Now let’s talk about the Instinct HD, It’s bit more sleek .The camera has been upgraded to 5 Megapixels from 2 . It has HD Video Output ,and that’s the specialty,allowing you to view video playback at HD quality.

Talking about features ,here’s the summary:

• 320×480 pixel full touch screen.
• 5 Megapixel Cam with Auto Focus and Digital Zoom.
• Codec’s supported : MPEG4, H.264 & MP3, AAC, AAC+, WMA.
• Memory : microSD/microSDHC expansion slot.
• Supports 3G , Wi-Fi [ 802.11 b/g ] and a full HTML browser
• Has GPS , Bluetooth and USB connectivity.

Well ,It’s approved now.Nokia N85 has been approved by F.C.C allowing it to be sold in US with 3G support.The Federal Communications Commission ,as always, is good in spoiling the suspense or hype made by the company about an upcoming phone  and now it’s Nokia N85’s turn.You can take a look in the actual F.C.C Page by following through here .No guarantee that you are going to understand a single word unless you are so good in technical details about communications device.Just for a start , SAR or Specific absorption rate is a measurement of radiation used for defining safe mobiles.

Spice Mobiles is launching Spice X-1, its mobile gaming phone, that comes with a dedicated gaming console and is pre-loaded with a variety of games.
Users can either connect the gaming console to the phone to play or use the phone’s dedicated gaming keys. The 2.4-inch display has auto rotate feature and the phone features a 2-GB expandable memory card slot.
The phone is equipped with Yamaha-amplified 3-D surround-sound, a 2 MP camera, FM radio with Record-and-Play feature and stereo Bluetooth.
The Spice X-1 comes pre-loaded with an Opera mini-web browser and WAP/MMS/GPRS features and costs Rs. 8,899 [ Price in India ] ie, it’s around  $200.

Airtel ,India’s largest mobile operator , has announced that they will start shipping the much awaited Apple iPhone in India , one of the largest mobile markets in this world , from August 22 .Airtel and Vodafone had earlier announced that both of them will be shipping Apple iPhone in India but with Vodafone shipping 15 days earlier than Airtel due to their contracts with Apple in other countries.

“iPhone has been the iconic technology revelation of this year, “said Sanjay Kapoor, president of Mobile Services at Bharti Airtel. “Airtel has been at the forefront of innovation and customer delight in the Indian telecom sector. Introducing iPhone 3G to India further underscores our commitment to enrich the communication experience of all Airtel users.”

Earlier in July Apple had announced that they will be releasing Apple iPhone on August 22 in 20 more countries .So with Airtel India’s announcement ,India is there in the list.But as of now there are no reports about the price of iPhone in India but i think that they will be following the contract usage for 2 or 3 years with iPhone locked into their networks.Also with Vodafone making no announcements it’s more likely that they have decided to unveil iPhone on August 22nd itself ,or else they will have to start shipping it tomorrow for taking that 15 day margin and that’s highly unlikely.

With Japan’s carrier for iPhone reducing the 2 yearly contract rate to $29 , Indian consumers will be hoping to get lower priced iPhone.Some rumours are there that it will be costing 9000+ Rs for 8GB version and 14000 Rs for 16GB version, But  It’s not yet official.

Checkout for more latest news in Airtel’s iPhone page and Vodafone’s iPhone Page

The most interesting phone among all of them is the slider formfactor phone , The MOTOROKR EM25 has following features:

• Dual Band GSM phone
• 1.3 MP  camera
• Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR and A2DP Support
• microSD support
• 3.5mm headphone jack

EM30 is a candybar formfactor phone with following features :

• Quadband support with GPRS/EDGE.
• microSD Storage
• Text to Speech recognition.
• Media Player with 3.5mm jack
• Morphing Keypad
• FM Radio

The MOTOROKR EM28 is clamshell bodied and has features like :

• Triband GSM phone
• Touch sensitive keys
• 3D surround Sound
• Dedicated music controls
• 3.5mm headphone jack
• 1.3MP Camera

High Tech Computer (HTC) is planning to start shipping its first Google Android-based handsets by the end of 2008, according to company CFO Hui-ming Cheng.HTC is one of the big player in the Open Handset Alliance [ OHA ],who is getting ready to launch Android trotting against the Symbian OS.

Further , in the press announcement he noted that they are getting ready to ship the Xperia X1 handsets to Sony Ericsson soon. HTC revenues are expected to grow 10% sequentially and 30% on year in the third quarter, buoyed by the planned launch of CDMA, GSM and sliding form-factor HTC Touch Diamond handsets, Cheng indicated.HTC has shipped Touch Diamond handsets to 50 telecom operators in more than 30 countries so far, Cheng noted.However, Cheng said that HTC’s gross margin will be reduced by one percentage point in the third quarter as compared to the second quarter due to the rising ratio of ODM handsets.Market sources in Taiwan indicated that HTC is expected to start shipping Xperia X1 handsets to Sony Ericsson in the third quarter, pushing up the ratio of ODM handsets.The ratio of ODM handsets will continue to rise marginally in the fourth quarter of 2008 but it is unlikely to surpass 10% through the whole year of 2009, Cheng noted.

Casio G’zOne Boulder is macho phone with all the rough look  guys would ever want/wish to have.The Clamshell type phone is built upto military specifications to withstand shock, water and dust environments.Also It supports the Push To Talk [PTT] service in EVDO network.The Casio G’zOne Boulder is  available in 2colours – Black & Silver , Orange.It has got some features in too besides the rough look, like the GPS,1.3 MP Camera, Flashlight and best of all ,It’s priced at only 130$ [by Verizon in the 2 year contract ].

•  design : 810F standards for water, shock and dust resistance; immersion; vibration, salt fog; humidity; solar radiation; altitude; and low and high temperature storage
• Flashlight
• Electronic compass
• Field Force Manager-capable – a resource management tool that provides businesses with the ability to locate, monitor and communicate with their mobile field workers
• Camera : 1.3 megapixel camera
• Music player : Supports .MP3, .WMA, unprotected .AAC and unprotected .AAC+ formats
• Memory : microSD Card support upto 8GB.
• Supports the following Bluetooth® profiles – headset, hands-free (car kits), dial-up networking, advanced audio distribution profile (stereo), audio/visual remote control profile, object push profile for vCard, object exchange profiles for phonebook access profiles, generic audio/video distribution profile, audio/visual distribution protocol, and audio/visual control transport protocol
• Advanced speech recognition with dedicated voice dial key
• Alarm clock, calculator, calendar, stop watch, countdown, timer, world clock, electronic compass
• Phonebook with up to 500 entries with multiple contacts
• TTY compatible
• Display:
  • Main: 2.0” 240 x 320 TFT display with up to 65K colors
  • External: 1.2” 96 x 96 Mono STN display
• Dimensions: 3.9” x 2.0” x 0.9”
• Weight: 4.9 ounces
• Usage time: up to 214 minutes.
• Standby time: up to 63 hours.

Nokia is getting ready to unveil their latest addition to the Xpress Series with the XpressMedia Tube phone , Nokia 5800  by next month.Here are the specifications  if you cant wait for it.

• Display: 3.2 inch 16.7 million TFT 640×360 Touch screen
• OS: S60 5th edition with accelerometer
• Camera : 3.2 AF mega pixel camera with dual LED flash, Carl Zeiss optics and geo-tagging
• GPS
• Output :3.5 mm AV / TV output
• Network : GSM/GPRS/EDGE/WCDMA/HSDPA/WLAN connectivity
• Memory : 140MB internal RAM , microSD support
• BL-5J battery
• Dimensions : 115×52×14.5 mm
• Weight: 104g

The Samsung i900 Omnia has left us with nothing but good impressions. Everything about the device speaks "high-tech" – from the innovative touch interface through the rich connectivity and multimedia capabilities to the exclusive hardware characteristics such as the optical touchpad or the 5 megapixel camera.

Omnia SGH-i900 supports 7.2Mbps HSDPA (3.5G), GSM, GPRS, WCDMA, EDGE and is based on the Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional platform. The handset features an auto-focus 5-megapixel camera, a 3.2-inch WQVGA TFT-LCD touchscreen, TouchWiz touch-control interface, GPS, Bluetooth 2.0 and Wi-Fi. Dimensions of the device are given as 112×56.9×12.5mm (H×W×D), according to the company.

The Samsung Omnia is a well-designed phone that might be a major success in the market. The HTC Touch Diamond and the iPhone 3G – seem to offer more in some respects but severely fall behind in others when compared with the Omnia.

Features:

• Quad-band GSM support
• 3G with HSDPA 7.2 Mbps
• Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional OS
• 624MHz Marvell PXA312 CPU and 128 MB RAM
• 3.2" 65K-color touchscreen with resolution of 240 x 400 pixels
• 5 megapixel autofocus camera with wide dynamic range mode, face tracking, smile detection, geotagging
• 8 to 16 GB of storage memory, microSD expansion
• Built-in GPS receiver with A-GPS
• Wi-Fi
• Stereo Bluetooth and USB connectivity
• FM radio with RDS
• Optical joystick with virtual mouse functionality
• Built-in accelerometer for auto screen rotation and call muting
• TV-out
• Solid build and great finish
• Slick design and slim body
• Nice battery life
  Fast response and performance
• Excellent thumb-optimized software package
• Thumbable virtual QWERTY keyboard with optional landscape mode
• TouchWiz UI
• DivX video support
• Above average audio quality
• Headset comes with a 3.5mm audio jack

Samsung i900 Omnia will be priced at around 500 Euros [ ie, 32,000 Indian Rs ]

Samsung keeps them coming with the higher MP camera phones.The new model named Innov8 ,also called i8510 , 8 stands for the 8Megapixel Camera of course.

Its more of a camera than a phone considering its features like Auto Panorama mode , Flash , Smile n Blink Detection along with the Face Detection.Its capable of recording video at 30 fps also.

Innov8 runs on  Symbian S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 smartphone and will be supporting quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900MHz), and dual-band UMTS/HSDPA (900/2100MHz).

Here are the specifications of Innov8 :

• Network

• HSDPA 7.2 Mbps (900/2100), EDGE / GPRS (850/900/1800/1900)

• Symbian OS V9.3. S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2

• 2.8" QVGA 16M TFT LCD

• 8 Megapixel CMOS with AF and Dual Power LED
• Features: Smart Reader, Image Stabilizer. Auto-Panorama Shot, Smile Shot. Blink Shot. Wide Dynamic Range (WDR). Face Detection

• Video Player (Divx/ H.263 / H.264 / WMV / MP4)
• QVGA 120 fps Video recording. VGA 30 fps recording and Video Editing

• FM Radio with RDS
• DNSe 2.0
• Music Player (MP3/AAC/AAC+ / eAAC+ / WMA /AMR/ RealAudio
• Bluetooth Stereo Headset (A2DP)
• 3.5mm output

• Optical Mouse. Accelerometer
• Embedded 3D Games : FIFA 2008, Asphalt
• Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA)

• Bluetooth 2.0 / USB 2.0 / Wi-Fi

• 16GB Flash + External Memory slot microSDHC™ (up lo 16GB)

• 106.5×53.9x 17.2 mm

• 1200 mAh Talk time: up to 300/510 min (3G/2.5G) Stand-by time: up to 330 / 310 hrs (3G/2.5G)

Samsung Innov8 is scheduled to be launched in Europe in August and Other locations by September.