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Sony Ericsson company will, apparently, present its smartphone Kurara (U5) in the near future. Meanwhile, the official photos of the new item and even a video have leaked on the web.

The official name of the device is Vivaz. This model runs on Symbian S60 5th edition.

It is a bar form factor phone with a 3.2-inch touch screen with a resolution of 640×360 pixels and no hardware keyboard. “The highlight of” the model is a 8.1 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash that can record video HD 720p.

Also Sony Ericsson Vivaz has a GPS receiver, TV-out, 3,5 mm audio connector and support for Wi-Fi wireless networks and HSDPA high-speed standard. The smartphone will be offered in four “space” colors: black (Cosmic Black), silver (Silver Moon), red (Venus Ruby) and blue (Galaxy Blue).

While nothing official is known about the timing of release and cost of the new item, it is assumed that Vivaz can go on sale in March and will cost $670-750.

LG company has scheduled to please their fans in the spring of this year by introducing a new phone with an index GX200, supporting the function of Dual-SIM.

The device is made in bar form factor with a fairly traditional design and interesting in the first place the possibility of working simultaneously with two SIM-cards. Using special light-emitting diodes, located above the display, the user can easily see which of the SIM-card is active at the moment. The technical characteristics of GX200 are, in fact, very simple and include a 2-inch display with a resolution of 128×160 pixels, a slot for microSD format memory cards, 1,3-megapixel camera, FM-radio and Bluetooth 2.0 module. The new mobile phone works in GSM networks. LG GX200 will be available mainly in Asia and South America at a price which is projected to be about $ 200.

Recently some information appeared on the web on possible release of several mobile devices this fall based on the new version of Windows Mobile 7.

LG Apollo is called as the first smartphone running Windows Mobile 7.

Resource WM Experts says that Microsoft plans to release two versions of Windows Mobile 7 – Windows Phone Seven Business Edition (BE) and Windows Phone Seven Media Edition (ME) – at the end of 2010 and 2011, respectively.

LG Apollo, based on Windows Phone Seven Business Edition (BE) is expected to appear in August or September this year. Characteristics of the new device include 3.8-inch touch-sensitive capacitive AMOLED-display, with multitouch and a resolution of WXGA (1280 x 720 pixels), Qualcomm 1,3 GHz processor, 1 GB of RAM plus 1 GB of flash memory, 10-megapixel camera with autofocus, flash and video recording with a resolution of HD 720p. The device operates in the networks CDMA / EV-DO and GSM / HSDPA, and also has a Wi-Fi module. The dimensions of the phone are 115 x 57,5 x 11,2 mm. Unfortunately, the price of the smartphone is not reported yet and there is no photo.

The mobile phone Samsung Genio Slide has appeared in the propose list of the British operator Vodafone UK.

The line of phones CorbyPro is called Genio in the UK. Therefore, known all over the world the phone CorbyPro B5310 came out in the UK as Genio Slide. Shortly before this the models Genio (Corby S3650) and Genio QWERTY (CorbyTXT B3210) have appeared on the shelves of retail shops of Vodafone UK, which has the exclusive right to sell the phones Genio.

Like the CorbyPro, the mobile phone Samsung Genio Slide is equipped with a 2.8-inch touch screen with QVGA resolution, sliding QWERTY-keyboard, Wi-Fi module, 3-megapixel camera, 3.5-mm audio jack, 120 MB of internal memory and a slot for MicroSD memory card up to 16 GB. The phone supports GPS-navigation and provides quick access to social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter.

There is new information available on the Internet concerning the fact that the smartphone Nexus Two which runs on Google Android, will be released by American company Motorola.

First of all, the Google phone Nexus One is actually designed and manufactured by Taiwanese HTC company.

The smartphone of Motorola Shadow may appear on the sale as Nexus Two, including its technical characteristics which appear on 4.3-inch touch display with WVGA resolution, an 8-megapixel camera with video recording movies in HD-quality and HDMI-port.

At the first glance, Motorola Shadow looks similar to the smartphone of Droid, which has been released last autumn.

Nokia has released the smart phone 5530 XpressMusic Games Edition specifically for the market of the U.S.

In terms of the technical characteristics the new device doesn’t differ much from the original model 5530 XpressMusic and is prominent only by the availability of twenty full games in the memory, specifically the Gameloft and EA Mobile.

Thus, the mobile players offer games such as Guitar Rock Tour 2, Pro Golf World Tour 2010, Brain Challenge 2, Texas Hold’em Poker, Asphalt 4: Elite Racing, Platinum Solitaire 2, New York Nights 2: Friends for Life, Bubble Bash 2, Abracadaball and Midnight Bowling 2, American Idol, Monopoly, Monopoly Here & Now, Sims 3, Sims 2 Castaway, Tetris, Bejeweled, Need For Speed: Undercower, Spore Origins and Trivial Pursuit.

The first day of the sales of “apple” devices by the British mobile operator Vodafone UK has been of a great success.

The mobile operator Vodafone UK has sold about 50,000 Apple iPhone smart phones in the United Kingdom in just one day. It should also be noted that the Apple iPhone is not a new device for the UK , as its sale is already spread by other operators, as the O2 that also had the exclusive right for selling them for a long period of time.
For an evaluation, the mobile operator Orange UK has sold about 30,000 items of the Apple iPhone on the first day in November last year.

Vodafone UK offers three models – iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS 16 GB and iPhone 3GS 32GB.