Nokia has announced a broadcast TV receiver for mobile phones. It's designed to work with the forthcoming Nokia N8 smartphone and any other Symbian^3 devices that support the USB-on-the-go feature. The accessory should be in the shops later this year with a price tag of around €40 (which isn't far off £40 by the time you've added VAT).
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It looks as though the Nokia N8 smartphone will be dispatched to UK customers from 23rd September, according to a sponsored link on Google. However, there's currently no pre-order option on the Nokia UK website and there's been no official confirmation from the company yet.
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The Swype text input application, which recently hit the headlines when a Samsung Galaxy S user managed to beat the SMS world record, is now available for a number of Nokia mobile phones.
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Research company Gartner says worldwide mobile device sales reached 325.6 million units in the second quarter of 2010, a 13.8% increase year-on-year. 19% of all those sales were smartphones, up 50.5% from Q2 2009.
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This week's edition of The Fonecast is now online. Iain Graham, James Rosewell and Mark Bridge take their usual look at mobile industry headlines from the last seven days, covering high-level departures, m-payments and iPhone jailbreaking. There's also a conversation with Anthony Erwin, founder of mobile dating and social networking company StreetSpark.
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