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Seoul, South Korea, May 22, 2008 - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a leading mobile phone and telecommunication equipment provider, today announced the launch of its F480. With this latest full touch screen mobile, Samsung is able to enhance its position as a leading player in the hugely popular touch screen mobile market.

“The F480 is a significant addition to our touch screen mobile portfolio, bringing a totally new and exciting user experience. The F480 is just the first in a series of touch-screen mobiles we are launching this year, to provide our consumers with a more rewarding and engaging user interface; one that’s more fun, easier to use and more personal.” said Geesung Choi, President of Samsung’s Telecommunication Business.

Industry-leading Touch Experience blended with compact and sleek Design

The Samsung F480 combines a new and unique TOUCHWiZ UI, having specially designed widgets to customise and personalise the way you use your phone, packaged in a slim and premium form.

The quick and simple ‘drag and drop’ feature lets users have instant access to their favourite functions at a moment’s touch. A unique menu of widgets display functions such as the clock, radio player, music player and more personal elements including photos and birthday reminders, which users can ‘drag and drop’ onto their home screens to suit their personal needs. Samsung’s differentiated tactile technology also gives users a tangible and pleasing feedback sensation when items are selected.

“Samsung’s F480 has been designed with its users in mind, ensuring that its aesthetically pleasing design was equally matched when it came to the way that users interact with the mobile.” said Jay Kim from Samsung’s UX Design Team.

“Our TOUCHWiZ UI, housed within this slim and minimalist design, means that Samsung has secured its position at the forefront of the market.” said Kim.

The ultra-slim credit card size and refined texture make the F480 smooth and stylish. The chic, brushed metal finish gives it visual sophistication, further enhanced by its premium leather case, which also serves to protect the touch screen when you’re on the move.

The smart and emotional touch interface coupled with its sophisticated design appeal to users who are looking for the latest functionality and enjoy expressing their individuality.

Seamless Connectivity and Multimedia Entertainment

Despite its slim 11.6 mm body, the F480 also boasts all the multimedia functions you would expect from a premium Samsung mobile. This includes 240 MB of internal music memory, a memory card with up to 8GB storage, an integrated FM radio, a 5 megapixel camera featuring auto focus and a CMOS video lens.

In addition, the phone also offers high-end camera features which are better known on a digital SLR than a camera phone, such as automatic face detection technology and a sophisticated image stabiliser.

The ‘smile shot’ mode makes its first appearance ever on a mobile phone in the Samsung F480. This intelligent feature enables the camera to detect when the subject is smiling and automatically take a picture, so you can capture your happiest moments.

The F480’s high speed internet access (HSDPA) and USB 2.0 connectivity enables users to transfer and download data faster. Whether they are music or video files, customers can enjoy all the benefits of being online on-the-go.

The launch will be supported with a European advertising campaign. The F480 will be available from June in major European markets and soon across other GSM regions. To learn more about the F480 and Samsung’s mobile technology and handsets, please visit www.samsungmobile.com

The Mimique concept phone from rksdesign is a response to feature-heavy cell phones that look more like PDAs than phones. Playful and engaging, the Mimique’s design marries the heritage of old-school cell phones with next-generation style and touch-screen technology. The Mimique will use the new open-source cell phone software which will allow users to download features and “skins.” And the “skins” will allow users to change the graphic interface to match their mood or preferences.

Source [rksdesign] 

We have posted the leaked photos of Treo 800w here and here , the 800w is the upcoming smartphone with a codename Zeppelin. Today BGR blog posted a new model picture, the Treo 850w. The Treo 850w has the similar shape as the Treo Centrol, this model might be the new Palm smartphone that has a codename Skywriter.

The Treo 850w is powered by a 400MHz processor, it will have a built in 100MB memory. From the side view it looks like there is a WiFi on/off button. No other information is available at the moment.

Source [BGR]

DeviceAnywhere today unveiled the new public Palm Virtual Developer Lab (VDL) - a remote testing service designed to dramatically reduce the time and resources required to develop, test, monitor, and deploy applications and content for Palm smartphones. The on-line service is available globally to all developers who register for DeviceAnywhere’s Palm package and provides support for in-market devices released by Palm, including the Treo 755p and the Palm Centro smartphone.

DeviceAnywhere provides access to more than 1000 real handsets, on live worldwide mobile networks, remotely over the Internet, meeting all development, porting, testing, and monitoring needs. DeviceAnywhere employs real, physical handsets - so anything that a user can do with a device in his/her hand, he/she can do with the handsets in DeviceAnywhere - in real-time. This includes tasks such as pressing device buttons, tapping on touch screens, connecting/disconnecting the battery, viewing the LCD, listening to ringers and speakers, and opening/closing a handset.

To access the Palm Virtual Developer Lab, users simply register by selecting the Palm VDL option on DeviceAnywhere’s Web site (www.deviceanywhere.com). Once registered, users are able to access Palm smartphones within the Virtual Developer Lab, press buttons, view LCD displays, and listen to ringers and speakers. Additional DeviceAnywhere features - such as monitoring and test automation - are also available on all Palm Virtual Developer Lab smartphones, empowering users to more efficiently create better applications and content for the marketplace.

 

Japanese lingerie maker Triumph unveiled a Solar Power Bra featuring a solar panel that can generate enough energy to charge a mobile phone or iPod.

The Solar Power Bra requires a solar panel to be worn around the stomach to gather direct sunlight. The concept bra will not be in stores anytime soon, said Triumph spokeswoman Yoshiko Masuda, as "people usually can not go outside without wearing clothes over it."

The Green-colored brassiere should not be washed or worn in the rain as well.

"It is very comfortable and I can really feel involved in eco-friendly efforts as well," model Yuko Ishida said.

Eco-friendly items are now fashionable in Japan, and the Solar Energy Bra follows the company's other green-themed undergarments that include a bra that turns into a reusable shopping bag and one that featured metal chopsticks to promote the use of reusable chopsticks.

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HTC's X7510 Advantage is a new Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional smartphone that has a real focus on data. It is big and heavy, but with features like a 5" VGA display, and tri-band HSDPA data, it has loftier goals than just voice.
Read the full story here.

French luxury-goods company Christian Dior has unveiled a line of mobile phones, extending beyond its traditional fashion business to boost sales, particularly with brand-hungry consumers in new markets such as China and Russia.

The new Dior phone -- priced from €3,500, or $5,000, and up -- comes after competitors such as Prada, Tag Heuer, and Dolce & Gabbana have also launched fashion-branded mobile phones.

The basic model for Dior's new phone comes in a variety of colors.

"In the same way that we have developed our watch and jewelry lines, we want to increase sales with the phone," Dior Chief Executive Sidney Toledano said in an interview.

Odyssey 8500 delivers, flexibility, performance, footprint and power consumption tailored for handsets and handheld devices
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Singtel is going to launch Bloomberg’s new multi-faceted application for mobile devices exclusively to SingTel postpaid mobile customers in Singapore. This also marks the world launch of Bloomberg’s mobile service.

This interactive service allows the subscribers to create a personalised portfolio to track the performance of their shares and stock exchange indices from the comprehensive suite of investment tools and services available. Subscribers will also have access to a currency conversion calculator using real-time exchange rates.

These unique features are in addition to Bloomberg’s up-to-the-minute, market moving financial and world news, as well as stock quotes from major stock exchanges (refer to Annex A for service features and subscription details). Bloomberg’s mobile service will be available from 22 May 2008.

Following the Singapore launch, Bloomberg plans to extend this service to other countries and territories in Southeast Asia and Greater China by the end of 2008, with further expansion plans for 2009. 

Starting May 28, T-Mobile will start offering the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic which offers a variety of features, including easy-to-use external music controls, stereo Bluetooth connectivity, wired stereo headsets, a USB cable for side-loading music and a memory card. It will be available at $49.99 with a two-year contract.

The Nokia 5310 XpressMusic will come preloaded with two exclusive new hits - one from rock sensation Panic At The Disco and one from Phantom Planet. As an added bonus, the Nokia 5310 is also loaded with Panic At The Disco’s latest video, “That Green Gentleman,” plus an exclusive making-of video with a greeting from the band.

The Nokia 5310 XpressMusic is available in three stylish color combinations exclusively from T-Mobile: black/red, black/purple and black/orange. Additional features of the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic include:

• T-Mobile myFaves-enabled
• Music player with dedicated external music controls
• MP3 and video ring tones
• Stereo Bluetooth connectivity
• 2.0 megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom
• Video capture and playback
• FM radio
• 1GB microSD card included in box (support for up to 4GB)
• Digital music player (supports AAC, eAAC+, MP3 and Windows Media Audio formats)
• 2-inch QVGA 240×320 display with up to 16 million colors
• Stereo wired headset
• 3.5 mm headphone jack, compatible for use with most music player earphones
• Hands-free speaker
• Voice dialing, voice commands and voice recorder
• Tri-band 850/1800/1900 MHz GSM, GPRS, EDGE
• Dimensions: 1.76 x 4.09 x 0.39 inches, 3.0 ounces

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