Touch phones are becoming the order of the day.
When until a few months ago, the touch technology was touted as the ‘next best thing’ with HTC leading the way, other Mobile manufacturers are following the trend with enhanced capabilities to make these handsets a “must want” on several lists.

After the high profile launch of the [...]

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Apple should sure be proud. iPhone is slowly becoming the benchmark for hi-tech handsets. After Nokia N96, it is now the turn of HTC T-Mobile, Google’s Android to be compared to the iPhone.

Features of HTC T-Mobile G1:

Multimedia – Audio, photo taking and storing, games, applications
Internet/Software – Wi-fi, web browser, Android applications, YouTube, GPS, personal [...]

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World renowned designer Giorgio Armani has collaborated with Samsung to bring a fashion phone called the Emporio Armani Night Effect. The model number is M7500.
A simple candy bar handset, it boasts of a flashy set of LEDs that are embedded into its sides.

Specs & features:
• Quad-band
• GSM

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Asus launched a new PDA handset called the P552w.
The P552w runs on Window’s Mobile 6.1 Professional. This handset has a touch screen and aims to be a competitor to HTC Touch Diamond and other touch screen mobiles.

The handset features Glide (Gester technology) which uses the handset’s touch-responsive user interface to make navigating and performing tasks [...]

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The Nokia N96 launched by the company in India recently will be available across stores from September 16th.
Touted to give tough competition to the Apple iPhone, this handset will be available for Rs 35,000. Read Fonearena’s coverage of iPhone Vs N96 here.
At Rs 35,000 it is an expensive phone but with higher features than iPhone [...]

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One more high-end handset LG Voyager that will be available from Reliance for its CDMA users.
The handset was showcased at this year’s Mobile Asia held in Delhi earlier this year.

Steve Koh, country head of LG CDMA elaborates,

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Nokia launched 2 new handsets the Nokia N79 and N85.
The N79 is a candy bar handset where as the N85 is a dual slider much like the N95.
N79
Touted to be a multimedia phone, the handset comes with changeable back covers in five colours: Light Sea Blue, Espresso Brown, Olive Green, White and Coral Red.

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The price of the 3G iPhone stumped those who were eagerly awaiting its launch in India. To counter the ‘non-affordability’ factor doing the rounds among buyers, Vodafone has decided to offer the handset of easy 6 monthly or 12 monthly instalments.
It is rumoured that the company is holding talks with financial institutions to initiate a [...]

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 The Palm Treo Pro (christened 850 previously) is a Windows Mobile PocketPC for GSM users.

The handset is not launched yet, but its images have been splashed all over the internet lately.

 Specs &features at a glance (likely changes may occur):
• 400Mhz CPU
• 256MB ROM, 128MB RAM!
• 320 x 320 pixel screen

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Nokia is due to launch the 3640 fold economy flip phone across its markets.

Specs & features at a glance:
• GSM handset
• Internal display of 2 inches with 256K colours
• External 1.36-inch display with 265k colours
• Analog clock exterior screensaver
• 1.3 megapixel camera

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