Nokia today announced the Nokia Illuvial Pink Collection of mobile phones for the holiday season. The Nokia Illuvial Pink Collection is marketed towards female audience and should be out in time for the Christmas season.

The Collection features a selection of Nokia devices coming in Pink colour variant and they will include some extra specials like themes, wallpapers, ringtones etc. Not to mention, some special jewellery in the sales package.

The devices expected to be launched in the special variant include the Nokia 6700 (Pictured above and below) , Nokia 5530 XpressMusic and Nokia 6303.

The prices are not known but it shouldn’t cost too high, just a tad bit more than the normal editions.

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Earlier, we brought to you pictures and information about the Samsung W8200 Giorgio Armani phone. That phone was rumoured to be cancelled and we believe it has been.

Instead, Samsung has announced a handset with very similar yet improved features.

Here are the features:

• Windows Mobile 6.5
• 3.5″ AMOLED Touchscreen Display
• QWERTY Keyboard
• 5 Megapixel Camera, GPS
• 8GB Intenal Memory, micro-SD Card Slot

The phone reminds you a lot of the Nokia N97/Mini. The QWERTY Keyboard being nearly identical.

The cost however will be much higher for the Giorgio Armani as it’s a fashion phone and it should cost you around 1000 US$.

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• Samsung W8200 Giorgio Armani Phone!

This Samsung W8200 is the next fashion phone in the collaboration line u between Samsung and Giorgio Armani.The phone is quite a looker and quite expensive for sure. It has got gold plated front rim, buttons and back.

The features of the phone include:

• 3.1″ AMOLED Touchscreen Display
• 5Megapixel Camera
• micro-SD Card Slot
• Bluetooth
• HSDPA
• Windows Mobile 6.5

Price is still unknown. There are rumours that this phone has been cancelled but we will just have to wait and see whether it makes it.

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This headset as described by Nokia on their Conversations blog is “a different beast that has been engineered and crafted into what can only be described as a flagship headphone accessory“. The headset is high on active noise cancellation technology so much so that Nokia call themselves the technology leaders, the first company in the world to bring this technology to the consumers. So how is the Noise cancellation technology in this product different from other products in the market?? well the very same question arose in my mind and here’s how it cancels noise via its Active Noise Cancellation.

The BH-905 uses eight out of the ten microphones(four in each ear cup, highlighted in red in the pic above)  on board to cancel out the noise around you in its quest to make you achieve Music Nirvana. The larger number of microphones on board ensures better and symmetrical noise cancellation, thus enhancing your overall listening experience.

The remaining two of its microphones(highlighted in green) serve the purpose that a microphone normally does i.e. to capture your voice and transfer it other end when you are on a call, while ensuring that the two microphones cancel the background noise so that the person at the other end of the call hears you crystal clear.

Nokia is pushing this product to be used with not only their handsets but also almost ever where. They have bundled the headset along with Extension Audio Cable to allow you to use it with any 3.5mm plugin jack. Also packed in the box are an adapter for airplane and an adapter 6.3 mm home stereo. These bundled adapters make the BH-905 a truly versatile product.

The headset has blind usage i.e. the call buttons are on one side and the music buttons on the other so one can use the device without having to look at it.

Check out the product video from Nokia:

The headset has a 600mAh battery on board powering it to a maximum Talk time 24 hours with bluetooth turned on and 15 hours with bluetooth and active noise cancellation turned on. The headset shall last for about 25 hours while listening to music via bluetooth, 16 hours if you use bluetooth along with active noise cancellation. If you plan to use the headset with a wire connecting it to the player, along with active noise cancellation then you can squeeze 40 hours of playtime from this device and the best part is that you can use it for hands-free phone calls and music listening (without active noise cancellation) even with empty battery (wired connection)

Well as we all know that high end technology does come with high cost, so the BH-905 is no exception and it shall cost you around Rs 20,000

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The Sales Package contains:
•Nokia Bluetooth Stereo Headset BH-905
•Nokia Carrying Case CP-298
•Nokia Audio Cable CA-143U for 3.5mm Nokia AV (~1.2m)
•Nokia Extension Audio Cable CA-144U (~1.7m)
•Nokia AV Adapter AD-52 for 2.5 mm Nokia AV
•Nokia Audio Adapter AD-63 for standard 3.5 mm jack
•Nokia Adapter AD-71 for airplane
•Nokia Adapter AD-70 for 6.3 mm home stereo
•Nokia Travel Charger AC-5
•User guide

NOKNOK has got Hans On with his headset and you can check out their coverage here.

You can download the data sheet of BH-905 here

Check out the full specifications of BH-905 here

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The Sony Ericsson Jalou has just been announced and our friends at GSMHelpdesk have gotten their hands on a Jalou and posted their views and pictures of the device.

They start off by saying that this latest offering from Sony Ericsson is a feature packed fashion device but due to the exquisite design, it is more of a fashion accessory. They comment on the very small size of the phone. The internal display of the phone can be converted into a mirror with the touch of a button and so it doubles up as a make-up mirror for women!

They then go on and discuss about other aspects of the phone in detail.

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Sony Ericsson Jalou is a fashion phone which has a very unique design inspired by jewellery. The Sony Ericsson Jalou features are:

• 73 x 45 x 18.2 mm, 84 grams
• 2.0 inch TFT Screen with 240*320 Resolution, 1.3 inch External Monochrome Screen
• 100MB Internal Memory, micro-SD card slot
• GPRS, HSCSD, EDGE, 3G, HSDPA, Bluetooth, USB
• 3.15 Megapixel Camera, Geo-tagging, QVGA Video Recording at 15Fps, Video Light, Video Call

The Jalou will be available in three colours Onyx Black, Deep Amethyst, Aquamarine Blue and also a 24k Gold Plated Sparkling Rose D&G (Dolce and Gabbana) Edition. The D&G edition will also have matching accessories in  the sales package. It is expected to hit the markets in the 4th Quarter of 2009.

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The Motorola A45 Murano appears to be a region specific device which is aimed at Brazil. But we are not sure of that. The phone is quite small but chubby. It has a squarish design and the back side resembles an iPhone. The screen looks like at least 2.4 inches big. Anyway it features a slide out QWERTY keyboard, 3G, 2 Megaixel Camera and micro-SD card slot. Other features remain unknown.

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Motorola E18 Ivory

The Motorola E18 Ivory is a device which has been cancelled but has been shown to the world by Eldar Murtazin, head of Mobile Review. The E18 Ivory was supposed to be a luxury handset following the design of the LG BL40 Chocolate phone of which we posted earlier. The Motorola E18 Ivory was developed along with the other luxury handset, the MOTO AURA. The E18 Ivory was set to be released in three luxury casings of gold, platinum and metal with the platinum model costing u to several ten thousand Euros. It has a 3 Megapixel Camera.

It’s design is very unique as it’s thin, long and narrow. It has a unique dual slide. You can slide it slightly to reveal the function keys and slide it further to reveal the numeric keypad too.

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The LG Chocolate which was introduced by LG in 2006 was the most popular phone in the company’s history. The original Chocolate phone managed to sell over 21 million handsets worldwide. LG is now paving the way for a successor to the LG Chocolate to celebrate it’s success.

The new phone will be the fourth in the LG Black Label series of phones and will be designed by the same team that originally created the first Chocolate. The phone is set to be officially announced in August but LG have already made available to us both the image and video previews.

The phone is said to be an iPhone killer and should have BL40 as model number although it may change.

The phone is also set to have some very revolutionary features:

• 4inch Touch- Screen with resolution of 800*345 pixels and for the first time on a mobile, screen with 21:9 aspect ratio. Actually it’s just recently that the first 21:9 aspect TVs were announced by Philips, so this is a remarkable achievement.
• It is also rumoured to sport a 5 Megapixel camera.
• HSDPA, A-GPS, Wi-Fi, Multi-Touch, Flash Based 3D UI

Here’s the video of the phone in action:

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Here are the shots of a luxury high end mobile phone called Belleperre Nero Gold.

The Belleperre company designs phones in Italy and the phones are handmade in Holland. The Belleperre is on par with luxury companies like Mobiado and Vertu (Nokia).

The Nero Gold is the latest mobile from Belleperre. It is made of high-quality materials and can be custom made according to the customer’s requirements. The phone measures 100*44*15.5mm and weighs in at 120grams which is quite light for a luxury phone.

The customer can chose different metal rims like aluminium, steel, gold, silver, platinum etc and lather trims like buffalo leather, crocodile leather, shark leather etc in more than 100 colours. The screen is scratch-proof sapphire crystal. There is no piece of plastic on it’s body and it’s body is brushed black metal. The buttons are made of gold/silver.

The cost of the phone is not yet known.

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Omnia

On 16th October, 2008, Fonearena was represented by Ritu at the ITC Grand Central, Mumbai where a demo of the Windows Mobile 6.1 on the Samsung Omnia was given to three mobile phone enthusiasts (Ankit Saxena and Rupesh from the WATblog were co-invitees).

Microsoft was represented by Sumeet Gugnani, Director – Mobile Communications Business, who also enlightened the bloggers on the rise of MS in the world of mobile phones.

“We have a 33% share in the market of hi-end convergence devices (devices that are not only business phones, but also pack in multimedia features, a good camera and a simple UI)” revealed Sumeet.

According to him Microsoft moved up sales from 1 lac per annum about a year ago, to 1 lac in the last quarter alone. That’s a stupendous growth by any standards!

He also took us through the value propositions of the MS package vis-à-vis others.

The companies offering Windows Mobile range from HTC, ASUS, Motorola, Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson, iMate, Palm etc

He highlighted the HTC Diamond, Sony Ericsson Xperia (soon to be launched in India) and the Samsung Omnia as flagship Windows Mobile handsets.

Sumeet during the interaction

Fonearena will be laying its hands on the Omnia soon and for very in-depth reviews on this hi-end handset (cost Rs 30,000) stay tuned to this space!

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