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The Nokia N73 is the next new Nokia N-Series mobile phones announced today. The Nokia N73 focuses primarily on pictures, featuring not only a 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens, but also direct uploads of your pics to Flickr.

Being an N-Series phone, the Nokia N73 also comes with a host of multi-media features, including MP3 player, playlists, equalizer, FM tuner, video recording and a front VGA video camera for video calling. Available in GSM and 3G versions, the Nokia N73 release date is July 2006.

More details and pictures of the Nokia N73 aftger the jump.

Nokia have released the new Nokia N72 N-Series phone. The N72 is not as feature-packed as previous Nokia N-Series phones, but still comes with enough features to satisfy most people.

The N72 is being pitched as a multi-media phone, and so comes complete with MP3 player, 2 megapixel camera, FM radio, and lets you record tunes direct from your CD player.

It even comes in pink as well as standard black (wonder where they got that idea from?).

The Nokia N72 release date is expected to be June 2006.

I’ve returned from my conference in Vegas, and so am free to start blogging again. Just in time, too – Nokia have released a bundle of new N-Series phones. More details in upcoming posts…

I’m off to a conference in Las Vegas for the next week (yes, I know CTIA was last week, but this is a different conference!), so posting will be slow at best. So why not take this opportunity to sift through the archives and read what you might have missed while I’m gone.

We reported yesterday on new projector technology from Iljin Technology that would enable your mobile phone’s screen to be projected onto a wall. Now Samsung, it seems, have gone one better. They’ve just received a patent for a Virtual Display, which projects the screen onto a surface and lets you interact with it using an electronic pen.

Found a new product in a shop that you want to find more info about? If Microsoft’s new research bears fruit, simply take a picture of it with your cameraphone, submit it to Microsoft’s search engine, and all the details you could possibly want will be sent to your mobile phone. Microsoft’s new technology runs pattern matching algorithms on the image you send it to recognize the product. Once recognized, it runs a standard search on MSN, and sends back a list of results on that product.

PeerBox is a neat application that brings P2P music sharing to a mobile phone.

PeerBox lets you tap into over 50 million tunes available on P2P networks.

What’s really cool, though, are the different ways you can locate a tune using PeerBox.

Korean manufacturer Iljin Display has developed a tiny projector that the company plans to integrate into mobile phones. The projector will project images from your mobile phone (or any other device) onto a wall or any other surface, giving a display size of 10 inches. Not exactly huge, but it certainly makes mobile TV far more appealing than squinting at the latest episode of Lost on your mobile phone’s screen.
[Source: Digital Chosunilbo]

LG have announced two new mobile TV phones, the LG-KB1500 and LG-LB1500. Both phones support Korea’s preferred DMB mobile TV standard, are 19.6mm thick and weigh 120g.

Samsung have announced what they claim is the world’s thinnest mobile phone. The Samsung X828 beats the previous record-holder, the KTF EV-K100 (itself announced only two weeks ago!) by a full millimeter. One millimeter may not sound much, but given that the EV-K100 was only 7.9mm, the new Samsung X828′s record-breaking 6.9mm is a full 12.7% thinner.

At these levels of thinness, that’s a quantum leap! Even more amazing, it’s half the size of Motorola’s RAZR V3 (13.9mm), yet still packs a 2 megapixel camera, MP3 player and 80MB of memory! Stunning!

More pictures and details of Samsung’s world’s thinnest phone after the jump.