Samsung announce that it has won the ‘Asia Mobile Award’ for ‘Best Mobile Broadband handset/device’ with Samsung Innov8 by GSMA. Geesung Choi, President of Samsung Telecommunication Business, said: “I’m delighted and honored to receive ‘Asia Mobile award’ with Samsung Innov8, the ultimate mobile entertainer, from GSMA. I believe that Samsung Innov8 is the best fit for Asian consumers who have sophisticated taste and passion for advanced technology.”
The 2008 awards judges described Samsung’s Innov8 as a “multimedia power house - fun, cool, a great package providing all the newest multimedia features - an impressive offering.”

Recognized as Samsung’s first ever 8-megapixel camera phone, the Samsung INNOV8 is ideal for users who want to capture and store precious memories in style with its 2.8″ 16M color LCD. The 8G or 16GB Flash memory and external memory slot upto additional 16G provides sufficient contents storage.

Supporting a wide range of video player formats including DivX, WMV, Real Player and MPEG4, users can enjoy an exciting pocket cinema experience. Its external dual speakers and 3D surround sound supported by DNSe 2.0, make every video clip and movie more realistic than ever. With an optical mouse and 4-way navigation key, users can enjoy PC-like browsing experience. Both HSDPA high speed Internet and WiFi connection offer convenient and seamless internet experience wherever users are.

Samsung Innov8 Specifications
# Network: HSDPA 7.2 Mbps (900/2100), EDGE / GPRS (850/900/1800/1900)
# Symbian OS V9.3, S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2
# Display: 2.8-inch VGA 16M TFT LCD
# Camera: 8 Megapixel CMOS with AF and Dual Power LED
# Smart Reader, Image Stabilizer, Auto-Panorama Shot, Smile Shot, Blink Shot, Wide Dynamic Range (WDR), Face Detection
# Video Player (DivX / H.263 / H.264 / WMV / MP4)
# QVGA 120 fps Video recording, VGA 30 fps recording
# FM Radio with RDS
# DNSe 2.0
# Music Player (MP3/ AAC / AAC+ / eAAC+ / WMA / AMR/ RealAudio)
# Bluetooth Stereo Headset (A2DP)
# A-GPS
# Optical Mouse, Accelerometer
# Embedded 3D Games : FIFA 2008, Asphalt
# Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA)
# Bluetooth 2.0 / USB 2.0 / Wi-Fi
# 16GB Flash + External Memory slot : microSDHC (up to 16GB)
# Size: 106.5 x 53.9 x 17.2 mm
# Battery: 1200 mAh
# Talk time: up to 300/510 min (3G/2.5G)
# Stand-by time: up to 330 / 310 hrs (3G/2.5G)

The Chinese phone Fly-Ying F620 is dual card，quan band and with tv function，the market price is only US$151.58.

The main feature is: * Support PDA
* Fashion TV phone
* Dual cards standby phone
* FM / MP3 / MP4 fluent player
* Left slide about changes 180 degrees
* Handsfree
* Alarm clock
* World time
* Calculator
* Voice recorder
* Support memory card to extend
* Support GPRS
* Calendar / Stopwatch
* Caller picture

While many are anticipating the arrival of the new Google phone (the G1) it turns out that perhaps nobody anticipates its arrival more than the company putting it out: T-Mobile. In anticipation of the phone’s October 22 release, T-Mobile has lifted the cap on its monthly data plan.

The amendment was made just one day after T-Mobile announced the G1 (the first smartphone to use Google’s Android operating system). The T-Mobile G1 will combine touch-screen functionality, a QWERTY keyboard with popular Google products such as Google Maps Street View, Gmail and YouTube.

T-Mobile stated it reserves the right to slow down traffic for a “a small fraction of our customers who have excessive or disproportionate usage that interferes with our network performance.”

For many converged device users, taking photographs is almost as important as using the phone for communication. In that line of thinking, LG has announced its latest handset, the KC780: A slim-design 8-megapixel camera phone with technology to automatically find and focus on people’s faces!

Coming in at just 13.9 mm thick, the KC780 somehow squeezes a 2.4-inch widescreen LCD display and a Schneider-Kreuznach certified 8-megapixel lens.

Face Detection software automatically locates human faces for clearer pictures. Using Smile Detection technology, the KC780 recognizes the angle of people’s mouths and adjusts focus for faces. LG’s SmartLight setting automatically fixes lighting. It has adjustable light sensitivity up to ISO 1600.

Built-in Image Stabilizer ensures photos come out clear and sharp, even when the user has the jitters. D1 Video recording captures DVD-resolution video and Smart Bluetooth allows to the phone to connect without wires to a PC.

The LG KC780 will go on sale in November 2008, later expanding to Europe, CIS and Asia. Price not yet determined.

Sometimes it almost seems like Apple must have a target painted on its back. Since the release of the iPhone G3 in particular, just about every company out there has made a bid on trying to lure buyers in their direction. The latest effort comes from a company already known for producing powerful converged devices (if up until now, focused on the business side of things). RIM (Research in Motion) has announced its latest touch-screen handset, the Blackberry Storm to go head to head with the iPhone.

The BlackBerry Storm will offer the world’s first ‘clickable’ touch screen. Users feel the screen being pressed and released with a gentle click, similar to the feeling of a mouse click. It will also add support for multi-touches, taps, slides and other touch-screen gestures, so customers can easily highlight, scroll, pan and zoom for smooth navigation.
Its SureType keyboard layout is available in portrait mode and a full QWERTY keyboard layout is available in landscape mode.

Like the iPhone, the Storm will make use of high-speed 3G Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) Revision A (Rev. A) technology for fast Internet browsing and multimedia applications. Users can navigate websites with the touch screen interface, double tapping to zoom in and sliding fingers to scroll and pan.

The browser supports file downloading, streaming audio and video (RTSP), and with its built-in RSS support, new content from supported websites can be automatically pushed to users.

The Blackberry Storm will be available later this year through Verizon Wireless in the United States and Vodafone in Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand.

The Chinese cell phone Giorgio Arnani only US $118.66.
Hot Spot
* Dual sim cards dual standby
* support to extend TF card to 8GB maximally
* Bluetooth
* Flat touch screen
* Super slim body phone
* E-book reader
* MP4,MP3
* Language :English/French/Vietnamese/Arabic/Russian
Features
1.2.6 touch screen, 260k QVGA ; PX: 240*320
2.500 group contacts
3.T-Flash Card Suphporting,256M TF for free ,support to extend TF card to 8GB maximally
4.0.3 Mega pixel camera for Picture & Video capability,solomobi.com test put out biggest size is 640*480
5. Stereo Loud speaker, 64 chord ring tone
6. MP3 & MP4 player
7. GPRS & WAP connectivity, MMS Transceive
8. U disk support function to keep the information storage
9. Bluetooth
11.calendar,To do list,Alarm,World Clock,Spotwatch
12.caller picture,caller Ring Tone
13. Telephone directories:200groups of contacts, support incoming call with big head sticker,group ring an Messages &Multimedia messaging:180SMS, support 100MMS; can use downloaded MP3 as SMS rings
14. Schedule power on/off: support to start/close under set time
15. Alarm clock:5 groups, support alarm clock when machine’s closed, can set from Monday to Sunday
16. Games: 2 common games
17.More informations:MP3/MP4/Handsfree/SMS group sending/Voice recorder/WAP/Handwritting/2.6 inch screen/Bluetooth/GPRS download/MMS/Memory extended/Radio/bluetooth/calendar/alarm clock/calculator//dual sim dual standby/E-book reader
Specifications
Network GSM900 / 1800mHz
SIZE ( L × W × H ) 87*54*11mm
BATTERY Lithium Batteries(2500mAh)
COLOR Black
STANDBY TIME About 240-360Hours
TALKING TIME About 3-5Hours

The Samsung Omnia i900 and the HTC Touch Diamond are the two hot iPhone-inspired Windows Mobile Professional slate touch screen phones for the summer of 2008. While both pervasively re-skin the less than sexy Windows Mobile OS to make it more fun, attractive and finger-friendly, their approaches couldn’t be more different. Samsung has taken a more practical, and ostensibly more mundane approach for those most part– but what it lacks in eye candy it makes up for with superior usability.

The Omnia (Latin for “all”) in fact has it all: a WQVGA haptic touch screen, quad band unlocked GSM, Euro-only 3G, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, FM radio, DivX certification, a 5 megapixel camera, 624MHz CPU, 8 or 16 gigs of storage and an SDHC microSD card slot. For those of us in the US, the Euro-only 3G takes “all” down one notch. The Omnia works fine on both T-Mobile and AT&T in the US, but you’re stuck with EDGE for data. Really, it’s hard to imagine that Samsung’s flagship PDA phone leaves out triband HSDPA. No carrier offers the Omnia in the US; instead it’s sold by online importers for approximately $700 (the 16 gig model sells for approximately $60 more than the 8 gig model). Prices may come down when the phone isn’t so new and hot.

The Omnia has few hardware controls. There are call send and end buttons and a touchpad/directional pad (more on that later) on the front lower section. The camera button and Main Menu launcher are on the right side, and the tiny power button is up top (the power button pulses in a variety of colors if you wish to indicate missed calls, new messages and reminders).

The entire brushed metal finish rear cover slides off to reveal the battery, SIM card slot and microSD card slot. Unfortunately, you’ve got to remove the battery to insert or remove a microSD card. Thankfully, the Omnia has mass storage mode and you can set either the internal storage or microSD card to mount on a PC or Mac’s desktop via a fast USB 2.0 connection.

The Omnia uses Samsung’s blade connector rather than mini-USB. This is the same connector as that on the Samsung BlackJack II, and their USB cables and chargers are interchangeable. Samsung uses the blade connector for the wired stereo headset as well. It’s a two part affair: the first section has the blade connector and ends with an inline mic module with volume controller. That module has a standard 3.5mm stereo headset jack so you can use the included earbuds or any headphones you wish.

Display

At 12.5mm (0.49″), the Omnia is very thin, and only 0.04″ thicker than the tiny Touch Diamond. The Omnia is just a hair wider and noticeably taller than the Diamond because it has to accommodate the large 3.2″ touch screen running at 400 x 240 pixel resolution. The Diamond’s display is 2.8″, though it runs at the even higher VGA resolution. This makes photos look sharper on the Diamond, but the drawback is that text, especially in Opera 9.5, can be hard to read. The Omnia really hits the sweet spot for screen size vs. resolution: it’s always easy on the eyes but text isn’t overly large as it is on the HTC Advantage X7510.

Though the i900’s screen isn’t the brightest we’ve seen, it’s more than adequate and pleasing for indoor use, and when reading text outdoors in sunlight. Photos and the camera viewfinder do wash out in direct sunlight. The phone has a brightness sensor that can automatically set display brightness, and you can manually set brightness if you prefer.

The 3.2″ screen is great for viewing widescreen video, and the fast CPU plus 8 or 16 gigs of storage make this an excellent portable media player. Since the i900 has an SDHC microSD card slot, you can add an 8 gig card and bump max storage up to 16 or 24 gigs.

The screen is flush– there’s no raised bezel surrounding it, and the two Windows Mobile softkeys are virtual rather than dedicated hardware buttons. You can calibrate the display as you would any other WinMo Pro device, but in the Omnia’s case, you might want to use your finger rather than a stylus if you intend to use the device with your finger. The display driver is set to work with a finger (touch points are larger) and we didn’t find accuracy improved significantly with a stylus. The screen is responsive with the latest ROM, with few missed touches and no measurable lag. While it doesn’t beat the iPhone’s perfect touch screen experience, it’s one of the best among iPhone competitors we’ve used. Finger-scrolling works well (and isn’t reversed like the LG Vu), flick-scrolling (where supported) works nicely and dragging pages in Opera and Opera Mini works perfectly and is speedy.

When we first received the i900 it had the original ROM which had haptics everywhere (any and every screen touch had haptic feedback) but less than stellar screen response. We flashed it with the latest DXHG4 ROM (keep in mind the device has only been out several weeks and there have been at least 3 ROM revisions– Samsung is keeping busy) and screen response, UI speed and accuracy were much improved. However, haptics largely disappeared. You get them in the Samsung applications and in the widget Today screen, but not when scrolling through standard Windows Mobile built-in applications, nor when using the on-screen keyboards. Given that generalized haptics aren’t the most useful (the device vibrates when it registers any touch, and doesn’t indicate that you’ve touched the target you actually intended), we don’t miss it except in the keyboards. If you don’t like haptics, you can disable it using a control panel applet. We’ve received word that there’s yet another new firmware out– but only available from Samsung service centers at this point, that brings back haptic keyboard feedback. Hopefully, Samsung will post this ROM on their web site soon.
Specs:

Display: 65K color TFT flush touch screen, 3.2″. Resolution: 240 x 400, supports both portrait and landscape modes (can use accelerometer to automatically rotate the screen).

Battery: 1440 mAh Lithium Ion rechargeable. Battery is user replaceable. 2G claimed talk time: 5.8 hours, standby: 500 hours. 3G claimed talk time: 4 hours, standby: 400 hours.

Performance: 624 MHz Marvel PXA312 processor. 128 MB built-in RAM. 256 MB Flash ROM and 8 or 16 gigs internal flash memory storage.

Size: 112 x 56.9 x 12.5mm (4.41 x 2.24 x 0.49 inches. Weight: 122g (4.3 ounces).

Phone: GSM quad band unlocked 850/900/1800/1900MHz with EDGE for data. Euro-only 3G (2100MHz).

Camera: 5.0 MP camera with autofocus, macro mode, face/smile detection mode. 2x digital zoom and LED flash. Camcorder: VGA max resolution at 15 fps, QVGA at 30fps.

Audio: Built in speaker, mic and Samsung blade connector audio jack with headset dongle that has a 3.5mm standard stereo headphone jack. Voice Recorder and Windows Pocket Media Player 10 included for your MP3 pleasure. DivX certified.

Networking: Integrated WiFi 802.11b/g and Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR.

Software: Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional with Samsung’s TouchWiz UI. Opera 9.5, Outlook Mobile (email, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks), Microsoft Office Mobile (Word Mobile, Excel Mobile, PowerPoint Mobile, OneNote Mobile), Internet Explorer Mobile, Windows Media Player 10 Mobile, Notes, Calculator, Solitaire, Bubble Breaker, Internet Sharing, , Task Manager, Java VM and Google Maps. Samsung applications: Touch Player, Media Album, Photo Slides, Smart Converter unit converter, world clock, touch-friendly phone book, Digital Frame (photo frame style desk clock), ShoZu, RSS reader, Streaming Player, TV out, Video Editor, business card reader, Enhanced GPS, DivX codecs, vibration and accelerometer settings. ActiveSync 4.5 and Outlook trial version for PCs included.

Expansion: 1 microSD card slot, SDHC compatible.

SAR rating: 0.671 W/kg.

The Chinese Cell Phone Aphone Q168 announced on 2008,October,it’s market price only US $149.99.Here is the detailed.

Phone Model Aphone Q168
Network GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz
Announced 2008,October
Available Language English, Chinese，French，Spanish，Portuguese，italian，german，malay，Dutch，
Russian，Arabic，Turkish，Persian
Display Size 3.2inch, 240×320 pixels
Display Type QVGA touch  screen, 65K colors
Ringtones Type Polyphonic (64 channels);Support mp3 ringtone
Music Support MP3 background play, support equalizer
Video 3GP / MP4, support to play in full screen, forward and pause
Camera 0.3 Megapixel camera
Internal Memory  Packed with 1GB TF card, support extend card
Data transfer USB cable / Bluetooth
Connectivity  GPRS / WAP
Phonebook Can store 200 phonebooks
Messaging SMS, MMS
Games Two common games
Dimension 115*60*12mm
Weight 100g
Stand-by time 100-280 hours
Talk time 100-250 minutes
Additional Features
Dual cards standby phone
Bluetooth
FM radio play without earphone
MP3 / MP4 fluent player
Handsfree
Calendar
Memo
Alarm clock
World time
Calculator
Voice recorder
Support memory card to extend
WAP
Support GPRS
MMS
Caller picture
Caller ring tone
Currency converter

The first name that comes to mind when you think of a converged device on the AT&T network may not be Pantech but that’s about to change. Pantech is about to unleash the Slate: the world’s thinnest device to offer a full QWERTY keypad.

Physically reminiscent of a RIM Blackberry, the Slate not only appears designed for typing/ texting duty, it also offers an integrated 1.3-megapixel camera, proving that this handset has more than just business applications in mind.

Of course the Slate will provide methods to stay connected with mobile email services and instant messaging capabilities. Bluetooth connectivity lets users talk wirelessly through headsets and handsfree devices.

The Pantech Slate will be available in late October for $49.99 with a two-year agreement and mail-in rebate.

Reaserch in Motion has unveiled the BlackBerry Pearl 8220 smartphone, which RIM touts as the first BlackBerry phone to come in the flip form factor.

This quad-band EDG based smartphone weighs in 3.6 ounces and features 2 high-resolution, light sensing color displays, an external LCD screen and a 240×320 internal LCD, recognition for Voice Activated dialing, support for mp3 ring tones, conference calling, speed dialing, call forwarding, voicemail attachment playback, background noise cancellation, speaker phone, Bluetooth, GPS receiver, and a large QWERTY thumb pad.

Software goodies include DataViz Documents to Go software suite for editing MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint filee in addition to BlackBerry Professional Software suite and Enterprise Server.

Finally, the Pearl Flip will offer a 2.3 megapixel camera with flash, zoom and video recording.

The 8220 will be available this fall exclusively for T-Mobile.