NewMobile provides the hands-on preview in Sony Ericsson P990i Smartphone, this smartphone comes with a 240 x 320 TFT touchscreen display, 2.0-megapixel camera, 64MB RAM, 128MB Flash memory, 60MB built-in memory, 802.11b Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, a music player, and USB 2.0 connectivity. Video preview…
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Hands on look on Nokia’s N75 multimedia clamshell phone from ShinyMedia and PhoneArena. Videos…
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Vodafone has unveiled its first Vodafone-only branded 3G consumer handset, the Vodafone 710. The Vodafone 710 incorporates easy access to core Vodafone services including Vodafone Radio DJ, Mobile TV, music downloads, video telephony and Vodafone live! with 3G. It features a TFT colour display (176×220 pixels) with 262,144 colors, 1.3 megapixel CMOS digital camera with a resolution of up to 1280x 960 pixels, 16MB internal memory expendable with microSD slot, integrated Mp3 Players, USB and Bluetooth connectivity. It measures 91 x 46 x 24 mm and weighs 99g. This Phone will be launched in UK, Germany, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Netherlands, Romania and Portugal from early October 2006.

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ShinyMedia provides the hands on look on the O2 Ice the latest candybar-style phone. Video…
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Sony Ericsson released its K320i, it comes with a 1.8-inch TFT-LCD screen, 1.3-megapixel camera, 15MB internal memory, Bluetooth 2.0, USB connectivity, and a media player. It also features a full HTML web browser for web browsing. Pricing and availability has not been announced.

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By the end of year 2008, Coca-Cola will equip its 200,000 vending machine to accept payment via mobile phone in Japan. Coca-Cola in Japan said that by the end of 2008 all its vending machine will accept Felicia, contact less credit cards on mobile phones developed by cellular industry leader NTT DoCoMo and electronics giant Sony. With this system, you will able to buy any soft drink, coffee, tea or fruit drink in Coca-Cola machines in Japan by holding up a mobile to the machine, with the cost of the refreshment going on a monthly phone bill. Felicia cards are increasingly accepted as payment in stores and public transportation in Japan.

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The Toshiba 811T clamshell mobile phone, it supports W-CDMA and triband GSM (900 / 1800 / 1900 Mhz). This 3G phone comes with a monochrome OLED external display so you can control the music player and reject calls without opening the phone and the internal display is 2.4 inches wide supports a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels and 262,000 colors. It includes built-in stereo speakers which deliver a decent output and a 3.2 Megapixel camera with LED Flash and a 0.3 Megapixel (QVGA) for video conferencing. It also includes a Micro SD card slot for memory expansion (up to 1GB), Bluetooth, Infrared, GPS, and dedicated Yahoo access key. The Toshiba 811T is exclusive to Vodafone Japan and be available by November.

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Japan’s NTT DoCoMo announced that its mobile networks are compatible now with international networks so when you step in Tokyo next time you will be able to use your existing cell phone and vice versa.

Presenting the Sharp 801SH, it is compatible with W-CDMA and GSM networks. It comes with a 2.4 inch display VGA resolution 480 x 640 which is capable of displaying 262k colors. It also include Bluetooth, Micro SD card slot which can support up 1GB, Music player, Dual 2-Megapixel camera with video recording, xHTML browser and video conferencing. The 801SH features a dedicated key to access Yahoo Japan’s mobile services. You can safe guard your address book and important data which is private using Hollywood style face recognition in which the phone will grant access after you verify yourself using the camera, this is cool. It measures 50×100×21mm and weighs 17 grams and will be available in six colors in Japan. One more pic…
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Here’s a new interesting concept phone from BenQ Siemens, the Black box. It uses a touch screen as keypad. It depends on the function you’re using, the touch screen change the control layout immediately.

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LG and Philips partnered to develop the slimmest LCD in the world for cell phones. it measures only at 1.3mm thick. The new LCD should allows manufacturer to dip below that 6.9mm crown held by Samsung’s SGH-X820 yet up the display brightness from 300 to 400 nits. They did not mention when this screen will go into production.

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