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Budget mobile phones with physical full QWERTY keypads seem to be in high demand. Lava B2 and B5 are more of the same, with a critical difference. The B2 as well as B5 are available with QWERTY as well as Alpha keypads.

QWERTY layout doesn’t offer any special speed advantage. After all, it was designed to simply avoid jamming classical typewriters. At the same time, thanks to its ubiquity, most of us are simply too used to it. However, QWERTY does have some learning curve associated with it. Lava believes that people who have never used computers will benefit from their Alpha models, in which the keys are simply arranged alphabetically.

Both the B2 and the B5 feature a 2.2” TFT screen having resolutions of 220×176 and 320×240 pixels respectively. Another feature common to them is dual SIM card support, FM Radio and Bluetooth. The B2 has some additional goodies like dual memory card support, powerful tin led torch and mobile tracker.

The B5 on the other hand bundles applications like Opera Mini and Nimbuzz. Since it supports Java, you can always download more applications. As you might expect, email functionality is baked right into the handset.

The B5 is also a superior multimedia phone thanks to the 2 megapixel camera and support for MP3, MP4, AVI, 3GP, MIDI and AMR playback. Surprisingly enough the B2 comes with a more powerful battery. The 1800mAh ensures that you can go several days without charging. The B5’s battery life is also impressive, since 1400mAh has more than enough juice to power a java phone.

Lava B2 is now available across India for Rs. 3,999, while the B5 is selling for Rs. 4,399. Both of them come equipped with a free 2GB memory card.

The 3 UK mobile operator is started selling low-cost device, called the ZTE Racer, which is running on Google Android 2.1 OS. It is a low-cost internet phone with easily access to most popular networking sites.

The ZTE Racer smartphone is made in the monoblock body and packs a 2.8-inch display with QVGA (240 x 320 pixels) resolution, 256 MB of internal memory, a 3.2MP camera, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, FM tuner, GPS, and a microSD card slot (a 2GB card included).

ZTE Racer from 3 is support for 3G HSDPA network. Its battery is enabling up to 210 minutes of talk time, up to 200 hours of standby. Dimensions of ZTE Racer are 102 x 55 x 15 mm and weight about 100g.

The budget smartphone is pre-installed with applications for Google services, e-mail, instant messaging, and so on.

All the way from Korea comes another smartphone running the Android  2.1 OS, which was made by Pantech and is available for purchase at Sky, it is entitled Vega IM-A650S.

The Vega IM-A650S can be considered lightweight for a cellphone at 114 grams, and besides the 3.7-inch AMOLED touchscreen it features a Snapdragon processor running at 1GHz, as well as a pre-loaded T-Cash payment system. While it comes with version 2.1 of Android, it can be upgraded to the upcoming 2.2 version.

Luxury phone maker Bellperre has announced it’s launching a new handset that has a price level meeting “sincerely wider audience compared to current luxury phone brand offerings” – and I assume it’s referring to Mobiado and Vertu.

The phone is an “ultra slim”, highly customizable candybar: you can choose from brushed steel, polished silver, 24K yellow gold, or 18K rose gold finishes. Also, 125 genuine leather options are available (including black buffalo, brown lizard, red shark and pink crocodile).

Some specs:

• Quad-band GSM and tri-band HSPA (900/1900/2100) connectivity
• 2.2 inch QVGA display with 16 million colors (protected with sapphire crystal)
• Accelerometer
• GPS navigation
• Stereo Bluetooth
• FM radio
• Noise cancellation
• Email, Web browser, Outlook synchronization
• 5MP autofocus camera with LED flash, VGA video recording
• 111 x 45 x 11.2 mm

All the way from Japan comes a new cellphone developed by KDDI and codenamed Light Pool due to the 22 LEDs that light up the device and create 100 different patterns – one for when you get an email, another for a text message, etc.

The Light Pool boasts a 3.2-inch VGA TFT display screen and besides the usual extras like Bluetooth, GPS, and a slot for microSD and SDHC memory cards, it also has a good 8-megapixel camera for the photos and videos. As you can see on the image, the Light Pool made by KDDI will become available in three colors – black, white, and pink – but so far there isn’t any information about its price tag.

P90W is the codename of the latest Lenovo  cellphone that has a strange design as you can see on the image, and the best part is being a dual-SIM device which means two SIM cards can be used at the same time.

In terms of technical specifications the Lenovo P90W boasts a 3-inch screen that provides a WQVGA resolution of 240×400 pixels, as well as a 3.2-megapixel camera and a slot for microSD memory cards so you can store all the photos and videos. Besides the Bluetooth feature and the support for GSM and UMTS networks, the upcoming Lenovo cellphone packs a QWERTY keyboard.

Fly  brand has released its new mobile phone  for the Russian market, namely Fly E130. Like all another Fly specification, Fly E130 is equipped with dual SIM card slots and supports simultaneous operation in two cellular operators.

Fly E130 is made in the candybar form factor and packs a 2.8-inch touchscreen TFT display with resolution of 320×240 pixels (QVGA), camera, Bluetooth, FM radio, music player, voice recorder, and 3.5mm audio jack.

Its battery is enabling up to 9 hours in music playback, 4 hours in talktime, 300 hours in standby mode. Size of Fly E130 phone is 100×56×12.5 mm.

Cost of Fly E130 on the Russian market is 2,990 rubles starts next month and comes in black and yellow colors.