NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nokia Oyj hopes Apple Inc.’s highly anticipated iPhone will boost consumer appetite for pricier mobile phones with features such as music and video, Nokia’s Chief Financial Officer said on Monday.So-called smart phones allow users to surf the Web, take photos, enjoy music and video and sometimes games, in addition to making calls. Many are priced above $400, before subsidies by mobile carriers.

“The (U.S.) consumer … hasn’t had a lot of choice to go out and purchase these kind of higher-end, feature-rich multimedia devices. If that can help that market grow, I think that gives us an opportunity,” Nokia CFO Rick Simonson said at the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit.

The iPhone is Apple’s biggest foray yet into the cutthroat $145 billion consumer electronics industry. Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs has set a goal of selling 1 million units in calendar 2008.

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PARIS/HELSINKI — — Nokia [NOK-N], the world’s top mobile handset maker, lifted its market share outlook for the second quarter on Monday, saying it expected to have more than 36 per cent of the global cellphone market. The Finnish firm is benefiting from growing demand in emerging markets, like China and India, where it has a strong position.

Shares in Nokia were up 4.6 per cent at 19.26 euros at 1:19 p.m. GMT. It had earlier forecast that market share would remain at the 36 per cent level.

Nokia said in a statement it expected its phone shipments in April-June to be positively impacted as excess device inventory in the market — which held back its market share at the start of the year — had sufficiently cleared.

Nokia’s lead on the global market over closest rival Motorola [MOT-N]grew to its widest in years in the beginning of 2007 as the U.S. firm’s handset prices plunged when it tried to hold market share against competition from Nokia.

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This is another phone that leaked together with the N81 8 GB slider. This is a candy bar phone that will be the successor to the N73. Here are the specs.

- quadband with HSDPA
- stereo bluetooth
- WIFI
- built in GPS
- TV out
- FM radio
- microSD card support
- S60v3 FP1
- 2.4 inch QVGA 16 million color screen
- 5 mega pixel Carl Zeiss camera with Xenon flash, 20x digital zoom and integrated camera protection.
- front CIF camera
- measures 112×50.2×17.3 mm
- weighs 120 grams
- internal 100 MB memory
- microSD support (bundled with 1 GB)
- Talk time: GSM: 280min, WCDMA: 180min (Target)/Standby time: GSM: 270hrs WCDMA: 250hrs (Target)
- available Q4 2007

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You read that right, Nckia not Nokia. This is yet another fake out of China, but this bad boy has a 3000 mAh battery!

The phone comes with a leather case and I must say the phone actually looks quite good. Now check this out…It has a 3000 mAh battery which gives the phone a talk time of 1200-1600 minutes and standby time of 2000-2800 hours. That’s just crazy…

In case you’ve been wondering which Nokia clamshell device is right for you, Nokia N75 or N76, the following photos (found thanks to Darla Mack) may be somewhat helpful. Both Nokia N75 and N76 are powerful smartphones (”multimedia computers”) and run Symbian OS with S60 UI on top of it. Furthermore, both devices have very similar specs, with the only difference being in the size. RAZR fans will most probably go for the N76, but then again N75 will also find its buyers.

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Nokia Corp. unveiled the largest order in its history yesterday to supply mobile phones in China in a deal worth $2.5-billion (U.S.). The order from China Postel, China’s largest mobile phone wholesaler, to supply handsets this year represents a milestone for Nokia…via Design