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More details of the Philips X800 touch screen phone is now available at FCC document list today. Early of this month the report said that this X800 will feature e2e design, meaning a full edge to edge touch screen design that will occupy the whole width on the front body. Though you can’t really see how they apply that to the phone in the FCC picture.

The Philips X800 features a full touch screen for you to navigate through lists and menus. The touch screen is operated with a stylus pen located at the side of the phone. Use the stylus pen to tap once or twice on any available screen zone to carry out the corresponding operations (such as menu page header, menu items, lists, softkeys, options menu, function keys, text input area, selection area, pull-down menu box, selection box, etc).

The user manual also reveals its battery life. As stated in the rumor, the X800 has a long battery life. You can make phone calls continuously for 10 hours, or have the phone in standby mode up to 1 month. The battery can be easily filled up in 2.5 hours time through a USB cable.

Other details include:

• microSD card slot (support up to 8GB)
• FM Radio
• Handwriting recognition
• Java
• Music Player
• 2 megapixel camera
• Video Recording up to 70 MB
• English - Chinese Dictionary
• txt, pdf, doc, ppt, xls reader
• Business card reader
• Bluetooth
• GPRS / EDGE

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What do Virgin Mobile USA customers and Sir Richard Branson have in common? 15,000 customers who buy a Virgin Mobile Festival Special Edition Wild Card phone by Kyocera Wireless will all have special access to the Virgin Mobile Guest Lounge at the upcoming Virgin Mobile Festival on August 9-10 in Baltimore. Customers simply have to show their new handset for admittance to the special guest area at the Festival.

Available nationwide from May 25 through July 31 exclusively at Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile stores for $99.99, the Virgin Mobile Festival Special Edition Wild Card also comes with 50 music downloads from eMusic and a one-year subscription to SPIN Magazine. The Limited Edition handset has a slick white casing, blue keypad buttons, exclusive wallpapers, and graffiti-style Festival graphics around an internal screen that imitates a concert stage. All Wild Cards also include a 1.3 megapixel camera and support streaming music tracks.

via [intomobile]

You can now find an unannounced model, the Nokia 7310, at some mobile phone retail shops in Taiwan and China. Not a high end model, the Nokia 7310 is tagged with a SuperNova branding. Is SuperNova the next fashion phone series from Nokia?

The Nokia 7310 is using the S40 user interface, it does not support 3G or HSDPA but built in with a 2 megapixel camera, music player, bluetooth and support EDGE/GPRS data connection. The LCD screen is crafted with mirror effect, definitely an essential tool for ladies. Although you only get a 20MB built in memory for your music files, the microSD card slot is available and support up to 4GB memory card. Alternatively, the built in FM Radio receiver will fill up your entertainment needs on the road.

Nokia 7310s SuperNova specs:

• Network: GSM Triband (900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz)
• Dimension: 106.5 x 45.4 x 11.95mm
• Weight: 80.17 grams
• Display: 2-inch QVGA TFT Screen, 16M colors
• S40 UI
• EDGE / GPRS
• 20MB built in memory
• microSD card slot
• Able to play MP3/AAC/AAC+/WMA/eAAC+
• Java
• Bluetooth
• micro USB
• RDS FM Radio
• 3.5 mm audio jack

The new model is available at around 230 USD in pink and blue colors. More Photos at next page.

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Reported for unlocked european Nokia E61i, new firmware update is available now through Nokia software updater. This will update your E61i firmware to version v3.0633.69.00. check out the change log here.

Changes or improvement on the new Nokia E61i firmware:

Messaging

• Reading of SMS time stamp information unified between regions
• SMS sending from SIM Toolkit - Profile 07 improved
• Unicode Handling with Turkish characters corrected
• Correction to fetching email from freemail server
• Intellisync: Slowness of searching a contact for the first time corrected

SIM

• After the startup, the phone recognizes the language to use from the SIM card
  SMSC is re-read from SIM after switch on

VOIP

• Improvement of co-operation of Gizmo VoIP client and Internet voice mailbox
• SIP Proxy Authentication corrected in outgoing call if two SIP profiles with same realm and user name

WAP

• Correction of Chinese word corruption with WAP browser
• Searching in Hebrew from portal corrected
• Wap GET/POST forms corrected when using Greek characters
• Reset during WAP browsing and MT calls corrected

Others

• Operator name list updated
• Start-up settings updated
• Settings Wizard updated
• Start-up date changed to 1.1.2008
• Correction of DRMClock behaviour with NITZObserver with negative time zone values
• Localization improvements

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Nova Media announces the new FoneLink 2.0, which is a cell phone suite offers a familiar Mac-like solution to exchange files, synchronize data, manage SMS text messages and to backup and restore cell phone contents.

FoneLink supports drag and drop throughout its new user interface and offers an activity monitor to display current and cued actions. The improved sync-manager now includes built-in support for Apple’s Sync Services technology to sync with Entourage, iCal and Address Book along with other Sync Services-savvy applications.

FoneLink can automatically convert music, videos and photos on a Mac to formats that are instantly viewable and playable on the cell phone. iTunes playlists can be synchronized and a ringtone editor allows the creation of individual ringtones from any compatible music file.

Last but not least, FoneLink has the ability to create a comprehensive backup of a cell phone’s data in the background. If the mobile phone or its data gets lost or damaged, you can restore your data files using drag and drop, or to restore a comprehensive backup using the restore command.

FoneLink 2.0 is a free update. It requires Mac OS X 10.4.9 or later and is priced at Euro 39,95 (US-$ 39,95 for customers in the US and Canada).