The Nokia 6500 slider-phone just got the FCC approval. This new phone gadget featured a 3.2-megapixel camera, a TV-out jack, a microSD memory card slot, Push-to-Talk, and a USB interface for data synch. It comes with a 2.2” QVGA screen and have an option of accesing emails as it is comes with an installed email client and IM application.

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The Pharos 600 and 600e are the new smartphones that comes with GPS maps of the US and Canada.

These GPS phones comes with a color touch screen, which can easily be turned into a full QWERTY keyboard, mobile versions of Windows Media Player, Microsoft Office Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, 2 megapixel camera, Windows Mobile 5.0, quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, WiFi 802.11b/g, tri-band FM radio, and a voice recorder.  For a new T-Mobile contract you will be able to get the 600 for $500 and 600e for $400 approximately.

T-Mobile announced the new Samsung brand offering of SGH-T729 with slim slider design in a red-and-black color scheme. The specs include Bluetooth, a speakerphone, a MicroSD card slot, and a 1.3-megapixel camera, comes with a SureType keyboard (look a lot like BlackBerry keyboard).

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Another Touchscreen gadget that will compete with Apple iPhone are coming late this year or early 2008. The Meizu MiniOne plans to come out with a 16GB model, 3.32” TFT VGA,3-MP camera, Bluetooth, Line Out with DMB support, WiFi connectivity and Video decoder CODEC.

Meizu MiniOne features include:

• ARM11 533MHZ (perhaps Samsung S3C6400) processor
• 128MB DDR SDRAM cache (two 16 512Mb chip components 1024Mb 3 2)
• GSM+EDGE+WCDMA
• WIN CE6.0 based on the Windows CE kernel FOR MEIZU M8
• Video decoder CODEC (Possible Samsung S3C6400 built-CODEC)
• 3.32-inch TFT VGA （720×480 16 million colors Touchscreen
• 3-megapixel camera and a .3-megapixel VGA for conferencing (Autofocus, no flash)
• 1600mAHBattery : 1600mAH
• Bluetooth support
• Line Out with DMB support
• Wi-Fi connectivity with wireless card
• Plays 30fps 720×480 AVI, MPEG4, WMV videos and other mainstream video formats, even Real Player through decoder
• Video recording, and digital TV
• GPS through DMB with downloadable maps.
• USB2.0 Ultra Fast Data Transfer
• Built-in basic Memory (4GB/8GB)
• GSM + SCDMA Networks
• TV-out Support
• Line-in Support

Source {gizmodo}

Mobile phone/internet gadgets are getting better and better everyday.. Now you can post to your blog directly from your mobile phone.. no, it is not the iPhone. Samsung Electronics will introduce a 3G phone SGH-L760 in Europe this coming months which can be use to post content into your blog. This is 3G technology so it will take awhile before it reached to the U.S.A. My take on this is that, this gadget is ideal if you’re posting video or photos in your blog but I don’t think this would be as good if you’re posting text with paragraphs unless you’re reader is cool with text-speak.  Source {here}

Forget iPhone for now… On the other side of gadget news, Motorola RAZR brand now has the RAZR 2 and it is first to be available in stores in South Korea. The v2 has a 2” screen with a crisp display (compared to the v1 RAZR) for video and reading text message, navigating multimedia files, navigation and among others. It has a touch sensor on the external display, it vibrates lightly whenever users touch its menu buttons. The RAZR 2 will be available in three flavor HSDPA, EV-DO, and GSM / EDGE. This gadget will be running on Linux engine and will be 2 mm. thinner than its V1 brother.

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I got this posted at crunchgear the survey conducted online by the solutions research group (pdf) on who would be willing to hit the (possible long) line for June 29 iPhone market intro.
I myself is 90% within the result stats but Im still trying to figure out how to justify the $499 and the monthly service fee.