The Firefly’s glowPhone R100 has just received the FCC approval. As you can see, this phone is specially made for kids. This is a basic phone used for call and text messaging only. It doesn’t have Bluetooth connectivity, they gotta use wired headset. The glowPhone R100 has a flashlight mode that gives you light during black-out. No words on pricing and availability.

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Here are the live shots of Samsung Serenata SGH-F310. According to gsmhelpdesk.nl, it is the next premium phone in the Bang & Olufsen range. Serenata comes with 4GB built in memory, and a click wheel similar with the iPod for managing your playlist. It screen is placed below the dial pad which is pretty odd and you can slide up the phone to reveal its large speaker. Samsung has made a countdown page for this upcoming Serenata, yeah 18 days to go. One more shot after the jump. Read more…

Remember the Samsung G800 another 5.0-megapixel phone after the G600? LetsGoMobile has got their live shots on the G800. It looks much prettier with the chrome frame around it. According to the report, Samsung SGH-G800 will be announced officially this year and might be available in some Europe countries. We’ve got the pictures and just wait for the specs to release. One more shot after the jump. Read more…

Remember the Samsung UFO phone aka SCH-W300/SPH-W30000 in Korea?
Now it really turned into an UFO. It is a fan-made CG Transformers-style clip, transforming the UFO to the phone. Video after the jump. Read more…

Virgin Mobile USA has released their first Bluetooth handset with UTStarcom called the Super Slice. It has a VGA camera with 3x zoom and all the basic functions that a phone has. The Super Slice measures only 0.4 inches thin with a height of 4.4″ and width of 1.9″ and weighs at just 2.5 ounces. The Virgin Mobile Super Slice comes with an affordable introductory price of $59.99 and will hit stores this mid-September.

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Remember the Levi’s Phone? It was announced in June this year and got its FCC approval and it’s running on GSM network which supporting GSM 850 and 1900 MHz. The phone is shown in FCC document in a weird brown copper style. Which you think is better? I think the silver one looks better, this one gives an old look. More pictures after the jump. Read more…

LG introduces its latest OLED -AM-OLED A220A- for mobile phones which comes with an impressive color, contrast and brightness. It’s a 2.2” display with 240×320 pixels resolution, brightness 250 cd/m2, the contrast ratio is more than 10,000:1 and the response time is less than 0.01ms.

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Samsung SGH-D830 clamshell mobile phone comes with a 2.3-inch TFT-LCD display, 2.0-megapixel camera, a microSD card slot for memory expansion, 80MB of built-in storage, EDGE support, TV-out, and Bluetooth. It a nice designed phone when we see the thinness of it but its flat keypad will let you having difficulties in pressing although it’s a large keys.

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Sony Ericsson has released a promotional video for its W43 handset. The Glowing phone, Sony Ericsson W43. Video (Japanese)…
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Cingular announced the availability of its 3125 Smartphone (HTC Star Trek). The clamshell phone features a 2.2-inch TFT-LCD display, 1.3-megapixel camera, 64MB RAM, 128MB ROM, a microSD card slot, and Windows Mobile 5.0. It measures 9.9 x 5.1 x 1.6 cm and weighs 99g. It is available now for $149.99 with 2-year service agreement.

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