Nokia Morph:

Nokia Morph:

Nokia Research Center and researchers at the University of Cambridge have teamed up to create a joint nanotechnology concept called The Morph. Nokia has again seen the future of handsets and this time they design it to fit the contours of your palm. Morph, a joint nanotechnology concept, developed by Nokia Research Center (NRC) and the University of Cambridge (UK) just launched today.

Morph, as it is appropriately named, is comprised of flexible materials that can be reshaped on the fly to create a variety of drastically different forms. It should be clear that the design is entirely conceptual at this point, illustrating how future handsets may be capable of transforming to accommodate different usages.

Samsung Soul:

Samsung Soul:

You lucky Europeans, Samsung has decided to launch their ‘flagship product’, the ‘Soul’ mobile phone on your very shores before letting it loose over the rest of the globe. Starting later this month, this little sucker will hit the shelves of cellphone retailers all over the UK, France, Germany, Netherlands and Belgium. Here’s the low-down on the Samsung ‘Soul’

* Quad-band HSDPA 7.2 Mbps
* 5 MP camera with auto-focus and 4x digital zoom
* 2.2 inch QVGA display
* Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity
* Plays mp3 and wma files
* 105.9 x 49.5 x 12.9 mm

The unit is available in three colours, Sterling Steel, Soul Gray and Platinum Silver and will retail for around 400 euros (US$630).

Samsung D980 TouchWiz:

Samsung D980 TouchWiz:

So you have only one mobile? That’s so 2007…! You need at least two mobiles. One for business and one for pleasure for instance. Samsung doesn’t think so and has been working on dual sim phones like the Samsung P240 and D880. But these two phones weren;t very sexy. But wait! Now there’s the Koreans have come up with the D980 TouchWiz. It’s a F480 TouchWiz with two sims but without 3G. Some things had to go to make room for the second sim. The specs: 2.6 inch QVGA touchscreen with so-called TouchWiz interface, 5 megapixel camera with LED flash and autofocus, MicroSD slot, FM Radio. The Samsung D980 weighs 117 grams and its dimensions are 97.5 x 55 x 16 mm. Availability and pricing are unknown at this moment.

Samsung Pixon M8800:

Samsung Pixon M8800:

As of now the Samung Pixon M8800 is available. Let’s refresh everyones memory. Piece de resistance is the 8 megapixel camera with autofocus. But let’s not forget the other features: 3.2 inch touch screen (240 x 400 pixels), quad-band HSDPA phone measuring 107.9 x 54.6 x 14.9mm and weighing 110 grams, GPS, FM radio, MicroSD slot, 200 MB internal memory, Bluetooth, virtual QWERTY keyboard and handwriting recognition.

Samsung Omnia SGH-i900:

Samsung Omnia SGH-i900:

The Samsung OMNIA is powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional and comes packed with MS Office (PowerPoint, Excel, and Word). Even though the OMNIA is 100% touch screen, Samsung included an optical mouse for ease of navigation - the optical mouse is similar to what you’d find on laptops. Samsung OMNIA is possibly the best ever smartphone that Samsung has ever built. OMNIA is definitely a better name than SGH-i900, which means ?everything’ in Latin and ?wish’ in Arabic. The OMNIA is essentially everything that you can possibly wish for on a Windows Mobile 6.1 smart phone. It brings together high performance business content, high-end design mixed with a full bag of dynamic multimedia rich experience.? Samsung representative mispsoke earlier, and just now clarified that OMNIA DOES NOT HAVE CAPACITIVE technology.? I repeat, it DOES NOT HAVE CAPACITIVE technology.? Unfortunately, it’s the same old resistive touchscreen on every other smartphone on the market today.

The OMNIA also has a 5-megapixel CMOS camera with auto-focus (AF), face and smile detection and auto-panorama shot. OMNIA comes in 8 or 16GB memory configuration and additional storage can be added via extendable slot. Of course, a smart phone called OMNIA can’t go without having a GPS, including navigation and geo-tagging capabilities, so you’d never get lost wherever you are.

According to CNET Asia, “an orientation sensor is built into the OMNIA i900. When rotated, it does this fancy transition whereby the display shrinks and expands back to fill the screen in a different orientation. The 240 x 400 display does seem a little weird, but is not unheard of–we’ve seen it in the ASUS M930’s internal display. It makes sense, too, if you are to use it as a media player because the aspect ratio is much closer to the 16:9 aspect ratio commonly seen in movie files. To that end, the i900 also comes with a media application that supports DivX and Xvid out of the box.”

As I mentioned earlier, the OMNIA is primarily touch-based so it makes perfect sense for Samsung to include its patented TouchWiz user interface. The OMNIA is Samsung’s first ever Windows Mobile smart phone to feature TouchWiz. TouchWiz lets you personalize the home window with unique widgets. The high-resolution touch-sensitive screen uses intuitive tap, sweep, drag and drop operations as well as an on-screen QWERTY keyboard. It also facilitates easy and convenient calling and texting with a dedicated dome key for controlling communications.

The Samsung OMNIA is ultra-slim measuring 12.5mm and has a platinum look finish. Samsung added details such as elegant hairline patterns on the back of the phone to bring the “perfection in style.”

Geesung Choi, President of Samsung Telecommunication Business, said: “I am very excited to introduce Samsung , a mobile device that truly delivers the best possible features for today’s busy, connected consumer. Samsung demonstrates our vision for the Samsung mobile business, which is to provide premium phones for users who desire functionality, style, usability and entertainment in one innovative device. The mobile range will help users to be at the forefront of work and play and at the same time, to stay connected anytime, anywhere.”

The Samsung OMNIA will be unveiled at CommunicAsia, Singapore from June 17 to 20 and commercially launched in the Southeast Asian market starting from the same week. The phone will be available in the European market from July.

Motorola Prizm Gives Diet Advice:

Motorola Prizm Gives Diet Advice:

Motorola's new touchscreen Motoprizm in Korea that appears to be a takeoff on the Krave—albeit with a few tweaks. Oddly enough, word is that the device also gives daily diet and lifestyle suggestions.

Features:

•DMB support
•E-wallet function
•3.5mm headphone jack
•USB 2.0 connectivity
•Bluetooth 2.0
•Memory card slot
•2.8" 260k color TFT touchscreen at 240 x 400 resolution
•3 megapixel camera

Nokia E63:

Nokia E63:

Amazon is now listing Nokia's BlackBerry-ish QWERTY E63 phone as available for pre-order. The unlocked 3G phone can be reserved for $500, though there's no word on release date.

The E63, based on the E71, already dropped in Europe, so we expected it'd be making its way to North American shores at some point. In addition to the Wi-Fi, 3.5mm audio jack, and cloud storage we already knew it had, the E63 is also packing a 2 MP camera, Bluetooth, 3G, an FM radio (probably a receiver, not a transmitter, though that's not all that common either), and a memory card slot. Amazon doesn't provide a release date, but this is a good sign that the E63 is soon to see an American release.

iPhone Clone:

iPhone Clone:

Behold, the new ePhone. An iPhone clone so perfect, so uncannily identical, so curvaceously exact, that it's only one letter and a logo away from being the real McCoy. Until you turn it on.

Then you realize this is nothing more than yet another clone, even while it looks like a perfect, logo-less clone of the iPhone. The EPHONE M8 Dual Quad Band TV bar Phone Black is probably $160 too expensive:

E PHONE M8
Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz
Languages: English,French,Portuguese ,Spanish,Deutsch ,Indonesia,Turkish , Russian ,Arabic,Persian
Display Size: 3.2 inch, 240×320 pixels
Screen: QVGA screen, 260K colors
Ringtones Type: Polyphonic (64 channels);Support mp3 ringtone: Music: Support MP3 background play,support equalizer;Built-in 3D stereo speaker
Video: 3GP / MP4, support to play in full screen, forward and pause
Camera: 1.3 Megapixel camera,support to shoot with sound
FM Radio: FM stereo,play outside without earphone
TV Function: TV supported (does this mean that I can put it on top of my TV or what?)
Internal Memory: Packed with 1GB TF card, support extend card
Data transfer: USB cable / Bluetooth
Connectivity: GPRS / WAP
Phonebook: Can store 500 phonebooks
Messaging: SMS, MMS

Samsung E800 rocks the girly phone:

Samsung E800 rocks the girly phone:

Okay, what is it about? Siemens, often we turn our gaze on you in the egregious feminization of phone department, but now we have the opportunity to give a resounding "WTF?" to Samsung on this one. This new incarnation of the E800, dudes — we're not feelin' it. There is undoubtedly some niche market for this phone (that's the sad but true part) but really — some of us would rather gouge our eyes out than have to look at this fake bling bling bejeweled monstrosity. And you know what? Enough with the pink already, thanks.

Nokia N95 8GB

Nokia N95 8GB:

What's that we see? The Nokia N95 8GB listed on the Nokia US retail site? Okay, calm down, it's not the US-specific version (read: it uses 2100MHz WCDMA, i.e. European 3G), but you'll still have a 2.8-inch mammoth screen, A-GPS, a five megapixel camera, and the rest of the goodies that maybe, just maybe, you'll be willing to fork out $780 for, even knowing that a US version HAS to be right around the corner.

Motorola's Krave:

Motorola's Krave:

If you're a fan of really cool technology, you'll definitely crave the Motorola Krave ZN4, available from Verizon for $149.99 after contract and rebate. Krave's cool technology is what the company calls a "touch cover" – a clear plastic protective flip flap that covers the Krave's 2.8-inch touchscreen that also is touch sensitive. In other words, touch the touch cover, and the LCD touchscreen beneath it reacts, complete with haptic tactile feedback

Krave's credentials include a 2 MP camera and video recorder, an excellent MP3/AAC/WMA music player compatible with the Rhapsody subscription music service, stereo Bluetooth, the subscription-based V CAST TV live broadcast TV service, an HTML Web browser that connects via Verizon's EV-DO Rev.A network, complete email, text,messaging, instant messaging and chat services, and a microSD slot that can accommodate up to an 8 GB card.

There's also an accelerometer, which means when you rotate the phone from landscape to horizontal, pictures, the camera viewfinder and Web pages rotate as well.But back to Krave's main LCD touchscreen. Instead of the usual square-ish 240 x 320 pixel area, Krave's bright display is 80 pixels longer/wider, 240 x 400 pixels. This gives you a longer Web reading page and provides extra width for Krave's touch horizontal QWERTY keyboard.

But Motorola giveth and taketh away; with the touch cover up, you can't comfortably hold and tap out messages on the QWERTY keyboard with your left thumb.

That silver Motorola insignia on the edge of the touch cover is actually the Krave's earpiece. Don't ask how you can hear your caller with no visible wires connecting this speaker to the phone's main body. However it works, it's really cool and sounds good, too.

On the negative side, even though Krave has two touchscreens, you can't navigate the Web by direct touch. You have to finger-drag around an engagement ring-like cursor superimposed on every Web page to "point" at links. It doesn't always work as advertised, and the experience could leave you screaming at the phone in frustration.

Blackberry to Get Wi-Fi, Other Added Features

Blackberry to Get Wi-Fi, Other Added Features:

Research in Motion Chairman and co-CEO James Balsillie said that RIM plans on adding some nice features to the Blackberry line of devices by the end of the year. Added features includes the always anticipated Wi-Fi, an audio player, video player, memory expansion, digital camera and even integrated GPS. Now even the classiest Crackberry-using businessmen can take pictures of drunken co-workers for blackmail purposes.