The HTC Touch Dual is finally out in the market, following closely the launch of its predecessor, the HTC Touch. The phone comes with 3.5G wireless/HSDPA connectivity, sliding keypad and touchFLO. This feature, seen earlier in the Touch, enables finger-touch scrolling, panning and photo zooming, and also gives easy access to the music player.

The HTC Touch Dual features a Qualcomm MSM7200 chip running at 400MHz with Windows Mobile software that allows users to stay connected with people and access information and entertainment by a single, personalized device. The phone also comes equipped with a 2MP camera, a second camera for video calls, worldwide connectivity (HSDPA, 3G, and GPRS/EDGE/GSM), Direct Push Outlook e-mail, Live HTC Home featuring time and weather display, quick launcher, and one-touch ring tone settings.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a leading provider and innovator of mobile phones, launches a terrestrial Digital Media Broadcasting phone (Model: SPH-B5800) that supports Transport Protocol Experts Group (TPEG) feature. TPEG feature is a transportation information service based on terrestrial DMB data broadcasting. Personal Media Players or navigation devices that support the TPEG service have been released in the past, but SPH-B5800 is the first mobile phone to support the TPEG service.

The Samsung SPH-B5800 provides users with traffic information updated every five minutes, as well as information about famous local restaurants and travel guides via terrestrial DMB channels. Existing Global Positioning Systems (GPS) are limited to guiding drivers on a specific route using an embedded map, but Samsung’s B5800 shows current traffic conditions as “cleared”, “sluggish” or “congested,” and guides drivers with the optimal route to their destinations. Users can also compare routes that reflect traffic conditions.

Moreover, unlike GPS in the past, there is no longer a need to access servers: Traffic information received via terrestrial broadcasting can be used to determine routes. The B5800 supports a feature that allows users to view all channel lists while viewing DMB programs and thus, enables users to easily browse and find desired programs. Users can also enjoy User Created Contents (UCC) via ‘Photo Movie Maker’, which saves picture slides as videos, and can send and receive text messages while playing a MP3. It also includes a 2-mega-pixel camera, a 330,000 word electronic dictionary, ‘My Pet’ function, file viewer, and audio book.

Today announced the availability of the MOTO Z6c world edition, an eye-catching slider sensation that holiday shoppers can now get exclusively from Verizon Wireless. The stunningly slim and sophisticated Z6c adds global connectivity¹, comes with advanced mobile phone technology.

For customers traveling within the GSM network coverage area outside of the U.S. provided by Verizon Wireless’ global roaming partners, the Z6c gives customers on-the-go connectivity to the people that matter most to them¹. Verizon Wireless’s high-speed CDMA network supports the Z6c while it’s in the U.S. and in over 22 other countries that use CDMA technology. The Z6c features fast and intuitive multimedia capabilities and its espresso casing with a high-gloss front and soft-touch back, makes it stylish for all jet setters.

For video and music enthusiasts, the Z6c is equipped with the ability to access V CAST Video, Verizon Wireless’ multimedia service with news, sports and entertainment video clips, 3D games and more; and V CAST Music, which offers access to more than 2.4 million songs that can be purchased and downloaded over-the-air, directly from the phone, while in the V CAST coverage area.² In addition, to fully-enhance the music experience, the Z6c supports stereo Bluetooth wireless technology and can be paired with a compatible Bluetooth enabled headset like the MOTOROKR™ S9.³ The Z6c also features a 2.0 megapixel camera, a 2-inch QVGA display, and supports up to 4GB of optional removable memory – making the Z6c an essential carry-on for the budding photographer capturing and sharing photos and videos of international journeys.

Spice Mobiles, India, has launched a new Music Edition mobile phone that seems quite fully equipped. The S-7 is the latest edition to their range. It’s equipped with a 1.3 megapixel camera that can double up as a web cam for your PC. The S-7 has a 2 inch display with 262k colors and a resolution of 176 x 220 pixels. The good thing about this phone is that the S-7 supports Advanced Bluetooth i.e. A2DP so you can use a wireless Bluetooth headset for your music. It supports external memory with T-Flash cards up to 1GB. The S-7 can also be used as a modem and is Java enabled.

Since it has a handset manager option it’s easy to connect to your PC without a separate software installation. It also supports video and image caller id. The S-7 is priced at Rs. 6,999. The Kit includes a USB data cable, travel charger for the headset and a quick reference guide. Spice Mobiles is also offering the Spice Mono Bluetooth headset worth Rs. 1,799 free. It is a limited offering though.

Nokia’s to the Xpressmusic series are finally here. The 5610 and 5310 Xpressmusic phones have a variety of features to users not including the obvious fact of having an apparently better music player than some of the previous models. Let’s not forget that Nokia has also decided to take on a rather edgy look with these phones with a black finish with either Blue or Red portions.

The 5610 is a slider phone that comes equipped with Aluminum side panels, a 2.2 inch display with 16 million colors and a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels. The company says that it offers up to 22 hours of music playback. We’ll have to wait and see after the review to confirm that of course. It supports external memory with microSD cards up to 4GB. The 5610 Xpressmusic also features a 3.2 megapixel camera with auto-focus and dual LED flash. The handset uses 3G technology, Bluetooth with A2DP, the new standardized microUSB v2.0 and also has an FM radio with RDS. It supports MP3, MP4, AAC, eAAc, and WMA formats.

The HTC Touch Dual is finally out in the market, following closely the launch of its predecessor, the HTC Touch. The phone comes with 3.5G wireless/HSDPA connectivity, sliding keypad and touchFLO. This feature, seen earlier in the Touch, enables finger-touch scrolling, panning and photo zooming, and also gives easy access to the music player.

The HTC Touch Dual features a Qualcomm MSM7200 chip running at 400MHz with Windows Mobile software that allows users to stay connected with people and access information and entertainment by a single, personalized device. The phone also comes equipped with a 2MP camera, a second camera for video calls, Worldwide connectivity (HSDPA, 3G, and GPRS/EDGE/GSM), Direct Push Outlook e-mail, Live HTC Home featuring time and weather display, quick launcher, and one-touch ring tone settings.

It’s been a week of major profits and the occasional loss in the cellular world, with and Apple both announcing strong Q4 2007 performance and celebrating with a new bevy of for the iPhone (although some are pointing out that their figures for the Jesus phone. Meanwhile, LG celebrated 550,000 European sales of their 5-megapixel-toting Viewty with a new that packs not only the fresh suit but UI improvements too. Sadly not everyone has been celebrating; Palm announced on Wednesday that, by the end of January.

Critics are blaming the frankly uninspiring range of handsets they’ve got on offer, and looking at the- apparently hitting the shelves in April - you can’t really disagree. Biggest industry news, however, was the FCC’s 700MHz wireless spectrum auction with the first round of bidding clocking up $2.4bn. So far bidders identities have been kept secret, so there’s no telling whether Google have opened their wallet or left the open-access Block C to mainstream rivals AT&T and Verizon Wireless.

Samsung is out with a new flip phone called the J400. This lightweight handset weighs in at just 99.5g and has dimensions of 99×49.5×15.9 mm. The J400 is a 3G-ready GSM handset that supports EDGE, Bluetooth v2.0, external memory via microSD cards, Java, and USB v2.0This handset has a 2 inch internal display with a resolution of 128 x 220 pixels and sports 262K colors. There’s an external display which is monochrome. It’s equipped with a 1.3 megapixel camera. Other features include a dictaphone, world clock, calculator, converter, timer, stopwatch and an alarm clock. The official price hasn’t been disclosed, and unfortunately it’s not yet known whether it’ll make it to our side of the planet. Stay tuned.

LG has launched the KF600 EDGE which is equipped with a 3.2 megapixel auto-focus camera and new InteractPad touch screen system. The InteractPad is what they’re calling the lower portion of the display that is touch sensitive. This will allow users to navigate various menus in the handset. The KF600 actually has a slide out keypad, so it’s not fully touch sensitive. It’s equipped with Bluetooth, presumably with an A2DP profile as well. The KF600 is apparently the GSM version of the LG Venus VX8800.There’s no official price linked to it yet but it should be out in certain Asian countries soon. Hopefully India will be one of them. Stay Tuned.

Cricket, a subsidiary of Leap Wireless International, has just added another phone to its lineup and it’s about as stereotypical a Samsung phone as it gets. After all, the SCH-r610 is a skinny slider phone with a healthy complement of multimedia functions. At first glance, the Samsung SCH-r610 looks almost the same as some older Samsung sliders like the D900 (Ultra Edition 12.1). It would have been nice if Cricket grabbed a more current-looking phone like the U600. Anyways, the Samsung SCH-r610 is equipped with all the usual doo-dahs that you’ve come to expect from an entertainment-minded handset.

The display is a standard 262k TFT number, and it gets backed up by a microSD expansion slot, MP3 player, 1.3 megapixel camera, WAP 2.0, and stereo Bluetooth. It can handle the whole mobile web and wireless download thing too, so you’ll never be without a hot new cell phone game.