Samsung has unveiled a new mobile phone that features some of the sleek design and functions of Apple’s much-hyped iPhone.

Samsung’s Ultra Smart F700 will be exhibited at next week’s 3GSM World Congress, a telecommunications exhibition in Barcelona, Samsung spokeswoman Sonia Kim said on Friday.

Mobile phone makers have been scrambling to match the iPhone, unveiled last month by Apple CEO
Steve Jobs. The device, which will be available starting in June, marks the iPod and
Mac computer maker’s entry into the mobile phone business.

he HTC Touch Pro, the new avatar of the HTC TOUCH SCREEN still manages to click despite its flaws. If you’re in love with iPhone’s slender curves, then the HTC Touch Pro would come across as grossly obese. But ignore that and you’ve an elegant device which fits perfectly in your han

Google is definitely looking forward to expand its course of action with mobile advertising after having Android in hand. Here Mashable talks about it like:

While there has been much talk that online advertising will decline in the current/coming recession, the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, seems pretty bullish on what will happen with mobile advertising this year.

Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the Google executive went against the predictions that mobile ads wouldn’t hit $1 billion in revenue until 2012. Reuters reported Schmidt as saying, “It’s the recreation of the Internet, it’s the recreation of the PC story, and it is before us — and it is very likely it will happen in the next year.”

He went on to say that he felt mobile advertising was nearing its tipping point because of features such as location-based advertising. By his theory, it will be situations such as people looking for a nearby restaurant because that will be “a very, very good business.”

Can such searches truly carry an entire industry past the magical $1 billion dollar mark? I’m doubtful, personally. Mobile advertising is going to be a very different beast from online advertising due to the very nature of the screen. On a full-sized computer monitor, I can train my eye to look around and through the ads to the point I hardly even register they exist any more. The problem on a mobile phone is its limited size. Everyone seems to think this supposed new ad boom is going to be some sort of wonderful new revenue stream. All I see it doing is annoying me thoroughly.

The first commercial cellphone with ringtones sold in May of 1996 and it was the Digital Mova N103 Hyper. The ringtones were not downloadable and the phone had just a few preset songs in MIDI format, a high quality audio file format. Then in September of 1996, there was the Digital Minimo D319, the fist cell phone where a user could input an original melody for a ringtone, rather than just a few preset songs.

The first downloadable mobile ringtone service was created and delivered in Finland in 1998. A Finnish mobile company started a service called Harmonium that delivered monophonic ringtones, a series of notes, one musical note at a time.

Harmonium was innovative because it had tools for both individuals to create monophonics, and a mechanism to deliver them over-the-air via SMS to a mobile handset. On November 1998, Digitalphone Groupe started a similar service in Japan. Later came polyphonic downloadable ringtones that were more advanced than the monophonics because they were able to play about 40 notes at a time and sounded more like the actual song they were playing. Neither of these though was able to truly mimick the songs, and could not play lyrics.

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Mobileburn had the opportunity to play with the Nokia N92 cellphone. Is it capable (among other things) to receive DVB-H Digital TV. Shows can be displayed with a good image quality, even if the test units had a few glitches. The N92 is heavier than most handsets from Nokia, in case you want to drop it in your shirt’s pocket. The keyboard is said to be odd (it certainly looks weird). The Nokia N92 will see some action in Europe first where DVB-H is being deployed.

The first day of 3GSM was great. I will start with Nokia. They had several announcements of new devices and I played with them, E65, E90, N77and 6110 Navigator. Let me say that these are really cool phones and have cutting edge technology on them. I also player with the N95 and the E61i. Here some pictures and for more visit my Flickr. All of them have Flash Lite and the 6110 Navigator supports Flash Lite Screen Savers.

If you do not expect your smart phone to replace your camcorders or digital camera, Nokia N93 can be on the top of your mobile demand. It does a decent job integrating high class multimedia into a smart phone. The best mobile innovation since first O₂. Though a little bulkier than we expected from Nokia. Nokia N93 powered with 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, and it can record MPEG-4 VGA video at up to 30 frames per second. It has a dual-hinge swivel design, TV-out capabilities, and photo and video editors. N93 is Symbian OS-based phone is equipped with Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and e-mail support. The feature that catches my attention is UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) technology, not too many phones around that comes with universality.

Few weakness or hitch makes me feel uncomfortable about Nokia N93 first of all the size and weight, Nokia usually make things fancy & tiny what happen with this one? A phone with so much to offer goes down just for its huge body, even my daughter’s toy phone is smaller than that.

Second issue is not that big, but do gives trouble people who loves to be always on the phone. The Camera hinge is not flat it bump your chick when you use it.

Third and most serious issue for person like me who have to budget their living. For a smart phone spending $700-$800 will surely set off some trouble in your monthly budget. I know my wife won’t be happy if I say I had to spend $750 for a massive wireless toy.

One billion handsets produced globally each year and only 10% recycled. Average mobile phone user replaces their handset every 18 months. This has a big impact on the environment; 36kg of CO2 is used to make one 90g phone. To reduce the impact of the mobile phone it’s time to rethink the materials mobile phone are made of and the manner we recharge them.

The bamboo degradable mobile phone
The bamboo is a degradable mobile phone. When the battery, antenna and print board are removed the case can be placed in compos and a few weeks later the case will begin to disintegrate. Inside the case are bamboo seeds, these will start to grow and feet on the case. After a few months the will turn in to bamboo plant which compensates the impact manufacturing process the bamboo phone has on the environment.

Materials
The case of the bamboo phone is made out two materials. Number one is a bio-plastic which is derived from renewable raw materials such as corn. Number two is bamboo which is a grass and can grow two feet or more a day. When it’s harvested, it need not be replanted, because it will grow a new shoot from its extensive root system. So bamboo renews itself readily, unlike hardwood trees, which, once cut, are gone forever. Bamboo is an endlessly renewable resource.

Energy
The inefficient recharging of the mobile phones has also an impact the environment. We could save enough energy in one year to power 60,000 European when 10% of the mobile phone users turn off the electricity supply to the chargers after use. The bamboo mobile phone can be recharged with muscle power. The phone is equipped whit a cranking charger; a 3-minute cranking session gives the phone enough power to make one call. This means the bamboo phone never runs out of energy. The phone is also equipped with a monochrome display to ensure maximum energy efficiency.

Green gadget
The use of materials and the possibility to recharge the phone whit muscle power give the phone a very low carbon footprint and reduce the impact on the environment. This makes the phone “a green gadget”

Google infused LG KU580 yesterday, loaded with utilities like GMail, Google Maps, and search. Outlets like The Register are calling this The google phones  perhaps in jesting reference to the previous rumors. We doubt a phone preloaded with apps you can download free is The One.

ASIA Korea : Samsung Electronics is proud to announce that the SGH-U700, the slimmest HSDPA mobile phone, has been awarded the ‘European Mobile Phone 2007-2008’ by the European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA).