LG GM600 Scarlet II touchphone

LG GM600 Scarlet II mobile phone has been just announced in Brazil. The main feature of this touchphone is built-in TV tuner. This mobile device supports GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz networks and is equipped with 3 inch resistive touch screen with 240x400px resolution and 262K colors, 3 Mp camera, FM radio with RDS, 150 Mb built-in storage, MicroSD external memory card slot, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, 3.5mm headphones jack. The battery has 1100 mAh capacity and provides about 4 hours of talk time or 300 hour of idle mode. This phone measures 106.7x52.9x12.9mm and weights 102g. LG GM600 Scarlet II will become available in next few months and will cost $455.

SKY IM-U590S Pandora

Recently Pantech announced its new mobile phone – SKY IM-U590S Pandora. The main feature of this device is its design. In contrast to other touchphones this one has no hardware buttons under the screen – there is special LED panel that can be used as trackpad. The list of specifications includes GSM/GPRS and UMTS/HSDPA networks support, 3 inch touch screen with 240x400px resolution, 3 Mp camera with autofocus, frontal 0.3 Mp camera for video calls, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, TV tuner, 205 Mb built-in storage, microSD card slot. The dimensions are 121.8x51.8x9.1mm, the weight is 102g.

LG KM570 touchphone

Recently this phone successfully passed FFC certification. LG KM570 belongs to middle class touchphones and is designed for music lovers. It supports third generation networks including HSDPA and is equipped with 3 inch touch screen with 240x400px resolution, 5 Mp camera with aoutofocus, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, FM radio, 4 GB built-in storage, 900 mAh battery, MicroSD memory card slot, 3.5 mm headphones jack. The price of this mobile phone is EUR220.

Philips Xenium X312

Philips has just unveiled its new Xenium series mobile phone. Devices from this line are known for their long-living battery. Philips Xenium X312 is not exclusion. It also has impressive work time. Unfortunately Philips has not still shared official list of specifications, but it is said that this phone is equipped with 2 inch OLED screen with 240x320px resolution, 2 Mp camera with fixed focus, Bluetooth 2.0, microSD memory card slot (up to 16Gb), FM radio. No word about release date and price.

Sharp IS01 Android MID

Japanese KDDI mobile operator has just announced new MID that will become available in its shops in next few months. Sharp IS01 runs on Google Android operating system and is equipped with 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 5 inch multi-touch display with 960x480px resolution, full QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, 3G module, Bluetooth 2.1 +EDR, 3Gb built-in storage, MicroSD memory card slot, 1-Seg TV tuner, 5.27Mp camera, 0.43Mp frontal camera for video calls. Sharp IS01 measures 149x83x17.9mm and weights about 300g.

Chinese rotate screen phone

One more remarkable gadget has been just launched by one of Chinese mobile devices producer. Bphone combines features of mobile phone and netbook. It runs on ARM Linux 2.6 operating system and supports GSM/GPRS 850/900/1800/1900 MHz networks. The list of specifications includes 624 MHz Marvell PXA310 processor, 128 Mb RAM, 256 Mb ROM, 5 inch touch screen with 800х480px resolution, MicroSD memory card slot (up to 16 GB), FM radio, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 2.0, 3.5mm headphones jack. The battery provides up to 4 hours of talk time or active using. Bphone measures 145x95x24.5mm and weights 291g. This device has been already available and costs $570.

ZTE Messenger Edition 251

French SFR mobile operator has just released its new phone. ZTE Messenger Edition 251 is monoblock with full QWERTY keyboard (the location of buttons is quite confusing). This device resembles of Blackberry devices, but unfortunately it is not smartphone. It is know that Messenger Edition 251 supports GSM/GPRS network standards and is equipped with touch screen with 320x240 px resolution, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, FM radio, 3.5 mm headphones jack, MicroSD memory card slot. Another feature is pre-installed Live Messenger client app. The price of this mobile device is €109.