It was inevitable that rumors of a possible Zune phone would begin circulating. It makes perfect sense. Microsoft has got to want a slice of Apple pie. Why wouldn’t they be planning a Zune phone to go up against the iPhone?

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Rumor has it that Apple's iPhone 3G will be launched in the Indian market late August or early September through Vodafone and Airtel. Speculation has it that the Indian iPhone will have mostly the same software as its US counterpart, however some features will be customized to match Indian tariffs and the 8GB will be the only model available for the launch.

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Thanko will soon release a new PMP, the DTLMP42G. It features a 2.8" LCD widescreen, 2GB of memory, a SD/SDHC slot, and built-in speaker. It’s compatible with AVI/FLV/RM/RMVB video files, MP3/WMA audio files, and JPEG.

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Samsung the world's second-largest maker of mobile phones cumulative handset sales in the United States have surpassed the 150-million-unit mark on July 1. Samsung entered the U.S. market through wireless operator Sprint Corp. in 1997. Samsung ‘s' total U.S. handset sales reached the 10 million mark in 2001 and surpassed 100 million in December 2006.

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Oki exhibited a communication device based on the DSRC, a standard for inter-vehicle communications, and can be carried by pedestrians at Wireless Japan 2008, which runs from July 22 to 24, 2008, at Tokyo Big Sight. The Oki communication device can issue alerts when a pedestrian carrying the device comes close to a vehicle equipped with a DSRC-based automotive communication device.

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E Ink is toying with the idea of introducing its E Ink Vixplex Imaging Film for the outer display found in upcoming clamshell handsets, and this will definitely be a boon to the industry since e-ink consumes power only when there is a change in image, hence conserving battery life to an even greater extent.

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Samsung has unleashed its i8510 handset at an event in NYC, bringing S60 to the world of Samsung handsets. This quad-band GSM(850/900/1800/1900MHz), dual-band WCDMA (900/2100MHz) cell phone will up the ante against Nokia and Sony Ericsson's line of photo-centric handsets by offering a whopping 8 megapixel camera that is capable of recording video in QVGA resolution at up to 120fps, as well as VGA quality up to 30fps.

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Here you are the almighty i8510 from Samsung, a 8Mpix AF Slider camera phone powered by the S60 Symbian OS. Our little wonder also feature a 2.9” QVGA screen with 16m colors, UMTS with HSDPA, WIFI, GPS, TV Out and DivX, WMA and H.264 support, plus a 3D graphic chipset module, an optical mouse, 16GB of internal memory in just 106.5x53.9x16.9mm... And guess what, the phone is EVEN DLNA compatible !

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Here you are a cute and “girlish” phone from Motorola, the PEBL, which does not stand-out for its feature (VOD, MOD, MP3, HSDPA) but for its look.

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Neoneco has the new iPod Swing Speaker for your iPod. It will hit the Korean market first. It’s a rechargeable stereo speaker that’s hooked up to the rear of a crystal case, supposedly giving you about 10 hours of continuous audio when fully charged.

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Cut & Paste released new silicon cases for iPhone 3G, the Bone Collection Phone Bubble 3G. It's provided with a screen protector and is available in Blue, Pink, Orange, White color.

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The Suo Xin ZT888 is a nice looking mobile phone from China that comes with an extra genuine leather case/battery for some reason. This caught my eye because of the call buttons. I’m pretty sure Apple doesn’t approve and I can only guess that they are trying to fool some morons into thinking that this is the new iPhone they’ve heard so much about.

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Yep, mobile phone companies aren't having the best of it. A combination of market saturation and the credit crunch are hitting their upgrade dependent business models and now Sony Ericsson has just turned in some particularly nasty Q2 figures.

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On Saturday I reported that Europe has no iPhone 3G stock anymore and that this situation could last into October based on a German magazine report. On Saturday it looked like Apple still manages to get their stores restocked each day with new iPhones, but for Monday the almost all Apple Stores will have no iPhone 3G inventory.

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Besides Samsung's official launch of the TL34HD point and shoot, the Korean manufacturer unveiled three new ‘point and shoot digital’ cameras: The TL9 (Pictures), SL310W and SL201. The TL9 features a 10Mpix sensor, very nice dual analog gages that indicate remaining battery life and the memory capacity, and a 2.7" LCD screen, a 5x optical zoom and a SVGA Movie Mode.

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