If you remember Neonode, the company that annouced a small touch screen phone back in 2002, get ready to hear from them again! They are announcing a new phone at 3GSM, Barcelona that will take place next week. The Swedish firm has actually launched an improvised version of the Neonode, the N1 November of 2004. The phone was launched only in a few European countries but didn't quite a splash.

Now Neonode is apparently coming out with a new Neonode phone. The new phone on February 12th, and will be making its first public appearance just a few hours later at the 3GSM World Congress. Lets hope they won't disappoint us this time at least. The picture shown above is from the Neonode site which is kinda funny.

Nokia has upgraded one of it’s N series, the N80, now called N80ie or the N80 Internet Edition. There’s no hardware upgrade, only some softwares being added to the mobile phone to make it more web friendly.

The new phone includes a download client that provides an easy way to get new apps on the handset. In addition, there are shortcuts for Yahoo Go, Gizmo VoIP, F-Secure, and other programs preloaded on the device for easy download.

The N80ie also features multimedia capabilities, including a 3-megapixel camera, a built-in music player, and an FM tuner. The quad-band device also has Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and PIM functionality. The N80ie is available now and costs US$499.99.

AsusTek unveiled it's first 3G enabled phone - the P735. This phone is basically just a 3G version of the P535. Contrary to P526 and its digital keyboard, P735 will not have a keyboard to him and its design will be very similar to that of P535 and features a front camera for making video calls.

With a broad range of network connectivity options such as UMTS 2100 Mhz, GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900 Mhz, GPRS Class 10 and even Bluetooth 2.0, the P735 allows the mobile executive to be truly connected.

"As phones become increasingly powerful, consumers are asking for one device that works for all aspects of life, in and out of the office," said Mr. Jason Lim, Regional Director, Asia Pacific and Japan, Mobile and Embedded Devices Division, Microsoft Corp. "With the Windows Mobile-powered P735, ASUS is helping people make the professional and personal connections when and where they need them."

The P735 is packed with many business applications to help make scheduling and working on the go simpler and more efficient. Utilizing the Windows Mobile Operating System platform, users can view and edit documents in Excel and Word.

With ASUS's Remote Presenter, users can control Powerpoint presentations stored on a notebook via a Bluetooth connection. They can even read the footnotes on the P735's screen as they are presenting.

Another added function to help save contacts easily is the P735's business card recognition feature. The in-built 2M pixel auto-focus camera can pick out business card details and store them directly into the contacts section – omitting the need to carry all the business cards around.

The P735 features 256MB of onboard Flash, a 2 megapixel primary and VGA front-facing cams, 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, and a miniSD expansion slot. The phone is expected to be available in March and there is no word yet on pricing. It is unknown whether this phone will run the Crossbow - Microsoft's latest Mobile OS offering.

 

Motorola, has announced the new MotoRAZRmaxx V6 Ferrari Challenge Mobile Phone Limited Edition.
The MotoRAZRmaxx V6 Ferrari Challenge Mobile Phone Limited Edition offers a series of exclusive features like the Ferrari emblem on the exterior glass, the roar of the Ferrari F1 eight-cylindre engine that accompanies the switching of the handset on or off.

The phone has features HSPDA capabilities and sports images of the Ferrari F430 engine on the mini external display and the image of the Ferrari emblem on a grey Ferrari in the internal display.

The phone there are also thirty photographic images showing Ferrari F430 and Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli USA. The MotoRAZRmaxx V6 Ferrari Challenge Mobile Phone Limited Edition comes with a soft, hand-made carry case in Ferrari-red leather.

"We are very proud today to announce our partnership with Ferrari", said Valerio Camardella, Director MDB Motorola S.p.A. Italy. "The telephone we are presenting is a mix of style, quality and speed, all attributes which have always characterized the Ferrari name and its products. Joining forces with a market leading brand such as Ferrari was a natural move, because both our companies share a passion for research and innovation, always accompanied by elegance and design."

The MotoRAZRmaxx V6 Ferrari Challenge Mobile Phone Limited Edition will be available in the five continents starting January 29, 2007, from Ferrari Stores and all major Motorola dealers, at the recommended price of €490.00.

As an unexpected information leak confirmed, Motorola has plans for releasing a handful of new handsets in 2007. Those include MOTO RIZR Z8, MOTO KRZR K3, MOTO Q2 HSDPA, MOTO Q GSM/EDGE plus the budget W360, W205, w510, W395 mobiles.

The Motorola RIZR Z8 is an updated version of the Motorola RIZR Z6 which is already officially announced but isn't yet available. Its front camera most clearly reveals that we are dealing with a 3G handset here. The next mobile, MOTOKRZR Z3, is again an updated version - this time of the Motorola KRZR K1 clamshell. It would also boast 3G functionality with video calls as the pictures reveal.

Motorola would also be adding a number of budget handsets to its mobile portfolio - the bar form factor mobiles Motorola W360 and Motorola W205 and the clamshells Motorola W510 and the Motorola W395.

More about the future 2007 Motorola mobiles would be unveiled at the 3GSM in Barcelona this February.

Samsung is putting some serious effort in the slim phones segment. They are slimming down the slimmest phones in market today. They made the famous Ultra Edition 6.9 (aka, X820) even slimmer with the new Ultra Edition 5.9 (pictured).

The phone is a complete millimeter thinner than the X820. The V-shaped buttons make the keypad looks like the one found on Vertu phones. The camera has been upgraded to 3.2 megapixels, and nothing else changed apart from this: tri-band GSM, Bluetooth, audio/video player, TV output and 80 MB of memory with no card slot.

Samsung gave the Ultra Edition 12.9 slider a face lift too by shaving 2 millimeters off its thickness. But the features remain the same - 3.2 megapixel camera, quad-band GSM, QVGA 240x320 display, 80MB internal memory possibly with a microSD slot, Bluetooth, audio/video player and TV out. The phone is expected to arrive in 2007 Q2.

After the success of Cybershot and Walkman branded phones, Sony Ericsson revealed yet another new phone, this time featuring a built-in TV-Tuner. What's so special about this - we've already seen phones with TV-Tuners, you ask? This phone's display uses the Sony Bravia technology which is being used in Sony's latest  HDTVs.

The Sony Ericsson SO903iTV is intended to be launched in June. It has a 3-inch widescreen in landscape orientation, a 2 megapixel camera, microSD card support and, a TV tuner with time-shift recording. Noticed that, the Memory Stick is finally gone!

The phone measures 111×50×19.5mm and weighs 130 grams the phone will be available in three colors white, black and red. The SO903iTV will only be available on NTT DoCoMo in Japan.

Tag Heuer has announced that it'll also be making their own branded mobile phones. The phone will be designed by Paris-based ModeLabs, and is expected to be launched in the next quarter.

The phone is expected to be made of stainless steel and to have many similarities to Tag Heuer watches, so using this information Dial-a-Phone have mocked-up a picture. The likelihood is that the phone will be in the form of “phone” rather than a watch, but you never know!

Their mockups make the watches looked so packed with features. A touch screen (inspired by Tissot's T-Touch), built-in speaker and microphone above and below the dial, MP3 playback, Bluetooth, vibration.

There is no information on pricing yet, but stay with us as we bring you any updates on this as soon as they are available.

Nokia is finally offering a USB charger adapters that will work with any Nokia phone. The world is finally changing. After most phones have started offering miniUSB ports which double up for charging through USB, and China trying to make it compulsory to include USB ports in all phones, Nokia seems to have realized this.
 
There are two models available, a 2mm one (CA-100) and a 3.5mm one (CA-70). No word on the price or availability, however. Nokia has already included a miniUSB port in phones like the 5300 XpressMusic edition. But you can't charge via this port.

Although this is a nice move by Nokia, I wish to see the latest Nokia phones with the miniUSB port instead of their proprietary  Pop-Port.

Today LG officially confirmed their upcoming LG Prada phone. Featuring a full touch-control design, the new handset is the result from the collaboration between the Korean manufacturer and the Prada design team.

The unique thing about it is the large touchcreen menu interface which eliminates the need for a conventional keypad whatsoever. We cannot help but think about the newly announced iPhone by Apple which though would be much larger and would run under the OS X. The LG KE850 Prada phone on the other hand would be only 12 mm run with a Macromedia Flash user interface.

The Prada phone features a large 3" LCD touchscreen display with yet unknown resolution and would also have a 2 megapixel camera with Schneider-Kreuznach optics and a microSD memory card slot.

The most interesting thing about the display itself is that it's made using the capacitive touchscreen technology. What that means is that the screen uses electroconductivity to sense your touch - much like the touchpad on the popular LG Chocolate. This technology is made to be used with fingers only, so the use of a stylus is out of the question whatsoever.

Glowing icons on the face of the phone disappear when not in use to reveal a pure, un-adulterated black exterior. The phone hosts an array of additional multimedia functions, including an MP3 player and a music multitasking function for messaging. It also boasts an external memory slot, allowing the user to increase memory capacity for images, music and film clips.

The KE850 will be available for 600 EUR in the UK, France, Germany and Italy by late February, 2007, followed by countries in Asia such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore from late March, 2007. The Korean version of the phone is scheduled to launch in the second quarter of 2007.
SOURCE URL: GSMArena