The rest of the docomo PRO series is formed by: the already mentioned  HTC Touch Pro, HTC Touch Diamond, BlackBerry Bold and, surprise, Nokia E71 with its tiny 320 x 240 pixels display.   

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Samsung has only just introduced the T*Omnia in its home country but may already be enroute to the US within a matter of weeks, a claim from BusinessWeek. Samsung is negotiating with a U.S. carrier with an aim to roll out the phone in America by the end of this month. But it is not clear wether U.S. consumers will have access to the upgraded phone or its old version, which has a slightly smaller touch screen with lower resolution. The new version has a 3.3-inch LCD (versus a 3.2-inch screen) with a much higher 800X480 resolution (versus the earlier 400X200).

Here is another grate phone, a cool phone for pictures, sold under the DoCoMo Winter Collection.Our phone is available in four colors with a size 111 x 50 x 15.6mm at 145g. The SH-01A features some nice things like an 8Mpix camera mode with a 28mm wide angle, face detection, a 3.3” VGA ASV AQUOS LCD, 1 Seg TV tuner with a rotative screen for a nifty 16:9 like video viewing mode.
 It also comes with Bluetooth with A2DP, AVRCP, DUN, HFP, HSP, HID, OPP, SPP and the obvious Virtual 5.1ch Dolby Mobile, GPS, and HSDPA.

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Don`t expect to cover all of them, would be a waste of time but here’s the SH-04A, an HTC Touch Pro lookalike from Sharp minus the Windows Mobile flavor.

It obviously has a proprietary OS (based on Symbian), with a 5.2Mpix camera, HSDPA, 1Seg TV tuner, GPS, Mobile e-Wallet, Bluetooth with A2DP and Virtual 5.1Ch Dolby Mobile, a 3D UI, and a nice full QWERTY keyboard.
The screen has a Wide VGA resolution (480×854) on a 3.5” ASV Sharp screen.

Available in three colors at a size of 114 x 54 x 16.3mm and a weight of 140g.

Vodafone announced a USB Stick Pro to help customers make the most of the UK’s fastest and most reliable mobile broadband network.This new stick is designed for high performance use and will be distinguishable in the range as it comes in a stylish black design, has a space saving retractable USB connector and also comes with an integrated 4GB micro SD memory card. The Stick Pro is 7.2Mbps compatible (NB 7.2Mbps is theoretical speed, average actual speed 1-5Mbps) and boasts upload speeds of 2Mbps (average actual speed of 1Mbps). The modem will be available from free on selected price plans online, in store, via telesales or through your account manager. Read the rest of this entry »

Nokia  introduced a range of affordable mobile devices and innovative new services specifically for people in emerging markets. Estimated retail prices of the new devices range from 25 to 90 EUR, with several models expected to begin shipping in 2008. Nokia’s suite of Internet services for emerging markets will be available beginning in 2009.

Nokia 5130 XpressMusic, the most affordable Nokia music phone to date, has a 3.5 mm headset jack, music player with dedicated keys, FM radio, a 2MP camera, Share on Ovi and Mail on Ovi. The 5130 XpressMusic will be on sale starting the first quarter of 2009 for a retail price of around €90 ($115).

Nokia 7100 Supernova is the cheapest Supernova phone to date. It comes with a “large, high resolution color screen”, a 1.3 MP camera, FM radio, web browser, Share on Ovi and Mail on Ovi.

Nokia 7100 Supernova will be available before the end of 2008, for an estimated retail price of €75 (approx. $95).

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Finally AT&T has officially launched the evolution of the BlackBerry platform in the Bold 9000.The device features a landscape half VGA (480×320) display, quadband GSM/EDGE access, triband W-CDMA with support for UMTS and HSDPA high speed data access, full international 3G roaming with support for Japanese and Korean sub-bands, Wi-Fi radio with support for advanced WPA encryption, microSDHC slot, 1GB of internal memory, 2.0 megapixel camera with video recorder, flash and zoom, speakerphone, media player, voice activated dialing, noise cancellation, document viewer/editor, GPS transceiver, and Bluetooth 2.0 with stereo audio support.

AT&T will also be including free Wi-Fi access at corporate Starbucks locations with the purchase of the Bold and a qualifying data plan.

The phone is now available from AT&T for $549.99 with No Commitment or $299 with new 2 year agreement before an additional $100 mail-in rebate via a prepaid Visa card, bringing the total cost to $199.

Sprint and Kyocera Sanyo Telecom have finally announced the release of the Katana Eclipse X with award-winning One Click user interface.

The improvement is represented by Sprint’s One Click interactive user interface. This allows users to customize the phone’s home screen and to include easy access shortcuts for the features they use most, like Sprint’s Now Network, Google search, email, music, messaging and so on.   

Sanyo Katana Eclipse X also has a unique illumination feature, which lets you assign various lighting schemes to incoming calls, messages and alerts.

Here are the main specs of Katana Eclipse X from Sprint:

• 2.0 inch TFT internal display with 176 x 220 pixels

• 1.0 inch external display

• GPS & Sprint Navigation

• Sprint Mobile Email

• Sprint TV

• Sprint Music Store

• MP3 player 

• Stereo Bluetooth

• Wireless Backup

• 1.3 MP camera with video recording

• 256MB MicroSDHC card  

• Weight: 3.4 oz.

• Dimensions: 3.6 x 1.9 x 0.7 in

• 840 mAh battery for a talk time of up to 4.6 hours

The idea of prank calls is to make calls that you can get away with and the call receiver has no idea that it was you who called. For this the most important thing is to be able to transform your voice in a manner that the receiver doesn’t know it’s you who is calling. This may be easy if you try to mask your voice for the first bit of any conversation but soon the person on the line will know that’s it’s you and your prank call won’t really be as successful. As such, using prank phone call voices is a good idea because there’s no chance you get caught.
Nowadays the options are many and you could fake the call with a variety of voices to choose from. These voices can be of anyone’s you please and they sound really genuine so your prank won’t let you down. You can select from voices of pizza delivery people, to local officers or even Arnold Schwarzenegger. It’s a fun idea and many youngsters use such prank phone call voices to engage in some fun activities. You can make any number of calls or a limited number of prank calls depending on the provider you choose.
The best part is that you can’t be traced so the call receiver will be quite perplexed regarding the call because your number won’t show up on the caller id. Now that you know you can’t be traced that easily you can engage in some prank call activity and you’ll quite enjoy the experience. The best part is that since these prank phone call voices aren’t easy to spot, you can even hear others experiences about the prank calls they receive without having to give yourself away and enjoy the trick. When others retell their calls experience you can take pride in your selection of prank phone call voices.

SouthWing has announced the release of the new SF350 Bluetooth hands-free car kit. The SF350 can be attached and detached from the sun visor with ease. Echo cancellation and noise reduction thanks to the DSP ensures clear conversations and full duplex communication allows for natural speech on the SF350 Bluetooth car kit by SouthWing.

Other features of the SF350 include:

• Bluetooth 1.2
• 2 Watt speaker
• Full integrated microphone
• PSP: Digital Signature Processor Technology
• Reject incoming call
• Multi-function button
• 10 hours talk time
• Up to 3 paired devices
• Low battery indicator