25,000 Nokia Lumia 800 Devices Headed To Devs Courtesy of Nokia

Even though the two Nokia Lumia Windows Phones were announced yesterday at the NokiaWorld Event, day-two also brings some exciting news. Following Microsoft's model, Nokia is preparing to send out developer devices. 

Marco Argenti, Senior Vice President of Developer and Marketplace at Nokia said that 25,000 Nokia Lumia 800 devices will be sent out to developers. "Nokia Lumia 800 is a beautiful thing. Developers will be inspired to create beautiful apps; the opportunity is here, now". No other details were made public but given Microsoft's success with the "developers. Developers. DEVELOPERS" program and the close relationship between the two companies, the Nokia program will definitely increase development activities. 

Android Market Getting Music According to Alleged Landing Page?

According to the screen above, which Engadget didn't manage to recreate and neither did we, Android Market will soon get music. If you can point your browser on your phone to Google Musicand get the same landing page, let us know. 

As you can see, point number two talks about Music on Android Market. You will reportedly be able to "shop millions of songs in the Android Market" which will be awesome if you are on the Google-platform, especially with hints of free tracks coming. According to reports, traces around the web pointing towards that page, including links, are now dead but if you manage to somehow access the information, let us know in the comments below. 

Nokia Announces White MeeGo-Powered N9, Software Update

Nokia World wasn't only about the Lumia Windows Phones and some S^40 Asha devices. The Finnish manufacturer took its time to revisit the Nokia N9, which lends its aspect to the Lumia 800, and announce a new color together with a softwareupdate. 

Initially announced and available in pink, cyan and black (pretty much the colors for the Lumia 800), the MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan-powered N9 will also get a white variant (and hopefully so will the Lumia Windows Phone). It will be available this year and, opposed to the other N9 devices, it will sport a glossy finish rather than a matte one. 

MeeGo fans will also be happy to find out that there will be a software update for the N9 coming this year. It will bring usability improvements such as music controls on the lock screen or closing apps by swiping them down by default (which is an option you can turn on in the current iteration) and NFC tag reading.

Motorola Droid RAZR Pre-Orders To Ship By November 10

Ever since Motorola announced the Droid RAZR, we've been trying to divine its release date. Right before the event that formally announced the phone, we heard a rumor of its planned arrival for November 10. When it was time to finally unveil the phone, though, all we learned was that pre-orders would begin tomorrow, October 27, with the phone finally becoming available at an unspecified time in November. With pre-orders about to begin, Verizon's put out a statement announcing them, as well as offering a little bit more certainty about when the RAZR find its way into the hands of customers. 

While there's still no hard-and-fast release date specified, now Verizon is saying that deliveries of the RAZR to users who get in their pre-orders will ship no later than November 10. That sort-of confirms what we heard earlier about that date, but it seems from Verizon's unwillingness to just say "it will be out on the 10th" that the carrier would prefer to get the RAZR our even sooner, but may be lacking guarantees from Motorola about what kind of stock levels will be available, when. 

We don't know if they reflect the start of retail availability, or more pre-orders, but we've seen leaked MAP lists show the Galaxy Nexus and HTC Rezound going up for sale on November 10, as well; perhaps Verizon is just hoping to get the initial push of RAZR orders taken care of before turning its attention to those launches. 

The Droid RAZR will run you just under $300 when ordered with a new two-year service contract. Pre-orders will begin at 8 a.m. tomorrow. 

BlackBerry Bold 9790 Back On Film; Announcement Tomorrow?

The still-unannounced BlackBerry Bold 9790recently showed-off a new change to its external design, swapping-out a flat button panel for individually raised buttons. The image revealing the modification was a blurry mess, so if you were hoping to get a clearer look, a much higher-qualityimage of the new 9790 has surfaced, and may also offer a clue as to when we could hope to hear the phone announced. 

Here, you can see the new button construction for the 9790, clear as day. You'll also notice the phone's keyboard features Arabic characters; that might have been what got TechCrunch thinking about the photo's source, which was a Twitter user apparently located in Dubai. That may remind you of an upcoming event we've been expecting, wherePorsche Design will almost certainly debut the odd-looking 9890 tomorrow, October 27, also in Dubai. 

Our impression was that this event would be more about Porsche Design than RIM, but if there are 9790s floating around the Middle East, there's certainly a chance that the model might be featured at tomorrow's event. If anything like this is actually revealed, we'll be sure to let you know tomorrow.