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Nokia is getting amped up to launch its application store. Plans laid out during the Forum Nokia Code Camp in Jakarta have Nokia set to launch their Ovi store in May. There are still some glitches to be worked out as they work out a payment plan with their carriers i world wide. It seems that Nokia wants to allow carriers to just add the cost of applications to the users cell phone bill while it has been shown that users want thedom to pay using their credit cards on the spot. These seem to be big issues but ultimately ones that can be resolved quickly and in time for their May opening.

If you surf over to Verizon’s online shop you will find that the Nokia 7205 Intrigue is now available for purchase. This phone has been long awaited and is now ready. The 7205 is sleek and stylish featuring Matrix like looks. The flip phone design has a big PMOLED display on the back as well as all your music controls. The phone will only cost you $180 USD with a 2 yr deal from Verizon and comes with a 2 megapixel camera and your choice of pink or sliver keypads.

Rogers Canada and Nokia just made a special announcement that it is releasing a white E71 to its Canadian market. This will be the slimmest of all mobile phones available from the Canadian cell phone company. The E71 will be available for only $99 when users sign a 3 year cell phone plan and the phone will offer high speed Internet, a 3.2 megapixel camera and up to 8GB of memory. The stylish white color of the E71 should match those cold Canadian winters nicely.

Seems that mobile phone giant Nokia is feeling the pressures of the weak world economy. They are set to layoff some 1700 of their 128,000 worldwide employees. The company has reported a profit drop of 69% in the fourth quarter of 2008 and needs to trim down jobs to cut internal expenses. Corporate shares for the Helsinki, Finland company have fallen 3.8% since the announcement of job cuts and dropping profits.

Just as promised Nokia is set to launch the next big thing in music. Word has leaked that Nokia is getting ready to launch their latest XpressMusic mobile phones. Three new cell phones are slated for release sometime in Q2 of 2009. The projected cell phones are to be: 5330, 5030 and 5730. The 5730 will feature a slide out QWERTY keyboard for handy texting and is modeled after the E75. The 5330 will be a slider phone that will be out in Q3 and will focus on playing music. While the 5030 will be an entry level phone retailing for around 40 Euro. We will keep you posted as more details are released.

Finally Nokia fixes the 5800 XpressMusic and its ready to hit the store shelves once again. They seem to have fixed the issues that plagued this amazing phone. The word from Nokia is that the issue was with configuration within the 5800 XpressMusic and it had issues connecting to the 3G network. Finally they sorted that out and you can now contact Nokia and get your phone switched out to resume you regular downloading of cell phone ringtones and wallpapers. This is certainly good news from the folks at Nokia.