HTC Touch 3G

One of the most attractive Windows smartphones on the market, the HTC Touch 3G is a compact 3.5G smartphone that also features WiFi and GPS.Before we look at the Touch 3G, it's perhaps worth noting the demise of the similarly specified and wonderfully named HTC Touch Cruise, because the Touch 3G does pretty much everything the Touch Cruise does.. but with a rather more boring name.

Searchme

Is it better to receive search result in thumbnail instead of text based? Searchme has announced the availability of its visual search engine for mobile devices. Searchme’s engine delivers results as a browsable list of “pages” - pictures of actual web pages that users can check out before visiting them. All mobile users can now access the engine at m.searchme.com.

LG KC 910

Other than Sony Ericsson C905 and Samsung Innov8 i8510, LG KC910 is the third GSM mobile phone that featuring a 8 megapixel camera module. The LG KC910 has a codename called LG Renoir, which came from a name of an artist. According to GSMHelpDesk hands on, the KC910 has implemented a similar interface as Samsung TouchWIZ UI. Unlike Samsung, which places the TouchWIZ bar at the side, LG has a row of little icons at the bottom of the display screen. You can move the icon out from the bar to the main screen, and it will be activated on the screen.

The Sony Ericsson G705 is an HSDPA capable 3.5G slider phone with GPS, a 3.2 megapixel camera and built-in WiFi, due for general release during Q4 2008.

It's not a top-of-the-range handset, but the presence of GPS marks it out as being something other than a midrange device. Perhaps what Sony Ericsson are trying to achieve is a mass market GPS phone, and certainly it seems to meet all the requirements.. except for one.

You see, the problem with the G705 (and indeed some other recent Sony Ericsson releases) is that it's quite dull. Although it's a tidily designed handset, it's hardly sexy. And Sony Ericsson's new naming convention is awfully unmemorable. G705? Try to remember the handset model tomorrow without looking it up. If this was an LG or Samsung handset then you can bet that they would have thought of some snazzy marketing name for it.

Vodafone UK Start Selling BlackBerry Bold

Vodafone UK and Research In Motion (RIM) announced the arrival of the new BlackBerry Bold smartphone. On sale today for all new and existing Vodafone UK customers, the BlackBerry Bold comes with built-in Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g) and integrated GPS that supports location based applications including Vodafone Sat Nav. The BlackBerry Bold also features a large half-VGA colour display (480×320 resolution at 217 ppi) that presents eye-popping images and smooth video playback to complement its rich set of multimedia capabilities including a media player for music, photos and videos and a 2 megapixel camera with video recording.

MediaFLO USA to Provide Live College Football Games Mobile TV

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MediaFLO USA will carry the live, full-length college football games on its award-winning mobile TV service throughout the 2008 season. MediaFLO USA’s mobile TV service is available to AT&T subscribers as AT&T Mobile TV and to Verizon Wireless customers as V CAST Mobile TV.