I had the chance to review the Nokia 7500 Prism. As a follower of the nomenclature Nokia commonly employs, the “7″ series is now dedicated to the fashionista line of phones which are slightly more expensive yet seem to claim similar features with the classic series. The 7500 is no exception, boasting a very unique real estate design. The Prism’s body is designed to look jagged and geometric, thus resembling a precious stone. The middle button is actually not a joystick, but a button designed to move with the thumb presses.

The 7500 runs on the Series 40 platform. One of the newest features highlighted in the Prism is the new Nokia Sensor app which serves as a social networking tool for Nokia phone owners:

Nokia Sensor is designed to promote spontaneous communication between users in sociable settings such as bars, nightclubs and railway platforms, business functions etc. Bluetooth wireless technology is used to detect the presence of other suitably enabled mobile phones located within a radius of 10 meters.

As such, this makes the Prism an added attraction in bars and parties as it becomes an interesting conversation piece for other phone owners who want to meet up within Bluetooth radius.

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The guys from The Register reports that Nigel Clifford, CEO from Symbian addressed the crowd, calling everyone neanderthals at the recent Symbian Show.

Yes, we’re cavemen, said Clifford, only cavemen who want to take our environment with us. “Connected cavemen”, in fact.[Read]

The move came as a creative expression to point out that despite the fact that technology allows us to stay on the go, we are still, by all means, cavemen that need to do caveman sorts of things like stay in our caves and watch television.

The only difference is … now we do it through our mobile phone.

Booga! Ooga booga!

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Apple has their iTunes Store. Nokia has their Music Store. Using Microsoft DRM for their copy protection via Windows Media Player, Nokia phone owners can now buy songs over the Internet. Here are some features of the new Nokia Music Store:

• songs in WMA format at 192 kbps
• buy songs either OTA from your mobile phone or via your computer
• using Ovi, you can choose tag or bookmark favorite songs via mobile and download them later from your computer to save data costs
• transfer songs to and from your computer and mobile phone (I am still not aware of the extent the Microsoft DRM works in this case — would songs downloaded via the Music Store be compatible with the Microsoft Zune then?)
• individual songs will cost 1 Euro and albums will cost 10 Euros
• unlimited streaming of tracks over the Internet
• Nokia PC Client includes the conduit allowing you to rip CDs to your computer as well as directly to your mobile phone
• full synchronization between the Music Store account, your desktop PC and your Nokia mobile phone (I am not sure if the client will be Mac OS X compatible)

The Nokia Music Store will be available to the public this coming fourth quarter of 2007.

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Developer Zero36 has released free mobile slot machine apps for your Symbian phone. Here are the product details courtesy of Mobile Top Soft Boards:

TreasureNile is a 5 reel, 9 payline, and 9 coin (one coin per payline) slot machine. It has a wild symbol, a scatter symbol, and a Progressive Jackpot. You only qualify for the Progressive Jackpot if you bet the maximum bet of nine coins per spin.

MajorMillions is a 5 reel, 15 payline, and 15 coin (one coin per payline) slot machine. It has a wild multiplier symbol, a scatter symbol, and a Progressive Jackpot.

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