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Samsung has just unveiled the D870. This candybar style phone boasts a 2.1-inch TFT-LCD display, 2.0-megapixel camera, Bluetooth 2.0, microSD card, USB connectivity.

With Dual Standby, users can carry just one mobile phone and operate it as two mobile phones using two SIM cards. Even while consumers are using a certain mobile number, they are still able to get a call from the other number. Seamless transition from one to the other number provides exactly same experience to bring two different mobile phones while just carrying one single mobile phone

[via Akihabara News]

LG expands its “Black Label” phone line with a new 5.0-megapixel slider. It features stylish carbon fiber accents.

The as-yet-unnamed slider promises to be the thinnest 5 megapixel cameraphone in the world when it launches, featuring a reinforced glass touchscreen up front (just a little Glimmer-esque, if you ask us) and a shell constructed from carbon fiber

[via Engadget]

Samsung’s latest slider phone, the SCH-M470, features a 2.0-megapixel camera, video calling, web browsing capabilities, Bluetooth 2.0, HSUPA support, and Wi-Fi.

SKT (SK Telecom) plans to start 2Mbps speed upload demonstration services in designated areas, then extend the service to more areas

[via Akihabaranews]

The Samsung F480 offers a 5.0-megapixel camera, 2.8-inch touchscreen display, 228MB built-in memory, a microSD card slot, Bluetooth, USB connectivity, FM radio with RDS, and HSDPA support.

It’s not too often that we are so impressed with a handset as we are with Samsung F480. The little fella is an extremely capable device carrying a serious feature pack. In addition, it is so suave and compact that it is bound to earn itself quite a lot of fans. User-friendliness is also among its definite strong points

[via Gsmarena]

According to sources, the Sony Ericsson Paris will feature “touchscreen display (capacitive, it seems), a semi-QWERTY keypad in the same vein as the M600 and P1, WiFi, 3G (maybe in a global flavor for once?), GPS, and preinstalled Google Maps, all sitting atop UIQ 3.3.”

se-nse is spilling some more beans on its supposed leak of the P5 “Paris” smartphone, and put simply, UIQ fans are (or should be) salivating uncontrollably right now. And when we say “salivating uncontrollably,” we mean like to the point that they’re unable to present themselves in social situations because there’s just this really disgusting stream of spittle constantly flowing out of their mouths

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Here’s a spy shot of the 3G iPhone. The back appears to have a glossy coating and is listed as being an 8GB model. We’re assuming that the iPhone 2 will come in 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB varieties.

HP’s iPAQ 614 Business Navigator features a 3.0-megapixel camera, 2.8-inch TFT display, a Marvell PXA270 processor (520-MHz), 256MB ROM, 128MB RAM, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, microSD memory card slot, GPS, Bluetooth 2.0, and USB connectivity.

The new HP iPAQ 614 is a combines everything a businessperson needs. It is very fast, and since it offers a few navigation solutions, you are able to choose the one that fits you best. Unfortunately, its speakerphone is unusable and the sound quality during a talk is not the best, but it can be adjusted via an external wireless device

[via Phonearena]

Here is a first look at the Sony Ericsson P5 (Paris) slider phone. It supposedly “runs Symbian UIQ 3.3 and has quite a large screen.”

Below the screen will be a P1-style keyboard, meaning two letters per key. That’s pretty much all we know, except for a supposed May announcement and September release.

[via Gizmodo]

According to a company executive, “meetings with the search giant have reassured him that carriers will be able to equip handsets with their own applications, not just Google’s tools.”

“That’s attractive to us. We were concerned that maybe the focus was just on Google apps,” he said. Of course, other than vague pleasantries about the possibilities of the operating system, de la Vega wasn’t concrete about actual Android phones in the pipeline, saying, “If it’s good for customers we’ll offer it like any other OS.”

[via Engadget]