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It seems that we will see angular keypad in some of Blackberry devices next year. A patent by the Canadian company shows an angular keypad that it claims will make inputting text easier. Most probably next year (2008) we may get new BlackBerry models with the new keyboard and the touch sensitive display………… and equipped with the scroller like LG Shine.

According to the latest edition of quarterly guide to Greener Electronics by Greenpeace, the Sony Ericsson has taken over the # 1 spot from Nokia.

Nokia and Motorola have each had a penalty point deducted after organization found their claims of global takeback were not being matched by actual practice.

For the first time TVs and the rapidly growing games consoles were assessed. The Guide ranks companies according to their policies and practices on toxic chemicals and takeback.

source: Greenpeace

Interesting statistics about Cellphone adoption in the world:

• Asia Pacific: 388 cellphone subscribers every minute. Total ~1,387.9 million.
• Africa: 94 cellphone subscribers every minute. Total ~298.9 million
• Eastern Europe: 66 cellphone subscribers every minute. Total ~412.3 million.
• North America: 46 cellphone subscribers every minute. Total ~298.6 million
• Middle East: 35 cellphone subscribers every minute. Total ~170.6 million
• Western Europe: 29 cellphone subscribers every minute. Total ~471.6 million

There are over 3.5 billion cellphone subscriptions worldwide.

source: forbes

Recently find a nice picture of Samsung’s upcoming phone F110 Adidas. It’s a slider phone and expected to be integrated with 2 megapixel camera, 2 inch QVGA color display, MP3 player and FM radio. The phone will also be able to measure, distance, speed, pulse and calories. The official announcement is expected in November.

source: gsmhelpdesk

i-mate announced the candy bar phone - Ultimate 8502 communicator with QWERTY keyboard, designed for 2G/3G networks. The phone has 2.6” VGA touch screen and Windows Mobile 6 Professional.

The key features/specifications of the phone are:

• OS - Windows Mobile 6 Professional
• Networks - GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA 850/1900/2100 MHz
• CPU - Qualcomm MSM 7200 400 MHz
• Graphical accelerator - nVidia G5500
• Display – 2.6” VGA touch screen
• Memory - 256 MB ROM and 128 MB RAM
• microSD-slot
• Camera - 2-megapixel with flash
• VGA-camera for video calls
• FM-radio
• Built-in GPS-receiver
• Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/e/i
• Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
• MiniUSB
• XGA video out
• Dimensions – 116×55x15 mm
• Weight - 140 g

Now basketball fans can get the latest scores, schedules, news and interviews on their mobile phones.

This was recently announced by Nokia and International Basketball Federation, FIBA - to create mobile services for FIBA, FIBA Europe and for some basketball championship events in 2007.

For complete story visit Nokia Press

As most of you are familiar with the fact that AppleSafari browser and Nokia’s Series 60 browser share the same base code. So it is possible that Widgets written for Apple’s iPhone will be able to run on Symbian smartphones.

Great - two competitors (iPhone and N95) can share some common features - and good news for developers interested in porting to iPhone.

Checkout the detailed story and Symbian’s Bruce Carney showed his Nokia N95 surfing on to the recently created iPhone site, Launchrz

Some nice fellows on the net [here and here] claimed - they have received invitations from Nokia to attend “Go Play”.

They also published the excerpt from those invitations:

“Come and witness the next stage of the evolution of the internet and mobility”

and

“Join us at Nokia: Go Play and see how the latest developments will change the way we experience and share the things that inspire us”

If this all reflects iTunes like sevice from Nokia then no doubt it’s a good idea - but Nokia is behined around three billion songs - compared to iTunes.

The guys at iphoneology browsed the iPhone firmware and find some hidden widgets in iPhone firmware. You can see the marked widgets above.

One of them is mobile.radio widget. May be in future iPhone is planning to introduce some features of FM radio.

The other widgets are unitconverter, translation and world clock widget.

Just wait and see what could be the usage of these widgets in the future.

If you have any idea - please share your thoughts in the comments below.

source: iphoneology.com

Check out the Micro Counter Strike game for your mobile. It’s the mobile version of one of the most popular PC based games “Counter Strike”. Developed by M3GWORKS - leading developer of 3D game engine for mobile phones, developed the very first 3D FPS engine ‘M3GFPS‘ based on M3G technology.

The key features of Micro Counter Strike are:

• Based on the classic ‘Counter Strike’ game
• Make more money to buy weapons with which to overpower your enemies
• More than 10 weapons and equipment including pistol, rifle, grenade,etc.
• Cool and great graphics

To find more about game and how to download visit: m3gworks.com