Well, that’s what we’ve been hearing, that the launch is on the 25th of August, Monday. This Monday there was supposed to be a launch as well, but we don’t know what happened to that one, it seems that the 8800 Carbon was the single device launched.

The Nokia N85 has already been handled by Mobile Phone Helpdesk, and they categorize it as something between the N82 and N95, and their opinion is the same as ours: it has nothing new to offer, and even though we haven’t seen the official specifications yet, we don’t have much doubt.

What we know already is that the phone has HSDPA, A-GPS, a 3.5mm jack, WLAN, a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash, and the price is expected to round 550 Euros w.s.o.t.

A marketing scheme from Nokia transmits the idea that the N85 and the 8800 Carbon will be launched at the same time, which coincides with the next week’s announcement.

[via Eldar Murtazin via Mobile Phone Helpdesk]

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In UK, iGadget Life just received an email from a PR agency on behalf of Nokia, saying that they are invited to a online pre-launch of new two devices, ahead of the official launch.

I can’t see any information about it being N79, N85, or any NSeries for that matter, but those are the phones in speculation at the moment. It would be very strange for Nokia to make a sudden launch, ahead of the N96’s official retail date, and just after the N78’s retail release.

The N85 recently has gone through FCC approval. Which might point out soon announcement.

In my opinion, it has to be two other phones than NSeries or ESeries, but I wouldn’t know. Perhaps Nokia is trying to release all crap stock to make space for potential competitors against the Sony Ericsson C905 and Samsung iNNOV8. Who knows? I have’t gotten anything yet from Nokia’s PR company in South Africa, but if we have any news, which we should at 8am UK time Monday, we will post them here. Now, if you will excuse me, I have to set up my alarm.

[via iGadget Life via Boy Genius Report]