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The world’s first fully touchscreen Phone is not the iPhone (which I wrote about earlier). It is LG’s Prada phone.

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Ooh, doesn’t it look sexy? The phone is limited to tri-band GSM 900/1800/1900 with EDGE data, and so will not be too popular in the US from the get-go. It’s smaller than the iPhone and it has a 2 megapixel camera (with Schneider-Kreuznach lens and LED flash). It is also Bluetooth 2.0 enabled (what phone isn’t eh?). It’s already listed as a top-seller at the UK mobile phones site. It totally sucks to be in the US of A, for those of you who are there. First there was the Nokia N95 which became popular in Europe way before it was launched in the US, and now this. The US has some serious technology lag, except when it comes to junk like the PS3 which hit the stores in the US first.

Forget the iPhone, I am drooling over this baby - the Nokia N95 smartphone.

The N95 has a 5 MegaPixel camera (oh, and by the way did you know that Nokia, not Canon, or Kodak, is the largest producer of digital cameras in the world?!!) which pretty much means I won’t need a seperate camera phone. It’s got wi-fi, bluetooth, and has a cool slider design - I much prefer sliders over flipphones and candybar phones. What has me really excited about the phone is that it is a Symbian smartphone as well. The only downside I can think of is that it does not support 3G. 3G be damned, I say - this cool phone will allow me to browse the web, check email, take pics, and, oh, it will let me make calls.

The Nokia N95 is already available in the UK with orange, and even T-mobile. So how long do I have to wait before it is launched in the US? I am out of contract now, and would gladly switch carriers (or stay with T-mobile) to get my hands on this one - I bet it will stay good enough for another 2 years.