Softbank Mobile will release in collaboration with Tiffany and Co. a cell phone studded with 400 diamond counting 20 carats. The phone has gold, platinum, diamond and other precious stones.

Dasur from Israel has introduced a couple of touchscreen keyboards for Windows Mobile that each promise something that we would imagine most users are looking for; “superior accuracy, efficiency and speed.” - SlideIt and ThumbKey. Both were designed to enhance the on-screen typing experience and each work in unique ways.

SlideIT: Instead of the current method of tapping each letter on the screen, the user points to the first letter of a word and slides the stylus to the subsequent letters. SlideIt uses sliding, prediction and graffiti. Lifting up the stylus would result in a space.

The Samung Flipshot is offered from Verizon Wireless, and it has 3 megapixels of camera With Digital Zoom and a rotating display for optimal viewing while in camera mode and camcorder action. It will be available in either red or black in Verizon Wireless communications Stores.

It has Bluetooth capability for headsets, car kits and other compatible devices. Other features include a business card reader, living wallpaper, V CAST capable, speakerphone, messaging services, VZ Navigator, as well as a personal organizer with calendar, calculator, notepad, alarm clock and world clock.

Another cellphone from Samsung Electronics. Looking like something out of a Barbie set Samsung Electronics launches two models of their Secret Color Phone Line namely models SCH-W360 and SPH-W3600 under this line in Korea.

The phones feature a two-tone scheme with the keyboards available in four different colors — blue, pink, green, and red. Adopting a vibrating touchpad, the Secret Color Phone supports up to 7.2Mbps data transfer speeds. The dual-Bluetooth is to allow media sharing with friends.

Is it possible to live on Planet Earth without a cell phone? The
answer would seem to be no, at least according to the cell-phone
industry and its analysts.

More than 1.1 billion mobile phones were sold around the world last
year, and developing countries in Africa and elsewhere should maintain
the momentum in 2008, according to a study released Thursday.

Samsung is apparently working on a new high-end smartphone behind the scenes. The image of Samsung SGH-i900 was so watermarked, that you could barely seen the phone on it, and the user interface on the picture looked nothing like the proper Windows Mobile smartphone should have.

MobiFrance reports that Samsung i900 Windows Mobile phone is indeed in the works.

A newly patent application from Motorola has revealed a design for a
mobile that features a foldable / roll-upable display and keypad. this
concept is nothing new. The are quite a few of these gadgets on the
market or at least in late prototype stage but all of them have one
problem, flexible/rollable is by definition not rigid. And using the
phone with a keypad or display flapping in the wind, is not such a
good idea.

ShakeSMS is another accelerometer powered application from the Mr Tong Ren, developer of the very well known and very popular FlipSilent application.

Shaking a phone to read text messages is as intuitive as swiping your finger across the screen to unlock it, but once you’re trained it becomes second nature. In this case, ShakeSMS is an app for Nokia phones that lets you jostle your phone to view an incoming SMS. Jigger it again to go back to the home screen.

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Sony Ericsson unveiled four phones today, their T270
camera phone and the cameraless T280 phones, and a duo of new radio
phones, the R300 and R306.

Both two T-Series have a thin (0.5in) metal candybar shape and are
focused chiefly on calling and basic web use; both have Bluetooth for
hands-free calling, while the T280 adds an FM radio with RDS station
data support.