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•    Nokia N82 has a build quality and specs that could sway even the most ardent aesthetes.

•    Mobile marketing will explode: five trends that will shape, transform and further build the momentum of US mobile marketing in 2008: mobile phone will become more personal, it will become a remote control for reality such as Nokia and mobile brand leaders will appear in 2008.

•    Chinese Clones of Apple IPhones hit shops (Chinese IPhone, Chinese Nokia E90, and Chinese Nokia N95).

•    Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) has agreed to buy Britain’s Apertio Ltd for about 140 million euros and expects to close the deal in the first quarter of 2008.

•    Nokia is planning to close a factory in Germany by mid-year which employs 2300 workers.

•    Next May MECOM exhibition and conference showcases the latest in communications in Abu Dhabi.