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A quick glance at the LG Neon and you’ll be able to deduce that it’s targeted at the younger crowd who love to send text messages and loathe holding voice conversations. If you think you’ve seen this phone before, it was probably the LG KS360, which is essentially the same phone, sans the carrier branding. There aren’t any pricing or availability details on this phone just yet, but stay tuned, and we’re sure AT&T will mention something sooner rather than later.

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Samsung’s F480 is certainly a popular phone, so it isn’t too surprising to see that Samsung has come up with a few versions of the device, and next up is the Samsung F480 La Fleur, which stands for “the flower” in French (in case you skipped French class). This phone looks to try and make it in time for Valentine’s Day, and boyfriends should prepare to get a request for this phone from your girlfriends. The device will be available in Russia and possibly other European countries, though there isn’t a price tagged on the phone just yet.

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Would you purposely leak information regarding your upcoming phones? Well, if it gains you a lot of publicity, why not, right? We can’t explain why there are 8 leaked Samsung phones before MWC 2009, but we certainly aren’t complaining (after all, we’re not famous for patience). Check out some of the specifications of the leaked phones, including the Samsung S5050 which is pictured here:

Samsung S5050:

* Quad-band GSM/EDGE connectivity
* 2.2″ OLED QVGA display with 16 million colors
* 3.2 megapixel camera with LED flash
* Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity
* Music player
* FM radio
* 50MB of internal memory
* microSDHC memory card slot (up to 8GB)

Samsung C5212

* Quad-band GSM/EDGE connectivity
* 2.2″ TFT display with 176 x 220 pixels and 262K colors
* Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP connectivity
* 1.3 megapixel camera
* 40MB internal memory
* microSD memory card slot

Samsung S3310

* QVGA TFT display with 16 million colors
* GSM/EDGE connectivity
* Bluetooth 2.1 connectivity
* Music player and FM radio
* 2 megapixel camera with video recording (at 30fps)
* 30MB internal memory
* microSDHC memory card slot

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More and more news related to the MWC 2009, which is just around the corner, are surfacing, and next up we have word that Gigabyte will be launching a new smartphone there. A picture of said smartphone is already available, though there aren’t any technical specifications just yet. It looks like the phone has a trackball in the center and minimal buttons, which has been the case since Apple launched its iPhone. Based on the picture, it’s most likely that the phone will sport a WVGA or WQVGA display. We’ll be getting more information during MWC, of course.

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Entry-level phones generally don’t look too pretty, but Samsung S3500 does look rather pretty. The phone was recently approved by the FCC, hinting that AT&T or T-Mobile might be launching it in the US, though there hasn’t been any mention of a price for this phone just yet. Features of the Samsung S3500 include:

* Quad-band GSM/EDGE connectivity (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz)
* QVGA display with 262K colors
* Music player
* FM radio
* 2-megapixel camera
* Bluetooth and USB
* WAP browser, email
* 35MB of internal memory
* microSD card support
* 99.9 x 48.0 x 13.9 mm

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Samsung is certainly proud of its Omnia. While the phone certainly didn’t manage to dislodge the iPhone from its perch, it still is a very popular phone. Now it looks like Samsung will be looking to breathe new life into the phone, by coming up with an upgraded 16GB version of the device, which has been spotted online. Specs of the 16GB supposedly include:

* Quad-band GSM / GPRS / EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz), Single-band UMTS / HSDPA (2100 MHz – HSDPA up to 7.2 Mbps) connectivity
* Graphics chip with 3D acceleration and support for Direct 3D
* Marvell PXA312 624 MHz CPU
* 256 MB of ROM
* 128 MB of RAM
* 3.2” WQVGA (240 x 400 pixels, 262,144 color) touchscreen display,
* Samsung TouchWiz GUI
* 5-megapixel camera with Flash and Auto-Focus
* Secondary QCIF front camera for video calls
* Built-in GPS sensor
* FM Radio with RDS
* Wi-Fi 802.11b / g
* Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
* microSDHC memry card slot (up to 32GB)
* 1440 mAh Li-ion battery
* Dimensions 112 x 56.9 x 12.5 mm
* Weight: 122 grams

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It looks like Sony Ericsson W705 has another color scheme aside from Luxury Silver and Passionate Red. Thanks to the Internet, pictures of the phone in a Black and Silver color scheme are making rounds. The Sony Ericsson W705 will have features such as a 2.4-inch display, Wi-Fi, and a 3.2 megapixel camera.

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There probably aren’t too many good looking iDEN mobile phones out there, so Motorola’s i9 will certainly be an attractive option to Sprint subscribers. Sprint has announced that the device will be called the Motorola Stature i9, and it will be going on sale via Sprint Nextel and Boost Mobile channels. In case you forgot, this phone has some nifty features like GPS, a 3-megapixel camera with autofocus and flash, a microSD card slot.

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Dual-SIM phones aren’t abundant, so Samsung probably thinks that it can get ahead of other manufacturers by releasing another dual-SIM handset in the form of the Samsung B5702. It’s a slider phone, and from the looks of it, it won’t have a touchscreen. One of the nifty features of this phone is that there are 2 LEDs at the top of the phone, which will light up to indicate which SIM card is currently in use. Hopefully Samsung will announce this phone during MWC 2009; after all, it’s just around the corner.

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There seems to be some buzz about a Sony Ericsson W518 in the pipeline even as the world awaits the release of the W508 which, though officially announced in January, surprisingly, has not made the scene to date. The W518 is purported to have an added aGPS feature which the W508 does not have. No photo scoop yet is available on the W518, so just visualize along the lines of the W508 for now. Keep your eyes peeled for release and pricing updates anytime now!

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Word is out that General Mobile will be showing off the first dual-SIM Android phone at next month’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Pictures of the phone, dubbed the DSTL1, are available online, though Android users will note that the button configuration isn’t too suited for Android, as you’d need 5 hardware buttons (home, back, menu, call send, call end) to get the phone to work properly. General Mobile has said that the front of the phone will be changed in order to accommodate Google’s Android, though it didn’t mention if such changes included the screen’s 400 x 240 pixel resolution. If the Kogan Agora’s 320 x 240 pixel display wasn’t enough for Android apps, this might not fare any better, though we’ll just have to believe that General Mobile knows what it’s doing. The phone is expected to ship in Q3 of 2009. Specifications of the phone (as of now) include:

* Dual-SIM cards with dual-Standby mode
* 624MHz Marvell PXA 310 processor
* Tri-band GSM/EDGE support (900/1800/1900MHz)
* 3-inch WQVGA touchscreen display, 260k colors
* 802.11b/g Wi-Fi support
* Bluetooth
* 135g (4.75oz), 112 x 54 x 16mm (4.4 x 2.1 x .6 inches)
* 5 megapixel autofocus camera with flash (made by Sharp)

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Nokia should be fairly familiar with luxury handsets, especially since it has its Vertu line of luxury phones. Of course, that doesn’t mean that every luxury phone coming from Nokia will be under the Vertu brand, as evidenced by the Nokia Royal. You’ll get 8.2 cts of vvs, color ‘F’ diamonds, alongside approximately 1,160 individually set sparkling gems with this device. The main material of the exterior is solid platinum, which is held down by 8 handmade platinum screws. If you need to use up some cash for whatever reason, you could always pop over to the Colette store in Paris on January 31st to pick this up. It certainly won’t come cheap though, as there will only be 50 units of this device in existence.

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Folks in the US will finally be able to get their hands on the Pharos Traveler 117 after the folks at the FCC decided to approve it. Just in case it looks familiar to you, that’s because this Inventec device has already been released earlier in other countries, so it is nice to see the FCC keep up to speed with what’s going on around the world as well. The PDA smartphone will run on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional alongside the following features :-

* Quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE connectivity (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)
* Tri band UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA connectivity (850/1900/2100 MHz)
* 400MHz Qualcomm MSM7201 processor
* 2.8″ resistive TFT touchscreen display with 480 x 640 pixels
* GPS and A-GPS
* Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0 connectivity
* 2.5mm headset jack
* 2 megapixel camera
* Secondary VGA camera for video calls
* 128 MB RAM, 256 MB ROM
* microSDHC memory card slot

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Motorola might be floundering, but that doesn’t mean that it’s out of cell phones. Pictures of the upcoming Motorola ZN300 have surfaced, and we also know that it will come with a 3-megapixel camera, have a 240 x 320 resolution display and Opera Mobile. The phone will most likely have 3G connectivity, but if that doesn’t materialize, EDGE would probably be the minimum for this phone. Hopefully this is a step in the right direction for Motorola.

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The folks over at Mobile-Review have managed to get hold of an unannounced Nokia phone, namely the 5730 XpressMusic phone. Based on details that are currently available, the phone will be powered by Nokia’s S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2; photo capturing will be achieved with its 3.2 megapixel camera which also has autofocus and a LED flash. If reports are to be believed, the phone will ship with a 1000mAh battery, and in case you didn’t notice, it also has Wi-Fi and GPS.

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