Nokia’s 3110 Evolve, as the name suggest evolved from the previous Nokia 3110 Classic mobile unit. Being touted as an eco-friendly phone, the 3110 evolve has three major features that set it apart from other Nokia and other brand of mobile phone. These features are:

Design – Measuring just 108.5mm long, 45.7mm wide and 15.6mm thick, the 3110 Evolve was created from unpainted bio-sourced materials. This reduces the amount of fossil fuels consumed during its creation. The over all packaging was made from 60% recycled materials as well.

Entertainment – Get spoiled by the 3110 Evolve with its 1.3 megapixel camera with 8X digital zoom, mp3 player, integrated FM radio and external memory.

Innovation – The Nokia 3110 Evolve uses the innovative AC-8 charger which was created to minimize “no load” energy consumption even if you forgot to unplug it from the power socket.

Aside from these 3 features, the Nokia Evolve 3110 is also loaded with cool mobile phone features that would surely make your mobile phone usage, a delightful experience.

Other features of the Nokia 3110 Evolve are:

• support for mp3, mp4, AAC, AAC+, enhanced AAC+, H.263, H.264, WMA
• video streaming through 3GPP
• supports true tone
• DRM release 2.0
• XHTML browser
• JAVA MIDP 2.0
• Macro Flash Lite 2.0
• supports GPRS, EDGE, HDSCD data transfer
• supports Bluetooh, Infrared, USB and XHTML connectivity

The Nokia 3110 Evolve is truly worthy of a second look. If you’ve been a user of the 3110 Classic, then you wouldn’t have a hard time adapting to this phone’s features. It’s good to know that a mobile phone giant company such as Nokia is concerned with environmental issues as well.

Nokia is giving its millions of users a new entertainment medium on their mobile phone, the Nokia Internet Radio. If you are a Nokia mobile phone user, the new Nokia Internet Radio, is a new web-based service that lets you discover and listen to radio shows broadscasted over the internet. The application can be downloaded free into your mobile phone. Soon, it will be embedded in upcoming Nokia S60 3^rd edition mobile phones.

The Nokia Internet Radio promises to make the discovery of music effortless. Mobile browsing can be done through station name, music genre, country or language. Top ten music countdowns worldwide will be updated on an hourly basis. And when you find an interesting radio station, you can easily add it to a list of you favorite stations as a bookmark in you Nokia mobile phone browser. Hence makin the radio station easily accessible.

The best part about the Nokia Internet Radio is that you can enhance audio quality by selecting appropriate streaming servers that would match the speed of the current network connection that you have. Just like audio streaming on the web through your PC, you will have the option to match the speed of your mobile phone connection with specific streaming servers.

The Nokia Internet Radio is currently available for download to Nokia models such as N82, N91, N95 and N95 8GB. To find out if your mobile phone is compatible with the Nokia Internet Radio, check out the list of compatible devices.

Following the sleek and stylish design of previous LG Chocolate handsets in colors black, red, green, and white, Verizon Wireless has launched extended the Chocolate line-up with the new cool Blue Ice flavor. Its silky-smooth slim slider design comes coated with a frosty blue finish and loaded with the same features of earlier Chocolate handsets.

As for the price, it is up for grabs for $80 with annoying new two-year contract plus $50 mail-in rebate. Initial selling at Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and other online sites will be this coming Friday, December 7, 2007.

Since fashion and music often go along together, the Blue Ice Chocolate can easily access and download more than 2.4 million songs via the network’s wireless service, V CAST Music. Of course V CAST Video is also very accessible every time you need to get hold of entertaining video clips.

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*Certain features may use more power and cause actual standby and usage time to vary.

Via Gadgetell

According to a new study by ABI Research, the market of GPS-enabled mobile phones will experience a rapid growth in the next five years. This market is projected to deliver more than $50 billion next year and will double in 2012 to reach $100 billion.

In terms of units, shipments of GPS-enabled handsets will reach 240 million in 2008 and will expand to 550 million in 2012.

The ongoing consolidation in the mobile industry is viewed as a strong driver of growth. Nokia’s acquisition of navigation company NAVTEQ is an indication of the handset manufacturer’s direction to make GPS a standard mobile phone feature.

Aside from Nokia, several other player navigation companies were recently acquired. CSR took over NordNav Technologies and Cambridge Positioning Systems while Broadcom acquired of Global Locate. Moreover, the ongoing scuffle between 2 navigation companies Garmin and TomTom over Tele Atlas further confirms the importance of GPS in the near future.

This consolidation is just one of the growth drivers. Another factor is low cost. Chipset manufacturers have already developed the technology improve the accuracy of GPS and integrate it to mobile phones at a very competitive cost. Additionally, mobile vendors have shown growing interest in GPS and other GPS-centric applications.

While the growth will come mostly from big players like Nokia, Samsung, and Motorola, small handset manufacturers like HTC and Quanta are also adding GPS features in their recent and upcoming mobile phones.

Handset manufacturer Nokia plans to launch touch-screen mobile phones in the near the future. In the recent Symbian Smartphone Show held in London last October, they already boasted their Symbian Series60 (S60) touch-screen interface.

More importantly, the Finnish company has already filed a patent about its technology as early as May 2006. According to Crave, the concept submitted to the US Patent and Trademark Office is designed with 2 screens to show different kinds of information depending on the angle on which the clamshell is opened. Nokia plans to make this new technology available to the device manufacturers in 2008.

While the idea is very interesting, there is a bigger challenge to face – Apple, its iPhone, and its army of legal counsels. Apple CEO Steve Jobs claims to have filed at least 200 patents connected to touch-screen technology. With the impressive performance of iPhone, it is no doubt the company is very eager to defend its rights.

According to Nomura analyst Richard Windsor, Nokia will likely engage Apple in a legal scuffle should they proceed with this idea. It could delay or totally halt this project.

“I think Apple will likely view Nokia as infringing on its user interface patents,” said Richard Windsor “But I don’t see this being the same scale of the legal battle Nokia has with Qualcomm.

An out-of-court settlement will likely happen in 2009 instead of a long battle in the courtroom.

Via cellular-news

Designed with a hidden slide-out QWERTY Keyboard and trackwheel navigation, the Verizon Wireless XV6800 is like a mini computer.

The mobile operator claims this is the “ultimate connectivity device” since it has a built-in Wi-Fi and high-speed wireless broadband.

Running on Windows Mobile 6 Professional, mobile users can access MS Office applications include Word, Powerpoint, and Excel as well as PDF files. Combining all these functions and its connectivity features, it is also dubbed as the “ultimate no-nonesense productivity tool for the busy professional.”

It is now available online at VerizonWireless.com for a price of $450 plus a 2-year contract and $50 mail-in rebate. It will be available in Verizon Wireless Communications stores on December 5.

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Thankfully, the Levi’s co-branded mobile phone is not something that you can wear and need to unbutton or unzip to make a call. The Levi’s phone from modelabs, is a mobile phone inspired by the legendary denim brand, Levi Strauss Co.

The Levi’s Phone is geared for fashionistas and Levi’s denim pants fans who can’t seem to get enough of their favorite denim jeans that they would want to have its look and feel in their mobile phone as well.

But don’t get me wrong, the Levi’s phone aside from carrying the stylish look of a traditional denim pants is still a mobile phone packed with some nifty features although not as powerful as your other mobile phones today.

Just like any other mobile phones today, the Levi’s phone lets you connect, enjoy music, exchange images and videos while on the go. The Levi’s phone is designed for individuals who possess rugged lifestyles. It’s compact design and sturdy steel casing represents the ruggedness of the Levi’s jeans we’ve all grown to love. The Levi’s phone also has a unique detachable chain that provides a clever design solution that allows you to fasten your phone to your jeans, bags and more.

Available in metallic silver, black and brown copper the Levi’s phone is packed with standard mobile phone features that include:

• Mp3 player
• FM radio
• 64mb internal memory with expansion slot for up to 2GB SD card
• 262 000 colors TFT screen - 220 x 176 pixels 1.8″ pixels
• 2 megapixels camera with flash and zoom (x4)
• Video player and recorder (MPEG4/H.263)
• Stereo Bluetooth®
• USB 2.0
• Built-in Modem
• SMS / MMS
• Image formats supported: JPEG / GIF/ BMP
• Sound formats supported: MP3 / WAV / MIDI
• E-mail client

The Levi’s phone is currently available for the European mobile market. No word yet on when it will be released in the U.S. If you can’t wait for the U.S. mobile stores to pick it up, better check out online mobile phone stores which may be selling the Levi’s phone already.

Taking advantage of the upcoming holiday season in the U.S., handset manufacturer Nokia has launched the new N810 Internet Tablet, a slide-out keyboard mobile phone with Wi-Fi capability for VoIP calling.

No Boring Days Anymore
Just like most N-series handsets, N810 is another powerful traditional computer in a pocket-size format loaded with several features guaranteed to make you busy. For one, it can store about 7,500 songs and 45 hours of music playback.

In case you’re traveling and there’s no Wi-Fi connection, N810 gives you the power to explore the Web with your Mozilla based browser. You can initiate VoIP calls via Skype, update your blog, chat with your online friends, check your e-mails, and watch YouTube clearly with its 4.13 inch wide touch screen.

Always on the Right Track
If you imagine yourself as one of the characters in the famous TV series “Lost”, don’t ever dream of getting this N810. Its powerful GPS receiver can easily pinpoint your exact location. You also have a chance to upgrade this to Wayfinder’s voice-guided navigation to make your trip more exciting and a lot easier.

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With retail price of $479, it is available now in leading consumer electronics retailers like CompUSA, Best Buy, Amazon, and Nokia Flagship stores in New York and Chicago city.

Via Gadgetell

If you maintain two mobile phones with two mobile phone accounts, you might want to consider using the WND Duo Atom instead. The Duo Atom can hold two sim cards and will let you shift from one mobile account to another with just a flip of the phone. That’s right, if other mobile phones make you change sim first in order to use another mobile line, the Duo Atom takes away that hassle.

So how does the Duo Atom’s dual sim card works then? If you load two sim cards on the Duo Atom’s sim card slot, the Duo Atom’s unique touchpad application reverses the screen and the keypad to change mobile accounts. So, you use one mobile line using the lower part of the phone’s front face and the upper part for using the other mobile account. Now that’s pretty neat indeed. The Duo Atom is equipped with a gravity sensor that makes this shifting to work in a seamless fashion.

Aside from letting you use two sim cards/mobile lines, the WND Duo Atom is a full featured mobile phone as well. It has a built in 3mp auto focus camera, plays mp3 audio files, and is WAP 2.0 compatible as well.

The WND Duo Atom also supports microSD external memory for added storage space. You can also enjoy playing and using Java applications as the phone is compatible with JAVA MIDP2.0/CLDC1.1 applications.

Other features of the WND Duo Atom include:

• Tri-Band (GSM 900/1800/1900 MHz)
• TFT LCD Display Screen (176 x 220 pixels)
• Photo Phonebook
• Photo Caller ID

Although, there is no official release date yet, it would be interesting to see how a dual sim card phone would fare in fairly conservative U.S. mobile market as compared to other countries.

For those of you who haven’t grabbed a new mobile phone off the Black Friday shopping frenzy, either because most of the phones release don’t appeal to you, the BlackBerry Pearl 8130 just might be the smartphone that you are looking for. The BlackBerry Pearl 8130 has been released by Sprint just in time for Black Friday.

Why would you want to have the BlackBerry Pearl 8130? Well for one, the BlackBerry Pearl 8130 was designed to help you do everything you want with your life. It’s a smarthphone, so it comes complete with advanced phone features that let you stay in touch, enjoy life, find the info you need and maximize convenience.

Stay in Touch – The BlackBerry Pearl allows you to stay in touch with your contacts through various means. You can send, receive, forward and reply to messages and view attachments in popular file formats via its wireless email. It’s advanced phone features include speakerphone and voice activate dialing, user-definable convenience keys and dedicated send, end and mute keys. The BlackBerry Pearl 8130 also allows you to connect with your IM contacts using web applications such as Yahoo Messenge and Google Talk.

Enjoy Life - Aside from the communication functions, the BlackBerry Pearl 8130 lets you enjoy life with its multimedia functionalities. You can listen to your favorite songs and watch video clips with its media player. Capture special moments clearly with its 2.0MP camera with buil-in zoom and flash. Likewise, you can also record video clips through this camera and share them right away via email or MMS.

Find the Info You Need – The BlackBerry Pearl 8130 gives you various options to find the information you need be it on the web or on while on the road. The smartphone is equipped with built-in web browser that lets you navigate and browse websites using the trackball as a navigation tool. You can also synch and store your calendar data, address book and more with the BlackBerry Pearl’s organizer. And lastly, you can gain access to your vital corporate databases and applications from anywhere through a corporate data access feature.

Maximize convenience – Other features of the BlackBerry Pearl 8130 includes 64MB of built-in memory plus an expandable memory via microSD card, Bluetooth capability, high-resolution, light-sensing screen, and a SureType keyboard technology in a QWERTY-style layout which lets you compose text and email messages faster.

The BlackBerry Pearl 8130 is indeed a fully functional and feature-rich smartphone that would cater to business professionals and casual mobile phone users.