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Sprint has named the LG Rumor its official cell phone for St. Patrick’s Day, and added a new color to the handset.

Thus, currently available color options include white with silver, black with blue, and green - the new one. Besides that nothing else has changed. The phone still features a 1.3Mpix camera, microSD card slot (up to 4GB), Bluetooth connectivity, and integrated GPS.

Sprint now offers its customers a free firmware upgrade for the LG Rumor handset.

Changes include the updated text messaging application and new UI. You can download the upgrade over the air through the firmware update application in the phone's main menu> settings/tools> tools> update firmware, or at Sprint retail stores.

Many rumors have appeared in the net about the upcoming Nokia E71i, which is the E61 's successor.

As there is no official information about the device we will just tell you what we heard. :) So, the phone should be announced at 3GSM and will probably be released sometime in Q2 2008.

Nokia E71i features will include HSDPA and Wi-Fi support, GPS functionality, 3Mpix camera, and full support for device and memory card encryption.

According to the rumor website 9to5 Mac, at the upcoming Macworld Keynote event Steve Jobs plans to make an official announcement that iPhone sales have passed the 5 million mark.

We don't know for sure yet, but it seems quite possible. Looks like Apple intends to keep its promise and sell 10 million handsets by the end of 2008.

Here is another rumor concerning the Google phone: according to a UBS analyst HTC plans to release 50,000 handsets running on the Google's upcoming mobile OS by the end of 2007.

Although most analysts believe that the search giant will release only the operating system, if the Google/HTC partnership really exists, we all can expect first Gphones to appear sometime in 2008.

Here is a photo of new Nokia handset that has just been approved by the FCC.

Apparently, it is the 8800e model, a glossy candybar phone with a sliding cover that covers the keypad. There are no specification details available right now, but we expect to find out more on October 16th, when confidentiality agreement filed with the FCC expires.

Here is a new, groundless, yet very interesting rumor for you, about some new iPhone Extreme, probably an upcoming version of the famous device, with 16GB of memory, 3G connectivity and GPS functionality.

The whole idea comes from a line in the source code on the Apple iPhone Feedback Page, where the device is mentioned (see the picture).

Rumor has it that Negri Electronics plans to release their Tilt 8925 and 8900 Windows Mobile smartphones for AT&T on September 30th and has already started taking pre-orders.

There was no official confirmation on that, so you should be skeptical about it.

Rumor has it that Palm plans to launch the new Treo 500 WM6-based smartphone on September 12th.

Here a list of its yet unconfirmed specs:

• Size: 61 x 110 x 16mm;
• OS: Windows Mobile 6;
• Network: UTMS;
• Screen: 320 x 240 TFT;
• Camera: 2Mpix;
• Connectivity: Bluetooth;
• Memory: 150MB on-board + microSD card slot.