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And too bad it’s only a concept because this would get rid of yet one more device to carry around. This concept is called “Moon+” and it’s designed by Sunman Kwon.

Via Gizmodo

• 1.5 inch OLED touchscreen.
• GSM
• SMS and MMS.
• MP3 and video player.
• Bluetooth.
• Voice recorder.
• 128MB of built memory.
• Available 2Q of 2008 (not in the states of course).
• €599 (approx. $915.39).

Via AVING

• Small touchscreen PDA phone.
• 1.3 MP camera.
• EDGE (booo!!!).
• Bluetooth 1.2.
• microSd slot.
• AT&T’s push to talk
• 100 bucks!!

Via infoSync

• 3.5″ touchscreen.
• HSDPA (presumably compatible with AT&T’s 3G).
• Video and still camera with geotagging (resolution currently unknown).
• MP3/MPEG4/AAC support.
• GPS (obviously).
• Google maps with Google local search for online services such as traffic, weather, fuel prices and hotel discounts.
• Out Q3 of this year.

Official site

The rumors were true, Motorola just issued a press release talking about they’re cellphone division:

“…exploring the structural and strategic realignment of its businesses to better equip its Mobile Devices business to recapture global market leadership and to enhance shareholder value. The company’s alternatives may include the separation of Mobile Devices from its other businesses in order to permit each business to grow and better serve its customers.”

Click through for the full press release.

“There is a possibility that Motorola, Inc. may exit the handset business and concentrate on becoming an enterprise and government company, Richard Windsor, an analyst with Nomura International, told clients a in note published on Tuesday. He added that speculation about Chinese vendors buying the company has risen again, but said a deal is unlikely as those vendors don’t have much of an idea how to fix Motorola’s problems, which he believes are related to platform and software more than hardware.”

Via MarketWatch

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“In its first full quarter of sales, the iPhone has already climbed past Microsoft’s entire lineup of Windows Mobile smartphones in North America, according to figures compiled by Canalys and published by Symbian. That puts the iPhone ahead of smartphones running Symbian, Linux, and the Palm OS, but behind the first place RIM BlackBerry. The figures mesh with retail sales data already reported by NPD, which similarly described the size of the US market with a 27% chunk bit out by Apple’s iPhone.”

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“Is this the best smartphone ever made? Yes. You could even drop the ’smart’ bit and call it the ‘best phone ever made’, since this will be sold in High Street shops and picked up, as the original was, by people from all walks of life, most of whom have never even heard the term ’smartphone’. “

Complete review

“The Google Phone has been announced, and instead of a phone that’s manufactured by just one company, it’s an open software platform that’s going to be loaded on phones made by HTC, LG, Motorola and Samsung. Those phones are going to be available in the US on Sprint and T-Mobile by the second half of 2008—plus, it’s going to be available in China, Japan, Germany, Italy, and Spain on their respective carriers. The 34 members of the Open Handset Alliance developing this gPhone will throw in their expertise (example, Nvidia with their graphical abilities, Skype with their VoIPing) and offer the collective goods under an open source licensing agreement. Hell, Google might not even put their logo on the phone itself—they just want to sell advertisements to users through it.”

Original story

 “The figure is 25% higher than a year ago and is set to shatter forecasts for how many text messages have been sent to and from handsets this year.

That weekly total is the same as the number sent during the whole of 1999.

Some 4.825bn texts were sent in September 2007, equivalent to 4,000 every second.

“It has exceeded our forecasts quite significantly,” said Mike Short, head of the MDA.

The total for 2007 looks set to reach 52 billion, he said. This was far in excess of the 42-48 billion the MDA previously predicted would be sent this year.

Mr Short said there were several reasons for the continuing growth.

“It’s convenient, comprehensive, it’s on every handset and network and it is cost effective,” he said.

Once despatched, a text message is stored on the mobile network until it can be delivered to its intended destination”

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“Researchers for Strategy Analytics claim that the iPhone could become the best-selling handset in the US within the next six months. In addition, the handset has already become the best selling device for AT&T, according to reports. “The iPhone has become AT&T’s top selling device, commanding some 13 per cent of AT&T’s overall handset sales, and the fourth top selling handset in the US market,” said Barry Gilbert, vice president of the Strategy Analytics BuyerTRAX programs. “Although the iPhone hasn’t had an expansionary impact in the market, the iPhone has quickly assumed a leading market share position and raised the ante for smart devices. The sales trajectory we are observing with the iPhone could make it the top selling device in the US over the next 1-2 quarters.” The current best-selling handset, the Motorola RAZR V3, has seen its lead diminished recently, according to Strategy Analytics.”

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