Chinavision is at it again, offering up a strange dual band smartphone that is part Nokia phone and part iPhone, with a projector thrown in for good measure. Features an interactive touchscreen, WAP, bluetooth, and a 1800mAh battery for extra long talk time between charges, MP3 and MP4 player, 1.3mp Digital Camera, Image Viewer, Video Recorder, and rich media environment messaging options, micro SD card slot complete with a 1GB card.

The projector can be used from a distance of up to 5 feet and will project an image about 32 x 40 inches. It should be “available soon”. I hope they aren’t waiting for the green light from Nokia and Apple.

Nokia released several new Nseries mobiles this week. The Nokia N79 is one of these and it’s coming to Europe this October – no specific American release information was made available.

The Nokia N79, according to its maker, offers up quite a lot of features for the multimedia inclined. This include, in a nutshell, “integrated navigation, music with FM transmitter, high-speed connectivity, superior web browsing, at least 10 pre-loaded N-Gage games and an advanced 5 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics.” It also combines 3.5G HSDPA and Wi-Fi wireless support.

The Nokia 3610 Fold is an interesting handset just announced that features dual screens. The clamshell design features ergonomics that Nokia is calling “understated elegance.” Outside you’ll find a 1.3 megapixel camera with 6x digital zoom, along with the external display.

Inside you’ve got a 2-inch, 262K color screen and the Nokia phone softkeys. It also supports up to 4GB microSD cards. It gets released officially in the third quarter of this year at $186. While I wouldn’t call it sexy, it does have a certain charm. It’s aimed squarely at those who just want basic features without a bunch of bells and whistles.

Nokia said today it would be adding a new XpressMusic mobile phone to Nokia 5610 XpressMusic and you’ll find it pricing around $100 after rebates and such.

The Nokia 5160 XpressMusic, available in red and white color choices, is a music slider phone with aluminum side panels and a 2.2-inch color display. It offers up to 22 hours of music playback and a memory capacity for up to 3,000 songs on an optional 4GB microSD card. It also has a built-in 3.2-megapixel 3.2 digital camera.

Mobile phones are one of the hottest categories of electronic devices around the world. While the smartphone gets most of the press and is one of the biggest growth categories in the segment, most users still opt for basic phones.

According to research, firm IDC worldwide cell phone shipments grew 15.3% in Q2 2008 with 306 million phones shipped. In Q1 2008, 289.7 million phones were shipped total. In Q2 of 2007, 265.4 million cell phones were shipped for a 15.3% increase. Smartphones are still seeing year-over-year growth of 40%.

Nokia is now debuting here in the United States a new, very slim QWERTY smartphone. It is called the E71 and pricing is set around $500.

The Nokia E71 is just 0.39-inches thin, reportedly making it the slimmest QWERTY device currently on the market. It sports a stainless steel design and large screen, among other hardware features. It also includes integrated GPS and a built-in 3.2-megapixel digital camera.

The Nokia 7510 Supernova flip phone has a push-to-open side key and is available in four dramatically named colors: storm blue, red, emerald green and espresso brown. It’s got a 2MP camera with NIPS, LED flash, 4x digital zoom, and a large 2.2 inch QVGA display.

Still more features are an FM radio, MP3 player, and even access to Nokia Maps 1.2 to navigate, routing and local search, and support of A-GPS. The Nokia 7510 Supernova should be avaiable in the fourth quarter of 2008 for 180 EUROs.

If there is one universal thing cell phone users can agree on it is longer battery life for their devices. We have seen all sorts of methods to prolong the run time of our cell phones from add on batteries to solar chargers.

The SunBlazer is a pretty interesting product and combines two things that most cell phone users might need. The SunBlazer is a holster for your cell phone that also has a solar charger built-in to keep your phone powered up.

Verizon Wireless and Nokia are so willing to bet you’ll be enamored with the upcoming Dark Knight movie the two are releasing a new limited edition mobile based upon it. It is called the Nokia 6205 The Dark Knight edition and you’ll find it pricing around $70 after rebate and two-year contract.

The Nokia 6205 The Dark Knight is a themed-edition flip phone set in black and embellished with a subtle The Dark Knight emblem. It comes pre-loaded with wallpapers, voice tones, animated screensavers inspired by the film, and a full movie trailer.

Today at WWDC Steve Jobs made the official announcement we’ve been waiting for – the 3G iPhone. For the most part the new model looks very similar to the original, but along with the high speed connection Apple did add in some other improvements.

Some of the new features highlighted today include a full plastic back, improved audio, a flush headphone jack, even thinner edges, solid metal buttons, GPS and all of this for a $199 price tag for the 8GB model. Apple is boasting that with the new 3G connection web pages load 2.8 times faster than the previous iPhone model and is faster than both the Nokia N95 and the Treo 750. The battery is expected to give 5-6 hours of web browsing, 8-10 hours of talk time (5 hours of 3G talk) and 24 hours of audio playback on a single charge.

Music phones are becoming more and more popular and will continue to do so as the available wireless bandwidth in the U.S. grows allowing for over the air downloads in more areas. T-Mobile announced today that it was launching its latest music phone from Nokia.

The Nokia 5310 XpressMusic phone features external music controls, stereo Bluetooth, wired stereo headset, USB cable for loading music and a memory card. The device ships with two tracks installed from Panic At The Disco and Phantom Planet.

Nokia’s People First concept uses navigation that’s shallow with minimum use of folders, applications, etc… A vertical list shows your personal history, with new content being added at the top of the list. So things are simple, using universally understood organizing principles: time, lists and faces.

With People First Nokia is “encouraging personalization, hacking, and entrepreneurial ventures with widgets support, accessible native programming language (as simple as html) and freely available hardware and software specifications.”

We’ve seen our share of portable speakers and so far our favorite so far has to be the X-Mini Capsule speakers, mostly because they are compact and they went wireless recently. Close behind would probably be the Easter Egg Tumbler Speaker. This device, like the X-Mini, pops open to extend out the chamber a little bit and add some more bass into the pint-sized speaker (or about as much base as you can expect from something like this.) It also comes egg-shaped and heavy at one end so that it can’t be tipped over when being bumped around on your desk

Each comes as a single speaker with an audio cable for input and a USB cable that powers and charges in the internal battery. No word on exactly how much juice the speaker puts out but we’re guessing 1W, and it’s pretty hard to say on the battery life if you wanted to use this with your media player.

If the Buddha Phone inspired you, you might want to try your luck with M1′s Lillian Too Lucky Dragon phones. Lillian is a well-known follower of the ancient Chinese practice of feng shui and believes the phone will be lucky for those who carry it with them.

The phone is beautiful, with a prominent dragon on back. It’s also encrusted with 288 zirconia gems, with big red gems for eyes and a pearl near the mouth. The phone comes with the number 8 trinket which signifies wealth in Chinese. It’s only available in red because the “fire element ensures financial success.” If that’s not enough, the phone also includes 12 Chinese Zodiac wallpapers, 6MB of built-in user memory expandable via a microSD card slot, 2-MP cam, and 176 x 220 resolution screen.

Nokia has announced the 5220 XpressMusic phone with built-in lanyard making it an easy-to-carry device. This music phone will give you 24 hours of playback time and comes with the usual XpressMusic keys at the side and a 3.5mm audio jack.

The Nokia 5220 XpressMusic will start shipping by the third quarter of 2008 with an estimated retail price of €160. Some specs include: 2.0 inch QVGA display(240 x 320 pixels) with up to 256,000 colors, 30 MB internal memory, support for up to 2GB microSD memory card, 2 megapixels camera, video recording in QCIF quality, Up to 5 hours talk time.