center and Vatican Radio, travels and speeches of Benedict XVI, as well as key international ecclesiastical events. It will be released in eight languages once it is released. It just goes to show you how big the Apple iPhone is getting when even the Pope gets on board.

Crafty iPhone App developers who received the new SDK 3.0 for the new iPhone found a hidden gem. Inside the the kit was an iPhone 2.1 icon which is the first visual of the coming iPhone. The image doesn’t show anything new and it seems that the design will remain pretty much the same. Since there are no visible changes from the leaked icons we have to assume that all the upgrades will happen under the hood. Since we are only treated to a few icon photo of the new iPhone there is no information as to what those upgrades could be. Keep checking back for more news on the new iPhone.

Nokia has made it official with a press release, the Ovi store has opened its virtual doors. The Ovi Store is available now in a variety of languages including: English, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish. The new Nokia app store supports over 50 Nokia devices and users can purchase apps and mobile content using credit cards or simply have them charged to their mobile account. As the year progresses Nokia is expected to add support for additional languages and new features too. Rumour has it there are 20,000 items available in the store as of today.

T-Mobile USA is ready to add yet another Samsung mobile phone to their already impressive lineup. The news of the Samsung T239 comes shortly after T-Mobile announced the Samsung T349. The T239 will be a entry level slider phone that comes loaded with dual-band GSM connectivity, 177×220 pixels screen, Bluetooth, myFaves and Web2go support, and VGA camera. To keep the phone flying off the shelves it will only cost $59.99 on the pay-as-you-go basis (prepaid) or for free with any new contract from T-Mobile USA.

The number of apps for the iPhone is just staggering and for daters on the go is an upgraded version of the BumpChat app. BumpChat is an application that allows users to mingle and hook up right from their iPhone or iPod Touch. The new update to the app is labeled v1.1 and sees both performance and usability upgrades. The new version has larger profile pictures, fixes distance-from-me searches, and adds the ability to tell people near you about what you’re doing. This all makes it easy to find true love while you are killing time standing in line at the post office or anywhere else.

The Nokia N97 is the mobile phone makers flagship phone and its no surprise that there are many companies out there trying to duplicate the cell phone on a budget. At last count there were at least five other “N97″ mobile phones on the market. The cheap knock-off make little attempt to hide the fact that thy are copying a Nokia phone having names like Nckia and Nokla. Some phones don’t even bother to copy a name and just write N97 on top of its case. As technology gets better and better its get more difficult to spot a fake. Make sure you look carefully at any phone you may buy and verify its the real deal.