Reigncom has released its portable Wi-Fi phone ‘iriver wave phone’ in Korea market, which features various multimedia functions.The asymmetrical Wave will play back MP3, OGG and WMA audio files along with MPEG 1, 2, 2.5 and MPEG-4 video files at 30fps and 480×272 resolution. Built-in storage is fixed at 4GB and expandable with miniSD memory cards. Users can also download audio files via the supported Bugs Music Service. An FM radio tuner is built-in, along with electronic dictionaries, in typical Korean device fashion.

The handset was unveiled at the start of the year at the CES expo. Pricing for the Wave in Korea is not known, and neither is whether or not it will come to North America or markets outside of Korea.

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Nokia has released the latest version of its award-winning mobile mapping and navigation service, Nokia Maps, as well as its personalized online mapping experience on Ovi by Nokia. This combination of Nokia Maps plus Ovi is the first free service that allows people to pre-plan their journey at home on their PC and synchronize with their mobile, giving access to pre-planned routes and favorite destinations while on the move.

Here are the main novelties that Nokia Maps 3.0 brings:

• Overall improvements in design, content and map data quality

• 3D landmarks for more than 200 major cities

• Hi-resolution aerial images for Satellite and Hybrid map modes

• New Terrain map mode

• Improved car navigation

• Improved pedestrian navigation

Nokia Maps 3.0 can be downloaded from the Nokia Beta Labs website or from here (direct download link).

Nokia today announced the Nokia N97. Designed for the needs of Internet-savvy consumers, the Nokia N97 combines a large 3.5″ touch display with a full QWERTY keyboard, providing an ‘always open’ window to favorite social networking sites and Internet destinations.To back up the claim they’ve dropped in HSDPA, WiFi, and Bluetooth radios, A-GPS, a 3.5-mm headjack, 32GB of onboard memory with microSD expansion (for up to 48GB total capacity), and a battery capable of up to 1.5 days of continuous audio playback or 4.5-hours video. 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss glass and “DVD quality” video capture at 30fps, too. The specs are certainly impressive, let’s see if the S60 5th Edition OS can support it. The N97 will launch with a retail price set at around €550 ($693) excluding subsidies and taxes, phone to ship in H1 2009.

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The clamshell targets the budget world but also claims a certain amount of fashion consciousness with a striped outer shell, deliberately angular edges and colors that include fuchsia as well as black and a two-tone black-on-white. It relies on an FM radio for music and touts features such as a built-in flashlight as well as basic support for web browsing and sending business information over SMS.
It is expected to be released during the first quarter of 2009 in select markets outside the US, at a still unspecified price. See it in detail in the gallery posted below.

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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.