Verizon on Tuesday became the first American carrier to offer the Samsung Omnia. The Omnia will be priced at $249.99, after a $70 mail-in rebate and the signing of a 2-yr contract agreement. The carrier doesn’t provide full specifications for its version of the handset but confirms a very close similarity to the original version previously limited to Europe and Korea. While switching to CDMA and EVDO, the Verizon Omnia continues to carry a 3.2-inch, 400×240 touch display with haptic (vibration) feedback and a customized on-screen keyboard; a touchpad at the bottom lets users control normal d-pad functions without losing precision.

It also provides a five-megapixel camera with an LED flash, Wi-Fi and more advanced media playback than Microsoft offers with support for DivX and XviD video along with regular media formats. Storage isn’t mentioned, but in foreign versions usually combines at least 4GB of built-in storage with a microSDHC card slot.

Sony Ericsson T303 Daisy Edition hits the UK.The handset features some cool daisies on the back case and is available via T-Mobile UK. 

If you like it, you can buy it right now from here, for only £49.99 (€65 or $75 ) on Pay As You Go – thus without a contract agreement.

A few days ago you saw a Prada II phone, now here is the Hugo Boss Samsung F480…who’s next? Coco Chanel? The specs of the Samsung Hugo Boss F480 phone will remain the same and will include 5 mpx camera, 2.8″ touchscreen, 3G/HSDPA connectivity and other goodies.

Hugo Boss Samsung phone should go on sale in Europe through Hugo Boss retail outlets in December. It will be also distributed via PhoneHouse/ Carphone warehouse properties online for 479 €.

The Nokia 6260 slide features quick access to search engines and points of interest straight from the home screen and the new 360° navi-key allows a great mobile Internet experience.A 5Mpix Carl Zeiss camera with flash takes fantastic pictures which can be easily shared and uploaded to Share on Ovi or other photo and video sharing websites. In addition to the photo, music and sharing features that come packed in the Nokia 6260 slide, Nokia Maps and the assisted GPS provide a great navigation experience. The Nokia 6260 slide brings GPS into the Series 40 software platform for the first time, really signifying navigation arriving in the mass market.

The Nokia 6260 slide is expected to begin shipping at the beginning of 2009 for an estimated retail price of EUR 299, before taxes and subsidies.

The Motorola QA30 features a similar bodystyle to the UTStarcom Blitz with a sliding QWERTY keyboard resembling the Q series, EVDO data, 2.5 inch landscape QVGA display, HTML browser, threaded SMS.messaging, Bluetooth with stereo audio support, 3.5mm headphone jack, speakerphone, 2.0 megapixel camera with video recorder, microSDHC slot, and Celltop support.

No pricing or availability details are available at this time.

Christmas day seems more presents, so as expected Verizon has launched their holiday sales flagship and gambit against the iPhone in the BlackBerry Storm.

BlackBerry Storm Features:

• 3.25-inch LCD Hi-res HVGA display (480 x 360 pixels)
• USB 2.0 high speed
• 1GB built-in flash memory
• Bluetooth 2.0
• microUSB connector
• 3.2 mpix camera
• 3.5mm jack
• full desktop-style HTML browser
• 3G modem support
• UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA (2100MHz), EvDO Rev A
• removable 1400 mAh battery

Nokia plans to launch a mobile phone service in Japan next spring, a move expected to intensify competition among Japanese cellphone carriers, Japanese daily Yomiuri Shimbun reported on Saturday.

Finnish cellphone manufacturer Nokia is expected to use lines owned by Japan’s biggest mobile phone carrier, NTT Docomo Inc, under an arrangement called mobile virtual network operator, the paper said.

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The update adds Google Street View (with pedestrian and public transit directions), albeit without the compass functionality found in the T-Mobile G1, updates to Safari Mobile and Mail, location sharing through email, further fixes for dropped calls, app screenshots and rating options in the App Store, toggle capability for Auto-Correct, and the capability to download podcasts directly on the device over the air via Wi-Fi or the 3G/EDGE network.

Other novelties that the iPhone 2.2 OS brings include:    

• Location sharing via email

• Enhanced performance and stability of Safari, for a better Web browsing experience

• Podcasts can be downloaded with iTunes (via Wi-Fi or a cellular network)

• Fewer dropped calls and call setup failures

• Enhanced Visual Voicemail messages and overall sound quality

You can download the iPhone 2.2 software update right away, via iTunes, of course.

 Source: Apple
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