Nokia launches phones, announces Facebook deal

The world's largest mobile phone maker Nokia launched new phones on Wednesday and announced a location-based service deal with social networking site Facebook. Nokia said its X6 and X3 models would ship in the fourth quarter, priced at 450 euros ($641) and 115 euros respectively. It also unveiled a smaller version of its N97 smartphone, to be priced at 450 euros, and said it was on the verge of selling 2 million units of the original N97. Nokia said N97 sales were outpacing sales of its previous flagship model, the N95. Nokia also said it had agreed on a deal with Facebook where people could update their location and status directly to the social networking site via a Nokia Ovi account. The first phone to support the service will be the N97 mini, which will start shipping in October.