Mobile Phones

Manufacturer of elite phones - the company Vertu, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary presented a series of devices - Vertu  Constellation Rococo collection.

Design of these elite phones has been done by designers who were inspired by French Rococo art popular in the 18th century. The back cover of the phone is decorated with leather embroidered floral pattern special.

The most expensive version of Constellation Rococo is decorated with blue sapphires and gold engraving. Technical characteristics compared with conventional devices Constellation have not undergone any changes.

In the sale Vertu Constellation Rococo collection arrive in summer 2008. There is no information yet about prices, but it can be assumed that they will be rather high traditionally for Vertu .

There are some rumours in global network that the LG is preparing to release LG Prada II.

Based on information from some sources, it will be a modernized model, in which the developers have removed all the shortcomings inherent in the first generation phones LG Prada.

Technical specifications are not bad for this new product: it supports GSM/WCDMA/HSDPA (up to 7.2 Mbps), 3 inch WQVGA touch screen (800×480 pixel), 5 Megapixel camera with autofocus, built in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth adapters and a memory card slot.

Officially, this information is not confirmed, but all the same sources report that is expected to premiere LG Prada II already in the fourth quarter of this year.

LG announced today their latest high-end slider called LG KF750 or otherwise LG Secret. It’s their third Black Label Series handset and it can surely steal some attention with both specs and looks. Of course, it seems ironic that LG codenamed their handset Secret, now that preliminary information about it leaked a couple of times in the past few weeks.

It’s been a busy week of new announcements - almost all of the major manufactures announced new models. Motorola Roadmap 2008 leaked six days ago, Nokia announced their new XpressMusic handsets two days ago, Sony Ericsson announced the G502 and Z780 yesterday, and LG are now announcing their LG KF750 Secret today. If Samsung are prepping something for tomorrow, we would have all the Top 5 major manufacturers covered. But we digress; let’s not steal the spotlight from the LG KF750 Secret.

The LG KF750 or LG Secret is the slimmest 5 megapixel cameraphone in the company portfolio (other than that only Samsung F480 and Sony Ericsson C902 can beat its slimness). It features a bunch of high tech materials and solutions such as a carbon fiber back panel, tempered glass over the display and Neon Touch Navigation buttons with touch sensitivity.

The LG KF750 Secret has borrowed several intriguing features form the LG Viewty such as the DivX playback and 120 fps QVGA video recording. Building on that base it offers even more advanced functions such as a built-in accelerometer. Beside the auto rotating display, the preinstalled games make good use of it - you can throw darts, hook a fish or navigate a maze simply by tilting the handset.

The large QVGA 2.4-inch 262K color TFT display can auto adjust its brightness thanks to the ambient light sensor. The LG KF750 also delivers HSDPA 3.6Mbps, Bluetooth, 100MB built-in memory expandable with the MicroSD memory card slot and FM radio with RDS.

LG are launching the phone today, but details about availability and pricing are still not known

source gsmarena.com

Nokia added two new novelties to the line of music phones XpressMusic - Nokia 5320 and Nokia 5220. Both phones have a stylish asymmetrical design  in simple monoblock form factor.

The Nokia 5320 is able to work in GSM/3G/HSDPA networks . Among the features of this device is worth noting the existence of a full-fledged browser to access Nokia Ovi. New gaming platform also supports N-Gage, that is why there are additional buttons for playing mobile games. The display has a resolution of 320х240 pixels.

Model Nokia 5220 XpressMusic focused on youth audience of users, the unusual design says it all. Unlike older models it can not boast the support of expanded Internet services. But as 5320, it is equipped with a 3.5 mm audio and an excellent mediaplayer

An important feature of both phones is that they are able to work out a full battery charge of up to 24 hours in a mode of continuous music playback.

Devices will be available in the third quarter of 2008 at 160 EUR for Nokia 5220 and up to 220 EUR for Nokia 5320.

Nokia has presented a new phone model Nokia 6212 classic. The device is made in the hull of the classic form factor monoblock. The main feature is the support of the technology NFC (Near Field Communication). This technology makes possible to transmit data over short distances and in comparison with Bluetooth has lower power consumption and better protection against hackers. It is noteworthy that NFC makes possible to pay for several services by mobile phone.As for the other characteristics of Nokia 6212 classic, it is a typical representative of modern devices with support of 3G networks. The display has a resolution of 320х240,  with a 2 megapixel camera, FM radio, a Bluetooth adapter, Mediaplayer and a slot for microSD cards. European sales of Nokia 6212 classic start in the third quarter of this year at a price of 200 eur. 

In the global information network infiltrated that the company Dell is preparing to release a mini-laptop. Like the recently announced HP 2133 Mini-Note, it is equipped with 8.9 - inch display and will cost less than $ 500. Production of these low-cost and compact solutions will be done by Compal. First, it will deliver 200000 - 300000 devices per month, but for an entire year as a whole was planned for release of 1 million to 2 million notebooks.Release mini-notebook from Dell, according to the source, will be held in June this year. Same company president Michael Dell (Michael Dell) confirmed the anticipated novelty - referring to the new HP Mini-Note, he said: “We will introduce such a laptop.” 

Samsung presented its second phone with the support of two SIM cards - D780. Like his predecessor, the Samsung D880 DuoS, it can receive calls on any of the cards inserted in it. Novelty is a classic monoblock. Samsung D780 works on the GSM / EDGE in three frequency ranges - 900/1800/1900 MHz. It is equipped with 2.1 - inch display with a resolution of 240×320 pixels, supporting up to 262 K colors, 2 - Mp camera and FM radio. In addition Samsung D780 supports both Bluetooth 2.0 and USB 2.0, as well as microSD memory card format. The dimensions of the device are 115 х49,6×15,7 mm.

Samsung D780 will appear in the market in May this year, and then will be released in Europe and Asia. The estimated cost of the phone has not yet been reported. 

As a matter of principle, we very rarely carry stories about handsets being launched in a different colour from the original. A new coat of paint does not make a new phone, but in the case of the Nokia N82 in Black (or “Nokia N82 in black” as Nokia like to call it in lowercase) there’s a little more to this variant than just a different colour.

Most features are identical to the original Nokia N82, but the Black version now supports geotagging, a feature that was all the rage at last month’s big Mobile World Congress event. Put simply, this version of the N82 will record the GPS position of your photograph, so its exact location is recorded. This is useful for sorting photos, but certain filesharing sites can also read the GPS location data for easy identification.

Although it’s a fairly normal looking phone, the Nokia N82 comes with A-GPS (assisted GPS), a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and flash, WiFi, HSDPA high-speed data, 3G UMTS / WCDMA, a stereo FM radio and microSD expandable memory. This is basically the same package as on the original N82 - so it’s a pretty formidable handset underneath.

In addition, the black N82 comes with a free trial of Nokia’s navigation package, support for N-Gage gaming and on top of that, this is a Symbian S60 smartphone - so users can add more applications later.

This is really just a software upgrade of the original platform, so presumably owners of the original silver N82 will be able to upgrade their handsets to support geotagging. It would be nice if this was enable for N95, N95 8GB and E90 customers too.

Nokia say that the N82 in Black should be available during Q2 2008, at an estimated price of around €400 / £300 / $600 or so before tax and subsidy.