Mobile phones are becoming more and more like digital photo cameras, and I'm not just talking about their technical specifications, but about their appearence. Take a look at the picture and try to see a phone there.

This is the G800 model from Samsung, wich features a 5 megapixels autofocus camera, xenon flash and a 3x optical zoom. Turning to the telephone aspect of the product, let's mention something like HSDPA connectivity, Bluetooth and stereo speakers.

The other mobile Samsung is releasing soon, is the F700, which doesn't have the stereo speakers, a 3x optical zoom or Bluetooth, but it features a QWERTY keyboard and a 2.8" touchscreen. It shares the rest of the G800's other characteristics.

Link: gsmArena.

Nokia unveiled their latest handsets at the Nokia GoPlay event being held in London. The new handsets are the N95 8GB, the N81, N81 8GB and the e XpressMusic handsets - 5610 and 5310.

The Nokia N95 8GB, the world's greatest multimedia computer, just got greater. With all the key features of its predecessor, including a 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, built-in A-GPS, WLAN, HSDPA and an innovative 2-way slide, the Nokia N95 8GB now offers up to eight gigabytes of built-in memory. The N95 8GB also boasts a new luminous 2.8" QVGA display - one of the largest ever for a multimedia computer - so that watching videos, browsing the Internet or viewing maps is easy. The N95 8GB is expected to begin shipping in the fourth quarter of 2007 with an estimated retail price of EUR 560 before subsidies or taxes.

If you weren't on the line waiting to buy one, here's a short list of features which the iPhone has... or not:

    - The mobile version of OS X or whatever it is the iPhone runs takes up 700MB of the device's capacity.     - There's no way to cut, copy, or paste text!
    - No A2DP support. That, friends, is such a huge bummer right there.
    - Sorry, music can't be used as a ringtone -- even if it's just a raw MP3. No additional ringtones will be sold at launch.
    - On a PC the iPhone syncs with Outlook for calendars AND addresses! Nice.
    - It supports Exchange in some capacity, according to Walt, but he doesn't exactly say how.

Didn't have enough to make up your mind? Go to Engadget and read the whole list, then.

Or at least, they are prepared to ship the 3 million units planned for sale in 2007. "Worried about not being able to grab an iPhone when it launches on June 29? Don’t be. According to BusinessWeek’s sources, Apple plans to have a whopping 3 million iPhones for sale on launch day, dwarfing nearly all other consumer device launches in history."
With an entry price of $499, Apple still believes they will have sold 10 million units by the end of 2008 (40 million in 2009). A rather optimistic forecast considering that, by that time, you will be able to buy a much cheaper clone that doesn't force you to use their propietary iTunes format (which is far worse than Ogg).

I have never been much into mobile phones myself, but this one is so much more than a phone (closer to a PDA, actually), looks so cool and has such a big touchscreen...

Link: DailyTech.

 

It is the most awaited phone of the year... since the phone has been announced back in September, I have been eagerly waiting to get my hands on this one. No other gadget has ever excited me this much... and today, I have it with me... Its the Nokia N95.

Armed with a 5MP camera capable of shooting video at 30fps in VGA resolution, a GPS receiver, stereo speakers, a host of connectivity options, a massive 2.6 inch QVGA display, a unique 2-way slider design - this phone is definitely a gadget lover's dream come true. But does the N95 live up to its hype and does it really deliver what Nokia promised - let's find out in this review!

Not content with blasting our ears with her music, Miss Beyonce recently launched her own mobile phone with a little help from Samsung. If you don't mind the naff superstar endorsement, the phone looks to have plenty of features to keep consumers happy.

The Ultra Music Samsung F300 dual-face handset design is fresh and stylish. On one side is a large, clear screen with a sweep touch key that makes music control simple, intuitive, and fun. Flip over to the other side for a Samsung mobile phone.

The F300 is a complete music player phone with superb sound quality. It is equipped with a digital power amp and offers a dedicated music user interface for a quick and easy way to navigate through the play list. In addition, the Ultra Music Samsung F300 includes a stereo FM radio and a Quick PC Sync function, allowing users to easily create and organize their music library. The F300 mobile has lots of extra features consumers have come to expect, including a 2.0 mega-pixel camera, and microSD™ slot for memory expansion - all of this in a extremely portable 9.4mm slim profile. 

If you thought the Apple iPhone looked swish with it's touchscreen display, check out the design on the Blank phone by Chris Kujawski. The OLED touchscreen wraps around the entire face of the mobile phone and can take any assortment of skins that allow your mobile to come to life.

Utilizing a flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) touchscreen, BLANK is based on the principle that the device that you carry with you most often should reflect your personality as much as the clothes you wear, car you drive or music you listen to. Since those may evolve from season to season, your phone needs to accommodate that. By providing a 'blank slate' in the form of the OLED touchscreen that wraps the entire front of the phone, you are free to express yourself in any number of ways vby downloading static or even kinetic skins.

Hands-On Mobile is one of the biggest developers of connected games and applications. If you like a bit of air guitar, you be pleased to head they have recently announced an agreement with Activision to bring the wildly popular Guitar Hero franchise to mobile devices.

"Guitar Hero is an epic game experience that has mushroomed into a cultural phenomenon," said Erik Pavelka, Vice President of Business Development, Hands-On Mobile. "We are thrilled to bring this award-winning franchise to mobile and to continue our successful relationship with Activision."

"The lifestyle of music is strongly immersed into our everyday culture, and having Guitar Hero on mobile platforms will now allow our dedicated fans the opportunity to passionately feel the music, anytime and anywhere," said Dusty Welch, head of publishing at RedOctane. "Hands-On Mobile has extensive experience and success in bringing established franchises to mobile devices, and we greatly look forward to extending the Guitar Hero brand to mobile users."

Since its launch in 2005, Guitar Hero quickly became one of the most popular console games, with Guitar Hero II topping the charts as the best-selling console and handheld game in dollars for the U.S. for the month of December.

With Guitar Hero, Hands-On Mobile expands its current crop of top-selling mobile games and applications. These include the Activision franchise Call of Duty, as well as other top brands.

 

If you love your Crackberry, you'll be pleased to hear that you can book a service to transfer emails and attachments to a laptop monitor or Bluetooth printer.

ThinPrint now offers its Mobile Document Output System Content Beamer for BlackBerry (think Star Trek transporter but without the cool special effects) as a hosted solution. BlackBerry users can print their emails and attachments through Bluetooth or can transfer to a laptop monitor with Print to Screen function. The service costs 7.98 Euros a month. It's also possible to send documents to fax machines or to compose and send faxes direct from your Crackberry. There's a free 10 days trial for users to give it a whirl.

The functions are accessible within a few minutes. The requirements are simply a registration and a download of the client software. After setting up the software on the BlackBerry handset, the BlackBerry applications, news, adress book, calendar, tasks and notes will automatically show a new „print“ menu option, which enables sending content to printers or laptop monitors. This solution is available in connection with the BlackBerry® Internet Service as well as the BlackBerry Enterprise Server.

Individual BlackBerry users also have the chance to upgrade their office functions for their BlackBerry smartphone with Cortado”, says Dirk Löwenberg, Business Director of Cortado Services. “For firms with a larger number of BlackBerry users and a BlackBerry Enterprise Server we offer the Content Beamer for BlackBerry, Corporate Version.

Advanced technologies, new functionality, sleek designs and color appeal to working titans 3GSM World Congress 2007. Nokia introduced the second wave of the Nokia Eseries portfolio with a trio of feature-packed, design-rich devices - the all-inclusive Nokia E90 Communicator, the stylish slider Nokia E65 device, and the slim email-optimized Nokia E61i device. Each new Nokia Eseries device features a combination of advanced technologies.

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