Are you a Blackberry fan? Cause I know I am! I totally dig the cool way RIM have allowed us to mix pleasure with business when it created these highly new intelligent

handsets. The only problem is there are now too many to choose from. How do you know what the best pick is eventually? Do you happen to have an old one and would like to swap it with a brand new one over the holidays, but just don’t know which one to pick? The Storm is really amazing with its features and functionality, and all that is achieved without the usual QWERTY keyboard. The Curve 8900 which is a definite upgraded version of the former Blackberry phones is a dependable smartphone for anyone that would like an old fashion keyboard to play with.

Take a quick glance at this video, where the two are being compared and it might help you solve your dilemma. It could be a little longer but then again size doesn’t matter, does it?

Samsung has launched a new clamshell phone, the SCH-W690 which will be available in South Korea from SK Telecom soon.

The phone comes in black and white and it features a 2.6 internal AMOLED screen which

supports 240×320 pixels and 262K colors and an external 1.5 inch OLED display which supports 128×128 pixels and 65K colors. The W690 will get you GSM and HSDPA connectivity, GPS and Bluetooth, an MP3 player and 2 megapixel camera.

How much will it cost? We don’t know that yet. Will it arrive to any other markets? We’ll just keep our eyes peeled for you.

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Is Apple ready to offer the iPhone at a huge discount? Is a $99 iPhone something that could materialize in the near future? What would Ballmer say about such an event?

Charlie Wolf from Needham Research said that Apple’s doubled revenue in the last year has been hidden due to accounting rules. But that might be just a factor

for dropping the iPhone’s price below the current $199 entry price. Apple sold 6.9 million iPhones worldwide and a third of those have landed in the USA only. That leaves lots of room fore more sales. And what better incentive for customers than a significantly lower entry price?

We’ll just have to see tight and see how this whole economic crisis blows over. And let’s not forget that Android is marching strong these days. That alone might be another important factor in a future Apple decision to sell cheaper handset!

Here’s a new phone from Samsung. It’s similar to the BlackJack series only isn’t. It’s the C6620 which is a totally new phone available in Italy only via TIM. The FCC has been kind enough to approve the device so it will hit the US of A and probably other markets soon.

Here are some of the specs of this Samsung:

Tri band GSM connectivity, 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz

UMTS/HSDPA connectivity

Bluetooth

Music player

2MP camera with video recording

20MB of internal memory plus a 1GB card

full QWERTY keyboard

non-touchscreen QVGA display

Windows Mobile 6.1

The C6620 costs 199 Euro if you’re anywhere in Europe and want one.

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Remember the Samsung u430 that we mentioned in June? It is an entry level cellphone so maybe it didn’t cause any good impressions for you to remember, but the good news is that Verizon officially launched the phone.

It is available online for $100 with a 1-year contract, but if you opt for a 2-year contract the cellphone costs zero.

Why is Verizon offering the u430 for free? Because you can’t get a cellphone more simple than that. The colorful (65K) TFT screen measures 1.9-inches, and provides a resolution of 128×160 pixels.

It can make/receive calls, and send/receive text messages – how useful, isn’t it? Other details include bluetooth, a phone book with a maximum of 500 entries, and a media center that lets you download games and ringtones.

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For the type of people that need a ruggedized cellphone (read modified for military use) check out the latest offer by T-Mobile. It is simply called Motorola Active, but if you want to go technical the real codename is MOTOACTV W450.

As you can see by the image, the Motorola Active can be inserted on the “clamshell” category,

and since it has a material similar to rubber, it means you can drop it and it is suppose to keep working. Made for exercising sessions, like jogging, hiking, cycling and others, it includes an easy way to “attach” the phone to your belt.

An interesting application is the Mayo Clinic software that helps users identify medical troubles.

In terms of normal features, the MotoACT W450 has a microSD slot that can handle 2GB cards, a 1.3-megapixel camera, and is able to playback audio. The phone is already available in gray or white, and costs $30 with a 2-year plan.

T-Mobile

Samsung Pixon which is an 8 megapixel camera phone which we might have already seen before as the Bresson. The Pixon’s camera has auto focus, face detection and geotagging. A 3.2 inch touchscreen will help you visualize and manage all those pictures.

The phone is going to be ready in France in a few days. Other European and Asian countries are going to get it pretty soon but we’ll keep you informed. You will probably see the Pixon everywhere starting with this October.

We’re waiting for the first 9 megapixel handset to arrive since there’s such a camera module ready to be added to phones.

It was only a couple of weeks ago that we have seen iPhone firmware 2.1 officially launched and Apple seems ready to be moving on. The next version is the 2.2 and there’s a beta 1 available for developers. What are we going to get from the new version? We don’t exactly know, but since Apple is moving so fast we should expect some decent changes to emerge. Background push notification anyone?

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Well well T-Mobile, you sure have an Amazon store ready for your future customers. There are 6 million DRM-free songs available which is quite nice. But how are we to listen to it? It’s been reported that there’s no 3.5mm headphone jack available.

So who’s fault is it? T-Mobile’s? Google’s? Well last time I checked, the manufacturer

was HTC. It seems that’s an old problem with the HTC. They tend to forget about the music jack in their models. The Touch HD is the only exception so far.

That means you should buy an USB dongle to mediate a connection between your faithful headphones and the G1. And the adapter won’t arrive by the time the G1 gets released.

Do you think Amazon should be a little pissed off by all this? I mean they will be loosing some money for a while right? Why buy songs you can’t listen to anyway?

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The Samsung Armani Night Effect phone is the successor of the Samsung Armani P520. A different design and a couple of improved features might make you choose it as your next fashion phone.

Here are the most important features:

Quadband GSM, HSDPA connectivity

2.2 inch reinforced glass AMOLED display

3.2 megapixel camera without flash

Built-in FM Radio

Dedicated music player control buttons

120 MB of User Memory

microSD memory card slot

USB 2.0 and Bluetooth 2.0

The phone will come out in November in Europe first and then in will arrive in South East Asia and the Middle East. Prices are to be announced.