Motorola displayed its Windows Mobile Smartphone ‘Q9m’ during CTIA 2007, which offers a 3G wireless service called EV-DO and support for the V-Cast music service allowing you to buy and download songs right on your phone.

Adopting 2.4-inch 65k-color TFT LCD screen, 1.3M camera and external pair of stereo speakers, the Q9m features Bluetooth stereo headphones, miniSD/SDHC card support, web browser, and Windows media player that can handle audio and video.

According to the company, if you don’t have a laptop and you want to view and edit Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, you can do on your phone thanks to Documents To Go.

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Amex Digital has just released a GPS enabled cell phone. The handset employs the familiar candy bar form factor, measures 114mm x 49.8 mm x 17mm, houses dual speakers, a 2.5mm phone jack, 1.3MP camera, supports miniSD expansion and has a 2.4 QVGA TFT LCD. Design of this phone is quite simple and some people may like it while others may not.

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Microsoft introduced HTC’s 3G smartphone ‘Touch’ during CTIA 2007, which uses Windows Mobile 6 Professional and Office Mobile for bulit-in Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word editing.

The Touch features touch screen navigation with an overlaying GUI called ‘TouchFlo’ that lets users swipe through media libraries and provides scrolling for web pages or documents.

Adopting 2.8-inch QVGA screen, microSD card slot with an included 1GB card and 2M camera, the Touch supports 802.11b/g WiFi and Bluetooth connection as well as instant access to Sprint Music Store. It is expected to be released from Sprint in US market in November.

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Nokia presented its all-black designed smartphone ‘N95’ with 8GB of built-in storage during CTIA 2007 in San Francisco.

Adopting a luminous 2.8-inch QVGA display and 2-way slide keyboard, the 8GB N95 features 5M camera with Carl Zeiss optics, GPS function and HSDAP/Wi-Fi connection.

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The Samsung SGH-i450 is a dual slider which slides up to reveal a spacious alphanumeric keypad for making calls or communication and down to reveal metallic speakers. Other features included an ergonomically shaped touch navigation half-wheel, a dedicated music interface, 2.4-inch large LCD screen, a 2M primary camera with flash and a VGA camera for video calling, 35MB internal memory and microSD™ slot.

The mobile phone applies HSDPA connectivity at 3.6 Mbps so that users are available to enjoy multimedia features with superior data download speeds. Running Symbian OS™ v9.2 and S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1, the Samsung i450 provides access to thousands of applications available from the S60 applications library and multi-tasking features in faster data speeds while ensuring the maximum level of power efficiency and consistency from Symbian OS.

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Samsung Electronics announced its first GPS navigator equipped Smart phone ‘SGH-i550’ at Symbian Smartphone Show in London.

With a candy bar-type design, the new i550 that is based on Symbian OS™ v9.2 and S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1 enables users to choose from thousands of applications from the S60 applications library and have access to their favorites by using dedicated hot keys. With the GPS navigator function, voice activated turn-by-turn guidance makes it easy for car drivers to find directions while pedestrian mode offers specific locations and directions at walking speeds.

Other features included HSDPA 3.6 Mbps, full browsing with a 128 MB RAM, 2.6-inch LCD, and 3.2M camera with video editing functionality, 150MB of internal user memory and an FM radio. It will be available in Europe from November 2007.

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Palm introduced its smallest smartphone ‘Centro’, making its first push into the low end mobile phone market.

Featuring a bit bigger size than a credit card with 4.2-ounce lightweight, the Centro is equipped with a qwerty keyboard, touch screen and offers the ability to read and send e-mail or manage document and spreadsheets.

Hoping to entice consumers looking for a low-cost upgrade, the company has priced the new smartphone to sell for about 100 USD. It will sell exclusively through Sprint Nextel for the rest of the year in the United States.

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KDDI announced the official release of bar type handset ‘Infobar 2’ in Japan market through Sanyo.

As a new product of au design project and successor of the original Infobar announced in 2003, the Infobar 2 adopts 2.6″ OLED display and supports 1-Seg with its built-in tuner, enabling users to enjoy mobile TV and reserved TV recording.

It’s battery offers about 290 minutes of talk time or 350 hours of standby time. Other features include stereo speakers, 2M camera and micro SD expansion slot. Measuring 47×138×15.5 mm and 104g, it comes in four colors including silver and gray.

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Nokia launched it’s sleek stainless phone ‘Nokia 6301’ with UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access) technology which integrates the benefit of landline and a mobile phone.

The Nokia 6301 features 2″ QVGA screen, 2 MP camera, MP3 playback and FM radio while weighing only 93g and measuring less than 13.1mm-thickness. It comes with a desk stand ‘DT-23’ to hold the phone and keep charged connecting to WLAN. It supports 3.5 hours of talk-time and up to 14 days of a standby time.

The Nokia 6301 is expected to be available in Europe market first in the 4Q of 2007 with an estimated retail price of 230 EUR.

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Samsung Electronics announced the launch of its ultra smart phone ‘SGH-F700’ in European market with Vodafone. It delivers 3.6 Mbps data speeds under Vodafone’s 3G broadband(HSDPA) network allowing users to experience fast access to the Internet and faster music downloads.

With a full qwerty key pad that slides underneath the 3.2-inch color display, it features new user interface ‘Croix’ which has been award iF Communication Design Award 2007. The phone was first introduced at 3GSM World Congress in February earlier this year, and is expected to be available in Europe market beginning early November with metallic blue, brown and white colors.

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