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Nokia’s prepping for the fourth quarter launch of its smartphone MeeGo. N8 will hit before the end of Q3. The company has absolutely no plans to use Android, and a tablet not happen anytime soon. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the things we learned this morning during our interesting chat with Niklas Savander, Espoo’s executive vice president and general manager of the unit Markets. In its quarterly profit to fall and lose a day (in Mindshare, at least) to the apples, HTC and Motorola’s of the world, we were certainly not lacking any questions when we headed into the meeting, and Savander to our questions about Nokia’s short-and long-term plans to move. We presented the main points of the interview with bullets after the break – and the full transcript after that.

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Can you believe we have waited long enough for the N8 (at least) three versions Kirf to the network on the market? The latter is a very special, because it gives us a glimpse into one of the feverish dream of Engadget commenters: rocking a Nokia flagship Android (2.1, in this case). IZiNN the CJ-3 copies of the N8 form factor, styling and 3.5-inch screen, but throws an upgrade of its own to pursue a higher-res 800 x 480 capacitive panel. Yes, we are shocked. A 5-megapixel imager, a budget Rock Chip CPU, and an HDMI port, complete the rest of the specs are known, while a release in China is expected some time later this month. Anyone know why this thing is built and sold by a legitimate manufacturer?