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In April, Moscow-based blogger Eldar Murtazin posted a review of Nokia’s forthcoming N8 smartphone on his site mobile-review.com. Nokia asked for its return for weeks to no avail. Now they’re calling on the Russian police to get their phone back.

Murtazin wrote the post from a working prototype he acquired, and he was not particularly impressed with what he saw, though he did admit that he was was working from an early, pre-production unit. Nokia initially requested the phone’s return in an official blog post titled “one of our children is missing,” which is kind of a weird way to talk about your lost prototype phone.

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What makes your smartphone smart? One key ingredient is the application processor that enables the devices to run the applications that are often so impressive.

The makers of these processors—and indeed, the companies that make the designs that go into these processors—keep adding new features. At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) show, many were showing off their products and talking about where mobile processors would be going in the future.

Sometimes the applications processors get what you might call brand names: Qualcomm’s Snapdragon, Texas Instruments’ OMAP, and Nvidia’s Tegra come to mind. But often they are fairly anonymous components, identified only by part number or speed, if that. Sti

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HP and T&T just announced the iPaq Glisten, a GSM Windows Mobile 6.5 Smartphone that uses an AMOLED display. Apart from the typical Windows Mobile 6.5 features, the Glisten features an unified inbox, which is not new on competing platforms. It comes pre-loaded with the Facebook app for Windows Mobile and will cost $299 with a two year contract, which is the upper-range. If you really need decent mobile office support, that may be something to look at (this is a phone for “pros”).

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