Nokia just announced their Q2 financial results. To summarize - sales are up, profits are down, shifting currency exchange rates didn't help and smartphones have sold more units and have gotten cheaper, compared to previous periods.

The net sales for the Nokia Corporation 10 005 million euro (12.842 billion US dollars) and the net operating profit is 660 million euro. Net sales are 1% higher than the year ago quarter and 5% higher the previous quarter. However, operating profit has fallen.
Looking at just the mobile phone division, it has net sales of 6 800 million euro (3% higher YoY and 2% higher QoQ) and 643 million euro operating profit - 16% down YoY and 23% down QoQ.
"Converged mobile devices" (that is smartphones and mobile computers) accounted for just over half of those sales. That's 12% more sales than converged devices managed in last year's second quarter.
This is likely due to the noticeable drop in the average selling price for smartphones - it's 143 euro (184 USD) for the second quarter of this year, down from 181 euro (232 USD) for last years Q2. That's a 21% drop. Feature phones have a mostly stable average selling price of 39 euro.
Nokia attributes the falling gross margins to "price pressure" in the high-end segment and depreciation of the euro. Industry-wide shortages of some components had a negative impact on sales and Nokia predicts those shortages will continue into the third quarter as well.
For much more numbers and details, check out the full report.

Yesterday it was the Curve 9300, today its the turn of the 9800. Yes that's right folks its time for another Blackberry handset to leak on video. The 9800 is RIM's forthcoming flagship and as yet the actual name of the device isn't known i.e. will it be the Bold 9800 or the Torch 9800, etc? At any rate today's video is a bit shorter than yeterday, coming in at just a minute and a half, but that's just enough time for us to see the Blackberry OS 6 boot sequence in all its primal glory. We also get the chance to see some web browsing on the device and there's some pinching and zooming to boot. Its not the first time the 9800 has been seen in the wild of course and going on previous leaks the specs list is said to include a 5 MP camera, 3.2 inch touchscreen with 360x460 resolution and support for 3G and WiFi. 

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We have a little something thats You Need to see. It's a phone with a screen so gorgeous that it easily puts to shame the current best. Blacks are immensely deep, the colors are vivid and the viewing angles are mind-boggling. Here's it compared to the iPhone 4 (both screens set at maximum brightness):

samsung wave on left, iPhone 4 on Right!

That’s actually the Samsung Wave display up there. So which one is Better in your eyes point-of-view ??

it has a Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
resolution of 480 x 800 pixels, 3.3 inches  and its include Also

Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
- Multi-touch input method
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- Scratch-resistant surface
- TouchWiz UI 3.0
- Handwriting recognition
- Smart unlock & 5MP camera

A proper MeeGo device is still nowhere in sight, but the Aava phone is the next best thing, it's a developer platform, meaning intended mostly for MeeGo developers rather than customers, but it gives us a look at how the MeeGo OS and MeeGo-powered devices might look.

There’s a lengthy video review along with an extensive photo shoot of the Aava phone running MeeGo 1.1. A lot of the things aren’t working yet, but there’s still quite some time before the market launch…

Like I said, this Aava phone is not meant for consumers and it shows – many things (volume keys included) still aren’t working. The software needs plenty of work too – but the things that work look rather impressive.

The Aava phone is powered by the Moorestown platform with a 1.5GHz Intel Atom based processor – so, in terms of computational power it’s about equal to a netbook. The Firefox Mobile browser (ex Fennec) goes through the SunSpider JavaScript test in about 4.2 seconds, while a netbook running Chrome manages it in about 2 seconds (of course, Chrome is much faster than desktop Firefox, so it’s not really a fair comparison).

While promises of MeeGo are stealing all the spotlight, Maemo is not forgotten - certainly not by Opera. They've released an update for their Opera Mobile browser bringing it up to speed with the other platforms.

Sun Spider JavaScript benchmark results, possibly from the Nokia N900 (it doesn't say) and its 600MHz CPU
Opera Mobile 10.1 beta for Maemo brings faster JavaScript, geo-location support and power management support, among other things.

Last week, there was an unofficial port of the Opera Mobile 10.1 for Maemo, but this is the real deal. It's not complete yet and has some issues (check the Opera Labs post for more details) but the new version brings some shiny new features to the browser.
The JavaScript engine uses JIT, which is what practically every desktop browser other than IE uses to achieve their blazing speeds (the Android 2.2 Froyo browser too). Opera Mobile 10.1 for Maemo works on the Nokia N800 and N810, as well as the Nokia N900.
Geo-location on mobiles was limited to the iPhones and the Android phones, but Maemo users can get a piece of the action too. Geo-location is used for near-me-now types of searches and other things (if you've heard the phrase "location-based services", this is it, right there in the web browser). You can test how new feature works here or using Google's mobile page.
The power management support sounds good too, though Opera didn't share numbers on how it impacts the battery usage. You can get the Opera Mobile 10.1 beta for Maemo from the Opera Labs page. Don't forget to report any bugs you might find - it will help the developers iron out any issues they've missed for the final version of Opera Mobile 10.1.