It is rumored that future Sony Ericsson XPERIA series phones will be produced by Mobinnova company. Such collaboration can be very useful for both companies. It is known that Mobinnova is “responsible” for Ultimate 8502 and Ultimate 9502. Recently this company proved oneself one more time – it announced Mobinnova ICE communicator. This device has classic shape factor and runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional. The list of features includes 3 inch touch WQVGA screen, Qualcomm MSM7201ATM 528 MHz CPU, 256 MB ROM, 128 MB RAM, 3 Mp camera with autofocus, FM radio with RDS/RBDS, TV out, microSD memory card slot, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS modules. Supported network standards are GSM/GPRS/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) и WCDMA/HSPA (900/1900/2100 MHz). Another interesting feature is additional 1.1 inch OLED screen with 128x96 px resolution. It gives an opportunity to customize navigation buttons for different phone’s functions.
More and more phones with Dual SIM mode support. Philips also introduced Xenium X710. This mobile device has classic shape factor. The design of X710 is usual for this company. This mobile phone pretends to be "long-liver". The battery has 1900 mAh capacity so in spite of Dual SIM function support this phone provides 12 hour of talk mode. Philips Xenium X710 is assigned for GSM/EDGE 900/1800/1900 networks and has 2.4 inch screen with 240x320 px resolution, 3 Mp camera with autofocus, Bluetooth 2.0 module, 20 Mb built in memory, microSD card slot (up to 8 GB) and FM radio. Unfortunately there is no any information about its price.
Scientists introduced new cheap and effective method to transform usual mobile phone to blood analyzer. It is said that such method can very useful in Africa where that number of HIV and malaria infected people is very large and professional analysis tools are not available. The essence of this process is that: special application analyzes photos which is got by means of built in camera with additional light filter. According to scientists due to this technology more than hundred microbes can be identified. By the way this photo shows that the resolution of phone’s camera is not of great importance.
According to the last announces Samsung company is going to pay attention to phones of budget class in 2009. Nevertheless it has just officially declared that the first Samsung’s Android based phone will appear by the middle of next year. This smartphone will be introduced by T-Mobile and Sprint mobile operators. Some analytics believe that in spite of crisis the market of smartphones will continue to grow. So it is not surprising that Samsung decided to develop its own Android smartphone.
It was known that Sony Ericsson company had joined Open Handset Alliance last week and had announced its Android based smartphone by the beginning of the summer. But funs of SE mobile devices have already introduced some concept Sony Ericsson Android based devices. This is Sony Ericsson G703 which was designed by Xell from Esato community. This android concept phone combines features of XPERIA and HTC G1. It has QWERTY keyboard and full list of Google web applications. This device is very nice so I hope that future Sony Ericsson smartphone will look like G703 concept
According to some sources Philips company is going to announce X520 phone which is improved version of Xenium 9@9j It is rumored that company has already canceled this phone and it will never appear on sale). The main feature of Philips X520 is opportunity to work both with built in accumulator and AAA battery. In contrast to its relative this coming mobile phone will have 2 Mp camera (9@9j has 1.3 Mp), FM radio with RDS support and microSD card slot (up to 2Gb). Other performance attributes are the same with 9@9j phone and include 176х220 px TFT screen, Bluetooth with A2DP and miniUSB port
The author of this future phone is Peter Kubik. This concept device features three touch screens which can be combined into one. This big screen supports both portrait and landscape mode. at any time user can get access to virtual QWERTY keyboard. Due to special prop on the back side of the phone it can be placed on any horizontal surface to make TV of movie viewing more comfortable.
Trigger company has just announced new mobile internet device which is named Lluon Mobbit. In contrast to most of MIDs this gadget runs on Windows XP but not on Linux. This mobile device has 4.8 inch touch screen with 1024x600 px resolution. The user interface gives an opportunity to control all functions by means both of fingers and stylus. The set of features also includes Intel Atom Z520 1.3 GHz CPU, 1 GB RAM, 30 GB hard disk, 2 Mp camera, DMB-T module and Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and WiBro support. Its size is 166x88x21 mm. Lluon Mobbit MID will be released in the beginning of the next year and will cost $410.
Once in a while, it's nice to take a break from looking into future mobile phones and concentrate on the present ones especially if the phone is the Nokia N97. The Nokia N97 is Nokia's new touch screen phone but with an added slide-out QWERTY keyboard.
The main advantage of this concept phone is 7.1 Mp camera with autofocus and optical zoom. There is also Walkman 3.0 media player. In addition Sony Ericsson K5i future mobile phone has WVGA touch screen, 0.48 Mp frontal camera for video calls (30 fps), Wi-Fi module, 256 Mb memory, M2 and microSD memory cards support (up to 8 Gb), 3.5 mm audio jack. This phone also supports such wireless standards as EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA. Besides SE k5i can be synchronized with Windows XP and Vista and can be used as web camera.
