UPDATE March 29, 2007: Nokia 5700 3G swivel music phone is for real.

Exactly one month ago we showed you a design mock-up of an unknown XpressMusic swivel device from Nokia, last night we received a better and more official picture of the phone, supposedly to be called the 5700. Now we’re sure that the camera (with LED flash) is indeed on the swivel end, and we would predict that this should run on a s40, and a QVGA screen.

There have been debates whether this phone would turn out to be another S60 FP2 device with a revamped music interface that was not ready at 3GSM, we really doubt that because of the lack of application key over the fixed side, it is extremely unlikely to have the S60-characteristic menu key below the 2 softkeys AND the dial/hang up buttons. Take note that the keypad has 2 sides, one with the usual alphanumeric keys, the other with music buttons as shown on the design mock-up diagram. We’ll keep you updated when we have more news. –Sam Chan

[Thanks Marcel]

With 3GSM coming up all major phone manufacturers have great products under their sleeves, earlier we wrote about Samsung’s super thin phones, now we have Nokia’s next swivel-music phone. Supposedly this phone will be on the 5000 series, some claimed that it’s going to be a combination of 5500 and 3250, with a swivel design. It is also rumored that this phone might support UMTS in Europe as well as the US (so something like triband GSM plus triband UMTS). We’ll keep you guys updated once we hear more. — Sam Chan

Speculations [PhoneArena]

You really aren’t lazy, right? It’s not your fault that finding the perfect viewing angle of your brand new LCD TV takes forever to hone into in your living room. The X-Arm is here to solve your viewing angle problems. The X-Arm is able to extend your TV up to a foot from the wall, allowing you,the viewer, to change the swivel’s angles from 20º to 32º depending on the displays size. It can also able to tilt the TV 25º downwards and 7º upwards until the perfect viewing angle is achieved. Once you find this perfect angle, the universal remote that you’ve been using this whole time to adjust the TV saves your information for later usage (or to store other angles in for different viewing positions).

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