With its impeccable web-browsing powers, Sony Ericsson G705 sure has a flock of appreciating techies and business people waiting for it in the market. Considering that it’s not a smartphone, this latest piece from Sony Ericsson has the capabilities that equal that of more expensive smartphones. And with its release having a jumpstart against Nokia 6260 slide, it will be in the shelves come Christmas shopping time, with the buyers sure having a look, or one itself, of this baby.

Specs:
- Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE and HSDPA 7.2 Mbps/tri-band HSDPA (for US version)
- Built-in GPS with A-GPS function, Wayfinder Navigator software, geotagging
- Wi-Fi b/g with DLNA and SIP support, Bluetooth (with A2DP), USB v2.0
- 2.4″ 256K-color TFT display
- 3.2 MP camera with LED flash
- Enhanced user interface with basic multi-tasking
- Dedicated Play/Pause music key
- Media Center, Smart search, Manage Messages
- FM radio with RDS and TrackID
- YouTube client
- 120 MB built-in memory, M2 card support, 1GB included

The 3G Samsung Behold the younger sibling of the Samsung Omnia on the Verizon network. The Behold measures 2.1 by 4.1 by 0.5 inches. The Behold’s 3-inch touch screen takes up the majority of the phone.

Samsung goes one step up the ladder with their latest offering, the i8510 INNOV8. This innovative piece busts a monster 8 megapixel camera which brings with it
lots of camera options. And as its title says, there’s tons of different features from this beauty, making it one advanced gadget.

Specs:

* The most feature-loaded S60 handset to date
* 2.8″ 16M-color TFT display of QVGA resolution
* 8 megapixel camera with mechanical shutter, automatic lens cover, dual PowerLED flash, digital image stabilizer, geotagging, auto panorama shot, face
detection, smile detection, blink detection
* VGA video recording at 30fps and slow-motion video recording
* Symbian OS 9.3 with S60 3.2 UI
* 3G with HSDPA support
* Quad-band GSM, dual-band UMTS, HSDPA 7.2 Mbps
* 128 MB RAM
* Wi-Fi with DLNA technology
* Built-in GPS with A-GPS functionality
* Massive 8/16GB internal memory
* microSD card slot with microSDHC support
* Built-in accelerometer for UI auto-rotation
* 3.5 mm audio jack
* TV out
* Stereo FM Radio with RDS
* Optical trackpad navigation
* USB and Bluetooth v2.0
* Stereo speakers
* DNSe audio technology
* DivX support
* ShoZu integration

Samsung S9402 Ego Finally Announced

Do it like a roller with this dual SIM-enabled offering from Samsung. This beauty shines with its exotic liquid metal alloy, developed by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). All its features are exclusive to this model and won’t be found in other models/.

Specs:

- dual SIM cards
- supports triband GSM with EDGE connectivity
- 5MP camera with autofocus
- FM radio
- microSDHC memory card slot
- Bluetooth 2.0
- 960mAh battery

Kogan Technologies has finally fulfilled their promise a month after announcing that they will make a phone that runs on the Android OS. The Kogan Agora and Kogan Agora Pro has a 2.5-inch TFT touchscreens and flaunts Blackberry-esque appearances. Better get your hands on these, my techie friends.

Specs:

262K color QVGA touchscreen display
QWERTY keyboards
quad-band GSM
tri-band 3G (HSDPA) support
Bluetooth 2.0
FM radio
microSD memory card slots
2 megapixel camera *
Wi-Fi *
GPS receiver *

Sony Ericsson’s latest brainchild will sure make camera-phone fanatics salivate. This unit has a 3-megapixel sharpshooter with auto focus and functions like face and smile detection. It also inherited other Cyber-shots’ active lens cover and camera shortcuts.

Specs:

3-megapixel sharpshooter with LED flash
active lens cover
120 MB built-in memory (expandable with M2 card)
2.2-inch QVGA display

The follow-up to T-Mobile Shadow, the Shadow II was finally shown to the public. This new product from T-Mobile has more rounded edges and front buttons than its older sibling. Its keyboard has 20 keys in the Blackberry style, QW-ER-TY format.

Specs:

- Windows Mobile Standard 6.1
- QVGA display
- Wi-Fi
- microSD slot and
- 2 megapixel camera.
- 2.6-inch QVGA TFT display

Take a look into the future with the Hint messaging phone, a squarish slider with its full QWERTY keyboard, threaded SMS and IM conversations, and access to multiple email accounts. This latest brainchild of Motorola is a CDMA phone with EVDO and Bluetooth, which means network operators with AWS spectrum can sell this one.

Specs:

full QWERTY keypad
2 megapixel camera
supports microSD cards up to 8GB
3.5mm headset jack

Nokia advances to the future with N97, the first high-end device operating on touchscreen Symbian S60 OS. You can always slide-and tilt to reveal the full QWERTY keyboard once the 3.5-inch touchscreen display bores you. There is also a proximity sensor for auto screen turn off during calls and an acelerometer for auto screen rotation.

-Tri-band HSDPA
- quad-band GSM
- 32GB of internal memory
- 5 megapixel camera
- Wi-Fi
- GPS
- stereo Bluetooth
- 3.5mm audio jack
- TV-out
- FM radio with RDS.

With their eyes locked towards the future, Sony Ericsson unleashes the first from their Xperia series, the X1. This arc-slider smartphone runs on the Windows Mobile 6.1 Operating System. It also has Java virtual machine and supports JavaME and A-GPS. Opera Mobile is pre-installed in this freak and it recognizes handwriting, too. Neat, ain’t it?

Configuration:

- 65,536-coloTFT WVGA touchscreen display
- 3.2 megapixel digital camera
- secondary front camera
- mini-USB
- wireless LAN (802.11b/g)
- Bluetooth 2.1 withA2DP, FTP, and HID
-EDGE
-quad-band GSM, UMTS, HSDPA,HSUPA , andHSCSD
- 512MB of internal memory (expandable to 32 gigabytes using High Capacity microSD