The designer Tamer Koseli has developed, perhaps the longest and thinnest concept of a mobile phone. The name of the device is NEED. According to the designer, this phone is meant to be used only as a communication device and has no unnecessary functions such as embedded camera and multimedia player. The device has two displays: on one of its sides is posted a touch screen, through which is made all the management, on the other side - an OLED-display. The NEED’s dimensions – 140x20x5 mm. From a point of view, the long screen is convenient to display lot of information that can be viewed without having to scroll (for example, contacts list). But, will someone like the construction, or will the manufacturers be interested in such a decision – remains a question to which only the time will answer. Perhaps, NEED will join the series of concepts that will never be...

  The Boy Genius Report has published "live" pictures of the new Palm Treo 850 Communicator. Till now, the device is known only a bit: a model based on Windows Mobile, the design resembles the Palm Centro. Of the Treo 850’s characteristics, Boy Genius Report mentions only the processor with a clock frequency of 400 MHz and 100 MB RAM. Other foreign resources has reported that the Communicator works in the networks of GSM / GPRS / EDGE and UMTS / HSDPA, supports Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, as well as equipped with a GPS-receiver (how reliable is the information we don’t know). Treo 850 works under the administration of Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional. The announcement date and the estimated cost have not yet been...

  The international portal GSMPRESS.COM, offers new opportunities for its visitors. Each registered visitor can place postings of sale, purchase or exchange of a mobile phone. The service is free of charge. The interface is convenient and allows publishing your posting in a few minutes. The next opportunity which gsmpress.com offers the users is the dialogue and/or discussion on our forum. Today the forum is offered in English, but other language versions are on the way. We shall be glad to cooperate with moderators and we invite all the users on the forum. One of the most conceptual services who has become available on www.gsmpress.com, is the worldwide SMS sending service. Each registered user receives 10 SMS-es free of charge for testing. The service interface is simple enough and convenient. You can send SMS-es in more than 400 networks around the world, you have SMS history, phonebook where to keep all the contacts and the opportunity to send SMS-es to unlimited number of addresses. We wish to make this service completely free of charge! We work in the direction that each user of our site would have received the most technological services of the present day! Source: GSMpress...

The Samsung Armani is simply gorgeous, both to look at and to hold. Beyond the dashing design lies the elegant grace of Armani cool cachet. Custom designed Armani graphics and interface alight the touch-sensitive 2.6" display, enhanced by a gentle haptic response mechanism. Slim, light and yet suprisingly robust, the credit-card sized Samsung Armani is simply the most compact touchscreen phone ever. We present this most bijou beauty to you clad with elegance in 24k Gold.Exclusive to Continental Mobiles.

  The main financial director of HTC Hu-Ming Chen has declared that the company intends to begin deliveries of phones with OS Android in the IV quarter 2008 - as well as was planned. Phones will receive the company’s ODM-customers too, who will produce Android devices under their own brand. Chen also has confirmed that the Xperia X1 deliveries of the Sony Ericsson company will begin in the III quarter. Chen has named the SE smartphone an "ODM-phone".

  As the Daily Mail tabloid informs, Apple intends to start one more iPhone version - iPhone nano. It is supposed, that this version will be the "facilitated" iPhone model, executed under the iPod nano trend - thin design and elegant "appearance". According to the source, the phone will cost the O2 subscribers $300 and it is intended Prepay packages. Rumors about Apple’s intentions to release more than one iPhone version, were circulating before the official release too. Till now is quite difficult to say, whether these rumors are truthful or not.

The Obsession collection was first inspired by Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, lust & beauty. Obsession marvelled in her infinite qualities. From that moment, it was certain that the first collection would be sculpted & touched with the beauty of her name. Like a sheer work of art, each individual phone is sculpted and crafted by hand. The unique and distinct marking of the phone casing is created using state of the art precision laser technology. To put simply, Obsession mobile engineers work painstakingly hard to create a handset which is visually and naturally stunning in every sense. This skill in itself can take a lifetime to achieve.

  After the health care department of Toronto statement on reduction the mobile phone time of use, it came the turn of the Health Ministry of Israel. Meanwhile, no scientific proofs of mobile phones’ harm were discovered. "The society is quite interested in the radiation problems from mobile phones, but continues to use these devices as before. The purpose of the advices which we have published is to suggest a wisely use of cellular phones", - has declared Sigal Sadetzki, the head-chief of the Epidemiological Institute from the Sheba Medical Center. As she said, the research lead in cooperation with 16 experts from other countries, has revealed an "obvious link" between the mobile phones use and the risk growth of getting a salivary glands cancer. As the newspaper "Harets" writes, the Health Ministry of the country has recognized the research results of the scientists and has called the society to raise the vigilance. However, as the source declares, a precise proof of link between cellular phones’ radiation and the cancer does not exist. Let's remind, earlier, the health care department of Toronto has given instructions that children up to 8 years should use the mobile phones only in emergency...

  LG Electronics and Dolby Laboratories, have signed a contract according to which, LG becomes the first manufacturer of mobile phones supporting the Dolby Mobile sound technology and which will be commercialized at global scales. The LG mobile phone with Dolby Mobile will support the following accompanying technologies:- Mobile Surround (will provide a realistic volumetric sound in headphones) - Sound Space Expander- Natural Bass- High Frequency Enhancer - Graphic EQ - Sound Level Control- Mono-to-Stereo Converter. With other words, the LG phone with Dolby Mobile support, will allow to listen music with tremendous realistic and volumetric sounding.  

Under the terms of the new 15 year agreement, Nokia has been granted a license under all Qualcomm's patents for use in Nokia's mobile devices and Nokia Siemens Networks infrastructure equipment. Further, Nokia has agreed not to use any of its patents directly against Qualcomm, enabling Qualcomm to integrate Nokia's technology into Qualcomm's chipsets. The financial structure of the settlement includes an up-front payment and on-going royalties payable to Qualcomm. Nokia has agreed to assign ownership of a number of patents to Qualcomm, including patents declared as essential to WCDMA, GSM and OFDMA. The specific terms are confidential. "We believe that this agreement is positive for the industry, enabling the market to benefit from innovation and new technologies," said Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, CEO of Nokia Corporation. "The positive financial impact of this agreement is within Nokia's original expectations and fully reflects our leading intellectual property and market positions."  "I'm very pleased that we have come to this important agreement." said Paul Jacobs, CEO of Qualcomm. "The terms of the new license agreement, including the financial and other value provided to Qualcomm, reflect our strong intellectual property...

The main administrative director of Apple, Tim Cook, has declared that he looks at the future iPhone 3G supplies without fears. We shall remind that recently we are witnesses of a total Apple phones deficiency worldwide. "I like the tendencies which I see in the manufacturing process", - said Tim Cook. Representatives of the company have specified, that on August 22, iPhone 3G will be released in another 20 countries which are not known yet. In this way, Apple has confirmed the intention to sell iPhone in 70 countries up to the end of the current year. Source: GSMpress ®

  The site www.gpsandco.com states, that XPERIA X1, the most expected smartphone from Sony Ericsson, will appear on sale on October, 13th and will be sold at the price of EUR700 (about $1090). Earlier sources informed that the British operator Three will start to sell the phone in November. The XPERIA X1 model has been presented in February at Barcelona and has caused a real agiotage. The terms of the sales beginning till recent times have been covered by mystery and uncertainty.

  According to DigiTimes, the Arima Company will start to ship the 5MP LG phone, which will be on sale with the KC index not later than the end of 2008. In addition to this, Arima, which is one of the best OEM and ODM partner of the Korean company, will start for LG another 2-3 new phones in the fourth quarter of 2008. Considering the significant growth of the LG indexes, the cooperation of the Korean manufacturer with Arima prospers.