Toshiba has recently introduced two new Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphones at Mobile World Congress 2010. Known as the Toshiba TG02 and K01. Both handsets feature a 4.1-inch WVGA touchscreen and a 1GHz Snapdragon processor. The Toshiba TG02 is a tablet-shaped cell phone that is actually an upgraded version of the previously released TG01. Measuring 9.9 mm thick, the new model features a capacitive screen and a new 3D user interface. Meanwhile, the K01 is a slider handset with a sliding keyboard. Measuring at 12.9 mm, it will also be Toshiba’s first smartphone with an AMOLED screen. Both cell phones will have a microSD memory card slot that supports up to 32GB. Unfortunately, there is no info on pricing or availability at this time. We will keep you posted

It’s another smartphone with some pictures leaked, although they’re blurry. The LG Arena Max LU9400 has attracted some attentions with its leaked pictures over the Internet but LG is still quiet about it.

From how it looks in the leaked picture, the LG Arena Max LU9400 has been emphasized with cute design elements that make it a charmer. It would come with a 5-megapixel camera, a 3.5-inch touchscreen display and sport WiFi, GPS capabilities and powered by the 1GHz Snapdragon processor.

No other further details yet about the specs and the image isn’t clear enough to show what OS it runs. No word on where and when it’ll be launched. The phone shows Cyon logo – LG’s Korean phone brand, which might hint it’d be launched in Korea only.

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Mobience is developing the smallQWERTY keyboard for smartphones and mobile internet. The compact keyboard offers big buttons for easy typing at the same time keeps the size small by assigning three letters per key, just like compact virutal QWERTY keyboard we use on touchscreen phones.

Other than the hardware smallQWERTY keyboard, Mobience also offers smallQWERTY app for Android and iPhone.

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It looks like Apple is really making a push to control the world’s smartphone market. Of course, they are a ways off but the recent announcement their iPhone now holds a 46% share of the Japanese smartphone market is nothing short of a victory.

Of course, Engadget points to the fact that the Japanese smartphone market is still generally small because the range of phones offered over there is immense.

You know, you’ve seen those crazy phones Japanese manufacturers come up with? Yeah, those ones.

PMP manufacturer OPPO will launch their first Android-powered smartphone in the Q1 of 2010. The handset features a 3.5-inch WQGA (800 x 480) capacitive multitouch screen, a QWERTY keyboard, and WiFi. The name of the model is still unavailable at this time. Stay tuned for more updates. More of this gadget »

The Acer Liquid A1 is now available in the UK market. The company’s first Android smartphone is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processor with a 3.5-inch WVGA capacitive touchscreen, Quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE and Triband (900/1900/2100) HSDPA, WiFi b/g, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR and a 5-megapixel camera. FYI, Acer has decided to underclock it to 768MHz in order to prolong the 1,350mAh battery life span. The Acer Liquid A1 is currently in stock at retailers Expansys and Clove, priced at £339.99 ($556) and £328.99 ($538), respectively.

 One of the most natural secondary effects leading manufacturer of cell phones in the world is that you produce many different models – many – which facilitates much too for the product planning, engineering, and marketing at all corners cut for even devices most important in the herd. Nokia appears to come under the terms of which, although by announcing that it you scale from "around 20" smartphones published this year to approximately one half of that in 2010, allowing give each phone the TLC so desperately need. It is interesting to note that the company declares that it is in the lower – middle range smartphone domain as a hot new competitive boundary – and an area where it will "have tools to play offence [sic], as well as defence,"perhaps through its continued commitment in Symbian even that he seeks."Maemo to cultivate high end" search By any measure, it seems Nokia starts to get an indication – but it is always someone guess what kinds of products at the end of the day will see these guys for 12 to 18 months

Samsung’s Wibro-capable SPH-M8400 smartphone is now available in South Korea via KT. The phone runs on Windows Mobile 6.5 OS and has a 3.7-inch touchscreen Active Matrix OLED (AMOLED) display with a 800 x 480 resolution. Additional features include a 5-megapixel auto-focus camera, T-DBM digital mobile TV, WiFi, and Bluetooth.

Parents are always concerned about what happens when your child or teenager uses your phones. Normally the attitude and behavior that you perform comes out by malicious contained things and accessible on your mobile device. However, parents with the mobile Internet nanny can breathe a large Sigh of liberation, because minors now against these exploits or misconduct parents their children right raise complicate are protected.

The mobile Internet nanny for smartphones monitors and tracks E-mail and content that safer, use this and for good reason. Nanny mobile Internet is now for 29.99 $ for first telephone and $ 14.99 for additional telephone registration fee available. If you have an existing license, need to pay only $ 14.99, the full Internet filters for the browser shows on your phone in an integrated Web-based management console.   

Fashion fans, rejoice. Your two favorite labels have finally come together: Giorgio Armani… and Windows Mobile. Today in Milan, Armani’s empire unveiled a new, €700 (or about $1030) smartphone built by Samsung, running Microsoft’s latest 6.5 OS iteration. More of this gadget »