The kind of cell phone you own may say a lot about your personality. At least that’s what the folks at Nielsen think. They just competed a study that picks out your personality type based on what mobile you own.

Motorola users, for example, were deemed stylish, fun seekers whereas Nokia folks were healthy and middle-aged. What did the rest of the survey say, hit the jump for the full results. Let’s just say I’m glad I don’t own an LG phone.

Nokia Family-minded Middle aged managers Health conscious

Motorola
Fashion conscious
Under 24
Fun seekers

Sony Ericsson
Ambitious young men
Professionals
Success driven

Samsung
Young women
Career focused
Success drivers

LG
Stay at home parents
Moms

When you think about it, Vertus and Ferraris have a lot in common: just as Ferraris give a select few the opportunity to spend an insane amount of cash on an object that provides little more value than a, say, $1,000 used car, Vertu offers a product with little additional value (and in some cases, less value) than phones offered free from carriers. Of course, you can’t put a price on status, so getting these two status symbols to hook up and co-brand a device seems like a match made in heaven (more appropriate than a Ferrari-branded Moto, for example). The “Ferrari Challenge” rendition of the Ascent — in red and black leather — is limited to 1,947 examples (can that many people in the world really afford this thing?), each featuring a couple well-placed Ferrari logos and some weird thing on the back that’s apparently supposed to look like a brake pedal. Look for it to grace your local Vertu retailer in July — but please don’t use it while driving, lest you destroy your real Ferrari, k?

Hey, hey, just three weeks after we got word, out pops the Nokia XpressMusic 5700. Just like the XpressMusic 3250, the 5700 gets its multi-media on via a quick flick of the base. This UMTS S60 twister brings a 2 megapixel shooter with up to 2GB of MicroSD storage. The focus here, though, is music so it packs WM DRM support with a “dedicated audio chip” to keep the music flowing, integrated stereo speakers, Bluetooth A2DP, and 3.5-mm adapter to fit your favorite headphones. Hitting Europe in Q2 for a pre-VAT price of €350.

Those maniacal bastards at Helio finally launched that smartphone we told you about a few weeks back. The Ocean’s most remarkable feature is its double-slider: it’s like a triple decker of LCD, QWERTY, and Dialpad. That also makes it kind of not-skinny at 0.86 inches, around the thickness of last year’s Hiptop 3.

But I’m willing to overlook that because of the extremely useful OS upgrades and software they’ve included:

There’s an integrated IM/TXT/SMS/email interface that supports all the majors, including pop/IMAP/Exchange ActiveSync. Then they’ve taken their shitty browser and turned it into a full HTML browser with a mini map to it that gives a zoomed-out perspective of the entire webpage. No word on Flash compatibility, but I’m not holding my breath. Then there’s the search bar that with one text field will bring back Yahoo, Google, Wikipedia, and local search results. Then there’s Helio’s Music service, GPS features, Playsforsure, and UP, which is a photo upload service that works with the 2.0MP cam. And the UI works in landscape and portrait. I hope the phone runs java apps, but it’s likely it won’t. $295, and it’s all yours.

Ocean Specifications
Form Factor - Dual Slider - alphanumeric keypad + full QWERTY keyboard
Color - Black
Dimensions - 4.33″ x 2.20″ x .86″
Weight - 5.61 oz
Display - 2.4 inch QVGA display, 240 x 320, 260K colors
3G Speed - EV-DO network support for fast multimedia downloads
Talk Time - Up to 5.1 hours
Memory - 200MB internal memory expandable via microSD™ with USB Mass Storage Mode
Camera - 2.0 Megapixel, digital zoom, built-in flash
Video Camera - MPEG-4 video recording
Audio - Stereo Bluetooth® wireless technology
Personal Entertainment Center - Supports: MP3, AAC, WMA, MPEG-4, H.264, VOD, MOD
Additional Features -
POP/IMAP Email Support
Supports Helio Music
GPS-enabled services and applications
Photo caller ID,

Ocean Comes With
Battery + Charger
Stereo Headset
USB Cable
2.5 to 3.5mm Headset Adapter

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Car Charger
Carrying Case

Bluetooth® Stereo headset

Sony Ericsson’s mobiles usually don’t make it to this side of the Atlantic, but that trend changed today with the Z750, SE’s first HSDPA phone for the States. Essentially what that means is the phone will stream video and let you surf the Web at superfast speeds (for a mobile at least).

Like the Z310 it’ll have a mirrored finish that flashes with incoming calls or text messages. You also get a 2-megapixel cam, VGA video camera, Bluetooth, and a Memory Stick slot.

We just got done talking to Sprint about their latest (and some would say best) music phone, the Samsung Upstage. Here are some previously unreleased details that may have not been found here (or anywhere else).

• It’s cheap: Only $149 with contract. That’s way low for a music phone with this kind of featureset.

• Unfortunately, the Upstage won’t play any other form of DRM (the songs from Sprint aren’t DRMEd, actually, which is nice). So your iTunes, Zune, Napster, and other form of DRMed music won’t be able to be played on this.

• It comes with 64MB built-in memory, but will accept 1 and 2GB flash cards.

Jump for some more bullets, and a shocker!

• The Upstage will not be able to use music you’ve downloaded from their 1.4 million track repository for MP3 ringtones. In fact, from what Sprint said, you can’t use MP3 ringtones at all. Ouch. We blame the RIAA for this inability to use music as a ringtone in a music phone.

• You can download tracks both over the air (OTA) or on your PC, and the service will remember which tracks you’ve downloaded.

• The OTA versions are more compressed than the ones from the PC—which has standard MP3 compression—so if you wanted to, you could download a higher quality version of the song later for free (see above bullet).

• You can use the phone in USB Disk mode along with their own proprietary music manager service.

• Head to sprint.com/upstage to sign up for their 4/1 launch.

And finally, when we asked Sprint how this compares to the upcoming Phone (since they are both music-centric phones), Sprint gave us four ways in which they’re different. Here they are, in bullet point form.

• It’s much cheaper. $149 vs. $499

• It’s smaller.

• It has OTA music downloads.

• The touchscreen feature on the iPhone will be hard to use for the majority of users.

RAZR, ROKR all phones are moving thinner and thinner, and it seems their side kick is no different. A PowerPoint slide talks of a Moto-made Sidekick X RAZR Multimedia device. Since Moto’s RAZR line consists of ultrathin phones, it’s a safe bet to assume the Sidekick X RAZR will be a slimmed-down version of the current Sidekick, complete with all the texting, web-browsing functions of the original. Stay Tuned for more news.

Goverment worker? Too self important to wait for emails? BlackBerries are for you. Here is what your company will be giving you this next year. This has wi-fi, and this way, you’ll forever be attached to your work. Congrats….now have you seen my stapler?

BlackBerry 8320 In Hand

It’s not much use to those of us in North America but Nokia flagship “multimedia computer” just launched pretty much everywhere but here. It’s mid-march which means the ($736) Nokia’s N95s now shipping in “key markets” spread across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. So while the rest of world is enjoying that 5 megapixel camera, integrated GPS, WiFi, HSDPA, and dual-slidin’ S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 action. Nokia does release a lot of their products in the USA, but generally carriers don’t pick up their higher end phones. Don’t be afraid to go to the Nseries website!

T-Mobile’s confirmed our tipster and is officially launching the MOTORIZR today, March 21. The pricing is going to be $99 with a two-year contract ($249.99 if you buy it outright), and the phone comes with myFaves, a 2.0-megapixel camera, 8x digital zoom, flash, stereo Bluetooth, microSD slot, quad-band GSM, voice dialing, and a 1.9-inch screen.