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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    Nokia unveils rival to Apple's iPhone

    LONDON
    Thu Oct 2, 2008 1:43pm EDT

    LONDON (Reuters) - Nokia unveiled on Thursday its first touch-screen phone, priced well below Apple's iPhone model, as the world's top mobile phone maker hopes to tap consumers for whom the iPhone has been too expensive.

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    Nokia said it would begin selling its 5800 Xpressmusic model shortly, and will price it at 279 euros ($395), excluding subsidies and taxes.

    The price tag means consumers in many large markets will get the phone for free from operators when signing up for a contract.

    Prepaid prices for iPhone at Britain's largest retailer Carphone Warehouse start from 350 pounds ($624), including 17.5 percent value-added-tax.

    So far Nokia has stuck with traditional screens while LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics and several smaller handset vendors have rolled out their own touch-screen phones over the last two years.

    (Reporting by Tarmo Virki; editing by Elaine Hardcastle)
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