Nokia have finally given a rock solid release date for their long awaited N8 Handset.

Expected to sell for around €125 (£103) before tax, the new Nokia X3 Touch and Type is a candy bar phone with an unusual keypad. Instead of the normal three-column, four line arrangement you find on most keypads, the X3 features a four-column, three line – putting the star, hash, and zero keys over to the right. It’s an interesting design change – although we aren’t exactly sure why it’s been done.

On the 24th of July, Google encouraged everyone around the world to record their life that day. Part of a social experiment, the idea was for people to record everyday stuff – going to the job, getting the shopping in, spending a day at the park – whatever they did, and then upload it to YouTube by 31st July. From there, a team will review the videos and choose which ones will be used in a social documentary to be produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Kevin MacDonald. Makers of chosen videos will be credited as co-directors and be up for the chance of attending the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. It is all very exciting stuff really.

Yet another new square phone release this month – this one from Nokia. The Nokia X5-01 mobile phone is an almost-square smart phone featuring a slide out QWERTY keyboard. Although it’s not the first square phone from Nokia, it is the first one to really be seen outside of the USA.

These two C Series phones are virtually identical, except that one sports a camera and the other does not.

There are two new Nokia phones on the market that support two SIM cards: The Nokia C2 and Nokia C1-00. Both phones are basic-level handsets targeted at emerging markets.

Over the years, Nokia and Yahoo! have had built a good relationship and earlier this week they announced that the relationship is only going to get stronger. The two entities are tightening the integration between their companies and services, playing to the strengths of each on the areas of email, instant messaging, maps and navigation, etc.

The Nokia 6303i Classic is the upgrade to the 6303 Classic, offering a few enhancements to its predecessor’s design.

Last week, Nokia and Intel released the code for the MeeGo operating system. MeeGo is a merger of Maemo, Nokia’s Smartphone and Internet tablet software platform, and Moblin, Linux’s open-source operating system for mobile internet devices, laptops, and nettops. Formed in February, MeeGo uses the Qt application development environment which allows developers write apps once and then run them across multiple devices like:

If March is any indication, it looks as if the mobile phone industry might be pulling back from littering the market with a plethora of new phones and concentrating on a few key devices to pull our attention instead.