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Here's a video of the newly announced Nokia E72 that has recently appeared on the Nokia's website:

Today Nokia has officially unveiled its two new handsets, the E72 and 5530 XpressMusic at the company's Connection 09 event in Singapore.

The E72 is a successor to the popular E71, and includes a 5Mpix camera, a 3.5mm headphone jack, integrated compass, 10.2Mbps HSDPA support, and an optical navigation pad; all for €350 (about $489) when it's released in the third quarter of this year.

The Samsung Finesse (SCH-r810) is available from MetroPCS for a while now, and last week has been released on another regional carrier - Cellular South. The company offers it for $199.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and with a new 2-year contract.

Features:

• 3.2" touchscreen;
• Samsung’s TouchWIZ UI;
• 2Mpix camera;
• 3G radio;
• Full HTML web browser;
• Media player;
• Bluetooth connectivity support;
• 150 MB of internal memory;
• microSD (up to 16 GB);
• Measures 4.

FCC has recently revealed a new low-end Motorola-branded cell phone called W165/W172. However, we're not sure if it's actually manufactured by Motorola, since the producer listed in the FCC documents is Cheng Uei Precision Industry of Taiwan is, and the company applying for FCC approval is Brightstar. Furthermore, Motorola has not announced this phone yet.

Specwise is't a simple GSM 850/1900 monoblock phone with FM radio (on W172), 2.

Since the Palm Pre is only available from Sprint, which is a CDMA carrier, all of you wanting a GSM version of the handset will have to wait half a year longer... or you can settle for a Palm EOS / Pixie instead. These names were found in the CDMA webOS ROM. We know that the said handset will be available from AT&T later this year, and will probably be the first webOS-based GSM smartphone.

Cricket has recently released the new Samsung r460 MyShot II. It is a low-end clamshell with a 1.3Mpix camera, Bluetooth, messaging, web and music player, and microSD slot (up to 8GB). It supports tri-band CMDA radios, including Cricket's AWS 1700MHz band, but the data speeds are limited to 1x.

The price is $140.

An official rep from Sprint has confirmed that the company will begin selling the HTC Snap on June 21. This handset was first announced in April, and is now available through Best Buy for the unsubsidized price of $519. Sprint will be selling it for $150 after rebate with new 2-year contract.

The HTC Snap comes with a 2Mpix camera with video capture, Bluetooth 2.

Here is an in-depth video tour of the Nokia E75 messaging phone. Enjoy.

Samsung has recently announced a new solar-powered cell phone called the E1107 Crest Solar. The entire back of the phone is covered the with the solar panel that charges the battery when in the sunlight, and each hour of charging can provide from 5 to 10 minutes of talk time. Sweet.

Features of the E1107 include support for dual-band 800/1900 GSM/EDGE and FM radios, as well as an MP3 player, GPS, a torch light and Mobile Tracker application.

Vertu came up with another luxurious limited edition handset. The new Ascent Ti Damascus Steel is made of stainless steel (duh), but unlike other models it's covered with a hand-carved pattern, which makes it a bit more stylish, I suppose. As always, like all Vertu handsets this one is basically an overpriced metal ingot with almost zero functionality.

Only 100 units will be produced.