Motorola ZN200 has officially appeared on the Motorola’s global site - earlier this device has been presented only in the Brazilian market. This fact has allowed us to receive qualitative photos of the slider. Let's remind, the sizes- 47x105x15,9 mm, the device does not support 3G, weighs 115 g and has a 810 mAh battery. The TFT-display with the diagonal of 1,9" possesses a 176x200 pixels resoltion at 262 thousand colors. The phone has a 2Mp built-in digital camera, MP3-player and radio FM. It also supports MicroSD-cards up to 2 Gb. It is expected, that phone will be available for sale globally in the III-rd...

  China remains the assembly shop for the mobile industry - according to CCID Consulting, the mobile phone manufacturing in the country, will exceed 605 million pieces till the end of 2008. Under Strategy Analytics’ forecasts, which, in general coincide with the main market participants vision, in 2008 it will be produced 1,28 billion phones. As it’s easy to count, in China it will be made a little less than half of all phones of the planet. It is interesting, that from 605 million of phones, 66 % (400 million) will go on export, 205 million will be sold on the local market. 65 % of phones which are made in China, are created for "the big five" mobile manufacturers - Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and LG.  

  Just recently, the High Court of London has allowed four operators of Britain (also they are the largest European operators) to initiate litigation in the European Court. O2 (Telefonica), Vodafone, Orange (France Telecom) and T-Mobile (Deutsche Telekom) consider, that Eurocommissioner Vivien Reding had no power to introduce the severe law limiting the roaming rates. Today informs Financial Times. Operators have repeatedly showed their disapproval with this law - independently, and through different types of lobbist organizations.  

  Hundreds inhabitants of Ghana have recently came out on the area near the parliament of the country in Akkra. The reason of demonstration is unusual - citizens protest against the plan of selling the Ghana Telecom Company to the British operator Vodafone. Vodafone has offered to pay $900 million for 70 % of shares in the company, however, as the opposition members consider, the telecommunication active of the company is underestimated. Ghana, a state in the Western Africa, due to a plenty of minerals and a quite liberal economic trend, remains a developed enough state with a GDP per capita approximately at the level of Mongolia. Simultaneously with the protests against Vodafone’s expansion, the Ghana Telecom employees have organized their own march - to support the sale plan. Level of mobile communication penetration in Ghana - 33 %.  

  The phone VEVA S60 – a Chinese answer to Vertu - enjoys deafening popularity in China. Till now, about 100 thousand pieces of this phone which case is covered with gold and 129 Swarovski stones was sold in China. The most surprising at this phone is not the price - $290 – but the fact, that the manufacturer Qiao Xing has achieved a profitability of 61 % on this project. In other words, the cost of the device with gold and stones is nearby $110. On the success heights, the company plans to sell 200 thousand more models.  

  Gartner has formulated the forecast of the mobile market development for 2008. In the analysts’ opinion, the sales will grow with approximately 11 % - in the world will be sold 1,28 billion of mobile phones. This forecast as a whole, coincides with the manufacturers’ expectations. Gartner expects that to the most dynamical will become the 4-th quarter of the year for which the basic manufacturers prepare the novelties. The most significant growth of phones will be observed in Asian-Pacific region, where it will be sold nearby 472,5 million phones – this is with 17,9 % more than a year earlier. The European and Japanese market shows regress - the phones’ sales in the Old World will decrease with 1,5 %, in Japan - with 9,1 %. This forecast – is especially bad news for Sony Ericsson: the Japan-Swedish company feels most confidently in these exactly in these regions.    

  The Sagem Company which now changes the owner, has declared the availability of four new phones of average and budgetary classes. Informs Mobil.cz. my519X The bar form factor my519x offers an enough standard design (the intensively-pink version is accessible too) and the main "cherry" is the Wi-Fi. The display remains with the same 176x220 pixels resolution, the device is equipped with a 3,2 Mp digital camera. The phone’s dimensions - 108x48x11,2 mm, weight - 89 g. The phone supports MicroSD-cards up to 4 Gb. The device allows to broadcast music on wireless headphones in format A2DP. my421Z Simple and inexpensive slider, it has a 1.3 MP digital camera,  FM-radio and supports MicroSD-cards up to 4 Gb. The phone’s dimensions - 96x46x13,7 mm. my234x and my231x Two models absolutely identical on design and functions, the unique distinction - 231 has FM-radio. Not too functional models (digital camera is not present), are equipped with good battery (1250 mAh). The phones’s dimensions - 106x46x12 mm, weight - 75 g. The display - 128x160...

  Nokia has patented a new mobile phone form factor. It was named Tube, the housing looks respectively - it has a cylindrical shape. The two halves of the cylinder, where are located the display and the keyboard, can be rotated. On top of them is located a ring, which can be moved along the axis of the cylinder up or down, opening in this way the access to certain functions. When we’ll see phones in the new form factor – is not known yet.  

  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...

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