My wife’s SUV has enough room that finding a spot to stash my phone isn’t a big deal. My car is much smaller though and if both cup holders are being used there is nowhere to put a phone while driving that offers access to make and receive calls.

A company called ProClip USA has announced a new line of mobile phone holders that are vehicle specific for the iPhone 3GS and older iPhone models. The ProClip solution has two components. The first is the vehicle specific dash mount that attaches to the car dash.

Are you Buddhist? If you are, you can add this one to your wishlist. It’s yet another Buddha phone. It’s dubbed the C91, a luxury gold phone with a round shape and Buddhist design.

It features a 2.0 inch display, 1.3-megapixel camera, FM radio, dual SIM support, audio and video player, microSD slot and it includes a buddistic music box too. The C91 Buddha phone will cost you $123.

When it comes to browsing the Internet on a mobile phone, not all browsers are created equal. I hate the type of mobile browser that breaks a site out of its PC format and gives you a big long page of text and links to read.

The latest version of Bolt mobile called Beta3 launched and in the first 24 hours the new version was available the browser rendered over 1 million pages. According to the company behind the browser, it has been growing at a steady rate of 50% per month since it debuted in February.

Smartphone sales are booming despite the poor economy as users flock to the devices in part because they can perform the tasks of several other devices. One of the tasks many smartphones can perform is GPS navigation.

The recent iPhone OS 3.0 update added the ability for apps that charge on a recurring basis. One of the first apps to do this was the AT&T Navigator app at $9.99 per month. According to ABI research, the global handset navigation market is set to hit 26 million by 2010.

Here’s a clone with an identity crisis. We think it’s supposed to be the HTC G2 aka HTC Magic. And as you might expect, for your $102 you’ll get run-of-the-mill specs, though it does feature dual SIM card slots if that’s what you’re after.

Some other specs include an integrated TV tuner and FM radio support alongside a 2.6″ touchscreen display at 240 × 320 resolution. Who wants one?

Don’t believe that the Sonim/Land Rover S1 phone is the toughest phone? Well, it can stand up to being stomped on by an elephant and it survives being run over by an actual Land Rover as well as getting thrown out of a second floor window.

Oh and it also survived being dunked in mud, cooked in a 300 degree oven, and soaked in beer. After all of that, it was a three ton forklift that finally killed it.

The Highscreen PP5420 is the latest Android-powered phone from Vobis and will be launched in Russia next week. Over there it’s known as the Mobinova Ice. It includes a secondary OLED display/navigation pad and presumably a strong love of Vodka along with these specs:

Qualcomm MSM7201ATM 528MHz processor, Google Android OS 1.5,GSM: 850/900/1800/1900; WCDMA/HSDPA 7.2mbps: 900/2100, HSUPA, 3” WQVGA TFT LCD touchscreen display, 3-megapixel autofocus camera, 256MB ROM, 128MB RAM, microSD memory card slot, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity, Integrated FM radio, GPS navigation, Accelerometer, and TV out.

TerreStar will launch their much anticipated satellite-capable Windows Mobile handset on July 1st. It will be available on AT&T. Don’t expect users to go crazy for it like the iPhone, but still many of you government types have been waiting for this one.

The pricetag will purportedly be in the $700 range unsubsidized, and will hopefully cost less than $1/minute, which is the current going rate for satellite calls. Some features include quad-band GSM and dual-band WCDMA. The phone will be sold primarily to local and federal government officials who need coverage in remote areas.

Looking for a gift for that extra-special and older someone? Why not get them the PM-505 Big Button phone? The PM-505 Big Button handset lives up to it’s name with big honking buttons for older folks.

It also sports a large and clear display. The 250 entry phonebook will give them plenty of numbers to call for tech help. There’s even a notebook/journal behind the handset for quick notes like, “Get milk” or “take meds”. A direct SMS button will send them to the SMS page.

If you’re still on the fence about a Nokia N97 purchase, this may sway you one way or another. I mean, it’s important to know how a phone fares when it’s dunked into breakfast cereal. N97Geeks.com has given it a torture test.

Aside from cereal dunking, they try to scratch the screen and the body. The end result is a still almost fully functional and slightly scuffed handset with a broken menu key. So we can only conclude that the phone should survive even the harshest breakfast. Video below

Ah, those crazy Chinese and their clone factories. Is anyone really dumb enough to believe that this is a real Blackberry? Or that Obama endorses it?

Obama appears in this phone’s poster with a slogan “Obama have Blackberry, I have blockberry”. BlockBerry being haff-comm’s Huawei K3-based WinMo 6.1 handset. This “Storm 9500″ features a 460MHZ processor, a 3.2-inch touchscreen, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, and supports 3G and EDGE.

One of the problems for people who travel out of the U.S. frequently is that many cell phones won’t work in other countries. These users they often have to buy a new phone or carry two devices to stay in contact.

National Geographic and Cellular Abroad have announced a new mobile phone called the Duet travel phone that has a spot for two SIM cards and ships unlocked. The phone can be used with the National Geographic Travel SIM card that allows calls to be made in 185 countries.

Before I owned my iPhone, I had a Motorola Razr. I thought the Razr was a good phone and didn’t think I would ever need a smartphone. Once I tried out the iPhone, I knew that the Razr had really sucked and I didn’t have a clue what a smartphone could do for me. After well over a year with my iPhone, I will never go back to normal phones.

Lots of consumers are seeing the smartphone light it seems. Analytics firm Yankee Group has unveiled the latest trends in the mobile phone industry that show the smartphone is growing by leaps and bounds. According to the firm 41% of consumers say they will make a smartphone their next mobile device purchase.

Hmmm. This phone looks familiar. Like a combination, iPod, pill, slider in Wii white. I think they may be trying to sucker me on because they know that I love the iPod, pill, slider triple threat. It’s called the Jin Peng F210 Pocket Phone, a basic phone with your typical iPod clickwheel as navigation keys and a 1.3-megapixel camera behind located at the side just like the iPhone.

Some other features include 1.4-inch LCD display, MP3 player, FM radio, Bluetooth connectivity, and microSD slot. The Jin Peng F210 Pocket Phone will cost you around $125.

The N97 that Nokia unveiled way last December is hitting stores tomorrow afternoon. Well, at least hitting the Nokia flagship stores in New York and Chicago. If you’re not already in line at one of these two places you might have some luck online as Amazon appears to have some in stock and we would imagine (or at least hope for the sake of all you that pre-ordered) that they will start shipping today or tomorrow as well.

This release from Nokia comes right on the heals of the new and improved iPhone 3Gs announcement and adds some healthy competition to Apple’s reigning smartphone champion. The N97 sports not only a wide touchscreen display but also has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard to add some ease and speed to your mobile …