Aside from the Samsung Ace smartphone, Sprint Nextel also introduced the Samsung M250 into their line. The Samsung M250 is the first ever slider Power Vision Phone. The M250 which measures 4.01″ x 2.04″ x 0.5″ and is less than 2.8 ounces in weight, features a 2.1″ TFT display with 176×22 pixels resolution. It has a 1.3 megapixel camera, and supports Sprint Navigation powered by TeleNav, High speed web browsing, SMS voice and text messaging, built-in MP3 player, microSD card slot supporting up to 4GB, and music streaming. It can even be used as a modem for your computer. The Samsung M250 is now available for $49.99 with a $50 mail-in rebate.

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After the impressive unveiling of multiple, multiple handsets in MWC, Samsung strikes again. Sprint Nextel announced the inclusion of the new Samsung Ace Smartphone into its line of mobile phones. The Samsung Ace smartphone runs on Windows Mobile 6 and has Sprint TVSM functionality which features more than 50 channels. It can operate on both CDMA and GMS/GPRS depending on the country, as long it’s included in Sprint Nextel’s list of 180 countries with roaming capability. The smartphone which measures 4.65″ x 2.32″ x 0.46″ and weighs under 4 ounces, features a full QWERTY keyboard and a 2.3″ TFT color display. Other specs include a 1.3-megapixel digital camera, microSD card support of up to 2GB, slide click wheel for easy navigation, document viewer, and Bluetooth connectivity. The Samsung Ace Smartphone is now available online and in business sales channels for US$199.99 with a $100 mail-in rebate. It will be available in Sprint Retail stores starting March of this year.

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Neo is OpenMoko’s 100% Linux-based open-source phone. The handset which looks like a child’s toy, will get its second version soon, most probably by March to April of 2008. Future plans for the Taiwan-based company include developing open-source handsets extensively, such that two-thirds of the company’s income would be earned from them, with the remaining third earned from collaborations. Speaking of collaborations, OpenMoko is also cooperating with device vendors to produce hardware devices. The company is reportedly in partnership with Dash for the development of the Dash Express portable navigation device.

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Motorola is underway in establishing itself as a leading music provider in Southeast Asia with its acquisition of Soundbuzz. Soundbuzz is by and large considered one of the largest Southeast Asian music provider. Terms of the deal had not been disclosed although it’s very clear that the acquisition implies that Motorola could now offer MotoMusic to a larger audience, extending its reach to the people in the Southeast Asian region.

“Music is the heart and soul of the mobile entertainment experience, and with Soundbuzz as a part of our family, Motorola has the biggest heart and the most soul in mobile music in Asia,” said Ian Chapman-Banks, Vice-President of Mobile Devices Marketing for Motorola Asia-Pacific.

“With a library of over 750,000 songs and half a million mobile music derivatives, Motorola now offers the people of the Asia-Pacific region an extensive music collection, all available for download either via the Internet or directly onto your mobile device,” Chapman-Banks noted.

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If you are at the Game Developers Conference 2008 in San Francisco, you might have noticed the increasing efforts going on in the mobile gaming space. With a host of games on the N-Gage platform, Nokia is making its presence felt yet again. Some of the new titles include The Dark Knight, SPEED RACER and Super Slam Ping Pong by Glu Mobile; DChoc Café(TM) Solitaire 12-Pack, DChoc Café(TM) Sudoku and DChoc Café(TM) Hold’ Em Poker by Digital Chocolate and Worms World Party by THQ Wireless.

Nokia Games Publishing will also be bringing us Yamake, Disk Dagger and Fallen Idol, a detective adventure game. Anybody know if Digger (yeah, that classic old PC game) is available for mobile phones - specifically the Nokia S60 series? I’ve been looking for it all over.

The GDC 2008 will be on show tomorrow as well, so you can also catch a series of mobile lectures and case studies by Nokia executives. All the action will be at the North Hall of the Moscone Convention Center.

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One of the mobile phones presented last week during the Mobile Phone World Convention is the LG KM500 music phone. The LG KM500 has a 2-inch TFT display with 240 x 320 pixels resolution, microSD card slot, GPRS/EDGE connection, Bluetooth and USB connectivity, and a 2-megapixel camera. Of course, since it’s a music phone, the LG KM500 has an mp3/AAC++/WMA player. The phone uses IDtag3 to manage its music content. It also has easy PC sync for downloading of files and onscreen music info display.

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Last month, we reported on the Angstrom Power and Motorola partnership on finding a way to use micro hydrogen as fuel cells for lithium-ion battery replacement. The fuel cells which promised longer battery life were tested on Motorola Slvr L7 phones. Recently, however, Angstrom Powers and Motorola introduced a cell phone prototype powered by hydrogen. A desktop fueling station produces hydrogen from water and stores the particles in a metal hydride storage. These hydrogen molecules will pass through a fuel cell membrane which strips off the electrons to power the phone. Since the hydrogen molecules are procured from water, then finding fuel for the phone is as easy as finding the nearest tap.

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Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog comes news that the iPhone SDK will finally see daylight, after spending the last few months in Apple’s labs. As we saw earlier, the Apple iPhone Opens Up, the SDK will allow developers to write new apps that run on the iPhone platform. These apps will also run seamlessly on the iPod touch (minus those that depend on the cellular network, of course).

There is also another update to the iPhone - version 1.1.4. I am still running 1.1.2 for reasons known only to me, and I don’t plan on upgrading my firmware anytime soon. Anyway, the source of this information, Tiny Code, has been taken down - it now redirects to Apple’s developer website. Quite interesting — I don’t know if Apple’s lawyers had anything to do with it. Stay tuned.

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Along with the new Bluetooth module, Sony has also introduced a new active speaker system — the Sony SRS-M50. It’s a small speaker system, measuring a mere 70 (w) x 74.5 (h) x 74.5 (d) mm, and weighing in at 125g for the left speaker, and 145g for right which includes the batteries. Speaking of batteries, the Sony SRS-M50 runs on either dry cell batteries or electricity using an AC adapter. The speakers have 5W of synthesis output, 39mm aperture for digital amplifier, and rich-sounding bass. It comes loaded with volume and on/off controls, and can be placed beside your monitor with no problems as the Sony SRS-M50 speaker system uses an anti-magnetic design. The model is available in black, white, and pink.

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If you have a mobile phone or music playing devices without the Bluetooth capability, the new Sony DRC-BT15 can help you out. Just released, the Sony DRC-BT15 is a Bluetooth module and wireless radio receiver. You can use this A2DP module it for hands-free calls and wireless listening. You can even use it to control your multimedia device (stop, pause, and play). This new Sony gadget is available in black and white as shown on the pic.

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As of now, there are not much info about them yet, but LG has just announced two new mobile phones which are the first handsets to embody their GSM Association�s (GSMA) Horizon Phone initiative. The LG-KM560 and LG-KP330 are the first two 3G handsets which can roam in 220 countries supporting all — 850, 1900 and 2100 MHz — WCDMA bands. The Horizon Phone initiative was an effort to create worldwide mobile phone solutions. We reckon it won’t be long until we get the juicy details about the LG-KM560 and LG-KP330. So until then, stay tuned.

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Vodafone 227

Vodafone 228

Vodafone has confirmed that it will release two new handsets into Europe and other emerging economies around the world. The Vodafone 227 and Vodafone 228 handsets were designed as low-cost solutions for those wanting an affordable yet stylish handset. V227 is a clamshell phone while V228 is a sliding handset. Both phones come with colored display, text and voice services, vibrating alert, and matching headsets. No price or availability for either of these yet but we’ll keep you updated.

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It was only last month when we presented a spy pic of the Toshiba Portege G450. This February, Toshiba has officially announced the device. The Toshiba Portege G450 was designed with the quick internet access in mind. As was previously mentioned, the Toshiba Portege G450 is a (very bare) phone and modem in one. It’s even an MP3 player. The device can can be connected to your UMPCs, laptops, or notebooks via USB and can support both GPRS/EDGE and 3G capability with HSDPA. It has 160MB of built-in memory and a very basic 96×39 pixel resolution OLED display. The Toshiba Portege G450 measures 98×36x16mm, weighs 16g, and will be available in black, white and red.

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Announced with the Samsung G810 is the Samsung SGH-P960. The Samsung SGH-P960 is also a slider phone with a mirror finish like many of the other Samsung MWC phones. The device has a 2.6″ TFT QVGA display, 3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth and USB 2.0 connectivity, FM radio, and a full-internet browser. The triband phone supports European 3G capability and has a document viewer. The Samsung SGH-P960 also has DVB-H support with TV-like pictogram.

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Touted as the first direct and most ferocious competitor of the Nokia N95 as well as the company’s new flagship model, is Samsung’s new G810 cell phone, which was presented during the MWC. The phone, which runs on Symbian S60, has a 2.6-inch TFT QVGA display and a 5-megapixel camera with 3x optical zoom and xenon flash. It has a TV-Out and 3.5mm audio jack, built-in GPS receiver, WiFi connectivity, 150 MB built-in memory, microSD card slot, and Bluetooth 2.0 and USB 2.0 connectivity. The Samsung G810 is GPRS/EDGE capable with HSDPA support. The combination of a camera and built-in GPS receiver means you can geotag your photos using the Samsung G810. Other than that, the phone can also be integrated with Google, GoogleMap, GMail, and YouTube. Not bad, eh?

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Still another new Samsung phone presented during the Mobile World Congress is the Samung i200. It’s a very simple, very basic candybar phone — the kind you’d wonder why companies would bother making. But I’m guessing Samsung has its target market for the i200. The i200 has a
2.3-inch QVGA TFT display, a 2-megapixel camera, EDGE capability, 3G with HSDPA support, and Bluetooth and USB Connectivity. The low-end device runs on Windows Mobile 6 standard.

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Remember the E250? At MWC this year, along with a gamut of other Samsung phone, the company unveiled the Samsung SGH-E251, which is obviously a derivation of the earlier E250. The E250 was a highly-popular phone, most especially in Asia. I can’t help but think this is stretching the popularity of the model too much. Anyhow, the Samsung SGH-E251 is a triband slider phone with EDGE/GPRS capability, Bluetooth and USB connectivity, 2-inch 128 x 160-pixel resolution TFT display, and a built-in VGA megapixel camera. The difference of the E251 from the E250? A dedicated music key.

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Let’s go back to discussing more Samsung phones released during the MWC. This one is the Samsung SGH-L770. It’s another Samsung phone with a mirror finish; a feature they seem to have explored quite liberally for their MWC phones, if you haven’t noticed. The Samsung SGH-L770 is a Quadband slider phone with both GPRS/EDGE and 3G with HSDPA support capabilities. Measuring 102 x 48 x 14.2 mm, it has a 2.1-inch QVGA TFT LCD, with 2 megapixel camera, and Bluetooth and USB connectivity. There’s no official price on this baby yet, but word on the street is that it would be somewhere around ~US$400 and would be available starting April.

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Nokia has presented a video on their new concept phone, the “Remade.” The idea behind the “Remade” concept is to find out whether it’s actually possible to create an entire phone from 100% recycled materials. This is an effort by Nokia to try and reduce landfills as well as to minimize the need for natural resources. The concept phone was constructed with upcycled plastic bottles and aluminum cans and keypads made of old rubber tires and environmentally friendly technologies such as energy saving graphics. The “Remade” concept is part of Nokia’s endeavor to look at how mobile phones could be made in the future.

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Not wanting to be left out of the Mobile World Congress frenzy, Gigabyte has unveiled new cell phones as part of their G-Smart series. Among these, the MS800 is a 3.5G candy bar with some pretty good specs like a 520MHz Marvel CPU, HSDPA at 7.2Mbps, quad-band GSM/EDGE, a 2-megapixel camera, FM radio, and a SiRF Star III GPS. It runs on an unknown version of Windows Mobile, most likely 6.1, with a 2.8-inch QVGA display.

The MS800 is scheduled for a 2008 spring release at an undisclosed price. Take the jump for more details…

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