Chanel Choco Concept Phone

Chanel is jumping onto the fashionable cell phone bandwagon with their new concept dreamed up by Fred de Garihe - Chanel Choco Concept Phone. Fred de GARILHE, the designer of this concept phone wanted the global aspect not to look like a phone, more like a make up package. We guess Chanel wants to follow the footsteps of Prada by unveiling a cell phone in the near future.

On the first glance this doesn’t look like a phone at all! When the phone is closed, it looks like a chocolate piece, but made from white, black, or yellow gold surface.When the phone is closed, it looks like a chocolate piece, but made from white, black, or yellow gold surface, always the same goal on presenting popular objects in a luxury style.

It is specially designed to function with an optical fiber system and display image between two glass parts. There are 12 micro lighter fibers, that throw image components to the glass, that offer a quite good luminosity, and keep the mobile phone concept as light as possible.All lights only appear when you open the phone, by pushing removable part on the side of it.


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Samsung W599, the Latest Dual SIM Phone

Samsung unveiled these days another dual SIM mobile phone, Samsung W599 (or Samsung SCH-W599), which will first be launched in China. The South Korean company seems to give
a special attention to dual SIM devices, as these are currently very popular in Asia and they could also become "wanted" in Europe and the US.

The new W599 comes in a compact candybar form factor, and its navigation keys are interestingly integrated as to form a circle. The phone does not have a hardware keypad, hence most of the data input is made through its 2.4 inch touchscreen display with 260K colors, a QVGA (240 x 320) resolution and handwriting recognition. Samsung W599 can operate on both CDMA and GSM networks and comes with dual SIM technology, allowing you to use two SIM cards at the same time, just like you would have owned two phones. Except these more than welcome features, Samsung W599 also offers FM radio, Music and Video players, Bluetooth, email, Instant Messaging, Wap browser, a 2 Megapixel camera, embedded games, 34MB of internal memory and microSD card support for several extra GBs. The phone measures 103.1 x 53 x 16.4 millimeters and includes a 1200 mAh Li-Ion battery that should provide a decent talk-time / stand-by time.

Samsung W599 will soon be available across China, branded under the AnyCall series, for a retail price of 4,490 yuan. This means around $640 or 405 Euro, which is kind of expensive. But then again, most of the dual-SIM handsets have a "higher than normal" price, and W599 is far from being an entry-level device after all.



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Motorola M990 Smart Rider Phone

Motorola Launched today a new M990 Smart Rider phone. Strange as it is to believe, Motorola have developed a fixed carphone. This device is specifically designed to be installed in a car. It spotted in an FCC approval document, is described as a GSM high tier fixed mobile car phone and is a quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE handset with integrated GPS and Bluetooth.

The FCC documentation describes it as “targeted to a broad band of markets looking for exclusivity like business men, limousines and private cars looking for stylish communication and navigation solution, which seems a pretty unusual and old-fashioned brief.The Moto M990 is a strange looking device, has a wide 2.8-inch colored display screen that has the resolution of 320×240 pixels.

The device comes with full GPS navigation system.The navigation system has integrated traffic reports and features real-time rerouting. Moto M990 is a car phone with the dimensions of 137×85mm and weight of 400 grams.

It also features an advanced voice recognition system that can be used for dialling calls or handset control, Bluetooth, an email client, web browser and quad-band GSM with GPRS and EDGE data support.

The M990 itself connects to all the other components via an “Octopus Cable”. This means that the M990 will usually require a professional installation. The handset itself can be unplugged from the cable, so it can be removed from the car or truck when not in use.


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VTech IS6110 Cordless Phone with IM Services

Leading cordless phone manufacturer VTech(R) Communications, Inc. has announced its latest cordless landline phone system to enable instant messaging (IM) and instant voice using a full QWERTY called the IS6110. One glance at the phone and you can tell it was designed to resemble mobile smartphones with its design.

The QWERTY thumb-style keyboard is to make the instant messaging capabilities of the phone easier to use. Beyond the traditional landline capabilities, the IS6110 offers free access to MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, and AOL (News - Alert) Instant Messenger. To use the device, the base unit simply needs to be connected via a USB port to the PC.Operating on the latest DECT platform for outstanding call clarity, security and interference-free conversations, the IS6110 gives users the option to make and receive landline calls or instant messages (IM) or instant voice (IV) calls.

The IS6110 offers unique technology and design, as well as other key features, including a handset speakerphone and phone book directory. The phone is designed to be environmentally friendly, as it is ENERGYSTAR ( News - Alert)-rated; it offers an extra large, high-resolution color display for clear and easy viewing; features Caller ID and call waiting, recordable ringtones, and a voicemail waiting indicator.


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Nokia 2680 slide and Nokia 1680 classic

Besides the Nokia 5000, Nokia introduced the new Nokia 2680 slide and Nokia 1680 classic handsets for emerging markets on 2 April 2008. these two handsets are targeted at consumers who are looking for a good value phone that still has plenty of useful features, while looking smart at the same time.A common feature the four new phones have, besides being affordable, is the fact that they all come with support for dual-band GSM networks (either 900/1800 MHz or 850/1900 MHz), hence they can work almost anywhere in the world, since GSM is the global standard for mobile networks.Features of the Nokia 2680 slide include an FM radio with recording capability, MP3 ringtones, and a VGA resolution camera. Despite being quite cheap, the 2680 Slide still comes with Bluetooth, FM radio, email client and web browser. The display is a basic 128 x 160 pixel panel, and talktime is slightly over 3 hours.
The Nokia 2680 slide is expected to begin shipping in the third quarter of 2008 with an estimated retail price of EUR 75 (~$117) before subsidies and taxes.Nokia 1680 Classic is a candy bar that comes as the cheapest Nokia camera phone. The Nokia 1680 classic is Nokia’s most affordable cameraphone to date.
Nokia 1680 Classic features a very basic VGA camera that can’t offer good quality photos, but at least you can take occasional snapshots when there’s no better device near at hand. Besides ,1680 Classic also packs a TFT 128 x 160 pixels screen with support for 65K colors, email and Instant Messaging (but no Web browser), Java MIDP 2.0, English-Chinese dictionary and a Li-Ion 700 mAh battery said to offer more than 7 hours of talk-time and up to 424 hours of stand-by time.
The Nokia 1680 classic is expected to begin shipping in the second quarter of 2008 with an estimated retail price of EUR 50 (~$78) before subsidies and taxes.


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Nokia 7070 Prism

Besides Nokia 5000, Nokia also introduced 3 more other new mobile phones at the Growing Together 2008 conference held in Johannesburg on 2 April 2008: Nokia 2680 slide, Nokia 7070 Prism and Nokia 1680 classic.

The Nokia 7070 Prism is a stylish and very inexpensive fashion phone, and is the third handset in Nokia’s quirky “Prism” series. The Nokia 7070 Prism sells for only 50 Euro (~$78) before subsidies and taxes.The Nokia 7070 Prism has a 128 x 160 pixel TFT display, an indicator light on the outside, it supports GPRS for basic web browsing and it has an email client too. The Nokia 7070 Prism offers personalized content, including themes and wallpapers, and MP3-grade ringtones. Other features of the 7070 Prism include voice recorder and integrated hands-free speaker. The internal memory is 11MB which is a fair amount for a basic phone.

There’s no camera or multimedia player, and the Nokia 7070 Prism doesn’t support Bluetooth.



General 2G Network GSM 900 / 1800
GSM 850 / 1900 - US version
Announced 2008, April
Status Available. Released 2008, August
Size Dimensions 87.5 x 44 x 15.8 mm, 52 cc
Weight 78 g
Display Type TFT, 65K colors
Size 128 x 160 pixels, 1.8 inches
Sound Alert types Vibration; Downloadable polyphonic, MP3 ringtones
Speakerphone Yes
Memory Phonebook 1000 entries, Photocall
Call records 20 dialed, 20 received, 20 missed calls
Internal 11 MB
Card slot No
Data GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
HSCSD No
EDGE Class 6, 177.6 kbps
3G No
WLAN No
Bluetooth No
Infrared port No
USB No
Camera No
Features Messaging SMS, MMS
Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML
Radio No
Games Yes + downloadable
Colors Black & Pink accent, Black & Blue accent
GPS No
Java Yes, MIDP 2.0
- Nokia Xpress Audio Messaging
- Light indicator
- T9
- Organizer
Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 700 mAh (BL-4B)
Stand-by Up to 416 h
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Nokia N82 Black version

The Finland giant Nokia silently released the highly expected and speculated Nokia N82 Black version. The phone appeared nowhere else but in the USA Nokia online store with an "Unlocked" status. The sleek Nokia N82 Black version is already available for purchase at a price of $629.00 with free shipping for USA.Let's refresh your memory with the Nokia N82 main features, starting with the HSDPA with video calls and quad-band GSM support. The 100MB of integrated memory is complemented by the microSD memory slot. The 2.4" 16M color QVGA TFT display is among the other highlights.Nokia N82, a phone we reviewed in detail, is pretty much identical in hardware to the N95. It has 5 megapixel autofocus camera with Carl Zeiss optics, capable of capturing 30fps MPEG4 videos at VGA resolution, and has a TV-out port to watch those on your TV set.

The most significant difference to the Nokia N95 is however the built-in xenon flash which highlights the photo-centric nature of the Nokia N82, as well as the screen auto rotation.


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LG Wine Phone

Yes, she is the prettiest woman to have ever held a new cell phone model, for me anyway. The new LG fashion phone she is dubbed LG Wine. Yes, it rhymes with Shine and it’s also cheaper at 300,000 KRW or $322. Unlike the LG Shine and the LG Prada, the Wine has very little to boast about in terms of its specs. It is equipped with a 1.3MP camera. The LG Chocolate and its several iterations had 1.3MP cameras for the longest time, and it has been among the top complaints, along with the touch controls, of users of such a sophisticated phone.The Wine phone or LG SV300 will be available for Koreans starting May 25. As a successor of LG’s successful fashion phones - e.g. Chocolate, Shine, Prada - it has a distinctly feminine appeal to it. I would assume with its relatively low price and understated sophistication, it’s the younger women that will be most attracted to the phone.



Features

Bluetooth
Yes

Still Camera
Yes

Video Camera
Yes

Music Player
Yes
Display

Colors
Yes (262k)

Type
LCD (TFT)

Resolution
240 x 320 pixels

Secondary Display
Yes (128 x 160 pixels color TFT, 262k)
Battery/Power

Battery Type
Lithium Ion

Standby Time
200

Talk Time
300
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