ASUS

Asus released two new mobile phones yesterday, the J208 slider and M310 clamshell. The Asus M310 flip phone is one of the Asus M series with music controls on the outside of the flip. It has a QVGA display and plays 3gp video at 15 fps. It comes with a 2MP CCD camera with self timer. The M310 can store up to 1000 contacts and sync to Outlook. The Asus J208 is a tri-band GSM phone thats 0.67 inches thin with slide-out dial pad. It has a 1.9″ TFT screen with resolutions of 176 x 220. It comes with a 2MP camera with 64MB memory to store photos. Micro SD card slot for more storage. The J208 has built-in Bluetooth with HID support, 5 way directional pad.

HTC

Many new mobile phones are being showcased at the World Mobile Congress 2008 in Barcelona. Even HTC has introduced a new mobile phone for the consumers known as HTC P3470. This HTC mobile phone has signed up with TomTom and packed a Navigator 6 GPS system into the handset.

The other features of HTC P3470 offered include:

The HTC P3470 has a large 2.8 inches 65K-color QVGA touchscreen display.

Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR

3G or Wi-Fi

MicroSDTM slot

A 1GB Micro SD card

2 mega-pixel with macro focus

256 MB flash, 128 MB RAM

Windows Mobile 6 Professional

Talktime up to 350 minutes and on standby up to 240 hours

The HTC P3470 is expected to launch in the European markets by the Orange cellular phone provider. By the next month it will come to the UK, France, Spain and the Netherlands for a cost of $720 (around Rs.28,559 ).

3G Mobile

Europe UK : In recent years, the world of mobile phones have turned a shade of grey. A thin line separating one company’s design from the other. Neo, a new mobile phone company, claims to be the brand to add some long awaited flavor back into the mobile phone industry. Above shows the GSM TriBand Neo 808i. Specification below.

Neo is all set to launch a new generation of mobile phones that are fashionable to own and technologically advanced to use. Currently in talks with global distributors and networks, Neo phones are slated for a March 2007 launch in the Middle East and will be available in Europe by April.

Pantech

The Pantech PG-8000 is designed with a sophisticated digital camera (‘dica’) look, which features a 2 mega pixel camera and a wide and horizontal LCD display, as well as WAP and JAVA systems. It also comes with an MP3 player, QVGA screen, and 'text to speech' feature, in which your incoming texts can be read out by an-board voice synthesizer.

Motorola

Motorola is expanding its ROKR mobile phone portfolio with the introduction of three new music-optimized devices. The lineup includes MOTOROKR EM30, a candybar phone using MotorolaÃ's ModeShift technology, ROKR EM28, a clamshell device with sonic features and touch-sensitive keys, and ROKR EM25, a slider with FM radio sharing capabilities.

“Following the path of our award-winning ROKR E8, the newest additions to our ROKR family make listening to and discovering new music accessible and affordable for everyone," said Steve Lalla, corporate vice president, Mass Market Products, Motorola Mobile Devices. “From uncovering new music with friends through our FMShare feature to enjoying surround-sound quality audio, these new ROKR phones deliver the music you want whenever, wherever and however you want to hear it."

I-mate 810-F

The i-mate 810-F is ruggedised quad-band Internet-enabled Windows Mobile smartphone. Its name comes from the US military standards for environment tests, MIL-STD-810. I-mate claims the 810-F can withstand temperature extremes of up to 60 degree and -20 degree celsius. It is also waterproofed to 1 metre, and shockproof.

It has a rubber exterior, with a filter over the earpiece to maintain waterproofing. Metal screws are exposed so you can check the factory seals have been maintained, and there is a small plastic stylus located in a slot at the back of the phone. The 810-F features a QWERTY-keyboard, a 2.45-inch 320x240 pixel touchscreen and a five-way clickable navigation pad.

It runs the Window Mobile 6.1 Professional operating system, with Internet Explorer 6. It offers a digital compass, A-GPS features and a three-axis accelerometer. There is also a 2MP fixed focus camera and 2 GB of RAM. There's no microSD slot to maintain its environmental coherence. Connectivity includes GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS and HSDPA, plus Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0.

I-mate provides a lifetime guarantee for the 810-F (subject to warranty terms and conditions, registration and annual service plan). The company’s Secure i-Q service also enables you to remotely lock, wipe or alarm the 810-F if it’s lost or stolen via a web application.

Pocket PC

A Pocket PC, abbreviated P/PC or PPC, is a hardware specification for a handheld-sized computer (Personal digital assistant) that runs the Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system. It may have the capability to run an alternative operating system like NetBSD, Linux, Android or others. It has many of the capabilities of modern desktop PCs.

Currently there are thousands of applications for handhelds adhering to the Microsoft Pocket PC specification, many of which are freeware. Some of these devices also include mobile phone features. Microsoft compliant Pocket PCs can also be used with many other add-ons like GPS receivers, barcode readers, RFID readers, and cameras.

In 2007, with the advent of Windows Mobile 6, Microsoft dropped the name Pocket PC in favor of a new naming scheme. Devices without an integrated phone are called Windows Mobile Classic devices instead of Pocket PCs. Devices with an integrated phone and a touch screen are called Windows Mobile Professional devices and devices without a touch screen are called Windows Mobile Standard devices.