In the Internet apperead the information that some shops began already the  reception of prior orders for new smartphone Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, and it means that we must wait soon the appearance of this device. It is necessary to note that the prices for this novelty are very different. In particular, the most cheap proposal today is made by the company CellHUT. This company proposes to buy Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 for only 699 USD. To compare: the buying of the same smartphone in MobileCityOnline.com will cost 999 USD (at the retail price of 1 199 USD).   

  Recently was published the patent of Sony Ericsson related to the cell phone with three input methods. The company proposes to use one keypad  integrated in mobile phone and two keypads attached to rotatable flip. The user will be capable to use any of proposed methods when he wants.  The illustrations shows a set of usual phone's keypad, keypad with game's pads and touchscreen surface. In general, the choice of keypads can be arbitrary. We doubt whether we see something like that in commerce devices, but the idea is very interesting.   

  The company Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), intends to invest 100 million dollars in the development of software and services for the iPhone and iPod Touch. With this aim, KPCB has established a venture fund called iFund. Special attention will be paid to the local service centers developers, social networks, mobile commerce (including mobile payment services and advertising) and entertainment services. "The developers already have a lot of ideas for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Now with the help of the venture funds they have an opportunity to turn their ideas into big companies - said the Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs. - We look forward to start working with Kleiner Perkins and their financed companies. " 

  From today, the iPhone is available in another two European countries, Austria and Ireland. In Austria, iPhone will be sold through the mobile operator T-Mobile, and in Ireland, the distribution of this product was given to the mobile operator O2. In both countries the price will be the same, iPhone will cost 399 Euros for the 8 Gb version and 499 Euros for the 16 Gb version.  

  The British retail chain Carphone Warehouse will start selling the new camera-phone Nokia N96 from August 8th, 2008. Recall that this model was officially presented at the World Phone Congress in Barcelona, and its launch was planned for the third quarter of 2008. However, no specific date of Nokia N96 appearance was given until this moment. In addition, April 8th, 2008 will be the day when Carphone Warehouse will begin selling another new model - Samsung "Soul" U900, and on June 8th, will come the turn of Sony Ericsson C902. 

  The company High Tech Computer (HTC) announced the beginning of sales of ultramobile computer (UMPC) HTC Shift on the market of United States.  We will remind that this device has a preinstalled OS Windows Vista Business. It is notable for the processor Intel Stealey 800MHz + 945GMS + ICH7U, the chipset Qualcomm MSM 7200, 400MHz, 1 GB of integrated memory, 128 MB ROM for SnapVUE, 1,8" hard drive with the capacity of 40 (or 60) GB, 7" TFT LCD touchscreen display with the resolution of 800х480 pixels, Bluetooth 2.0, Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) and GPS module. HTC Shift will be a little cheaper for the American users than for the Europeans - the price of this UMPC working cell phone on the European market is 1 740 USD, and the residents of USA can acquire HTC Shift for only 1629,99 USD.  

  This is the latest quarterly update to Strategy Analytics' Handset Specification Database of cellular handsets, for clients of the Handset Component Technologies service. Detailed specifications for 6,630 phones, from over 145 brands worldwide, are given. Included are handsets announced up to the end of January 2008, with over 200 data columns for each model. To purchase this Database, please click to this link.

  The company Yahoo! presented on the exposition of CeBIT 2008 a new version of software Yahoo! Go 3.0. This mobile software permits to work directly from cell phones with a large quantity of Internet Yahoo services as Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Weather и Yahoo Maps. Yahoo! Go 3.0 includes some vidgets made for work with Eurosport, XING, eBay, MySpace и Dopplr. The promotion of Yahoo! Go 3.0 will be made by the mobile operators of France, Germany, Italy, Spain and UK. You can download this software here.  

  The rumors about new sport cell phone from Samsung and the company Adidas appeared still in the middle of last year. And the other day it was officially presented. The novelty was named Samsung SGH-F110 miCoach. It is made for the people who loves the active way of life. Especially for this purpose you will find in the device the counter of steps, it can measure the pulse, distance, speed and entertain by music during the run.  Samsung SGH-F110 miCoach will propose you more than 220 training programs and will help you to chose the most appropriate from them.  As the functionality, you will find in this model LCD display of 2", 2 MP camera, FM radio, mp3 player, 1 Gb of integrated memory and support of GSM networks (850/900/1800/1900 MHz). The novelty will be on the market the next month.   

  The President of Motorola’s mobile unit resigns. The press release reported that Stu Reed has decided to leave the company by himself. Previously, Mr. Reed was in charge of the logistics department, which includes procurement management, presentation of the new products, production and warranty liabilities. He correctly built supply schemes, worked with the suppliers and he was able to save substantial funds for the company. In the recent past time, Stu Reed has actively participated in the development of new work strategies for the Motorola’s mobile unit. Greg Brown, CEO of Motorola, recognizes the merits of Stu Reed and wishes him “the very best in the future." Nowadays we are witnesses of an active Reformation of the mobile unit. The American manufacturer of phones is changing the direction, restructuring the strategy. At the moment, this is the main concern, this fact was proved through a quite passive participation in major exhibitions such as the Mobile World Congress and CeBIT.  

  Sun introduced Java support for the iPhone. The company intends to use the iPhone SDK for the development of Java-machine. IPhone processor supports hardware performance Java Bytecode, so applications written in that language, should work quickly. Sun’s Vice President of Marketing, Eric Klein said that the company investigated the possibility of adding support for Java through the recently introduced SDK and adopted a positive decision. It will be adapted, as mobile version, Java Micro Edition, and perhaps JavaFX. "Now iPhone is opened - said Mr. Klein, - free JVM will be available through Apple AppStore. We will do our best to assure that JVM will provide maximum access for Java applications to iPhone’s functions ". When JVM will be launched for iPhone, is not known yet.