Cell Phone being lifted by demand from Asia & Afirca.

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Robust demand from emerging markets in Asia and Africa lifted third-quarter sales of all major handset vendors from the previous quarter, with companies expecting another sales boost from holiday shopping ahead.

All handset vendors combined shipped 285 million mobile phones in the July-September quarter, with strong demand in Asia and Africa lifting sales 12 percent from a year ago, research firm Strategy Analytics said on Thursday.

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Gigabyte g-Smart i350 QuadBand GSM SmartPhone


Gigabyte g-Smart i350 QuadBand GSM 850 /900 /1800 /1900

Its Weight is 130 grams

The Display Type is TFT touchscreen, 256K colors

The Screen pixels 480 x 640, 2.6 inches

Build in Memory Card slot miniSD, SDHC
Interal 256MB NAND
- 64MB SDRAM
- Intel XScale PXA270, 520MHz CPU

ForData Transfer GPRS, 32 - 48 kbps

Wireless Lan Wi-Fi 802.11b/g

Blult In Bluetooth v2.0 & USB v2.0, miniUSB to move data and files.

Operating System: Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional
The Browser is a WAP 2.0/xHTML

It Has a 2MP Camera, with autofocus, video and flash

Other Features:

- Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
- Games
- Built-in GPS navigation (SIRF Star III)
- Pocket Office(Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Windows Media Player
- Java
- MP3/MPEG4 player

Standard battery, Li-Ion 1300 mAh
Stand-by Up to 160 hours

Sony Ericsson K630 Unlocked TriBand Phone


Sony Ericsson K630 HSDPA / GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900

Ericsson K630 Size 103 x 47 x 15.5 mm

Its Weight 97 gram

Its Display TFT, 256K colors

pixels 176 x 220, 2 inches

Sony K630 Memory Card slot takes Memory Stick Micro (M2), It has 32 MB shared memory

For Data Trasfer GPRS, HSCSD, EDGE and 3G HSDPA

K630 also has Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP and USB v2.0

It Features WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML(NetFront) Browser and RSS feeds



The Sony K630 has a 2MP Camera, video and secondary CIF video call camera

Other Features Include:

- Java MIDP 2.0
- MP3/AAC/MPEG4 player
- FM radio with RDS
- TrackID music recognition
- Picture blogging
- Picture editor
- Games

Standard battery, Li-Po

Stand-by About 300 hour
Talk time About 9 hour

New Nokia N810 Internet Tablet Launched



Amid rumors of an upcoming Apple tablet-like device, Nokia released its N810 Internet Tablet. The product, which the Finland-based company described as "a new phase" in portable Internet communication, can communicate through a Wi-Fi hotspot.

The N810, which updates the earlier Nokia N800 and N770 and is scheduled to launch next month, "packs the power of a traditional computer into a pocket-sized format," said Nokia Vice President Ari Virtanen.

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Features On this Texas Instruments Based NOkia Internet Tablet N810:

Processor -- TI OMAP 2420, clocked at 400MHz
Memory -- 128MB DDR RAM; 256MB flash

Storage:

2GB internal memory
Expansion slot up to 8GB; compatible w/ miniSD & microSD w/ extender

Display:

4.13-inch widescreen LCD; 800x480 pixel resolution; 65K colors
Ambient light sensor adjusts screen brightness and keyboard lights according to light conditions
Slide-out QWERTY keyboard; on-screen (soft) keyboard also provided
Built-in web cam

Connectivity:

802.11b/g WiFi
USB 2.0 via micro-connector
Bluetooth 2.0 +EDR

Audio:

Built-in microphone and stereo speakers
3.5mm A/V connector (stereo audio output)
Built-in GPS receiver and antenna
Built-in FM transmitter
Hardware key to lock touchscreen and keys

Power:

1500mAh rechargeable removable battery
Continuous usage About 4 hours
Always online About 5 days
Standby time About 14 days
Music playback About 10 hours

Dimensions 5.04 x 2.83 x 0.55 inches
Weight 7.97 ounces

Motorola U9 Unlocked QuadBand Cell Phone


Motorola U9 GSM 850 / GSM 900 / GSM 1800 /1900

The Dimensions Of Motorola U9 are 90 x 48.6 x 16.4 mm

It Will Weight about 87 grams

Display is TFT, 256K colors

The screen size 240 x 320 pixels, 2 inches With a second external OLED, 65K colors display

Has microSD (TransFlash) Memory Card slot With Built In 25 MB internal memory

Data Can be transfered Via GPRS Class 12 (32 - 48 kbps) and EDGE Class 12

Has Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP & USB v2.0 For File Transfer Between phones or computer to phone & more

The Browser is WAP 2.0/xHTML
It has Gaming ability (can download and play games)

2MP Camera with video capture.

Some other features include:

- Touch sensitive music keys
- Java MIDP 2.0
- Windows Media Player 11
- iTap
-Standard battery, Li-Ion

Stand-by Up to 350 hours
Talk time Up to 7 hours

Samsung G800 Unlocked Cell Phone


Samsung G800 UMTS / GSM 900 / GSM 1800 / GSM 1900

The Dimensions On this Samsung Model are 101.5 x 52 x 18.5 mm

Its Weight is 134 grams

IT comes with a TFT, 256K color Display

Screen Size/resulation is 240 x 320 pixels with a 2.4 inches

This Model Has a microSD (TransFlash) Memory Card slot With 160 Megs of internal memory

For Data Transfer It has Built in GPRS Class 10 (32 - 48 kbps) and 3G (384 kbps)

It also has Bluetooth and USB v2.0

The Browser: WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS reader

You can downlaod and play Games on the G800

Samsung G800 has a built in 5MP Camera with autofocus, video, xenon flash, optical zoom

Some Other Freatues Include:

- Java MIDP 2.0
- MP3/AAC/AAC+/e-AAC+/WMA player
- Stereo FM radio
- Bluetooth printing
- Document viewer (Word, Excel, Power Point, PDF)
- Built-in handsfree
- TV out

It has a Standard battery, Li-Ion

Samsung shipping new phones with Broadcom chips

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Wireless chipmaker Broadcom Corp said on Sunday that number-two cell phone maker Samsung Electronics Co Ltd was shipping next-generation handsets that use its chips to cellular operators.

The 3G phones, which can surf the Web and download data from the Internet faster than previous generations of phones, are on their way to operators in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and elsewhere, Broadcom said.

Number-one cell phone maker Nokia has said it would buy phone chips from STMicroelectronics, Broadcom and Infineon, potentially decreasing the clout of market leaders Qualcomm Inc and Texas Instruments Inc, Nokia's long-time supplier.

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Nokia and Renault European Car maker team up for navigation system cars.

Nokia and Renault team up in navigation drive

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia (NOK1V.HE), the world's top cell phone maker, said it will co-brand a set of Renault (RENA.PA) Twingo cars which will go on sale later this month, packed with Nokia's navigation system and handsfree equipment.

"Navigation is a new and fast growing industry and we are also looking for new ways to operate there. Co-operation of Nokia and a car industry is a natural step," Nokia's spokeswoman Eija-Riitta Huovinen said on Wednesday.

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This make a lot of sense for Nokia. which is attempted to buy Navteq the united states based digital map supplier. This is one way nokia can use the know how of t he navigation company a great move to expand into the marketing of GPS.

Samsung Answer to the Iphone? Samsung Serenata. will it meet the challenge


Samsung Brings out its Rival to the iphone

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and audio product maker Bang & Olufsen on Tuesday unveiled their latest joint music-mobile phone, Serenata, which holds 4G bytes of songs and has a number of other music features similar to the iPhone.
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Samsung Serenata TriBand HSDPA / GSM 900 /1800 / 1900

The Weigh on this model is 136 gram

The Display is TFT touchscreen with 256K colors

The Size 240 x 240 pixels, 2.26 inches

There is no Memory Card slot

Built in 4 Gig internal memory

Data Transfer GPRS, 3G HSDPA

Built in Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP USB v2.0

The Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML

Some other features:

- MP3/AAC/WMA player
- Built-in handsfree

A Standard battery, Li-Ion 1000 mAh
Stand-by about 280 hours & Talk time about 3 ours

Important note this model doesnt have WLAN or camera and it TriBand. Looking at its features it doesn't really seem like much of a competition for the iphone. not only on features but in my opinion even the iphone looks is much better than this Samsung Bang & Olufsen model. But the positive thing about this model is its Unlocked . There maybe more features released also depending on the price of the model and what individual users are looking for this model may meet a lot of people expectations. Personally i need WLAN & a Camera plus i need my phones to be QuadBand so i can take them with me specially if i'm paying over $300 for a phone.

Nokia to buy Navteq for $8.1 billion

HELSINKI, Finland - Nokia Corp. is buying U.S. navigation-software maker Navteq Corp. for around $8.1 billion, the world's largest mobile phone maker said Monday. The deal has been approved by the boards of both companies, according to Nokia.


Nokia seems to be keen to expand into this navigation market specially with a lot of phone companies selling new unlocked phone models with built in navigation for Nokia the Nokia N95 is a great model with navigation system built in. I believe Nokia will be manufacture more phones with GPS.

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