With a simple design and aesthetics, the LG GD880 Mini fails to capture public attention passionate about mobile phones. In a more in depth, we find that it is technically well equipped: a 3.2 inch touch screen has excellent resolution (854 x 480 pixels), HSDPA connections, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are present for duty, and integrated GPS is ready to guide the optimal path.

Enthusiasts will find photos as sufficient 5 MP camera with autofocus, and shall have melomanii microSD card support up to 16GB. Finally, if you want to know what activities are your friends, you can access through one press FaceBook, Twitter and other social networks.
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If until now in a Puma store just to buy shirts and sports shoes, soon you can buy even mobile phones. Over only five days, most likely in the Mobile World Congress, the company will present its first phone Puma – Puma Phone, feature dedicated amateur jogging and hiking. Include: GPS, Bike Training, Running, pedometer, stopwatch. So far nothing special, but also adds an interesting element gadget – solar panel. It remains to be seen how effective it is and under what conditions. Details about Puma phone will be available on pumaphone.com website.

The American group Google develop a program for first mobile phone able to instantly translate a foreign language during the call, and the system could be operational in the next few years, according to newspaper The Times.

Developing existing technologies of voice recognition and translation, Google could bring major changes communication between the over 6,000 languages spoken worldwide.

Google has created already an automatic translation of text for computer, which is constantly improved by scanning millions of websites and documents in different languages. PC program covers, at present, 52 languages, the latter Haitian Creole, added last week.

Also, the group also owns a voice recognition system that allows mobile users to search the Internet without using keys.

IT giant is working to combine the two technologies to obtain a software able to recognize the voice of a person and transform it into a synthetic play in a foreign language. As a human interpreter, the program will analyze longer sequences of speech, listening to understand the meaning of sentences and phrases before attempted a translation.

“We believe that voice translation will be possible and it will be acceptable in a few years. To go well, it takes a combination of translation and voice recunasterea, both with high accuracy, exactly what we are now developing“, said head of Translation by Google, Franz Och.

If the automatic translation of text is acceptable efficiency, development of voice recognition software presents several difficulties.

“Everyone has the voice, accent and tone different. But recognition should work on mobile phones, because they are personal. Cell phone owner should know the voice of voice search previously completed,” added Och.
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Vodafone Essar and Research in Motion (RIM) announced the launch of the BlackBerry Bold 9700 for Vodafone customers in India.

The network had already very successfully launched the BlackBerry Bold 9000, and the Bold 9700 continues to build on that success. Kumar Ramanathan, Chief Marketing Officer of Vodafone Essar Ltd, said that “this launch reiterates our commitment towards providing our customers with superior products and services, which enables them to balance their professional and personal lives”.

Frenny Bawa, VP, RIM India, is also very pleased, stating that “we are very excited to introduce the BlackBerry Bold 9700 in India. This best in class smartphone will certainly appeal to Vodafone customers, offering a sleek and elegant design packed with powerful communications and entertainment features”.

The Bold 9700 supports 3G HSDPA networks, has the new 624MHz processor, 256MB RAM, Wi-Fi, GPS, and a 3.2 megapixel camera capable of video recording.

This launch is another big step for RIM in Asia; India is the second-most populous country in the world, with demand for mobile phones increasing each year.

We first heard of the new C Series from Nokia last year along with Nokia’s X Series and we know the Nokia X6 smartphone has already seen launch, but all word of the Nokia C Series has been kind of quite.

However, according to an article over on fonearena is that Nokia may be gearing up to launch their new C Series of mobile phones due to some info from the Indonesian government that apparently suggest there will be two C models.

The models named are the Nokia C3 which is quad-band GSM with Bluetooth and WLAN, and the second is the Nokia C5, quad-band GSM UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA with bluetooth and that’s all the information available.

Nokia is expected to announce something new on the 26th of this month, but no one knows what, so maybe it will be the Nokia C Series, and as there is only a day’s wait left we will soon know.

Of course a company like Gigabyte, which has a “weight” considerable IT industry could not miss the ones that use operating system for mobile phones produced by Google – Android.

They plan to launch a smart phone with that operating system in the coming months, most likely in March, a model that still has an official name now appeared and its detailed specifications.

He will have a 2.8-inch diagonal screen with a resolution of 240×320, the 528MHz Qualcomm processor unfortunately will not support 3G but it compensates in some measure by wireless radio.

Also will have a GPS module, 2 megapixel camera, support MicroSD type memory and internal storage of 512MB.

The commercial launch, this “smart phone” will have a price around 300 USD.

Motorola fans, excited about how the American company went to market mobile phones, are eager to know what follows after aclamatele Droid (Milestone in Europe) and BackFlip. As far as is rumored, Motorola prepares a new smartphone with Android, code-named Shadow.

For now travel only with the alleged issue renderings of the device. Shadow would be presented with a large touchscreen (4.3 inch, 854 x 480 pixels) and QWERTY keyboard. Media specifications, if confirmed, would bring a premiere – video recording Full HD 1080p. The remaining hardware is unnecessary details, it is clear that we have to deal with a full smartphone, the only mystery is any new applications. Under these assumptions, Google Nexus One will get a redoubtable opponent.

Even when I began to worry about the future of Windows Mobile, we learn that, before long, Microsoft will conduct a demonstration in which we can see the working version number seven of the operating system.

In February the annual fair will be held Mobile World Congress, where it collected, usually all the great names of mobile phones and networking industry. Mobile World Congress 2010 will be the place where people from Microsoft will give us more information about Windows Mobile 7.

Without having information about the Windows Mobile 7, the new version, that should update all the views of the operating system from Microsoft, will be officially launched somewhere towards the end of this year.