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Korean Moblic company was founded a year ago but it has already released its first device. Moblic E7 is horizontal QWERTY slider that combines features of MID and portable game console. This device is based on ARM Cortex-A8 processor with 600 MHz clock and 3D graphics acceleration support. Other characteristics are 4 inch touchscreen with 480×800 px resolution, 256 Mb RAM, 8 Gb ROM, 2000 mAh battery and microSD memory card slot. Connectivity includes Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g and WiMAX IEEE 802.16e. There is no official information about operating system but it is expected that Moblic E7 will run on Windows Phone 7 Series. Unfortunately no word about price and release date.

Sagem Wireless together with Puma has just announced its new mobile phone. Puma Phone is designed for people who lead an active lifestyle. One of the main features of this device is solar panel on the back side of the device. After hour under the sun Puma Phone will provide about two hours of music playback or will give an opportunity to send 30 text messages. Besides future owners will surely appreciate accelerometer, GPS, digital compass, pedometer and special software that will help to organize activity. Other characteristics of Puma Phone are 2.8 inch touch screen with 240×320 px resolution and 262K colors, 3.2 Mp camera with flash and 6x digital zoom, 0.3 Mp camera for video calls, FM radio with RDS, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, and 3.5 mm headphones jack. The dimensions are 102×56x13 mm, the weight is 115g. Puma Phone will be released in April. No word about pricing.

Czech Mivvy company is known for its Dual Nio, Dual Slider and Dual TV Touch. But today this producer officially announced Mivvy One communicator. It features Marvell PXA310 624 MHz CPU, 3.2 inch TFT touch screen with 240×400 px resolution, 3 Mp camera with autofocus and flash, 128 Mb RAM, 256 Mb ROM, microSD memory card slot (up to 32 Gb), FM radio, Wi-Fi (802.11b/g), Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, accelerometer, GPS module and 1100 mAh battery. The dimensions are 105х56х12.9 mm. Supported network standards are GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz. Mivvy One runs one Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional. The price of this phone is $375.

During today’s conference devoted to new online shop China Mobile operator demonstrated new communicator – Dell Mini 3i. This device has classic shape factor and nice design. The list of technical features is also good but not s impressive as it was expected. Dell Mini 3i has 3.5 inch capacitive touch screen with 360×640 px resolution, 3.2 Mp camera, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP and microSD memory card slot. It is notable that this communicator doesn’t support third generation networks standards and has no Wi-Fi module. The operating system is OMS. There is no any information about European and US release.

Mobile phone deals

Due to collaboration of Cypress Semiconductor Corp and Sharp Japanese au KDDI mobile operator is able to introduce for its users new unique mobile device. It is Sportio Water Beat. This phone is designed for people who prefer active way of leaving. The main feature of this phone is watertightness. In contrast to others waterproof devices this one has 3 inch touch screen designed by Cypress company. Besides this display supports Multi-touch technology. Other characteristics of KDDI Sportio Water Beat are 3.2 Mp camera with autofocus, 900 Mb built in memory, microSD card slot, GPS module, accelerometer, TV tuner and IR port. Regarding the fact of Sharp’s intention to invade European and US mobile technology market we can hope to find it in shops.

Indian Spice Mobile company has just announced its new device – Spice D-1111. It is the first Indian communicator with both GSM and CDMA networks’ standards support. According to the producer this device is innovation and will become very popular. Unfortunately these asseverations are not very well-founded. The price of this mobile device is $385 and its list of technical characteristics looks not very impressive. It is clear that device with such price and set of features can’t compete with communicators by such companies as HTC, Samsung, RIM and etc. Spice D-1111 is equipped with 2.8 inch touch screen, 2 Mp camera, 60 Mb built in memory, microSD memory card slot, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP and 1350 mAh battery. The operating system is Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional.

First this communicator was shown on Mobile World Congress 2009. Recently it became available in European shops. Acer F900 belongs to Acer Tempo series and has not bad set of characteristics including 7.2 Mbps HSDPA/HSUPA support, 3.8 inch touch screen with 800×480 pix resolution, Samsung S3C6410 533 MHz CPU, 28 Mb SDRAM, 256 Mb Flash ROM, 3.2 Mp camera with autofocus, additional video call camera, FM radio, Bluetooth 2.0 and Wi-Fi modules. Acer F900 runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional has Acer 2.0 User Interface with widgets support.

It was said that the first Windows Mobile 6.5 based mobile device will be released in the fourth quarter of this year. But now we know that it will become available in China in July. Chinese Dopod company which is sub-unit of HTC will introduce Dopod Tachi. This device is a version of HTC Twin. The list of characteristics includes Qualcomm 7501A 528 MHz CPU, 2.8 inch screen with 480×640 px resolution, 3.1 Mp camera with autofocus, VGA camera for video calls, 256 Mb RAM, 512 Mb ROM, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 and microSD memory card slot.

At last Sony showed heir of PSP 3000. Here are official photos of Sony PSP Go. As it was expected this device has sliding gamepad. New console supports Sony PlayStation 3 integration and has 3.8 inch screen, Bluetooth 2.1 module, Memory Stick Micro card slot and support. It is also notable that Sony PSP Go has not UMD storage element but 16 Gb flash module.

At the beginning of this year General Mobile announced its first Android communicator with Dual SIM card mode support. Now we have some new information about this remarkable device. General Mobile DSTL1 communicator has classic shape factor, nice design and impressive list of technical characteristics. The only disadvantage is absence of GPS module and third generation networks support. This mobile device has 624MHz Marvell PXA 310 CPU, 3 inch WQVGA (400×240 px) touchscreen display, 4 Gb built in memory, microSD/HC memory card slot 5 Mp SONY brand autofocus camera with flash, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi modules. Supported networks are GSM/EDGE (900/1800/1900 MHz). General Mobile DSTL1 will be released in June and will cost approximately $550.