Nokia’s Symbian^3 flagship — the 3.5-inch N8 with 12 megapixel camera — just went up for pre-order on Espoo’s Italian storefront showing an end of September availabilty. Now before you get up in arms about the €469 price tag (about $610), remember, the €370 estimated retail price announced was pre tax and pre carrier subsidy

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Nokia N8 up for official €469 pre-order in Italy, available in September

Profits at Finnish mobile phone handset company Nokia slump by 40% in the second quarter compared with 2009.

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Finland’s Nokia profits slump 40%

Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo was already a man in a hot seat and these latest numbers will do little to lower the temperature. Nokia’s net profit for Q2 2010 was €221 million, which most companies would be happy with were it not for the fact that this company pulled in €380 million in the same quarter last year — and that’s with 2009, as Nokia’s own report indicates, representing an economically tougher environment

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Nokia quarterly profits drop 40 percent year-on-year as CEO says speculation must end ‘one way or another’

US defence firm Raytheon has released an iPhone application to keep Patriot Missile troops up to speed.

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Missile system gets its own iPhone app

How will sir be having his gimmick today? The devs behind the upcoming Sly Cooper 3D compilation are wisely mulling over the idea of inserting a 3D-adjusting slider to let users decide just how much stereoscopy they want with their Sony-approved gaming

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PlayStation 3 could get 3D depth slider à la the 3DS

Cellphone concepts are a dime a dozen, but a couple of particularly interesting ones have cropped up in recent days, including Andrew Kim’s HTC 1 , and this so-called Nokia Kinetic concept from British designer Jeremy Innes-Hopkins. Obviously, the most eye-catching aspect here is that prominent base, which is not simply a design flourish but actually houses an electromagnet that allows the phone to spring up on cue — when an alarm goes off, for instance, or during a hands-free video call (simply flip the phone back down to dismiss the action)

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Nokia Kinetic concept offers some ideas Nokia might want to heed

We’ve seen flashy concepts of what Nokia’s seamless cellular infotainment initiative might look like, but it took a pair of Germans from Volkswagen to give us our first glimpse of Terminal Mode in action. At MobileBeat 2010, engineers showed off the video after the break, which shows how a prototype VW Passat might be rigged — in this case duplicating the phone’s display in its entirety (plus additional controls) on the auto’s larger touchscreen

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VW Passat takes the red pill, jacks into Nokia’s Terminal Mode (video)

Six smartphone firms including Apple and Nokia are sued by a firm that has previously won a case against Blackberry-maker RIM.

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Smartphone firms face patent row

If you don’t understand the significance of what you’re looking at then you’re probably not paying attention.

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Aava Moorestown phone running MeeGo hits the wilds

Nokia just announced a $200M-ish deal to sell its wireless modem business — a business it entered just a few years ago — to Renesas Electronics Corporation . The deal is part of a broader alliance to develop HSPA+ and LTE modem technologies while working together to research future radio technologies. Per the agreement, Nokia will transfer its related patents and about 1,100 Nokia R&D staff to Renesas, the majority of whom are located in Finland, India, the UK, and Denmark — assuming regulatory approval of course, something the two expect to receive by the end of the year

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Nokia sells wireless modem business to Renesas in order to focus on core business