Nokia has announced its new Symbian ^3 powered phone, the Nokia N8. It comes with a 12.0-megapixel with Xenon Flash. Priced at 370 Euros and choose from dark grey, silver white, green, blue and orange. According to the Nokia, the xenon flash on the N8 is 30% smaller compare to the usual one but yet it is capable of producing the similar level of flash power. The auto focusing speed has also been improved as well as a fast 150 milliseconds latency in the shutter release. Besides shooting a 12 megapixel still image, it is capable of recording 720p HD video and can be player on your HDTV via its HDMI connector. Hmm…it looks a bit like the Sony Ericsson Aino. Check out the specs and videos and pictures after the break. Read more…

LG is launching its new Android smartphone in UK this Labor Day, the LG Optimus (GT450). Running on Android OS 1.6 and comes with a 3-inch resistive touch screen (320 x 480), a 3-megapixel camera, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS and a microSD card slot. It also has the SN Manager (Social Network) that allows you to stay connect with their Facebook, Twitter and Bebo accounts. Without having to access any applications, the Social Networking System (SNS) widgets will get the real-time status updates directly to the home screen. Video after the break. Read more…

Portuguese carrier TMN is introducing world’s first recycled paper SIM card. These green SIM cards will be released with Samsung’s solar-charging Blue Earth handset. The Blue Earth package is available for €239 ($318). The paper SIM with TMN’s other devices is not available yet.

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Samsung new Android 2.1 GALAXY A or SHW-M100S is now officially in South Korea. It is powered by 800MHz CPU and comes with 3.7” AMOLED Touchscreen with a WVGA resolution, 8GB of internal memory, a 5.0-megapixel with AF camera module – capable to shoot video in 720p, Wi-Fi N, GPS, T-DMB, DivX and comes in standards with TouchWiz UI. More pictures after the break. Read more…

Pantech latest phone Pandora is available via Sky in Korea. This 9.1mm thick phone has a unique touchpad on top of the usual touchscreen which lets you add photo to your text easily just like how you drag and drop in computer. The phone comes with 3” LCD, DMB, Bluetooth, a 3.0-megapixel AF Camera module, GPS etc. More pictures after the break. Read more…

Droid Incredible is another android phone from HTC. It comes a 3.7-inch, 480×800 AMOLED capacitive touch screen, a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, Android 2.1 with the HTC Sense UI, an optical joystick, an eight megapixel camera with dual LED flash, and basic features such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and 3.5mm headphone jack. Wow! That’s incredible! not. Priced $200.

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DMB 2.0 is a Korea ultimate upgrade of the actual DMB service. It lets you watch TV, VOD, listen to Radio and Surf the web (DATA). And today, LG has released the company and Korea first DMB 2.0 capable phone, the LG-SU420. The LG-SU420 features a 3.2” WVGA touchscreen, Wi-Fi, Support DivX, Dolby Mobile, Mp3 files, has a GPD, Bluetooth. Available now via SK Telecom. More pictures after the break. Read more…

Pantech has released its IM-A600S Sirius, another Android 2.1 and Snapdragon combo phone. It comes with a nice AMOLED 3.7” LCD with a 800×480 resolution, a T-DMB TV Tuner, a 5Mpix camera with AF, 500MB of internal memory with support of MicroSD Cards up to 32GB, Wi-Fi, HDMI out, and DivX support. The Pantech IM-A600S Sirius is available through SKY. Read more…

Nokia has announced three phones today, the Nokia E5, C3, C6 (left to right). All three are running on Symbian platform and support multiple email accounts, IM communities and social networks.

Nokia C3 is the series’ first QWERTY messaging phone. It is pre-installed with Nokia Ovi Mail and Ovi chat with social networking shortcut at the home screen. You view, comment, update status and share pictures at your favorite social networks like Facebook and Twitter. The C3 features built-in Wifi, 2.0-megapixel camera, 2.4-inch display and a microSD memory expansion slot. The C3 will be available this quarter at 90 euro.

The Nokia C6 is a smartphone that comes with both 3.2-inch touch screen and slide QWERTY keypad. It has better camera in 5.0-megapixel resolution. This will go for 220 eruo.

Nokia has put in a new phone in the Eseries, the E5. With business feature, the E5 can also be used for social networking and multimedia site. It has built-in WiFi, A-GPS, HSPA, bluetooth and 5 megapixel camera. Available in Q3 for 180 euro.

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au KDDI has released the Toshiba K01, a Windows Mobile phone that will be known as IS02 in Japan. The handset will be one of the thinnest WinMo phones for au. It is running on Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5.3 OS, powered by powerful 1GHz Snapdragon processor and has a sliding QWERTY keyboard, 3G, a 4.1-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with customized NX! UI, a 384MB/512MB RAM/ROM, a 3.2MP camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and a business card reader.

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