Nokia announces Asha 310, a touchscreen phone for $100

Nokia has just announced its new phone featuring a combination of three features that can make the device a hit in developing countries. Nokia Asha 310 is a touchscreen device supporting Dual SIM mode. Its recommended price is just $102. One more feature is multiply user profiles support. The phone has 3-inch 400x240px capacitive display, 2MP camera, MicroSD card slot, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, FM tuner, 3.5mm headphones jack. The body measures 110x54x13mm and weights 104g. The battery provides about 17 hours of talk time or 25 days of standby one.

LG Optimus L3 budget-class smartphone

One of Swedish online stores has just started to accept pre-orders for LG E400 Optimus L3 mobile device. This entry level smartphone cost just $190 and has quite simple list of specifications. It runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread and is equipped with 3.2-inch multitouch capable screen with 320x240px resolution, 3MP camera, MicroSD card slot, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, USB port, FM radio.

Samsung Champ 2 touchphone

Last year Samsung release the Champ device – a budget class touchscreen phone. Now it is almost ready to introduce its heir. Samsung C3330 Champ 2 has 2.4-inch resistive touchscreen with 240x320px resolution, 2MP camera, FM radio, Bluetooth 3.0, MicroSD external memory card slot (up to 16GB cards are supported), 3.5mm headphones jack, 1000mAh battery. There is no any official information about its price but it is expected that Samsung Champ 2 will cost less than $100.

FLY E133 touchphone

Recently FLY announced its new mobile phone designed for people who prefer affordable devices. FLY E133 is a stylish and compact touchphone supporting Dual-SIM function. The device has 2.4-inch capacitive touchscreen with 240x320px resolution 1.3MP camera, Bluetooth, FM radio, 3.5mm headphones jack, MicroSD card slot. The battery of FLY E133 has 900mAh capacity and provided about 8 hours of talk time or 260 hours of standby one. The dimensions are 92x52x14mm, the weigh is 83g.

Samsung S3770 affordable smartphone

Samsung Electronics will soon announce its new entry-level touchphone. Samsung S3770 runs on proprietary platform with TouchWiz Lite user interface. It supports GSM and UMTS network standards and has 2.8-inch capacitive touchscreen with 240x320px resolution, 2MP camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0, FM radio with RDS, 3.5mm headphones jack, microSD card slot (up to 16GB). The battery of this phone has 1000mAh capacity and provides about 6 hours of talk time or 350 hours of standby one. The device measures 103x55x12mm and weights 96g. The price is expected to be about $150.

Motorola EX232 rugged touchphone

Motorola has just announced its new mobile phone designed for people who prefer active life-style. Motorola EX232 has rugged body that is water, dust and shock resistant. It supports GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900MHz and UMTS 850/2100MHz networks and is equipped with 2.8-inch resistive touchscreen with 240x320px resolution, small OLED display showing time and notifications, 2MP camera, Bluetooth, FM radio with RDS, 128MB RAM, MicroSD card slot, 64MB internal storage, 3.5mm headphones jack, 910mAh battery. The device measures 105x58.4x12.9mm and weights 95g. At first Motorola EX232 will be available in China for $125. Later it will be release in other countries.

Coming Nokia Zeta smartphone

The first information about this device appeared last week. Now we have its pic and list of specifications. Nokia Zeta is a smartphone running on Symbian^3 operating system. It is based on 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and is equipped with 3.2-inch capacitive AMOLED touchscreen with 640x360px resolution, 5MP camera with LED flash, front-facing VGA camera for video calls, NFC module, GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, MicroSD card slot, 3.5mm headphones jack. Nokia Zeta measures 110x51x10mm and weights 105g. The release of this smartphone is expected to take place in next two months.

KDDI iida INFOBAR A01

Japanese KDDI mobile operator has just announced a new line of its devices. One of them is KDDI iida INFOBAR A01. IT is a smartphone running on Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system. It supports both GSM and CDMA networks and is equipped with 3.7-inch capacitive touchscreen with 540x960px resolution, 8MP camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0, GPS, MicroSD external memory card slot, g-sensor, IR port, 1Seg TV tuner. The body of this phone measures 118х63х11.8mm and weights 113g.

Sharp Aquos Phone SH-12C 3D smartphone

Japanese Sharp officially announced its new high-end smartphone. The main feature of Sharp Aquos Phone SH-12C 3D is that it can create and show 3D content. Due to two 8MP cameras the device can record 3D video with HD (720p) resolution. It can also make stereoscopic photos. To view 3D content there is no need to use any special glasses.Sharp Aquos Phone SH-12C 3D runs on Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system and is equipped with 1.4GHz Qualcomm MSM8255 processor, 4.2-inch capacitive touch screen with 540x960px resolution, 512MB RAM, 2GB ROM, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, front-facing camera for video calls, accelerometer, light sensor. The device measures 127х64х13.8mm and weights 138g. In Japan Sharp Aquos Phone SH-12C 3D will become available on May, 20.

LG T315 budget-class touchphone

This new mobile phone is designed for young people who are active social networks users. The device comes with pre-installed client apps that provide quick access to functions of popular social networks – Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. LG T315 supports GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900MHz networks and is equipped with 2.8-inch resistive touch screen with 240x400px resolution, 2MP camera, Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g), Bluetooth 2.1, FM radio, 3.5mm headphones jack, 20Mb internal storage, MicroSD external memory card slot. The battery of this phone has 900mAh capacity and provides about 8 hours of talk time or 500 hours of standby one. The dimensions are 103х57х11.9mm, the weight is 88g. The price of LG T315 is $153.

Spice M-5700 FLO cheap touchphone

Indian Spice Mobile has just started shipping of its new mobile phone - Spice M-5700 FLO. It is an affordable touchphone supporting GSM 900/1800MHz networks. This phone is equipped with 2.8-icnh touch screen with 240x320px resolution, 1.3MP camera, Bluetooth, FM radio, MicroSD external memory card slot (up to 4GB). The battery has 1000mAh capacity and provides about 4 hours of talk time or 250 hours of standby time. The dimensions of the device are 99x56x13.5mm; the weight is 65g. The producer notes that the list of pre-installed software includes all necessary apps to provide easy communication with friends. There are client apps for Facebook, Flicker, Twitter, Yahoo, Nimbuzz and Snaptu. The price of Spice M-5700 FLO is just $81.

Samsung Ch@t 350 QWERTY touchphone

At MWC 2011 Samsung will show a great number of its devices. One of them is Samsung Ch@t 350 (GT-C3500). It is a horizontal slider with full QWERTY keyboard. The design of this device is quite typical for other Samsung’s phones. The only exclusion is three additional buttons that provide quick access to media player, web browser and mail. Samsung Ch@t 350 runs on proprietary platform and supports quad-band GSM networks. The device is equipped with 2.4-inch touch screen with 240x320px resolution, 2MP camera, FM radio, Bluetooth 2.1, MicroSD external memory card slot (up to 8GB). The battery of this device provides about 12 hours of talk time.

Samsung i9010 Giorgio Armani

Samsung and Giorgio Armani continue their effective cooperation and have just unveiled its new limited edition device. Samsung i9010 will be released in December and will be available for about EUR700 in France, UK, Germany, China, Russia, Spain, Italy, Dubai, Hong Kong and the Netherlands. This smartphone runs on Google Android 2.1 Éclair and is equipped with 1GHz processor, 512MB RAM, 4-inch Super AMOLED capacitive touch screen with 480x800px resolution, 5MP camera with autofocus and 720p HD video recording support, 16GB internal storage, MicroSD external memory card slot, Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi, GPS, 1500mAh battery.

Fly E171 Wi-Fi Dual-SIM touchphone

Today Fly unveiled its new touchphone. Fly E171 Wi-Fi is a stylish monoblock device with not bad set of functions. It features two SIM card slot and supports GSM/GPRS/EDGE 900/1800/1900Mhz networks. The phone has 3.2-inch resistive touch screen with 240x400px resolution, 3.2MP camera, Bluetooth 2.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/n, MicroSD external memory card slot, FM radio. The battery has 1000mAh capacity and provides about 6 hour of talk time or 170 hours of standby one. The device measures 111x54х12.8mm and weights 95g. Unfortunately, no word about release date and price.

Pantech Crux

Yesterday together with LG Octane Verizon mobile operator announce one more mobile phone. Pantech Crux is an affordable touchphone with a quite simple set of specifications. This entry-level mobile phone is equipped with 3-inch touch screen with 240x400px resolution, 3MP camera, Bluetooth, 3.5mm headphones jack, GPS module, MicroSD external memory card slot. Pantech Crux will become available in next few weeks and will cost $50 with two-year contract.

Two coming Motorola's Dual-SIM phones

Recently Motorola announced its two new phones for European mobile market. The main feature of Motorola EX115 and Motorola EX128 is that both this mobile devices support Dual-SIM function.

Motorola EX115 is a monoblock with full QWERTY keyboard. Its list of specifications is quite simple – this phone has 2.3 inch display with 320x240px resolution, 3MP camera, Bluetooth, MicroSD external memory card slot (up to 8GB).

Motorola EX128 is equipped with 3.2 inch TFT touch screen with 240x400px resolution, 3MP camera with autofocus, 70MB internal storage, MicroSD external memory card slot, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, 3.5mm headphones jack. It is also notable that the UI of this phone supports widgets. Both Motorola EX115 and Motorola EX128 mobile phones will become on October, 18 for $120 and $150 respectively.

Samsung Eternity II touchphone

AT&T has just announced new mobile phone that will replace the Eternity phone. Samsung Eternity II is nice looking monoblock with not bad set of specifications. It supports GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz and UMTS/HSDPA 850/1900/2100 MHz networks and features 3 inch touch screen with 240x400px resolution and 262K colors, 2 Mp camera, Bluetooth , accelerometer, GPS, 512 MB internal storage, MicroSD external memory card slot. The list of pre-installed apps includes special app that aggregates popular social networks updates. Samsung Eternity II will become available next week and will cost $300 or $50 with two-year contract.

Motorola ME501 budget smartphone

Motorola has just announced its new budget class smartphone for Chinese market. Motorola ME501 runs on Google Android 1.6 operating system and supports GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, UMTS/HSDPA 850/1900/2100 MHz networks. It is equipped with 528 MHz Qualcomm MSM7201A processor, 256 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM, microSD external memory card slot (up to 32GB) 3.1 inch touchscreen with 320x480px resolution, 5 Mp camera with autofocus and flash, Wi-Fi/WAPI module, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, GPS, digital compass, FM radio with RDS, 3.5mm headphones jack, motion sensor, accelerometer. No word about pricing and exact release date.

Acer T500 Android smartphone

This mobile device was designed especially for Chinese mobile device market. It is budget-class smartphone running on OMS operating system that is Chinese version of Google’s Android OS. Acer T500 has supports GSM and TD-SCDMA networks and is equipped with 3.6 inch TFT touchscreen with 320x480px resolution, 3.2 Mp camera, 128 MB RAM, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, GPS, 3.5mm headphones jack, microSD external memory card slot. The dimensions of this smartphone is 118.5x58x13.48mm, the weight is 120g. Acer T500 will become available in next few weeks. There is no any information about price.

Philips Xenium X703 long-living touchphone

Philips has just officially announced its new mobile phone that will become available for $260 in the beginning of June. Like other Xenium series device this one feature impressive battery life – 8.5 hour of talk time or 744 hours of idle. Besides Philips Xenium X703 has stylish design and not bad set of functions including FLAC and APE media extensions support. It is also known that this phone supports GSM/GPRS/EDGE 900/1800/1900 MHz networks and is equipped with 2.8 inch TFT touch screen with 240x400px resolution, 3 Mp camera with autofocus, FM radio with RDS, 48 MB internal storage, microSD external memory card slot, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, 3.5 mm headphones jack. The dimensions of this device is 102x51.5x13mm, the weight is 93.5g.