Sony Ericson K850i Controls your Winamp  ( Bluetooth )

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• Networks - GSM/GPRS 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
• Linux operating system
• 3.2-megapixel camera with auto focus and LED-flash
• Wi-Fi
• AGPS
• 3 preinstalled games
• Thickness – 17.5 mm

Samsung has introduced a flexible color OLED-display at FPD International 2007 event in Yokohama. It features 4.3” diagonal, 480x272 pixels resolution, 200 cd/m2 frontal luminance, 1000:1 contrast. The manufacturer hasn’t disclosed the mass release date. To add, LG.Philips LCD and Sony introduced similar developments this May at Society for Information Display show (SID) 2007.

Sharp has unveiled an ultra thin LCD panel for portable devices. It measures mere 0.68-mm and has a 2.2” diagonal. Sharp calls the product the “industry’s thinnest” mobile display. It can be applied in mobile phones and digital cameras, which in their turn can get thinner. The company will exhibit its product at FPD International 2007 event in Yokohama. Unfortunately, there is no info on an actual release date.

• Diagonal – 2.2”
• Resolution – QVGA
• Thickness – 0.68 mm
• Contrast – 2000:1
• Viewing angle – 176 degrees
• Response time – 8 ms

Taking into account the plenty of touch-control devices (Apple iPhone, LG Prada, LG Viewty, HTC Touch/Slide, Samsung F700 and so on) Nokia’s idea might come in handy. By the way it might be good with portable players and other touch-sensitive devices. The pictures to the patent show the better way to apply it.

HTC has officially announced HTC Touch Dual slider, an heir of HTC Touch communicator. It’s the second device with TouchFLO screen technology for finger and stylus input. I’d note that its slide-out keyboard contains 12 (traditional numeric) or 20 buttons (two letters for each button) depending on the region and operator’s preferences. The European release of HTC Touch Dual will take place later this month.

• Networks - GSM/EDGE 900/1800/1900 MHz, WCDMA/HSDPA 2100 MHz
• OS - Windows Mobile 6 Professional
• Chipset - Qualcomm MSM7200, 400 MHz
• Display – 2.6” touch sensitive QVGA
• 2-megapixel camera, frontal camera for video calls
• 256 MB ROM, 128 MB RAM
• microSD-slot
• Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
• HTC ExtUSBTM connector
• 1100 mAh battery
• Talk time – up to 240 minutes (WCDMA) and up to 360 minutes (GSM)
• Standby time – up to 150 hours (WCDMA) and up to 250 hours (GSM)
• Dimensions – 107x55x15.8 mm
• Weight - 120 g

According to the company, its slim (12mm!) Nokia E51 is the ideal fit for the users who need an easily controlled handset featuring at the same time enhanced business functionality of the E-series.

The short technical specs of Nokia E51:

• Networks: GSM (GPRS/EGPRS) 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, WCDMA (HSDPA, up to 3.6 Mbps) 850/2100 MHz
• Dimensions: 114.8x46x12 mm
• Weight: 100 g
• Display: 2”, TFT, 240x320 pixels, 16M colors
• Camera: 2-megapixel with video capture
• Memory: up to 130 MB of user’s memory, microSD cards (up to 4 GB)
• Media: FM-radio, MP3-player, music playback on stereo Bluetooth headsets
• Connectivity: WLAN (IEEE 802.11g), Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, USB 2.0 full-speed (Micro USB connector), IrDA port (115 kbps)
• Email: POP3, IMAP4, SMTP with attachment viewer, LED notification on incoming messages; support of exterior E-Mail clients (Mail for Exchange, Visto Mobile, Seven Always-on)
• Other messages: SMS, MMS, IM (Yahoo, AOL, OMA 1.2, MSN)
• Voice: PTT (Push to talk), speakerphone, VoIP via WLAN, voice recorder, Text-to-speech
• Misc: Nokia Office Tools 2.0 (Nokia Team Suite, In-device Search, Quickoffice, Macromedia PDF reader, Zip manager, File manager, Active Notes), Download! Tool, Nokia Maps, Worldmate, Yahoo! Go

The sales of Nokia E51are scheduled for 4Q 2007 for €350.

Motorola posted pictures of a Symbian-phone on its site – MOTORIZR Z8 is colored completely black without green elements:

The Chinese source PCPOP posted live pics of an upcoming MOTOROKR U9 clamshell. It has been rumored much and now we’ve got a chance to see it.

According to the site the phone has the following specs:

On the whole, this list is confirmed by earlier rumors. However it’s not yet clear when the official announcement will take place. At PCPOP site you can have a look at other pictures of the phone.

In the Internet you can come across some data on the new RIM devices. We are likely to expect soon a version of the BlackBerry Curve with Wi-Fi onboard (index 8320). The BlackBerry Curve 8300 was announced this May and positioned as the most compact and lightweight BlackBerry smartphone with the QWERTY-keyboard. In addition there is some info on a BlackBerry Curve version with GPS (index 8310). This device has been recently introduced in Europe by Vodafone.

The source suggests that the company will release an heir of the BlackBerry Pearl smartphone in fall. There will be GSM and CDMA versions. Both models feature similar specs, but the CDMA version will get GPS and lack Wi-Fi. And the BlackBerry Pearl 2 (GSM/EDGE) will on the contrary support Wi-Fi and no GPS. The info is preliminary and not officially confirmed.

Samsung Electronics has prepared an inexpensive, but stylish GSM phone for the Latin American market. It’s a folding phone under the Index SGH-C506. It features original design, which somehow differs from company’s traditional solutions. As for the extra functionality, I’d mention a VGA-camera only.

The short technical specs of Samsung SGH-C506:

• Cell networks: GSM 850 / 1800 / 1900 MHz, GPRS Class 10
• Dimensions: 44x86.2x19.7 mm
• Weight: 76 g
• Display: TFT, 128x160 pixels, 65K colors
• Camera: VGA
• Messages: SMS, EMS, MMS, SOS
• WAP browser v1.2
• JAVA MIDP 2.0
• Misc: calendar, tasks, calculator, world time, alarm clock, timer, stopwatch

Today Samsung Telecommunications America officially announced the availability of its SGH-T729 phone codenamed Blast from the American operator T-Mobile. Its main advantage is a QWERTY-keyboard, so the users get the opportunity to enter lots of messages (text and e-mail) with more comfort.

The short technical specs of Samsung Blast (SGH-T729):

• Cell networks: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, GPRS/EDGE Class 10
• Dimensions: 105.7x51.8x12.7 mm
• Weight: 79.4 g
• Display: 2.1” TFT, 176x220 pixels, 262K colors
• Camera: 1.3-megapixel with video capture
• Messages: SMS, MMS, E-Mail (IMAP4, POP3, SMTP), AOL, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN Live
• Connectivity: Bluetooth Class 2.0 + EDR, A2DP (Стерео Bluetooth), USB, SynchML DS/DM-FOTA, WAP browser
• Memory: 11 MB, microSD cards (up to 2 GB)
• Sound: 64-tones, MP3-player, speakerphone, voice dial, voice independent recognition
• Misc: alarm clock, calculator, calendar, notes, built-in and downloadable games

Nokia has officially announced the release of the Prism handsets: Nokia 7900 and Nokia 7500. Both models are peculiar for their unusual geometry design. They will be available in stores in 3Q 2007 at the approximate price of €400 for Nokia 7900 Prism and €210 for Nokia 7500 Prism (taxes not included).

Nokia 7900 Prism is packed in a glossy black shell with an anodized aluminum back panel and laser-etched signature. The phone works in GSM (quad band) and 3G (dual band) networks, equipped with an OLED 16M color display, a 2-megapixel camera and 1 GB of onboard memory. In addition, the company marks 49 colors of display and keyboard backlight and “living wallpaper”, which changes during the day depending on the battery and signal level.

Valleywag realizes that Google will not likely do phone hardware themselves. Whatever. As long as it supports the software, hopefully some shiny Mobile Google OS, we're interested. Either way, this is what the WSJ and Reuters said today:
•"Now it is drafting specifications for phones that can display all of Google's mobile applications at their best, and it is developing new software to run on them. The company is conducting much of the development work at a facility in Boston, and is working on a sophisticated new Web browser for cellphones."
•Google has invested hundreds of millions on the project.
•Google has also developed prototype phones, with partners like LG Electronics.

• "ads in the mobile phone is that they are twice as profitable or more than the nonmobile phone ads because they're more personal" says Eric Schmidt (from AllthingsD)
•In Europe, T-Mobile and Orange are believed to be partners. Verizon rejected their plans in the US because they wanted to share ad revenue.
•Taiwan's High Tech Computer Corp to design a Linux software-based phone for launch in the first quarter of 2008

If you’re looking for a cell phone that is a bit more personalized this Toshiba fanfun 815T from the firm Softbank in Japan is just the phone. Especially for us girls, thre are a couple I could see some guys dealing with but frankly for the most part the styles are quite feminine.

It features HSDPA and FeliCa. It also has a 2.4 inch clear screen liquid crstal, face recognition and IC card lock security functions. The phone will be coming out August 8th.

At Nokia’s site you can come across a profile of a new phone marked 5610. According to the xml-file the device is based on S40 5th edition platform, equipped with a QVGA-display and Bluetooth 2.0 (A2DP) interface.

Currently there are no details on the specs of Nokia 5610. Probably, they will be cleared up at an event in London set for August 29. There we expect a number of big announcements.

Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has approved the specification of Bluetooth 2.1+EDR. The new version brings about some improvements. First of all, the company has simplified recognition and connection process with Near Field Communication (NFC) technology. Thus the connection gets set up through fewer steps, at the same time it is secure.

The Glofiish X800, which is a communicator, has made it through the FCC chambers - the device was first showcased earlier this year, in March. Some time later it won the "Best Choice" award at Computex 2007. The Glofiish X800's release was slotted for Q2 2007.

Motorola has put up images of six new entry-level phones on its official site, all coming from the W-series in candybar-type form-factor. Since there are no official technical specifications of these models given by Motorola, apart from the six photos, we can assume only one thing - three of them might well have bundled radio, while the other three handsets match their brothers in arms functionality-wise, yet have no radio module onboard..

Motorola W156:	Motorola W160:
Motorola W175:	Motorola W180:
Motorola W206:	Motorola W213:

Future iPhones could utilize technology that converts text to voice messages and do so over voice channels instead of GSM. Such a system is described in a recently-published patent filed by Apple called "Multimedia data transfer for a personal communication device," which would essentially turn the mobile devices into walkie talkies for multimedia data. It could also serve to benefit users who are visually impaired by providing vocalized versions of the data being sent.

The patent specifies that the vocalization of the multimedia data wouldn't be done with the help of a backend server. Instead, it would be done locally on the sending device itself and then transmitted to the receiving device through a voice channel. This means that the devices could "talk" to each other without having to utilize cell minutes, like the walkie-talkie-like functionality (also known as "Push to Talk") already built into some cell phones. Once received, the data can then be converted into an audio signal, which the patent says would then be output through something like a speaker or headphones.

However, for those who prefer sending SMSes instead of making phone calls, a system that translates all text and multimedia data into voice output could be quite the turnoff. That's why Apple has specified that the receiving device can perform processing on the data once it's received, translating it back into a text or multimedia message if that's what the user specifies. The patent also says that the user can choose to receive "simple text messages" that would cause the full, vocalized message to be stored on the voicemail server with a simple notification of having received the data displayed on screen.

Apple notes that adding these options to cell phones or other communication devices would be "particularly well suited for people having visual problems or in those situations where viewing the data on a small display screen (typical of most personal communication devices) is problematic." Although cell phone screen readers already exist for the visually impaired, they are costly (several hundred dollars apiece) and the functionality doesn't come built into the devices themselves. Such a system would, at the very least, streamline the process of receiving text or multimedia data and translating it into vocalized form, and would (hopefully) cost significantly less.

However, the system would prove much more useful for that purpose if it could be utilized on all incoming data—not just data sent and received over the voice channel. Visually impaired people need to read their text messages that come through the cell network too, you know. And for the visually blessed among us, forget visual voicemail: how cool would it be to receive text message or e-mailed transcriptions of voicemail left on the server? Apple's patent opens up lots of possibilities for future iterations of the iPhone, but we're left to speculate on whether or not we will actually see them materialize.

And another reinforcement to Samsung's line-up, rumored to arrive either late in 2007 or early in 2008, is a smartphone - the Samsung i550, running S60 platform and coming with 3G connectivity, as well as HSDPA for faster data. But the best thing about the i550 is its GPS department.

Spec sheet of Samsung i550 (unofficial): Symbian S60 HSDPA support (3.6 Mbit/s) 2,6-inch display 128 Mb RAM, 150 Mb ROM micro SD-slot 3,2 Mpix camera with autofocus and flash FM-radio and 3,5mm audio jack GPS MicroUSB Web 2.0 Scroll-based navigation via Trackball Dedicated keys (internet, navigation, player) 1200 mAh battery Dimensions - 115x53x13,8 mm

One of those numerous Sony Ericsson fans has come up with a concept design of a mobile phone that the maker could launch some time in the future. Apparently, this hybrid represents his golden dream, a phone where Walkman and Cybershot come together, with touch-sensitive controls all around. As the "developer" claims, the design builds upon the Sony Ericsson W960i, and in fact this is a dual-face phone, with Walkman and CyberShot (inspired by the K850i) sit on opposite sides.

It is called the Sony Ericsson H1i, where "H" stands for Hybrid and comes equipped with a 3-inch widescreen touch-sensitive display capable of 480x270-pixel resolution and 7,2 Mpix camera with flash. And basically this handset has no buttons, at least in the form we have used to see them - all numbers and letters are displayed on the backlighted screen.

The web has finally got the leak on Samsung's very own SGH-P520, which is no stranger to our news posts - some time ago the P520 made it through the FCC chambers. In some sense, the Samsung SGH-P520 is here to strike back at Apple iPhone and LG Prada: the handset comes equipped with a touch-screen and ditches any kind of keypad, with only pick/hang up buttons mounted on otherwise bare surface. The device is also remarkable for pocket-friendly dimensions and skinny profile.

Spec sheet of Samsung SGH-P520:

• GSM/EDGE (triband) connectivity
• Touch-sensitive QVGA display measuring 2,6 inches from corner to corner, capable of 262K colors
• 50 Mb of built-in memory
  
• microSD-socket
• 3 MPix camera
  
• A2DP-enabled Bluetooth
• Wi-Fi with UMA support
  
• 960 mAh battery
• Talk time - 180 minutes
• Standby time - 220 hours
• Dimensions - 88x54x8,9 mm
• Weight - 102 grams

The profile posted on the maker's page corroborates the preliminary facts - the N81 indeed comes with WCDMA connectivity, though HSDPA is not on its spec sheet, 240x320-pixel resolution and Symbian 9.2 S60 3rd Edition FP1 inside.

Whizbyte has come up with some more bits of info on the new generation of Microsoft Zune players, reported, as they claim, by a Microsoft employee. By the way, the first Zune sales have gone according to the plan and already exceeded 1 million units. As you might remember, the web has been buzzing about two additions to the Zune range, known as the Scorpio (80 Gb onboard) and the Draco (flash-based), arriving by Christmas.