Another day, another leaked image of some company’s newest mobile. Today’s unlucky company is Motorola and the device in question is the MOTO ROKR W5. With its orange on black fashion statement it certainly stands out, and as Gizmodo said in its headline (and we agree), it looks like Darth Maul’s cell phone. Can you say “Hello Moto” to a Sith Lord without getting chopped up by the guy’s lightsaber?

The specs for the ROKR W5 also got dumped to the internets. This baby is going to have 20 MB of memory, have Bluetooth connectivity, will have a microSD memory card slot and a 96×85 65K color display for you to text “Sith Lord ownz u” to those annoying Jedi Knights. The device runs off of a 880 mAh Li-Ion battery.

Qwest Wireless is bringing to the United States a new HTC Windows Mobile handset. The mobile operator says it is the first to debut the Quest Fusion HTC 5800, priced at around $200 after a discount we assume is tied to a new service plan.

The Qwest Fusion HTC 5800 is powered by Windows Mobile 6 and makes use of Windows Live. It’s also got Microsoft Office Outlook Mobile for better email support. It sports dual keypads – a normal dialing one and a slide-out QWERTY keypad – and includes support for Bluetooth stereo sound. The Fusion also has a built-in 2.0-megapixel digital camera.

Why can’t we get more of the things that Japanese electronics consumers get? It seems that western phones are never as cool as the ones that come from Asia. Is that because the phone designers have deemed this market as boring? Are we westerners too afraid to take a chance and show our inner child in our purchases?

If that was true then why did so many people suddenly want the phone that Neo used in the first “Matrix” movie? Maybe after seeing this next rad phone design someone out in the west will take notice and loosen their tie a little.

Little Virgin Mobile USA is teaming with handset supplier UTStarcom Personal Communications to deliver its first Bluetooth-enabled handset. The Super Slice is priced at around $60 and should be available this month.

The Virgin Super Slice is a thin, .04-inch candy-bar style mobile. It’s got a VGA camera with 3x zoom, up to 270 minutes of talk time, a weight of 2.5 ounces and a built-in speaker phone. It also sports a new user interface compared to previous Virgin Mobile units.

HP unleashed another new mobile phone along side the iPAQ 914, named the iPAQ 610 Business Navigator. Unlike its 900 series sibling the 610 features a numeric keypad instead of the full QWERTY keyboard, but has many of the same features along with a little larger display.

An integrated scroll wheel in the keypad of the iPAQ 610 is a slick feature that makes navigating the menus a little easier, and seeing the content won’t be bad either on a decent-sized 2.8-inch touchscreen. It’s a global 3G and Quad-band mobile phone that also includes Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) and an integrated GPS and Bluetooth 2.0.

HP has introduced a slew of new iPAQ products this week with one of them being this ultimate world traveler device called the iPAQ 914 Business Messenger. Th 914 just reeks of connectivity as a Quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE phone with tri-band HSDPA, built-in 802.11 b/g with WPA2 security, Bluetooth 2.0 and integrated GPS.

This Business Messenger fits its name well, meeting the majority of the connectivity needs for a world business traveler. It features a full QWERTY keyboard for fast typing of messages, a convenient scroll wheel and the HP VoiceReply and VoiceCommander let you listen to emails and reply (among other things) without touching or looking at the device, making it easy to do while driving.

There’s definitely a segment of the mobile phone using crowd which prefers its phones to be easy to use and not overly technical. For those people Verizon Wireless today announced the Coupe, priced at around $20 with a two-year service agreement.

The Verizon Wireless Coupe is slim and lightweight, weighing 3.3 ounces. It has dedicated keys for quick access to emergency contacts, a few simple integrated tools like alarm clock, a larger on-screen font size, voice dialing and color coding on body parts like the volume control.

Rumors and speculation are getting heavy regarding information on the Google phone, and this time CrunchGear has dug up some reported “facts” about the device and its functionality.

According to the information from GigaOM, the supposed first Google phone might not be quite as cool or fancy as many of the photos floating around the net have depicted, and we’ve seem other rumors that it may be as cheap as $100 once released.

Nokia today announced it is releasing an American-optimized version of its popular N95 multimedia computer. This new model will price at around $700 and should be available in September.

The American version of the Nokia N95 gains North American 3G compatibility. In addition also added are product upgrades like assisted GPS (A-GPS) for faster navigational fixes, 124MB of RAM memory to go along with included 1 GB microSD memory card and the 160MB internal memory and longer battery life.

What happens when a Japanese electronics manufacturer gets back to the basics when teaming up with a Japanese PHS operator? Something only Sanyo and Willcom could produce, The Wilcon!

This little gem of technology has a battery that is capable of 250 standby hours and 5 hours of talk-time. What kind of special battery is this you ask? A single AAA battery, making this the first ever cell phone to have such a power source. Now if only they could make the device a little more aesthetically pleasing and bring it stateside I’d have a phone to recommend to all those people who complain about having extra “bells and whistles”.

But this phone is so basic it ironically almost makes up for the lack of features. The Wilcon, however, will not work on 3g networks.

via AkihabaraNews

Nokia is yet again going stylish on us with a freshly unveiled 3G flip mobile phone. The Nokia 6555 is looking hip and ready to let you make your first call.

Nokia says the 6555 is the first WCDMA phone with a “smooth-back fold design.” All we have to say is this phone is hot, especially with the analog timepiece on the front. The 6555 sports a generous, colorful 240×320 internal display screen. A built-in camera provides 6x digital zoom and offers a self-portrait mode with video sharing ability.

Wouldn’t it be nice to end that loud, annoying conversation the guy next to you is having on the train about some subject you could care less about but are hearing in painful details anyway? I don’t know if these are exactly legal in every part of the world but DealExtreme has a $48 Cellock brand cell phone jammer available which will block cell phone signal within a radius of anywhere from 2 to 40 feet from the device, depending on the objects in the area.

This cell phone jammer claims to block GSM/CDMA/DCS/PHS/3G cell phone signals from a small, 6 ounce battery-powered device you can hide in your pocket and turn on when needed. It can be charged from a car charger adapter and runs up to 4 hours on a single charge, blocking others annoying cell phone calls on public transportation, …

It looks like Bang & Olufsen has another mobile phone coming down the high-fashion pipeline to follow up their popular and equally different-looking Serene mobile Phone, called the Serenata.

When the official launch comes we should have quite a bit better image of the new phone, also known as the Samsung SGH F310, but for now we have to go from this leaked photo and some specs found by UnwiredView.

The B&O Serenata is a GSM phone with UMTS, EDGE, HSDPA measuring 109.5 x 63 x 19.7 mm. It will have a 240×240 color touchscreen, house 4GB of memory and can playback at least MP3′s and MPEG4′s. We’re real interested to see a dock for this one too, but more to come as we get it in.

A common theme you see on gadget blogs like ours is cool tech found overseas which may or may not ever make it to America. A new example of this is the minimal geek looking CECT W100 Wrist Watch.

The CECT W100 Wrist Watch, designed by Qiao Xing Mobile Communication of China, is believed to be the first watch phone in that large Asian country. It comes in seven colors and sports a nice LCD touch screen with which to control its functions. Though no specifics were given by its designers about its phone network capabilities it was said the phone will come with 1GB of built-in memory and supports Bluetooth.

Sony Ericsson announced today the K770 Cyber-shot pulling triple-duty as a mobile phone, digital camera and mobile photo album all in one 14.5 mm thick package. The K770 is a GSM/GPRS 900/1800/1900 and UMTS 2100 mobile phone with a multitude of additional features packed in.