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Looks legit enough, doesn't it? The supposed successor to the E61i has broken cover via this shot of the device -- in prototype "EXX" form, no less -- being proudly displayed in some lucky son of a gun's hand. The "E" moniker designates a Nokia smartphone with a business slant, of course, and thanks to a lovely QWERTY board, the E71 seems to be no exception; specs on the E51 -ish device are said to be pretty much in line with what we'd expect for a circa-2008 piece, including HSDPA, WiFi, GPS, and a 3.2 megapixel primary cam with a secondary up front for video calling. As for North American 3G, well... as usual, we can only hope. We're not sure whether this thing will break officially here at CES, but if it does, you'll be the first to know.

Since we are relying more and more with our mobile phones to do just about everything, our habits reasonably change over time. One trivial activity affected by this convergence is reading time. An ongoing poll at Gizmodo shows that about 64% of the respondents use their mobile phones to check time while only 32% voted for the conventional wristwatch. While this is not a formal or structured research, you can still dig some insights from more than 10,500 voters. In retrospect, perhaps the decision of Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer to develop its own line of luxury mobile phones might have some sense after all. Source: More People Read Time via Mobile Phone