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A Quadband GSM with EGDE and HSDPA/UMTS slider phone with 8.1megapixel camera with Xenon and LED flashes! This camera beat my Samsung NV 10 to pulp with Image stablizer, face detection, BestPic and smart contrast.

For viewing, it comes with 2.4″ QVGA TFT display with scratch-resistant mineral glass material. To store the images, it has 160MB onboard memory with M2 expansion card slot. Send the pictures to your friends with Wi-Fi, USB or Bluetooth or find them with built-in GPS (with A-GPS). Entertain with a FM radio and multimedia player, view the internet with automatic screen orientation for horizontal viewing or show the world with the TV-out ITC-60 cable. All in with a size of 104 x 49 x 18mm at 136g.

Extract from Sony Ericsson UK

The iPhone is finally coming to Singapore shores more than a year since it’s launch, in the form of iPhone 3G, a second generation of the iPhone.
With fast 3G wireless technology, GPS mapping, support for enterprise features like Microsoft Exchange, and the new App Store. And like the original iPhone, it combines a phone, a widescreen iPod, and an Internet device with rich HTML email and a desktop-class web browser.
It comes in 8GB Black or 16GB with Black or white, 2.0 megapixels camera, 480-by-320-pixel resolution, 3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen Multi-Touch display, Accelerometer, Proximity sensor, Ambient light sensor. All these at 12.3 mm thick and weigh 133g.
Sells at an estimated SGD270 for the 8GB version…

Update 180608: iPhone is not made for ladies with long fingernails. iPhone’s touch screen responds to the electrical charge emitted by fingertips. And pretty though they may be, fingernails don’t emit one. For more details read the Los Angeles Times.

Extracted from Apple Singapore

I must get myself an iPhone… or maybe i will get this first before the iPhone comes to Singapore…
“It’s your portal to the universe, so give it the protection it deserves. We crafted Unobtainium® rubber into a durable sure-grip design that helps protect your iPhone® from life’s abuse. The side has an open face for the screen, and the case geometry gives you full access to cord connections and controls. If you’re ready to go mobile with some style, this is the case you’ve been looking for.”

Extract from Oakley

I saw a dummy of this the other day at a Starhub roadshow in Bugis Junction. It looks pretty, and seems to a touch screen but with the familiar way of a keypad.
This phone is 115 x 53 x 11mm and 99g. 2-inch QVGA display, 2Gb memory expandable with microSD and a miserable 2 megapixels camera like my E51. FastScroll navigation wheel to search for music (music mode), contacts (phone mode), calendar (phone mode) and multimedia (imaging mode) and the phone provides vibrating, tactile feedback when the user touches virtual buttons. Will it be the next winner for Motorola?

Extract from Motorola

Looking like a high tech screen smacked into an analogue radio, SE has designed a radio with a built-in phone. Placed horizontally on a table, the R306 not only looks like a radio - it sounds the part too. It has a 5MB built-in memory, 1.3MP camera, WAP2 XHTML and bluetooth.

Extract from SE R306i

Sony Ericsson W980i has a clamshell design with big playback buttons and display on its cover. Has 8GB internal memory, HSDPA high speed Internet connectivity and specialized music features. (240 x 320) 262,144 colors screen, clean lines and big keys with a very nice 30s typewriter retro touch, a 3.2 megapixel camera with video recording. Has MP3 and AAC compatibility, Bluetooth Stereo A2DP and TrackID to automagically identify untagged songs in any place. It also includes a built-in FM radio transmitter!… as well as Shake Control, so you can change songs by doing a quick gesture with your phone.

Extract from Sony Ericsson

Samsung’s Ultra Edition range will get a revamp with their new Soul, a 7.2Mbps HSDPA cellphone which, at only 12.9mm thick, it comes with auto focus 5MP camera, 2.2″ 320 x 240 pixel full-color display, SD slot and a touchpad display system that will morph the user interface, changing icons according to the application you are using. For example, in music mode playback controls will appear, but whilst sending an SMS these will be replaced with editing functions.

Extract from akihabaranews

Sony Ericsson has just announced a slew of new cellphones, and a new alphabet for it’s Cybershot range thats gone back to machine type of language. The C902i will boast a 5MP camera with auto focus, HSDPA, 160MB internal memory, M2 card slot, 2-inch TFT (240 x 320) display with 260K colors and a choice of either black or red. There is also a bunch of photo orientated software in-built, including BestPic, face detection and image stabilization.
The C702i will have similar features to the C902i, but will offer a 3.2MP camera, 2.2-inch TFT (240 x 320) display with 260K colors, A2DP supported Bluetooth and either a black or cyan blue color.
Look at the blue glow strip… that’s not the flash. Don’t know what it is.
See the screw at the base. Splash and dust resistant cover, that is.

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Extract from SE C702

At 10.4mm wide, it sports a keypad that is covered by a flap that folds down when you’re on a call. When closed you can access convenient Walkman controls to play your music and shuffle tracks. There’s a 1.3-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, messaging and email, an FM radio, a 262,144-color display, a speakerphone, triband and personal organizer applications.
But the picture below looks  like a rendering… and strangely like an expired phone design…

Extract from CNET Asia

Freedom Phone is a concept pre-paid phone that comes with 60, 100 or 200 minutes of talk time. Does not need a SIM card and charges in 10 short minutes. The phone number, important service and other information are located on the back of the Freedom Phone. Best of all, the Freedom Phone is so small and slim.
But what I like is only the looks…

Extract from Yanko Design