A slip by the Ovi-supporting team today revealed a new touch-driven Nokia handset that is in the works. Nokia 5250 appeared on the company's application store website, flaunting a fresh new design, but unfortunately the handset is running on the good old Symbian S60 5th edition OS. Those of you hoping for an Symbian^3 device in the low-end segment are sadly out of luck.

The handset is obviously the next member of Nokia's family of lower midrange touchscreen phones and comes to replace the pretty popular Nokia 5230. There is not much specs about the Nokia 5250 that we can confirm. Perhaps an nHD screen measuring somewhere around 3 inches in diagonal certainly isn't a wild guess. 3G and GPS are on the cards as well but the rest is pure guesswork.

This February Nokia promised to deliver 100 euro touch smartphones and we have yet to see those. Could the Nokia 5250 be the first to go near that psychological barrier? In any case with the Nokia 5250 appearing on the Ovi store page it's clear that its announcement is fast approaching so we won't have to wait too long to find out.

Design by Community is nearing an end it's at the penultimate step, which by the way I find the most interesting. The fictional Nokia U was designed from the ground up by popular vote (including the name) and now as Nokia Conversations always promised they’ve released three sketches to pick the final design again by voting…

If you haven’t followed Design by Community closely, check out this page with the finalized specs. Each group of specs was chosen by a weeklong poll. Voters consistently picked the best of the best available and the finalized specs are probably impossible with today’s technology. No problem though, this was always meant as an experiment trying to design a phone for the future.

Guided by the features picked by voters, Nokia’s designers have prepared three concept sketches. The winning sketch will get the full 3D design treatment. Here are the three possibilities of how the Nokia U could look.

Looking at the designs you can quickly spot the heritage – the first sketch is heavily inspired byNokia N8, the second takes its cue from the Nokia X6 and curiously, the third sketch looks a bit like the rumored Nokia C7.

OVI Store cannot boast the sales increase and the number of applications is hardly mind boggling. The same applies to the search function in the shop. Out of the available solutions Nokia shop is the most uninspiring. The company tries to boost sales by all means and until August 12 it offers a special offer of 26 games (most popular games on all platforms, not only for Nokia phones). For one dollar, euro or pound you can buy any of the games. It is an excellent solution for those who remain loyal Nokia customers. The following games are available:

• Doodle Jump
• Fieldrunners
• Bejeweled
• Bejeweled Twist
• California Gold Rush
• Pac-Man Championship Edition
• Armageddon Squadron
• ToonWarz
• WSOP – Hold’em Legend
• Wave Blazer
• Fieldrunners
• UniWar
• The Sims 3
• Monopoly World
• Uno
• Raging Thunder
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
• Where’s Wally
• California Gold Rush
• Zuma
• Zuma’s Revenge
• Burning Tires
• Tetris Revolution
• Trivial Pursuit
• Jewel Quest III
• Tony Hawk VERT
• Super KO Boxing 2
• Heli Strike

Everything remains the same, but it is not as comfortable to play in Fieldrunners on Nokia due to the screen resolution. Not to be accused of groundless allegations it will say that the screen resolution is the main platform limitation today and the company somehow does not handle it or tries to ignore the problem. You can put it differently.

British marketing research firm YouGov published its report on Smartphone Mobile Internet Experience. 2121 smartphone users took part in the poll. The most alerting tendency is the drop in preferences for Nokia by 12% within 6 months, which correctly describes Nokia, its products and marketing. The number of people who plan to buy Nokia smartphones soon decreased two times. It is sad, but Nokia may label YouGov as one of unreliable information sources and claim that everything they say is not true. It is easier to ignore your market position, than to improve the situation.

This time its a REAL Prototype from Nokia. May be Nokia plans to release a phone Next year (2011) with this shape. And this will be Super cool!

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