Aside from the 5730 XpressMusic phone, Nokia has also announced the new 5330 xpressMusic handsets. This new music phone boasts of instant access to music, a standard 3.5 mm jack that provides crystal clear sound and an extended battery life that gives 26 hours of playback time. In addition, the Nokia 5330 also features online sharing through Ovi, Facebook and MySpace.

The Nokia 5330 is a slider phone with 2.4-inch True Color TFT display, a numeric keypad and dedicated touch music keys for music play/pause, forward and rewind functions.

For its web browsing features, the Nokia 5330 supports mark-up languages including HTML, XHTML, WML as well as the following protocols – WAP, HTTP, HTTPS. Likewise, it supports SMS, EMS, MMS, audio messaging, IM, and cell broadcast.

Other key features of the Nokia 5330 include aGPS, a 3.2 megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom, LED Flash and full-screen viewfinder. The phone supports video recording at 15fps-9fps, 5x digital zoom, video white balance modes with automatic, daylight, tungsten, flourescent and other settings.
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The Alltel Samsung MyShot is now available. The Alltel Samsung MyShot is a brand new flip-phone which just made it’s way to the carrier. It has already been released by Cricket and MetroPCS, so Alltel is the first of the “bigger” carriers to get ahold of this one. Overall, it’s not a bad handset, although it is very basic.

The Alltel Samsung MyShot features include:
- 262k STN display
- 1.3 megapixel camera
- Bluetooth 2.0
- GPS capable
- Celltop ready
- an organizer and speakerphone

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Yesterday I had a moment of panic when I dropped my main mobile phone: Helio’s Ocean, into a mug of hot, steamy coffee. It got wet. Yes, there’s irony in the name, thanks. The phone freaked out. The Ocean’s a tank, it’s taken some abuse in its time, but I’ve always kept it dry. Eventually it dried out and now it’s working fine, but if I continue wetting my phones I might want to look at the new Fujitsu for Asia.

Fujitsu is launching a new phone now resistant to water, the F706i, that’s waterproof. While we’ve seen waterproof phones before, this one boasts digital TV and very fast HSDPA 3G connectivity. Yes, you can now watch porn in the pool.

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Samsung is hitting the Symbian hard as of late, more specifically the S60 flavor of Symbian. They have announced today a new S60 powered slider, which has affectionately been dubbed the SGH-L870. The device has a extensive feature sheet behind it, just as you would expect from any S60 powered smart phone.

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The Nokia 7310 Classic looks like a cross between Nokia’s steely 6300 and 6233. But you can bet it’ll be showing off more features, being a new model and all.

From what we can tell you, the Nokia 7310 Classic is a S40 powered phone, which is to say you won’t be needing this if you’re looking for a supercomputing smartphone.
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Disney is really picking on the merchandise and who can blame them. With less than fantastic movies coming out for the big screen (Enchanted was good though), why not just concentrate on a completely odd competence: mobile phones.

In partnership with Sharp, Disney unveils their new line of phone collaborations. The theme for this series is Cinderella and here are the specs:

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Now we know S-Series Mobile Concept is pretty old news but I just want to put in perspective which is pretty much blooming annoying that designers give us such futuristic looking mobile handsets but never go on the idea of putting them into production

I have also posted this for those who have never seen this concept phone. Ok there are similar looking mobile phones that look like this but not with the materials used in this one which are Black Acrylic Surround, Brushed Aluminium Buttons and lovely looking Bamboo.
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Look, we’re not Russian oil tycoons with a taste for trophy wives one-third our age. That’s true. Nevertheless, no matter how hard we try, we just can’t understand how spending $5,000 on these new Christian Dior phones will substantially increase our lot in life. Then again, we’re afraid of robots. The new line of boutique phones manufactured in partnership with ModeLabs feature a touchscreen display, camera, and novel, mini-phone extender dubbed My Dior.

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