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.

  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.  

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 ®

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 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.

  The American company, Slydial, gives the opportunity to subscribers to avoid uncomfortable conversations by phone. Henceforth, the subscriber can leave the message as a voice mail even if the intended phone is on and is in the coverage zone. For this purpose, the one wishing to avoid a conversation should dial the service number and then the number of the person. The service is paid through small advertising which the user listens before connection. There is also possible to skip the advertising by paying 15 cents for the call. As a result, the interlocutor will receive a “new message” notice. However, in some cases he may see a missed call.  

  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.  

  The USA Federal Communications Commission has published the information about the future budgetary clamshell Motorola Ischia. It is expected, that the phone will be available only for the markets of Asian-Pacific region. The model has modest characteristics: VGA digital camera, microSD support, FM-receiver with translations record. It is necessary to note that Motorola recently has released many budgetary models, and also many phones intended for certain...

  The main financial director of Apple, Peter Oppenheimer has declared that Steve Jobs is not going to leave the company. This rumor has come during a telephone conference when one of the analysts has asked a question, concerning Jobs's health. According to Oppenheimer, the health of the company’s head-chief is "a private matter". "Steve loves Apple. He works as the CEO and this is a pleasure for Apple's board", - has declared Oppenheimer.