How tough is the Nokia E71? I found a gallery of Nokia E71 at mobile.mail.ru being tortured. The Nokia E71 has been put to frozen test – put into freezer, foot test – stepping on it, washing machine – scratch test, beer test (will E71 get drunk?) – Put into the beer mug, dust test – thrown inside the vacuum, water test – wash it with water, car test – step over by the wheel. Wow that’s enough, poor E71 losing some buttons and got some cuts at the end but still working. Check out the pictures after the break. Read more…

LG has released the Ice Cream Phone 2 a.k.a LG-LU1600 the successor to the first Ice Cream Phone in last April. This phone feature the ice cream inspired colors with LED lighting. Whenever there’s an incoming or outgoing call or messages, the pastel tone colors of light is going to run on the front panel and there’re also some cute emoticons such as heart and smiling face by orange colored LED light. With the support of EVDO Revision A mobile broadband, the phone provides global roaming service in the United States, Japan and Southeast Asia. The phone comes with T-DMB, web surfing, electronic dictionary function and more. Ice Cream Phone 2 is available in snow white, sky blue and peach pink color, you can get them via LG Telecom at between 400,000(KRW) and 500,000(KRW).

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Rumor says: Sony is recently working on the next-gen touch Walkman mobile phone. The flying words said that it will feature 16 and 32GB of storage and will be the new spearhead music player at Sony. It is also claimed as the iPod Touch competitor as it has WiFi connectivity and support various music and video formats. There will be an integrated web browser which allows you to download music from Amazon store and a Sony online store is expected as well. FM radio is available too.

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The P520, an unofficial Barbie cellphone recently appeared in China. It comes with 2-inch 176 x 220 display, 1.3-megapixel camera, expandable up to 2GB via microSD slot I guess, Bluetooth connectivity, dual SIM slots and a mirror for make-up. The phone is available at 780 yuan which is around $114.

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Seriously I got no idea how to read this, SAMSVNG W629. (is it sam~suv-ng?). Alright this W629 comes in the shape of the Samsung Giorgio Armani fashion phone but this comes with more blings. It gold plated and comes with 2.8-inch touch screen, dual SIM slot, FM radio, Bluetooth, 1.3-megapixel camera, integrated audio/video player and a microSD slot. The phone is wearing a leather case that looks a bit like the LV pattern design. This sam~suv-ng W629 will cost you only $121 to get one. Now that reminds me of an old commercial spoof introducing a cellphone with many functions called the Sumsing Turbo, check it out after the break. Read more…

The Chang Jiang A5000 is has the form of K800 and design of the Touch Diamond. It is a TV phone that comes with 2.8-inch touch display, 0.3MP camera, overweight bass vibration speaker, FM radio, Bluetooth and USB connect, integrated mp3/mp4 player and a microSD slot. The Chang Jiang A5000 is available for $134. More pictures after the break. Read more…

The Vertu Boucheron 150 is made to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Boucheron jewelry house in Paris. The phone is made from solid gold and it took 1,000 hours to cut into shape, 700 hours for the hand polish, and more than 500 hours to hand build.

This luxury phone is housed in a bespoke hand made wooden case made from Noce Pedullo, a special part from the walnut tree, and produced by Reuge, the market leading Swiss makers of artisan music boxes. No word on pricing and availability ~ Well, I can forget about that.

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Sony Ericsson has released cute little walkman phones in Japan, they are the Xmini series. The new compact Xmini comes with an 8.0-megapixel camera. This slider has a bright colored keypad and music controls, 4GB internal memory and choose from white-light blue combo or the classic black-grey look. The phone measures 75 × 44 x 18 mm. Not sure if it is available in other countries or not.

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JingPeng E1181 a China mobile phone that comes with an interesting detachable wireless camera. Its 2.0-megapixel camera can transmit a continuous stream of images to the phone via some unspecified RF technology in 30 feet range, later attach back to the phone for charging. Besides that, the phone has a 3-inch stylus-based touchscreen and number buttons.

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The Mobiado professional 105GMT Gold limited edition cell phone comes with dual mechanical Swiss watch. Each if the mechanical movement contains 25 jeweled bearings and attached an in-house 3D shock absorbing system. The phone is crafted with 274 Carats of sapphire crystal and buttons, symbols and lettering hand-painted with 24-Carat gold. The phone has an Ebony wood inlay with CNC machined solid brass frame and finished with a 5 micron thick 24-carat coating of gold. As for specs, it has a 2-inch QVGA screen, 1GB of storage space, 2.0-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, microUSB port, quad-band GSM and the web browsing and email capabilities. The Mobiado professional 105GMT Gold is limited to only 50 units and pricing is still unknown at the moment. For sure this is going to cost you a lot. Read more…