Motorola revealed today plans to debut its highly desired Razr2 mobile phone from major U.S. wireless carriers Alltel, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile USA, US Cellular, and Verizon Wireless. Specific availability and pricing plans are at the discretion of the carriers, though some are expected to make the phone available shortly.

The Motorola Razr2 is considered a significant improvement over the original Razr. This new model gives you a larger internal screen for what Motorola says will be an ability to have full HTML Web browsing. There will also be an external screen which provides “touch feedback” and lets users view media, music and messaging without needing to flip open the phone.

Samsung and T-Mobile today announced the release of the Samsung Blast slider-style mobile phone. The Blast focuses on keeping in touch with your friends through multiple communication features aside from just talk.

The crimson and black slider phone exposes a QWERTY like keypad similar to the Blackberry Pearl to allow faster and easier text entry. Users will want to use this advanced keypad to take advantage of the email service provided through the Samsung Blast with access to email through AOL, Yahoo Mail and Gmail as well as MAP4, POP3 and SMTP support. Sending and receiving emails go for the same rate as a picture or text message. The phone also supports messaging (SMS, EMS, MMS) including AOL, ICQ, Yahoo! and MSN Instant Messaging and it’s also the first to offer an advanced My Faves feature where users can send an …

Mickey and company are eyeing your wallet today as Disney Mobile and Samsung announced two new mobile phones for the Disney Mobile service. Expect these phones to run you about 20 Mouse Ears after a rebate and two-year detail picking up trash at Disneyland.

The Samsung DM-S105 (silver) and DM-S110 (pink) Disney Mobile phones are very much your garden variety cell phones housed in curved clamshell designs. You get your dual-band, tri-mode, a built-in VGA camera, Bluetooth and an internal and external display. There’s also a hands-free speakerphone to scream into as you ride the Matterhorn.

Alltel Wireless said today it was exclusively rolling out a new mobile phone developed by LG. The phone is called The Wave and its available for around $80 after a mail-in rebate and two-year sell your soul to the devil service agreement.

The Wave by LG is described as having a “rolling design that mimics the curl of a wave as the deep colors fade into black.” Beyond this trendy statement you find a lot of features similar to that of other cell phones, including a 1.3-megapixel camera with video recording, a built-in MP3 player with external controls, Bluetooth, GPS capable and expandable memory via a card slot.

Today eMusic, who is the second largest online retailer of music behind iTunes, announced along with AT&T that they together will be providing a service to allow people to buy and download songs directly to their cellphones with no computer in between.

eMusic will be offering through the mobile service almost all of the 2.7 million songs available currently from the online service, DRM free as always, which feature only independent labels and not as many mainstream artists as rival services. They do however carry a number of popular artists such as Paul McCartney’s and his latest album.

The songs will be priced a little higher then they are online due to the increased cost of transferring them through the mobile network. Where $9.99 would get you 30 songs online, $7.49 will get you only 5 …

Bluetooth headset meets innovative background noise control technology, says manufacturer BlueAnt Wireless. Debuting today for around $100 is the BlueAnt Z9.

The stylish BlueAnt Z9 offers up noise reduction for better wireless conservations via “sophisticated techniques to separate the voice signal from all background noise, enhancing and isolating all frequencies that affect voices coming in to and out of the headset and resulting in noise suppression, wind noise reduction and echo cancellation.” The Bluetooth headset also lets you switch between two voice calling modes for better voice clarity.

Some leaked photos and information was picked up today about the upcoming Samsung SGH-G800 camera phone. The G800 looks to be 5 megapixel point and shoot camera with a tri-band GSM/EDGE phone tacked on its back (depending on how you look at it) which supports 3G HSDPA.

If the rumors are accurate it will support Bluetooth, a USB 2.0 connection and has a microSD expansion slot. The camera has a 3x optical zoom and adds on one of those fancy Xenon flashes. The SGH-G800 will also have a 2.4″ QVGA display with dimensions of no more than 4 inches long which very compact for a 5 megapixel shooter or a phone, much less both of them combined.

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Pantech has begun selling on American shores through AT&T one of its stylish camera phones. The Pantech C150 looks to be available now.

The Pantech C150, which won a design award last year, comes in a candy bar style design and white form factor color. It has a 128×160 pixel screen and is .49 inches thick. It has many of the features you’d normally find through a phone of this type including Bluetooth, support for several mobile e-mail services such as Yahoo and AOL, polyphonic sound and a VGA camera.

The first of the iPhone inspired competition has arrived but it looks like it will only be available in Japan. Dubbed the Nani by Sophia Mobile, the gizmo can offer video playback at 800 x 400 resolution, comes with Wi-Fi, two built-in cameras (VGA in the front, SVGA in the back), TV tuner and instead of pecking away at buttons you can control all of its features via its 4.3-inch touchscreen.

Inside it runs off of Windows CE OS and a RMI Alchemy Au150 chip that clocks in at 600MHz. Unfortunately it seems that the Nani doesn’t come with much in the way of internal memory; we have yet to find any mention of what size it does have but that’s probably why there’s microSD/USB slots.

The Nani rolls out in stores today in Japan.

NTT Docomo recently launched a mobile phone in Korea called the RakuRaku with the intention of making a mobile device for the more elderly crowd with easier features to help from getting lost, finding their way around, hearing and even getting found.

The actual model number from NTT Docomo is ‘F883iES’, but the phone has been given the name RakuRaku Phone IV, where according to Aving rakuraku means “comfortable” or “easy”. The phone features built-in GPS to help the users of the phone better find their way home or anywhere else. With a single touch of an “emergency” button the phone can provide the users current location to their family so they can come find them. It also allows users to speak into the phone to enter locations to find on the map. Another feature called “Super Clear …

It looks like Motorola might be emerging soon with a new clamshell style media phone named the ROKR U9. PhoneScoop is reporting from a “source” that the U9 will have a PEBL-like rounded look to it with an added large color LCD on the front along with music playback controls. Also notable is a mini-USB connection which looks like it may not support and standard headphone jack and instead require mini-USB headphones. This would kinda’ stink but it’s not unheard of for Motorola.

No more details were given in regards to price or release date of the ROKR U9, but we’ll keep watching. This one looks like it might be a pretty nice media phone, and possible a higher-end model from Motorola.

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The OpenMoko website has now started taking orders for the Neo1973 open source mobile phone, a phone running an completely open source, Linux-based platform that will be available to consumers in the very near future.

Although anyone can order the Neo1973 they are targeting the open source developer community to use the device to make mobile applications for it. OpenMoko will start targeting the general public with the phone sometime in September. For both the developers and consumers, the Neo1973 will come with some upgraded hardware compared to the original specs including a bigger 400MHz Samsung processor, 256MB of internal memory, WiFi and graphics accelerators.

There are two different packages available now aimed at the developers on the OpenMoko website. The Neo Base developer preview package comes with a battery, stylus, charger, pouch, lanyard, headset, …

The Boy Genius Report has gotten their hands on an early version of the upcoming Motorola Z9 with a number of very cool looking photos. According to the report the Z9 has 3G, a 2 megapixel camera (and a flash), Synergy OS and a microSD card slot. It’s also looks like it’s going AT&T’s way with an AT&T branded browser key and firmware.

From the photos the Motorola Z9 is a thin slider-style handset with a some type of click-wheel for navigation and some funky looking buttons, but this is an early prototype so it could be that these buttons will be covered with something a little nicer when it’s done. A very cool look nonetheless. We can’t wait to see more about this one.

Check out more pictures at the BGR gallery.

Sometimes it’s good to be different and stand apart from the crowd. Just because the iPhone has rounded corners does that mean all mobiles should shy away from 90-degree angles? Not if you consider Nokia’s new 7500 Prism phone which just had its first official appearance at an industry event in China.

Swedish company Neonode is launching the Neonode N2 this week in Athens with provider MyPhone. This little mobile device has plans to hit “other major markets” in its future, but for this summer it will be limited to service in southeastern Europe.

It features a 2″ touchscreen which the company boasts is very simple and intuitive amidst the release of their iPhone rival, and runs GSM Quadband 850, 900, 1800 and 1900, but has no WiFi, 3G or EDGE data connectivity with it, but does support Bluetooth. It does play some media including MP3, WMA, Wav, MPEG, and WMV’s and can take still photos with a 2 megapixel camera. Music can be transferred via a USB connection to your computer and the Neonode N2 has the ability to record streaming music through your PC from different radio-type sources. All data is stored onto your MiniSD card.