Mobile Phones

The Motorola W510 builds on styling cues from the KRZR, but offers a slightly tweaked feature set.

Features of the handset include:

* Quad band GSM plus EDGE
* 1.3 megapixel camera
* microSD card slot
* Stereo Bluetooth
* peaker independent voice recognition

Motorola expects to begin shipping the W510 later in the first quarter. Carriers were not announced. The W205 and W215 are two more new models in the W series. All should come in at a competitive price point.

T-Mobile released the Samsung SGH-t219 today. An entry level clamshell, the t219 is a tri-band GSM phone with a small grayscale exterior display and 1.77-inch 64k TFT LCD main display. Compatible with T-Mobile’s myFaves service, the phone has the standard basic SMS and MMS features, and also includes AOL, ICQ, Yahoo and Widows Messenger instant messaging. It is available in red and brown.

The Motorola W205 is a new consumer focused handset with only basic features. It’s not as low-end as the FONE, but the feature list reads more like 2003 than the current day.

* Quad band GSM
* 128×128 65k color CSTN screen
* Speakerphone
* Memory for 750 SMS messages

Motorola will begin shipping the W205 phone in the first quarter. Pricing was not announced but should be low. Also announced in the W series were the W510 and W215.

Just in case you needed another reason to be mugged, AT&T and Motorola today launched the Motorola Razr V3xx in gold, for those of you who wanted an updated version of the Dolce & Gabana Razr.

Sporting the same goodies as the original dull gray version, it features a 1.3-megapixel camera, a music and video player, stereo Bluetooth, a microSD card slot, the built-in Opera browser, and support for a screaming-fast 3.6Mbps HSDPA network. After rebates and a service agreement, it’ll only cost you $20 more than the gray version, at $99.99.

The new Samsung BlackJack (from $200) is a sleek, Cingular-exclusive smartphone running Windows Mobile 5.0. The 3G device features a full QWERTY keyboard, a high-resolution QVGA color screen, a 1.3 megapixel camera, and Stereo Bluetooth 2.0 with stereo headset support.

It’s also got MP3 and video players, email, calendar, contact and to-do lists, as well as high-speed web browsing with Internet Explorer over Cingular’s 3G and EDGE networks.

At only 9.4mm (0.37 inches) thin, the W880 ($TBA) is the slimmest Sony Ericsson phone ever built. It features full Walkman phone capabilities, including a 1GB Memory Stick Micro (M2) for ample music storage.

The W880 sports a brushed stainless steel finish and integrates a 2.0 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, and full HTML web browser with RSS support into a UMTS phone that’s as slim as a CD case.

What happens when you take one part RAZR, one part RIZR, and one part HSDPA? You get the MOTORIZR Z8 ($TBA). This new 3G phone features a sliding design in a body similar in size to a RAZR, with a 2.0 megapixel camera, hot-swappable microSD storage, a 2.2 inch QVGA display, and A2DP AVRCP capable Bluetooth, in addition to high quality video capture and playback and hi-fi audio quality.

When/if it will appear stateside is unclear, but if it doesn’t, there’s always other means of getting one.

We hear there’s a new BlackBerry in town — the BlackBerry 8800 ($300 w/2-year commitment). This latest addition to the RIM clan is a sweet looking model which is the thinnest BlackBerry to date.

It sports a full QWERTY keyboard (making it easier to use than the BlackBerry Pearl), trackball navigation system, built-in GPS, multimedia features, quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support, a 320 x 240 landscape display and a microSD expandable memory slot. Can we stop drooling now?

While we sit in anticipation of the iPhone, Swedish company Neonode has its sights aimed at Apple’s mobile with the Neonode N2 ($TBA). It features a 2-inch, 176×220 touchscreen and uses finger gestures to control the interface. It works on Quadband GSM 850/900/1800/1900 and has GPRS for data, along with a 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, and MiniSD expandable storage. Sure, it’s smaller than the iPhone, but it’s also unknown when/if it will show up in North America.

We don’t just love Nokia’s new N72 because it’s pink (though it sure does help). No, we love the phone because of all the features it packs into such a tiny and stylish package. The pearl pink beauty is a true multimedia device, featuring a 2-megapixel camera with flash, a digital music player, web browser, FM radio, and bright 2.1-inch color display. The N72 ($TBA; June 2006) also comes with matching headset and wrist strap are included in sales packs of the Nokia N72. Unfortunately, this phone will be coming to other countries besides the U.S. first. We’re keeping our fingers crossed though.