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The Nokia N95 , the only smartphone to come close to rivaling the iPhone , has called in reinforcements in its battle with the Jesus phone. The new Nokia N95 comes in an all-black design with 8GB of built-in storage and a new luminous 2.8-inch QVGA display. Add that to its predecessor's killer features — a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics , GPS, Wi-Fi, HSDPA and its 2-way slide keyboard — and you have one hell of a device. And you thought the iPhone was expensive . Nokia N81 N-Gage is dead, long live N-Gage. While gaming isn't the Nokia N81 's (430 EUR/$590, Q4 2007) only feature, it is part of the company's revival of the long-dead gaming platform. With features including non-US HSDPA, Wi-Fi, 8GB of storage, a new 3D multimedia menu, and the ability to buy and manage games and music from the Nokia Music Store and N-Gage service, the N81 is a do-it-all pocketable powerhouse.

HELSINKI (Reuters) - After hitting alarm clock makers and camera manufacturers, the cell phone industry has a new target -- personal navigation device makers. Handset makers see navigation as one of the next major value-adding offerings and even at this very early stage, analysts say the annual market for phone navigation is worth hundreds of millions of euros. While a few years ago personal navigation device makers like Dutch TomTom shrugged off possible rivalry from the handset industry, they have now acknowledged the potential risk to their business. Reuters Pictures Photo The world's top handset maker Nokia started to sell its first navigation phone Nokia N95 a month ago, and other top vendors are expected to follow shortly, hoping to make 2007 the breakthrough year for cell phone navigation. The N95, with a 700-euro price tag , is not in reach of the masses despite first reports showing strong sales, but the Finnish firm aims to bring GPS positioning chips to a wide array of ...