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Nokia has introduced the new C Series mobile, the Nokia C5. As quoted by Nokia, the new Nokia C5 is an affordable smartphone optimized for social networking and sharing. It is built on Symbian S60 3rd edition Feature Pack 2 and it runs Symbian OS v9.3. The C series, “C” for Core, is designed to fit the mid-range market, offering the most amount of features for reasonable prices. It is uncertain how successful this will be for North American and European markets, but time will tell.
 

This night during the 2010 Oscar Award’s, the official iPad TV ad was released. Steve Jobs was also at the event, and was spotted on the red carpet.

The first android phone, of five being released this year on AT&T, is now available- This phone is the Motorola Backflip. The Backflip was showcased at CES 2010 earlier this year and had many people in awe with the peculiar design. The backflip is officially available for $99, after a mail-in rebate and after you sign a two-year contract. The Backflip features quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900 MHz), tri-band 7.2Mbps HSPA 3G (850/1900/2100 MHz), a 3.1″ HVGA touch-screen display, Android OS 1.5 (but you can upgrade this to 2.1), a 5 megapixel camera, Wi-Fi b/g, Bluetooth 2.0, aGPS, 3.5 mm headphone jack, microSD slot (up to 32GB), full QWERTY “back flipping” keyboard, and Motorola’s MOTOBLUR UI.  

For those of you planning on purchasing the WiFi version of the iPad and thinking you can tether your iPhone to it for free 3g, think again. A famous Swedish DJ emailed directly to Steve Jobs with the following email:  

Apple today announced on their website that the Apple iPad will be shipped and available on Saturday, April 3rd, 2010 for the WiFi versions. This, of course, is about a week later than Apple originally stated in their original keynote. Apple originally stated the iPad would be available “late March,” but now you see it is available early April. Apple did not release official word on what the delay was for.  

BBLeaks has just uploaded some pictures that reveals Research in Motion’s newest BlackBerry creation – the currently unnamed BlackBerry touch slider. This device looks to be the love child of the iPhone inspired BlackBerry Storm with the highly successful BlackBerry Bold – Bold 9000 or Bold 9700, let your imagination decide. Not a lot has been leaked about this device yet, besides the fact that it might be coming with a rather small 1050 mAh battery. Some more leaked BlackBerry news would reveal that the new Pearl model, the BlackBerry 9100, will get a dual release. There will be a traditional SureType style keyboard version, as well as a new “mini” qwerty keyboard version.
 

Earlier this morning, the wall street journal reported that Sony Inc. is developing a new lineup of hand held portable devices including a smart phone and a multifunction device that has netbook, e-reader, and PSP functions. The video above will summarize this along with show some concept photos of the devices.
 

Could the above pictures be of the rumored Blackberry slider phone we posted about last week?. The first picture is of the keyboard slid out(?) and the second is of the device with the keyboard closed. From the pictures, the device does appear to have a slide out keyboard, which would make sense because BlackBerry was rumored to be releasing a slider phone. Keep in mind that other people think (and call) this device the Storm 3, but in this article, I will be referring to the device as the Blackberry Slider. In case you did not read our post initially talking about the slider, BoyGeniusReport.com received some information from a “Blackberry source” about a Blackberry Slider phone. You can find out more details of what it supposedly is like in the post.
 

Apparently LG is Microsoft’s company of choice to launch the first Windows Phone 7 Series device. Not a lot of spec information yet, but the phone is suspected to having a 3.7 high resolution capacitive touch screen, a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, and WiFi. Unfortunately, current Windows Mobile 6 phones such as the HTC Touch Pro 2 or the HTC Diamond 2 are unable to have a software upgrade to Windpws Hone 7. This is because Microsoft has set out a strict set of guidelines for devices to officially carry the “Windows Phone 7″ branding and name. Surprisingly, the almighty and powerful HTC HD2 does not quality. Why? Because it does not have the three main buttons Windows Phone 7 requires.

Various companies and websites are giving away free phones including Telus, Crackberry, and PhoneDog. We’re also giving away an exclusive prize for our YouTube followers. All this and more in this special episode of Phoneage. All of the news articles and video links can be found in the YouTube’s video description.

See you guys on Friday!

Today, at about 3:40 pm eastern, Google on the Google Photos Blog and Pickik on their blog announced that Google had bought Pickin.com. Picnik, for those that have never heard of it, is a photo-editing website that you can upload and edit photos. It is integrated to many websites such as Picasa Web Albums, Facebook, Flickr, Yahoo! Mail and Photobucket.