LG VX 8700

LG VX 8700

Pre-show activities started with LG announcing its 3.8-ounce VX8700, which sports a brushed metal finish, a slim, 0.5-inch profile, and an external status display with a shiny, mirror-like background.

The VX8700 supports dual-band CDMA for calls and EvDO for data. Users also get a speakerphone, a 2-megapixel camera for photos and video, and a microSD media card slot for additional storage. The phone doubles as an MP3 player and supports stereo Bluetooth headsets.

Motorola MC35 - E-mail over High-Speed Edge Wireless Data Networks

Motorola MC35



Searching for a phenomenal hit to follow up the popular Razr slim phone, Motorola introduced a series of hard-to-distinguish new consumer phones plus the MC35, a durable voice/data communications device. Called an Enterprise Digital Assistant by the company, the MC35 includes built-in GPS capability, WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, mobile e-mail over high-speed Edge wireless data networks, and a camera. The phone even throws in a barcode reader to the growing suite of mobile applications.

The new smartphone is the result of Motorola's acquisition last year of Symbol, long known as a maker of "rugged" devices for enterprises.

The company also unveiled ROKR Z6m, a sleeker, metallic variant on the RIZR slider that emphasizes music: a 3.5mm headphone jack lets any standard headphone set plug in without an adapter, and stereo Bluetooth supports wireless headphones or speakers. EVDO and a 2-megapixelcamera are also a part of the design. ROKR Z6m is due to arrive by second quarter of 2007.

HTC Shift - High Tech Mobile

HTC Shift
Taiwan-based High Tech Computer, which has in the last two years moved beyond being a manufacturer of equipment for other companies to releasing devices under its own brand, debuted `Shift’, an “ultra-mobile PC”. About the size of a pair of CD jewel cases, the Shift has a tilt-up screen and a full laptop-style keyboard, plus multiple connectivity options, including GSM, Edge, UMTS, HSDPA, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi.

Rather than a conventional mobile operating system such as Windows Mobile or Symbian, the Shift runs the full Windows Vista Business.

It dons a 7-inch, 800x480 touchscreen, 1GB of RAM and 30 GB hard drive. There is a fingerprint reader and a small 1.2-megapixel webcam.

Sony Ericsson Z750 - Post Video Blogs to Blogger

Sony Ericsson Z750
Z750 is Sony Ericsson’s first-ever phone with both high-speed download packet access, or HSDPA, and Quad-band EDGE. It features a 2 megapixel camera and 2.2 inch screen, a media player that supports a range of music formats, and a built-in FM radio with RDS and 3D gaming capabilities.

It offers broadband speed for Web access, e-mail and picture blogging. The phone has a display with a hidden mirror effect when the clamshell is closed. It is also one of the first of Sony Ericsson’s phones that can post video blogs to Blogger.

The phone will hit the selected markets in the third quarter."

Sony Ericsson W580 - Powerful Walkman Phone

Sony Ericsson W580


Sony Ericsson announced a new addition to its powerful Walkman phone lineup. Available in white or gray with orange accents, the W580 features a slider form factor. At 0.6 inches, it marks a further move by the company to compete in the thin-phone category.

Packed inside is Bluetooth, memory stick Micro slot, a 2 megapixel camera, Song ID capability for identifying unfamiliar music tracks, quad-band world phone support and FM radio.

The W580 is 1.4cm thick and weighs 93g. Sony Ericsson claims that the W580 comes with up to 30 hours of music play time.

Helio Ocean - First “Dual-Slider” Phone

Helio, a joint venture between Earthlink and Korea's SK Telecom, unveiled Ocean, which is being billed as the first “dual-slider” phone that slides vertically to reveal a numeric keypad and slides horizontally for a full QWERTY keypad.

Ocean merges text and picture messaging, and emailing from all major portals with corporate email synchronization that allows users to get email from Microsoft Exchange server. While the full keyboard makes for easier text input, the Ocean also features an automatic search function triggered whenever you start typing.

Ocean includes 3G (EV-DO), GPS, 200MB internal storage, microSD card slot, MPEG-4 video recording, 2 megapixel camera and stereo Bluetooth capability. It is due later this spring for $295.

It comes with 2.4-inch, 260K colour high-resolution QVGA display, external stereo speakers, over two hours of continuous video recording, Bluetooth for wireless voice and stereo Bluetooth. Ocean supports an array of audio and video formats including MP3, AAC and WMA audio, and MPEG4 and H.264 video.

Mobile content and services going to be boom

According to research firm Informa, SMS, multimedia messaging and instant messaging on mobile phones will generate revenues worth $93 billion globally by 2011

LONDON: The market for content and services on mobile phones is expected to grow to $150 billion by 2011, as access to the web while on the move becomes easier and faster, research from Informa Telecoms & Media showed.

The research firm said that applications such as messaging led by traditional SMS messaging would still account for a lion's share of this market, generating over half of this revenue in 2011.

Informa predicted messaging services comprising SMS, multimedia messaging and instant messaging on mobile phones will generate revenues worth $93 billion globally by 2011 from $60 billion last year and an expected $67.4 billion in 2007.

Entertainment services comprising games, music, TV, adult content and gambling would grow to $38 billion by 2011 from around $18.8 billion in 2006, it said.

"Mobile music will be a major contributor to the revenues achieved in the mobile entertainment market in the next five years, although its overall share of the market will fall from 40 per cent in 2006 to 36 per cent in 2011 as new forms of entertainment such as mobile TV and video services begin to gain consumer interest," Informa said in its report.

Not all of the explosion in new services, although helped by the availability of broadband speeds on mobiles, would go to mobile operators.

"The introduction of a whole host of new players into the value chain presents new opportunities for growth in the mobile content and services market, whilst simultaneously posing a threat to mobile operators who face losing control of the billing relationship with their customers," Informa said.

It also forecast areas such as user-generated content, the rage of the Internet world in 2006, to come into the mobile space in the years ahead. Informa forecast user-generated content and communities to be worth $13.2 billion by 2011.

Samsung SGH-F700

SGH-F700 is an upcoming member of the Korean electronic company's Ultra Smart series. F700 is a landscape-orientated QWERTY thumb-keyboard, touch-screen phone, measuring 4.09 x 1.9 x 0.6 inches. The display measures 2.78 inches and it supports 262,744 colours and 440 x 240 pixel resolution.

The multimedia phone supports a wide range of audio and video file formats. It is a tri-band GSM handset with 2.5G EDGE and 3.5G HSDPA data networking support. F700 sports a 5-megapixel camera with auto focus and supports Bluetooth for wireless access to handsfree car kits, headsets, etc.

Samsung UpStage

Samsung UpStage is a thin wireless phone-cum-MP3 player from Samsung and Sprint. The device actually has a two-sided candy bar shape that looks like a phone on one side and an MP3 music player on the other. A “flip” button on the phone’s edge is pressed to switch between the two sides.

The phone side has a number pad and small screen for dialing calls and typing text messages, while the reverse features a large screen and touch-sensitive controls to navigate through song lists and view digital photos, video and Web pages.

Features of UpStage include over-the-air music downloads through the Sprint Music Store, stereo Bluetooth 2.0 with Bluetooth caller ID (greets callers with a spoken voice while music is playing), a 64 MB MicroSD memory card, and USB cable with Smith Micro software for transferring music to the device.

The phone will also come with an extended battery wallet that adds up to 6.3 hours of talk time, or up to 16 hours of music listening time. When connected to the battery wallet, the device has a dual battery gauge that shows remaining time of both batteries. UpStage weighs just 74g and is less than 1cm thick.

Google and Avaya are together for apps -

Avaya Inc., a renowned name in providing business communications applications, systems and services has tied up with Google Enterprise Professional program for developing new capabilities for small businesses around Google's enterprise products. This venture will provide new productivity-enhancing solutions for small businesses

As agreement say, market will be developed by Avaya and it will support offers which integrate its high technology rich communications for small businesses with the Google Application Premier Edition, instant messaging, email subscription services solution and web publishing services.

Companies will be able to increase productivity and better customer services also by using the intelligent communications with Web services as Avaya says. Google includes software vendors, all developers and consultants in its Enterprise Professional program.

Using their own domain name, organizations can utilize simple, powerful and collaboration tools of Google. Users can utilize Google’s facilities like its Gmail, Google Calendar, chat facility like Google Talk and Google Docs and Spreadsheets on their own domain to be connected and work mutually with the help of Google apps services. There will be no need of any hardware or software to avail this service.

The open standards-based abilities on which this solution will focus that includes following

Sharing contact information easily by enabling subscribers.
Presence information and alerts also.
One inbox for voice mail.
Email
Fax
Web calling through Google Talk.


Avaya IP Office will be focused in companies combined efforts.

Since Avaya is ready to provide a broad set of Internet Protocol (IP) and communications capabilities via telephone, Mr. Kevin Smith, head of Enterprise Partnerships at Google is excited to have Avaya as a business partner with Google Enterprise Professional program.

Geoffrey Baird who is the Vice President and General Manager of Appliances, Mobility and Small Systems Division in Avaya says that Avaya Inc is working with Google to accelerate the convergence of enterprise communications with Web services. APIs offered by Google Apps Premier Edition is very effective for enabling us to create new solutions that will help small businesses. It will make remarkable improvements in employee productivity and small businesses will get more return of communications investment making both Web and communications content available over a PC, phone or mobile device."