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LG will soon release a new entry-level candybar – the LG GB109, which should become available in Ukraine for the beginning, starting next month (August).

As you’d expect from an entry-level phone, the GB109 doesn’t have too many features, being targeted at customers who need cheap, basic handsets.

Its specs include: a 1.5 inch CSTN display with 65K colors, stereo FM radio, organizer, and a 950 mAh battery that can last up to 6 hours in talk-time or up to 440 hours in stand-by time.

The LG GB109 also has some quick-access keys (for FM radio and messaging).

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It looks like AT&T will pretty soon release a new Samsung phone, namely the A887 Solstice.

Initially known as Samsung Infinity, the Samsung Solstice will be available for purchase starting August 2.

The Samsung Solstice is a mid-end touchscreen phone with features like A-GPS, Video Share, stereo Bluetooth, email, IM and a 2MP camera

The A887 seems to be using the TouchWiz UI, like the Samsung Eternity and many other Sammy phones.

So, any takers for this one

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Since its launch (May 2007), LG’s Wine family of phones has become quite successful, with more than 2 million units sold around the world.

Leveraging on this success, LG now plans to release a 3G version of the Wine phone.

The handset will be launched in Korea in September, via SK Telecom, KTF and LG Telecom.

There are no further details about the upcoming device, but, since the previous Wine phones were targeted at middle-aged and older customers, we should expect the new one to be made for them as well.

The key features of LG’s Wine phones are the large screen and keypad, quick-access keys, text-to-speech, and the simple overall design.

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Samsung SGH-i600 is 3G smartphone with tri-band GSM/EDGE and HSDPA support. The device sports a QVGA 65k color TFT display, 1.3 megapixel camera on the back, as well as a front facing one for video calling. The internal memory is 128MB but it can be expanded through microSD cards. It has a full QWERTY keyboard and a scroll wheel at the side of the phone for easy navigation, WiFi and Bluetooth with A2DP support.

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Here is a video tour by Phone Scoop of the new HTC Hero and its custom-built Sense user interface.The HTC Hero is the first Android phone of the manufacturer to run the personalized Sense interface. It changes the overall appearance of the OS and adds a number of new features. The Hero is also the first Android phone to support Flash and is powered by a Qualcomm 528MHz processor and 288 MB RAM/512 MB ROM. Additional functionality includes a 3.5mm jack, trackball, GPS, Bluetooth 2.0 and Wi-Fi. It is a quad-band GSM and dual-band 3G handset.

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Well here we are years later and the RAZR is still popular enough that Motorola has releases a LuK Hot Pink version for the South Korean market. Technology has progressed a bit, and so has this phone. The LuK Hot Pink RAZR will feature 7.2Mbps HSDPA, video call capabilities and Bluetooth.

Of course, it’s ~$400 price tag probably wouldn’t spurr up much interest here in the States but perhaps the Korean market will take to it better.

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When we sit back and think of the coolest and most popular handsets on the market names like Apple and RIM typically jump to mind, but not Samsung. Samsung is working to change that though and is looking to field a range of Android-powered devices and other phones to woo customers to buy its wares.

GSM Arena has its hands on a pre-release sample of the Samsung B7610 Omnia Pro handset. The slider phone is a PocketPC running Windows Mobile 6.1. The device has a 3.5-inch AMOLED touchscreen, 1GB of storage, 256MB of RAM and a hot-swappable microSD card slot. The CPU is an 800MHz unit with a dedicated GPU.

Other features include a 5-megapixel camera with dual LED flash and VGA video recording at 30fps. The phone also has an integrated accelerometer to rotate the screen for landscape or portrait modes and a turn-to-mute feature. An FM tuner is also built-in. Pricing and availability are unknown.

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The Nokia 5800 finally got a new firmware update. The new version is v30.0.011 and you can download it from NSU.  The biggest news in this firmware is the homescreen email option and some bug fixes. Just make sure that you backup your phone before updating (if somethings goes wrong and the data is not saved)

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Nokia E71 pictures – The Successor of the Nokia E61i, the E71 has the same form-factor with landscape display and full QWERTY below. It now uses stainless steel, has narrower and slimmer body with redesigned keypad, features 3.2-megapixel camera and dual-band 3G.

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Check out the screenshot here folks! There’s the proof we were looking for! T-Mobile is indeed going to launch the BlackBerry Curve 8520 Gemini on August 5 but the carrier isn’t officially saying anything just yet. The screenshot here is apparently a leaked T-Mobile document in which you can find the release date and the specs of the new Curve. And since that internal document did leak to the public, why can’t the page containing the future prices be made public? Or are we to assume the page here is just a fake, photoshopped picture?

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Nokia Music PC application got updated to version 1.3 yesterday. For those of you who aren’t yet familiar with Nokia Music, here are the other key enhancements in a nut shell:

* Play and organise your music seamlessly between your PC and phone
* Enjoy full integration with the Nokia Music Store and the Comes With Music
* Transfer music and playlists to and from your device
* Burn songs to CD
* Rip your CDs straight to your device with ‘Rip n’ Go’
* Unlock the music potential of your mobile with the only PC jukebox optimised for Nokia owners
* Get Nokia Music Store recommendations based on your ‘now playing’ track

You can download the Nokia Music app from here

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Since Apple debuted its App Store on iTunes about a year ago, other major mobile phone makers have unveiled their own app stores. Among the phone makers to launch an app store was Blackberry with its App World.

The top paid business app on the Blackberry App World for the eight-week straight is called gwabbit. The application automatically searches and identifies contacts in embedded emails on the smartphone and adds or updates the information in the Blackberry contacts with a single click.

The company says that the gwabbit app has a 150% growth rate in sales.

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Although it’s not yet official, the BlackBerry Storm 2 (also known as BlackBerry Storm 9550) has appeared in a video preview.

Posted by the folks over at CrackBerry, the video shows the BlackBerry Storm 2 in action, and, despite presenting “early” software and hardware, it looks like the new Storm is definitely better than the first one.

The touchscreen display of BlackBerry Storm 9550 uses the SurePress technology, but it’s more user-friendly than the display of the original Storm. Moreover, the hardware seems to be nicer on the new smartphone.

RIM hasn’t announced a release date for the BlackBerry Storm 9550, but it will probably do it before the end of 2009.

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Samsung Mobile USA has just announced two new messaging phones for T-Mobile: Samsung Comeback t559 and Samsung Gravity 2 t469 – both of which come with QWERTY and alphanumeric keyboards.

Sure, we’ve seen the two devices before, but now they’re finally official – although only the Comeback is available right away, for $129.99 with a 2-yr contract and after a $50 mail-in rebate.

Samsung Comeback t559 is a side-flip phone that features 3G, MP3 player, e-mail, IM, video messaging, 2MP camera and MicroSDHC card support (up to 16GB). The phone is available in two colors (frost silver cherry and pearl white plum):

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While the Comeback was an all-out messaging phone, the Samsung t349 aspires to give the same kind of experience on a candybar form factor, going easy on the pocket at the same time. The handset comes with a partial QWERTY keypad that should do just as well as a full QWERTY and has a 262k-color, 176×220 pixel TFT display. There is also a 1.3 megapixel camera with a media player and 4GB microSD support to load up some of your favorite mp3s or mp4/3GP videos to listen or watch on the go. Other features include Bluetooth, SMS/IM/Email support, and a speakerphone with 7 hours of talktime and 300 hours of standby on a single charge

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