Nokia X6 and LG GD510 Pop go pink for Valentine's Day

Okay class, pick up your painting palettes and your coloring books - we're going to paint your favorite mobile phone in a new color. Let's start with the Nokia X6, then the LG GD510 Pop. Since Valentine’s Day is coming, let’s make both phones pink. Much better.

Ok, now serious. You might have heard rumors of a Nokia X6 without Comes With Music and that it will have 16GB internal storage instead of 32GB. More information has surfaced that supports that rumor and adds a few details.

It will be available in new colors - Pink on White as well as Black on Black - to go with the Red on Black and Blue on Black currently available for the 32GB version of the Nokia X6. According to Eldar Murtazin the 16GB version will be 100 euro cheaper than the 32GB version but you will be losing the WH-500 headphones in addition to the Comes With Music subscription.

The expected release date for the 16GB Nokia X6 is somewhere in the second half of February.

Update: The 16GB version of the Nokia X6 is official. It’s confirmed that it doesn’t have Comes With Music and it will be available in all black, all white, Pink on White and Yellow on White. The Nokia X6 16GB will come with the new Ovi Maps with free voice-guided drive and walk navigation and Michelin and Lonely Planet guides.

Official Nokia X6 16GB photos

The Nokia X6 16GB will be available this quarter. Instead with the WH-500 headphones the X6 16GB will come with a pair of the much cheaper WH-701. There’s still no word on the price though.

The LG GD510 Pop is also going chameleon with a few new colors. Some of those colors we've seen before but there are a few new ones too. Here's the lineup of the five available color versions:

Yep, there's a pink LG GD510 Pop but LG didn't give a specific date for when the new colors will be available. There's still time to Valentine's Day but not much, allowing for delivery.

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Nokia X6 enters the review queue in all its capacitive goodness

I do admit that GSMArena.com is running a bit late on X6 review. Unfortunately sometimes getting the phones is not as easy as some of you might think. Especially when we are talking a handset of such high public interest as the Nokia X6, on which everyone wants to get their hands.

Nokia X6 at ours

But now that we have it in, we can guarantee you that we will do our best to come up with a detailed review as soon as possible. But for now we have prepared a short unboxing video as a brief warm-up. This will also give you a chance to ask some questions that you want answered in the review.

From what our first impressions show the Nokia X6 is basically a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic mainboard, blessed with the 5530 software and a capacitive display. Okay there are a few other novelties but the handset is almost exclusively about the capacitive display.

Nokia produced one of the best resistive displays in business (N900, N97 and N97 mini) but even they realized that this technology has its limitations. So here goes the next logical step in their touchscreen evolution.

The other key feature of the Nokia X6 is the Nokia WH-500 headphones that are included in the retail package. Powerful and nicely designed, they promise to change the way we look at inbox accessories for good.

Those and many more will be discussed in great depth in the full review. Now kick back and enjoy the video.

Software update for Nokia N900 brings Ovi Store support

With the Nokia N900, Maemo entered the smartphone world, but there weren't many available applications. Now a software update brings beta support for Ovi Store, pushing Maemo closer to full support of the Ovi services.

The software update (v1.2009.44-1) for the Nokia N900 started rolling out yesterday for every location and version of the N900. The update is available through the Nokia Software Update app or over the air. If your Nokia N900 is connected to the Internet, you'll get a blinking notification icon in the Status Area - click it and the download will begin.

Among other things, this update brings support for the beta version of the Ovi Store for Maemo. Currently, it offers a handpicked collection of Maemo 5 applications, which means it's just for Nokia N900, the only Maemo 5 device for now. Owners of previous Maemo devices like the Nokia N800 and Nokia N810 (which weren't smartphones) are out of luck it seems.

From the Ovi Store you can currently download things like a Facebook widget, Documents To Go Viewer Edition, Evernote Sharing Plugin, Fring and a few others. Check out the available applications on the Ovi Store website. Just make sure to select Nokia N900 as your device (by default, the selected device is Nokia N97).

With the growing user base and easier distribution of apps through Ovi Store, more and more developers should get interested in developing for Maemo, the wider selection of apps should attract more users and so on. Kick-starting this loop can lead to fast growth of market share for Maemo.

And they need that if they're going to reach their goal for 2011. The rumored Nokia N920, a QWERTY-less Nokia N900, and the Release Candidate of Firefox for Maemo should also help in luring in more users.