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Samsung

Samsung Beat Disc M6710 Phone

Scheduled release in: Q3 2009
The Samsung Beat Disc is a music phone with technology from Danish audio maker Bang & Olufsen. The result of a four year collaboration between the two companies, B&O’s ICEpower amplifier pushes out rich and powerful sound — for deep bass and clear treble. Inspired by the iconic jukebox, the Beat Disc integrates a 2.6-inch 16.7 million color touch screen with a 3.0-megapixel CMOS camera. Additional features include a slide-out keypad, FM radio, stereo Bluetooth technology, HSDPA high-speed Internet, and music recognition and tagging software.

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Nokia

Nokia 6710 Navigator Phone

Scheduled release in: Q3 2009
The Nokia 6710 Navigator is a mobile phone focused on in-car navigation and pedestrian guidance. It runs on Nokia Maps 3.0. An in-built 5.0-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics can also geo-tag photos. The 6710 Navigator suppports high-speed 3G Internet for fast photos and videos sharing and comes with a car holder accessory to cradles the phone on a dashboard. It delivers up to 12.6 hours of GPS pedestrian navigation and 6.6 hours of car navigation.

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Nokia

Nokia 5730 XpressMusic Phone

Scheduled release in: Q3 2009
The 5730 XpressMusic is Nokia’s first music phone to have a QWERTY keyboard for quick messaging. Its homescreen has an improved contacts bar that lists up to 20 friends and accesses music, people, N-Gage games, email, calendar and other applications such as Facebook, Photos, Ovi Contacts and Maps. With Nokia’s Ovi Contacts, consumers can view which friends are online, chat and see what music they’re listening to. Users can also play games through dedicated gaming keys and online through the N-Gage Arena community. Bundled with Nokia’s ‘Comes with Music’ service, users can download unlimited music to the 5730 and a single computer for free. The music can be kept after the yearly contract has expired.

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Nokia

Nokia 5330 XpressMusic Phone

Scheduled release in: Q3 2009
The Nokia 5330 XpressMusic features an edgy, top-sliced design and illumination effects, ideal for music and keeping in touch with social networks. Touch keys on the side of the phone can access music. A standard 3.5mm jack lets users connect headphones. While the extended battery life gives more than 26 hours of playback time. Single tracks can be downloaded to a phone and on one computer for free. Music can be kept after the yearly contract has expired. The 5330 can also view online sharing websites such as Ovi, Facebook and MySpace.

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HTC

HTC Touch Pro2 Phone

Scheduled release in: Q3 2009
The HTC Touch Pro2, successor to the popular Touch Pro smartphone, adds advanced speakerphone technology to turn any room into a conference room. Flipping the handset over turns it into a sophisticated speakerphone similar to those found in corporate boardrooms. HTC’s new Straight Talk technology delivers high-fidelity voice through asymmetric speakers and noise suppression. The Touch Pro2 also runs on HTC’s new TouchFLO 3D interface and a customized version of Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional so users can quickly access people, messaging, email, photos, music and weather. Conversation are grouped together for a single convenient contact view — whether voice, text or email — so histories can be viewed from the contact card or during a phone conversation. The Touch Pro2 integrates a 3.6-inch widescreen VGA display with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, expandable memory, a touch-sensitive zoom bar and gravity, proximity and ambient light sensors.

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Sanyo

Sanyo SCP-2700 Phone Sprint

Scheduled release in: Q2 2009
Released for Sprint, the Sanyo SCP-2400 combines the speed and convenience of a full QWERTY keyboard with an easy-to-use interface. The handset features a 1.3-megapixel camera, Sprint Navigation, Sprint Mobile Email Work and offers access to advanced services including web, email and navigation. It includes a powerful speakerphone, Bluetooth wireless technology, a large, colorful LCD screen and voice-activated dialing. Enhanced messaging features include threaded text messages and a dedicated emoticon key. The SCP-2700 comes in Impulsive Pink with a subtle floral overlay or Deep Blue — both with a square designer pattern on its back.

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Samsung

Samsung Instinct S30 Phone Sprint

Scheduled release in: Q2 2009
Released for Sprint, the Samsung Instinct S30 is the successor to the highly-popular Instinct. The smoother, more streamlined handset comes in Cobalt Metal and Copper colors, and offers instant messaging, an Opera 4.2 Web browser and the popular games ‘Guitar Hero – World Tour’ and ‘Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?’ The handset provides access to corporate calendar functionality through Microsoft Outlook and corporate email and contacts from Microsoft Exchange Server and IBM Lotus Domino. The Instinct S30 has localized haptic for a gentle vibration feedback when the screen is pressed, Live Search for Sprint directory and GPS assistance, Visual Voicemail, advanced stereo Bluetooth and a 2.0-megapixel camera with camcorder.

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Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson W995 Phone

Scheduled release in: Q2 2009
The Sony Ericsson W995 is bundled with Sony’s new Entertainment Unlimited subscription-based movie service. Consumers can download films to a PC and then transfer them over to phones. The W995 has an integrated stand to watch videos with built-in stereo speakers. It also includes Clear Stereo, Clear Bass and HPM-77 premium headphones. The W995 can connect to other home electronics letting users view high-quality content through TV, PC and Hi-Fi systems. The W995 includes Media Go, a download application, to transfer audio, photos and videos between the phone and a computer.

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Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson W705a Phone

Scheduled release in: Q2 2009
The Sony Ericsson W705a has a metal finish and a large 2.4-inch screen. The elegant and compact slider integrates a 3.2-megapixel camera to capture photos and upload them using Wi-Fi to social networking sites. The W705 also features popular Walkman options such as the music recognition application TrackID, SensMe, for matching any mood to the music and Shake control to change tracks with the flick of a hand. PlayNow arena provides unique themes and wallpapers, ringtones, free content and DRM-free music tracks and TrackID charts from around the world.

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Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson W508a Phone

Scheduled release in: Q2 2009
The Sony Ericsson W508a is music phone with interactive technology such as Shake and Gesture control, SenseMe and TrackID. Listeners can raise the volume or set the shuffle function with a quick shake of the wrist or snooze and mute the volume with a sweep of the palm. With SensMe, the W508a can match the music to the mood. TrackID can find the names of unknown songs when listening to the FM radio. An built-in 3.2-megapixel camera with Flash and 3x zoom has Photo Fix to edit images directly on the phone, geo-tagging to stamp the location of the photo taken, and online features such as Photo Feeds, Picture Blogging and Video Blogging. HSDPA high-speed Internet and 1GB M2 card completes the offering.