Amosu, the designer of luxury mobile phones, players and accessories, has extended its elite device lineup. This time it introduced Nokia N95 with 18 carat white gold and 325 diamonds, with a total diamond weight of 3.3 carats. The company launched the limited edition with 10 diamond coated phones. The price tag for the diamond Nokia N95 is about $24000.
BenQ has unveiled the E72 smartphone powered by windows Mobile 6 Standard. It is packed in a slim candy bar form. There is nothing revolutionary in its specs, it contains most essential functions. The device will come to several countries of Asia Pacific and Europe during 4Q.
The specs of BenQ E72:
Samsung Electronics in cooperation with Bang Olufsen have announced the series production of a 3G music phone Samsung Serenata. The companies due to their design partnership managed to create a strange looking mobile device featuring small size, light weight and exclusive design. Samsung Serenata is positioned as a high-end music phone. It holds a slide-out stereophonic acoustic system, you can place it on the table and enjoy the music. The limited edition of Samsung Serenata will come to the Russian retail in late October – early November 2007.
The specs of Samsung Serenata:
HTC has reported it will launch HTC Shift Ultra mobile PC in 4Q 2007 together with the P6500 communicator and S730 smartphone. The device is powered by Windows Vista OS. It comes with a 7” touch-sensitive screen that slides out and tilts to a comfortable angle and a full QWERTY-keyboard. According to the company, HTC Shift has the optimal blend of portability and functionality. The SnapVUE always-on mode provides instant access to important info – e-mail, calendar events, SMS and contacts, even if the device is not switched on. The new product supports GSM/GPRS/EDGE and UMTS/HSDPA networks and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless connections. HTC shift will hit European stores in November.
The manufacturer highlights the following functions:
HTC’ portfolio for 4Q includes the P6500 communicator. The company believes it is the right mobile partner for business, from logistics to warehousing and transportation. The device comes without a keyboard. It is powered by Windows Mobile 6 Professional and works in quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE and tri-band WCDMA/HSDPA networks.
HTC P6500 is equipped with a 3.5” touch sensitive LCD, a 3-megapixel camera, a barcode reader, a fingerprints sensor, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. It also features a built-in GPS-receiver, 256 MB of RAM, a dual SD slot with SDIO interface. The communicator hits the European stores in November.
HTC has unveiled HTC S730 smartphone. This is a successor of HTC S710 (Vox): it comes with the number pad on the front and the QWERTY slide-out keyboard. The S730 is powered by Windows Mobile 6 Standard. It will be available in Europe in October.
The specs of HTC S730:
HTC has officially announced HTC Touch Dual slider, an heir of HTC Touch communicator. It’s the second device with TouchFLO screen technology for finger and stylus input. I’d note that its slide-out keyboard contains 12 (traditional numeric) or 20 buttons (two letters for each button) depending on the region and operator’s preferences. The European release of HTC Touch Dual will take place later this month.
The specs of HTC Touch Dual:
The GPS-smartphone Samsung SGH-i550 hasn’t been launched yet, but the company is working on new models with similar functionality. Some info popped up on Samsung SGH-i780 and Samsung SGH-i560. This time a web source provides info on another GPS-smartphone – the SGH-i355. The IT168.com reports this is a slider phone based on Symbian 9.2/S60 platform. It is designed for GSM/GPRS and WCDMA/HSDPA networks.
Other features are as follows: 2.4” QVGA 262K color display, 3.2-megapixel camera with 16x digital zoom, media player, built-in GPS, Bluetooth and USB. Samsung SGH-i355 will come out in 4Q 2007 at about €415.
Asus has introduced a new ultra mobile PC – the R2E. Unlike it predecessor working on Celeron this UMPC is based on Intel Ultra Mobile Platform 2007 (A110 800 MHz processor and 945GU chipset). The manufacturer says that the shift to the new platform will lower power consumption and increase productivity of the device.
Asus R2E comes with a 7” 800x480 pixels display, 1 GB DDR2, 80 GB HDD, Wi-Fi 802.11g and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR interface. In addition there are HSDPA-adapter, 1.3-megapixel web-camera and built-in GPS (optionally). The sales of Asus R2E will be launched next month at €1119.
Palm and the American operator Sprint have reported that the release of Palm Centro smartphone will take place on October 14. The device is positioned as the smallest Palm smartphone. The company announced the $100 price tag on a 2-year service plan (from $25). Palm Centro will be available in Red and Black color solutions. Probably smartphone details will be unveiled after today’s conference at DigitalLife event in New York.
