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We’ve just gotten word that Nokia has officially flipped the switch on the Ovi Store everywhere, which means you lucky Aussies, Irish, and Singaporeans just lost your coveted exclusivity. Nokia recommends that you hit up store.ovi.com from your phone’s browser to start pumping thousands of euros into Espoo’s (and, of course, developers’) pockets, so get to it, won’t you? Seriously, the economy isn’t going to stimulate itself.

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Nokia Ovi Store now live everywhere originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 26 May 2009 02:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Who said Nokia doesn’t have a major commitment to North American carriers? We’ve landed news of a whole plethora of Espoo-sourced devices scheduled to hit AT&T over the coming months, and a few in particular caught our eye. Most notably, the Mako (pictured) is unlike anything we’ve ever seen Nokia make, mostly thanks to a side-sliding QWERTY keyboard that doesn’t really resemble any existing hardware. It rides on the same S60 3.2-based platform as the 6650 and E71x, features dual-band HSDPA, a 2.4-inch QVGA display, AGPS, 2 megapixel camera, Video Share, and 128MB of internal storage with microSD expansion. Sadly — this is going to be a dream killer for some folks, we think — it’s only got a 2.5mm headphone jack, which is a step back for multimedia support. This one was at one time targeted for June 5, but if we had to guess, it’s been pushed back — maybe we’re crazy, but we feel like it hasn’t leaked enough to meet that date at this point. Anyhow, looks like this one’s a good foil for that QWERTY swivel allegedly due on Verizon.

Speaking of “this looks nothing like a Nokia,” the Thresher is an ultra-glossy slider that doesn’t quite resemble anything officially announced in other markets. It shares its Series 40 guts with Grouper, which was the codename assigned to the 6750 Mural flip we recently saw hit the FCC. Both devices do HSDPA and AGPS; the Grouper makes do with a 2 megapixel cam, though, while the Thresher steps up to 3.2 with an integrated flash. The Thresher’s signed up for September and the Grouper for July, but as with all of these, it’s anyone’s guess whether those dates will hold.

Finally, the Snapper flip is a lower-end device that we could envision replacing the 6555, lacking the Grouper’s style but still staying strong with triband HSDPA, Bluetooth 2.1, AGPS, and a 2 megapixel camera. This one’s tentatively targeted for August.

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Nokia Grouper, Mako, Snapper, and Thresher rolling deep on AT&T originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 24 May 2009 19:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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AT&T’s been extraordinarily coy about its Android plans, right up through our interview with Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega back in February — but rest assured, the carrier does plan to get in the game, and it might just beat a number of T-Mobile’s planned launches to market. Meet the HTC Lancaster, which kinda looks like a Magic when closed — but open, it takes on more of a traditional Touch Pro-ish form factor for a QWERTY slider than the G1 / Dream. It’s got triband EDGE and 850 / 1900MHz HSPA, AGPS, a 3 megapixel fixed-focus camera, Bluetooth 2.0, microSD expansion, and a “unique HTC social messaging user interface” that we’d assume takes cues from that Hero stuff we’ve been seeing recently. It’s lined up for a full six months of AT&T exclusivity and — according to our materials, anyway — has a target availability date of August 3, meaning we could see this pretty shortly. Unfortunately, there’s a note here that “Initial Lab Entry dates were based on Google Mobile Services (GMS) UI, AT&T standard UI has been requested, which puts schedule in question.” In other words, AT&T wants its fingerprints all over the interface, which risks pushing out the launch — and that’s a double whammy of suck. Follow the break for a larger shot of the phone!

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HTC Lancaster is a QWERTY slider with Android for AT&T originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 24 May 2009 17:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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AT&T has just announced that the Curve 8900 — which it had quoted for an “early summer” release — will be made available both online and in stores starting this Friday. Interested parties who are adding a line or are eligible for a fully discounted upgrade should come equipped with a money clip bearing approximately $200 worth of dead presidents (not including tax) or a credit card with enough cap space to get the job done — just don’t expect any 3G out of the deal. Bold or Curve — tough choice, isn’t it?

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BlackBerry Curve 8900 comes to AT&T this Friday for $199 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 May 2009 12:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dell’s done good things for the mainstream of the netbook market with its Mini 10 series, keeping prices low and quality relatively high, and now it looks like that ever-alluring educational market is next on the table. The new Latitude 2100, which we’ve spotted previously, harbors traditional netbook internals, with kid-friendly perks like colorful lids and a rugged rubberized design, along with options for a carrying handle, shoulder strap, antimicrobial keyboard, touchscreen LCD and a Dell Mobile Computing Station docking cart (which can manage and store 24 of them with a single Ethernet cable and single power cord). The netbook is going to be available today with options for Vista, XP or Ubuntu 8.10, and the base configuration retails at $369 — though we’re unsure how much cost the options like SSD, a 6-cell battery (3-cell is standard), touchscreen or Vista will be. In a perfect world, no child would have to suffer with one of those “spinning hard disks,” corrupting all their Kid Pix masterpieces with every bump.

Update: Video added after the break.

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Dell debuts colorful new Latitude 2100 netbooks for education originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 19 May 2009 00:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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