Samsung SCH-W480

Samsung have just launched the Inner Zoom SCH-W480 slider phone in Korea. The phone comes with a 5-megapixel CCD camera, together with a 3x optical inner zoom lens. The phone accepts a microSD memory card comes with Bluetooth, media player 7.2 Mbps HSDPA, WCDMA/GSM global roaming.

With a Inner Zoom lens design, the camera lens do not extend out and is able to keep the phone thickness minimum.

Motorola ZN200 Pictures

If you live in the US you’ll be able to get your hands on the Motorola ZN200 in the next few months, the FCC have just approved this which we first came across a couple of months back in April.

The phone comes with a 2 megapixel camera, microSD card slot, media player and built in FM radio.

Mobile Phone with Built in Projector

We looked at the possibility of mobile phones with projectors a few months ago, well looks like the first company in China might just have come up with the goods. As you’ll see in the photos CKing from ShengTai in China have a working model and demoed this during a communication tradeshow in TianJin.

Slightly bigger than a normal size phone body, the micro projector use of LCoS (Liquid crystal on silicon) technology and is able to give you a 30-inch screen projection.

Nice to see watch this space over the coming months for more new on this.

Nokia 7610 Supernova

The Nokia 7610 Supernova comes with a 3.2 megapixel camera, GSM Quadband. The fashion phone design will make this a must have but one thing to note the spec is high compared to other fashion phones from Nokia.

* Network: GSM Quadband (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)
* GPRS / EDGE
* Camera: 3.2 megapixel with flash LED, autofocus
* microSD card slot, support up to 2GB
* Dimension: 98 x 48 x 15mm
* Weight: 99 grams
* Display: QVGA screen supporting 16 million colors, 240 x 320 pixels
* S40
* 64MB internal memory
* Bluetooth
* FM radio with RDS
* 330 minutes talk time
* 300 hours standby time

The All New HTC Touch Pro

HTC have just rolled out it’s next generation business phone the HTC Touch Pro. The phone will come with their new 3D touch interface called TouchFLO 3D, TouchFLO 3D is designed to provide a stunningly intuitive way to fly through common tasks like messaging, calendar appointments or making calls with just one touch.

The user-interface is designed to help the user experience with accessing broadband using HSDPA 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA wireless connectivity, Turning the device sideways automatically rotates the web page view from a portrait to landscape view (something like iPhone I guess)

It’s expected that the HTC Touch Pro will be available to customers across all major European, Asian and the Middle East markets in late summer.

HTC Touch Pro Specifications
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583 million mobile phone users in China

I hope the networks in Ireland are taken note here, last month there were 583.51 million subscribers of mobile communication services in China as of the end of April 2008, growing by 1.54% on month and by 19.71% on year.

Thats about 41% of the population, last month (April 2008) they send 54.14 billion SMS messages which if you don’t want to reach for your calculator is an average of 3.12 SMS messages per phone each day.

Crazy stuff when you think about it

HTC Touch Diamond Video

Nokia 7310 Classic

The Nokia 7310 Classic will come with a 3.2 megapixel camera, 16 million colour 240 x 320 pixel large display, stereo FM radio, microSD card slot and stereo Bluetooth, according to preliminary information. Thats as much information as we have on this at the moment

Features;

* 16 million colour, 2.2 inch QCGA screen,
* Built-in FM radio and music player,
* Stereo Bluetooth A2DP,
* Expandable memory,
* USB connectivity
* 3.5 mm headphone jack.
* 3.2 MP Camera

8 Megapixel Camera Phone now available

This is the K-Touch camera phone which have just been announced by Beijing Tianyu Communication Equipment in Chine, I know we will never see them here in Ireland but the Interesting thing is they come with 7 and 8 megapixel cameras and 3x optical zoom capability. This is a bit of a jump up from the 5 megapixel that is standard on some high end phones that are available at the moment.

It’s getting to the stage where Camera Phones are starting to move from the low end camera. The company claims to have added the phone functionality into the digital camera, but not adding a camera functionality to the mobile phone.

* Network: GSM Dualband 900/1800 MHz
* GPRS
* Dimension: 123 x 56 x 21 mm
* Display: 2.8-inch 256k colors TFT (240 x 320) Touch Screen
* 8 megapixel CCD camera with 3x optical zoom, auto focus, Xenon Flash
* Image stabilizer
* Dual microSD card slot
* MP3, WAV, AMR, WMA, AAC, AAC+ player
* Java
* Bluetooth
* Battery: 1300 mAh
* Up to 10 hours talk time
* Up to 14 days standby time