LG decided to start sales of LG KS360 in Europe, which QWERTY-keyboard is designed for enhanced text communication.
Such devices, thanks to LG, are very popular in the United States - apparently the Korean company intends to extend the trend and in Europe.
LG KS360 is equipped with a 2.4″ touch screen, 2 Mp camera, multimedia player, FM-radio and supports MicroSD cards.
Price is said to be not very cheap - around EUR 250
China is gradually becoming a priority market for Motorola. As the Chinese website of the company says, officially is launched in Celestial new phone Motorola VE75, which main feature - the opportunity to work with two SIM-cards.
Motorola in this regard is in the fairway of Samsung. The new phone offers a 2.6″ display that can show picture with a 16:9 ratio of the parties in resolving it with 240×400 pixels. The device is equipped with a 2 Mp camera and slot for MicroSD. Phone will cost 3000 yuan, which is about $ 440.
Will we see the model in other markets is difficult to say. However, taking into consideration current situation of Motorola, most likely, Motorola VE75 will repeat the path of DuoS-phones by Samsung.
Sony Ericsson announced results II quarter of 2008, which, in full accordance with the estimations were completely disappointing.
In II quarter of 2008, the company sold 24.4 million phones, which is 0.5 million less than the results II quarter of 2007. Revenue of the company EUR2,8 billion, decreased by EUR292 million.
Net profit is just EUR 6 million total, while in II quarter of 2007 it was EUR220 million, in I quarter of 2008 - EUR133 million
According to the President of Sony Ericsson - Dick Komiyamy, the company intends to save about EUR300 million of operating expenses annually. And the effect of these measures will appear in about a year.
According to Sony Ericsson, its market share after II quarter of 2008 doesn’t exceed 8%.
Samsung fluently develops its series of DuoS phones: there is information about the new handset - Samsung D980, which has touchsceen interface.
Phone has the following specifications:
• Display: 2.6″, 240×320, QVGA 262K
• 5 Mp camera, autofocus, flash
• Slot for MicroSD
• Bluetooth 2.0/USB
By the way, this is not the first attempt to create a touchscreen Samsung DuoS - Samsung P720 Armani was canceled.
The company Sony Ericsson has launched a special promotional page for the series devoted for the announcment of its new Walkman phones, which will be held July 22 at 10:00 at Central European time.
The event promises to be large, Sony Ericsson promises to “open the next page in mobile music” and celebrate 3rd birthday of the Sony Ericsson Walkman phones .
Most dedicated fans can watch the session of questions and answers by webcasting.
Nokia announced today the results of II quarter of 2008, which proved, on the whole, positive.
The company sold 122 million on the phones market, which is 21% more than in II quarter of 2007 and 6% more than in I quarter of 2008. Thus, according to own calculations, the company controls about 40% of the world market, and is 2% over the last year position and 1% more than in I quarter of 2008.
The average cost of mobile phones Nokia fell from EUR79 to EUR74, but up to 40% of this decline was due to the strengthening euro.
Nokia kept the position in Europe selling 27.1 million phones - exactly as it was realized a year earlier. We should recall that Sony Ericsson warned investors that its II quarter profit will decline because of problems just in Europe. As we can see, this trend hardly touched Nokia.
The most significant growth (42%) in quarter traditionally shows the Asia-Pacific region, the largest market for Nokia. Business in North America is problematic for Nokia, while encouraging: sales grew by 9.8% compared with the II quarter of 2007.
Mobilecowboys.nl publishes information on Alcatel Elle. This handset has the official name Alcatel Glamphone, but this is just a case where glamour doesn’t blind eyes.
This budget slider proposes basic functionality - Bluetooth A2DP, 1,3 Mp camera, and MicroSD slot and a very ordinary appearance.
In principle, after the appearance of Supernova series from Nokia, budget stylish phones of other producers will have really hard times current days.
Thanks to blog SEMC Blog, characteristics of the new phone Alice - a Walkman by Sony Ericsson, which will appear under the as Sony Ericsson W707.
The handset is the younger sister of innovative models W980, which was presented in Barcelona and only recently launched for sale in some regions.
However, compared with Sony Ericsson W980, functionality of W707 will be somewhat cut off: the handset will not have 8 GB module and FM-transmitter. There will not be stereo speakers of W707. The device is equipped with a 3.2 Mp camera without autofocus.
It is not known whether this phone will appear along with other Walkmans which should be announced on July 22.
According to the Czech site Mobil.cz, which published with reference to the resource It168.com, Nokia prepares new successor of its a Communicator Nokia E90. Handset will be coded as Nokia E90i.
Phone will be slightly more subtle than its predecessor having 8 GB of memory and 5 Mp camera. Other functions of the device will change slightly.
The new Communicator should be available by Christmas.
The popularity of iPhone 3G leads to negative consequences, as reported by Fortune, in 21 states of U.S. Apple stores sold out all mobile phones, all three models (black 8 GB, black and white 16 GB).
Shops of AT&T almost are sold out of all mobile phones iPhone 3G, and, as reported by a company representative, there is no information regarding whether large-scale deliveries will be followed.
It’s not difficult to notice rumors, especially popular in certain circles, may acquire theory deliberate injection of hype around the iPhone 3G with the help of the deficit, moreover, at a price of $199 for 8 GB phone exclusiveness of this handset compared with the first version have receded.
The first images and screenshots of BlackBerry Thunder were only similar to this. Now, finally, we have received practical proof in the form of live pictures that BlackBerry Thunder is real and valid (of course, only time will tell for sure how well it works). Internet resource CrackBerry published the first pictures of BlackBerry Thunder in working with virtual QWERTY keyboard and SureType.
Key features of BlackBerry Thunder:
Tactile Response (tactile impact) - when you click on the screen, in response hear the sound click, and you can feel the vibration on finger in a place where you actually clicked on the display.
Full and SureType QWERTY input. In horizontal mode, you can take advantage of the full standard letters on the keyboard. When using the phone in a vertical mode, you can enter data on the keyboard SureType. You can change the orientation of the screen /keyboard at any time.
The screen BlackBerry Thunder supports multi-touch. Smartphone uses WebKit engine as the browser (as iPhone), which is likely to provide stable and convenient web surfing.
As the source said, screen keyboard skins are from earlier version of Thunder 4.7 OS. Keys on it are quite large and comfortable. You can also keep the device with both hands and write e-mails. The photos provide yet another confirmation that in the OS of BlackBerry Thunder calling of key functions and advanced options are still tightly tied to the menu button BlackBerry, while on its main competitor iPhone all options are placed directly on the screen.
Apple fixes incredibly active sales of iPhone 3G - on Sunday it had already been sold millionth phone iPhone 3G, while sales began on July 11, Friday.
“Debut weekend of iPhone 3G was just phenomenal. It took 74 days to sell the millionth phone of first generation, so that the new 3G started well”, - Steve Jobs said.
Currently iPhone 3G is available in 21 countries.
Besides Apple is celebrating another success - for first three days of work from App Store 10 million applications were downloaded.
“App Store hit the middle of apple, an incredible number of applications - 10 million was downloaded in just three days. The developers have created excellent applications, App Store allows them to deliver to iPhone and iPod touch “, - Steve Jobs said.
According to Jobs, currently at App Store is available about 800 applications, 200 of them offered free of charge (90% of apps at a price less than $10). Apple takes a 30% of income from sales of paid applications.
According to the Dutch site Gsmhelpdesk.nl, Samsung is preparing to release S60 smartphone with 8 Mp camera. Handset, apparently will be indexed as Samsung i8510.
The camera will have an autofocus and equipped with powerful xenon outbreak. Images can be viewed with the help of 2,8″ QVGA display with 16 million colors. Data transfer is made using HSDPA and Wi-Fi, handset will be equipped with 16 GB of memory.
Furthermore, Samsung will use a special 3D-chip, which will run on “heavy” mobile games.
Specifications:
• Screen: 2,8″ QVGA, 16 million colors
• Camera: 8 Mp, autofocus, xenon flash
• Additional features: GPS, TV-output, DivX
• Battery: 1200 mAh
• Dimensions: 106.5×53,9×16,9 mm
At the moment we can not say with certainty what version of S60 will be used for this smartphone - there is a small chance that this will be 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2.
In an interview with German magazine Connect, top-manager of HTC Lars Vaysvange(director for Germany, Austria and Switzerland) made several curious thoughts about the usability of Windows Mobile operating system and its inconvenience to newborn interfaces with touchsceen input.
According to him, the Windows Mobile operating system is well suited for business users, but for ordinary consumers it’s difficult to work with it using touch screens. Because of this, HTC is developing an interface HTC TouchFLO - including its 3D-version TouchFLO 3D.
At the same time Vaysvange said that the Internet Explorer browser for Windows Mobile subjecte to considerable criticism. To avoid consumer dissatisfactions, HTC adds to their products browsers of other companies - for example, Opera Mobile 9.5.
As we were expecting, Sony Ericsson is preparing a massive release of new Walkman-phones. Some of them are expected to be announced on July 22, although the case with Sony Ericsson is kinda different, we can never be sure.
Let’s start with Sony Ericsson W902 - this phone has already been “rumored” in the form of fragmented photographs some time ago. It is not difficult to guess the phone is a Walkman version of C902 camera. Taking into consideration this, handset is rather expensive, has excellent photo opportunities, but about its design, we should say directly, is ambiguous.
To continue with Sony Ericsson W302 - this handset is a musical version of S302 device. This is a middle class Walkman-phone, its functionality and appearance is virtually the same as the S-version. As reported by Semcblog.wordpress.com, sales of W302 and S302 should begin simultaneously.
And finally, bonus-cherry-and-white phone Sony Ericsson W595, code-named Linda. We already wrote about it.
