Sony Ericsson released its K320i, it comes with a 1.8-inch TFT-LCD screen, 1.3-megapixel camera, 15MB internal memory, Bluetooth 2.0, USB connectivity, and a media player. It also features a full HTML web browser for web browsing. Pricing and availability has not been announced.

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By the end of year 2008, Coca-Cola will equip its 200,000 vending machine to accept payment via mobile phone in Japan. Coca-Cola in Japan said that by the end of 2008 all its vending machine will accept Felicia, contact less credit cards on mobile phones developed by cellular industry leader NTT DoCoMo and electronics giant Sony. With this system, you will able to buy any soft drink, coffee, tea or fruit drink in Coca-Cola machines in Japan by holding up a mobile to the machine, with the cost of the refreshment going on a monthly phone bill. Felicia cards are increasingly accepted as payment in stores and public transportation in Japan.

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The Toshiba 811T clamshell mobile phone, it supports W-CDMA and triband GSM (900 / 1800 / 1900 Mhz). This 3G phone comes with a monochrome OLED external display so you can control the music player and reject calls without opening the phone and the internal display is 2.4 inches wide supports a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels and 262,000 colors. It includes built-in stereo speakers which deliver a decent output and a 3.2 Megapixel camera with LED Flash and a 0.3 Megapixel (QVGA) for video conferencing. It also includes a Micro SD card slot for memory expansion (up to 1GB), Bluetooth, Infrared, GPS, and dedicated Yahoo access key. The Toshiba 811T is exclusive to Vodafone Japan and be available by November.

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Japan’s NTT DoCoMo announced that its mobile networks are compatible now with international networks so when you step in Tokyo next time you will be able to use your existing cell phone and vice versa.

Presenting the Sharp 801SH, it is compatible with W-CDMA and GSM networks. It comes with a 2.4 inch display VGA resolution 480 x 640 which is capable of displaying 262k colors. It also include Bluetooth, Micro SD card slot which can support up 1GB, Music player, Dual 2-Megapixel camera with video recording, xHTML browser and video conferencing. The 801SH features a dedicated key to access Yahoo Japan’s mobile services. You can safe guard your address book and important data which is private using Hollywood style face recognition in which the phone will grant access after you verify yourself using the camera, this is cool. It measures 50×100×21mm and weighs 17 grams and will be available in six colors in Japan. One more pic…
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Here’s a new interesting concept phone from BenQ Siemens, the Black box. It uses a touch screen as keypad. It depends on the function you’re using, the touch screen change the control layout immediately.

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LG and Philips partnered to develop the slimmest LCD in the world for cell phones. it measures only at 1.3mm thick. The new LCD should allows manufacturer to dip below that 6.9mm crown held by Samsung’s SGH-X820 yet up the display brightness from 300 to 400 nits. They did not mention when this screen will go into production.

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MobilityToday provides the lives shot on Samsung IP-830w. Just a quick refresher, it features an Intel PXA 272 (520-MHz) CPU, 128MB ROM, 64MB RAM, 240 x 320 touchscreen display, SDIO memory card slot, and a full QWERTY keypad. More pics…
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Motorola released its MS800, a multimedia clamshell-phone in Korea. It comes with a swivel TFT-LCD display, 1.3-megapixel camera, MicroSD card slot, 1GB built-in memory, DMB TV tuner, and embedded 3D games. Pricing and availability has not been announced. More pics…
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Brian Lam from Gizmodo provides the hands-on look at the just released Nokia N95. More images and a video…
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The Sony Ericsson W300 the walkman phone, a quad-band GSM/EDGE cellphone which is compatible with MP3, WAV, and AAC file formats. It features Bluetooth connectivity, a built-in VGA camera, speakerphone, and stereo speakers. Stay connected with your friends via AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, and ICQ with W300i. It comes in 20MB internal memory, memory can be expandable via the M2 memory card slot. Cingular is currently offering the W300i for just $19.99 after taking in all the discounts and rebates into consideration in a 2-year service contract.

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