Even if there is no celebration or holiday, Google is offering free Google Nexus One or Motorola Droid to developers. How come?

The deal is not so simple and free. The developers will receive the smartphones with only one condition : they need to create an application that reaches 3.5 star rating and downloaded at least 5,000 times. Rumors are saying that Google has already sent emails to developers in the US, Canada, Europe, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

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Puma is better known as a sportswear maker, but this time it’s teamed up with Sagem to produce a solar-powered smartphone known only as the Puma Phone.

This is pretty unexpected news, considering there haven’t been any announcements leading up to this moment. At first glance, the Puma Phone has a pretty interesting design, with a large touchscreen and a solar panel on the backside, that allows you to recharge the device when you don’t have where to plug it in.

Conceived by Sagem, the surprising handheld features a 2.8 inch QVGA TFT capacitive panel, a 3.2 megapixel camera with LED flash and 6x digital zoom, GPS and A-GPS, a secondary VGA front camera and a compass.

The above features don’t look half bad, do they? The problem is Puma’s smartphone features a signature Puma OS, instead of the popular platforms of today, and that could be a problem for people who use a large number of applications to handle their tasks. Puma and Sagem definitely have their work cut out for them as far as the OS is concerned.

The Puma Phone comes with a small 880mAh battery that’s not gonna hold you for very long, so you will have to put that solar panel to good use. Judging from the T-Mobile logo in the above photo, Puma has already found a carrier for its smartphone. Now we wait.

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Nokia probably realized its 32 Gb X6 smartphone was a little to expensive for most and launched a more affordable version of its handheld.

Launched in November of 2009, the 32 Gb Nokia X6 had a price tag of $676 and that didn’t really convince people to line up and buy it. So the Finnish giant came up with a cheaper, 16 Gb version of the X6.

Featuring the same 3.2 inch touchscreen as its 32 Gb twin, runs Symbian and comes in the same color variants: black, white, white with pink, and white with yellow. It doesn’t include the Nokia music service, but you can probably overlook that.

The 16 Gb Nokia X6 includes a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, dual LED flash and promises 18 days of stand-by time and 11.5 hours of continuous talk time. It also comes with the OVI maps navigation system and preinstalled games like Spore and Asphalt 4.

Nokia has announced the 16 Gb X6 will hit the mobile market this quarter, but hasn’t made any announcements regarding its price.

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Yes, we all wish smartphones were cheaper these days, but most of the time they get more features and an inflated price. But the Sciphone N19 really is a cheap Android-supporting smartphone.

Featuring the Android Operating System version 1.5, a 2.8-inch touchscreen LCD display, WI-FI, Bluetooth 2.0 and a whole lot of other useful functions, the Sciphone N19 sells for just $135. How’s that for a bargain? What, still not convinced? Take a look at the full list of features after the jump

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Nokia is going to launch free turn-by-turn GPS application for smartphones. The navigation service will work with Nokia Ovi Maps which contain new versions of maps from all around the world in the following scheme : detailed maps for 100+ countries, detailed traffic info for more than 10 countries, walk and drive navigation with voice guidance for 74 countries, 46 languages.

Here are some of the Nokia’s Smartphones which feature GPS navigation:

Nokia X6
Nokia N97 Mini
Nokia E72
Nokia E55
Nokia E52
Nokia 6730 classic
Nokia 6710 Navigator
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic
Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition
Nokia 5230

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