Blackberry 9500 Storm gets its own promo video, looks good

The upcoming Blackberry 9500 Storm seems to be riding the wave lately as new information leaks by the day. This time we have a nice promo video to show you - made by Vodafone.
We already presented you the upcoming Blackberry Storm and its fancy full touch user interface - it really looks good and it's a first from Blackberry too.
The Blackberry 9500 Storm also available as CDMA Blackberry 9530 has a 3.25-inch display with a resolution of 360 x 480 pixels, quad-band GSM support, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, and a 3 megapixel auto focus camera. Plus a fluid interface ready to take on the iPhone. Sounds nice, doesn't it?

Sony Ericsson Kate leaks again - this time with better pics

A new Sony Ericsson cameraphone codenamed Kate has been the main subject of info leaks recently, but we finally see better images of the device. Armed with 5 megapixel camera, this yet unannounced Cyber-shot looks like a mix between the Sony Ericsson K770 and Sony Ericsson C902.
Currently, not much is known about the Sony Ericsson Kate, but as rumors go, it should sport a xenon flash, camera mode switch, and Smile shutter feature. It will also have UMTS support.

The Sony Ericsson Kate is definitely thicker than the Sony Ericsson C902, but still looks good, although a bit too conservative on the front and a bit too flamboyant on the back with this large shiny lens cover.

Samsung S3600 gets announced, while Samsung i7110 leaks

The Samsung i7110 is the next Symbian smartphone with a 5 megapixel camera and enhanced multimedia capabilities - at least as far as rumors go. In the same time Samsung released a lower midrange handset - the Samsung S3600, which borrows its looks from the Soul clamshell Samsung G400, but offers entry-level specs and no external display.
This is not the first time the Samsung i7110 leaks - we've reported it back in August. This time a new image of the device leaked and it seems some redesigning has taken place. Plus we now know more about its high-end specs.
Powered by the latest Symbian S60 UI with FP2, the Samsung i7110 sports quad-band GSM, 3G with HSDPA, optical joystick navigation, a 2.6-inch 16M color display, accelerometer for auto screen rotation, a 5 megapixel video camera with dual LED flash, VGA@30fps video recording, slow motion and high-speed QVGA recording, Wi-Fi with DLNA, DivX and XviD video support, GPS receiver with A-GPS, FM radio and FM transmitter.
We are eagerly waiting for the official announcement of the Samsung i7110, which seems to be this month.
The Samsung S3600 however is the handset that saw its announcement today. Banking on the well-received Soul-design the Samsung S3600 brings a bit of style to the masses.

The clamshell sports a metallic body with no external display. The main display of the S3600 is a large 2.2-inch 65K color TFT display, which however has a rather low resolution of 176 x 220 pixels.
The Samsung S3600 has quad-band GSM/EDGE support, Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, and FM radio with RDS and broadcast recording. The 30MB of available memory can be expanded up to 2GB thanks to the built-in microSD card slot.

Unfortunately, we don't have information on the planned availability of the Samsung S3600, but it seems Samsung will try to push as many units as possible so worldwide market availability sounds reasonable. The expected price of the device before subsidies or taxes is 80 euro (or 110 US dollars).

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic hits it off

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is no longer lurking behind corners as the curtains lifted today in London and Singapore on the first S60 full-touch device by Nokia. While most of the specs were given away well in advance, it's exciting to take a closer look at the touch OS. We had a taste of it back at the WMC in Barcelona and it tasted sweet.

Two homescreen add-ons do sound intriguing. With the Media Bar music, media and online content are a fingertip away. The Contacts Bar provide enhanced touch-based handling of contacts, including setting favorites, logging calls, texts and recent communication.
The touch-optimized handset comes complete with a stylus too, and for all who are about to frown at that, there's a plectrum-shaped alternative. The other controls are kept to the bare minimum. Below the massive touchscreen there's three-key combo along the lines of Pixon and Renoir, to name a few recent headliners. The home key (so long, Symbian key) is flanked by the Call and End knobs.

For those who migh have missed the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic leaks, the first S60 touchscreen handset packs a 3.2" screen of the exciting widescreen resolution of 640 x 360 pixels. A 3.2 megapixel autofocus shooter and VGA video at 30 fps are the imaging assets. There's quad-band GSM support and 3G with HSDPA. Some of the other extras include: GPS, 3.5mm standard audio jack, TV-out and a microSD card slot. An ambitious music offering, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic will come with 8GB microSD card in the retail package and stereo surround speakers.

To give you an idea of what the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic feels and looks like, we can also share several videos. This first one previews the device in short