Imagine this a cell phone that lets you talk for a whole day! Ten hours without charging is what they say. The Philips Xenium 9@9a is bereft of any extra bells and whistles but can hang on in standby for 40 days and 40 nights on a single charge, and even the most talkative jabberjaws in the world can go on gabbing all day, 10 hours without having to recharge the thing.Other than that advanced energy efficiency, the line of 9@9 phones are fairly ordinary. The Xenium 9@9d adds a 1.3-megapixel camera to the mix, while the 9@9t is a smartphone with handwriting recognition, an MP3 player and a miniSD memory expansion slot. But the long battery life will make it a big draw.

However, no Bluetoooth and IrDA here and just when we thought Philips is out of the cell phone market it is back with a bang.

Source: Gizmodo

Myxer™, the best place to make and share mobile content, today announced the launch of MyxerMagic™ – a free download that lets users send any online image to their mobile phone right from their existing web browser. MyxerMagic eliminates the need for file downloads, format conversions, serial or Bluetooth connections, and other tedious operations that have previously been required to get content to mobile phones.

MyxerMagic is a lightweight browser extension that is available for free at www.myxermagic.com. It extends the functionality of Internet Explorer or Firefox to add a “Myxer - Send image to phone!” command into the right mouse-click menu. Users also have the ability to send images to friends’ and family members’ mobile phones. To allow for the ultimate in personalization, MyxerMagic has a powerful web-based image editor to re-size, re-shape, or otherwise manipulate images to best fit a phone’s display. Like all of Myxer’s functionality, MyxerMagic works with any mobile device and is carrier-independent, meaning it doesn’t matter which provider the user’s phone is with or what plan they are on.

Features coming soon to MyxerMagic will include the ability to send audio clips, video, simple text and RSS feeds directly to mobile phones as well.

iPhone impersonators are arriving and every other day now and right on the heels of the LG PRADA touch-screen handset we now have the Meizu M8. However, we can all expect many more on the horizon in the days to come. Meizu is not new to being an apple copycat but it has managed to excel in its Apple inspired products

What Meizu seem to have is a great track record of copying an Apple product then adding a feature that the original product should have had in the first place. This time they’ve given their M8 mobile phone the ability to work on both 3G and GSM.

The Meizu M8 is a personal media player/phone that will reportedly run on Windows CE. Features include a 3.3-inch screen, GSM and 3G, Bluetooth and a 3-megapixel camera capable of capturing video at a 720 x 480 resolution and 30 frames per second. We’re expecting to hear lots more about this product come the summer.

Source: Unbeatable.co.uk

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Verizon Wireless, the No. 2 U.S. cellphone carrier, passed on the chance to be the exclusive distributor of the iPhone almost two years ago, balking at Apple’s rich financial terms and other demands. Apparently Apple’s first choice for exclusive iPhone service was Verizon and not Cingular! The two companies couldn’t agree on a deal that worked for both companies. “We said no.” Said Jim Gerace, a VZW VP. “We have nothing bad to say about the Apple iPhone. We just couldn’t reach a deal that was mutually beneficial.” Talks began as far back as two years ago, but Apple’s demands were steep.

Apple wanted a percentage of monthly service fees, control over distribution that would limit iPhone sales to Apple and Verizon stores, and even some control over service and support for iPhone customers. “They would have been stepping in between us and our customers to the point where we would have almost had to take a back seat … on hardware and service support,” say Gerace.

Whether consumers — who would have presumably had a fair shot at an EV-DO iPhone with Verizon as a service provider — will win in the end is yet to be seen.

Source: Engadget

Motorola is continuing with its deals with motor manufacturers and has announced its latest – the Motorola MOTORAZRmaxx V6 Ferrari Challenge Mobile Phone Limited Edition, a perfect marriage between the style of Ferrari and the technological innovation of Motorola.

The unique handset comes with HSDPA capability and offers a series of exclusive features: the Ferrari emblem on the exterior glass, the roar of the Ferrari F1 eight-cylindre engine accompanies the switching of the handset on or off, images of the Ferrari F430 engine on the mini external display and the image of the Ferrari emblem on a gray Ferrari in the internal display.

Underlining the elegance and attention to detail that have always been the hallmark of both brands; the MOTORAZRmaxx V6 Ferrari Challenge Mobile Phone Limited Edition comes with a soft, hand-made carry case in Ferrari-red leather.

The MOTORAZRmaxx V6 Ferrari Challenge Mobile Phone delivers the capability to listen to music, browse the Internet and download content at extremely high speed, all within a handset with high-end finishes, in a futuristic mix of metal and tempered glass. External touch controls allow for fast access to the music functions when the phone is closed with great elegance and simplicity.

Grab it from Ferrari Stores and all major Motorola dealers, at the recommended price of €490.00(approximately US$630).

Source: PHONEMAG

Members of the candybar phone set who envied the Motorola RAZR”thin is in” good looks are in luck. The Motorola SLVR L7, offered by Cingular in the US, takes the RAZR’s techno-chic design and signature polished metal keypad and flattens it into the thinnest candybar phone on the US market. The 11.5mm thin SLVR lives up to its name, being incredibly slim though not notably small in height or breadth.

The SLVR is about more than good looks, and falls into the feature phone category thanks to its VGA camera, Bluetooth and Micro SD (aka TransFlash) card slot which comes filled with a 512 meg card. Why such a high capacity card? Because the SLVR is yet another iTunes phone from Motorola and it can handle up to 100 songs. Unlike the 100 song ROKR, whose only claim to fame was its iTunes capability, the SLVR L7 more subtlely adds the feature as one of several reasons to want this phone. Much better marketing: getting a SLVR means getting a cool looking phone with decent features that also happens to replace an iPod.

Source - MobileTech

Mark/Space announced this week it would soon release a version of its Mac-to-handheld synchronization software, called Mac OS X: The Missing Sync for BlackBerry, for Research In Motion’s (RIM) wireless handhelds. The Missing Sync, which often delivers a level of compatibility between handhelds and Macs not delivered by the platform or device vendors themselves, has long served as the missing link between Apple desktops and laptops and Palm OS devices.

Last year, the company added Windows Mobile Pocket PCs and Smartphones to the list of supported PDAs and handsets. A version also exists for the Sony PSP and an edition for Danger’s hiptop smartphones has been discontinued.

 Source- Mark/Space

A combination cell phone and music player, the Sony Ericsson W810i, the latest in the company’s Walkman phone line, delivers just about everything a gadget-lover could want. A super-small beauty, the W810i crams a lot into a surprisingly tiny package. You’ll get a music player with an external memory card, a 2-megapixel camera, and Bluetooth. This phone is only carried by Cingular at the moment, but Amazon has unlocked phones that you may be able to get activated to your service.

The W810i is a candy bar-style phone measuring only 3.9 x 1.8 x 0.8 inches and weighing in at 3.5 ounces. We love its sleek black styling and its generous cool factor; it feel like a phone for night-clubbers who know the best undiscovered places.

Source - PDAStreet

Nokia today announced upgrades to two previous high end models as well as a new clamshell style smartphone. All three phones have QVGA displays and a number of advanced features. They are all due out this quarter. Nokia also announced the second generation of its internet tablet, the N800, which will be available immediately.

• N93i: Updates the N93 camcorder-style smartphone with a shorter, slimmer form factor. The N93i still retains the same features as its big brother. It includes tri-band (900/1800/1900) GSM/EDGE, UMTS 2100, WiFi, Bluetooth, IR and 3.2 Megapixel autofocus camera with optical zoom. In addition, Nokia has updated the software and has replaced photo integration with Flickr for photo and video upload to Six Apart’s VOX blogging platform. The N93i comes with a 1 GB MiniSD card.
• N76: Built on the N75 clamshell still expected on Cingular. The N76 features a slimmer design with a RAZR-like etched metal keypad. It adds UMTS 2100 to the quad-band GSM/EDGE, and maintains the external control keys, 2 Megapixel camera, Bluetooth and MicroSD card slot.
• 6131NFC: Nokia has added an NFC chip to the 6131 (sold on T-Mobile as the 6133). NFC chips provide contactless payments, ticketing and other abilities using terminals like MasterCard’s PayPass. The 6131 is a slim, quad-band GSM/EDGE clamshell with a 1.3 Megapixel camera and Bluetooth.

Source - NOKIA