LG (phones/lg/index.html) Electronics unveiled the world’s first market-ready Touch Watch Phone (Model: GD910 (phones/lg/lg-watch-mobile-phone-gd910.html) ) with 3G Video Telephony and GSM Quadband Network capabilities at CES 2009.This wearable phone is a follow-up to the prototype that LG introduced at CES 2008 and includes a number of upgrades, including a full touchscreen interface, 3G capabilities and video calling. Most importantly, this watch phone will actually be available for purchase.
W715 Walkman (phones/sonyericsson/sony-ericsson-w715-vodafone.html) phone features the same sound quality as the W980 Walkman (phones/sonyericsson/sony-ericsson-w980.html) phone, which was rated ‘best audio experience’ in independent tests(conducted in Germany by TESTfactory). The W715 includes popular Walkman features such as the music recognition application TrackID, SensMe for matching your mood to the music, and Shake Control to change tracks with the flick of a wrist and Vodafone Music for access to single and album downloads. The W715 Walkman will be available in two colours: Galactic Black and Luxury Silver, starting from Q1 2009.
Sony Ericsson (zoom/page,search/type,quicksearch/sstring,ericsson/Itemid,26/) today announces its first mobile phone with Smile Shutter, technology that detects a person’s smile and immediately takes the photo, wrapped up in its most affordable Cyber-shot phone to date; the C510 Cyber-shot (phones/sonyericsson/sony-ericsson-c510.html) . The Smile Shutter technology will also be added to the 8.1 megapixel camera phone C905 Cyber-shot (phones/sonyericsson/sony-ericsson-c905.html) , launched in November 2008. The C510 sports a 3.2 MP camera with autofocus, has face detection technology, auto-rotation screen, Snapfish by HP for printing, YouTube , Photo Fix and SMS conversation history.The C510 will be available in selected markets from Q1 2009.
Sony Ericsson (phones/sonyericsson/index.html) announced a new addition to the Walkman family, the W508 (phones/sonyericsson/sony-ericsson-w508.html) . It features a 3.2 megapixel camera, HSDPA, Walkman player, a 1GB card included in the package and comes in a variety of attractive color combinations:- Metal Grey with one extra Style-Up cover: Sunny Orange, Forest Green, Architectural Purple or Mysterious Graffiti - Poetic White with one extra Style-Up cover: Midnight Summer, Splashed Art, Radial Blue or Street Hip-hop.The W508 will be available from Q2 2009.
There are rumours floating around that the T-Mobile G2 will be launching in February 2009. The T-Mobile G2 will be more like the iPhone 3G and it will feature a large sized touch screen display but no physical QWERTY keyboard. The T-Mobile G2 will also be launched by other operators other than T-Mobile with different names. Here are the rumoured .........
Motorola (phones/motorola/index.html) today announced MOTOSURF A3100 (phones/motorola/motorola-a3100.html) – a high-speed touch tablet with a fully customizable home screen wich will debut this week at the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.“We developed the MOTOSURF A3100 as a true social smartphone,” said John Cipolla, senior vice president, product development, Motorola Mobile Devices. “Home screen personalization and access to a whole host of applications gets the info you want – fast, and at your fingertips.”
Motorola (phones/motorola/index.html) today announced the world’s first mobile phone made using plastics comprised of recycled water bottles, the W233 Renew (phones/motorola/motorola-renew-w233.html) .It features a 128 x 128 65K CSTN display (1.6”), measures 45 x 110.97 x 14.7 mm, microSD card support up to 2GB and has a standby up to 18 days. Motorola Renew is expected to be available beginning in Q1 2009.
Samsung (phones/samsung/index.html) is preparing a new 8 Megapixel mobile phone slider, the S8300. It features a 2.8-inch WQVGA 16 million OLED touch screen display, 8 mp camera with autofocus, GPS receiver, 7.2Mbps HSDPA, DivX video support, FM radio with RDS, bluetooth 2.1, microSD card support and 60MB internal memory.The Samsung S8300 is set to go on sale sometime in March 2009, pricing to be confirmed.