Google is working on a speech-to-speech translation tool for the mobile phones. With this translator loaded on your mobile phone, you’ll have no language barrier while communicating with your foreign friends or business partners.

The Google Speech Translator for mobile phones shall allow the users to chat verbally with their foreign friends over the phone, without the need to use dictionary. The Google Speech translation works similarly to voice recognition technology where its has drawbacks that need to be ironed out including differences of voice, accent and pitch etc.

Gigabyte is by far not the most recognized brand when it comes to cellphones, in fact, it only makes a few smartphones for Asian countries only, all of which so far have been using Windows Mobile. Now, Gigabyte has introduced a version of its GSmart smartphone which runs on Android, a first for the company. The rest of the specs aren’t that interesting, a smallish 2.8″ screen and no 3G, but at least it only costs around $300 where it’s sold.

Korean phone manufacturer Pantech has rolled out their latest cell phone, the Sky IM-U560K. Designed for girls, the handset features a touchscreen display and an accelerometer allowing you to enjoy different games and application, as well as being able to completely manipulate its GUI via hand gestures and movements. The Sky IM-U560K features a 2.6-inch screen, a DMB TV tuner, an MP3 player, and a Korean to English TTS (Text to Speech) Translator. Too bad, there is no info on pricing of this cell phone.

We heard about Bellperre for some time yet. The manufacturer of luxury always not slept, however, and a new luxury combined series phone gave up most beautiful wood made from "most beautiful authentic materials" Bellperre including wood handmade (Walnut, Elm, Microberlinia or Wenge) announced. Besides wood, anyone can Bellperre aircraft steel, gold (yellow/pink) or Platinum with polished; hand types of 110 adjusted are real exotic Fensterleder (shark, lizard, alligator, Buffalo, etc.); as well as good old diamonds and precious; and/or initial, stones logos and personal messages.  More of this gadget »

Motorola has announced a new special cellphone named Quantigo. It is special because it is ruggedized, and also due to the material used on the outside which is rubber-coated with texture so it becomes easier to grip.

The clamshell type of phone has another special feature, which is being able to withstand a couple of different scenarios, be it 30-minute under water, or extreme pressures, or high/low temperatures, and even dust or blowing rain. The Motorola Quantico will become available later this year at Cricket Wireless, MetroPCs and other carriers. In terms of normal specs for a cellphone it includes GPS, bluetooth, and a 2.5mm headset jack.

The Sony Ericsson Aino with 8.1M pixels camera with autofocus and LED flash, geotagging support, 55MB of internal memory, stereo speakers, an acceleration sensor, microSD card slot up to 8 GB (included), GPS , Bluetooth and Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g connection. More of this gadget »

The last time we mentioned the iTG xpPhone was a about one month ago and at that time it didn’t have a clear & good image, nor any specific details.

But today the Chinese company that is creating the phone has release more information, such as the processor which will be an ADM “Super Mobile” and the memory RAM that can either have 512MB or 1GB. As for the storage options, you can pick a 8GB SolidStateDrive, or a normal 120GB HDD.

At this moment there is information about its price or release date, but according to previous statements the iTG xpPhone will be (when it gets released) the first cellphone running Windows XP as the operative system.