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There must be something in the air, today. That’s three separate phones, launched today, that have got X in the name. The first one was, obviously, the Sony Ericsson X2 Xperia. But before I get round to those two, the other big news, according to GSMArena, is the Nokia N97 Mini has gone official.

I won’t spend a lot of time on that one, since I’ve talked about it a lot, and you can guess exactly what the phone will be like, just from the name.

And if you didn’t guess ‘like a Nokia N97 but a bit smaller’, then may I suggest some form of counselling. But anyway, yes, the Nokia N97 Mini has been officially announced, with a 5MP camera, a full QWERTY keyboard, and a slightly smaller screen than the big N97. That’s not the big news for me, though. The big news is an entirely new product series, presumably called the Xseries. Given the specs of the two Xseries phones announced so far, I’ll go out on a limb (although not much of one), and say the Xseries is the new, official home of XpressMusic phones.

First up, there’s the Nokia X3, the lower specced phone of the two. There’s no touchscreen, and it doesn’t run on Symbian S60, so it’s very definitely a feature phone, albeit a feature phone with a 3 megapixel camera. However, the big draw is that the Nokia X3 is the first non-Symbian phone to have the Ovi Store, letting you download music, games and extra content as easily as you would on something like the Nokia 5530. In other words, we’re talking entry-level uber-phone, with the Nokia X3, a bizarre notion, I know, but one that seems to be a very accurate description.

Finally, there’s the Nokia X6, and this one’s got me a bit excited, as it’s quite clearly the replacement for the 5800. So, you’re looking at S60 Touch, a 3.2 inch touchscreen, a 5MP camera, GPS and, of course, the Ovi Store. The intriguing news, though, is that the Nokia X6 will only be available on Nokia’s Comes With Music package.

So, three new Nokia phones announced, and in the same day, three phones with X in the name. Cosmic significance, or divine intervention?

Well, no, obviously not, but I needed a line to end this blog post on, and that was as good as any other…

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