This is the new Sony Ericsson Z310, a new clamshell phone featuring a polished finish and programmable color effects for your contacts.

The Z310 includes a series of light effects that add a personalized touch to your phone. You can assign a colored light to each of your favorite callers and recognize immediately who is trying to reach you. The phone also allows you to set the look and feel of the menu and screen display to match the time of day. For example you may choose a bright theme during the daytime and something darker for your evening theme.

The phone also includes many must-have features you have come to expect such as a VGA camera, MP3 Music Ringtones, and Bluetooth connectivity. You can upload pictures directly to a Blog site from the Z310 via Picture Blogging or take advantage of Picture Messaging (MMS). …

Hong Kong – Samsung along with Microsoft today launched a new mobile device boasted as the the thinnest 3G phone in the world with a full QWERTY keyboard. The Ultra Messaging i600 weighs only 99 grams and is just 11.8 mm thick, sporting HSDPA support and runs on Windows Mobile 5.0. This release marks the first smartphone in Europe and Asia-Pacific that supports HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) , WiFi and Bluetooth.

Running Windows Mobile 5.0 with Direct Push, users are able to take advantage of instant updates to emails, meetings and tasks through your hand held phone in the same manner as you would using Outlook from the desktop. The Windows Mobile OS also of course amkes office documents more easily accessible and supports Office application formats such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint as well as viewing PDF’s. This i600 smart …

Hong Kong – Today Nokia has released two new mobile handsets into the CDMA market. The Nokia 1325 and the Nokia 1265 are both entry level models with limited features, targeting those new to mobile phones in China, Asia-Pacific, the Middle-East, Africa and Latin America.

According to Larry Paulson, Vice President of CDMA, Nokia, “With the new features of the Nokia 1265 and Nokia 1325, consumers are getting functionality along with ease of use,”. Paulson continues, “The features most of us take for granted on our phones are front-and-center on these new products for first-time mobile phone users. These two new products expand the range of Nokia models consumers can choose from at an entry level.”

The Nokia 1325 is a slim phone with a color display, a built in voice recorder, speaker phone and customizable ringtones and wallpaper. It …

This version of the Sprint MOTOKRZR K1m from Motorola has a shiny sleek design not found on the gray colored version from Verizon, but has the same basic functionality.

The K1m has a thin clam shell design with a 1.3 mega pixel camera and some really cool touch sensitive buttons on the front to run your music playback without having to open up the phone. Buttons like this on the outside of phone are really nice and convenient, but they usually involve some protrusion that looks clunky. This one definitely does not, and gives some common and convenient functionality while keeping a clean look.

A somewhat uncommon and nice feature in this phone is a slot for a memory card to move music and image files easily between devices or your PC, as well as adding extra storage. A memory card slot is pretty …

Mobile phone giant Nokia and Yahoo! announced today that they will be expanding their partnership to include Yahoo! branded internet services including Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger on Nokia mobile devices.

The services will be made available on Nokia phones running Nokia’s Series 40 platform. Series 40 is the software system that powers many of Nokia’s mobile devices. With Series 40, users are able to access a broad range of applications and features, including messaging, browsing, music and video standards as well as personal information management.

Yahoo! internet services will initially be available on the new Nokia 6300 (pictured), the Nokia 5300 XpressMusic and the Nokia 5200. These services and the ability to synchronize Yahoo! contacts, tasks and calendar on the PC and phone will eventually be added to an even wider range of Nokia’s Series 40 devices.

The Nokia and Yahoo! partnership dates back to …

Verizon Wireless and LG Electronics have announced the exclusive availability of the LG enV mobile phone. The enV is the successor to The V by LG and offers loads of multimedia functionality including V CAST, V CAST Music, and VZ Navigator.

The enV comes with a 2.2 inch internal color LCD and features an integrated slide-out QWERTY keyboard for easy access to messaging applications. The enV features Wireless Sync, the proprietary e-mail solution from Verizon Wireless. With Wireless Sync, customers can synchronize their enV with a home or office PC for easy access to new emails, calendar, contact, and task information.

The enV is the perfect device for V CAST and V CAST Music fans. The V CAST music store offers over 1.4 million songs that customers can download and play whenever they like. Bluetooth capabilities allow customers to enjoy their music by pairing the device …

HTC recently launched the HTC P4350 PDA Phone to be released throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Africa in early December. The HTC P4350 is just 17mm thick and features a semi-automatic sliding full QWERTY keypad which demonstrates HTC’s continued dedication to sleek form factors.

The P4350 offers users a full “mobile office experience” with Windows Mobile 5.0 Direct push email technology, internet browsing, and synchronization with Microsoft Outlook Calendar, Contacts, and Pocket MSN. Users can work on applications in the Microsoft Office suite such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and view PDF documents.

The compact device boasts a 2.8” color display touch-screen with a landscape view to make mobile viewing of email, internet, and video a bit easier on the eyes. 128Mb ROM, 64mb RAM, and a microSD slot ensure that you will have enough storage for many of your office documents.

The HTC P4350 …

E-TEN Information Systems recently announced the release of its latest innovative Pocket PC Phone, the glofiish M700. The glofiish M700 utilizes a full-key QWERTY keyboard for data input instead of the commonly used touch screen and stylus found on most traditional Pocket PC Phones. The keyboard makes it a bit easier to enter contact details, write SMS text and email messages, or create and edit office documents while on the move. The keyboard operates on a sliding mechanism to allow the keyboard to be covered when not in use; thus keeping the M700 compact and portable.

The M700 runs on Windows Mobile 5.0 and supports GSM, GPRS and high-speed EDGE for voice and data connectivity. In addition, the M700 incorporates 802.11b/g Wi-Fi support to allow users to connect to public and private Wi-FI networks. Lastly, the glofiish M700 features GPS and TMC functions delivered via …

Cingular Wireless has become the first wireless carrier in the U.S. to offer a wireless navigation system with 3D maps. The new system will be featured on the Nokia E62 device and utilizes an enhanced version of TeleNav GPS Navigator.

The TeleNav GPS Navigator system will give customers 3D moving maps on the Nokia E62′s large, high-resolution screen. The system works much like an in-car navigation system; you received turn-by-turn directions while driving and the 3D maps turn, move and stop as the driver does the same, while also displaying images of the streets the driver is approaching. Users can also pan and zoom the map to view nearby streets.

Customers will also be able to take advantage of many robust search features provided with TeleNav GPS Navigator on the Nokia E62. These services include searching for a business, place of interest, and even the lowest gas …

Not everyone needs all the flash and bling of the features and fancy cases in new mobile phones. A nice looking, practical phone is found in the Motorola W220 which was launched earlier this year. This is the kind of phone that you would be comfortable with letting your daughter date.

The W220 has a clean a slim design similar to the Motorola RAZR, but without all the extra flash and price. There is no MP3 player, no camera and no flashy videos or pictures on an external display.

The mobile phone does however have FM radio. Nice, safe FM radio. It also has three indicators on the front of the phone that are not visible until they are needed. When you have a missed call, a message or your battery is low these three lights will simply and clearly let you know at a glance, …

MovaMail recently announced that it has released version 2 of its J2ME-based mobile email application. The new build of MovaMail allows consumers to access their WebMail, POP, and IMAP email services from their java-enabled mobile phones.

Building on the success of Version 1.0 which was first released to the public in October 2005, MovaMail V2 adds new features and performance enhancements that maximize the capabilities of today’s MIDP 2.0 mobile phones. New features include:

Phone Address Book Synchronization – complete synch and server backup
Complete Email Synchronization – including email status
Attachment Support – view images, forward attachments
Camera Phone Integration – email pictures from your mobile phone
Multi-lingual support – support for any language in the end users mobile phone
Optional XHTML interface – for users that can not or choose not to access via java client.

MovaMail’s Compression and Optimization engine has been completely reengineered to give users their email nearly …

The glofiish X500 is a great contender for the ultimate mobile business solution device. ETEN boasts that at the time of its production, the glofiish X500 is the thinnest phone running Windows Pocket PC and having communications through Quad-band GSM, WiFi and GPS all in one device. On top of that, the X500 also supports Bluetooth to allow you to use a headset or full keyboard without wires.

A built-in Qwerty keyboard would always be nice, but it would certainly affect the size of the new glofiish mobile phone which will require you to type on the screen or with an external keyboard. The dimensions on this gadget are a mere 113mm x 59.5mm x 15.5mm and it weighs a svelte 146g with the battery installed. The display screen is also a decent sized 2.8″ TFT-LCD with a resolution of 240 x 320 and 65,536 …

Cingular and Samsung have finally released the SGH-i607 BlackJack Smartphone in time for the holiday season and to have it in the race along side the Motorola Q and the Dash. The Blackjack fills a void for mobile phone users in the US with a Smartphone that has supports GSM along with EDGE / UMTS / HSDPA. The phone also supports Bluetooth, but unfortunately is without any built in WiFi support.

This phone comes with a slightly awkward looking QWERTY keyboard, a 320×240 screen resolution and a built in 1.3-megapixal camera. The Blackjack weighs in at only 3.5 ounces and is about a half an inch thick. The included battery gives it 5.5 hours of talk time and up to 11 days of standby, which is a nice jab to it’s main competitor the Q, which has some shorter battery life …

Motorola and Sprint announced the availability of the Motorola i880 2.0 megapixel camera phone on Nextel. This is the latest in a series of higher-megapixel mobile phones offering better picture quality. The 2.0 megapixel picture resolution allows you to take quality 5×7 prints.

The i880 comes with a 64MB microSD memory card and features a video recorder, integrated music player with front dual-ported speakers. Other features include: GPS capabilities, Internet microbrowser, custom ring tone ID and picture caller ID, a 262K internal color screen, voice dialing, voice recorder, speakerphone, datebook and 600-entry contacts list.

“The i880 represents Motorola’s philosophy of intelligent handset design while delivering an amazing music experience,” said Peter Aloumanis, vice president, U.S. Markets Division, Motorola’s iDEN Mobile Devices. “This device combines first class Nextel Walkie-Talkie communications solutions with ultimate multimedia features such as a 2.0 megapixel camera.”

The …

I really like seeing unique and innovative designs with new mobile devices, and Samsung has come up with a unique design with the SGH-X830 “Mini MP3 Phone”.

The X830 has a swing-open style that allows the device to work as a compact MP3 player when closed and as mobile phone when swung open. The design comes in 6 different colors – black, candy pink (both pictured here), pure white, oasis blue, orange and lemon green to blend into many different tastes, while the dimensions of the Mini MP3 Phone are a mere 84x30x19.9 mm and weighs only 75 grams.

The menu and different functions are navigated through a click wheel on the front of the phone which lets you scroll through options and up to 250 songs on the 1GB of internal memory.

This is one of many mobile multimedia phones to come from Samsung, according …