Nokia 8800 Sirocco in gold

Nokia announced an update to their Sirocco line of fashionable handsets. The Nokia 8800 Sirocco Gold comes with 18-carat gold plating.

Nokia 8800 Sirocco Gold
Named after a Sahara desert wind, the Sirocco line offers expensive, luxurious devices in the Nokia portfolio. Equipped with a 2 megapixel camera, a 262K colors TFT display, FM radio and Bluetooth, along with a smooth sliding mechanism, the Sirocco handsets as always tend to speak more of their owners than your usual feature phone.
The Nokia Sirocco 8800 Gold comes in stylish golden color further enhanced by white gold trimming, thus creating a truly luxurious piece of mobile device. The product also comes with a Bluetooth headset with a matching design.
The Nokia 8800 Sirocco Gold is now available at a suggested price of 1000EUR.

Sony Ericsson P700i smartphone got spied

The Web got first live shots of Sony Ericsson P700i smartphone (expected name), that is now about to get announced. There was some preliminary information and even a handful of snaps, though they lookув as if they'd been composed in graphics editor, that is.

The rumor has it, the upcoming device, similarly to its predecessor, will run Symbian UIQ and have GSM plus WCDMA connectivity chucked in. Other bits of information going about in the Web suggest the handset will come armed with a 2,6-inch touchscreen with a resolution of 240x320 pixels, 3,2 Mpix camera and a VGA unit for videoconferencing, data transfer through Bluetooth and WiFi.

Doubao 777: Windows XP inside

Over at Phone Daily they released some bit of info on the device going by the name of Doubao 777, which is eye-grabbing due to retaining Windows XP-esque interface. No detailed specs are availalbe, though as it seems, this is not even a coomunicator, but rather an ordinary handset with just its UI styled up to resemble Windows.

At that it comes with a touch-sensitive display and stylus, yet without keyboard, as we could guess rom the snap. Further down on its spec sheet are 1,3 Mpix camera, built-in media player with MPEG-4 and MP3 enabled. Doubao 777 comes in at 17 mm thich and weights 112 grams.

UK MOTORIZR Z8 to ship with stereo Bluetooth headset and The Bourne Supremacy

Motorola is ploughing £5m into advertising for its upcoming Z8 slider.A lavish TV advert will take centre stage in a huge publicity campaign – the biggest handset launch from Motorola since the V3 RAZR.The UK business is packing the phone with free Bluetooth headphones and will be loaded with The Bourne Supremacy movie.It seems Motorola are going to focus on the video playback performance of the handset, the official website mentions it a few times too.

Motorola Q q9 renamed to MOTO Q 9h

For some unknown reason Motorola did change the name of Motorola Q q9 smartphone. At least the official site calls it MOTO Q 9h. The smartphone debuted at 3GSM Congress as Motorola Q q9. It works in GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks and supports HSDPA high speed data transfer standard. Powered by Windows Mobile 6 Standard OS the device comes with a QWERTY-keyboard, a 2-megapixel camera and Bluetooth 2.0 interface.














On the face of it, the specs remained the same, the device got only renamed. Maybe the h stands for HSDPA? Nobody knows, and Motorola keeps it a mystery.

DMB added in LG PRADA

An official release of LG PRADA took place on the Korean market. This is a co-product of LG Electronics and PRADA with the world premier in January. This stylish handset is 12 mm thick and equipped with a 3” touchscreen display and a 2-megapixel camera.

















The Korean version of LG PRADA (LG-SB310/LB3100) supports DMB broadcasting, for this purpose it comes with a telescopic antenna. The Korean market seems to gather more handsets packed with such features.

RoverPC S6 to come up in June

Rover Computer announced an upcoming release of its tri-band GSM-communicator RoverPC. It incorporates GPRS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, Windows Mobile 6 Professional OS running on TI OMAP 750 200 MHz processor.

There is an integrated 2-megapixel camera. Its display has a 2.8” diagonal and QVGA resolution. It carries 64 MB RAM, 128 MB flash ROM onboard expandable with miniSD cards. Dimensions are 110x59x15.8 mm. The sales date of RoverPC S6 is scheduled for June 2007