Philips Xenium X518: low-cost long-playing touchscreen

In the market Philips Xenium X518 - new touch screen phone and a set of predefined widgets. The unit is equipped with 2.8-inch touch screen, supports two SIM-cards and can work up to 12 hours talk time without recharging. The device also comes with colored back panel, while the base - black color. In Russia, the model will be available in color combination of white and beige and gold. Of the multimedia features included MP3-player, FM-radio with RDS and a 2-megapixel camera. Mobile phone Philips Xenium X518 will be available in April 2011. The recommended retail price in Russia will be 3,799 rubles.

Features Philips Xenium X518:

Display: 2.8-inch touchscreen, 240 x 400 pixels

Support 2 SIM-cards

Network: GSM / GPRS (900/1800/1900 MHz)

Camera: 2 MP

MP3-Player

FM-radio with RDS

MicroSD-slot up to 8 GB

Wireless Interface Bluetooth 2.0 (A2DP)

Battery: 1530 mAh

Dimensions: 104h57h14, 4 mm

Up to 12 hours talk time

To 1400 hours in standby mode (1 SIM), 1000 hours (2 SIM)

Disney will release in Japan on the Android smart phone

Disney plans to release its trademark special smart phone Sharp Galapagos 003SH. Its sales in Japan will begin in February. It is curious that Disney chose the unit on a platform Android, although the board of directors includes a chapter Apple CEO Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs).

The main feature of Sharp Galapagos 003SH - the screen with a diagonal of 3.8 inches and a resolution of 800x480 pixels, which allows you to view 3D-images without glasses. The smart phone runs on Android Froyo, which in the Disney version will add all sorts of "bells and whistles" - the unique design themes, e-mail address in the domain of Disney and other content related to the film company. The phone will be sold with exclusive body panels with images of heroes of Disney. About the price of the unit there is no information.

New smart phone Sony Ericsson Xperia arc

Sony Ericsson has unveiled a new smart phone Xperia arc based on the latest version of Android 2.3. Smart phone in its most narrow part has a thickness of 8.7 mm, while equipped with a 4.2-inch multi-touch display. Xperia arc has a curved body, which repeats the curve of your palm. The camera is equipped with a matrix smart phone Sony Exmor R, with an aperture of 2.4, which allows you to take photos and shoot video even in low light. All pictures and videos can be viewed in HD quality on your TV, with the release of HDMI.

Among the features of Sony Ericsson Xperia arc company allocates parameters such as thinness and lightness, 4.2 inch multi-touch Reality Display Technology with Mobile BRAVIA Engine for enhanced image quality, the camera at 8.1 mega pixel with video recording in HD quality. Sony Ericsson Xperia arc will be available in all major markets around the world, including Japan, in the first quarter of 2011 in two colors - Midnight Blue and Misty Silver.

Some photos of Blackberry Curve 9300

Canada's RIM is going to launch a smart phone Blackberry Curve 9300. And recently leaked unofficial photos of the device.

New information about the Blackberry Curve 9300 came back in February. New made in the style of most smart phones Blackberry - monoblock with qwerty-keyboard.

According to rumors, the smart phone will be updating The Blackberry 8500. In the previous series of smart phones, the Blackberry Curve 9300 will be implemented 3G support and the module Wi-Fi 802.11n. Permission to display the gadget will remain the same - 320 x 240 pixels.

If you believe the photographs, Blackberry Curve 9300 will operate on the basis of Blackberry 5.0 and has only 256 megabytes of internal memory. But let us hope that before entering the OS smart phone sales will be upgraded to Blackberry 6.0, and its internal memory capacity will increase to 512 MB.

The Loop modern phone for people with visual impairment

Mobile technologies are developing very rapidly, and tseleny first to a mass audience, but there are some people inevitably do not fit into conventional framework. 

For example, visually impaired people are practically impossible to use modern gadgets with a touch screen.

Especially for them was developed by The Loop, razrabotaka held as part of the contest, organized by LG Electronics in collaboration with Auto desk. 

Phone maximally adapted for people with visual impairment, due to their compact size and unusual shape, the phone can be attached to clothing or worn on the user's neck.

The author of the concept Andres Parada (Andres Parada) adapted the maximum control gadget, which consists of key on / off, glued-laminated wheel and built-in Blue tooth-headset. 

In concept applied thermal display and supports Braille. Due to this, just a finger across the screen, users can find all the information they need.

Verizon Wireless is going to attract customers to LTE networks

In talks with investors, CEO Lowell McAdam Verizon Wireless (Lowell McAdam) said that the company intends to release 3 to 5 phones that support work in the LTE-networks. 

The deadline for the appearance of vehicles on sale in May 2011. The executors of the order, in the words of Lowell macadamia likely to become the company Motorola, HTC, LG, or Research In Motion - they are among the first taken to the LTE-market phones.  
Also, Verizon Wireless is going to get into tablets, its products have become direct competitors iPad. Production of these gadgets can do Motorola, Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics. 

Recall that by the end of this year, Verizon Wireless plans to launch in the U.S. own high-speed network of the fourth-generation LTE.